Service time when creating a historical league

nyy26wc · 08-21-2016, 01:39 PM

When I start a historical league, players were given an entire year of service time, for any year in which they had appeared in the majors.

I created a test league that started in 2000. For example, after the 2000 season, Brian Giles was a free agent. Giles started his career by playing in 6 games for the Indians in 1995. So, he was charged an entire year of service time towards his 6 years in the majors.

I remember there was a similar issue a few editions of OOTP ago. I believe the issue was easily fixed by a fix that calculated service time based on prorating how many of the players games that year were in the majors, compared to the minors. Is there any chance that a similar fix could be available for this year's edition?

bwburke94 · 08-21-2016, 02:29 PM

Now that we have a minor league database, it should be fixable.

In some circumstances we may have actual service time data, which would make it even easier.

nyy26wc · 08-21-2016, 02:45 PM

Great!

Any chance you might have a ETA timetable? I'm just wondering, since the importance of service time to free agency makes the status quo a major problem to me in starting my historical league.

nyy26wc · 09-07-2016, 07:32 AM

This wasn't included in Monday's patch. Is there any timetable as to when it might get resolved?

08-21-2016, 01:39 PM	#1
nyy26wc All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 678	Service time when creating a historical league When I start a historical league, players were given an entire year of service time, for any year in which they had appeared in the majors. I created a test league that started in 2000. For example, after the 2000 season, Brian Giles was a free agent. Giles started his career by playing in 6 games for the Indians in 1995. So, he was charged an entire year of service time towards his 6 years in the majors. I remember there was a similar issue a few editions of OOTP ago. I believe the issue was easily fixed by a fix that calculated service time based on prorating how many of the players games that year were in the majors, compared to the minors. Is there any chance that a similar fix could be available for this year's edition?

08-21-2016, 02:29 PM	#2
bwburke94 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Belchertown, MA, USA Posts: 4,443	Now that we have a minor league database, it should be fixable. In some circumstances we may have actual service time data, which would make it even easier.

08-21-2016, 02:45 PM	#3
nyy26wc All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 678	Great! Any chance you might have a ETA timetable? I'm just wondering, since the importance of service time to free agency makes the status quo a major problem to me in starting my historical league.

09-07-2016, 07:32 AM	#4
nyy26wc All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 678	This wasn't included in Monday's patch. Is there any timetable as to when it might get resolved?