Expansion Draft date (modern league)

ezpkns34 · 05-13-2014, 02:20 PM

Just curious what you guys think is the best time to do an expansion draft in a modern league?

DFyvie · 05-15-2014, 10:32 AM

The off-season before Free-agency perhaps? That way you can leave impending free-agents 'unprotected'.

Cinnamon J. Scudworth · 05-15-2014, 11:57 AM

Beginning of preseason, assuming an expansion by only two teams. Usually there are still a few decent free agents left for the expansion teams. It depends on how good you want the expansion teams to be in their first season, though. Unless you do some additional editing of their finances, expansion teams in OOTP always have a TON of money and budget room, so if you expand early in the offseason they will snap up a lot of the good free agents, in my experience.

Walpeezy · 05-15-2014, 12:06 PM

well the last mlb expansion draft was back in 1997 when the rays and dbacks joined for the 1998 season. and their draft was november 18, 1997. so if you wanna go off something reality based, then thats a solid date there..

Rockfan616 · 05-15-2014, 02:08 PM

Yeah, I would do it during the offseason...right around the same time they had the expansion draft for both the Dbacks and Rays in 1997. That's the best time IMO for it.

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ezpkns34 All Star Reserve Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 693	Expansion Draft date (modern league) Just curious what you guys think is the best time to do an expansion draft in a modern league?

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Cinnamon J. Scudworth All Star Starter Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 1,119	Beginning of preseason, assuming an expansion by only two teams. Usually there are still a few decent free agents left for the expansion teams. It depends on how good you want the expansion teams to be in their first season, though. Unless you do some additional editing of their finances, expansion teams in OOTP always have a TON of money and budget room, so if you expand early in the offseason they will snap up a lot of the good free agents, in my experience. __________________ "Sometimes, this is like going to a grocery store. You’ve got a list until you get to the check-out stand. And then you start reading People magazine, and all this other [stuff] ends up in the basket." -Sandy Alderson on the MLB offseason

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DFyvie Major Leagues Join Date: May 2014 Location: Cambridge, UK Posts: 371 Blog Entries: 2	The off-season before Free-agency perhaps? That way you can leave impending free-agents 'unprotected'.

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Walpeezy Bat Boy Join Date: May 2013 Posts: 14	well the last mlb expansion draft was back in 1997 when the rays and dbacks joined for the 1998 season. and their draft was november 18, 1997. so if you wanna go off something reality based, then thats a solid date there..

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Rockfan616 Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 275	Yeah, I would do it during the offseason...right around the same time they had the expansion draft for both the Dbacks and Rays in 1997. That's the best time IMO for it.