Re-signing Minor League Coaches Automatically

kingne10 · 03-27-2017, 12:07 AM

Despite Sign/Fire Team Personnel being set up as myself in Team Control Settings, all of my minor league coaches are getting renewed each year even if I don't offer a contract. I started a new game to see if it would happen again and it did.

kingne10 · 03-30-2017, 09:34 PM

This is still happening for me even after the last update. I'm having to go into Commissioner's Mode and make the coaches that I didn't want to re-sign into free agents. It seems like I may be the only one with this issue and I can't figure it out. My settings are the same as they have been for years.

Matt Arnold · 03-31-2017, 04:15 AM

There's 2 settings for personnel - one for majors and one for minors. So if you want to control the minor league one, be sure that they're both set to you.

As well, if you have the "do not disturb" flag on, then the AI will re-sign guys for you as well.

kingne10 · 03-31-2017, 10:40 AM

Thank you for the reply. However, my Sign Minor League Personnel is set to myself and I don't have the Do Not Disturb button selected.

kingne10 · 04-16-2017, 04:50 PM

After the current update this is still an issue for me. However, it doesn't appear the coaches are re-signing. It appears their contracts just aren't advancing in years. For example, I signed a coach to a 3 year contract before the season. After the current season, he still shows as having 3 years left on his contract.

Len1950 · 04-19-2017, 05:53 AM

Same thing is happening to me. Coaches' contracts are automatically extending at the end of the season. Even the ones who'd refused contract extensions during the season. I control all personnel hirings/firings, and I never use the 'Do Not Disturb' function. Like Kingne, I have to go into commissioner mode and get rid of the ones I don't want. (I lack the willpower to get rid of the ones I'd wanted to re-sign who refused.) I hope you don't require a lot of technical information to look into this because I'm not a computer person. All I know how to do is start the app and shut it down. Apart from this, my game is running fine.

zonk84 · 04-20-2017, 10:19 AM

Ditto on this bug

For those of us who like GMing the organization, it's a big problem -- since, if the manual is true, I'm also incurring a quasi-reputation hit when I try to hire a coach/manager I WANT which necessarily requires firing one who apparently has a contract in perpetuity.

KLT8898 · 04-20-2017, 06:46 PM

I'm also having this issue. At first I thought I was crazy and maybe read the expiring year wrong, but now that this has been posted I can confirm that it seems ALL my minor league coaches/personnel get extended by one year automatically, and as someone stated above, it doesn't matter if they refuse to negotiate during the season or not.

zonk84 · 05-03-2017, 11:52 AM

Bumping this bug --

Haven't seen any dev indication it's been logged and will be addressed... I gather - based on response - most people ignore minor league staff, but for those of us who spend a lot of time managing the organization, this bug is a real pain.

It bakes in an automatic financial penalty (and if, as the manual implies - firings impact likelihood of hirings - more).

Could a dev verify that this bug is at least in the fix backlog?

Matt Arnold · 05-03-2017, 02:31 PM

This has been fixed and will be in the next patch.

zonk84 · 05-03-2017, 02:42 PM

Awesome!

Thanks Matt

03-27-2017, 12:07 AM	#1
kingne10 Minors (Single A) Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 57	Re-signing Minor League Coaches Automatically Despite Sign/Fire Team Personnel being set up as myself in Team Control Settings, all of my minor league coaches are getting renewed each year even if I don't offer a contract. I started a new game to see if it would happen again and it did.

03-30-2017, 09:34 PM	#2
kingne10 Minors (Single A) Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 57	This is still happening for me even after the last update. I'm having to go into Commissioner's Mode and make the coaches that I didn't want to re-sign into free agents. It seems like I may be the only one with this issue and I can't figure it out. My settings are the same as they have been for years.

03-31-2017, 04:15 AM	#3
Matt Arnold OOTP Developer Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Here and there Posts: 14,127	There's 2 settings for personnel - one for majors and one for minors. So if you want to control the minor league one, be sure that they're both set to you. As well, if you have the "do not disturb" flag on, then the AI will re-sign guys for you as well.

03-31-2017, 10:40 AM	#4
kingne10 Minors (Single A) Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 57	Thank you for the reply. However, my Sign Minor League Personnel is set to myself and I don't have the Do Not Disturb button selected.

04-16-2017, 04:50 PM	#5
kingne10 Minors (Single A) Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 57	After the current update this is still an issue for me. However, it doesn't appear the coaches are re-signing. It appears their contracts just aren't advancing in years. For example, I signed a coach to a 3 year contract before the season. After the current season, he still shows as having 3 years left on his contract.

04-19-2017, 05:53 AM	#6
Len1950 Minors (Single A) Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 69	Same thing is happening to me. Coaches' contracts are automatically extending at the end of the season. Even the ones who'd refused contract extensions during the season. I control all personnel hirings/firings, and I never use the 'Do Not Disturb' function. Like Kingne, I have to go into commissioner mode and get rid of the ones I don't want. (I lack the willpower to get rid of the ones I'd wanted to re-sign who refused.) I hope you don't require a lot of technical information to look into this because I'm not a computer person. All I know how to do is start the app and shut it down. Apart from this, my game is running fine.

04-20-2017, 10:19 AM	#7
zonk84 Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 263	Ditto on this bug For those of us who like GMing the organization, it's a big problem -- since, if the manual is true, I'm also incurring a quasi-reputation hit when I try to hire a coach/manager I WANT which necessarily requires firing one who apparently has a contract in perpetuity.

04-20-2017, 06:46 PM	#8
KLT8898 Bat Boy Join Date: Mar 2017 Posts: 19	I'm also having this issue. At first I thought I was crazy and maybe read the expiring year wrong, but now that this has been posted I can confirm that it seems ALL my minor league coaches/personnel get extended by one year automatically, and as someone stated above, it doesn't matter if they refuse to negotiate during the season or not.

05-03-2017, 11:52 AM	#9
zonk84 Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 263	Bumping this bug -- Haven't seen any dev indication it's been logged and will be addressed... I gather - based on response - most people ignore minor league staff, but for those of us who spend a lot of time managing the organization, this bug is a real pain. It bakes in an automatic financial penalty (and if, as the manual implies - firings impact likelihood of hirings - more). Could a dev verify that this bug is at least in the fix backlog?

05-03-2017, 02:31 PM	#10
Matt Arnold OOTP Developer Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Here and there Posts: 14,127	This has been fixed and will be in the next patch.

05-03-2017, 02:42 PM	#11
zonk84 Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 263	Awesome! Thanks Matt