2018 Winter Meetings Thread

[24Rocks]

im asking a few people

[mstreeter06]

With Mike's approval, we are moving the Oregon Explorers logo back to its original one.

[mstreeter06]

New file is up! It includes the 2018 Season Awards, recent trades, and first 23 picks of the Ammy Draft. I can release a new file on Friday or Monday depending on our Ammy Draft progress. Reports and Statslab will be updated soon.

[mstreeter06]

I'll keep this thread going until we reach the end of the offseason which should be in the next week or so. Here is how I'm gauging things...

No major changes to the league...
-keeping Interleague Play for good
-no to the DH; in the future it will be up to the 2 leagues (FL, PL) to decide
-keeping ratings at 1-10
-keeping current playoff format; we'll revisit when/if we expand or enough chatter before that
-keeping current sim schedule of 10 in-game day sims, 3 times a week (M-W-F); occasionally sims will be shorter/longer (non-1st start date, ASG, trade deadline, end of regular season) and I'll be sure to post if the sim will be abnormal

Two biggest decisions...
-OOTP storylines option: we will either decide to leave it turned on but, after Tim Francis, no reinstatements (unretiring manually has caused too many issues) or turn the option off completely. I'm 50/50 on which I would prefer but right now I'm for leaving enabled without any reinstatements.
-Upgrade to OOTP15: nearly everyone is on board for OOTP15 (if you need help getting the new version, let me know and we'll figure something out) so the decision is now is when? I'm all for playing the upcoming 2019 season as our last with OOTP14 and then upgrade to OOTP15 before the 2020 season. Is 2020 a good year to upgrade or should we wait for a few more AFBL seasons?

Thoughts?

[24Rocks]

2020 is good year its a nice round number

[LT]

I say keep storylines - weird shit happens in real life why not in this league.

2020 is fine for an upgrade.

[mukerka]

Two biggest decisions...
-OOTP storylines option: we will either decide to leave it turned on but, after Tim Francis, no reinstatements (unretiring manually has caused too many issues) or turn the option off completely. I'm 50/50 on which I would prefer but right now I'm for leaving enabled without any reinstatements.

I dont see the point to keep the storylines working. Its funny when you read the storylines but when you suffer the consecuences its not that funny. In my experience, a kid retired and thats not fair. If we put some age minimum or something like that to reinstate players retired by the storylines could be an option but as I said, its not fair at all to lose one of your best players with only a season played for things like this.

[mikezone13]

Two biggest decisions...
-OOTP storylines option: we will either decide to leave it turned on but, after Tim Francis, no reinstatements (unretiring manually has caused too many issues) or turn the option off completely. I'm 50/50 on which I would prefer but right now I'm for leaving enabled without any reinstatements.

I dont see the point to keep the storylines working. Its funny when you read the storylines but when you suffer the consecuences its not that funny. In my experience, a kid retired and thats not fair. If we put some age minimum or something like that to reinstate players retired by the storylines could be an option but as I said, its not fair at all to lose one of your best players with only a season played for things like this.

It may not be fair, but it's the same chances for everyone.

IMO - what's not fair is changing the retirement rule for these AFTER 3 guys have come back. So I believe the following options are the only valid ones:

1. If storylines remain on, all players who retire come back after two years, as has been the case with Bravo, Pratt and Francis
2. Storylines off completely

Those seem the only 2 fair options,.

[mstreeter06]

Two biggest decisions...
-OOTP storylines option: we will either decide to leave it turned on but, after Tim Francis, no reinstatements (unretiring manually has caused too many issues) or turn the option off completely. I'm 50/50 on which I would prefer but right now I'm for leaving enabled without any reinstatements.

I dont see the point to keep the storylines working. Its funny when you read the storylines but when you suffer the consecuences its not that funny. In my experience, a kid retired and thats not fair. If we put some age minimum or something like that to reinstate players retired by the storylines could be an option but as I said, its not fair at all to lose one of your best players with only a season played for things like this.

It may not be fair, but it's the same chances for everyone.

IMO - what's not fair is changing the retirement rule for these AFTER 3 guys have come back. So I believe the following options are the only valid ones:

1. If storylines remain on, all players who retire come back after two years, as has been the case with Bravo, Pratt and Francis
2. Storylines off completely

Those seem the only 2 fair options,.

I see your point. I would be fine with keeping the 2 year rule in place. The 2-year thing was never really a rule just happened to be what I used for our 1st case.

I'm all for going with the majority on this one.

[Troyaof]

Two biggest decisions...
-OOTP storylines option: we will either decide to leave it turned on but, after Tim Francis, no reinstatements (unretiring manually has caused too many issues) or turn the option off completely. I'm 50/50 on which I would prefer but right now I'm for leaving enabled without any reinstatements.

I dont see the point to keep the storylines working. Its funny when you read the storylines but when you suffer the consecuences its not that funny. In my experience, a kid retired and thats not fair. If we put some age minimum or something like that to reinstate players retired by the storylines could be an option but as I said, its not fair at all to lose one of your best players with only a season played for things like this.

It may not be fair, but it's the same chances for everyone.

IMO - what's not fair is changing the retirement rule for these AFTER 3 guys have come back. So I believe the following options are the only valid ones:

1. If storylines remain on, all players who retire come back after two years, as has been the case with Bravo, Pratt and Francis
2. Storylines off completely

Those seem the only 2 fair options,.

I see your point. I would be fine with keeping the 2 year rule in place. The 2-year thing was never really a rule just happened to be what I used for our 1st case.

I'm all for going with the majority on this one.

Reinstatements are causing too many issues and it could devasate a team. I am thinking if a storyline hit Bernie Ratzlaff I'd probably quit cause it'd set my team back 5 years

[mstreeter06]

This was my thinking about either leaving it on but don't bring back any causalities or turn the storylines setting off. Like I said, I'm fine with whatever we decide.

[mikezone13]

Alright, I vote then to turn OFF storylines, let's keep this league all about baseball.

The mormon missions, white collar crime, kidney donations and professional golfing careers can go!

[24Rocks]

Two biggest decisions...
-OOTP storylines option: we will either decide to leave it turned on but, after Tim Francis, no reinstatements (unretiring manually has caused too many issues) or turn the option off completely. I'm 50/50 on which I would prefer but right now I'm for leaving enabled without any reinstatements.

I dont see the point to keep the storylines working. Its funny when you read the storylines but when you suffer the consecuences its not that funny. In my experience, a kid retired and thats not fair. If we put some age minimum or something like that to reinstate players retired by the storylines could be an option but as I said, its not fair at all to lose one of your best players with only a season played for things like this.

It may not be fair, but it's the same chances for everyone.

IMO - what's not fair is changing the retirement rule for these AFTER 3 guys have come back. So I believe the following options are the only valid ones:

1. If storylines remain on, all players who retire come back after two years, as has been the case with Bravo, Pratt and Francis
2. Storylines off completely

Those seem the only 2 fair options,.

Bravo cam back in 2017 thats 3 years, 4 if you count most of the 2013 season

[24Rocks]

Agreed with Mike i love the option but since we didnt start off with a good option for it, and i really d\dont want to lose a owner because of some story line It would suck to lose Maillot

[Troyaof]

Agreed with Mike i love the option but since we didnt start off with a good option for it, and i really d\dont want to lose a owner because of some story line It would suck to lose Maillot

Right! It could ruin you!  Anyway at this point i vote to  turn it off.