Quote:
Originally Posted by Biggio509
Suggestion:
Adv. A leagues and A leagues. Adv. rookie and rookie leagues.
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I want to follow up on the above suggestion.
SUGGESTION
OOTP should use the same level of minor league classification levels as actually exist (AAA,AA, High A, Low A, Short Season A, Rookie Advanced, and Rookie)
REASON
Biggio509, in post #59, described some good reasons as to why the A and Rookie levels should be split into two separate levels as they are in reality. I wish to offer a few additional reasons.
The A classification in real life has been split into separate "High A" (a.k.a. "Advanced A") and "Low A" (a.k.a. "A") levels for at least 15 years. They are treated as entirely different classes, which is why there are 30 affiliates in High A and 30 in Low A. Also, a player moved from Low A to High A is considered to have been promoted. Given this, the game really should offer two distinct and separate A levels as in the real world.
The Rookie classification in real life has been split into separate "Rookie Advanced" and "Rookie" for at least 10 years. There's also another very important distinction which makes these two entirely different classification levels: Rookie Advanced is the lowest level of minors which still acts and functions like a real minor league.
What I mean by that is that Rookie Advanced leagues have clubs which are located in and represent specific towns, have their own dedicated ballparks, charge admission, report attendance, and collect ticket revenue.
Rookie leagues, such as the Arizona League or Gulf Coast League, do NOT do any of these things. Rookie league teams play in the spring training stadiums of their major league parent club, and thus do not truly represent a town nor have their own dedicated ballparks. Also, Rookie teams do not charge admission nor do they report attendance. The major league parent clubs are entirely responsible for shouldering all the costs associated with running a Rookie team.
In essence, Rookie level leagues are more like instructional or exhibition leagues than anything else.
Given these differences, there really should be separate Rookie Advanced and Rookie classification levels in OOTP.
Thus, in total, there should be seven levels of minor league classification, with the top six representing normal minor leagues, and the lowest classification representing something which is an instructional type of league:
AAA
AA
High A (a.k.a. Advanced A)
Low A (a.k.a. A)
Short Season A
Rookie Advanced
Rookie
Another advantage to having six regular levels of minor leagues is that it matches up well to the post-1946 era when there were also six levels of minors (though they were named differently): AAA, AA, A, B, C, and D (there were no equivalent to the Rookie-type instructional leagues operating at the time).
PRIORITY
Medium/High.