1868 (Season XXXI) Off-season Thread

[Young Drachma]

So here's each team's salary cap for the upcoming year. This figure won't change unless you trade for more cap space or trade space away.

1868 TEAM CAP FIGURES

$126,990,246	St. Louis Aviators
$100,445,997	Gettysburg Gomers
$109,365,329	Columbus Crusaders
$92,463,950	Wyoming Plowboys
$94,032,750	Denver Crows
$93,829,250	Winnemucca Lake Monsters
$99,436,577	Brooklyn Titans
$101,965,497	Las Vegas Aces
$100,001,564	Cuyahoga Spiders
$96,209,450	Chicago Hornets
$96,187,750	Washington Grays
$96,965,750	Lake Tahoe Syndicate
$98,655,750	Kauai Emeralds
$98,447,500	Rio Grande Rough Riders
$101,175,731	Carolina Kings
$99,419,575	New York Skyliners
$101,327,400	Cleveland Laborers
$103,267,250	Memphis Smokers
$101,175,250	San Diego Fathers
$104,437,250	Portland Thorns

[Subby]

On this page it only says 70m and change...

Team Salary

[Young Drachma]

$96,965,750 is just your cap figure for next year.

[Subby]

got it

[Young Drachma]

The '68 lottery and results are complete. Here's the draft tracker. It would figure that the first time Winnemucca enters the draft lottery that they almost win it.

[Young Drachma]

File is up.

FA1 tomorrow night. FA2 on Wednesday. Spring Training is Friday.

[Young Drachma]

Ok, so I screwed up last night and Washington didn't get Vegas's 1st rounder. He took the option of acquiring the guy Vegas drafted. So I'll need to make that move when I get home later.

[Subby]

These 2 pitch starting pitchers are PUTTING ME ON FUCKING TILT.

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by Subby

These 2 pitch starting pitchers are PUTTING ME ON FUCKING TILT.

Same. I'll do some testing and see if we can't fix that for next year. It's ridiculous.

[Gomer]

What's the problem? 2 pitch pitchers should be relievers anyway.

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by Gomer

What's the problem? 2 pitch pitchers should be relievers anyway.

The problem is that the game isn't generating any good young pitchers. No way should a 2-pitch reliever be the best available pitcher in the draft with the fleeting hope he'll develop a 3rd pitch. The best young pitchers are all relievers, which makes no sense.

[Subby]

SHUT UP GOMER.

[Gomer]

That's Markus's new pitching model. Blame the Krauts!



And fuck Subby!!!

[Young Drachma]

Wolvie felt like the Emeralds weren't as good because they had too far to travel from Hawaii and so, after 11 years in Hawaii, the Emeralds are headed to the mainland for next season. The Kauai Emeralds will become the Los Angeles Villains.

Here's a sneak peek at their new duds:

[Young Drachma]

Ok, so it's time for FA1.

[Young Drachma]

But first a million trades to process. HOORAY TRADES.

[Young Drachma]

Ok, here goes.

[Young Drachma]

Saturday, November 23rd, 1867
Las Vegas Aces: Signed free agent SS Tom Irwin to a 5-year contract worth a total of $45,000,000.
San Diego Fathers: Signed free agent CF Jimmy Hardwick to a 6-year contract worth a total of $57,000,000.
San Diego Fathers: Signed free agent LF Joe Wright to a 3-year contract worth a total of $3,900,000.
San Diego Fathers: Signed free agent SP Pat Davies to a 7-year contract worth a total of $30,600,000.
Las Vegas Aces: Signed free agent CL Dave Brock to a 1-year contract worth a total of $375,000.
San Diego Fathers: Signed free agent 2B T.J. Caporaletti to a 3-year contract worth a total of $4,900,000.
Cuyahoga Spiders: Signed free agent 1B Garret Polly to a 1-year contract worth a total of $1,100,000.
Cuyahoga Spiders: Signed free agent SS Dave Burmeister to a 1-year contract worth a total of $1,000,000.
St. Louis Aviators: Signed free agent CL Javon Wallace to a 8-year contract worth a total of $51,780,000.
Cuyahoga Spiders: Signed free agent LF Milt Brown to a 3-year contract worth a total of $10,400,000.
Chicago Hornets: Signed free agent SP Ed Walrath to a 1-year contract worth a total of $900,000.
San Diego Fathers: Signed free agent CL Jimmy Perkins to a 4-year contract worth a total of $10,600,000.
Cuyahoga Spiders: Signed free agent LF Erik Keller to a 2-year contract worth a total of $4,100,000.
New York Skyliners: Signed free agent MR Pat Geddes to a 3-year contract worth a total of $16,800,000.
Columbus Crusaders: Signed free agent SP J.R. Riblet to a 1-year contract worth a total of $1,000,000.
Monday, November 18th, 1867
The St. Louis Aviators traded 34-year-old second baseman Kareem Lewin and 25-year-old minor league starting pitcher Bill Vargas to the Wyoming Plowboys, getting a 2nd round draft pick and a 3rd round draft pick in return.
Saturday, November 16th, 1867
Wyoming Plowboys: Signed free agent SP Jordan Santiago to a 3-year contract worth a total of $8,275,000.
Wyoming Plowboys: Signed free agent CL John O'Herlihy to a 6-year contract worth a total of $42,000,000.
New York Skyliners: Signed free agent SP T.J. DeHaven to a 2-year contract worth a total of $4,200,000.
Columbus Crusaders: Signed free agent CL Omari Smith to a 1-year contract worth a total of $1,000,000.

[Young Drachma]

Monday, December 9th, 1867
Winnemucca Lake Monsters: Signed free agent MR A.J. Tindal to a 3-year contract worth a total of $10,470,000.
Winnemucca Lake Monsters: Signed free agent MR Colin Baxter to a 4-year contract worth a total of $4,200,000.
Cuyahoga Spiders: Signed free agent C Marcello Piccinini to a 2-year contract worth a total of $2,500,000.
Memphis Smokers: Signed free agent C Pat Trotta to a 2-year contract worth a total of $11,000,000.

[Young Drachma]

Post-trade budgets are updated in-game.

[Young Drachma]

Still lots of quality meat out there in FAland. Uploading the file now.

[Young Drachma]

File is up. FA2 tomorrow night.

[Young Drachma]

Ok, here goes.

[Young Drachma]

Tuesday, January 28th, 1868
Lake Tahoe Syndicate: Signed free agent SS Ernesto García to a 1-year contract worth a total of $1,000,000.
San Diego Fathers: Signed free agent SP Philip Carr to a 1-year contract worth a total of $750,000.
Lake Tahoe Syndicate: Signed free agent 2B Chad Cook to a 1-year contract worth a total of $1,800,000.
San Diego Fathers: Signed free agent CF Marco Espada to a 3-year contract worth a total of $39,900,000.
Lake Tahoe Syndicate: Signed free agent C Adan Langford to a 1-year contract worth a total of $1,400,000.
San Diego Fathers: Signed free agent SS Jimmy Speegle to a 6-year contract worth a total of $83,000,000.
San Diego Fathers: Signed free agent SP Pat Kenyon to a 2-year contract worth a total of $1,300,000.
San Diego Fathers: Signed free agent CF Ricky Chavez to a 2-year contract worth a total of $3,400,000.
San Diego Fathers: Signed free agent RF Danny Arciliares to a 3-year contract worth a total of $9,800,000.
San Diego Fathers: Signed free agent 2B Erik Karger to a 9-year contract worth a total of $91,900,000.
St. Louis Aviators: Signed free agent SS Tom Hicks to a 2-year contract worth a total of $1,700,000.
Lake Tahoe Syndicate: Signed free agent 1B Nate Mays to a 1-year contract worth a total of $1,300,000.
St. Louis Aviators: Signed free agent 2B Vic Saccoccio to a 2-year contract worth a total of $2,200,000.
St. Louis Aviators: Signed free agent SP Jaime Schilling to a 1-year contract worth a total of $400,000.
Sunday, January 26th, 1868
Lake Tahoe Syndicate: Signed free agent C Jamie Brantley to a 3-year contract worth a total of $2,100,000.
Friday, January 24th, 1868
New York Skyliners: Signed free agent MR Edgar Gaeta to a 1-year contract worth a total of $2,000,000.
St. Louis Aviators: Signed SP Eddie Santos to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $8,565,000.

[Young Drachma]

We'll take Thursday off and sim Spring Training on Friday.

[Young Drachma]

File is up.

[robster1225]

CF Josh McKellar is still in my organization, but I think he was supposed to go to Clap's team because of our trade.

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by robster1225

CF Josh McKellar is still in my organization, but I think he was supposed to go to Clap's team because of our trade.

Yeah thanks for reminding me.

[Young Drachma]

Apparently, position player fatigue was turned off for last year. For all of us. I don't know why, though I speculate (after thinking about it) that the file on my work machine must've had the wrong setting and when I had to upload from there during my internet outage, that it must've had that in it. Nothing else makes any sense, but Gomer noticed it and alerted me and I assumed at first it was nothing because I hadn't touched that setting in ages.

But again, I suspect the cross-pollination was the culprit. But fear not, position player fatigue is back this year.

[Young Drachma]

SPRING TRAINING
AL EAST
Memphis 13-11
Chicago 12-12
Cleveland 10-14
Cuyahoga 10-14
New York 8-16

AL WEST
Las Vegas 15-9
Winnemucca 15-9
St. Louis 13-11
Rio Grande 12-12
San Diego 12-12

NL EAST
Brooklyn 15-9
Gettysburg 14-10
Portland 11-13
Carolina 10-14
Washington 8-16

NL WEST
Columbus 17-7
Denver 16-8
Los Angeles 11-13
Wyoming 10-14
Lake Tahoe 8-16

[Young Drachma]

File is up. We'll sim the 1st third of SLOP's 31st season on Monday.

Next week's schedule:

MON: 1st third (March-May)
TUE: 2nd third (June-July)
WED: Off-day
THUR: 3rd third (August-September)
FRI: Playoffs

I debated where to put the off-day, but it seems like benefitting everyone by putting an off-day in the season rather than the playoffs seemed smarter, so we'll try this initially and see how it works.

[claphamsa]

Washington is ready for the playoff run!!!!

[mavericktango]

Originally Posted by Young Drachma

Apparently, position player fatigue was turned off for last year. For all of us. I don't know why, though I speculate (after thinking about it) that the file on my work machine must've had the wrong setting and when I had to upload from there during my internet outage, that it must've had that in it. Nothing else makes any sense, but Gomer noticed it and alerted me and I assumed at first it was nothing because I hadn't touched that setting in ages.

But again, I suspect the cross-pollination was the culprit. But fear not, position player fatigue is back this year.

I wondered why so many of my players played 162 games and the back-ups never got into a game

[TurnerONU22]

Originally Posted by Young Drachma

File is up. We'll sim the 1st third of SLOP's 31st season on Monday.

Next week's schedule:

MON: 1st third (March-May)
TUE: 2nd third (June-July)
WED: Off-day
THUR: 3rd third (August-September)
FRI: Playoffs

I debated where to put the off-day, but it seems like benefitting everyone by putting an off-day in the season rather than the playoffs seemed smarter, so we'll try this initially and see how it works.

Can we assume that the trade deadline will be on Thursday evening? I know I should know this, but is there a set time that trades have to be completed, so that you can process the file and upload a new copy for us to make changes?

[Young Drachma]

I was actually debating this, so it's cool that you asked. In my head, I was assuming the trade deadline would be on Thursday sometime before the sim. I think we'll say right now that the trade deadline will be around 5pm eastern on that Thursday, which should give me a chance to put up a new file by 7pm eastern and allow trade participants to make changes and upload their new export before the midnight deadline.

[TurnerONU22]

Originally Posted by Young Drachma

I was actually debating this, so it's cool that you asked. In my head, I was assuming the trade deadline would be on Thursday sometime before the sim. I think we'll say right now that the trade deadline will be around 5pm eastern on that Thursday, which should give me a chance to put up a new file by 7pm eastern and allow trade participants to make changes and upload their new export before the midnight deadline.

Sounds good. I'm hoping the extra day (and 3 sims) will generate more trade deadline deals.

[robster1225]

Although we were quiet this offseason, what we accomplished last season should be carrying over to some real success this season. Our lineup is stacked, the only question I have going in is how good our rotation will be.

[claphamsa]

im selling!!!!