Feeder League Draft Eligibility Issues

stiffy · 08-23-2023, 07:11 PM

So I had this issue in 23 as well, was hoping upgrading to 24 would fix them, but they have not.

In the online league I run, we've used feeder leagues since the inception of the league. Previously, the draft eligibility was based on age, but since you have added the "According to HS/College year" I have tried my hand at that, but it is not working properly for me.

It works just fine for the JuCo league I recently created, but that just means everyone is eligible. And this is the first year I haven't had any College sophomores eligible for the draft, so that did seem to clear itself up.

In the High School ranks, however, the prompt says players are eligible to be drafted in their Senior year, but it also has a lot of Juniors as eligible for the upcoming draft. I couldn't figure out a commonality between them all.

I've typically just taken out all the ineligible players from the pool and uploaded it to our third party draft tool (StatsPlus) and only let them select from that player pool. I'd just like to avoid having to do that and telling the league they have to filter out some players in their in-game draft pool to get it to match what they're seeing online.

I have uploaded the file to the support server as BLMdraft.zip

Lukas Berger · 08-25-2023, 09:42 AM

We'll take a look at this!

Matt Arnold · 08-30-2023, 11:38 PM

Have you tried advancing through a full draft cycle? I believe the draft eligible year doesn't get reset until after the draft completes, and we can properly recalculate when they are next eligible.

If you want to make the change, you can probably go in and simply delete the players who should not be eligible based on the roster status criteria (ie. just delete all the HS Juniors who show up in the draft pool), and then once the draft is over, the game should update future statuses and eligible years.

stiffy · 08-31-2023, 01:24 AM

Yes, it's been at least 3 draft cycles where this has been occurring for me.

Matt Arnold · 08-31-2023, 03:46 AM

OK, it looks like we don't necessarily adjust HS guys who have their eligibility year set wrong, so it could take up to 4 years to fully run through the system. But as mentioned, you can always delete anyone who isn't supposed to be eligible, and any new players created should come in fine. Once they have run through things properly, things line up (thats why it only takes a couple years to fix College eligibility issues, but HS ones can take a little longer).

08-23-2023, 07:11 PM	#1
stiffy Minors (Single A) Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 69	Feeder League Draft Eligibility Issues So I had this issue in 23 as well, was hoping upgrading to 24 would fix them, but they have not. In the online league I run, we've used feeder leagues since the inception of the league. Previously, the draft eligibility was based on age, but since you have added the "According to HS/College year" I have tried my hand at that, but it is not working properly for me. It works just fine for the JuCo league I recently created, but that just means everyone is eligible. And this is the first year I haven't had any College sophomores eligible for the draft, so that did seem to clear itself up. In the High School ranks, however, the prompt says players are eligible to be drafted in their Senior year, but it also has a lot of Juniors as eligible for the upcoming draft. I couldn't figure out a commonality between them all. I've typically just taken out all the ineligible players from the pool and uploaded it to our third party draft tool (StatsPlus) and only let them select from that player pool. I'd just like to avoid having to do that and telling the league they have to filter out some players in their in-game draft pool to get it to match what they're seeing online. I have uploaded the file to the support server as BLMdraft.zip

08-25-2023, 09:42 AM	#2
Lukas Berger OOTP Developments Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Nice, Côte d'Azur, France Posts: 21,428	We'll take a look at this! __________________ lukas@ootpdevelopments.com PreOrder Out of the Park Baseball 26! Need to upload files for us to check out? Instructions can be found here

08-30-2023, 11:38 PM	#3
Matt Arnold OOTP Developer Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Here and there Posts: 15,917	Have you tried advancing through a full draft cycle? I believe the draft eligible year doesn't get reset until after the draft completes, and we can properly recalculate when they are next eligible. If you want to make the change, you can probably go in and simply delete the players who should not be eligible based on the roster status criteria (ie. just delete all the HS Juniors who show up in the draft pool), and then once the draft is over, the game should update future statuses and eligible years.

08-31-2023, 01:24 AM	#4
stiffy Minors (Single A) Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 69	Yes, it's been at least 3 draft cycles where this has been occurring for me.

08-31-2023, 03:46 AM	#5
Matt Arnold OOTP Developer Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Here and there Posts: 15,917	OK, it looks like we don't necessarily adjust HS guys who have their eligibility year set wrong, so it could take up to 4 years to fully run through the system. But as mentioned, you can always delete anyone who isn't supposed to be eligible, and any new players created should come in fine. Once they have run through things properly, things line up (thats why it only takes a couple years to fix College eligibility issues, but HS ones can take a little longer).