Out of the Park Baseball 24 - Baseball in Buffalo (Ep 4) - Expansion Draft! 

Very happy you were able to post this episode so fast. I’m liking the series.

The setup exercise was really interesting. This is a pretty niche setup based on a pretty niche Reddit post, but I wonder if it would be at all possible to signal-boost this for the devs to look at. It would be nice for the expansion wizard to have an option to kind of take care of the setup for you so that you could much more easily run a realistic expansion scenario. Granted, it could be as much work for the OOTP programmers as it was for you (if not *more* work), so maybe it's not worth it, but I think that would be a cool system that they could even advertise somewhat for a sequel release. Love what you're doing so far and can't wait to see what befalls of the Buffalo Wings!

I hope Bohrofen has some staying power in your plans. I’m all for one guy’s entire career being with one team and from opening day from a franchise beginnings til retirement. He’s got enough talent to suggest at least that.

You are going to want to DFA as many of these expansion draftees as you can. The reason for this is so you can raid the Rule 5 Draft. You aren't going anywhere next year. So, there is no worries about carrying a high potential player that might not be MLB ready yet. Fill up your 40 with them. If worse comes to worse, you can always return them. Next, when you finish Spring Training, keep as many Rule 5 players as you can and demote guys with options as necessary. The following year, you can bring them back up and demote the former Rule 5 guys to complete their development. This will give your upper minors a huge boost

I cant believe Jace is not a top 100 prospect.

Enjoying this especially the prolific posting

Munoz is extremely popular. So, you're going to take a hit when you trade him.

Brady House is on Nashville too

Breaking the fourth wall is where the actor addresses the audience directly. In the movie "Let It Ride," actor Richard Dreyfuss does this after he is propositioned by a beautiful woman (,actress turned poker player) Jennifer Tilly. He looked into the camera and said "Am I having a great day, or what?" Thus, breaking the fourth wall

I know i’m late, but these videos are awesome! go wings! cant wait. great job my friend

I always heard go strong up the middle (C-SS-CF) then fill in with best possible. Relievers early would go against the grain of logic.

Consistency rating 80/80

Do you think you could make a video actually showing us how we do everything for this? I read the reddit post but a visual on it would make it so much easier to understand. If not, I completely get it

I did this exercise a few months ago and if I were to do it again, I think I’d create the temporary team (Jacksonville in your case) and use them for the seasons where you only have minor league teams, then would expand Buffalo and just move the minor league teams over from Jacksonville to Buffalo. The way you (and I) did it, 3 seasons of not playing in the majors burns most of the fan interest and owner leniency that is built into the expansion. I think the only drawback is that moving your scouting director would reset all your scouting but since you have to be in commissioner mode, anyway, you can just force a rescout

The expos need to be considered your top rival, makes sense to me with them both being “new” teams and geography

and now it begins in earnest

What were the financial issues that were apparent in the game prior to the fix?

You are to create a Fiction League and move the "Real" Expansion Teams (Nashville and Buffalo) into that league using the edit league structure function, then move them back to MLB after the draft. This function went well for me recreating your play though using zenmasta post, except I created (tried to get cute) one Minor league team for the fake expansion teams, and then made a REAL STUPID mistake when I was transferring and accidently deleted one of my real minor league teams. I am watching you. I also am trying an experiment trying an idea for a delayed Expansion using Challenge Mode. I am finishing up season one, and it entails taking over a team in the Atlantic League and removing the Other Leagues can purchase players function and unlimited reserve roster size, which you can actually do in Challenge mode. After year three I will convert the Atlantic League to Affiliated long enough to promote the players I have cultivated into a minor league. I will however lose International FA, and the draft. I will subsist on players I cultivate only.

It makes sense, but you surprised me with your league/playoff structure. I would have gone with 4 divisions of 4 teams each and a simpler playoff structure. I think that your method is basically the NHL setup, and I don't think that that works well without a 16-team playoff.

I don't understand why you had to add the two 'dummy teams'