2028/2029 Important Dates

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    Opening Day- 4/1 Sim to 4/11/14 (10 days). Switch to compressed file after sim.

    Sim 5/1-5/10- MLB Draft Pool Revealed, Begin drafting in statslab - Switch to 48 hour sims.
    Sim 6/1-6/10 Draft Complete prior to this sim
    Sim 6/21-7/1- Input All-Star players- International Amateur FA available
    Sim 7/1-7/10- All-Star Game during this sim Last Sim to complete signing of draft picks, NBL Draft Pool revealed
    Sim 7/21-8/1 TRADE DEADLINE - Back to 24 hour SIMs.
    Sim 8/1-8/10 Input NBL draft
    Sim 8/21-9/1 , Rosters expand to 40

    Sim 9/2-Playoffs (24 hour advances)

    ----------- EACH PLAYOFF SERIES IS 1 DAY------------
    Wildcard Playoff Round
    Divisional Series
    League Championship Series
    World Series- sim one day to after world series to set new budgets, open arbitration and see options- Change waivers to 17 days, DFA to 32 days ENTER AWARD WINNERS
    2020/2021 Off-Season Schedule
    DO NOT MAKE FREE AGENT OFFERS UNTIL AFTER SIM #1
    You are responsible for your roster and DFA. If you sign a guy and he times out, he gets dropped. OOTP now allows us to set the DFA time to 50 days so no excuses.
    You are responsible for making sure Rule 5 eligible players are protected. If somebody gets drafted "on accident" because he wasn't on the 40 man roster, too damn bad.

    #1: Presim- import and Input award winners, sim to Rule 5 draft 12/1 Arby hearings complete . Options processed and Awards announced.- Free agents also file. When the file is up, you may protect your Rule 5 players. Free Agency opens.- Check your DL for unprotected guys!

    #2: import and DO NOTHING. Rule 5 availables ABSOLUTELY FINALIZED - NO EXCEPTIONS. Create Rule 5 draft list in game.You MUST have room on your 40 man roster to draft anyone and cash on hand ($50K) for each player.- NOTE THE IMPORTANT RULE 5 PLAYERS

    #3: Import. MAKE SURE RULE 5 Players have not changed Complete Rule 5 draft in game. Sim to 12/16
    #4: sim to 1/1/14. History updates
    #5: sim to 1/16/14.
    #6: sim until Pre-Season begins (early Feb).- Change your development budgets!!!- Check Contracts (Team Options) from previous year.- disable NBL foriegn player limit
    #7:end of free agency - sim until start of Spring Training. WATCH YOUR DFA!!!- PRESIM Make sure schedule starts on 4/1 no matter what day of week. Make any changes to the settings!- CONFIRM ALL STAR GAME!!! REGNERATE SCHEDULE-
    #8: turn off suspensions and sim entire Spring Training. Lower DFA to 22 days and waivers to 12 days at the end of the sim, turn back on suspsensions. - enablle NBL foreign player limit. Create new photos. Then upload file. UPDATE Player Photos, Update server images and history. Create Full File post sim- Regenerate Photos,
    #9: Opening Day Sim
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    Wasn't Charlie the one asking when he could get promoted to MLB? Now he doesn't even export
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    Unsigned Draft Picks:
    Dylema - Didnt sign 2nd round pick.
    Blaza (5) - Didnt sign 1st or 2nd round pick - Removed.
    Colemanchu - Didnt sign 2nd round pick.
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    NBL Draft - Missed Picks:
    redwings8831 (2) - Missed 1st round pick.
    krtgolfing - Missed 1st round comp pick.
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