2056 Season Thread.... 7th Heaven

[wdoupis]

If player demands stay this high, we may have to lift the $50M cap on teams.

That would make it worse. If anything lowering the cap is the way to go so we eliminate cash in the pool from guys who sit on 50 million and never spend it.

It has only been one offseason and we took some steps to address the finances. Hopefully it will work itself out.

[wdoupis]

Some things posted by Dave (S+ guy)

Rolled out a number of small changes today for the S+ web tools:

1. Added a few more stats to Pitching Leaderboard (Blown Saves, Quality Starts, HBP)
2. On the "Slack StatsPlus App Integration" link on Admin menu, show an indicator if teams have or haven't enabled the Slack notification for export (hosted leagues only)
3. On the export tracker, if a user is logged in, show a direct link to download the latest uploaded .zip file, and the file size (hosted leagues only)

Tomorrow, will roll out a change to the auto-pick algorithm that only impacts leagues with 20-80 ratings. @Matt Byrd had asked questions about it a couple weeks ago, and it led me to find that for 20-80 and 2-8 ratings, the auto-pick was overvaluing relievers compared to other pitchers. The change will not involve down time, and I've DM'd all the leagues with 20-80 and 2-8 ratings with a draft in progress to let them know auto-pick will be changing soon. It's not a major change, but it will be noticeable. The change has no impact for leagues with other rating scales. (edited)

[wdoupis]

File is uploaded, website updated. New in game date 12/13

Vote for HOF!!!!!

Only 2 more sims to set season ticket prices before Winter Meetings!!!!!!!

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[wdoupis]

Greeks legend Miguel Acosta has just agreed to a 2 year deal to become manager of the A ball team. We expect him to shoot up the ladder and be running the Greeks soon

[Wasted Memory]

What is a greek legend?

[DRWebs]

What is a greek legend?

[Hammerin' Hank]

Ben Mens, now wants at half billion dollar extension...and his greed is low! Nice job ootp 19

[shel311]

Ben Mens, now wants at half billion dollar extension...and his greed is low! Nice job ootp 19

Yea, I actually think that's the part we haven't talked about that is the real issue.


The demands seem to just be out of whack. We definitely needed elite guys to have bigger demands, but like NCAA Football on the PS4 used to do, it has gone overboard.

With free agents, their demands will eventually come down at least somewhat. But for the guys on your team that you want to give an extension, it's virtually impossible now.

[Cnasty]

The Boston dynasty is officially over with these extension issues.

Congrats OOTP!!

[shel311]

You guys hated '18 and couldn't wait for '19....


I guess there's always OOTP 20!!


'19 could live in infamy in the NDL as the worst version of all time. This is bad, real bad IMO.

[Wasted Memory]

You guys hated '18 and couldn't wait for '19....


I guess there's always OOTP 20!!


'19 could live in infamy in the NDL as the worst version of all time. This is bad, real bad IMO.

'19. The year it ended.

[dakshdar]

Maybe this is a major course correction after years of non-sim financials? Suffer for 1-2 seasons and then back to a reality that makes sense?

[Cnasty]

We had low contract demands before (egg) and our budgets were fine in accommodating most if not all depending on if you were willing to open your wallet.

Now we have somewhat realistic demands yet still a tad too high(see Bryce Harper's upcoming contract, Stanton, Kershaw etc) but our budgets are so far behind true MLB budgets/payroll to even approach signing free agents, let alone extending guys which is even worse.

We need to change our budgets/payroll to keep up.

[nick]

let me weep for the 7x champ. k im done

[The_Niddler]

We had low contract demands before (egg) and our budgets were fine in accommodating most if not all depending on if you were willing to open your wallet.

Now we have somewhat realistic demands yet still a tad too high(see Bryce Harper's upcoming contract, Stanton, Kershaw etc) but our budgets are so far behind true MLB budgets/payroll to even approach signing free agents, let alone extending guys which is even worse.

We need to change our budgets/payroll to keep up.

I was told that would do the opposite though by Mr. Commish!

[Cnasty]

Current Boston OOTP Payroll (6 titles the last 8 seasons): $125mil
Current MLB Boston Payroll (2 titles the last 10 seasons) : $238mil

'19 has gone full 2018 MLB...we are still in the '80s MLB.

[The_Niddler]

Current Boston OOTP Payroll (6 titles the last 8 seasons): $125mil
Current MLB Boston Payroll (2 titles the last 10 seasons) : $238mil

'19 has gone full MLB...we are still in the '80s MLB.

#Restart

[Wasted Memory]

Current Boston OOTP Payroll (6 titles the last 8 seasons): $125mil
Current MLB Boston Payroll (2 titles the last 10 seasons) : $238mil

'19 has gone full MLB...we are still in the '80s MLB.

#Restart

Willing to bet this picks up steam throughout the upcoming season.

[Cnasty]

Current Boston OOTP Payroll (6 titles the last 8 seasons): $125mil
Current MLB Boston Payroll (2 titles the last 10 seasons) : $238mil

'19 has gone full MLB...we are still in the '80s MLB.

#Restart

Or everyone gets a $100mil + to their budget.

I am ok either way.

[shel311]

Current Boston OOTP Payroll (6 titles the last 8 seasons): $125mil
Current MLB Boston Payroll (2 titles the last 10 seasons) : $238mil

'19 has gone full 2018 MLB...we are still in the '80s MLB.

How was '18 that different with budgets though? It was always based very closely to your revenues and now that Billy does it manually, it still is.