League Hierarchy Idea

[Who Killed Kenny?]

While sitting on the can (where I do all my best thinking) I was thinking about the best way to handle World Cup leagues and Winter Leagues correctly. Perhaps it has been mentioned before, but I believe the best way to model this is to have a hierarchy of leagues. Then a player could be a member of teams in different teams but on game day play for the team in the highest or most important league.

There should be at least three classifications of leagues. At the top of the hierarchy would be all World Cup, World Baseball Classic, or National teams. Any player on these teams would leave their other teams to play here on game day. Next should come the Major Leagues (and their minor leagues). At the lowest level should be independant minors and Winter League. Players can only play here if no other games are played in their other leagues.

Players can only be a part of 1 team at each level to prohibit really complex player movement.

Every day, the roster AI looks at the World Cup games being played and moves the the active players off their other team's active roster, and onto "on loan" roster. Then it moves to the Major League games and fills up the roster and moves all players from their other (winter or independant) teams' active roster to the "on loan" roster. Finally the AI goes thru the lowest level and moves players from the reserves to the active.

I like this approach because, set up correctly, players will be able to play for multiple teams while honoring their contracts AND play for the right team. I offer Henry Blanco of the Chicago Cubs as my example. Blanco plays every year in the Winter Leagues, even though he is under contract with a Major League team. He also played for Venezuela in the WBC. Following this hierarchy system he'd play for the correct team if ever the games were to overlap.

I'm sure Markus, if he is planning for this, has his own ideas. I'm sure something similar was done in SI's soccer game that I've never played. I just figured I'd offer my own idea.

Thoughts?

[discodude5]

Some deep thought there...lol

Yes, I think something like this should work and I can see something like the loan system that football manager uses being put in as a new feature for 2008.

[Bobble]

Originally Posted by Who Killed Kenny?

Thoughts?

Wouldn't your pitching staff get screwed if they fully recover on the wrong day? I want my super SP to start in the WC but he hit 100% recovered two days ago when there was a meaningless game in the North Central Bananapatch League and got the start then. Now he's gassed for the most important game of the year.