Can it be written into the code to not allow FA offers to be made if it would nullify an outstanding trade due to putting a team over cap? You can't offer a trade if your budget numbers won't add up, but if you already have a trade in place you can still submit a FA offer while the trade is in review which will then hose the budget and cause the trade to nullify. It would be great if that money were accounted for to prevent FA offers from being made and killing accepted trades. I had one today where I miscalculated and was over next seasons budget by just over 100K, and it's frustrating.

Posted by FW_Kekionga on 9/14/2021 11:13:00 AM (view original):
Can it be written into the code to not allow FA offers to be made if it would nullify an outstanding trade due to putting a team over cap? You can't offer a trade if your budget numbers won't add up, but if you already have a trade in place you can still submit a FA offer while the trade is in review which will then hose the budget and cause the trade to nullify. It would be great if that money were accounted for to prevent FA offers from being made and killing accepted trades. I had one today where I miscalculated and was over next seasons budget by just over 100K, and it's frustrating.

Agree with this one for sure. Save us from ourselves!

Playoff injuries and DL/roster spots:

Right now, if a player gets injured during a playoff series, you can't add a playoff eligible player to the active playoff roster to fill in for the DL player until the current series is over. Would be nice if we didn't have to play down a roster spot for up to six playoff games.

MLB updated their rules circa 2007 to allow for this. I believe that was the early days of HBD. Not sure why it didn't get updated at the time but it seems like a reasonable request IMO.

Don't know if this has been touched on as I haven't read whole forum but I would like to see 1 game playoff for ties that affect who makes playoffs rather than a tiebreaker.

I think someone mentioned a version of this but if we could transfer player payroll to scouting and take a penalty in order to make scouting even less fuzzy, I think that would open up more play style opportunities. We already have the ability to go above the 20 million maximum in prospect payroll by transferring and taking the 50 percent penalty. I think I would use an above max scouting department from time to time when I had the extra cash. If it also allowed us to see more prospects, that'd be even better.

I have seen some recent posts about prospect fuzziness. I think it should be fuzzy, but if it's going to change to be less fuzzy, I think you should have to pay for more scouting in order to do it.

I'd like to see a change to Amateur/Rule5 draft settings that allow preference for total pitchers and total batters. Example for Rule 5, "draft 2 pitchers and 3 bats" rather than having to specify positions. Keep ability to specify position if desired, but add flexibility. For situation like: draft this SS if available, but if not, don't draft 2nd choice SS, draft one of these other bats instead. Same with Amateur draft...get me 12 pitchers and 13 bats, but don't lock into specific positions.

How about a change so we don't get IFA emails unless guy is above X overall rating, like 65 or so? The lower-rated guys just show up in the IFA list if someone wants to look...fewer clicks for us, less tech resource consumption for WIS, and far less disappointing/annoying.

It was not that long ago that arb demands used to consider playing time/performance. Since that is no longer the case and arb demands seem to based on overall rating and what the player was paid the previous season, it would be nice to see projected arb demands when I go to the arb screen in the middle of the season.

Right now, if I go to the arb screen in the middle of the season, it reads the players current salary and i can do a manual estimate on each player, but that is time consuming. It would be nice to know that next season, each player is going to demand this $ figure. Obviously injuries and development may make that dollar figure go slightly up or down, but having a ballpark figure could really help with laying out a budget.

How about adding either a lineup dropdown for recent stats (I.e. past 7 days; past 15 days; past 30 days) or a hot/cold streak icon next to player names (I.e if a player's runs created is top 50 in the last X amount of games, a hot streak icon is added next to his name on the lineup card).

Posted by bripat42 on 11/15/2021 11:31:00 AM (view original):

Posted by tlowster on 11/15/2021 10:50:00 AM (view original):
It was not that long ago that arb demands used to consider playing time/performance. Since that is no longer the case and arb demands seem to based on overall rating and what the player was paid the previous season, it would be nice to see projected arb demands when I go to the arb screen in the middle of the season.

Right now, if I go to the arb screen in the middle of the season, it reads the players current salary and i can do a manual estimate on each player, but that is time consuming. It would be nice to know that next season, each player is going to demand this $ figure. Obviously injuries and development may make that dollar figure go slightly up or down, but having a ballpark figure could really help with laying out a budget.

The change to how arb demands are handled was a classic case of overreaction on the part of HBD's programmers. A couple of years ago, an owner in Coop had several all-star caliber players he was limiting to around 300 plate appearances or so for the specific purpose of keeping their arb demands low. Owners whined about it to admin, and admin, in a rare example of actually responding, changed how arb demands are calculated.

It was a short-sighted change. I get why admin did it, but if an owner wants to keep his best players on the bench so frequently, then he's clearly paying a price for those cheaper contracts. This is a change that should be undone.

I'll add a +1 to this. Since we know that Overall rating is influenced strongly by Durability - which has very little impact on actual player Skill - it inflates the arb value of backups who are backups for a reason. This change guaranteed that your backup/defensive replacement players would never make it past first arb, and go into free agency where no one would sign them because they can't hit. (Unless you never even roster those players at all.)

How about replacing the Placeholder Day between playoff series with an off day? What is the point of this day of non-recovery? What exactly are my players doing that they’re not earning rest?

Posted by friarboy on 11/26/2021 7:29:00 PM (view original):
How about replacing the Placeholder Day between playoff series with an off day? What is the point of this day of non-recovery? What exactly are my players doing that they’re not earning rest?

+1 The rest is beneficial to both teams' pitching staffs and can only make the series better if the best pitchers are more rested.

I’m going to disagree with this one. The placeholder day is there so owners can get their lineups and pitching staff all sorted, add guys to the DL, take guys off etc. But it’s not an actual day.

if my team swept my opponent and I’m against a tough opponent in the next round I’m excited if they had to play right after their last series. I don’t want them getting a free day off to rest where as my guys were already at 100%.

Posted by hockey1984 on 11/27/2021 10:19:00 AM (view original):
I’m going to disagree with this one. The placeholder day is there so owners can get their lineups and pitching staff all sorted, add guys to the DL, take guys off etc. But it’s not an actual day.

if my team swept my opponent and I’m against a tough opponent in the next round I’m excited if they had to play right after their last series. I don’t want them getting a free day off to rest where as my guys were already at 100%.

I believe this is exactly the point.

Posted by hockey1984 on 11/27/2021 10:19:00 AM (view original):
I’m going to disagree with this one. The placeholder day is there so owners can get their lineups and pitching staff all sorted, add guys to the DL, take guys off etc. But it’s not an actual day.

if my team swept my opponent and I’m against a tough opponent in the next round I’m excited if they had to play right after their last series. I don’t want them getting a free day off to rest where as my guys were already at 100%.

That's fine, I just don't get why it's necessary if there's already an off day before the start of a playoff series to take care of all this. Mostly I just want to get on with the next round.