League Association overrides color barrier

Supermercado · 04-17-2021, 12:02 PM

In my game I run a secondary major league that takes players who don't make the MLB, and in the years before the Negro Leagues, African-American talent who are ineligible to play in the majors. From the starting year of my league (1886) MLB teams began drafting African-American players. I'd let the game from 1872 so could see that before then they were never drafted or given history notes about being undrafted. The only difference from the last time I ran this same sort of sim is an association between my league and the MLB to play an end of season Superbowl.

I started a test game with my post-setup quicksave, deleted the association, and lo and behold the same player (test case player if anyone is looking to replicate is 1886 draftee Bob Jackson) was ignored in the draft and instantly signed to a contract by one of my league teams, so this was definitely an issue that only started with an association to MLB.

Given that there is no option in the association setup to do with the colour bar, and it was still checked on in the MLB settings, I'm sure this is a bug. I can't think it would be intended - except maybe if there's a shared draft which my leagues don't have - as the obvious first step to a colour barrier-free association would be to just uncheck it in MLB options rather than have league rules changed in the background without notification.

04-17-2021, 12:02 PM	#1
Supermercado Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Left Field Posts: 251	League Association overrides color barrier In my game I run a secondary major league that takes players who don't make the MLB, and in the years before the Negro Leagues, African-American talent who are ineligible to play in the majors. From the starting year of my league (1886) MLB teams began drafting African-American players. I'd let the game from 1872 so could see that before then they were never drafted or given history notes about being undrafted. The only difference from the last time I ran this same sort of sim is an association between my league and the MLB to play an end of season Superbowl. I started a test game with my post-setup quicksave, deleted the association, and lo and behold the same player (test case player if anyone is looking to replicate is 1886 draftee Bob Jackson) was ignored in the draft and instantly signed to a contract by one of my league teams, so this was definitely an issue that only started with an association to MLB. Given that there is no option in the association setup to do with the colour bar, and it was still checked on in the MLB settings, I'm sure this is a bug. I can't think it would be intended - except maybe if there's a shared draft which my leagues don't have - as the obvious first step to a colour barrier-free association would be to just uncheck it in MLB options rather than have league rules changed in the background without notification. Last edited by Supermercado; 04-17-2021 at 12:04 PM.