Financial & GM help

diamond2377 · 02-23-2007, 12:10 PM

I need help!
I love baseball, but one thing I never payed attention to was the financial and front office aspect of it. So as the OOTP series progresses, so does the involvment of front office functions. The only problem is I don't understand half of it, but I don't want to completely avoid it. I ususally do leagues with financials off, but it seems like somethings missing.

These are the things that are somewhat over my head:
"Multiple levels of minors, free agency, Designated for Assignment, revenue sharing, an owner budget, media contracts based on team market size, salaries and finances that automatically shift with the year simulated, salary arbitration, draft pick compensation for signing of another team’s free agents, tracking major league service time to determine when free agency triggers" - Quote from Rasnell's blog

Are there any threads, articles or tutorials out there on explaining this part of baseball?

Eumel · 02-23-2007, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by diamond2377

I need help!
These are the things that are somewhat over my head:
"Multiple levels of minors, free agency, Designated for Assignment, revenue sharing, an owner budget, media contracts based on team market size, salaries and finances that automatically shift with the year simulated, salary arbitration, draft pick compensation for signing of another team’s free agents, tracking major league service time to determine when free agency triggers" - Quote from Rasnell's blog

Are there any threads, articles or tutorials out there on explaining this part of baseball?

The roster rules, arbitration, free agency and the likes were pretty well explained in the 2006 OOTP Game Guide, IMO. You might want to look for that.

Stu · 02-23-2007, 12:49 PM

Also look in the old FAQ forum: http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...splay.php?f=15

Not all the info is relevant to OOTP 2007, but the basic rules should be accurate.

ctorg · 02-23-2007, 12:52 PM

The game guide mentioned above is probably the best source. You might as well focus on the things that OOTP incorporates rather than the myraid other difficult-to-explain rules in baseball.

battists · 02-23-2007, 01:12 PM

There may be some helpful info in upcoming blogs. No promises tho'.

Meanwhile, one suggestion I have. When I started playing OOTP, I was a casual fan and didn't know about all of these details. Like you, I played with everything turned off.

What I did was to turn on things one at a time. Not within the same league, but for example, I played a league in which there were multiple minors, and then added the rule 5 draft, and then added waivers.

It gave me a chance to learn more about this stuff without being overwhelmed by it all. For me, the hardest thing are all of the BASEBALL rules around transactions. Even after writing the Game Guide, I can't remember half of that stuff. :P

Just a thought.

diamond2377 · 02-23-2007, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Stu

Also look in the old FAQ forum: http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...splay.php?f=15

Not all the info is relevant to OOTP 2007, but the basic rules should be accurate.

Wow, I don't remember ever seeing the faq section. I need to keep reading, but at least I know what DFA is all about.

Le Grande Orange · 02-23-2007, 02:34 PM

As someone interested in not just the current-day rules but in the rules as they were in earlier years, one of the things I want to do is write a "MLB Rules through the Years" type of document detailing the main rules and how they've changed over the years to serve as a sort of guide.

Not an easy task, obviously.

But thanks to some folks at SABR, I've got the 1970, 1976, and 1990 CBAs, which is great. Then I've been rooting around various places digging up as many of the little nuggets of rule info I can. I recently found out what the August 15th deadline about being "draft-excluded" means (and it wasn't what I thought it meant). The hard part is finding out the particulars of the older rules and when some of the rules changed.

02-23-2007, 12:10 PM	#1
diamond2377 Minors (Single A) Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Hartford, CT. Posts: 92	Financial & GM help I need help! I love baseball, but one thing I never payed attention to was the financial and front office aspect of it. So as the OOTP series progresses, so does the involvment of front office functions. The only problem is I don't understand half of it, but I don't want to completely avoid it. I ususally do leagues with financials off, but it seems like somethings missing. These are the things that are somewhat over my head: "Multiple levels of minors, free agency, Designated for Assignment, revenue sharing, an owner budget, media contracts based on team market size, salaries and finances that automatically shift with the year simulated, salary arbitration, draft pick compensation for signing of another team’s free agents, tracking major league service time to determine when free agency triggers" - Quote from Rasnell's blog Are there any threads, articles or tutorials out there on explaining this part of baseball?

02-23-2007, 12:52 PM	#4
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02-23-2007, 02:34 PM	#7
Le Grande Orange Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Up There Posts: 15,642	As someone interested in not just the current-day rules but in the rules as they were in earlier years, one of the things I want to do is write a "MLB Rules through the Years" type of document detailing the main rules and how they've changed over the years to serve as a sort of guide. Not an easy task, obviously. But thanks to some folks at SABR, I've got the 1970, 1976, and 1990 CBAs, which is great. Then I've been rooting around various places digging up as many of the little nuggets of rule info I can. I recently found out what the August 15th deadline about being "draft-excluded" means (and it wasn't what I thought it meant). The hard part is finding out the particulars of the older rules and when some of the rules changed. Last edited by Le Grande Orange; 02-23-2007 at 02:36 PM.

02-23-2007, 12:49 PM	#3
Stu All Star Starter Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,255	Also look in the old FAQ forum: http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...splay.php?f=15 Not all the info is relevant to OOTP 2007, but the basic rules should be accurate.

02-23-2007, 01:12 PM	#5
battists Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 18,506	There may be some helpful info in upcoming blogs. No promises tho'. Meanwhile, one suggestion I have. When I started playing OOTP, I was a casual fan and didn't know about all of these details. Like you, I played with everything turned off. What I did was to turn on things one at a time. Not within the same league, but for example, I played a league in which there were multiple minors, and then added the rule 5 draft, and then added waivers. It gave me a chance to learn more about this stuff without being overwhelmed by it all. For me, the hardest thing are all of the BASEBALL rules around transactions. Even after writing the Game Guide, I can't remember half of that stuff. :P Just a thought.