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tysonlowery
Here is how the new system works. Whenever you claim an optioned player, you get a screen that lists all the players on your major league team and which ones you would prefer to send to the minors if the claim goes through. You can rank your top 5 choices. Obviously, this screen needs some work. But I wanted to put it out there so people can play with it a bit before I spent time making it look good.
If your team successfully claims the player, it will go through your choices and send your top choice to the minors. If that choice is out of options, he will be designated for assignment.
If for some reason none of your choices are on your major league team anymore, Abe will take a player on your team who still has options and send him to the minors. I don't think this will happen, but you never know. The way Abe selects is by doing a search starting with players drafted most recently - then by youngest players. So if its 1955 for example, Abe will look at all players drafted in 1955 first, beginning with the youngest player drafted in 1955. If he has options, that player will be sent to the minors. If not, he looks at the next youngest player drafted in 1955. If nobody drafted in 1955 has options left, he will look at 1954.
In the very unlikely event that you don't have any players on your major league team who have options left, the player you claimed will be returned to the option waivers and the claim deleted. The waiver will then be processed during the next game.
The way this works is split into batters and pitchers. So you'll need choices for each one.
It took a few hours today to put this into place - so there is more complexity than you may think - and therefore a lot of room for errors.
Waiver system changes
October 15, 2004 at 01:18AM View BBCode
I took a suggestion Jet had about teams having too many players after a options waiver claim.Here is how the new system works. Whenever you claim an optioned player, you get a screen that lists all the players on your major league team and which ones you would prefer to send to the minors if the claim goes through. You can rank your top 5 choices. Obviously, this screen needs some work. But I wanted to put it out there so people can play with it a bit before I spent time making it look good.
If your team successfully claims the player, it will go through your choices and send your top choice to the minors. If that choice is out of options, he will be designated for assignment.
If for some reason none of your choices are on your major league team anymore, Abe will take a player on your team who still has options and send him to the minors. I don't think this will happen, but you never know. The way Abe selects is by doing a search starting with players drafted most recently - then by youngest players. So if its 1955 for example, Abe will look at all players drafted in 1955 first, beginning with the youngest player drafted in 1955. If he has options, that player will be sent to the minors. If not, he looks at the next youngest player drafted in 1955. If nobody drafted in 1955 has options left, he will look at 1954.
In the very unlikely event that you don't have any players on your major league team who have options left, the player you claimed will be returned to the option waivers and the claim deleted. The waiver will then be processed during the next game.
The way this works is split into batters and pitchers. So you'll need choices for each one.
It took a few hours today to put this into place - so there is more complexity than you may think - and therefore a lot of room for errors.
CaseyStengel
October 15, 2004 at 02:25PM View BBCode
Excellent. Now the "gobble" problem will diminish. You really must want the player in your majors if you get him.Pages: 1