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Originally Posted by Kelric
I run the draft. I don't play historical leagues to get the same results as history, I like taking it in a different direction.
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There's another "what if" that could be done if OOTP could be made to support it. And that's recreating the kind of amateur player signing bonus free-for-all which happened in MLB before the amateur draft started in 1965.
Basically, before the amateur draft, amateur players were free agents who could sign with any major league team (of course, once signed, they then fell under the reserve clause). The result was some pretty fierce bidding for these amateur free agents which naturally gave the more financially well off teams an advantage. (Things got so bad in the signing bonus wars that MLB passed various rules to try and curb the spending sprees, though with little success.)