Spring Training Roster Selection
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I just started playing, and am in spring training. I keep moving high potential young players (from on and off my 40 man roster) down to the minors to get some play time, but they keep popping up as being on my MLB team. I'll set my rosters for each of my MLB and minor league teams, save, and play a game but the rosters will just send some of them back to the MLB afterwards. Is this because I'm in spring training and the game automatically tries to add my highest overall players to my MLB team during spring training? This is driving me crazy because I've already used options to move some of them down a league. Please help.
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Did you set your roster control to manual vs.automatic?
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Yup, lineups/rotations, 40 man roster and roster moves are all set on manual.
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@yardee757know_psn said in Spring Training Roster Selection:
I just started playing, and am in spring training. I keep moving high potential young players (from on and off my 40 man roster) down to the minors to get some play time, but they keep popping up as being on my MLB team. I'll set my rosters for each of my MLB and minor league teams, save, and play a game but the rosters will just send some of them back to the MLB afterwards. Is this because I'm in spring training and the game automatically tries to add my highest overall players to my MLB team during spring training? This is driving me crazy because I've already used options to move some of them down a league. Please help.
No, in spring training you basically have a 40 man roster. So anyone on the 40 man will be "in the MLB". This is how SDS does it to emulate real life spring training. So, now you can use anyone on the 40 man during a game.
There are no "minor league" games during spring training. You're supposed to sub out your starters for prospects in a game and start them occasionally.
So, to summarize, when you're in spring training, anyone on the 40 man roster will be considered on the MLB roster until you designate them to there minor league teams at the end of spring training right before the regular season starts.
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@yardee757know_psn said in Spring Training Roster Selection:
Yup, lineups/rotations, 40 man roster and roster moves are all set on manual.
What Roscoe said is correct. I haven't played in a minute, so I didn't remember the details. So to reiterate what he said, anyone on the 40 man roster is instantly granted MLB status in the spring so you can check out your prospects, etc. So, you play through the entire spring training and on the very last day of spring training you need to set your 26 man MLB roster, which means you have to decide at that point who to send down. You probably already know that. As I recall, there still won't be a lineup card available for you to set the minors lineup, but they will be in place when their games start. I think their lineup card shows up a few days before their games start, but don't quote me.
Anyway, DO NOT pass the last day of Spring Training, without setting the 26 man roster because if you do, at the beginning of the Regular Season, the CPU will set a lineup for you and it will be absolutely and completely jacked up, leaving people in the MLB that you wanted to send down and sending MLB players you wanted to keep up, to the minors and burning options all over the place. The beginning of the season can be pretty tedious and I've spent hours setting lineups, trading guys and getting everything set just to start the season. I kinda like that stuff though. I can recall some people being pretty mad about having to burn options for some of their minor league players in the spring, but it's an actual rule that is used to keep teams from having certain guys in the minors indefinitely.
Another thing that can get you in trouble is the Rule 5 draft, where if a player is not on the 40 man, and has been in the minors for like 4-5 years (it says 4-5 in the rulebook, which makes no sense. Which is it? 4 or 5??) which forces you to put minor league players that you like on the 40 man roster, and starting the option burning process. This also has you making the decision of who to trade off to make room for them on that roster. For me, I will put my A and B potential Rule 5 guys on the 40 man and let the C level guys try to skate through and hope they don't get snagged by another team. This usually works since the other teams are not trying to add C level guys to their 40 man. You're not gonna have room for everybody so it's a chance I'm willing to take. You can consider trading some of those C potential guys away if you want, but usually they make it through.
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Also for Franchise it has been mandatory to create TWO setting profiles. Set up your preset for your team and choose manual for everything (I leave scouting as auto as it is so flawed, why bother) Save it as MY PRESET Then change everything to auto and create a new preset called CPU. Assign that preset to all other teams
That way you can always undo the flawed AI's mistakes
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