Posted by hockey1984 on 7/20/2021 9:21:00 AM (view original):
Wow. Heck of a player. You can take him to Arb twice and then sign him long term with no penalty. Just make sure to sign him long term. If you Arb him a third time you are screwed.

Yeah I mean I know the general rule, I'd heard rumours that there were exceptions for guys with 90+ overall though--just wanted to be sure it held true for these HBD unicorns. I definitely do not want to do anything where there's even the slightest risk of losing him.

Posted by dmalone01 on 7/20/2021 11:10:00 AM (view original):

Posted by hockey1984 on 7/20/2021 9:21:00 AM (view original):
Wow. Heck of a player. You can take him to Arb twice and then sign him long term with no penalty. Just make sure to sign him long term. If you Arb him a third time you are screwed.

Yeah I mean I know the general rule, I'd heard rumours that there were exceptions for guys with 90+ overall though--just wanted to be sure it held true for these HBD unicorns. I definitely do not want to do anything where there's even the slightest risk of losing him.

I don't blame you. I wouldn't want to lose talent like that.

Although I am as about as close to 100% sure as possible that if you arb in season 2 you can sign long term in season 3 here is some food for thought.

If you were to long term on the next arb you get them for when they are 28,29,30,31,32 which is good. a 79 patience rating means they will probably resign. An 85 makeup means they will only lose a little bit of ratings when they are 32 if at all. (some power, probably some range). If you wanted to resign them at 32 you'd probably have the option without much fuss, and if not you would almost certainly get an A pick for them.

Edit: I'd also argue too they are a lot more tradeable finishing their contract at 32 if you decided you were going to rebuild, but that is going into a lot more detail and nuances then I'm sure you want to worry about.

He will always re-sign if you do so before you arb him a third time-- at least I've never ever heard of an exception to that, and someone would have posted it here if it had happened to them. So OK to arb him the second time now, then sign him next season instead of arb'ing him a third time.

Thanks guys!

This is a fairly random, and fairly inconsequential, question but I'm trying to write a blog post about looking back at max contracts in a given world and am curious if there's an easy way to look them up...I'm pretty sure there isn't but just wanted to check and see if anyone had discovered a way that I haven't yet.

Not ideal, but I think the quickest way to find current max contracts is to do four separate searches in the player search tool under World ----> reports.

Search 1: Position= OF; Level=ML; Franchise= All Franchises; View=current ratings
Search 2: Position= IF; Level=ML; Franchise= All Franchises; View=current ratings
Search 3: Position= SP; Level=ML; Franchise= All Franchises; View=current ratings
Search 4: Position= RP; Level=ML; Franchise= All Franchises; View=current ratings

For all the past max contracts, I am thinking the Player Development ----> Amateur's Draft Order and clicking on Type A picks for each season and then looking at their player cards to see if they ever got a max contract. I just can't think of any other way. The most accurate way would be to look at each team's "Franchise Payroll Analysis" page, but that would take forever.

Posted by tlowster on 7/31/2021 3:17:00 PM (view original):
Not ideal, but I think the quickest way to find current max contracts is to do four separate searches in the player search tool under World ----> reports.

Search 1: Position= OF; Level=ML; Franchise= All Franchises; View=current ratings
Search 2: Position= IF; Level=ML; Franchise= All Franchises; View=current ratings
Search 3: Position= SP; Level=ML; Franchise= All Franchises; View=current ratings
Search 4: Position= RP; Level=ML; Franchise= All Franchises; View=current ratings

For all the past max contracts, I am thinking the Player Development ----> Amateur's Draft Order and clicking on Type A picks for each season and then looking at their player cards to see if they ever got a max contract. I just can't think of any other way. The most accurate way would be to look at each team's "Franchise Payroll Analysis" page, but that would take forever.

Thanks for the suggestions, I had been going the "Franchise Payroll Analysis" route and it was indeed taking forever which is why I was curious if there were any quicker ways that I hadn't thought about and you came up wit two that will definitely be quicker and almost as efficient

what's the easiest way to calculate the benefit of a defensive SS vs an offensive SS?

I have a GG SS but he is only a .526 OPS hitter (.496 this season). His potential replacement isn't' all that great but he's good VR. I have a good SS VL right now in the majors.

Player Profile: Albert Jacquez - Hardball Dynasty Baseball | WhatIfSports

and

Player Profile: Ted Biddle - Hardball Dynasty Baseball | WhatIfSports

The rest of my offense is potent - #2 in ML in OPS and #1 in NL so its not like I need the offense.

We are top 3rd in fielding

Posted by jamier2003 on 8/5/2021 3:28:00 PM (view original):
what's the easiest way to calculate the benefit of a defensive SS vs an offensive SS?

I have a GG SS but he is only a .526 OPS hitter (.496 this season). His potential replacement isn't' all that great but he's good VR. I have a good SS VL right now in the majors.

Player Profile: Albert Jacquez - Hardball Dynasty Baseball | WhatIfSports

and

Player Profile: Ted Biddle - Hardball Dynasty Baseball | WhatIfSports

The rest of my offense is potent - #2 in ML in OPS and #1 in NL so its not like I need the offense.

We are top 3rd in fielding

Personally, I use Runs Created because it's the easiest for me to compare conceptually....my formula projects Jacquez to produce about -7 Runs Created while Biddle checks in around 55 Runs Created. Therefore, Jacquez would need to be 62+ runs more valuable as a defender for me to consider him the better option, and it is highly doubtful he is that much better on defense. I'd go with Biddle hands down.

Saw something strange today. One of my draft picks (14th round) had $0 beside them. The player said ‘want to be drafted in the first 5 rounds’ so does this mean that he just isn’t going to listen to offers at all? Never seen this before.

Posted by hockey1984 on 10/5/2021 9:03:00 AM (view original):
Saw something strange today. One of my draft picks (14th round) had $0 beside them. The player said ‘want to be drafted in the first 5 rounds’ so does this mean that he just isn’t going to listen to offers at all? Never seen this before.

Yes. I have had a few guys like this. I offered them $250k - $450k and they rejected it over and over and over again. None of them ever signed.

This seemed like as good a place as any to ask this question, and I think I already know the answer I just want to double check that I'm not going totally crazy...there isn't a way to look at rotation vs bullpen stat splits very easily is there? Asking because in one of my worlds someone was observing that through nine games "record 5-4, Bullpen has 4 losses 15 inn and 26 runs. It’s almost comical!" and I wanted to check and see if this was a worldwide trend or if he was just having bad luck with his 'pen to start the season. My guess is that it's option #2, and it's not a big deal if the answer is "no" but it did make me curious ?????

Posted by bruinsfan911 on 1/8/2022 8:10:00 AM (view original):
This seemed like as good a place as any to ask this question, and I think I already know the answer I just want to double check that I'm not going totally crazy...there isn't a way to look at rotation vs bullpen stat splits very easily is there? Asking because in one of my worlds someone was observing that through nine games "record 5-4, Bullpen has 4 losses 15 inn and 26 runs. It’s almost comical!" and I wanted to check and see if this was a worldwide trend or if he was just having bad luck with his 'pen to start the season. My guess is that it's option #2, and it's not a big deal if the answer is "no" but it did make me curious ?????

I don't know of a way to do this unless a team has a consistent Staff lineup. If it has always been the same, it's pretty easy -- under player statistics, you can find all the players that were only starting pitchers and remove their statistics from the totals at the bottom of the page. However, if the user is more like me and he switches players between starters and relivers, you'll likely need to go into the player card for each player that has both starts and relief appearances.

So I have two options for RF :

Player Profile: Kyuji Huang - Hardball Dynasty Baseball | WhatIfSports

Or

Player Profile: Dave Gil - Hardball Dynasty Baseball | WhatIfSports

My gut says use Huang there as he will get to more balls and catch them, but I'm not sure how much his weaker arm will offset that. Both of them will still start for me, the other would just move to 1B.


Also, is Gil's early success sustainable? I picked him up as R5 pick, and was surprised he made all star appearance and was finalist for MVP. Just don't know how much of it is fluke and how much of it is his true talent level. Might go better in the switch hitter discussion, but is this a sustainable range for a switch hitter with above average splits and mediocre but not horrible Power, Eye, Contact.

Gil RF, Huang 1B. Range/glove are weirdly more valuable at 1B than RF in this game, especially range; arm is WAY more valuable at RF.

Minor fluke-- but he's still very much a major league talent. Playing half his games in OAK he's going to play to a just over .800 OPS, OBP-heavy (which is good); think .290/.370/.440 or thereabouts. He has a bunch of "hidden" OBP in his 0 temper rating, which means he's going to get about 20 HBP per season or so. VERY nice rule 5 pick up.