BZ 3240: Ask AI to Complete Minor League System doesn't work well with ghost players

[Gorinski]

This option isn't working correctly. It's assigning most of my players to AAA and AA and very few are being sent to 'A'. Most recently no players were assigned to 'A' even though my Minor League System Report suggests most of my players belong in 'A'. So I have to manually promote and demote players and I would prefer not to have to do this micromanaging.

Some background: I have two 10 team leagues, I have three minor leagues AAA, AA and A, I play with ghost players, my draft is only 6 rounds.

Thanks.

[SteveP]

Originally Posted by Gorinski

This option isn't working correctly. It's assigning most of my players to AAA and AA and very few are being sent to 'A'. Most recently no players were assigned to 'A' even though my Minor League System Report suggests most of my players belong in 'A'. So I have to manually promote and demote players and I would prefer not to have to do this micromanaging.

Some background: I have two 10 team leagues, I have three minor leagues AAA, AA and A, I play with ghost players, my draft is only 6 rounds.

Thanks.

Ghost players can cause this sort of thing to happen. I'm not an expert on this, but I believe that the game tends to "create" ghost players with roughly "A" league level capabilities. So the real players sometimes get distributed either above or below that level. At least try turning off ghost players and see what happens (although that could be a problem if your minor leagues are actually playing games -- you might not have enough of them on a team). One solution is to add fictional players to your "A" level league, let the AI redistribute all the players, then turn on ghost players to handle any future gaps that result from injuries, etc.

Hope that helps.

[Gorinski]

Thanks for the reply SteveP!

I think you're on the right track about ghost players, but when running a test I was still having problems with fictional players. Anyway, having fictional players would kind of defeat the purpose of what I was trying to accomplish, having a minimal amount of minor leaguers which I could keep track of easily. I've had a 'house rule' of a maximum of 48 minor leaguers at the start of any season for the past few versions of OOTP for my solo leagues. This allows me to get rid of the dead weight and become more familiar with each minor leaguer.

[battists]

Gorinski,

It certainly seems like it's worth asking Markus to take a look at this. At the worst, perhaps we can get some more information from him on what's going on.

I've logged this as BZ 3240.

Thanks!

Steve

[battists]

Just FYI, Markus has reviewed this issue, and it doesn't look like he will be able to resolve this for the first patch. He'll consider it for the second patch. Thanks...