Indy League Improvements

[nico1270]

There are a few quick fixes that could overhaul the indy league experience:

*Email notification when a player on your team, or league, has been purchased by a Major League Team.

*Correct Split Season Standings, with 1st half and second half standing. Some kind of information regarding games left in a half, for example.

*Customizable split season formats, for example 1st half winner vs 2nd half winner play a championship game except the winner of each half is the same team.

*Minor league Id to load photo.of players. Many players do have minor league ids, but not majors. And some players may have the same name. Using that ID could help us improve the experience.

*Adjust extension money demands (if league allows extension). Players sometimes ask for double the payroll available after playing a good season.

*As it was adjusted for international coaches not wanting to join a league on another country, it could be applied the same kind of restriction so Asian players (with *** or KBO experience) cannot join indy leagues for low paying salaries. Probably nobody will leave those leagues to play the PECOS league.

[adammokan]

Originally Posted by nico1270

*Email notification when a player on your team, or league, has been purchased by a Major League Team.

That would be very helpful.

[Cryomaniac]

Originally Posted by nico1270

*Email notification when a player on your team, or league, has been purchased by a Major League Team.

That would be very very helpful.

And off on a tangent to major league purchases, Id quite like more options for how purchases work (eg allowing ML teams to bid on players and the indy teams can say yes or no, but if its above a certain amount its automatic or something)

Originally Posted by nico1270

*Adjust extension money demands (if league allows extension). Players sometimes ask for double the payroll available after playing a good season.

I dont think that is necessarily unrealistic, in the sense that a guy tearing it up in an indy league might be looking to sign for a higher level team so might make a demand he knows cant be met. It does need to be combined with AI GMs knowing to look for those kinds of guys and maybe making them offers etc.

There could also be something similar to post draft negotiations where it says something like "this guy thinks he should be playing at a higher level, so it will take an exceptional offer to sign him".

[nico1270]

Originally Posted by Cryomaniac

I dont think that is necessarily unrealistic, in the sense that a guy tearing it up in an indy league might be looking to sign for a higher level team so might make a demand he knows cant be met. It does need to be combined with AI GMs knowing to look for those kinds of guys and maybe making them offers etc.

There could also be something similar to post draft negotiations where it says something like "this guy thinks he should be playing at a higher level, so it will take an exceptional offer to sign him".

Or at least a more human type message "After this season I want to play on a better league, sorry I wont return here" instead of asking 10 times more. We have feelings after all.

[Le Grande Orange]

I'd add one possible item to the OP's list: better recreate the roster turnover seen on independent clubs.

I suspect there is much more roster turnover on real-life independent league clubs than OOTP actually recreates. (This would need to be verified. I've got a fair amount of minor league transaction data to serve as a reference; we'd then need OOTP transaction data to compare.)

Originally Posted by nico1270

*Correct Split Season Standings, with 1st half and second half standing. Some kind of information regarding games left in a half, for example.

This is also an issue for affiliated leagues as well, most of which use the split-season format.

(The sad thing about this particular item is that it has been wrong in OOTP for about ten years now, which is about as long as split-seasons have been in the game.)

Originally Posted by nico1270

*Customizable split season formats, for example 1st half winner vs 2nd half winner play a championship game except the winner of each half is the same team.

There are several other formats as well. Best, in my opinion, to capture those, and many other playoff formats, in a new customizable playoffs system.

[Cryomaniac]

Originally Posted by nico1270

Or at least a more human type message "After this season I want to play on a better league, sorry I wont return here" instead of asking 10 times more. We have feelings after all.

Yeah, that might be a better way of putting it

[ohiodevil]

Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange

I'd add one possible item to the OP's list: better recreate the roster turnover seen on independent clubs.

I suspect there is much more roster turnover on real-life independent league clubs than OOTP actually recreates.

Indy Leagues have a lot of turnover, sometimes you will see guys signed for only 2 or 3 days/games to cover an injury or some other situation. I don't know how many times I went through updating the Indy Rosters and saw a guy signed on one day, then be released two days later.

Another thing that happens frequently is "call ups". This is something that may take a lot of work, but some leagues like the PECOS, United Shore, Empire just to name a few are generally looked at as the lowest level and regularly "trade" players to teams in the American Association or Frontier leagues.

Obviously the goal is for a player to get into an affiliated minor league, but some of these guys play a year or two in the PECOS League so they can move "up" to the American Association or Frontier League and (I believe) the highest Indy League, Atlantic League.