Posted by hockey1984 on 1/5/2021 11:48:00 AM (view original):
Anyones PM games sim? Both of my leagues are still stuck on AM2.

Nope, my teams are stuck, too.

Posted by bjschumacher on 1/5/2021 11:50:00 AM (view original):

Posted by hockey1984 on 1/5/2021 11:48:00 AM (view original):
Anyones PM games sim? Both of my leagues are still stuck on AM2.

Nope, my teams are stuck, too.

Same. Usually, Dirt runs at 5 past the hour. We are 51 past the hour and it is still sitting on AM2.

My worlds have an update now saying the games didn't sim. Guess someone accidently deleted an important line of code.

Error: You have missed games at the following levels: ML (1), AAA (1), AA (1), HiA (1), LoA (1)
Please check that your rosters are full and your batting lineups are valid for these levels as soon as possible. Thanks!

Can someone remind me what the rule is about the service time clock in September?

I forgot to demote a young player from a WS squad last season. He opened the season on my ML roster and my question is- if I demote him after the first development cycle (say 20 days) and then keep him down for 20+ days, would I save that time toward arbitration?

If it's still before ST you can demote him without penalty.

Someone else can correct me if I'm wrong but he just has to be in the minors for 20 games over the span of his first couple seasons to get the extra year of min salary. Doesn't matter whether it's in the beginning, middle or end or whether the 20 games are all done in one season or spread out over multiple. The question is a) is it worth the demotion penalty hit to his ratings, and b) is it worth the potential wins you're giving up assuming you're in contention again.

Great. If I demote him right after the first development cycle of the regular season then there will not be a demotion penalty.

I accidentally demoted another pitcher during ST when I was trying to get minors set and he lost 3 overall points . That kind of stuff ****** me off.

The only way to safely stay away from demotion penalty is to do it before spring training games start, or after playoff games start. If you demote during the regular season, you face the possible penaly. This is affected by the player's Patience rating. If he has a very high Patience rating, he might accept the demotion without a penalty.

I guess I could also do it next season.

Has anyone switched to the Sim ran Major League team on purpose? I'm honestly considering pulling a Billy Beane and doing it for the playoffs lol. Will the wheels fall off?

Posted by pray4pro on 1/9/2021 12:20:00 PM (view original):
Has anyone switched to the Sim ran Major League team on purpose? I'm honestly considering pulling a Billy Beane and doing it for the playoffs lol. Will the wheels fall off?

I have turned it on for a couple days for things like vacations, but never during the playoffs...it does the trick for when you won't be around a computer but I'm not sure how trustworthy it would be for the postseason.

I figure I'll keep this out of the bug and quality of life thread. Has anyone with a team in the NL ever set their base stealing aggressiveness to 'very aggressive'. I find even with 'aggressive' my pitchers end up getting picked off too often when they are on base, making me think they might actually try to steal bases if it is set to 'very aggressive'.

Although I am very opposed to individual player base stealing aggressiveness I wouldn't want pitchers stealing or even taking lead offs for that matter.

I'm probably overlooking something fairly basic, but can someone remind me which setting to play with to arrange the following scenario to play itself out:

1) I have a lead going into the later innings with my slugging catcher starting the game behind the plate
2) My high-PC catcher comes into the game behind the plate and my slugging catcher moves from C to DH while my starting DH goes from in the lineup to riding the bench for the rest of the game.

My gut instinct was to use the Defensive Replacements page with Catcher being listed as 1) Slugger 2) High PC and DH being listed as 1) starting DH 2) Slugging Catcher, but then I remembered there is no DH category on the Defensive Replacements page. The DH category does show up on player rest, but from my understanding that's just a depth chart for who should start when the guy above them gets tired rather than in-game adjustments. Am I wrong about that (in which case using Player Rest would work fine) or am I correct about that and need to do something else? And if I'm right, what is the "something else" that I need to do?

Posted by bruinsfan911 on 1/21/2021 5:29:00 PM (view original):
I'm probably overlooking something fairly basic, but can someone remind me which setting to play with to arrange the following scenario to play itself out:

1) I have a lead going into the later innings with my slugging catcher starting the game behind the plate
2) My high-PC catcher comes into the game behind the plate and my slugging catcher moves from C to DH while my starting DH goes from in the lineup to riding the bench for the rest of the game.

My gut instinct was to use the Defensive Replacements page with Catcher being listed as 1) Slugger 2) High PC and DH being listed as 1) starting DH 2) Slugging Catcher, but then I remembered there is no DH category on the Defensive Replacements page. The DH category does show up on player rest, but from my understanding that's just a depth chart for who should start when the guy above them gets tired rather than in-game adjustments. Am I wrong about that (in which case using Player Rest would work fine) or am I correct about that and need to do something else? And if I'm right, what is the "something else" that I need to do?

This all works except I don't believe - for the reasons you have figured out - it's possible to switch the DH in-game. Your starting C is going to have to go to the bench.