What are the top few things not to forget to do before the rollover? Talking primarily about player moves... but please include anything.

1) Promote your major league prospects the appropriate minor league levels for their experience to discourage them from retiring.

2) Remove minor leaguers from your 40-man roster who you do not want anymore.

3) Add potential 6-year minor league FA's to the 40 to prevent them from leaving as FA. Only do this for guys you see as legit major league prospects.

4) If you have a guy who's scheduled to depart as a major league free agent, determine if you will want to resign him and if you do, determine if it makes sense to give him a contract extension now or after rollover. If he's relatively young and is coming off a good season, he may ask for more after rollover. If he's older, he may want less after rollover.

5) I like to plan what my 25 man major league roster will look like next season. I write it all down on a piece of paper with 25 blank spots that I fill in. I'll see who my potential departing FA's are, who my potential arb-eligible guys are, who has player/team/mutual options, etc., and determine who I plan to keep and who I plan to either let walk or release. I also have an idea of which minor leaguers will be promoted to the majors, and this also helps me identify how many and what position FA's or R5 guys I may want to target to fill holes on my roster. This also helps me immediately after rollover in planning my budget for the new season.

File your support ticket to have recalcitrant owners booted.

Tecwrg has assembled an excellent list. I would add the following:

3a - Keep next year's Rule5 draft in mind when considering potential 6yr FAs for addition to the 40. You may have a few superior prospects who currently show "3" years pro (will be 4 after rollover) and will have to be added to the 40 before the R5 draft, so there will need to be room for them.

(5) - I also pencil in next year's rosters for my minor league teams. This gives me an idea of which minor leaguers (even non-prospects or marginal prospects) need to be promoted to avoid retirement. After rollover, I can refer to this chart when looking at the "retirement" report to get an early look at which areas need minor league FA help.

Re: 4) Also keep in mind that not every FA-to-be will be willing to re-sign if you wait until after rollover.

Find a private world that isn't a cesspool and in need of "rescuing" after it rolls over.

Seriously. I see you are in Foxx and that is, as you know, one of the 5 worst worlds in HBD. So start looking at openings in private worlds - you have several excellent, veteran commissioners in Foxx as part of the bucket brigade - and send them TC's asking if they would take you in their private world.

This is a nice intellectual exercise - and there's an extremely detailed thread in the archives that will expand on ALL the things you should do before rollover.

But seriously - find yourself a better world. You seem like a guy with some aptitude and enthusiasm for HBD - get out of Foxx.

Why do you care what world people play in?

Mike, are you staying in Foxx? How did the experiment go?

I am not.

I won 83 games with 19 players that were unwanted. They either cleared waivers, were claimed off waivers, drafted in the R5 or signed as FA after FA was done.

While Foxx certainly isn't a top world, for every team that had no talent, there was a team that had an excess of talent.

So, when someone says "This team had no talent when I took over, I was destined to win 50", they're full of it. They chose to win 50.

1) Promote your major league prospects the appropriate minor league levels for their experience to discourage them from retiring.



My best prospect missed the entire year with a broken neck. I'd love to promote him to the bigs, but he's on the DL. What are the chances of him retiring? Do players on the dl retire more often than those that arent more frequently?

add him to the 40?

Quote: Originally posted by schedule1 on 4/19/2010add him to the 40?

Yeah, he's been on there since last rollover.

Quote: Originally posted by MikeT23 on 4/19/2010Why do you care what world people play in?

Because...

Quote: Originally posted by hitman1979 on 4/19/2010Mike, are you staying in Foxx?

Quote: Originally posted by MikeT23 on 4/19/2010I am not.

The "rescue" of Foxx had one clear WIN - opie100 is a passionate new owner. Huzzah! Retaining new owners is a great thing for HBD.

But Foxx is and will remain a cesspool. The quality owners who came to it's "rescue" will start to disappear back to their private worlds.

I'm on record, multiple times, that Foxx and other crap worlds should be allowed to flounder, unfilled, until they are merged into other crap worlds so the the tankers can all play in one place, together.

I care because the Foxx rescue yielded an actual good result - a quality new owner. Were you really going to NOT recommend that opie100 find a private world? That seems out of character for someone who makes that suggestion every single time public world shennanigans are discussed in this forum.

Perhaps you should ask opie what I recommended. AFTER he asked me.

However, if someone enjoys the world and their team, why should I encourage them to find another world? The only people I tell "Play in a private world, you get what you get in public worlds" are those who are complaining.

How about you just tell us what you recommended?