Karl Hungus
Here to fix the cable
Spring training starts tomorrow. What will this season's big story lines be?
The WBL is filled with mysteries. Are we upgrading to 20?
@hayvis I will see if your ticket prices can be changed. What do you want them to be set at?
I default to @Yankee151 and @Orlando on this. The switch to 19 caused some issues behind the scenes.
This sim will have some economic housekeeping. I need to get everyone's markets back to BEL AVG, most of you'll have done too good of a job on the business side of things and grown to AVG. I say most of you'll, because @jdlikewhoa has somehow shrunk his market to SMALL.
@TonyGin&Juice I believe you had a nickname request for someone a while back? I can't find it now.
@hayvis I will see if your ticket prices can be changed. What do you want them to be set at?
Will that screw with current budget?
Budgets should be set. You might see next years’ prediction change.Will that screw with current budget?
I'm mostly interested in the financials of 20. It seems like guys are requesting crazy extensions which makes sense: why give up FA if you aren't getting a great deal as a player?
The flip side is that in this league trading has become dead. The available FAs rights now (with tons signing) are still great.
+ we went from 18 teams to 16.I think one of the reasons that trades have dried up is that there are too many great players. I feel that the stretch between good and great should be bigger. It would be better iif it was a 10 star system. To me 5 doesn't seem like enough to me.
Trading is dead for me because when I offer players I get back 5th round pick offers for them. I got zero offers for Duane Wells, a mid 20s 4.5 WAR CF (And multiple gold glove winner)
I default to @Yankee151 and @Orlando on this. The switch to 19 caused some issues behind the scenes.
This sim will have some economic housekeeping. I need to get everyone's markets back to BEL AVG, most of you'll have done too good of a job on the business side of things and grown to AVG. I say most of you'll, because @jdlikewhoa has somehow shrunk his market to SMALL.
@TonyGin&Juice I believe you had a nickname request for someone a while back? I can't find it now.
@hayvis I will see if your ticket prices can be changed. What do you want them to be set at?
Trading has died because I havent handed out any teribad contracts in a whileThe reason trade has died is because the number of active owners is pretty low
You can sign good FAs because there is little competition.+ we went from 18 teams to 16.
I tried to trade for some guys who were going to be FAs who walked. People rather let them walk for zero because you can sign other good FAs IMO at this point.
Lack of activity is partially connected to lack of trading too. The best part of this league is trading.
It doesn’t amount to the same thing. CPU/bare active teams don’t participate in FA. That’s my whole point.
We used to only have 0-2 CPU at a time teams so it didn’t really matter. I have no idea how many CPU teams we have, but it’s seems like maybe 8 teams are active and some are tanking I’m sure.
Yeah the value is FA now. You can get great players on the cheap. They PREFER one-year deals too.Being able to sign vets like Bello for $12m is crazy.
*Off-seasonI thought the best part of the league was FREE AGENCY to you
They prefer the one offer they getYeah the value is FA now. You can get great players on the cheap. They PREFER one-year deals too.
Noif you do go to '20, you would have one more active owner!
The only thing I actually care about is the visual layout of the menus. I'm still pissed about OOTP 19 because it added nothing and was a horrible downgrade in menu visuals. Someone post 2020 with some nicer looking menus and you might have me.
We haven't had a change that actually affected the WBL in several iterations, so I see no reason to continue to "upgrade" on an annual basis if it isn't actually upgrading anything for our league.
I offered a guy a 2-year deal and he wanted 1-year with the same AAV.They prefer the one offer they get