Deleting FA's

Ts-Rock · 01-17-2014, 12:05 PM

I'm playing MLB quick start and the draft is default to 80 rds which is a LOT, so after one full season I had 4,000 FA's!!! Everytime I clicked on FA tab it was slow loading. Long story short, I deleted about 1,500 bottom tier FA's to clear out the clutter.

my question would be has/does anyone else do this and is there any long term affects to player talent in doing so.

le receveur · 01-17-2014, 12:09 PM

i Retire them, not delete. and actually i do random purge not only the bottom, to maintain a distribution... only problem i got at one point, was that my league ran out of catchers in FA pool, so now my retirement purges are done by position.

BIG17EASY · 01-17-2014, 12:50 PM

I've run a couple leagues off the quickstart and never had an 80-round draft or enough players generated for 80 rounds. Are you sure you didn't change something?

Lukas Berger · 01-17-2014, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by BIG17EASY

I've run a couple leagues off the quickstart and never had an 80-round draft or enough players generated for 80 rounds. Are you sure you didn't change something?

Same here. The draft in the quickstart defaults to 30 rounds. If yours is at 80 it must've been something you accidently changed, it didn't come that way out of the package.

le receveur · 01-17-2014, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by BIG17EASY

I've run a couple leagues off the quickstart and never had an 80-round draft or enough players generated for 80 rounds. Are you sure you didn't change something?

there is an issue if you create a feeder where it changes the number of rounds to 80 automatically . and if you have complete draft pool if not enough from feeder, it will create 80 rounds of players..

edit: but yes, feeders are not part of QS, so you are correct

Ts-Rock · 01-17-2014, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by le receveur

there is an issue if you create a feeder where it changes the number of rounds to 80 automatically . and if you have complete draft pool if not enough from feeder, it will create 80 rounds of players..

edit: but yes, feeders are not part of QS, so you are correct

yes, sorry. I do quick start and then always add NCAA and HS feeders, thus giving me 80 rd drafts.

le receveur · 01-17-2014, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Ts-Rock

yes, sorry. I do quick start and then always add NCAA and HS feeders, thus giving me 80 rd drafts.

actually, i'll ask the regulars on this one: would this be considered a bug (for the legacy thread?)

hfield007 · 01-17-2014, 09:57 PM

every year in my fictional i delete any 0.5 star player with no career statistics and over the age of 22.

le receveur · 01-17-2014, 09:59 PM

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Originally Posted by hfield007

every year in my fictional i delete any 0.5 star player with no career statistics and over the age of 22.

can I just ask why Deleting vs Retiring?

hfield007 · 01-17-2014, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by le receveur

can I just ask why Deleting vs Retiring?

So I don't have to keep them in the database. They have no statistics at any level. It's pointless to carry their information in the save file.

hbxli · 01-17-2014, 10:06 PM

If you are looking to thin out the free agent pool but are worried about taking too many players from a certain position or whatnot, set up a custom filter of something really generic, like "first name" "contains" "e" or something like that.

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01-17-2014, 12:09 PM	#2
le receveur All Star Starter Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: canada Posts: 1,736	i Retire them, not delete. and actually i do random purge not only the bottom, to maintain a distribution... only problem i got at one point, was that my league ran out of catchers in FA pool, so now my retirement purges are done by position.

01-17-2014, 12:50 PM	#3
BIG17EASY Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 3,291	I've run a couple leagues off the quickstart and never had an 80-round draft or enough players generated for 80 rounds. Are you sure you didn't change something?

01-17-2014, 09:57 PM	#8
hfield007 All Star Starter Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,737	every year in my fictional i delete any 0.5 star player with no career statistics and over the age of 22.

01-17-2014, 10:06 PM	#11
hbxli Bat Boy Join Date: Jan 2014 Posts: 2	If you are looking to thin out the free agent pool but are worried about taking too many players from a certain position or whatnot, set up a custom filter of something really generic, like "first name" "contains" "e" or something like that.