Expansion in Online

Stu · 05-29-2007, 01:35 PM

Have any leagues tried expanding yet? Anyone looking into it?

Brewers League Baseball is looking to expand from 20 to 24 teams in the near future and are curious what others experiences have been, what rules you're using, etc.

sporr · 05-30-2007, 01:33 PM

We expanded back in some earlier version of OOTP. It went pretty smoothly. We basically had manual protected lists if memory serves with additional protections allowed once one player had been taken from your team. Max of 2 players taken from any one team. We had 26 teams at the time, which led to 26 selections in the expansion draft per expansion team (we added 2 teams). A lot of manual work, but it worked out well.

Be prepared to have the expansion teams suck for quite some time. You'll also have to manually adjust financials or they won't make much money. The other negative is that if one of the expansion owners takes a financial risk on high-priced FA or extension signings it's going to have a very big impact on the clubs future since it's so tough to dig yourself out of a hole.

progen · 05-30-2007, 06:17 PM

Sent you a PM.

Stu · 06-06-2007, 11:55 AM

If anyone is curious, here are the rules we decided on for our expansion:

http://ootp.oldredboat.com/modules.p...ewtopic&t=1082

05-29-2007, 01:35 PM	#1
Stu All Star Starter Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,255	Expansion in Online Have any leagues tried expanding yet? Anyone looking into it? Brewers League Baseball is looking to expand from 20 to 24 teams in the near future and are curious what others experiences have been, what rules you're using, etc.

05-30-2007, 01:33 PM	#2
sporr Global Moderator Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Muscatine, IA Posts: 8,277	We expanded back in some earlier version of OOTP. It went pretty smoothly. We basically had manual protected lists if memory serves with additional protections allowed once one player had been taken from your team. Max of 2 players taken from any one team. We had 26 teams at the time, which led to 26 selections in the expansion draft per expansion team (we added 2 teams). A lot of manual work, but it worked out well. Be prepared to have the expansion teams suck for quite some time. You'll also have to manually adjust financials or they won't make much money. The other negative is that if one of the expansion owners takes a financial risk on high-priced FA or extension signings it's going to have a very big impact on the clubs future since it's so tough to dig yourself out of a hole. Last edited by sporr; 05-30-2007 at 01:34 PM.

05-30-2007, 06:17 PM	#3
progen All Star Starter Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,535 Infractions: 0/1 (1)	Sent you a PM.

06-06-2007, 11:55 AM	#4
Stu All Star Starter Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,255	If anyone is curious, here are the rules we decided on for our expansion: http://ootp.oldredboat.com/modules.p...ewtopic&t=1082