How to deal with constant roster changes in minor league?

[NoxMortem]

After the MLB considered me one of the best GM+Manager at High School niveau and I have successfully finished a season second place (brought them from the end of the standings upward) after my promotion to College Niveau I arrived at the Rookie league as Manager of the "Sunray Cutthroats". This was a horrible season. I was rated 1/100 with the worst possible rating and finished a .235 AVG.

However, what completly annoyed me and was horribly to deal with are the constant roster changes my GM made. He made a total of 50-75 roster changes which I was informed over by mail, he could at least have called that d***, and stripped over 50 players from roster while only providing me with a handful of mediocre C/SP players.

How do you people deal with the huge amount of roster changes at Minor League Level? Does it get better the higher you get inside of the Minor League System? While I really enjoyed the first two seasons as HS/C GM+Manager this season was so extremly boring. As a manager all you can set up is your Pitching Stuff and Depth Chart and that gets broken down after almost every single game.

[TGH-Adfabre]

It gets better but it is not good until you are ML level. The minors exist to feed the ML their roster moves are constant.

[NoxMortem]

Thank you. Now I also understand why someone told me "why would you want to Play a minor Level Team for years"

Is the rate somehow realistic? Do Baseball players Change affiliated Team multiple Times a year at any time a GM wants?

Coming from NFL this was Strange for me as there are super regulated Timings in the year when roster changes Happen, but also there is nothing like the Minor System as in Baseball

[TGH-Adfabre]

It will be hard to do but you have to drop the NFL as a model when think of baseball. The development models are completely different. Basically NFL does not have a development model, they ride on college football.
Yes the minors change constantly, I cannot honestly say that the game correctly mimics then number of transactions. I can say that expecting any type of roster consistency while coaching in the minors is an exercise in misery.
Some people have fun working their way up. If you can keep your eye on the brass ring of an ML team it could be fun... in theory.


Good luck, keep plugging away. The game is a tremendous amount of fun.

[rj58]

Originally Posted by TGH-Adfabre

It will be hard to do but you have to drop the NFL as a model when think of baseball. The development models are completely different. Basically NFL does not have a development model, they ride on college football.
Yes the minors change constantly, I cannot honestly say that the game correctly mimics then number of transactions. I can say that expecting any type of roster consistency while coaching in the minors is an exercise in misery.
Some people have fun working their way up. If you can keep your eye on the brass ring of an ML team it could be fun... in theory.


Good luck, keep plugging away. The game is a tremendous amount of fun.

^^ this. An exercise in misery. When I first started playing ootp I started as a mid-minors manager. Its a great place to practice setting lineups and trying to get the most of your guys, without having any actual control on their quality. So for just learning the mechanics of lineup/depth chart/pitching its a good place to start.

I think the number of roster changes per season is absurdly large. I think SOME players get yanked through the minors system in real life.. but that is because they are phenomenal players... I think the majority progress more slowly and steadly. In that sense I think the game acts a tad funny.

Go look at some random players on Baseball-Reference.com. You'll normally find players steadily progressing in the minors per their own history. I've not seen split years between two teams except when someone is jumped to a next higher level early (check out Mike Trout's minor history..). Given what you see in OOTP, you'd see lots of minor league seasons split between more than two teams for many major league players. Yes.. movement happens.. for sure. I just think OOTPs rate is a tad, ahem, high..

That said.. I don't expect the game to mimic life.. I really really like it as it is. It seems like many players suspect (me included) that slow and steady promotion makes for better player development.. in which case OOTPs random AI promotion/demotion model gives the player an advantage. I've not tested this to see if its true.. but its a possibility.