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Post by Bryce-KC on Mar 12, 2018 23:19:47 GMT
Good question. Open for discussion. My thought would be they simply are FA.
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Post by Jonathan-MIL on Mar 13, 2018 0:58:14 GMT
Let me talk out my ass and do some dubious math.
If we assume 30 non-prospects (either established MLBers or Quad-A guys who'll help mitigate injury risk), that's 70 prospects per BRHL team that get drafted. That's probably right around my limit in terms of knowing who these guys are. So I'm not worried that a bunch of good prospects will be left.
The idea of 17-year old DSL guys becoming free agents seems a bit jarring, but it's not something to get upset about either way. I'd probably prefer they get auto-assigned to their real-life teams, because it's less of a headache than trying to get the AI to autodraft MiLBers without also drafting bad-contract MLBers (whom I'm assuming go undrafted and become FAs), and because there isn't much different in talent level between any given team's 71st-best prospect. The BRHL Padres will have a slight advantage at that point over the BRHL Mets, but we're talking a few million dollars worth of surplus value at most. But I don't think it's a problem if they're FAs - it's more an aesthetic issue than a functional one. Just my two cents, though!
And maybe it doesn't matter; maybe the cost of signing a 17-year-old DSL dart throw to a minor league contract isn't worth it when the prospect has a 5% chance of even getting to full-season ball. So the more I think about it, the more I think making them FA is fine too.
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Post by Larry - Mets on Mar 13, 2018 1:46:59 GMT
The reason why I agree with Jon is that some of us (including me) would go on a feeding frenzy signing these free agents if they were open game and other GM's wouldn't. It might help keeping some sort of balance.
Larry
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Post by Bryce-KC on Mar 13, 2018 13:31:28 GMT
Well with 4 levels, that's 100 rounds of a draft. So you're going to have 3000 players selected.
After that, anyone not drafted will be in a FA pool. I'd be open to a concept of having an age limit to be signed (maybe 23 and older are FA), younger can be nominated to go in our next draft pool?
Thinking out loud.
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Post by tjbarnaba-TB on Mar 13, 2018 15:07:59 GMT
Well with 4 levels, that's 100 rounds of a draft. So you're going to have 3000 players selected. After that, anyone not drafted will be in a FA pool. I'd be open to a concept of having an age limit to be signed (maybe 23 and older are FA), younger can be nominated to go in our next draft pool? Thinking out loud. That feels like the best way to go, rather than having guys auto assigned anywhere. |
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Post by Danny on Mar 14, 2018 1:04:24 GMT
I support the age limit idea for FA vs. pool for next draft. Smart
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Post by Bryce-KC on Mar 14, 2018 2:10:44 GMT
Updated to show whats been discussed here, as well as a few other details as they get flushed out
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Post by tjbarnaba-TB on Mar 18, 2018 15:29:40 GMT
Will we have both the rookie summer draft and the rule 5 winter draft?
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Post by Bryce-KC on Mar 18, 2018 21:44:09 GMT
YEs
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Post by Jonathan-MIL on Mar 19, 2018 16:03:37 GMT
Bad news: the contracts fix didn't work. The only way to get real contracts is to manually enter them all during the draft, which seems like a waste of time to me.
Good news: the new pretend contracts are service-time based, and a player's real service time *is* kept. So for pre-FA players there won't be a major change, just no extensions for the players who did that in real life.
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Post by Bryce-KC on Mar 19, 2018 16:13:19 GMT
Interesting. I have another fix that in my head will work, that I will try once I get in tonight and playing.
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