Shortening the Season

sdorman22 · 02-29-2016, 02:19 PM

In my league I shortened the season to 132 games because i'm basically an impatient loser and find myself getting very board the last month of the season.

Lately i've been thinking more about the long term effects of this though, and wanted to see if other people have tackled this and if they had to make further adjustments than simply schedule.

For background, my league is 32 teams, 2 Sub Leagues, 2 Divisions of 8 per sub league. I let the game do the schedule, which is balanced and has no inter league.

I'm aware that this is going to make career milestones harder to achieve and career records harder to break. I've considered maybe modifying the HOF milestones but havn't yet. I kind of wish there was a way to seperate career records in the game without actually dumping them... kind of like how we still know Dead Ball era records and Live Ball era records.

I'm also a little concerned about the financial ramifications. This is where i'm not sure how well the game will adjust on its own and/or how much of a mess I may have made. Obviously teams will have less revenue because of the loss of 30 games. I assume that means smaller budgets. I'm not sure how Free Agent demands are calculated. Are they continue to continue to climb based on market value before I cut the schedule, thus making it harder for AI teams to fill out their rosters, or will it all kind of work itself out? Has anyone done this successfully?

goroyals · 02-29-2016, 03:24 PM

One option would be to increase ticket price and/or average attendance so that the projected profit remains the same as it was before you changed the schedule. Pretty easy to justify a reduced supply of games increasing demand for seats.

If you don't change anything, the players should adjust their demands during the course of the offseason to the new market, but you may see instances where top guys go unsigned. If it were my league I would simply adjust the revenue so that the market is unaffected.

02-29-2016, 02:19 PM	#1
sdorman22 Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 49	Shortening the Season In my league I shortened the season to 132 games because i'm basically an impatient loser and find myself getting very board the last month of the season. Lately i've been thinking more about the long term effects of this though, and wanted to see if other people have tackled this and if they had to make further adjustments than simply schedule. For background, my league is 32 teams, 2 Sub Leagues, 2 Divisions of 8 per sub league. I let the game do the schedule, which is balanced and has no inter league. I'm aware that this is going to make career milestones harder to achieve and career records harder to break. I've considered maybe modifying the HOF milestones but havn't yet. I kind of wish there was a way to seperate career records in the game without actually dumping them... kind of like how we still know Dead Ball era records and Live Ball era records. I'm also a little concerned about the financial ramifications. This is where i'm not sure how well the game will adjust on its own and/or how much of a mess I may have made. Obviously teams will have less revenue because of the loss of 30 games. I assume that means smaller budgets. I'm not sure how Free Agent demands are calculated. Are they continue to continue to climb based on market value before I cut the schedule, thus making it harder for AI teams to fill out their rosters, or will it all kind of work itself out? Has anyone done this successfully?

02-29-2016, 03:24 PM	#2
goroyals All Star Reserve Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Kentucky Posts: 930	One option would be to increase ticket price and/or average attendance so that the projected profit remains the same as it was before you changed the schedule. Pretty easy to justify a reduced supply of games increasing demand for seats. If you don't change anything, the players should adjust their demands during the course of the offseason to the new market, but you may see instances where top guys go unsigned. If it were my league I would simply adjust the revenue so that the market is unaffected.