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Originally Posted by Biggio509
The game used to be pretty bad with having a Japanese league. AAA level players seemed to get cut a lot and show up in the US as pretty much 4 A players. Way too many were in the minors. That was 10 or 11 at the latest that I tried this though. Maybe 12,13, and 14 are better? I think the old problem was too many players generated leading to a lot of Japanese AAA guys getting cut. Then they became free agents and were signed in the US. Same happened with Taiwan and Korea.
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I had pretty good success with my Japan league in last year's game.
Just have to set PCM's and financials to a level where they are not on par with the MLB.
I also set the league to a AAA level. That seems cosmetic as players are still gaining major league service time but I remember Markus mentioning that when using AI Evaluation with stats, minor leagues stats are looked at but they are not as valuable as Major League stats. So I guess my universe looked at the best hitter batting .330 in the Nippon league as a .280 or .290 hitter in the Majors and so my contracts where always good for players leaving Japan to go over to America.
I also never had top players from the Majors go to Japan. There were always either prospects that were cut (didn't have Indy leagues to soak them up first) or wash up and career minor leaguers going over there.