Rules Update - Minor League Rosters - Draft

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Rules Update - Minor League Rosters - Draft

Post by commish » Tue Jan 05, 2016 11:00 pm

DRAFT of Minor League Roster Policy...open for comments

One component of GLBL that I would like to see evolve is Minor Leagues with full, or near full rosters. Needless to say it adds realism and immersion to the experience by having real names as opposed to "Jim Unknowns".

The shortage of 23 and under rosters post draft prompted two events to take place:

1. The age limit was waived for 2 years (expires January 2017 GLBL Time)
2. Ghost players were introduced for Sim #16 when the Minor Leagues began play (a staple for most leagues).

GM's should begin planning for 2017 by developing rosters that will provide at least 20 players at both levels, particularly the AA League with the age requirement of 23 and under by the in game date of January 2017.

Ghost players will be left on so that simulations are not interrupted by roster shortages.

Comments are welcome.
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Re: Rules Update - Minor League Rosters - Draft

Post by Al B » Wed Jan 06, 2016 12:19 am

I looked at the GLBL Player List and made a filter to include only 16-23 year-olds.

There are 253 of them. That comes out to just over 21 per team, and it includes the recent international signings. So there weren't even enough of these players to begin with for every team to have drafted a full AA team of age-compliant players.

One team has only one player who qualifies. Another team has 36. There are five teams who don't have enough young 'uns to field an AA team that falls within the rules. Most of them are at least 10 players short.

Waiving the rule for the first year or first two years is fine, but where do we go from here?

Are the teams that already have enough 16-23 year-olds going to be allowed to draft more? If they are, they will, and that will make it very difficult for the other teams (who are basically starting from scratch) to fill AA teams. Unless you "flood the market" with so many 16-23 year-olds that everybody will be able to draft a sufficient amount.

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Re: Rules Update - Minor League Rosters - Draft

Post by commish » Wed Jan 06, 2016 2:48 am

Each rookie draft will give us 12 new players (with the current setting at 12 rounds). So, 2 years = 24 players.

Other options: Released players, trades, IFA's
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Re: Rules Update - Minor League Rosters - Draft

Post by Al B » Wed Jan 06, 2016 4:52 pm

I assume you mean 12 per team, right?

I forgot that rookies will be all we're looking at from now on. So If each team can draft 24 rookies in the next two years, we have no problem.

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Re: Rules Update - Minor League Rosters - Draft

Post by commish » Wed Jan 06, 2016 7:21 pm

Yes, per team is correct.
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Re: Rules Update - Minor League Rosters - Draft

Post by commish » Thu May 25, 2017 7:21 am

Age restrictions for AA were waived.
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