How, exactly, does free agent draft pick compensation work

[nate wooley]

Hey there. Our league is converting forward to OOTP9 and we're wanting to implement draft pick compensation for free agent signings. Implementation looks pretty straightforward but some of the players have questions about how the game handles it.

Can anyone help with these questions:

1. How are players assigned Type A, Type B, etc status?

2. How are picks assigned if one team signs FA from two teams. Both can't get first round compensation.

3. Does the system not lose first round picks if they're in the first half of the round?

4. Any other advice on implementation of this function?

[Isura]

This is how it works in real life soxprospects » MLB Compensatory Draft Pick System

RE question 3 I think OOTP does it backwards. Where you can't get a pick in the bottom 15 picks (at least in my fictional league it works like this).

[Jaxxvain]

Originally Posted by nate wooley

Hey there. Our league is converting forward to OOTP9 and we're wanting to implement draft pick compensation for free agent signings. Implementation looks pretty straightforward but some of the players have questions about how the game handles it.

Can anyone help with these questions:

1. How are players assigned Type A, Type B, etc status?

2. How are picks assigned if one team signs FA from two teams. Both can't get first round compensation.

3. Does the system not lose first round picks if they're in the first half of the round?

4. Any other advice on implementation of this function?

link to manual page about free agency and compensation...
OOTP Baseball Manual - Free Agency

1) In real life a Type A free agent (Phillies Free agents right now Jamie Moyer and Pat Burrell for example*) is determined to be in the top 20% of their position by some statistical formulas (not sure if we can see them anywhere).

2) Not sure, but I would guess its a first come, first served situation. Maybe the 2nd team would get a pick in the next round, even if it is another type A.

3) Thats supposed to be how it works, if the pick is in the top half of the draft, the team should keep the pick.

4) I would run some test sims to figure out the answer to these questions to see if it will work as intended, or, I think some leagues do this manually somehow, and even include the sandwich picks that the league doesn't. Perhaps posting in the Commish forum would get a better answer there.


*however, they were both NOT offered arbitration, meaning that the phillies no longer would get compensation picks if they sign elsewhere.

[nymets3000]

1. See post by Jaxxvain above
2. If another team signs your type A free agent, in RL you recieve a sandwich pick(between rounds 1 and 2), and their first round pick if it's in the bottom half(16-30). If that team no longer has a pick or are in the top half(1-15), then you recieve their second round pick. Type B free agents would recieve a second round draft choice(or the next highest pick).
3. Correct
4. OOTP doesn't do it correctly, so I guess in an online league if it's not too much work you could just turn off compensation and do it yourself. You could also make your own rules on what makes a type A or type B FA.

[Le Grande Orange]

In the spirit of completeness, it should be noted the free ageny compensation rules have varied over the years since free agency was introduced.

[mikev]

Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange

In the spirit of completeness, it should be noted the free ageny compensation rules have varied over the years since free agency was introduced.

Which is why you should be able to edit the way compensation picks work in OOTP.

[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by mikev

Which is why you should be able to edit the way compensation picks work in OOTP.

That would help. But to be strictly correct historically would involve more, e.g. the re-entry draft which was used from 1976-1985, the professional player compensation draft which existed from 1981-1985, etc. There were some interesting variations in baseball's past.