Adding Postee's, Draftee's to OSFM?

[Mattchu12]

So, as we all await the Hybrids/Revisions/Whatever-We're-Calling-Them rosters to start our franchises, I had a question for the community:

Does anyone add CAP's of likely-to-be-posted players (like Kenta Maeda) and say the Top-30 draft picks to the free agent pool, and then swap them (or say stash a Maeda on a team's Single-A team so he can become a free agent after the season and let the bidding begin on him and not "retired due to poor market" or something) over the drafted players that you end up with in the first season of your franchise?

I'm considering it as an option as I'm thinking of ways to make Franchise mode even more fun/realistic, and wanted to see if anyone else has tried this and how it has panned out for them and whether or not it's wroth it.

Thanks for reading, hoping to get your insights!

[JBearsL]

Re: Adding Postee's, Draftee's to OSFM?

Yeah, I added the top 20 rated draft prospects before I started my franchise. I wanted to make sure I had them in my franchise, because before the patch you couldn't edit guy's fully in your franchise. It looks like the patch has fixed this issue, so you could always use the randomly generated guys and just edit them to reflect the draftees.

If you are looking for draft prospects, a guy named BOOMERSOONER (I think that's it) does a good job creating them. You could look for them in the player vault.

[tapout8302]

Re: Adding Postee's, Draftee's to OSFM?

I've been doing this for a while. It does turn into a lot of work. I probably get a little carried away though. I usually add 40-50 guys before starting and create about 10 between each season(usually new international guys or players that retired a little too young. When I create during the franchise I use the vita to and ps4 to copy CAPs. I really wish you could just import in an active franchise.

[Chuck_D84]

Re: Adding Postee's, Draftee's to OSFM?

I've done this for my franchise. I swapped some of the legend free agents with draftees and some IFAs and will sign them to a multi year deal by a team and stash them in A ball.

[Mattchu12]

Re: Adding Postee's, Draftee's to OSFM?

Yeah, I added the top 20 rated draft prospects before I started my franchise. I wanted to make sure I had them in my franchise, because before the patch you couldn't edit guy's fully in your franchise. It looks like the patch has fixed this issue, so you could always use the randomly generated guys and just edit them to reflect the draftees.

If you are looking for draft prospects, a guy named BOOMERSOONER (I think that's it) does a good job creating them. You could look for them in the player vault.

That's what I had done in year's past. Edited those guys to match. I was thinking if someone had already added the prospects to the vault, it might just be easier to swap them as need-be. Also, thanks for the suggestion for BOOMERSOONER4, I had actually already downloaded one or two of his CAP's without realizing that it was from the same guy.

I've been doing this for a while. It does turn into a lot of work. I probably get a little carried away though. I usually add 40-50 guys before starting and create about 10 between each season(usually new international guys or players that retired a little too young. When I create during the franchise I use the vita to and ps4 to copy CAPs. I really wish you could just import in an active franchise.

Yeah, I'm trying to figure out how far I wanna go with it right now. I don't want it to snowball on me and it become something that overtakes the experience.

I've done this for my franchise. I swapped some of the legend free agents with draftees and some IFAs and will sign them to a multi year deal by a team and stash them in A ball.

That was what I was thinking about doing.