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Rich wrote:

Blue wrote:Hmmm, two 17 year olds and an 18 year old on my 40-man roster. That's going to kill their development time when I'm out of option on them in three seasons.

They get pushed up each ST because they are on the 40 man, correct?

Blue wrote:Hmmm, two 17 year olds and an 18 year old on my 40-man roster. That's going to kill their development time when I'm out of option on them in three seasons.

Rich wrote:14/24 teams with a successful export

Rich wrote:I think we should just turn off the draft budgets- IMO. Anyone have any experience with these in an online league?

Rich wrote:

I believe the game generates random contracts after the draft is complete. I don't believe there is an option to keep the current contracts. So you have to be careful with going over the cap.

Sounds like that what draft budgets help with but I'm not sure they will work great with online league. I haven't been part of an inaugural draft in 2013. This is a new option since the I did the ahiba inaugural.

I'm thinking its best to turn it off. But you could end up with a 110 mil payroll and need to trade/release players right off the bat.

KMcBride wrote:

Rich wrote:Inaugural Draft Budgets
By default in OOTP, when you have an inaugural draft, all players are given automatically contracts. The majority of the starting contracts will be for one or two years, although some might be longer. To calculate initial contracts, the league calculates the average player quality at each position. Then it compares each player to that baseline, and based on the difference assigns a contract that is based on the salary steps (above average, good, star, and so on) in the league financial rules. Also factored in are service time (which is generated randomly), age, and a certain amount of randomness. Arbitration-eligible players get less money, and players who are eligible for the league minimum get that amount. Due to the flexibility of the financial model, however, player contracts might be structured differently from what is written here, depending on which financial options are enabled.

Additionally, OOTP also enables you to more precisely define how contracts are handled by enabling you to draft with a fixed budget. This value can be set on the Draft Rules page. If you choose to draft with a fixed budget, the following options appear:



When using a fixed budget, players in the draft will each have salary demands. You cannot draft players whose combined demands exceed the team draft budget. After the draft, each team's financials will be adjusted using the draft budget as the base.

To draft with a fixed budget, you define an overall team draft budget. This budget applies to each team in the league, by default. However, you can also manually adjust each team's budget by editing the values on-screen. You can also have OOTP recalculate the budgets according to the population of the cities that host the teams by clicking the Adjust Budgets using City Population button. In this case, teams from larger cities will have larger budgets.

If you adjusted any league financial settings after the creation of the league, you should use the Recalculate Player Demands and Recalculate Budgets buttons. Otherwise, your budget settings may not match your new financial settings.

When using a fixed budget, the Continue Draftscreenwill include player demands, as well as a running total of how much money you have spent towards your budget.

So what does all this mean for us? Are we allowing the game to automatically give contracts? Or is each team responsible for setting a draft budget? And I thought we would be drafting each player and taking on whatever contract he has in place as of the beginning of the 2020 season? Are we going to be cancelling all existing player contracts at the end of 2019?

Neil_MissoulaGM wrote:Missoula have downloaded and exported, also changed password in utilities. When does the draft start? Probably announce the first pck early as at the moment it's one of two that we'll be picking.

Rich wrote:Inaugural Draft Budgets
By default in OOTP, when you have an inaugural draft, all players are given automatically contracts. The majority of the starting contracts will be for one or two years, although some might be longer. To calculate initial contracts, the league calculates the average player quality at each position. Then it compares each player to that baseline, and based on the difference assigns a contract that is based on the salary steps (above average, good, star, and so on) in the league financial rules. Also factored in are service time (which is generated randomly), age, and a certain amount of randomness. Arbitration-eligible players get less money, and players who are eligible for the league minimum get that amount. Due to the flexibility of the financial model, however, player contracts might be structured differently from what is written here, depending on which financial options are enabled.

Additionally, OOTP also enables you to more precisely define how contracts are handled by enabling you to draft with a fixed budget. This value can be set on the Draft Rules page. If you choose to draft with a fixed budget, the following options appear:



When using a fixed budget, players in the draft will each have salary demands. You cannot draft players whose combined demands exceed the team draft budget. After the draft, each team's financials will be adjusted using the draft budget as the base.

To draft with a fixed budget, you define an overall team draft budget. This budget applies to each team in the league, by default. However, you can also manually adjust each team's budget by editing the values on-screen. You can also have OOTP recalculate the budgets according to the population of the cities that host the teams by clicking the Adjust Budgets using City Population button. In this case, teams from larger cities will have larger budgets.

If you adjusted any league financial settings after the creation of the league, you should use the Recalculate Player Demands and Recalculate Budgets buttons. Otherwise, your budget settings may not match your new financial settings.

When using a fixed budget, the Continue Draftscreenwill include player demands, as well as a running total of how much money you have spent towards your budget.