Sim's Done. Welcome to the Preseason!

Game Date: Jan 29, 2029

Signings:
Houston:  SP Bill Mobely (London), 1 yr/$338k
Highland:  OF Lorenzo Hernandez (no prev team), 3 yrs/$64m (!)

Next sim:  Wednesday night

Sim Run

League Date: January 22, 2029

There were no transactions of note during this sim.

Administrative Notes:

• I changed the settings for the draft to the new June 1st date.
• I also changed the number of players generated for the draft from 30 to 50-rounds worth of players.
• I also set the draft pool announcement date to be 35 days before the draft. This will give us draftniks an extra sim to do our evaluations. The amateur seasons will be in swing during this time, too, so we will all know which players to track and evaluate.
• Last season, I noticed that a couple of teams were not playing their major league games in the standard Old League Park. I corrected that in this sim. Two teams were not using that stadium, but are now using it with the other ten teams.
• Please install the new 17.12.75 patch of OOTP before uploading your next team export.

Hall of Fame:

While making the above changes, I took note of the settings for the Hall of Fame. 

I think the AI HOF voting option is what caused some players that received multiple human votes to note be elected. Do we want to make any changes to this (effective in the 2029-30 offseason)?

Next sim: Monday night (10/31/2016). This will take us, finally, into the start of the preseason.

New OOTP 17 version

There's a new version of OOTP 17: version 17.12.75. We will use this version after Saturday night's sim. Please wait until after I run the sim on Saturday night before installing it.

(Yes, I'm running the sim for Zev this weekend.)

Sim's Done

I did run the sim last night, but I never got the chance to post about it.

Next sim:  Saturday night.

Sim's Done... Ricky's In!

Game Date:  Jan 8 2029

Congratulations to Ricky Peppers on his election to the Hall of Fame!

Signings:

Norfolk: SP Masatake Shibata (London) 1 yr/$640k
Houston:  3B Esteban Ordonez (Antelope Valley), 4 yrs/$19.2m
Norfolk:  SP Qing-hua Tso (Shackamaxon), 2 yrs/$3.8m
Norfolk: SP Arturo Zavala (Highland), 1 yr/$930k

Retirements:
As we flip the calendar page, we say goodbye to players who have retired.  This year's retirements include:

RF Shinsaku Toiguchi (Atlanta), 6 yrs, .261/.779 OPS/ 54 HR
RP John Field (Shackamaxon), 6 yrs, 236 G, 5.21 ERA
RF Jim Edwards (New York), 5 yrs, .241/.770 OPS/ 117 HR/ 111 SB
CF Ben Beard (Brooklyn), 8 yrs, .243/.678 OPS/ 61 HR/ 167 SB
RP John Crabtree (Ohio/Houston), 5 yrs, 326 G, 6.06 ERA
RP Seija Masuda (Seattle/NY-Phil), 7 yrs, 264G, 6.03 ERA
3B Thomas Sheppard (Brick) 9 yrs, .252, .721 OPS, 79 HR
RF Kevin Works (Brooklyn), 9 yrs, .250, .776 OPS, 173 HR
SS Callum Ganyon (Ohio/Atlanta/Houston), 11 yrs, .271, 72 HR, 132 SB, 3x Slick Fielder (SS, 2018), (2B, 2020-21)
LF Ignacio Lopez (Shackamaxon), 9 yrs, .282, .795 OPS, 134 HR
RP Ambroz Ondra (Shackamaxon), 5 yrs, 130 G, 4.45 ERA
SP Scott Loman (Shackamaxon), 13 yrs, 98-80, 4.62 ERA, 1653 K
3B Ronald Quijada, 21 yrs, .269, .855 OPS, 2595 H, 481 HR, 1570 RBI, 149 SB, 3x Slick Fielder (2015-16, 19)
SP Alan Blessing (London), 10 yrs, 47-76, 4.99 ERA.



Next sim:  Wednesday night.

Sim's Done

Game Date:  Jan 1 2029

Please note that you can *still* vote for the Hall of Fame this sim.

Next sim:  Saturday night.

Sim's Done

Game Date:  Dec 25, 2028

Signings:
Maui: RP Bruce Roughly (Norfolk), 1 yr/$540k
Houston:  RP Armando Sanchez (Antelope Valley) 1 yr/$384k

Next sim:  Wednesday night.  -- Please note that your Hall of Fame ballots must be submitted by this sim!