Operation Sports Forums - League 162: PS4 MLB Show '14 Online Franchise

Welcome to League 162!

Note: If you're messaging me asking me for a team, you're demonstrating to me that you can't take the time to read the league rules.

Introduction

League 162 is the first online franchise that will offer a day-by-day, full 162 game schedule with manual roll-over into MLB The Show '15 and beyond via custom roster imports. Therefore, your transactions will stick including player progression, drafted players, trades, and your own free agent signings.
This will be a slower moving league than most of you are used to, which I'll admit to not liking the idea of at first. That is until I joined an OOTP league that has been doing this for 3 years now, and it's been absolutely fantastic, engaging, and it helps us to weed out a lot of the impatient riffraff that can come in these online leagues.

Membership

Ideally, this will one day be an online franchise with all 30 teams being controlled by humans. In order to be as efficient as possible in the early going, we're going to start off the league smaller than that with 12 teams, 2 from each division.
Once games are being played consistently, we'll consider adding more in hopes of having an active 30 team league.
Team membership cannot be changed, nor transferred.

Schedule

League 162 will use the Series (Manual Advance) scheduling option, meaning, for example, that teams will have 4 days to play a 4 game series. This will help us to one day play along with the real-life MLB schedule.
Of course, this year we'll be working from a schedule that allows us to get caught up, due to the game's late arrival. Regardless, the league is hoping to carry over year to year.
We could probably get two seasons in per calendar year, with the nearly 6 month offseason. Or, no worries, we just ride out the offseason like in real life, or perhaps even play a sister league, such as a fictional universe or another MLB one all its own. With this first season, we may need the extra time to get the league started and running smoothly.

Rosters/Transactions

2014 Opening Day rosters (OSFM)
No fantasy draft
While we're going to folllow the MLB schedule, beyond that, the league will become our own and take on its own personality. We're not doing the silly "daily real life trades" because our universe will inevitably turn out very different than real MLB.
All trades, AI or with other members, will need to be accepted and approved by the commissioner and the majority of the other members not involved in the trade. All trades must have purpose for both teams and their plan of action.
If you're a big trader, I'd advise taking a team that fits your personality and/or playing style already, as it's not healthy for the longevity of a career mode game such as this to have a team go through some ridiculous makeover only for the guy who made the trades to up and vanish. Over time and when members prove they're going to be around, this will open up more.
We'll be creating some "international free agents" each year to simulate guys like Cespedes and Darvish coming into the league. Not all of them will be that impactful, and it won't be a ton of players.

Sliders

We're starting with All-Star default, but will adjust to ensure the sliders for this league are tough, but plausible; we'll use realistic and challenging sliders, and realistic gameplay.
We're a sim-style league, which means there will be zero tolerance for the BS stuff you typically see running rampant in Diamond Dynasty.
You will need to be focused to both hit the AI and get them out in user/AI games. As for head to head, we'll want games that are competitive and fair, obviously.

Additional Rules

Teams must, at all times, play players defensively at a position they have either a primary or secondary position for. In the rare case a game goes like 20 innings and guys need to play out of position, the game will be examined on a case-by-case basis.

Settings

Name: League 162
Division Type: Divisional
Max Teams: 30 (12 to start)
Max Playoff Teams: 10
World Series Length: 7
Championship Series Length: 7
Division Series Length: 5
Wildcard Series Length: 1
Total Games: 162
Schedule Type: Series (Manual)
Minimum Player Skill Level: Rookie
Maximum Player Skill Level: Legend
Player Draft: Off
DH Type: Auto
Allow Trades: On
Trade Approval: On
Allow Free Agents: On
Hitting Difficulty: All-Star
Pitching Difficulty: All-Star
Innings 9
Guess Pitch: Off
Quick Counts: Off
Strike Zone: Off
Hot Zones: Off
Balks: On
Umpire Balls And Strikes: Variable
Ejections: On
Injuries: On
Presentation Mode: Broadcast (please do not skip animations, etc. unless both players agree to it ahead of time)

Additional Recommended Settings

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