Universal Player Pool

[Shadow Knows]

As introduced, multi-league baseball universes didn't work correctly because leagues or league systems created their own supplies of players, which meant competing leagues could never interact properly outside a very narrow scope: mimicking the modern game, where North America, Japan, Korea and Cuba were effectively closed systems with exclusive player pools.

The proper design would have involved one universe-wide pool of players, with the leagues' own rules mandating which portion of the pool could be accessed, so that if you wanted independent minors competing for prospects or outlaw leagues poaching players -- or insular systems that were wholly separate -- things would function correctly. Given the 2006 re-write was undertaken with access to the code of a soccer game, where multiple independent leagues compete for a worldwide talent supply, the complete failure of imagination in this regard was an inexcusable failure.

Lots of people asked for this to be corrected for many years without success before I finally gave up and stopped paying attention like a decade ago when it became clear the ability to play "my way," as had been promised, would not be in the offing for several years, if ever.

So can anybody tell me if this change ever came about?

[OutS|der]

Nope. Associations were introduced one year and then have been abandoned since.
Despite asking for it every year they ignore it and have never bothered to make any updates or do anything with it