2018 Winter Meetings Thread

[mstreeter06]

We will hold our annual Winter Meetings here. We will discuss any rule changes, improvements, or anything else that needs to be addressed before the 2019 season...

[mstreeter06]

2018 Winter Meetings: Topics To Discuss

• Interleague Play: keep Interleague play or revert back to none?
• Designated Hitter: keep as is with no DH, 1 league with DH, or both leagues with DH?
• Storylines in-game option: leave on or turn off?
• Upgrade to OOTP15 or wait for OOTP16? If upgrade to OOTP15, target year for start: 2020?
• Ratings: stay at 1-10 or move to 1-20?
• Final regular season sim: keep at last 10 games or split into 2 sims to have a final 3-game series sim?
• Playoff format: keep current playoff format (4 teams per league, 2 division winners & 2 wildcards) or add a 3rd Wildcard for 5 total playoff teams (play-in 1 or 3 game series between Wildcards 2 and 3 to earn 4th and final seed in playoffs)?
• Future plans/ideas: target year for Expansion Phase 2 to get to 24 total teams?, add another minor league level?, add FA draft w/ International/Amateur FAs/another baseball world?, adjust/update names.dat?
• Reinstate Texas 2B Tim Francis (2 years removed from kidney donation)?
• Anything else?

[JKGuy16]

I love inter league play and believe it should stay.  Again, no reason we all shouldn't be playing each other.

I prefer no DH.

I'm indifferent on story lines, despite being a victim to one in Luis Bravo.

I have no problem upgrading to OOTP15 if that's the consensus.  Just let me know and I'll download it.

I'm not familiar enough with this game to know how much different ratings are using a 10 or 20 point scale.  I assume 20 would simply be twice as accurate when it comes to ratings.  No preference for me.

I would prefer keeping the final sim just like the rest.  Every game is equally important, no reason to make the season longer as I love the pace we do things here.

40% playoff qualification is perfect in my book.  I like where we are at and see no reason to have a 5th while we have 20 teams.

As I've always said about expansion, I would be for this ONLY if we currently have 100% of GM's active and committed and we have more that are ready to go.

[mukerka]

I only have one thing to say, we want Tim Francis back!!! jejej

About the rest of the things, I love the interleague so I keep it

[mikezone13]

    Interleague Play: Keep exactly as is, nice balance
    Designated Hitter: no DH
    Storylines in-game option: keep it on for consistency, even though I don't like them...lol
    Upgrade to OOTP15 or wait for OOTP16? Preference to stick to 14 for now
    Ratings: stay at 1-10, the whole farbic of the league changes otherwise, we already know 'exact' ratings due to no scouts, don't make it any easier
    Final regular season sim: keep as last 10 games
    Playoff format: maintain as is 4 out of 20 is a nice number, 20% of teams make the playoffs
    Future plans/ideas: complete custom uniforms for full minor leagues , it's coming

[LT]

Interleague Play: Keep
Designated Hitter: prefer no DH
Storylines in-game option: leave on
Upgrade to OOTP15 or wait for OOTP16? don't care. just let me know.
Ratings: don't care.
Final regular season sim: keep at last 10 games
Playoff format: keep current playoff format (4 teams per league, 2 division winners & 2 wildcards)
Future plans/ideas: I am with JK - if we have 100% committed ownership then expansion.
Reinstate Texas 2B Tim Francis (2 years removed from kidney donation)?- sure

[Troyaof]

Interleague Play: Keep
Designated Hitter: Yes
Storylines in-game option: Don't Care
Upgrade to OOTP15 or wait for OOTP16?15
Ratings: For just cause
Final regular season sim: keep at last 10 games
Playoff format: keep current playoff format (4 teams per league, 2 division winners & 2 wildcards)
Future plans/ideas: Not unless we have made the entire season before with 0 turnover. Then we can plan it the following season
Reinstate Texas 2B Tim Francis (2 years removed from kidney donation)?- I spose

[Steve Wunda]

Interleague Play: Keep

Designated Hitter: No

Storylines in-game option: Keep

Upgrade to OOTP15 or wait for OOTP16? Will upgrade if needed.

Ratings: keep 1-10

Final regular season sim: keep at last 10 games

Playoff format: keep current playoff format (4 teams per league, 2 division winners & 2 wildcards)
Future plans/ideas: As I've always said about expansion, I would be for this ONLY if we currently have 100% of GM's active and committed and we have more that are ready to go.

Maybe add some type of international league where some free agents make it over to our league every year, or a winter league such as the Dominican League where we can send younger players (players who have not been over a certain level and age) to develop quicker.

Reinstate Texas 2B Tim Francis (2 years removed from kidney donation)?- Sure

[24Rocks]

Interleague Play: Keep
Designated Hitter: prefer DH but in one league only
Storylines in-game option: leave on
Upgrade to OOTP15 or wait for OOTP16? I have it so i we do its cool
Ratings: personaly I play my solo leagues at 1-20 so ya
Final regular season sim: keep at last 10 games
Playoff format: keep current playoff format
Future plans/ideas: if we can find active owners then ya im all for it
Reinstate Texas 2B Tim Francis (2 years removed from kidney donation)?- I guess

[BaseballAddict32]

Interleague Play: keep Interleague play or revert back to none?
Keep interleague play, helps give teams that might otherwise not intersect some cohesiveness in the league
Designated Hitter: keep as is with no DH, 1 league with DH, or both leagues with DH?
No DH
Storylines in-game option: leave on or turn off?
Leave On
Upgrade to OOTP15 or wait for OOTP16? If upgrade to OOTP15, target year for start: 2020?
OOTP15 is fine, already have it installed.
Ratings: stay at 1-10 or move to 1-20?
If we ever change I'd favor the 20-80 system over 1-20
Final regular season sim: keep at last 10 games or split into 2 sims to have a final 3-game series sim?
No real opinion here as a non contender think for contenders splitting it up makes sense in case an adjustment might help playoff push
Playoff format: keep current playoff format (4 teams per league, 2 division winners & 2 wildcards) or add a 3rd Wildcard for 5 total playoff teams (play-in 1 or 3 game series between Wildcards 2 and 3 to earn 4th and final seed in playoffs)?
Keep it as is
Future plans/ideas: target year for Expansion Phase 2 to get to 24 total teams?, add another minor league level?, add FA draft w/ International/Amateur FAs/another baseball world?, adjust/update names.dat?
Add International free agents and also suggest adding more rounds worth of players than the draft has rounds on regular draft to deepen the number of quality players that will likely work in continuity with more players in draft.
Reinstate Texas 2B Tim Francis (2 years removed from kidney donation)?
Maybe, LOL
Anything else?

[claphamsa]

upgrade to 15, change nothing else

[24Rocks]

Future plans/ideas: target year for Expansion Phase 2 to get to 24 total teams?, add another minor league level?, add FA draft w/ International/Amateur FAs/another baseball world?, adjust/update names.dat?
suggest adding more rounds worth of players than the draft has rounds on regular draft to deepen the number of quality players that will likely work in continuity with more players in draft.

Agree with this, I had a 4th round pick make it and win 14 games for me but other then the expansion year draft, after first and maybe early 2nd round there is nothing good in the draft and it would give added value to picks like my 4rd-7th round picks are basically the same, but now with feeder leagues its harder I screwed this up and for 12 years in my solo league the 5th-30th round were not very good players.

I would suggest make the feeder league at 24 or 30 teams am maybe give us 8 rounds

[mstreeter06]

We currently have 8 rounds with 9 rounds generated for the Ammy Draft.

[24Rocks]

If you make it 11 rounds or more Generated we would get a few more good quality players and a few more middle of the road guys and then thast means a few more FA but we pick up the good ones any way pretty fast. It would take about a year or 2 to see effects.

[mstreeter06]

It's definitely something I'm watching for and is an option we have in the future if the draft pools don't improve. In my testing, the pools will get better, plateau, and go in cycles if my testing is any indication.