Expansion Draft Stars Available Bug?

[Living Lejuhnd]

I attempted to replicate the rules from the most recent expansion draft. The only change I made was going from protecting players with less than three years of ML experience and changing it to two years since in the last draft the rule was you could not take a player that was drafted the previous two seasons.

Boy did that make a bunch of all-stars available! I don't understand how some of these guys are not protected:

Strasburg
Chapman
Sale
Harper
Kipnis
Moore
Profar
Machado

The list continues.

How could the Nationals elect to protect Chad Tracy, but not protect Strasburg or Harper?

[olivertheorem]

Is this an expansion in the 2013 MLB quickstart before doing anything else? Or is this a few years down the line?

[Living Lejuhnd]

Originally Posted by olivertheorem

Is this an expansion in the 2013 MLB quickstart before doing anything else? Or is this a few years down the line?

This is at the quickstart with then 2013 all in one MLB mod installed.

25 players protected and all players with less than 2 years MLB experience auto protected.

[Living Lejuhnd]

Anyone else notice this?

[Charlie Hough]

You need to keep the auto-protection at 3 years, otherwise the AI makes some bad decisions, particularly with young stars.

Hopefully we will see improvements in a future patch, but for now you need to protect younger players. If you want to make more players available, lower the standard protected list size.

[canaveral]

Originally Posted by Charlie Hough

You need to keep the auto-protection at 3 years, otherwise the AI makes some bad decisions, particularly with young stars.

Hopefully we will see improvements in a future patch, but for now you need to protect younger players. If you want to make more players available, lower the standard protected list size.

The AI is still obstinate with this. At league setup (1993, historical, on OOTP13), I changed the protection list from 15 to my desired 18. When expansion arrived (1997), the AI had flipped it back to 15. I made the twofold switch suggested in a thread a couple weeks ago - set to 21, save, then re-set to my desired 18 and save - with no results. The AI does note on each team's protection list what the new standard is (21 and then 18), but does not deviate from its initial list of 15 players it wants to protect.

So, I'm living with the 15 and auto-protection at 3 years - which still means a few big players escape protection in favor of some 1-stars (e.g., 4-star Al Leiter grabbed in Round 1 by Arizona).

[olivertheorem]

Don't contracts play a role in whether or not a player is protected? For example, if you've got a guy whose contract you don't want, wouldn't you leave him unprotected and hope the expansion team took him?

[sc_superstar]

Yeah whenever I expand from the MLB Quickstart, you have to eat some unfavourable contracts to get decent non-relievers at times

[canaveral]

Originally Posted by canaveral

The AI is still obstinate with this. At league setup (1993, historical, on OOTP13), I changed the protection list from 15 to my desired 18. When expansion arrived (1997), the AI had flipped it back to 15. I made the twofold switch suggested in a thread a couple weeks ago - set to 21, save, then re-set to my desired 18 and save - with no results. The AI does note on each team's protection list what the new standard is (21 and then 18), but does not deviate from its initial list of 15 players it wants to protect.

So, I'm living with the 15 and auto-protection at 3 years - which still means a few big players escape protection in favor of some 1-stars (e.g., 4-star Al Leiter grabbed in Round 1 by Arizona).

No financials in my play.

[Charlie Hough]

Originally Posted by olivertheorem

Don't contracts play a role in whether or not a player is protected? For example, if you've got a guy whose contract you don't want, wouldn't you leave him unprotected and hope the expansion team took him?

Only if contracts are set to expire. I don't think the AI pays much attention to the value or duration of contracts otherwise, but I can't be sure.

However, I've definitely seen the AI leave players unprotected when they have expiring contracts and will become free agents. You never want to draft those players because they are still free to sign elsewhere.