Best Way to Draft Free Agents onto Teams?

[opieandy]

From the actual 2004 season, I released all players to free agancy. I then changed the league to a 20 team league with fictional cities. Now I want to put players on teams based on rosters I created outside of OOTP (many years ago when I did this league in SOM). What is the quickest/easiest way to get players onto teams using the printed rosters I have? Do I have to go through a "draft"? I'd prefer to just find them in free agency and assign them to their new teams.

[Scoman]

Originally Posted by opieandy

From the actual 2004 season, I released all players to free agancy. I then changed the league to a 20 team league with fictional cities. Now I want to put players on teams based on rosters I created outside of OOTP (many years ago when I did this league in SOM). What is the quickest/easiest way to get players onto teams using the printed rosters I have? Do I have to go through a "draft"? I'd prefer to just find them in free agency and assign them to their new teams.

turn commish mode on ,click on the player ,then click edit,then assign player to team.

[Kelric]

Though it might actually be quicker to draft them, since it is merely a matter of controlling all of the teams and then finding the player and clicking one button. With assignining them to a team you need to find the guy, bring up the screen, select the major leagues and then select the team.

[opieandy]

Originally Posted by Kelric

Though it might actually be quicker to draft them, since it is merely a matter of controlling all of the teams and then finding the player and clicking one button. With assignining them to a team you need to find the guy, bring up the screen, select the major leagues and then select the team.

Won't I have to select one player per team, then go to the next team and select a player, etc., in draft mode?

I have the rosters for all my teams. I want to draft all players onto one team, then move on to the next team. It will be much faster that way.

[opieandy]

Originally Posted by Scoman

turn commish mode on ,click on the player ,then click edit,then assign player to team.

I'm in commish mode, but can't figure out how to control all teams at once. I can only see how to control one at a time.

When I click on a player in commish mode, I get his profile. If I right click, I get some options, but none to assign him to a team.

[Kelric]

Originally Posted by opieandy

Won't I have to select one player per team, then go to the next team and select a player, etc., in draft mode?

I have the rosters for all my teams. I want to draft all players onto one team, then move on to the next team. It will be much faster that way.

I suppose it becomes preference at this point.

Originally Posted by opieandy

I'm in commish mode, but can't figure out how to control all teams at once. I can only see how to control one at a time.

When I click on a player in commish mode, I get his profile. If I right click, I get some options, but none to assign him to a team.

You aren't looking hard enough.

Open his player profile, then go to the Editor tab. Look on the left side. See where it says 'Team Information, Select new Team?' Pick his league, then his team. That is how you assign a guy to a team.

If you want to edit their contracts, that is further down on the left side.

[opieandy]

Originally Posted by Kelric

I suppose it becomes preference at this point.



You aren't looking hard enough.

Open his player profile, then go to the Editor tab. Look on the left side. See where it says 'Team Information, Select new Team?' Pick his league, then his team. That is how you assign a guy to a team.

If you want to edit their contracts, that is further down on the left side.

OK, thanks, I am getting a bit blurry-eyed at this point, and my neck hurts.

I found it's fastest to take control of a team, type the player's last name into the search bar, right click and "sign player".

[opieandy]

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[Kelric]

That works too. Sometimes we just get set in our ways and don't see a different way of performing the same task. I frequently find other ways of getting things done when I read these forums.

[Kelric]

Originally Posted by opieandy

Every "any way" question I've asked has been "no" so far, much to my amazement for a game that seems so popular. So here goes again. I have drafted real 2004 players onto different teams. I want to see the teams' rosters with the players real prior year MLB stats. Any way to do this?

It's really hard to set lineups based on usage when I can't see the actual prior-year usage.

It will show their previous season stats on the lineup/pitching pages if you go to the Split dropdown menu. You can see last year, two years ago, career, etc.

You can also see individual players' real life stats by looking at their player profile and going to the Real Life Stats tab.

[opieandy]

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