Winter Leagues and Arizona Fall League

[darkenigma510]

Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange

Recreating the Arizona Fall League as it actually works IRL probably won't happen for a long time, if ever. I recall Markus saying last year that the AI cannot handle situations where two or more major league clubs share the same minor league affiliate.

The AFL falls under the multiple major league parent scenario. There may perhaps be other ways of mimicking it though...

I wonder if this could be solved by coding in the ability to "loan" out players to the AFL. All the other SI games have the ability to loan players out. This would be no different.

[Curtis]

Originally Posted by BruceM

I don't really think it's classified as being an "affiliate" for OOTP purposes.

Is that relevant? Fall/winter league teams wouldn't be affiliates either, so maybe that would make it easier?

[Joshv02]

They'd be essentially affiliates b/c they be using the same feeder teams. IRL, an AZL team would have multiple ML teams minor league squads feeding into them.

So, you'd have this structure:

AZL........ ML1.............. ML2
...|---\----|---------.........|
...|......\... |............|\.......|
....\......\. |.............|..\.....|
......\..... ml1I..........|......ml2I
........\.... |..............\.......|
..........\.. |...............\......|
............\ |................\.....|
............ ml1II............. ml2II

[Sweed]

Originally Posted by darkenigma510

I wonder if this could be solved by coding in the ability to "loan" out players to the AFL. All the other SI games have the ability to loan players out. This would be no different.

Hey, that's what I said in post #14 I and others have offered this idea before and I've never seen a response to it as to why it couldn't be done. Maybe there's a good reason it wouldn't work (database issues, AI not able to handle it giving the human player an advantage?). It would be nice to know that Markus had at least talked to Marc V. and the FM team about how they handle this and whether or not it would be feasible for ootp.