FOOL-X 2009 Offseason thread

[Alan T]

Round 1

Round 1, Pick 1 - Cumberland Defenders: SP Francisco Martínez

Round 1, Pick 2 - Maricopa Rattlers: CF Michael Dillon

Round 1, Pick 3 - Washington Freedom: CF Ron Brooks

Round 1, Pick 4 - Cleveland Naps: SP Henry Lasseter

Round 1, Pick 5 - Ann Arbor Wolverines: SS Lanzo Coppola

Round 1, Pick 6 - Balzac Ticklers: 2B Daniel Young

Round 1, Pick 7 - St Cloud Raindrops: SP David Rivas

Round 1, Pick 8 - Plantana Pirates: SS Tom Sutton

Round 1, Pick 9 - Maricopa Rattlers: CF Andy Peters

Round 1, Pick 10 - Stafford Terriers: 2B John White

Round 1, Pick 11 - Spring Lions: 1B Neil Townsend

Round 1, Pick 12 - St Louis Hops: MR Carlos Gutiérrez

Round 1, Pick 13 - Virginia Beach Surf: C Sergio Galindo

Round 1, Pick 14 - Washington Freedom: RF José Reyes

Round 1, Pick 15 - Portland Axemen: C Ángel Rivas

Round 1, Pick 16 - New York Legends: CL Gerald Morton

Supplemental Round 1

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 1 - Maricopa Rattlers: SS Miguel Esparza

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 2 - Maricopa Rattlers: SP Joe Phillips

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 3 - Washington Freedom: SP Isidoro Pérez

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 4 - St Cloud Raindrops: MR Teruo Nakagawa

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 5 - Stafford Terriers: SP Paul Strawson

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 6 - Stafford Terriers: 2B Jesús Santos

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 7 - Virginia Beach Surf: SP Masaru Kubo

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 8 - Chicago Cardinals: SP Vincente Valenzuela

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 9 - Chicago Cardinals: SP Rafael Pérez

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 10 - New York Legends: MR Alex Howe

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 11 - New York Legends: MR Scott Hamilton

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 12 - Maricopa Rattlers: C Tim Johnson

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 13 - Balzac Ticklers: SS Orlando Torres

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 14 - Stafford Terriers: RF Victor Miller

Round 2

Round 2, Pick 1 - Cumberland Defenders: SS Cedric Harrington

Round 2, Pick 2 - New York Legends: 2B Zeusef Wright

Round 2, Pick 3 - Chicago Cardinals: SS Alexander McCarty

Round 2, Pick 4 - Cleveland Naps: RF Jorge Ortegón

Round 2, Pick 5 - Ann Arbor Wolverines: CL Américo Narciso

Round 2, Pick 6 - Virginia Beach Surf: MR Miguel Piña

Round 2, Pick 7 - Stafford Terriers: RF Carlos Báez

Round 2, Pick 8 - Plantana Pirates: MR Eddie Moore

Round 2, Pick 9 - Havana Banana Sluggers: LF Mauro Javier

Round 2, Pick 10 - Stafford Terriers: CF António Ortíz

Round 2, Pick 11 - Spring Lions: RF Cristián Sánchez

Round 2, Pick 12 - St Louis Hops: SP Rafael Torres

Round 2, Pick 13 - Virginia Beach Surf: SP Ed Delaney

Round 2, Pick 14 - New York Legends: SP Claudio Hernández

Round 2, Pick 15 - Portland Axemen: SP Adam Boyce

Round 2, Pick 16 - New York Legends: 3B Brian Key

Round 3

Round 3, Pick 1 - Cumberland Defenders: SP Jorge Muñóz

Round 3, Pick 2 - St Cloud Raindrops: MR Shiki Amano

Round 3, Pick 3 - Washington Freedom: 3B Anthony Lyons

Round 3, Pick 4 - Cleveland Naps: LF Benoît Ouellet

Round 3, Pick 5 - Ann Arbor Wolverines: MR Albert Collazo

Round 3, Pick 6 - Maricopa Rattlers: SP Antony Savard

Round 3, Pick 7 - St Cloud Raindrops: MR Davis Woodard

Round 3, Pick 8 - Plantana Pirates: 1B Augusto Santiago

Round 3, Pick 9 - Havana Banana Sluggers: 1B Isaac Wakely

Round 3, Pick 10 - Stafford Terriers: SP Romain Gravel

Round 3, Pick 11 - Spring Lions: 2B Francisco Sánchez

Round 3, Pick 12 - St Louis Hops: 2B Henry Bowles

Round 3, Pick 13 - Virginia Beach Surf: SP Terry Miller

Round 3, Pick 14 - Chicago Cardinals: LF Sadakuno Ohayashi

Round 3, Pick 15 - Portland Axemen: C Sam de Weever

Round 3, Pick 16 - New York Legends: 1B Emílio Aguilar

Round 4

Round 4, Pick 1 - Cumberland Defenders: SP Sean McKinley

Round 4, Pick 2 - Maricopa Rattlers: MR Winston Wallace

Round 4, Pick 3 - Washington Freedom: C Louis-Xavier Hébert

Round 4, Pick 4 - Cleveland Naps: 2B Alfredo Cruz

Round 4, Pick 5 - Ann Arbor Wolverines: MR Todd Grant

Round 4, Pick 6 - Stafford Terriers: 1B Andy Barrett

Round 4, Pick 7 - St Cloud Raindrops: RF Paul Cook

Round 4, Pick 8 - Plantana Pirates: 1B José Pérez

Round 4, Pick 9 - Havana Banana Sluggers: SP Maik Adriaanse

Round 4, Pick 10 - Stafford Terriers: CF Ray Hopkins

Round 4, Pick 11 - Spring Lions: C Dave Hardwick

Round 4, Pick 12 - St Louis Hops: SP Hye-min Park

Round 4, Pick 13 - Virginia Beach Surf: LF Jorge Rodríguez

Round 4, Pick 14 - Chicago Cardinals: MR Cliff Gould

Round 4, Pick 15 - Portland Axemen: CF Juan López

Round 4, Pick 16 - New York Legends: RF Joe Rivers

Round 5

Round 5, Pick 1 - Cumberland Defenders: 2B Herman Jones

Round 5, Pick 2 - Maricopa Rattlers: SS Jim Pottle

Round 5, Pick 3 - Washington Freedom: CF José Camacho

Round 5, Pick 4 - Cleveland Naps: CF Mike Peterson

Round 5, Pick 5 - Ann Arbor Wolverines: MR Jesse Dickey

Round 5, Pick 6 - Balzac Ticklers: 2B Kinnosuke Nakamura

Round 5, Pick 7 - St Cloud Raindrops: SP Rodrigo Navarro

Round 5, Pick 8 - Plantana Pirates: 1B Robby Hanlon

Round 5, Pick 9 - Havana Banana Sluggers: 1B Boyd Doyle

Round 5, Pick 10 - Stafford Terriers: LF Pedro Gutiérrez

Round 5, Pick 11 - Spring Lions: SP Alejandro Ramos

Round 5, Pick 12 - St Louis Hops: C Felipe Ramos

Round 5, Pick 13 - Virginia Beach Surf: C Juan Navarro

Round 5, Pick 14 - Chicago Cardinals: 2B Blair Holz

Round 5, Pick 15 - Portland Axemen: 2B Jason Spencer

Round 5, Pick 16 - New York Legends: MR Carlos Herrera

[Alan T]

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Chicago Cardinals: Signed 1B Bailey Marks to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $31,707,000.

St Louis Hops: Signed RF Miguel Ramírez to a minor league contract extension.

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed 3B Britt Jenkins to a 1-year contract extension worth a total of $7,400,000.

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Balzac Ticklers: Signed free agent CL Sojuro Matsuda to a 1-year contract worth a total of $1,686,000.

Balzac Ticklers: Signed free agent SP Joaquín Martínez to a 1-year contract worth a total of $5,681,000.

Chicago Cardinals: Signed free agent MR Jorge Colón to a 1-year contract worth a total of $1,174,000.

Chicago Cardinals: Signed free agent CL José Morín to a 1-year contract worth a total of $2,109,000.

Balzac Ticklers: Signed free agent CL Andy Knight to a 1-year contract worth a total of $2,707,000.

Chicago Cardinals: Signed free agent CL Diego Colomo to a 1-year contract worth a total of $2,697,000.

Chicago Cardinals: Signed free agent RF Felipe Losoya to a 1-year contract worth a total of $4,681,000.

Portland Axemen: Signed C Clayton Childs to a minor league contract extension.

St Louis Hops: Signed C Dong Hsu to a minor league contract extension.

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed free agent SP Jaime Vega to a 1-year contract worth a total of $3,000,000.

Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed free agent CL Mark Copeland to a 3-year contract worth a total of $1,500,000.

Maricopa Rattlers: Signed free agent MR Silvestro Murialdo to a 1-year contract worth a total of $3,654,000.

Maricopa Rattlers: Signed free agent MR Porter George to a 1-year contract worth a total of $2,530,000.

Spring Lions: Signed free agent MR Fred Larson to a 1-year contract worth a total of $2,390,000.

Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed free agent CL Sergio Hernández to a 3-year contract worth a total of $2,550,000.

Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed free agent SS Jonathan Harris to a minor league contract.

Maricopa Rattlers: Signed free agent SP José Archuleta to a 1-year contract worth a total of $6,860,000.

Washington Freedom: Signed free agent MR Oliver Atteridge to a 1-year contract worth a total of $1,699,000.

Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed free agent SS John Leonard to a minor league contract.

New York Legends: Signed SP Justo Harper to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $10,500,000.

Stafford Terriers: Signed free agent MR Mike Ready to a minor league contract.

Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed free agent SP Jesús Fuentes to a 4-year contract worth a total of $7,400,000.

Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed free agent LF Nelson Arredondo to a 3-year contract worth a total of $2,400,000.

Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed free agent CL Tadao Minami to a minor league contract.

New York Legends: Signed free agent SP Sherwood Wells to a 2-year contract worth a total of $11,600,000.

Maricopa Rattlers: Signed free agent SP Kazuyuki Kimura to a 1-year contract worth a total of $1,074,000.

Plantana Pirates: Signed free agent CF Augusto García to a 2-year contract worth a total of $4,176,000.

Havana Banana Sluggers: Signed free agent RF Teka Chisisi to a minor league contract.

Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed free agent SP Albert Molina to a minor league contract.

Stafford Terriers: Signed free agent LF Insung O to a minor league contract.

Plantana Pirates: Signed free agent C Emory Plumley to a 2-year contract worth a total of $7,750,000.

Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed free agent SP Carlos Sánchez to a minor league contract.

Stafford Terriers: Signed free agent 2B Sozen Suzuki to a minor league contract.

Plantana Pirates: Signed free agent 2B Davy Arnett to a minor league contract.

Stafford Terriers: Signed free agent RF Jesús Vargas to a minor league contract.

Stafford Terriers: Signed free agent CF Greg Frizzell to a minor league contract.

Havana Banana Sluggers: Signed free agent RF Javier Collado to a minor league contract.

Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed free agent C Forest Pickering to a minor league contract.

Havana Banana Sluggers: Signed free agent MR Esteban Castillo to a minor league contract.

[Alan T]

Continental League

Team W L Pct GB RF RA PRec PPct Diff St Cloud Raindrops 15 9 .625 - 133 95 16-8 .648 -1 Chicago Cardinals 15 9 .625 - 122 101 14-10 .585 1 Havana Banana Sluggers 13 11 .542 2.0 123 102 14-10 .584 -1 St Louis Hops 12 12 .500 3.0 115 115 12-12 .500 0 Plantana Pirates 11 13 .458 4.0 130 114 13-11 .559 -2 Washington Freedom 11 13 .458 4.0 82 104 9-15 .394 2 Stafford Terriers 10 14 .417 5.0 125 177 8-16 .347 2 Balzac Ticklers 9 15 .375 6.0 104 126 10-14 .414 -1

Republic League
New York Legends	16	8	.667	-	128	93	15-9	.641	1
Virginia Beach Surf	15	9	.625	1.0	128	88	16-8	.664	-1
Portland Axemen	14	10	.583	2.0	167	150	13-11	.549	1
Cumberland Defenders	13	11	.542	3.0	129	111	14-10	.568	-1
Maricopa Rattlers	12	12	.500	4.0	127	111	13-11	.561	-1
Spring Lions	10	14	.417	6.0	91	113	10-14	.403	0
Cleveland Naps	8	16	.333	8.0	117	186	7-17	.301	1
Ann Arbor Wolverines	8	16	.333	8.0	122	157	9-15	.387	-1

[Alan T]

The new file is up! The 2009 Regular Season runs tomorrow morning


****** IMPORTANT *******

Remember to go to your draft pick signings screen to offer the draft picks that you want to keep a signing bonus. This is a one chance deal, so if you lowball the draft pick and they don't like your offer you will likely not sign them.

[Alan T]

A reminder to try to help things go smoother.. If the player signing difficulty is either Hard or Extremely Hard, it is possible that you need to go above their demand to get them to agree to sign. Just because that is their demand doesn't mean they will sign. (Not quite like free agency here).

[spleen1015]

Originally Posted by Alan T

A reminder to try to help things go smoother.. If the player signing difficulty is either Hard or Extremely Hard, it is possible that you need to go above their demand to get them to agree to sign. Just because that is their demand doesn't mean they will sign. (Not quite like free agency here).

Do we only get to make 1 offer?

I don't like the sound of this. I don't want to lose the guys I draft because of something like this. Losing prospects is not something a shitty team like mine can afford to do.

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by spleen1015

Do we only get to make 1 offer?

I don't like the sound of this. I don't want to lose the guys I draft because of something like this. Losing prospects is not something a shitty team like mine can afford to do.

OOTP sets the deadline to be 2 months after the draft, no way to extend it, so only 1 try on this. I would suggest teams not trying to lowball the better players that were drafted. The bonuses don't come from the salary cap, so go over their demands to be safe. If you want to experiment with the system, try it with later picks that you don't care if you lose or not.

[hyde4us11]

I found one problem.....

We won't get a chance to place the newly signed prospects at what level we want them. As well as get them in lineups and such.

[Tasan]

Yeah...we may want to re-think this option. Lets see how this goes.

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by Tasan

Yeah...we may want to re-think this option. Lets see how this goes.

Yeah, that is my stance on this. Give it a try and we'll revisit this afterwards. If the consensus is doing away with it, we can talk about it.

[MattG]

Originally Posted by Alan T

I think that was something I usually manually set that way in the past but might have missed some teams. I personally hate the super-close head shot view so tend to not let it randomly cycle if I think about it.

How do you do that? I have a SP 11 league and don't like the closeups?

[Montreal_GM]

Originally Posted by MattG

How do you do that? I have a SP 11 league and don't like the closeups?

"OOTP" tab, "Preferences", I think.

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by MattG

How do you do that? I have a SP 11 league and don't like the closeups?

In the jersey configuration screen. Where you can press the button to auto-regenerate the player photos for that team there should be a button somewhere there that changes what style of picture you get. I don't have the game in front of me so stating this from memory.

[Montreal_GM]

Originally Posted by Montreal_GM

"OOTP" tab, "Preferences", I think.

OOTP tab

OOTP Preferences

Face Gen tab

[Montreal_GM]

Just updated the team list. Took me a few days, I sort of forgot I was doing it.

Is Balzac vacant or did you actually take them over, Alan?

[MattG]

Found it...you guys rock!

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by Montreal_GM

Just updated the team list. Took me a few days, I sort of forgot I was doing it.

Is Balzac vacant or did you actually take them over, Alan?

I have a new owner for Balzac starting tomorrow morning. I'll announce them then. Still waiting for the forum admins to approve their account to post here though.


Edit: Thanks for helping keep the team lists updated. I always forget

[EddieK]

Figures, I get a guy in the supplemental who I'm happy with almost took him #1 overall, however, he wants a guaranteed Major League contract. I love OOTP 11, these greedy guys!