International Players: what's your mix?

skuperman · 09-08-2013, 03:09 AM

I've been curious as to what other people have been using in their leagues to achieve a good balance between getting a reasonable number of international players into their leagues while preventing the level of overall talent from rising. At the same time, I also want to ensure that international amateurs aren't just something I corner the market on, particularly as I currently play solo.

For a standard MLB league with full minors and 30 round draft (feeders set up to produce players for it), I am thinking that 20 amateurs generated per team per year ensures each team has a bit of a "core" to work with, and then 60 amateurs generated for the free agent market. The other issue of course is to consider the signing bonus cap . . .I find that limiting the pool of available players causes the AI to engage in crazy bidding wars. I was mulling the possibility of 90 or even 120 prospects and then hiking the signing bonus cap up to compensate (either to $4.5M or $6M), but again concerns about talent bump have made me cautious.

So, what are you guys doing with all this?

nyy26wc · 09-08-2013, 08:58 AM

For my "is it modern, is it historical, is fiction?" league that I am going to be starting, my plan is to set the international settings to maximum. But, I also think that, in order to have the league work the way I want it, without having too much of a talent bump, I'm going to need a lot of expansion. I'm still trying to finalize what that expansion is going to look like.

09-08-2013, 03:09 AM	#1
skuperman Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 10	International Players: what's your mix? I've been curious as to what other people have been using in their leagues to achieve a good balance between getting a reasonable number of international players into their leagues while preventing the level of overall talent from rising. At the same time, I also want to ensure that international amateurs aren't just something I corner the market on, particularly as I currently play solo. For a standard MLB league with full minors and 30 round draft (feeders set up to produce players for it), I am thinking that 20 amateurs generated per team per year ensures each team has a bit of a "core" to work with, and then 60 amateurs generated for the free agent market. The other issue of course is to consider the signing bonus cap . . .I find that limiting the pool of available players causes the AI to engage in crazy bidding wars. I was mulling the possibility of 90 or even 120 prospects and then hiking the signing bonus cap up to compensate (either to $4.5M or $6M), but again concerns about talent bump have made me cautious. So, what are you guys doing with all this?

09-08-2013, 08:58 AM	#2
nyy26wc All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 679	For my "is it modern, is it historical, is fiction?" league that I am going to be starting, my plan is to set the international settings to maximum. But, I also think that, in order to have the league work the way I want it, without having too much of a talent bump, I'm going to need a lot of expansion. I'm still trying to finalize what that expansion is going to look like.