1861 Off-season Thread

[Young Drachma]

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

[Young Drachma]

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

Hall of Fame Voting

[Young Drachma]

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

[TurnerONU22]

Originally Posted by Young Drachma

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!

[scotto313]

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

[claphamsa]

DC is selling! wooo buy players.

[INDalltheway]

Is there a default password for the HOF voting?

[Gomer]

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

Welcome!

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by INDalltheway

Is there a default password for the HOF voting?

baseball

[Young Drachma]

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!

[Young Drachma]

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.

[HerbD]

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

[Young Drachma]

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.

[Young Drachma]

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

[Young Drachma]

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.

[Young Drachma]

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

[Subby]

Excited to get some mature adults in this league!

[Gomer]

Originally Posted by Subby

Excited to get some mature adults in this league!

[HerbD]

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

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by HerbD

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.

[Young Drachma]

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.

[Young Drachma]

Ok, here we go.

[Young Drachma]

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...

[Young Drachma]

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

[Young Drachma]

HTML is updating now.

[Young Drachma]

HTML updated.

[claphamsa]

Originally Posted by Young Drachma

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...

I assumed you could take my pm as approval

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by claphamsa

I assumed you could take my pm as approval

SLOWSIE.

[QB1]

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

[Young Drachma]

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

[claphamsa]

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

[Young Drachma]

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

[Young Drachma]

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.

[Young Drachma]

Here we go...

[Young Drachma]

Friday, November 16th, 1860
St. Louis Aviators: Signed free agent CF D.J. Struchen to a 10-year contract worth a total of $361,000,000.
Brooklyn Titans: Signed free agent SP Carlos Sánchez to a 6-year contract worth a total of $174,000,000.
St. Louis Aviators: Signed free agent MR Francisco Guerrero to a 6-year contract worth a total of $32,400,000.

Monday, November 12th, 1860
Washington Grays: Signed SS Nate Joseph to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $9,800,000.
Washington Grays: Signed LF Chris Shatley to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $12,000,000.

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

[Young Drachma]

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

[Gomer]

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

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by Gomer

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

[Young Drachma]

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

Saturday, November 3rd, 1860
Brooklyn Titans: Signed free agent RF Tom White to a 4-year contract worth a total of $28,000,000.
Saturday, October 27th, 1860
Memphis Smokers: Signed LF Brian McDaniel to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $24,500,000.
Winnemucca Lake Monsters: Signed 2B Jeffrey Roberts to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $3,300,000.
Friday, October 26th, 1860
Rio Grande Rough Riders: Signed CL Plinio Rodeiro to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $2,400,000.
Chicago Hornets: Signed free agent SP Peter Britton to a 5-year contract worth a total of $120,000,000.
Thursday, October 25th, 1860
Winnemucca Lake Monsters: Signed CL Tom Hines to a 1-year contract extension worth a total of $495,000.
Wednesday, October 24th, 1860
Carolina Kings: Signed CF Nick Cannon to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $8,100,000.
Carolina Kings: Signed 3B Chris Cannon to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $3,900,000.
Rio Grande Rough Riders: Signed SP Victor Berry to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $1,950,000.
Tuesday, October 23rd, 1860
Rio Grande Rough Riders: Signed SP Jacob Dickinson to a 5-year contract extension worth a total of $40,000,000.
Monday, October 22nd, 1860
Carolina Kings: Signed CL Thomas Miles to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $1,950,000.
Winnemucca Lake Monsters: Signed RF José Cháves to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $9,600,000.
Rio Grande Rough Riders: Signed 2B José Guerra to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $7,200,000.
Rio Grande Rough Riders: Signed CL Kevin Graham to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $3,000,000.
Memphis Smokers: Signed CL Freddie Mouton to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $13,500,000.
Winnemucca Lake Monsters: Signed CL Jamie Werch to a 1-year contract extension worth a total of $415,000.

[Gomer]

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

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by Gomer

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!

[Young Drachma]

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.

[claphamsa]

Cleveland sucks

[Young Drachma]

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.

[Young Drachma]

Here are the signings:

Wednesday, November 28th, 1860
Cleveland Laborers: Signed free agent CF Jimmy Ridgeway to a 1-year contract worth a total of $29,000,000.
Chicago Hornets: Signed free agent CL Dusty Harrison to a 5-year contract worth a total of $114,000,000.
Washington Grays: Signed free agent SS Manuel Fuentes to a 5-year contract worth a total of $63,200,000.
San Diego Fathers: Signed free agent MR Jimmy Rybarczyk to a 3-year contract worth a total of $31,800,000.
Sunday, November 25th, 1860
San Diego Fathers: Signed MR Javier Macías to a 1-year contract extension worth a total of $1,690,000.
Saturday, November 24th, 1860
Washington Grays: Signed free agent MR Allan Nolan to a 1-year contract worth a total of $785,000.
Friday, November 23rd, 1860
St. Louis Aviators: Signed free agent MR José Torres to a 1-year contract worth a total of $825,000.
Winnemucca Lake Monsters: Signed free agent C Griff Claypool to a 1-year contract worth a total of $750,000.
Winnemucca Lake Monsters: Signed free agent C Alfredo Leyva to a 3-year contract worth a total of $1,950,000.
St. Louis Aviators: Signed free agent MR Pablo Nieto to a 6-year contract worth a total of $61,550,000.
Winnemucca Lake Monsters: Signed free agent SS Ian Hinkle to a 4-year contract worth a total of $3,000,000.
Winnemucca Lake Monsters: Signed free agent 3B Pat LaRue to a 1-year contract worth a total of $650,000.
Wednesday, November 21st, 1860
Winnemucca Lake Monsters: Signed free agent 3B Jeff Newton to a 2-year contract worth a total of $2,800,000.

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.

Oct 1860 | Nov 1860 | Dec 1860
Friday, December 21st, 1860
Rio Grande Rough Riders: Signed free agent SP Philip Carr to a 2-year contract worth a total of $3,400,000.
Sunday, December 9th, 1860
Kauai Emeralds: Signed free agent SP Takamasa Kichida to a 2-year contract worth a total of $21,520,000.
Kauai Emeralds: Signed free agent C Adan Langford to a 1-year contract worth a total of $950,000.
Wednesday, December 5th, 1860
Rio Grande Rough Riders: Signed free agent LF Al Broom to a 2-year contract worth a total of $3,200,000.
Gettysburg Gomers: Signed free agent 1B Roberto Rodríguez to a 2-year contract worth a total of $3,460,000.
Washington Grays: Signed free agent SP Rafael Baca to a 3-year contract worth a total of $4,200,000.
Carolina Kings: Signed free agent 2B T.J. Marston to a 3-year contract worth a total of $6,255,000.
Chicago Hornets: Signed free agent SP Jarrod Karnes to a 2-year contract worth a total of $27,360,000.
Memphis Smokers: Signed free agent MR Ron Porebski to a 4-year contract worth a total of $8,000,000.
Winnemucca Lake Monsters: Signed free agent C Tom Parker to a 3-year contract worth a total of $2,070,000.
Winnemucca Lake Monsters: Signed free agent 3B Andy Zuniga to a 3-year contract worth a total of $2,025,000.
Cleveland Laborers: Signed free agent C Dave Gold to a 1-year contract worth a total of $750,000.
St. Louis Aviators: Signed free agent 1B Pat Trotta to a 7-year contract worth a total of $47,625,000.

[Young Drachma]

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.

[Young Drachma]

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

[Young Drachma]

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.

[Young Drachma]

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

[TurnerONU22]

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