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Old 03-01-2013, 11:35 PM   #1
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1871 (Season 34) Off-season Thread

Draft order for next year. Only doing it now, so that people with 1871 picks know what they're worth in case they plan to deal in the off-season or something.





A number of us suckers traded picks in this draft though, so...some teams are happy about the deals they made. Draft track here. Don't despair though, 1874 draft picks will be eligible to trade starting after Monday's 1870 draft.

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Old 03-02-2013, 12:15 AM   #2
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$99,674,600 St. Louis Aviators $120,762,260 Gettysburg Gomers $110,854,800 Columbus Crusaders $92,524,600 Wyoming Plowboys $99,165,600 Worcester Crows $107,640,130 Winnemucca Lake Monsters $93,401,200 Brooklyn Titans $95,184,250 Las Vegas Aces $98,500,000 Cuyahoga Spiders $91,531,750 Chicago Hornets $96,460,000 Washington Grays $104,717,380 Lake Tahoe Syndicate $94,601,400 Los Angeles Villains $103,141,500 Rio Grande Rough Riders $99,834,750 Carolina Kings $96,541,500 New York Skyliners $102,504,500 Cleveland Laborers $158,827,681 Memphis Smokers $105,972,900 Grand Rapids Robins $105,521,000 Portland Thorns
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Old 03-02-2013, 12:34 AM   #3
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is that LKT's 1.10?
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Old 03-02-2013, 12:50 AM   #4
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Dave D'Alterio going to be amnestied next sim?
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Old 03-02-2013, 12:50 AM   #5
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Also, when is the draft pool to be released?
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Old 03-02-2013, 07:33 AM   #6
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Well Clap should be happy about that #1 overall.
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Old 03-02-2013, 08:39 AM   #7
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Old 03-02-2013, 11:30 AM   #8
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is that LKT's 1.10?

No, you got the 1.9 from Wyoming actually. That 1.10 goes to Washington.

You can see it here.

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Old 03-02-2013, 05:18 PM   #9
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I noticed that a lot of guys in the new draft class have potential ratings that would be impossible to achieve given their ages.
23 year olds with contact talent of 8, but current contact of 1 or 2.
Even the pitching studs will probably never reach their potential.

Is this the way it's going to be?
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Old 03-02-2013, 10:22 PM   #10
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man, even with the high ages... shitty draft class! and few FA worth much
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Old 03-04-2013, 11:25 PM   #11
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I noticed that a lot of guys in the new draft class have potential ratings that would be impossible to achieve given their ages.
23 year olds with contact talent of 8, but current contact of 1 or 2.
Even the pitching studs will probably never reach their potential.

Is this the way it's going to be?

I can change the age range of future draftees.
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Old 03-04-2013, 11:30 PM   #12
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File is up. We'll do FA1 tomorrow night.
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Old 03-05-2013, 08:25 AM   #13
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We should have just canceled the draft this year. What a fucking disaster. Even 1.10 will never see the majors.
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Old 03-05-2013, 09:03 AM   #14
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You all have to decide what you want. Talent inflation or have drafts keep up. Think of it as talent austerity.
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Old 03-05-2013, 09:03 AM   #15
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Old 03-05-2013, 10:04 AM   #16
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Can we re-introduce walks into the league this year? They've gone on a walkabout for the past 2 years...
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Old 03-05-2013, 10:49 AM   #17
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You all have to decide what you want. Talent inflation or have drafts keep up. Think of it as talent austerity.



What about a dice roll each season. Have varying degrees of shitty vs awesome draft class quality, determined by the dice roll. I think a class like this year's class is ok every now and then, as long as it's determined by chance.

That would bring down talent inflation, but would also help prevent the complete devaluation of draft picks.
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Old 03-05-2013, 12:45 PM   #18
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Can we re-introduce walks into the league this year? They've gone on a walkabout for the past 2 years...

Yes. Will do some testing.

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What about a dice roll each season. Have varying degrees of shitty vs awesome draft class quality, determined by the dice roll. I think a class like this year's class is ok every now and then, as long as it's determined by chance.

That would bring down talent inflation, but would also help prevent the complete devaluation of draft picks.

That's basically the plan.
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Old 03-05-2013, 03:29 PM   #19
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What about a dice roll each season. Have varying degrees of shitty vs awesome draft class quality, determined by the dice roll. I think a class like this year's class is ok every now and then, as long as it's determined by chance.

That would bring down talent inflation, but would also help prevent the complete devaluation of draft picks.

Talk about a [literal] crap shoot when it comes to trading picks

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Old 03-05-2013, 03:53 PM   #20
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Talk about a [literal] crap shoot when it comes to trading picks
its much more exciting when you dont have multiple high picks....this just sucked.
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Old 03-05-2013, 03:57 PM   #21
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It's already random. Like in real life, essentially. I didn't mean to imply that we'd be adopting what Gomer mentioned as edict. I just meant that we have no idea what the classes will look like until the game generates them. So it's already the way he describes in the status quo. I've had to improve them the past few years to get you any semblance of talent, meaning adding AI generated players after the fact to the pool the game creates on its own.

The game generates the talent based on what we already have, which is why what we see now is way worse. But the feedback seems to be that you all preferred the classes were a bit more robust?
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Old 03-05-2013, 04:08 PM   #22
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i would like a middle ground. currently there is soooo much talent, we have 1 star guys with 10 contact and power. but in this draft... there was only 1 guy who was real good.....

you could edit the guys age I picked to be 18 and I would be much more confident about his development
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Old 03-05-2013, 05:12 PM   #23
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i would like a middle ground. currently there is soooo much talent, we have 1 star guys with 10 contact and power. but in this draft... there was only 1 guy who was real good.....

you could edit the guys age I picked to be 18 and I would be much more confident about his development

I'm not going to start that slippery slope of editing guys. But I know there are ways to improve the game-created draft classes (mostly by adding more developed players after it's been created) and I will take a look at that for us next year.
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Old 03-05-2013, 11:30 PM   #24
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The game generates the talent based on what we already have, which is why what we see now is way worse. But the feedback seems to be that you all preferred the classes were a bit more robust?
the vocal minority often seems like it speaks for the majority.

I'm not a fan of needing 9 and 10 guys just to field a .500 team. I liked the draft class this year and hope it is the norm going forward. It will be nice to see 6 and 7 rated guys having a chance at actually contributing at the major league level in a few years.
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Old 03-06-2013, 02:02 AM   #25
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the vocal minority often seems like it speaks for the majority.

I'm not a fan of needing 9 and 10 guys just to field a .500 team. I liked the draft class this year and hope it is the norm going forward. It will be nice to see 6 and 7 rated guys having a chance at actually contributing at the major league level in a few years.

I had no intentions of changing anything. I was mostly soliciting feedback. But I encourage the silent minority to speak up, because that makes these decisions easier.

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Old 03-06-2013, 02:11 AM   #26
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Wednesday, November 30th, 1870
St. Louis Aviators: Signed free agent CL Javon Wallace to a 5-year contract worth a total of $10,610,000.
Sunday, November 27th, 1870
New York Skyliners: Signed free agent CL Hyuuga Oda to a 2-year contract worth a total of $5,350,000.
Brooklyn Titans: Signed free agent 1B Pat Duncan to a 3-year contract worth a total of $4,200,000.
Las Vegas Aces: Signed free agent MR Leandro Gimenez to a 1-year contract worth a total of $625,000.
Brooklyn Titans: Signed free agent LF Dave Roden to a 2-year contract worth a total of $3,300,000.
Brooklyn Titans: Signed free agent 2B Ernie Puckett to a 2-year contract worth a total of $2,200,000.
Brooklyn Titans: Signed free agent C Tommy Snyder to a 2-year contract worth a total of $3,900,000.
Memphis Smokers: Signed free agent CL Jimmy Allen to a 1-year contract worth a total of $375,000.
Chicago Hornets: Signed free agent SP Nate Russell to a 2-year contract worth a total of $3,960,000.
Sunday, November 20th, 1870
Worcester Crows: Signed free agent CF A.J. Peters to a 5-year contract worth a total of $77,500,000.
Lake Tahoe Syndicate: Signed free agent CL Erik McCoy to a 3-year contract worth a total of $14,985,000.
Worcester Crows: Signed free agent 2B Wyatt Ball to a 7-year contract worth a total of $101,500,000.
Gettysburg Gomers: Signed free agent SP Jack Keddy to a 2-year contract worth a total of $9,000,000.
Worcester Crows: Signed free agent MR Ron Kelley to a 4-year contract worth a total of $17,920,000.
Brooklyn Titans: Signed free agent LF Zack Mick to a 7-year contract worth a total of $98,000,000.
Gettysburg Gomers: Signed free agent LF Joey Blevins to a 4-year contract worth a total of $24,000,000.
St. Louis Aviators: Signed free agent SP Ernie McLerran to a 3-year contract worth a total of $6,500,000.
Wednesday, November 16th, 1870
Las Vegas Aces: Signed 2B Lew MacAulay to a 4-year contract extension worth a total of $46,000,000.
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Old 03-06-2013, 02:30 AM   #28
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the vocal minority often seems like it speaks for the majority.

I'm not a fan of needing 9 and 10 guys just to field a .500 team. I liked the draft class this year and hope it is the norm going forward. It will be nice to see 6 and 7 rated guys having a chance at actually contributing at the major league level in a few years.


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Old 03-06-2013, 08:13 PM   #31
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I hate the distribution of talent right now. Like the above post by sttfrk it is nice to find contributors out of guys with 6 ratings and the top talent guys really sticking out with their ratings.
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I'm also with sttfrk. Problem is the only way we're going to get there, is to have what looks like shitty draft classes for awhile until the talent comes down. So I like the middle ground of adding in some players after the class is generated to keep picks having value, and eventually doing that won't be needed.
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Old 03-06-2013, 11:47 PM   #33
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Brooklyn Titans: Signed free agent SP Dave Beeman to a 1-year contract worth a total of $6,000,000.
Tuesday, December 27th, 1870
Winnemucca Lake Monsters: Signed free agent 3B Francisco Mata to a 4-year contract worth a total of $5,200,000.
St. Louis Aviators: Signed free agent SP Brad Scots to a 7-year contract worth a total of $116,000,000.
Las Vegas Aces: Signed free agent 1B Quentin Stretton to a 3-year contract worth a total of $34,395,000.
Brooklyn Titans: Signed free agent MR Nils Lundqvist to a 1-year contract worth a total of $550,000.
St. Louis Aviators: Signed free agent MR A.J. Moore to a 1-year contract worth a total of $400,000.
New York Skyliners: Signed free agent MR Stu Ahlers to a 1-year contract worth a total of $375,000.
Winnemucca Lake Monsters: Signed free agent SS Grégory Laurent to a 5-year contract worth a total of $4,000,000.
Tuesday, December 20th, 1870
Cuyahoga Spiders: Signed free agent CF Jaden Johnson to a 4-year contract worth a total of $12,800,000.
Tuesday, December 13th, 1870
Lake Tahoe Syndicate: Signed free agent 3B T.J. Burroughs to a 3-year contract worth a total of $25,500,000.
Monday, December 12th, 1870
Memphis Smokers: Demoted CL Jimmy Allen to Triple A Little Rock.
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Cleveland Laborers: Signed free agent SS Hugo Juarez to a 2-year contract worth a total of $9,000,000.
Worcester Crows: Signed free agent SP Alex Madrigal to a 7-year contract worth a total of $108,885,000.
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File is up. Tomorrow we'll sim to the start of ST.
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Old 03-07-2013, 09:22 AM   #37
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Portland and Worcester asked to move to the AL, but there are no teams in the NL that want to go DH-less. So they'll have to wait a bit.

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Portland and Worcester asked to move to the AL, but there are no teams in the NL that want to go DH-less. So they'll have to wait a bit.

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I meant no teams in the AL that want to go DH-less. But yeah...
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File is up. Tomorrow we'll sim spring training.
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I hereby officially petition the powers that be to allow Ponty Lopez to come out of retirement. Dude is 40 years old, but is still carrying a 10 contact rating and should be able to help somebody's infield.
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Old 03-09-2013, 12:25 AM   #43
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Post-ST file is up, nerds. First third of the season is Monday night!
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I thought Salavisa had retired, but it appears he staged a coup and has signed with the "expansion" San Diego Fathers. It seems fitting for him to retire with the Fathers, and the Aces wish him the best of luck!
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I hereby officially petition the powers that be to allow Ponty Lopez to come out of retirement. Dude is 40 years old, but is still carrying a 10 contact rating and should be able to help somebody's infield.

I even had him under contract!!!!!
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