When you have a chance can you explain how you created the custom draft? Having the same AI rookie free agent issues as you during my Brooklyn dodgers save
Sure! The Excel model I made is in the video description. It makes the process a whole lot faster. First, I have all first year players enter as free agents, and I manually create a free agent draft. You could do a traditional draft instead; it doesn’t make a big difference. Second, export the draft order, makes changes, then re-import. The trick was how to determine it… Each team’s available budget served as their effective spending power and then I valued all the top rookies based on the OSA potential rating. The total “value” of the players matches the total budget available. Now we can “draw” the first pick. The odds are weighted by available budget. For example, if the Yankees available budget is 10% of all the MLB budgets, their lottery odds are 10%. All the team’s odds will total 100%. Use a random number generator to “draw” who gets the first pick. Once drawn, I deduct the “value” of the best player from the team’s available budget, thus lowering their odds for subsequent picks. Then you can repeat for the process for the 2nd pick, 3rd pick, and so on. By the time you are done, all the teams should have near zero budget left. They won’t equal zero because I allowed a team the earn a pick even if its value was greater than the team’s remaining budget. Note: I don’t actually deduct any cash from the teams in the game. If you use the regular draft function, then the standard signing bonus rules apply. Hopefully that makes a bit of sense. The “draft” should heavily favor the teams with a lot of money…that was the reality of how talent was distributed before 1965.
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Thanks so much! Glad you are enjoying. Any nominations for what MLB or the owners might do in the 1962-1963 offseason?
When you have a chance can you explain how you created the custom draft? Having the same AI rookie free agent issues as you during my Brooklyn dodgers save
Sure! The Excel model I made is in the video description. It makes the process a whole lot faster.
First, I have all first year players enter as free agents, and I manually create a free agent draft. You could do a traditional draft instead; it doesn’t make a big difference. Second, export the draft order, makes changes, then re-import. The trick was how to determine it…
Each team’s available budget served as their effective spending power and then I valued all the top rookies based on the OSA potential rating. The total “value” of the players matches the total budget available. Now we can “draw” the first pick. The odds are weighted by available budget. For example, if the Yankees available budget is 10% of all the MLB budgets, their lottery odds are 10%. All the team’s odds will total 100%. Use a random number generator to “draw” who gets the first pick. Once drawn, I deduct the “value” of the best player from the team’s available budget, thus lowering their odds for subsequent picks. Then you can repeat for the process for the 2nd pick, 3rd pick, and so on. By the time you are done, all the teams should have near zero budget left. They won’t equal zero because I allowed a team the earn a pick even if its value was greater than the team’s remaining budget. Note: I don’t actually deduct any cash from the teams in the game. If you use the regular draft function, then the standard signing bonus rules apply.
Hopefully that makes a bit of sense. The “draft” should heavily favor the teams with a lot of money…that was the reality of how talent was distributed before 1965.