My First Impressions of International Amateur Free Agency and Enhanced Owner Goals in OOTP24 

Excellent walkthrough of the IFA process 👏 Really informative and extremely useful to see. Looking forward to getting involved in this myself.

Thanks for going through this process. Was good to see how it is working in the new version.

The one thing that you really didn't get into that I was hoping for is that I BELIEVE you can trade for extra bonus pool money with other teams. I'm just starting to set up my first game so I haven't gotten that far yet but was hoping to figure out if you can actually do this (like teams can in real life). And is it the start of the signing period that you can trade this bonus pool money or some other date? I wonder how hard it is to get it from other teams! Thanks again for your videos OSS - wish I had found you sooner.

I like the new IAFA system except for the first round of practices conflicting with the playoffs. The ability to sign multiple draftees is far more realistic, but there is nothing preventing a team from shoving all in on one of the top prospects. That may even be preferable still.

Noticing that pitch count on Rodon. That is an issue I have seen over the years in minor league teams. The AI love to run up the pitch count on many starters in those lower minor leagues. I often forced to take a look and put pitch count on most of the starters in low ball. Think it's not realistic to see this, and your case with Carlos show the game still handles pitcher a bit weird sometimes. This game has it's flaws of course but this I think should have been ironed out how AI handles the minors. Not only on pitch counts. Often I see stacking up a lot of players in some organizations in those lower minor leagues too. It has always irritated me to find out teams running around with +50 players in some A or low A leagues. Tried many times to adjust with both max years or max experience for those leagues but the issue looks to just move up or down those organizations. A limit of players on the roster in minors actually creates more problems, so always look at a new version what has been done. So sad to see Carlos overused and that one has to go in and fix that. That should have been taken care of by the manager-AI in that team.

It could just be an off year for IFAs. You can tinker with the number of players generated if you want. I've just stuck with the default settings. The cool thing about 24 is that you need to court the IFAs during the off-season and build relationships with them. That makes a scout who is strong with internationals, all the more valuable

Isn't there a way to enrich the draft class? Some slider or setting. I would have sworn that someone told me that.

International free agency is great now this was one of the best changes to the game this year.

I’m actually loving the IFA experience. I appreciate the variety of prospects available. It makes it feel like you can go all in for a top-level guy or get a bunch of solid prospects with your cap space.

I am actually considering doing a playthrough as the Yankees GM. The only thing holding me back is that I am usually drawn to a rebuilding effort. Curiously, when I did my Red Sox playthrough, I traded away Bogarts. Eovaldi, Martinez, Sale, Paxton, and Vazquez at the 2022 deadline. I went into rebuild mode. As time passes, it is obvious to me that the Red Sox should have done likewise. Now they need to rebuild and have no bargaining chips left. I'm not sure if they even realize that they are in need of a rebuild yet.

The owner goals are really stupid to begin with. I have a team where I have a lot of slow walk and homer guys. My owner wants me to improve (actually means become a top six) my stolen base totals. This is so contrary to the type of team I built, which is admittedly no my favorite type of team either, but there is no way in hell that I'm going to dismantle this team to satisfy some whim. Likewise, I'm not going to adjust my strategy to run into more outs and cost the team games. This is just one prime example of how arbitrary and capricious these goals are. Having the ability to pick an alternate goal would work well here, but disabling owner goals might be best.

I wish they would do something like this for the historical version with the Negro Leaguers. As it is, they just become free agents and you can simply draft them at will.

It was a tutorial, but just for an audience of one.

yeah not a big improvement over 23. graphics are basically the same.