1859 Off-season Thread

[Young Drachma]

Simming to the start of FA now.

[Young Drachma]

File is up. We'll do FA1 tomorrow night.

[Young Drachma]

Will update HTML overnight.

[Gomer]

This $69 million in cap space is burning a hole in my pocket.

Do I spend it, or does somebody come strong to acquire it from me?

[Young Drachma]

Good goodness. The free agency class this year is absolutely bananas. How much money is Brad Scots going to command on the open market? Will anyone acquire the firepower to stop Winnemucca from a 4-peat?

[Gomer]

Originally Posted by Young Drachma

Good goodness. The free agency class this year is absolutely bananas. How much money is Brad Scots going to command on the open market? Will anyone acquire the firepower to stop Winnemucca from a 4-peat?

Heh... does anybody else out there have $69 million to pay Scots?

[Young Drachma]

I'm going to install OOTP Online Utilities today. Or at least, that's my plan. Stay tuned.

[Young Drachma]

Also there's no earthly way that Tommy Bonner is worth $24m per season.

[Gomer]

Originally Posted by Young Drachma

I'm going to install OOTP Online Utilities today. Or at least, that's my plan. Stay tuned.

Hooray for Dev Report!!!


Thanks YDC!

[claphamsa]

thoght there was no Dev for the new version yet???????

[Young Drachma]

But in any case, I have installed OOTP utilities anyway. I had to move the HTML elsewhere to do so, but it's installed and once the HTML gets finished uploading, we should be good to go. (Note: It won't be finished for another hour or so.)

You can view the HTML in its new location here once it's finished (and it's already been updated in the sticky thread) and you can login to OOTPOU here and that's also located in the sticky thread.

It won't track past development, I believe it'll begin to track from now as we've begun to use it. But at least going forward we have it installed and it seems like it should work okay.

[Young Drachma]

File is up. FA2 tomorrow night.

[claphamsa]

not a single FA signed? wow!

[Young Drachma]

The default OOTPOU password is baseball.

[Young Drachma]

Ok, let's see where the big fish are going to land. It's time for FA2.

[Young Drachma]

Chicago's AL wish has been granted. Milwaukee will switch to the NL starting next year.

[Young Drachma]

And here we go...

Wednesday, November 24th, 1858
Columbus Crusaders: Signed free agent 1B Juan Moreno to a 4-year contract worth a total of $21,000,000.
Columbus Crusaders: Signed free agent MR Xavier Meléndez to a 5-year contract worth a total of $10,250,000.
Tuesday, November 23rd, 1858
Hilton Head Heroes: Signed free agent CL Olivier Sellier to a 5-year contract worth a total of $2,750,000.
San Diego Fathers: Signed CL Javier Macías to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $4,430,000.
Rio Grande Rough Riders: Signed free agent 1B Nakazo Abe to a 6-year contract worth a total of $150,000,000.
Kauai Emeralds: Signed free agent RF Gonzalo Carrión to a 2-year contract worth a total of $5,600,000.
Kauai Emeralds: Signed free agent CF Jeremiah Byerly to a 8-year contract worth a total of $179,480,000.
Lake Placid Miracles: Signed free agent C Héctor Flores to a 1-year contract worth a total of $775,000.
Columbus Crusaders: Signed free agent SS Hollis Denton to a 2-year contract worth a total of $3,600,000.
San Diego Fathers: Signed free agent CF Carlos Salazar to a 4-year contract worth a total of $120,000,000.
Lake Placid Miracles: Signed free agent SP Brad Scots to a 10-year contract worth a total of $368,140,000.
Lake Tahoe Syndicate: Signed free agent 3B Clifton Marshall to a 8-year contract worth a total of $320,000,000.

Wow. Maybe it's time to start making those contracts guaranteed?

[Young Drachma]

After the dust settles, there are still some quality guys out on the FA market. Kauai still has $70m to spend thanks to their cap space trade and no one is at the salary cap yet.

The wild wild west shall continue at least another day.

[Young Drachma]

Tuesday, November 30th, 1858
Gettysburg Gomers: Signed free agent 1B Ieyoshi Ikarashi to a 2-year contract worth a total of $3,000,000.
Kauai Emeralds: Signed free agent RF Rich Stephens to a 1-year contract worth a total of $3,080,000.
Kauai Emeralds: Signed free agent SP António Archuleta to a 6-year contract worth a total of $131,800,000.
Rio Grande Rough Riders: Signed free agent C Chet O'Sullivan to a 5-year contract worth a total of $32,500,000.
Memphis Smokers: Signed free agent CL José Torres to a 3-year contract worth a total of $8,550,000.
Hilton Head Heroes: Signed free agent C Britt Brown to a 4-year contract worth a total of $3,000,000.
Kauai Emeralds: Signed free agent SS Clayton Cox Jr. to a 3-year contract worth a total of $12,200,000.
Los Angeles Banditos: Signed free agent CL Bob McCann to a 5-year contract worth a total of $58,100,000.
Kauai Emeralds: Signed free agent C Habib Sajid to a 1-year contract worth a total of $1,900,000.
Kauai Emeralds: Signed free agent LF Quincy de Vaal to a 3-year contract worth a total of $9,000,000.
San Diego Fathers: Signed free agent MR Manuel Guillén to a 3-year contract worth a total of $25,500,000.
Kauai Emeralds: Signed free agent SP Walt Thomas to a 7-year contract worth a total of $143,000,000.
Hilton Head Heroes: Signed free agent 1B Joe Custer to a 5-year contract worth a total of $7,500,000.
Wednesday, November 24th, 1858
Columbus Crusaders: Signed free agent 1B Juan Moreno to a 4-year contract worth a total of $21,000,000.
Columbus Crusaders: Signed free agent MR Xavier Meléndez to a 5-year contract worth a total of $10,250,000.

Thursday, December 16th, 1858
Lake Placid Miracles: Signed free agent SP Charlie Taylor to a 3-year contract worth a total of $28,990,000.
Columbus Crusaders: Signed free agent SP Cory Meyer to a 3-year contract worth a total of $16,500,000.
Friday, December 10th, 1858
Columbus Crusaders: Signed free agent CL Timothy Samuels to a 3-year contract worth a total of $13,500,000.
Columbus Crusaders: Signed free agent MR Manuel Rayos to a 3-year contract worth a total of $2,400,000.

Rest of FA2

[Young Drachma]

Ok, the file is up. Tomorrow we'll sim to the start of ST. Like I said, lots of quality players out there still who have adjusted their offers after everyone decided they weren't as much as they thought they were (Looking at you Tommy Bonner) so you'll have plenty of money to throw at guys.

Meanwhile, the HTML will go up overnight.

[Young Drachma]

I just ran development in OOTPOU and it works as advertised. You're welcome. (Ping: Subby and Gomer)

[Subby]

Sweet.

Thanks for doing that.

[Young Drachma]

Here's the current draft order for the first round of this year's draft thus far. (subsequent rounds haven't been dealt as of yet so Kauai and LA have their picks for those rounds at the moment.)


Current Draft Order:

1. San Diego
2. Gettysburg
3. Milwaukee
4. Milwaukee (via Los Angeles)
5. Shem Creek
6. Milwaukee (via Kauai)
7. Columbus
8. Hilton Head
9. Lake Tahoe
10. Chicago
11. Memphis
12. Rio Grande
13. Lake Placid
14. Brooklyn
15. Carolina
16. Winnemucca

[Gomer]

Thanks DC!
Now how about 40 man rosters in spring training.

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by Gomer

Thanks DC!
Now how about 40 man rosters in spring training.

I just released a new file that expands rosters to 40 for spring training. Download it and you'll be able to set a 40-man ST roster.

[Gomer]

I exported earlier this evening. Will the changes I made be wiped out if I download the new file?

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by Gomer

I exported earlier this evening. Will the changes I made be wiped out if I download the new file?

No, never. So long as the date doesn't change, exports remain valid. Except...the new file won't contain the changes you've made. In order to get them go to import/export and "import team via FTP" and that should solve that issue.

[Young Drachma]

File is up. Spring Training tomorrow night. Season starts Monday.

[Young Drachma]

For not being all that great, Milwaukee sure has made a lot of trades. Hehe.

[claphamsa]

will you redo the file with me having all Milwaukee talent? or do we wait till ST

[Young Drachma]

I'm not going to have time. I'm about to head to a meeting and the rest of my afternoon is pretty full. So it'll have to wait until tonight's regular file.

[claphamsa]

fair enough!

[Young Drachma]

It turned out my 4pm wasn't as long as I thought it was going to be. So I'm processing the trades from earlier today so you can use those guys in ST if you want to.

[claphamsa]

thanks! just trolling work people now!

[Young Drachma]

Post-trade file is up. Remember me when you're voting for Commish of the Year. That's all I'm saying...

[Young Drachma]

Ok, so the Los Angeles Banditos are moving to Washington D.C. this year. They'll now be known as the Washington Grays

[Young Drachma]

Big news:

The FRANCHISE player rule is being retired. Anyone who is currently under a franchise player contract can remain under that deal. Once they're rights are renounced or the player retires, that's the end of that for that team's use of the franchise player. With the last LEGACY player retiring from his original team this year (Bobby Foster in Chicago) it seems fitting that the successor rule to that one is now on its way out.

It'll be replaced with the Restricted Free Agent (RFA) rule.

[Young Drachma]

Ok, so here's the nuts and bolts of the new RFA rule, which starts with this upcoming (1859) off-season:

RESTRICTED FREE AGENT DESIGNATION

Each year between the end of the Sunset Series and the day free agents declare, each team may designate one (1) player under their control as a restricted free agent. (RFA)

The RFA will enter free agency as normal and can be signed by any team. Once the player signs, the original team will 24 hours or until the next sim to decide whether to 1) match the offer made by the new team 2) negotiate a trade with the offering team that includes the player (a sign & trade back to his home club) or 3) decline to match the offer and the signing with the offering club will become official.

Unlike the franchise or legacy player rules, the RFA happens each year. Each team gets just 1 per season except any team that currently has a franchise player under contract cannot also exercise the RFA rule.

The RFA isn't a permanent designation. It's just a one-time designation that can be used on any player per season.

The RFA's contract will be subject to the salary cap like any other player.

After the Sunset Series is over, I'll create a post for teams to list their restricted free agent for that year. You'll have until Monday (sim to the start of FA) to name someone or name no one, if you prefer. You get right of first refusal on the offer the player signs with. Obviously there's nothing stopping you from making an offer on your RFA yourself, but that'd sort of defeat the purpose.

ANYONE can be an RFA, doesn't have to be a homegrown guy or anything like that. It's just limited to one guy per season that you can use the designation on and these salaries will count under the cap.

[Gomer]

Hey DC... I haven't designated a franchise player yet because none of my original team contracts are expiring yet, but I've been conducting business the last few seasons with the plan to designate one particular guy when the time comes. Can I get grandfathered in and designate him now before the new season starts?

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by Gomer

Hey DC... I haven't designated a franchise player yet because none of my original team contracts are expiring yet, but I've been conducting business the last few seasons with the plan to designate one particular guy when the time comes. Can I get grandfathered in and designate him now before the new season starts?

Ok yes.

We'll do this. For this season only, any of the eight clubs that don't have a FRANCHISE player but wants to designate one, can do so. So anytime before the deadline for RFAs, any team without a FRANCHISE player can name one and be grandfathered into the FRANCHISE rule but ineligible for the RFA rule until that franchise guy is released.

Consequently, this means that if one of the eight teams with a FRANCHISE guy already wants to renounce their FRANCHISE guy between now and the end of the season and name a new one before the deadline for RFAs on next Monday, then that'd be allowed. It's a loophole, but I'm okay with it because teams will either benefit from the FRANCHISE player or benefit from the RFA rule until everyone has to play by it. Besides, it's not like there was any warning for this, so it seems like a fair way to retire the rule since it's going to cost everyone some money down the road and it'd make sense to want to delay paying the piper as long as possible.

After next Monday though, no more new FRANCHISE player designations by anyone.

Hope this clears it up. Thanks for asking that, Gomer.

By next Monday, I'm referring to October 1st, not Sept. 24th, since 9.24 will be the first day of the 1859 Regular Season. Just to make sure no one gets confused!

[Young Drachma]

Since we lost a team out west and coupled with the fact that we're just going to be awful and I thought a rebrand to a city SLOP's never been (and preferably a major one rather than all of these small markets) the Milwaukee Blue Sox will be relocating to Denver to become the Denver Dinosaurs.

[Young Drachma]

SPRING TRAINING STANDINGS

NL
Carolina 18-6
Washington 18-6
Rio Grande 16-8
Brooklyn 16-8
Kauai 13-11
Gettysburg 10-14
Shem Creek 5-19
Denver 0-24

AL
Lake Placid 17-7
San Diego 15-9
Memphis 13-11
Winnemucca 13-11
Hilton Head 13-11
Chicago 10-14
Columbus 10-14
Lake Tahoe 5-19

[Young Drachma]

File is up. We'll sim the first half of the season on Monday night!

[Gomer]

Originally Posted by Young Drachma

Ok yes.

We'll do this. For this season only, any of the eight clubs that don't have a FRANCHISE player but wants to designate one, can do so.

Sounds fair.

Thanks Y Drachma