[Solonor]

Originally Posted by mikev

The Rule 5 draft is broken. Once a player is selected in the Rule 5, he just goes onto the selecting team. He can be waived, released, demoted, basically treated just like any other player.

Not in my copy of the game... and we've been running a successful online league, even through the horrible OOTP 2006 conversion and right up through OOTP 8 now.

Originally Posted by mikev

Signing personnel is broken. It should work like free agent players, simple enough. Instead, an available scout/coach/whatever automatically signs with whoever makes him an offer first.

AGREED!!

Originally Posted by mikev

Running the draft is a nightmare. There's no way to run the draft while online sims still take place. That said, if you hold the draft during the season, there are 2 choices - 1) Stop simming completely while the draft is held via forums, private lists, or some other out-of-game method, or 2) Auto-Draft and get the luck of the draw. Now, Getch's utility is awesome and makes the draft a WHOLE lot cleaner, but it's still more of a workaround and there's no way within OOTP to run the draft in an efficient manner right now.

I see what you're saying, but it's never been a problem for me. My GM's just submit instructions for the draft (whether it's "let the AI pick" or a specific, prioritized list of players or some combination), and I do the picks. Of course, we only pick the first 5 rounds. Anything more than that would get old real fast! (But there's rarely any talent beyond the 5th round anyway...a different subject entirely.)

Originally Posted by mikev

File sizes are unacceptable. The GUBA is a 36 team league with scouts enabled, no other coaches (see above), full minors and no feeder leagues. The small league file size is generally around 30mb, and HTML reports are generally around 50mb. Several times each season when a FaceGen update is run those sizes can nearly triple.

We're only 24 teams with full minors and no scouts (which are a PITA for online anyway), and the files are nearly that big. HOWEVER, we never send the entire league zip out more than once or twice a season. Why would you? The league update works fine, and it's usually no bigger than 2 or 3 MB.

Originally Posted by mikev

Free Agent compensation is broken. This should just mirror MLB rules, plain and simple. It doesn't.

YES! There are quite a few roster rules that are not followed, and that's my number one issue.

All that being said, I don't think there's any huge problem with online leagues. We're in our 14th season (almost 5 years), and I don't think there are any horrible, horrible problems with online play. Just annoyances.