1985 Tentative Offseason Schedule

[Andrew]

As always, this schedule is subject to change. Please let me know if there are any questions.

S 2/1 - Offseason 1 - Playoffs to Pre Arbitration
Length: ~10 days
Export Notes: Decline options. Release Arbitration eligible players. Re-sign players before FA. Stadium Fund transfers open

T 2/3 - Offseason 2 - Pre Arbitration to Post Arbitration
Length: ~10 days
Export Notes: Last chance for trades and to re-sign players before FA.

Th 2/5 - Offseason 3 - Post Arbitration to Rule 5 Draft
Length: ~10 days
Export Notes: You can start making FA offers after this sim. Make sure to place players you don't want to lose in the Rule 5 draft on your 40 man roster (Players with the # sign next to their name)

S 2/8- Free Agency 1 & Rule 5 Draft
Length: 7 days. Rule 5 Draft will happen on this day. We will use the draft list feature so you can export your draft rather than running it live.
Export Notes: Stadium Fund transfers closed.

T 2/10 - Free Agency 2
Length: 7 days

Th 2/12 - Free Agency 3
Length: 7 days

S 2/15 - Free Agency 4
Length: 7 days

T 2/17- Free Agency 5
Length: 7 days

Please note, it is important to keep your DFA clear during the next two sims so we don't get hung up.

Th 2/19 - Foxwoods, The Wonder of it all.

S 2/22 - Free Agency 6 to Start of Pre-Season (Draft Class published)
Length: ~30 days

T 2/24 - Start of Pre-Season to Spring Training
Length: ~30 days
Export Notes: Edit Scouting Budgets

Th 2/26 - First half of Spring Training
Length: ~15 days

S 3/1 - Second half of Spring Training AND Amateur Draft Starts
Length: ~15 days

T 3/3 - 1986 Regular Season begins

[Ryan]

Not real sure about 2/19, but this looks good. Thanks Andrew.

[Carlos]

Oh, you just want to make sure we're reading these things, right?

[Andrew]

Oh, you just want to make sure we're reading these things, right?

lol, no I'm really going to Foxwoods that night.

[Gyrodork]

I understand in OOTP 9 we are charged (total expenses to date) for the salaries of arbitration eligible players that are released. Is the game plan to manually put that money back into our coffers, or do we eat the expense?

[Spectre]

I'm not sure Gyrodork. While I do have a random 390,000 player expense that is a little buggy, I think the game handles release of arbitration eligible players properly. I released a bunch of arbitration eligible players and I didn't see a bunch of salary changes.

The 390,000 I'm in the hole is curious though- I've only cut arbitration-eligible players (none of whom make that amount) and minor league guys.

[Andrew]

I'm not quite sure how to differentiate between legitimate player expenses vs non legitimate. Any ideas?

[Spectre]

I'm not quite sure how to differentiate between legitimate player expenses vs non legitimate. Any ideas?

It's a tough call- I don't care about my money since its so little and I probably messed something up. The game handled my arbitration releases properly so I don't think its an issue. Unless somebody has an issue, I think its all good.

[Andrew]

It's a tough call- I don't care about my money since its so little. The game handled my arbitration releases properly.

Yeah but in other cases it's significant. I know Los Alamos had over $8 mil added when he released Jerry Dean. Which I forgot to fix, btw.

I'm just not sure how to sort out the legit player expenses from the non legit ones.

[Spectre]

Yeah but in other cases it's significant. I know Los Alamos had over $8 mil added when he released Jerry Dean. Which I forgot to fix, btw.

I'm just not sure how to sort out the legit player expenses from the non legit ones.

Well, I think we could have an Honor System for this. I know nobody will try to cheat here.

[Gyrodork]

OK...So I released an arbitration eligible guy and the game did NOT allocate any expenses. That's cool. Don't know why teams were getting dinged in another on-line league.

[Riverman]

Well, I think we could have an Honor System for this. I know nobody will try to cheat here.

LOL

[Gyrodork]

OK...So I released an arbitration eligible guy and the game did NOT allocate any expenses. That's cool. Don't know why teams were getting dinged in another on-line league.

Well, I guess I spoke too soon. I released Johnny Pugh. The transaction log confirmed I released him. But when I loaded the game again he was back on my roster! I just released him again. Let's see what happens.

[Jim]

When do we have until to submit changes to our stadium?

[Andrew]

When do we have until to submit changes to our stadium?

Until we hit Jan 1 in game. This usually happens around FA 4-5