Important Dates: 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. Complete Rule 5 draft in game. Sim to 12/16 #3: sim to 1/1/14. History updates #4: sim to 1/16/14. #5: sim until Pre-Season begins (early Feb).- Change your development budgets!!!- Check Contracts (Team Options) from previous year.- disable NBL foriegn player limit #6: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- #7: 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, #8: Opening Day Sim
Bad Contracts: Ryty - DH Matthew Bass (STL) - Player Option in Contract - Cut / Fix finances Ryty (2) - RF Martin Frizell (STL) - Player Option in Extension - Fix Contract
Missed Draft Picks: Kasper - Missed 1st round. abolishthefed - Missed 1st round. sawemoff - Missed 1st round. krtgolfing (2) - Missed 2nd round. sonn - Missed 2nd round. JohnnyClutch (2) - Missed 2nd round.
I posted that I have been stuck at work in the vacation thread earlier today, before the export deadline...
Failed draft pick signings: ryalaman (3) - 1st and 2nd round. krtgolfing (3) - 1st round. JohnnyClutch (3) - 2nd round.
I had to do the same thing and just went cheap so I could sign them. One draft I had to sign two 1st Rounders and 2nd, what I came out with was Guibert Cavallaro and Miguel 'Racetrack' Bello so you can afford someone good in the draft.
