free agent eligibility

nestajones · 07-25-2004, 12:01 AM

Using Pierre's utility, I have gone through and tried to fix the ML service time for every player in my league.

Players should not be eligible for free agency with less than 1032 (6 yrs x 172 days) of major league service time.

I am seeing some players eligible for free agency with less than this amount of service time. They played partial seasons, and thus have 6 (or more) major league seasons, but less than 1032 days. For instance, they may have played 6 full or partial seasons, totalling 900 days. Their page says "Years of MLB Service: 6 years, 40 days (900 total days)" and it is making them eligible for free agency. The game is apparently reading the 6 years, and disregarding the days of service time.

What do I do about this? Do I have to go back through and also change the years of MLB for every player? What do I change it to, if they really have played 6 seasons, but not six FULL seasons? Is this problem going to continue when I have players who come up entirely through OOTP6? (Right now, my league has only played one season in OOTP6, so service time was not counted correctly for most of the players' careers.) Are players who play 6 or 7 partial seasons always going to be eligible for free agency? Does days of service time matter at all?

sporr · 07-25-2004, 06:25 PM

New players in OOTP6 won't have this problem since the game will track this accurately now that you've converted. As for converted players from OOTP5, you can edit them if you wish. For me, it isn't worth the trouble and we've just let everyone know that the MLB service time is staying as it is.

nestajones · 07-25-2004, 10:40 PM

But my problem is that even after editing every single player in the league, it seems not to matter. The game seems to be ignoring days of service, it only pays attention to years.

A player who has played 900 days (not enough for free agency) over 8 seasons will show something like "Years of MLB Service: 8 years, 40 days (900 total days)" and be eligible for free agency.

The game seems to only be paying attention to years played, and not the days of service. If I change the years played so it is less than 6, then I am betting as soon as it reaches 6, regardless whether the player has yet reached the 1032 days, he will again be seen as FA eligible.

I really don't know what to do, unless I go through every player after every season to make sure the FA eligiblity is correct. Which I really don't wanna do.

And even if the game accurately counts days of service for players who come up through OOTP6, are we sure it will pay attention to the days of service and not the years?

07-25-2004, 12:01 AM	#1
nestajones Minors (Double A) Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 174	free agent eligibility Using Pierre's utility, I have gone through and tried to fix the ML service time for every player in my league. Players should not be eligible for free agency with less than 1032 (6 yrs x 172 days) of major league service time. I am seeing some players eligible for free agency with less than this amount of service time. They played partial seasons, and thus have 6 (or more) major league seasons, but less than 1032 days. For instance, they may have played 6 full or partial seasons, totalling 900 days. Their page says "Years of MLB Service: 6 years, 40 days (900 total days)" and it is making them eligible for free agency. The game is apparently reading the 6 years, and disregarding the days of service time. What do I do about this? Do I have to go back through and also change the years of MLB for every player? What do I change it to, if they really have played 6 seasons, but not six FULL seasons? Is this problem going to continue when I have players who come up entirely through OOTP6? (Right now, my league has only played one season in OOTP6, so service time was not counted correctly for most of the players' careers.) Are players who play 6 or 7 partial seasons always going to be eligible for free agency? Does days of service time matter at all?

07-25-2004, 06:25 PM	#2
sporr Global Moderator Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Muscatine, IA Posts: 8,277	New players in OOTP6 won't have this problem since the game will track this accurately now that you've converted. As for converted players from OOTP5, you can edit them if you wish. For me, it isn't worth the trouble and we've just let everyone know that the MLB service time is staying as it is.

07-25-2004, 10:40 PM	#3
nestajones Minors (Double A) Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 174	But my problem is that even after editing every single player in the league, it seems not to matter. The game seems to be ignoring days of service, it only pays attention to years. A player who has played 900 days (not enough for free agency) over 8 seasons will show something like "Years of MLB Service: 8 years, 40 days (900 total days)" and be eligible for free agency. The game seems to only be paying attention to years played, and not the days of service. If I change the years played so it is less than 6, then I am betting as soon as it reaches 6, regardless whether the player has yet reached the 1032 days, he will again be seen as FA eligible. I really don't know what to do, unless I go through every player after every season to make sure the FA eligiblity is correct. Which I really don't wanna do. And even if the game accurately counts days of service for players who come up through OOTP6, are we sure it will pay attention to the days of service and not the years?