Service Time For Fictional League

krownroyal83 · 03-23-2024, 04:20 PM

So I have a 70 game a year fictional league. What would be an appropriate amount of services days to accrue 1 service year? Right now I have it set at 50 days. Thoughts?

Carplos · 03-23-2024, 04:23 PM

I usually look at the schedule I'm using to see how many days there are and then lower it by 10ish%.

SidHickenbottom · 03-23-2024, 04:55 PM

This is something I noticed last year and persists this year. Even if your fictional start up has a shorter season from the creation wizard, the service time issues are a complete disaster that compromise the league's functioning. You'll have dozens of 23 year olds with 4-5 years service, etc. etc. A flood of 24 year old free agents. 25 year old AA players with multiple years service time, etc.

Carplos · 03-23-2024, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by SidHickenbottom

This is something I noticed last year and persists this year. Even if your fictional start up has a shorter season from the creation wizard, the service time issues are a complete disaster that compromise the league's functioning. You'll have dozens of 23 year olds with 4-5 years service, etc. etc. A flood of 24 year old free agents. 25 year old AA players with multiple years service time, etc.

That's been the case forever I feel. I always export and mess with experience for my leagues to start with.

krownroyal83 · 03-23-2024, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by SidHickenbottom

This is something I noticed last year and persists this year. Even if your fictional start up has a shorter season from the creation wizard, the service time issues are a complete disaster that compromise the league's functioning. You'll have dozens of 23 year olds with 4-5 years service, etc. etc. A flood of 24 year old free agents. 25 year old AA players with multiple years service time, etc.

That’s not good to hear. I’m still on ootp 22 with my fictional league, despite owning 23,24 and 25. I had planned to transfer my league over to 25 later in the year but I won’t be doing that if that issue isn’t fixed. And if this issue has been around awhile I’m not hopeful

SidHickenbottom · 03-23-2024, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Carplos

That's been the case forever I feel. I always export and mess with experience for my leagues to start with.

I wouldn't be surprised to hear that. For long term saves, I've literally edited a bunch of players in commissioner mode or simply simmed into the future when service time has had a chance to normalize over time before taking over a team, but it shouldn't be hard to have the game naturally adjust to the start up settings.

03-23-2024, 04:20 PM	#1
krownroyal83 All Star Reserve Join Date: Feb 2015 Posts: 992	Service Time For Fictional League So I have a 70 game a year fictional league. What would be an appropriate amount of services days to accrue 1 service year? Right now I have it set at 50 days. Thoughts?

03-23-2024, 04:23 PM	#2
Carplos Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Idaho Posts: 2,868 Infractions: 1/0 (0)	I usually look at the schedule I'm using to see how many days there are and then lower it by 10ish%.

03-23-2024, 04:55 PM	#3
SidHickenbottom Minors (Single A) Join Date: May 2017 Posts: 76	This is something I noticed last year and persists this year. Even if your fictional start up has a shorter season from the creation wizard, the service time issues are a complete disaster that compromise the league's functioning. You'll have dozens of 23 year olds with 4-5 years service, etc. etc. A flood of 24 year old free agents. 25 year old AA players with multiple years service time, etc.