1861 Off-season Thread
 

Reminder that we'll sim to the start of FA on Monday night. FA1 is on Tuesday night.

Here's the FFP auction: 1861 FFP Auction - Front Office Football Central and RFA thread: 1861 Restricted Free Agents List - Front Office Football Central

Also, the HOF ballot if you missed it the 1st time.

Hall of Fame Voting

Welcome to scotto313 who will be taking over Hilton Head and moving them to Cleveland where they'll become the Cleveland Laborers.

Cool, another Ohio team. Looking forward to a good rivalry!

I am thrilled to be here! The fast pace is going to be a blast.

DC is selling! wooo buy players.

Is there a default password for the HOF voting?

Sup Scotto. This league is full of whining sore-loser mercenaries. Oh wait. That's just me.

Welcome!

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HerbD is taking over the Winnemucca juggernaut. Herb is another one of those FOOL 1.0 guys who has decided to rejoin us here in SLOP, so we're excited to have him on board!

Ok, so here's the scoop so far:

Hilton Head moves to Cleveland and becomes Cleveland Laborers
Denver moves to St. Louis and becomes St. Louis Aviators
St. Louis and Lake Placid are going to swap leagues for next season.

Finally, I think Winnemucca is either moving (aka, retiring the franchise because I don't want those titles leaving that city) or staying there and getting a new nickname. We shall see.

Lots of change in SLOP, but CHANGE IS GOOD.

Hello to everyone...glad to be back in fast sim baseball.

We are looking to trade for some cap room this offseason if anyone is interested pm or email is best.

Herb

I'll give a $10m $25m one-year cap exception (that you can use anytime in the next 5 years, provided your club doesn't change hands and the person is still in the league when you use it) to any owner besides me that can successfully recruit someone to SLOP.

We need someone take Lake Placid full-time.

The Winnemucca Choo-Choos will become the Winnemucca Lake Monsters for next year!

I put up a new file for the GMs in Winnemucca and Cleveland, which have the teams changed/renamed and you all in control, too. You should redownload the GMs account file so you can find yourselves in it.

Also for the new guys, if you want to explain some of the quirks of this league, please don't hesitate to post and let me know. I like to say that SLOP has "less than 10 rules, but more than 5" which is kind of how we like things around here, but there are a few exemptions and things that make things more interesting.

So if the rules thread is too opaque in explaining, let me know on the board or via PM.

Tomorrow night, we'll sim to the start of free agency. Meaning if you want to offer extensions to anyone you have on your team now that might become an FA, this is your last chance to do it. On Tuesday night, we'll sim the 1st stage of free agency. Almost no one signs during FA1, it's just a chance for everyone to make bids on guys, it's FA2 when the majority of the big signings happen (and that happens on Wednesday night's sim.)

The deadline is midnight eastern time, unless I post otherwise.

We'll sim to the start of FA tonight, just a reminder to everyone.

Excited to get some mature adults in this league!

:wagfingers:

Leme make sure I understand this before I release a guy with a $20+ million contract. I thought I read that there are no guaranteed contracts but when I go to release someone to get under the cap it still says his contract will be counted against me. Is this done manually or what am I missing?

Herb

You can release who you want. When I go into the game tonight and download your export, I'll clear the dead space so you're able to make signings unfettered. If you release a guy during the off-season though, you're going to have to alert me, because you'll have the same problem.

QB1 is taking over Lake Placid, which means I don't have to dole out any extra financial incentives to anyone for recruiting. But...should you recruit someone down the road, the incentive is still there.

Ok, here we go.

One of these days, claphamsa will approve deals before he goes to bed. I've got a deal in the works that might negate my interest in sending a 2nd rounder for Matt White...

File is up. FA1 tomorrow night. HTML updated in the morning.

HTML is updating now.

I assumed you could take my pm as approval :(

SLOWSIE.

Ok gonna try this out. No promises that I'll catch on though.

All right, a new file is up for those people who made deals or asked me to make moves for them. (Subby, Doc P)

comeon people! send me trades :) I can send cap space with players!!!!

Looks like I need to play SLOP Trade Machine for the rest of you...

You'll be pleased to know that when pre-season starts in January, I will push back the number of minor league seasons a player has until FA from 4 years to 5 years. Seems like a fair compromise as it's better than the 6 we had for ages, but 4 seems like it's just too fast.

Here we go...

FA1 gets a bit of snap, crackle and pop to start.

Ok, file is up. FA2 tomorrow. Get your checkbooks ready.

F'n YD and his Subby-like mega contracts.

:rant: :mad: :rant: :mad:

There were some signings (And contract extensions) before the off-season got started too. Most notably, Chicago inking Rio Grande's Peter Britton to a 5-year deal worth $120m

This wasn't FA2, was it? I'm planning on bidding for tonight's sim.

No no...that was the night before FA1. Some people released players prior to the start of FA1. FA2 is tonight!

CleBrownsfan is taking over Shem Creek in the form of a (likely) rebranded NL club that will be playing in Cleveland. We went from zero clubs in Cleveland to two in one off-season. Unless he decides to put them elsewhere.

He's an experienced fast-sim guy, so we're happy he decided to join the SLOP.

Cleveland sucks

Starting this year, home field advantage in the post-season will return to the team with the best record. The all-star game experiment is over.

Also, the Elimination Series will now be a best-of-seven game tilt. This increases the reward for winning the league's regular season title by making the wild cards play a bit longer in theory.

Here are the signings:


I love AL Cleveland's one-year money truck deal to Ridgeway. Very creative to get him in the fold. Lots of teams active on this one. Here's the December transactions.

There are still some talented guys out there on the FA market for FA3, lots of them available for much cheaper than they wanted the past two days. Beau Fisher still thinks he's worth $20m a year, but he only asks for 3 years now rather than that long term deal I think he wanted before. We'll see how that goes for him and whether anyone bites.

A good number of middle of the road hurlers available too. So it should be an unusually vibrant 3rd day heading into the start of spring training tomorrow night.

New guys: The export deadline is midnight eastern (or 11:59pm whatever) and tomorrow's sim will sim to the start of spring training. Then on Friday, we sim ST and then the season starts on Monday night with the 1st half sim.

File processing now. Will note when it's up.

File is up. FA3/sim to ST tomorrow night.

With no one making drastic moves this off-season outside of that crazy guy in St. Louis, this next season is poised to be another year full of parity in both leagues. Should be very interesting.

HTML is updating now. Check it in like an hour.

YD, I can't seem to update to the current file in game. Anyone else?