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Old 06-19-2007, 06:40 PM   #6 (permalink)
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I just ran a test, and there's a potential issue in the early years of a new league if you lower the Service Days number. When OOTP generates new players at the beginning of a new league, it will assume they've been playing seasons with about 172 service days per season. So on day 1 of your new league you may have a 27-year old SP, with '5 years and 114 days' of service- that's 974 days of MLB service. If you then change the service days requirement to, say, 60 days, this is applied retroactively to the old service time as well, so that '5 years, 114 days' will become '16 years, 14 days', which seems implausible for a 27 year old- it also means players will hit arbitration and free agency early (NB the service time will only update properly once you reach the regular season). It's only a problem with the players OOTP generates when you create the league, so if you sim out 10-20 years of league time before you start actually playing (not a bad idea anyway), then you shouldn't notice anything too strange.
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