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Originally Posted by Palaaemon
You are right Bird. You should not "stack". You should let Los Angeles sign him! Don't worry about having too many pitchers. You have been WAY too lucky with your pitchers health. Soon the devil's due will come with injuries, ability dropoffs, etc. Your worry of a stack will not be a long term problem. Sign him and if he works out will allow you to let go of or move declining pitchers for prospects. If he is as good as your scout says and you trust your scout and you can afford (find a way) then do it.
On another subject the expansion. If I were you I would take expansion off the league evolution list as it is very limited and the AI doesn't work well in regards to it. You will have to set up the divisions manually how you want. I would suggest thinking about the long term view of what you want your final WPK league to look like. How many divisions and how many teams per division do you forsee in the end league structure. Then obviously you map out a date plan (can be semi random) for when to expand. I do not suggest expanding more than 2 teams a year and at least 3 or more years between (preferably 5). The reason for these numbers is to prevent over dilution of players. Common sense, experience and research has allowed me to learn this information.
Do you want the WPK to end up in the style of the MLB with 30 teams, 2 sub-leagues, 3 divisions per sub-league and 5 teams per division.
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Perhaps a more comfortable 24 team, 2 sub-leagues, 2 divisions per sub-league and 6 teams per division. This format would only require you to set up the structure and perform MJL expansion of 2 teams in say 5 years or so and you would be set.
Have a good night!
Palaaemon
I could suggest other choices but I cannot see you wanting to go beyond a MLB format.
If you have any other questions about expansion feel free to contact me.
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Yeah, as I've thought about it this evening I've come to the conclusion that I should probably go ahead and try to sign him. I certainly don't mind sending Peacock packing and some combination of Helm, Hard, and Lyerly can move back and forth between the bullpen and the rotation. Helm is fragile and you never know when we might lose him to injury. Or any of them really. They are pitchers after all.
As for expansion. I just don't know. I kind of want to somewhat trust the program even though I know others with far more OOTP experience (yourself included) argue against that. (Or at least point out potential pitfalls in that approach.) Things have worked out for me so well with this league so far without messing with things too much. And having just completed the expansion draft (which I found fascinating and think went rather well) I am pretty committed to this current expansion. I guess I figure I will ride this one out for now and then when another round comes make decisions about possible league restructuring. I hear what you are saying about planning ahead for what I want the WPK to look like. But, well, personality reveal/confession- while I like to plan some things out I do tend to be a bit more of a go with the flow guy. When I started this league part of the appeal was to see what it would do, not to dictate what it would do. To a certain extent I really relish the idea of having this thing sort of take on a shape of its own, very organically. (Yeah, I know, I'm starting to sound like an artsy humanities major trying to explain to his conservative mid-western father why he didn't choose a course of study with a greater earnings potential. Which, I guess makes sense, since I was that kid once upon a time. Just a middle-aged version playing a computer baseball game now.
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