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Old 03-05-2009, 05:25 PM   #59 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Nutlaw View Post
Of note, an ideal independent league wouldn't have a draft or any means of generating its own new players. It ought to be a place to give guys from another league's massive free agent pool something to do and a chance to prove themselves worthy of being given an opportunity in a major league organization.
To me, this goes to the argument that there should only be one player pool from which all the leagues in a given OOTP universe draw their players. This is how it is in the real world—there is only one pool of players. It's the various league rules and relationships, and individual league prestige, which determines whether a player ends up in one league or another.

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{Granted this is a seperate issue, since it involves affiliated minors, but two of the players the Mets are inviting to spring training are guaranteed $600,000+ for one season, even if they never make it out of the minors. I'm hoping for something like that. I should be having to pay my minor leaguers a salary.}
This goes to my oft-repeated remark that a financial system overhaul is much needed in the game, one which would also see every league become a fully separate and unique entity. It wouldn't matter whether a league is major or minor, it'd have its own rules and options settings, and its own league totals.
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