2015 Regular Season SIM 26 Complete - Next SIM Fri 03/11

[Ryan]

So here is what you have to do:

You have to go to player strategy, and choose Bench Player for X Days: and put in the "7". I then too remove the player from the rotation and leave as "Emergency Starter." That way, the manager knows to bench the player for 7 days. Sucks you don't have Burton or English 100% rested...sorry man. We should really spend some time and type out a "Things to Know" for league-wide knowledge. I might work on that soon...

I knew I'd seen that before, but had forgotten about it. Good to know for us all going forward.

[Ryan]

Luckily I think everyone gets at least a couple days extra rest while we sort out this IL Wild Card.

We need something like an in game earthquake to give us a week off!

[BradZ]

How are tie breakers determined in the standings for draft order? Just wondering about me and WC.

In game decides order for ties. Not being able to distinguish an actual pattern about how it goes about it I chalk it up to a coin flip to determine order in those cases.

[BradZ]

For those not in the Wildcard race, can we rest easy with our lineup until those games are completed?

Nice to see I lost another pitcher for the year. Maher started the season on the DL, never really recovered, and is now back on the DL.
I wonder if he's going to active the final year of his contract? I'm sure he can make more on the open market. But after a dismal year, and being out for the next 7 months, I wonder if he'll take the guaranteed money?

Yes, there will be distinct breaks and scheduled SIMs for the actual playoff series. Each participant will have the opportunity to get their exports in for their series when the time comes.

[BradZ]

Spoiler

So, according to the MLB website:

Three-Club Tie for Two Wild Card Spots:
After Clubs have been assigned their A, B and C designations, Club A would host Club B. The winner of the game would be declared one Wild Card winner. Club C would then host the loser of the game between Club A and Club B to determine the second Wild Card Club.

Is that how we're doing things here? So, BAL/WAS play, then loser plays at Batavia?

Spoiler

Honestly, this is new ground for us so I can't tell you 100% from experience how the game is going to handle this. In reading the forums I'm apprehensive about whether or not the game will treat these right (I see examples where the game was successful at breaking the 3 way tie with A, B, C designations and I see other cases, at least how they were presented by the OP of the thread(s), where the game seemingly mishandled this scenario.

I'm hoping we're ok because we have 3 teams tied for 2 spots. In the scenarios I'm reading about, it seems to be handled correctly. The issue arises when you have 3 teams tied for 1 spot. In those cases it seems a team gets left in the cold.

We'll run a test later to see how our file is going to handle it. Fingers crossed.

[Carlos]

So here is what you have to do:

You have to go to player strategy, and choose Bench Player for X Days: and put in the "7". I then too remove the player from the rotation and leave as "Emergency Starter." That way, the manager knows to bench the player for 7 days. Sucks you don't have Burton or English 100% rested...sorry man. We should really spend some time and type out a "Things to Know" for league-wide knowledge. I might work on that soon...

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Perfect sim for Pittsburgh. 3-3 week to clinch the #1 WC seed. We set all big name hitters, SP and RP as "bench for 7 days" (Todd Taylor for the past 14) and all are healthy, rested and ready to go. Hopefully the week off doesn't put them in a funk....

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Good luck to the IL WC contenders.

Had no idea that worked for pitchers. But seems like I should have at least tried. Thanks.

[BradZ]

We need something like an in game earthquake to give us a week off!

The IL WC mess/situation is basically an earthquake for you.

[Sharkn20]

IL Mess / WC / Play-off Sim Schedule

What about a topic like this one??

I am going on Hollidays Friday pm (UK time) then flying to New York Saturday am (Spanish time)...

As you can see I have a little bit of mess in my schedule for the next days...

I would appreciate if the commish can work-out something schedule-ways to guide owners that will be in the post season.

It would be helpful , I will probably be one and done in Pittsburgh, but you never know

Thanks guys!

[Ryan]

The IL WC mess/situation is basically an earthquake for you.

Thanks?

[Sharkn20]

Dallas finishes with 92 W, who would say that at the beggining of 2015?

Good enough for a #2 WC spot and 4 games behind the winner of the Lager, that´s though men...

Williams finishes the season with another hitter of the month award, 22 HRs, 93 RBIs, great clean up rookie year!

[Matt]

What about a topic like this one??

I am going on Hollidays Friday pm (UK time) then flying to New York Saturday am (Spanish time)...

As you can see I have a little bit of mess in my schedule for the next days...

I would appreciate if the commish can work-out something schedule-ways to guide owners that will be in the post season.

It would be helpful , I will probably be one and done in Pittsburgh, but you never know

Thanks guys!

You'll know when I know.

And I can't stand a messy forum so just post in the SIM threads.

[BradZ]

A lot of the schedule is dependent on the owners involved. As soon as we have WAS and BAL exports for their game we'll run that SIM, and then as soon as we have exports for the next tie break game we'll run that.

At that point we can be more specific about expected timelines around playoff SIMs, though we usually do go with the "deadline at the latest, earlier if all teams are ready to go" approach.

[Sharkn20]

Thanks guys, I will stay tuned then!

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[Matt]

So the game does not handle this well...at all. We are going to have to edit the schedule which is possible.
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From the MLB website.

• If Club 1 has a better record against Clubs 2 and 3, and Club 2 has a better record against Club 3, then Club 1 chooses its designation, followed by Club 2.

Three-Club Tie for Two Wild Card Spots:
After Clubs have been assigned their A, B and C designations, Club A would host Club B. The winner of the game would be declared one Wild Card winner. Club C would then host the loser of the game between Club A and Club B to determine the second Wild Card Club.

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Washington has winning records against Baltimore and Batavia.
Batavia has a winning record against Baltimore.

So Washington get's to choose it's designation. I assume they would want to be Club B and host the first playoff game. Batavia then would choose to be Club A to play in the 1st game.

The winner is in. The loser then plays Baltimore for the 2nd spot. So Batavia and Washington have 2 spots to earn a WC, Baltimore has one.

Am I reading this right?

[Carlos]

What about a topic like this one??

I am going on Hollidays Friday pm (UK time) then flying to New York Saturday am (Spanish time)...

My apartment warming is Sunday. You should stop by. Have a beer.