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Originally Posted by patrick_raasch
first of all, i gotta say great game (although my wife may say otherwise!) first real substantial playing i've done since season ticket baseball....alright, onto my questions.....
i've created a new league from scratch roughly based on the majors. the majors are exact as they should be, but i compacted down the minors to just one AAA/AA/A/R league with divisions set up to mirror the majors alignment. i'm trying to create a somewhat equal playing field, making everyone have the same media contract, using a soft cap of 120% and a luxury tax. rosters are 25 for ML, 30 for AAA/AA/A and 45 for R. now for questions.
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Just wanted to mention that I thought the minors had a note that you were not supposed to set roster limits below 35. I set no limits in my solo games and the game seems to keep all but one roster at 25. I guess all the over flow goes to the same level.
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Originally Posted by patrick_raasch
1 - After simming one season to see how things play out, it looks as though on the Rookie league, they do not set up the roster properly. i've seen teams with about 6-8 pitchers and tons of fielders. is there something i'm missing to make this even out
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This is a known bug. Only work around I know of is to handle all the minor league transactions yourself.
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2 - As for salaries, i've got superstars set to $14M, but in the first offseason, there are 2 over $20M per season and another handful approaching that. is this normal? (such as an ARod or Manny type contract?) I'm assuming salaries will stay semi-controlled since there is a cap that teams have to deal with.
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Yeah, this happens in all my leagues. I think those settings help the game decide the initial salaries to start the league, but then things can vary greatly after that based on revenue, and the quality of players.
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any other advice on setting up a league for the first time would be greatly appreciated.
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Other advice would just be to try anything you like no matter how strange and post your results here. I play a 20 team, 30 games per season schedule where games are Friday, Saturday, and Sunday so I use 3 man rotations. This format allows for me to play out every game and still finish a season in a reasonable amount of time. Only one team in each 10 team league makes the playoffs, so each game of the season is very important and intense. Check the mods >> schedules section for this and other great schedules.