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05-16-2013, 02:26 PM | #1 |
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Option for a zero player reserve list
Why is the minimum reserve roster set to 15 spots? I would love to see options from 0-14 added.
I want to set up a league where teams aren't gobbling up free agents and sticking them on the reserve roster. I want a simple 15-25 man roster (depending on the era), with no reserve list and no minor league affiliations. If a player gets hurt the team plays with a smaller roster until he comes back. I've turned off the 40-man, but the reserve roster still keeps getting filled. I can't see how to turn it off. Maybe there is a way to do this that I am missing? |
05-16-2013, 03:13 PM | #2 |
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05-16-2013, 04:34 PM | #3 |
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What about using the secondary (40-man) roster option but instead set it to a value one above your active roster size, e.g. 26 (if you're using a 25-man active roster limit). That ought to get you really close to what you want. (Not sure if the game will let you set your secondary roster size equal to your active roster size.)
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05-16-2013, 06:39 PM | #4 |
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I dunno about setting it to 0, but I would definitely like to be able to set it to less than 15. Maybe 5 as a minimum.
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05-16-2013, 09:15 PM | #5 |
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05-17-2013, 07:12 AM | #7 |
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You have a point. I do wonder though how well (or not) the AI would work without any reserve players at all.
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05-17-2013, 07:26 AM | #8 |
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Based on the AI's contract/roster managing skills (or lack of), I'd lean towards not handling it well. With no reserve roster and 100% guaranteed contracts, health becomes much, much more important. Second to that is team construction and depth, and the AI has a tendency to stuff the roster with bench hitters.
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05-17-2013, 08:41 AM | #9 |
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Dang, no wonder I don't see anyone who can hit a baseball.
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05-17-2013, 09:12 AM | #10 |
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I mean, pinch hitters are great and all, but there's no need to have 18 hitters on a team, if you're playing with 30 man rosters or something, which is what the AI tends to do. With no reserve roster, pitching depth would be a lot more important just because you have 0 flexibility with injuries, and I'm not sure that OOTP's AI is able to comprehend that at the moment.
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(For what it's worth, in real life it used to be that a major league player who was released from his contract was only entitled to 10 days' pay as termination. That's about 6% of the salary amount for the season.) |
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05-18-2013, 01:24 AM | #15 |
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Yeah, that's only available under reserve clause era rules. It's a great workaround if you want to play reserve-clause era rules, but if you don't, then your only option is 100% guaranteed contracts or using commissioner mode to forcibly push players into FA (and that option's hard to extend to AI teams). I'd be fine with using commish mode to force players into FA, but the AI can't do that, and I can't exactly ask them if they would cut a player if there were no consequences to cutting him.
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05-18-2013, 07:45 AM | #16 |
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I agree that turning off guaranteed contracts should be allowed for non-reserve clause leagues.
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05-21-2013, 06:01 PM | #19 |
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That would make a lot of sense.
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