Particleman
09-10-2001, 12:28 AM
I think I've figured out how the drafting works. If you lose a starting pitcher to free agency, then it's likely that you'll get starting pitchers, if you lose a 1st baseman to free agency, then you'll likely recieve a 1st baseman, etc... This seems to be the pattern that I've noticed throughout my time playing. You want a lot of rookies? lose a lot of players to free agency. I figured this out when I noticed that the teams that were getting the best rookie starting pitchers were the teams controlled by idle players (they weren't there to extend contracts on free agents), and I was wondering why my rookies were consistenly poor players. (I always resigned my best players before the season ended) Then I decided to try something, I didn't extend the contract of a high priced, soon to be free agent, pitcher. And voila I had myself a rookie ace as soon as the season ended. Of course now that I've figured this out, I'm going to let the occasional good player that I don't think will be highly contested go into the free agent market, and maybe even sign some 1 year deals on some free agents before every season ends. Personally, I don't like this system, if it is indeed the way it works, since as soon as this becomes common knowledge everyone will be exploiting this left and right.
So if you want good rookies, just turn up your farm spending on a year when you have a couple of good players turning free agent.
If this is the way the drafting system works, please change it, as it punishes people for extending contracts (kinda like punishing people for playing well, since extending contracts on good players makes sense).
So if you want good rookies, just turn up your farm spending on a year when you have a couple of good players turning free agent.
If this is the way the drafting system works, please change it, as it punishes people for extending contracts (kinda like punishing people for playing well, since extending contracts on good players makes sense).