SIM COMPLETE - 97-98 - OFF-SEASON 7 (Free Agency 4)

[funclown]

Lol, so confused. Will Pawtucket be picking first or not?

[Clay]

Damn, Carlos... Links work really well. My hamster is exhausted from trying to open that post.

[Carlos]

Damn, Carlos... Links work really well. My hamster is exhausted from trying to open that post.

I actually did it so there's a reference for future seasons.

[Delandis]

So we are slated to win the NOT VA championship yet again. I liked it better when we were expected to be terrible.

[Carlos]

In the "They were so bad there's no other way but up" Category, I'll gladly boast that I have the greatest projected +/- in the win department with +8.

Not entirely sure how Pancho Alvarez isn't considered a key departure. He's been our RBI guy for a couple of seasons. We'd lose way more games without him. Oh well, I'm glad we have some improved pitching and I sure do wish I landed Curt Race along with Zander.

In other news, did anyone add more guys with two first names? We have three. Maybe it's on purpose.

[Jim]

Glad we're projected to have the 2nd best regular season record, but it's just a set up for the kick in the nuts prediction of getting beat by Hartford again.

What I thought was interesting is the top DL pitcher is a reliever, and the 3 Dallas pitchers on the list are all relievers. I thought the game doesn't really care about relievers/consider them in the top rankings?

[BradZ]

Glad we're projected to have the 2nd best regular season record, but it's just a set up for the kick in the nuts prediction of getting beat by Hartford again.

What I thought was interesting is the top DL pitcher is a reliever, and the 3 Dallas pitchers on the list are all relievers. I thought the game doesn't really care about relievers/consider them in the top rankings?

That changed with this version change. Although, I guess this actually has more to do with the Statslab programming than the actual OOTP programming.

[Carlos]

That changed with this version change. Although, I guess this actually has more to do with the Statslab programming than the actual OOTP programming.

Statslab didn't choose top hitters or pitchers. That's OSA's doing.

[BradZ]

Statslab didn't choose top hitters or pitchers. That's OSA's doing.

Indeed.

[tomr1962]

I destroyed the internet. Imagine if I wrote all that? Why bother? Computers do it for us anyway.

Al Gore will be pissed.

[Gyrodork]

The game took $5M out of my scouting budget (I budgeted $7.5M, I ended up with $2.5M) even though my projected balance was positive. Is that a glitch, or is the determining factor not really the "projected balance"?

I didn't get dinged on my player development budget, which supposedly is also impacted by a negative "projected balance".

[Clay]

You have $106 of $117 millions committed to Player and Staff Payroll. Did the total amounts you attempted to set exceed $11.0?

[Gyrodork]

I attempted to set a scouting budget of $7.5M and a developmengt budget of $10M. (Well, first I attempted to set the development budget to $12.5M, but it kept changing to $10M. I eventually gave up.) So I know that would have put me over budget, but the game says the budgets will be reduced to 1/2 the league average if the "projected balance" is negative; and my projected balance with the $7.5M & $10M budgets was positive.

So does this mean that the budget; and not the "projected balance"; is the limiting factor?

[Clay]

I attempted to set a scouting budget of $7.5M and a developmengt budget of $10M. (Well, first I attempted to set the development budget to $12.5M, but it kept changing to $10M. I eventually gave up.) So I know that would have put me over budget, but the game says the budgets will be reduced to 1/2 the league average if the "projected balance" is negative; and my projected balance with the $7.5M & $10M budgets was positive.

So does this mean that the budget; and not the "projected balance"; is the limiting factor?

If you only have $11.0 left in non-guaranteed money after Player and Staff commitments for the season, I don't see a scenario where the projected balance would be positive with the budgets set to $7.5 and $10.0.

[Carlos]

If you only have $11.0 left in non-guaranteed money after Player and Staff commitments for the season, I don't see a scenario where the projected balance would be positive with the budgets set to $7.5 and $10.0.

Depends on how much he already had in the scouting and development budget.