Non-affiliated minor leagues

Padreman · 06-15-2013, 05:27 PM

Question have any of you had a non-affiliated minor leagues? I'm thinking of adding one, my hopes is they take on all the free-agents no one wants and develope them. My question will do take those free agents or will they just creat new players? I have a fictional 26 team major league league and a 26 team AAA minor league affiliated with my major league. I want my new league to be a small 8 team AA non-affiliated league. Also how does work with picking up
Players in that league? Do you have to buy out their contracts to join your organization?

MUFC1878 · 06-15-2013, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Padreman

Question have any of you had a non-affiliated minor leagues? I'm thinking of adding one, my hopes is they take on all the free-agents no one wants and develope them. My question will do take those free agents or will they just creat new players?

Yes. They will sign free agents, but the game will also generate free agents for that league at the end the season. But you could change the age options of the league to track and delete those players if you want.

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I have a fictional 26 team major league league and a 26 team AAA minor league affiliated with my major league. I want my new league to be a small 8 team AA non-affiliated league. Also how does work with picking up
Players in that league? Do you have to buy out their contracts to join your organization?

They work just like any other league, depending how you set up the financials. You can sign them as free agents once they become one. The tricky part is getting the financials right so the non-affiliated absorbs the sort of players you want.

Padreman · 06-15-2013, 06:06 PM

Ok so for me to sign a player in that league I have to wait till their a free agent I just can't grab him
Mid-season then

Tekneek · 06-16-2013, 04:44 PM

A way to prevent the free agent creation in an independent league is to check the box for amateur draft, set it to 1 round, then set it to create players for 0 rounds. It will give you a warning that there won't be enough players generated, which you click OK on. There is a "draft" every year, but no selections are ever made (for obvious reasons).

I read about this trick from someone on the boards here, but now do not recall who it was. I've used it and it works fine.

Padreman · 06-17-2013, 11:04 AM

One problem is In have some 37-42 year old vets that are one or half stars still hanging around in free-agency. None of the
Major league teams want them I know I don't. But in my mind they still hang around because A. They love the game or B. they want a paycheck. How can I get my Minor league teams to pick these guys up?

Padreman · 06-18-2013, 01:13 PM

So I decided to make my new AA
League be affiliated with my Manor league but no team being a farm team
Of any specific major league team. What type of impact if any or problems could I experience?

Tekneek · 06-19-2013, 02:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Padreman

So I decided to make my new AA
League be affiliated with my Manor league but no team being a farm team
Of any specific major league team. What type of impact if any or problems could I experience?

In this situation, they will not have any reserve player limits. They will sign their active roster players, and then just stockpile reserves. They don't have any finances, so they will seem to be able to sign potentially hundreds of players. If no team is affiliated, you can easily go in and release them all at the same time each year to give other clubs a chance to sign them.

Padreman · 08-06-2013, 06:55 PM

Did not want to open a new thread so ill just use this one here it goes.
Ok I have 30 team Major league and an AAA level affiliate with 30 teams an same with an AA level. now my question if any of you have done this before I want to expand my AAA to 30 more teams so it will go from 30 to 60 teams and I want each Major league club to have 2 affiliates in AAA level. So my AAA will be one league with 2 sub league and 30 teams per sub league 4 divisions per sub-league.

My question is how will it work with one major league team having 2 affiliates In the same level? Pros and cons please?

Padreman · 08-07-2013, 03:11 PM

Experts?

Did not want to open a new thread so ill just use this one here it goes.
Ok I have 30 team Major league and an AAA level affiliate with 30 teams an same with an AA level. now my question if any of you have done this before I want to expand my AAA to 30 more teams so it will go from 30 to 60 teams and I want each Major league club to have 2 affiliates in AAA level. So my AAA will be one league with 2 sub league and 30 teams per sub league 4 divisions per sub-league.

My question is how will it work with one major league team having 2 affiliates In the same level? Pros and cons please?

06-15-2013, 05:27 PM	#1
Padreman Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2013 Location: Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico (formally San Diego, CA.) Posts: 4,131	Minor league Questions Question have any of you had a non-affiliated minor leagues? I'm thinking of adding one, my hopes is they take on all the free-agents no one wants and develope them. My question will do take those free agents or will they just creat new players? I have a fictional 26 team major league league and a 26 team AAA minor league affiliated with my major league. I want my new league to be a small 8 team AA non-affiliated league. Also how does work with picking up Players in that league? Do you have to buy out their contracts to join your organization? Last edited by Padreman; 08-06-2013 at 08:12 PM.

08-06-2013, 06:55 PM	#8
Padreman Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2013 Location: Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico (formally San Diego, CA.) Posts: 4,131	Did not want to open a new thread so ill just use this one here it goes. Ok I have 30 team Major league and an AAA level affiliate with 30 teams an same with an AA level. now my question if any of you have done this before I want to expand my AAA to 30 more teams so it will go from 30 to 60 teams and I want each Major league club to have 2 affiliates in AAA level. So my AAA will be one league with 2 sub league and 30 teams per sub league 4 divisions per sub-league. My question is how will it work with one major league team having 2 affiliates In the same level? Pros and cons please? Last edited by Padreman; 08-06-2013 at 08:13 PM.

06-15-2013, 06:06 PM	#3
Padreman Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2013 Location: Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico (formally San Diego, CA.) Posts: 4,131	Ok so for me to sign a player in that league I have to wait till their a free agent I just can't grab him Mid-season then

06-16-2013, 04:44 PM	#4
Tekneek Major Leagues Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: GA, USA Posts: 455	A way to prevent the free agent creation in an independent league is to check the box for amateur draft, set it to 1 round, then set it to create players for 0 rounds. It will give you a warning that there won't be enough players generated, which you click OK on. There is a "draft" every year, but no selections are ever made (for obvious reasons). I read about this trick from someone on the boards here, but now do not recall who it was. I've used it and it works fine.

06-17-2013, 11:04 AM	#5
Padreman Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2013 Location: Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico (formally San Diego, CA.) Posts: 4,131	One problem is In have some 37-42 year old vets that are one or half stars still hanging around in free-agency. None of the Major league teams want them I know I don't. But in my mind they still hang around because A. They love the game or B. they want a paycheck. How can I get my Minor league teams to pick these guys up?

06-18-2013, 01:13 PM	#6
Padreman Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2013 Location: Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico (formally San Diego, CA.) Posts: 4,131	So I decided to make my new AA League be affiliated with my Manor league but no team being a farm team Of any specific major league team. What type of impact if any or problems could I experience?

08-07-2013, 03:11 PM	#9
Padreman Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2013 Location: Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico (formally San Diego, CA.) Posts: 4,131	Experts? Did not want to open a new thread so ill just use this one here it goes. Ok I have 30 team Major league and an AAA level affiliate with 30 teams an same with an AA level. now my question if any of you have done this before I want to expand my AAA to 30 more teams so it will go from 30 to 60 teams and I want each Major league club to have 2 affiliates in AAA level. So my AAA will be one league with 2 sub league and 30 teams per sub league 4 divisions per sub-league. My question is how will it work with one major league team having 2 affiliates In the same level? Pros and cons please?