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shays82cle
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what are your guys strategy for getting the highest coaches for your team? what are the avg ratings they should be at for best development?
12/9/2011 9:53 PM
lajeff7
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A strategy of looking at the best coaches at the level below the slot you are hiring and then offering that coach a 'promotion' to the next level worked out OK
12/10/2011 8:10 PM
tecwrg
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Look at the primary ratings for each role at each level from last season to get an idea of what the average ratings are.  Try to hire better than average, maybe top third.
12/11/2011 11:12 AM
nitehawk98
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Posted by lajeff7 on 12/10/2011 8:10:00 PM (view original):
A strategy of looking at the best coaches at the level below the slot you are hiring and then offering that coach a 'promotion' to the next level worked out OK
Sorry but as a somewhat experienced owner this strategy seriously annoys me. There is nothing worse than having an owner swipe a perfectly good AAA coach to be sub standard BL coach.
12/11/2011 11:30 AM
tecwrg
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Posted by nitehawk98 on 12/11/2011 11:30:00 AM (view original):
Posted by lajeff7 on 12/10/2011 8:10:00 PM (view original):
A strategy of looking at the best coaches at the level below the slot you are hiring and then offering that coach a 'promotion' to the next level worked out OK
Sorry but as a somewhat experienced owner this strategy seriously annoys me. There is nothing worse than having an owner swipe a perfectly good AAA coach to be sub standard BL coach.
Why?
12/11/2011 2:43 PM
jwesty5
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I hate it when my competition hires substandard BL coaches!!
12/11/2011 2:51 PM
nitehawk98
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It just does.
12/11/2011 3:51 PM
dlmose
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The process is a big enough pain without it. One level up for qualified guys is reasonable but I've seen LoA types get BL offers. It's especially annoying when these offers go to 3 guys. At least 2 of them end up not hired and probably disappear from the pool the next season.
12/11/2011 8:25 PM
lajeff7
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Only used the strategy of hiring up from lower level at ... lower levels.  Agree the this idea is not good for ML

12/12/2011 1:08 AM
MikeT23
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WifS should do away with level demands.    Let the owners sort it out.   But, beyond that, I'm sure no one complains when a career minor leaguer is given a BL deal by your competition.    Not sure why it's so troublesome when they do it with a coach.
12/12/2011 8:00 AM
shays82cle
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It hurts the development of our prospecs though. They take good Minor league coaches and make them high paid but below average bl coaches.
12/12/2011 9:49 AM
MikeT23
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It's not their job to develop your prospects.   One could actually argue that retarding the development of your prospects is a sound strategy.

12/12/2011 9:59 AM
dlmose
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It just one more specific pain that draws out the general pain of filling all the slots. Improvements would include doing away with level and role demands,  multi-year contracts and for coaches you are no longer negotiating with to drop off the negotiations page, but I'm biased as I hate hiring coaches.
12/12/2011 12:49 PM
tecwrg
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Posted by shays82cle on 12/12/2011 9:49:00 AM (view original):
It hurts the development of our prospecs though. They take good Minor league coaches and make them high paid but below average bl coaches.
How does their coaches affect the development of your prospects?
12/12/2011 12:52 PM
shays82cle
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its a circle type of effect.. it hurts their teams development by being below average and hurts ours because its takes a good coach at a lower level out of the availability. Ity is a good strategy for a team that doesnt care about how good or bad the coaches are to hurt the other owners but as a owner i want the best coaches and sees the good coach being a waste fos somebodies Major league team cause his ratings are below average and doing nothing useful.
12/12/2011 8:34 PM
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