Reserve clause/Full financials option

Mike45 · 06-02-2014, 12:41 PM

Am doing a historical league. Started the league in 1921 and my plan was to have full financials and a league draft every year. I like the history of baseball, so all league settings, expansions, financial and statistical co-efficients are set to do it normally as per the game. The one thing I do like to do differently is to have Free Agency on from inception. See how the game/world/players perform if they were always able to change teams when contracts were up, etc. I also like to pick a team and "run" then for 10 years, so dual role of commish and GM/manager. Never changing any settings, and only play 1-2 games a month, mostly it's just making roster changes, picking the draft, setting lineups/rotations, etc and then simming a few weeks at a time. Peeking in on both the league and my team.

So anyway, I set up my league and all the options and rules. 1921 is over and no free agents were available after the season. Figured this was due to being the inception of the league, no ones contract was up etc.

1922 came and went, and in looking at team financials-salaries and upcoming FA, I started wondering why no one on my team had a contract longer than the current year and why again, in the off-season, no FAs were available.

1923 has begun, up to pre-season. I take a glance at my options and rules and low and behold, Enable Reserve clause era is checked. When I created the league, I am sure I checked full financials, but I guess in importing the league settings/financials it unchecks and goes to reserve clause? Either that or maybe I accidently checked it disabling the full financials. So I make the adjustment and then go to my team to start setting our roster for the upcoming season.

Check the financials, and every one of my players who isn't either Arb eligible or Auto resign contract is going to be a FA this upcoming season. I check the league upcoming FAs and same for every team. Babe Ruth, Rogers Hornsby, Pete Alexander, every player from superstar award winner to 1* MR who pitches 1 inning a season.

So I have a few questions I'm hoping someone can help me with.

A) Am I screwed here? Is this off-season going to be anarchy with every major star being a FA and bidding wars ensuing? Or will the teams be smart and re-sign their own stars before the off-season?
B) The one caveat of my screw up is that every team has hundreds of thousands of dollars in budget room (since they weren't spending any money the first 3 seasons). So depending on the answer to question A, I could conceivably take control of every team and resign all their stars now in the pre-season and "pretend" this is the start of the league with players becoming FAs a little at a time each season, as was originally intended, instead of the entire league becoming FAs at once.
C) am I going to run into this problem annually with the Reserve clause era getting re-checked every new season when it imports? Will I have to recheck full financials. And if so, will this continue to happen? (i.e. reserve clause nullifys the extentions, and checking full financials makes everyone a FA again).

Please help. I'm early enough in that I can restart if this will be a continuing problem.

Mike45 · 06-02-2014, 02:22 PM

bump...anyone?

Trebro · 06-02-2014, 03:24 PM

You have to work the league set-up screens backwards. As soon as you import the historical settings, it warns you that it overwrites whatever you had set for the financials.

I learned that the hard way, too.

Also, be careful with the historical modifiers. I actually ended up using my own settings to get the stats I was looking for. Should be okay for a close replay of MLB, but go off-script and it gets trickier.

Mike45 · 06-02-2014, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by panelpatter

You have to work the league set-up screens backwards. As soon as you import the historical settings, it warns you that it overwrites whatever you had set for the financials.

I learned that the hard way, too.

Also, be careful with the historical modifiers. I actually ended up using my own settings to get the stats I was looking for. Should be okay for a close replay of MLB, but go off-script and it gets trickier.

thank you panelpatter. The stats have been ok actually. ERA's are higher than real life 1921-22 stats, but the offensive numbers of the top players are pretty much inline with that of real life. Plus, i'm not that concerned with identically modelling real life baseball. I want the real life players, the real life teams, the real life expansion and league setting changes, but if a guy comes out of nowhere and gets a super ratings jump and becomes "babe ruth", and the real babe ruth gets into a hunting accident and retires at 28, cool...that makes my world different than real baseball.

I'm just worried that the financials for my league are screwed now and every player will change teams this offseason and every year that will be duplicated.

06-02-2014, 12:41 PM	#1
Mike45 Minors (Double A) Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 162	Reserve clause/Full financials option Am doing a historical league. Started the league in 1921 and my plan was to have full financials and a league draft every year. I like the history of baseball, so all league settings, expansions, financial and statistical co-efficients are set to do it normally as per the game. The one thing I do like to do differently is to have Free Agency on from inception. See how the game/world/players perform if they were always able to change teams when contracts were up, etc. I also like to pick a team and "run" then for 10 years, so dual role of commish and GM/manager. Never changing any settings, and only play 1-2 games a month, mostly it's just making roster changes, picking the draft, setting lineups/rotations, etc and then simming a few weeks at a time. Peeking in on both the league and my team. So anyway, I set up my league and all the options and rules. 1921 is over and no free agents were available after the season. Figured this was due to being the inception of the league, no ones contract was up etc. 1922 came and went, and in looking at team financials-salaries and upcoming FA, I started wondering why no one on my team had a contract longer than the current year and why again, in the off-season, no FAs were available. 1923 has begun, up to pre-season. I take a glance at my options and rules and low and behold, Enable Reserve clause era is checked. When I created the league, I am sure I checked full financials, but I guess in importing the league settings/financials it unchecks and goes to reserve clause? Either that or maybe I accidently checked it disabling the full financials. So I make the adjustment and then go to my team to start setting our roster for the upcoming season. Check the financials, and every one of my players who isn't either Arb eligible or Auto resign contract is going to be a FA this upcoming season. I check the league upcoming FAs and same for every team. Babe Ruth, Rogers Hornsby, Pete Alexander, every player from superstar award winner to 1* MR who pitches 1 inning a season. So I have a few questions I'm hoping someone can help me with. A) Am I screwed here? Is this off-season going to be anarchy with every major star being a FA and bidding wars ensuing? Or will the teams be smart and re-sign their own stars before the off-season? B) The one caveat of my screw up is that every team has hundreds of thousands of dollars in budget room (since they weren't spending any money the first 3 seasons). So depending on the answer to question A, I could conceivably take control of every team and resign all their stars now in the pre-season and "pretend" this is the start of the league with players becoming FAs a little at a time each season, as was originally intended, instead of the entire league becoming FAs at once. C) am I going to run into this problem annually with the Reserve clause era getting re-checked every new season when it imports? Will I have to recheck full financials. And if so, will this continue to happen? (i.e. reserve clause nullifys the extentions, and checking full financials makes everyone a FA again). Please help. I'm early enough in that I can restart if this will be a continuing problem. Last edited by Mike45; 06-02-2014 at 12:44 PM.

06-02-2014, 02:22 PM	#2
Mike45 Minors (Double A) Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 162	bump...anyone?

06-02-2014, 03:24 PM	#3
Trebro All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2013 Posts: 753	You have to work the league set-up screens backwards. As soon as you import the historical settings, it warns you that it overwrites whatever you had set for the financials. I learned that the hard way, too. Also, be careful with the historical modifiers. I actually ended up using my own settings to get the stats I was looking for. Should be okay for a close replay of MLB, but go off-script and it gets trickier.