2048 Free Agency Compensation

[Providence A's]

Or trade for my players and I can flounder.

[HollywoodLeo]

its a little late to play with the system and bring this up... but the type a compensation seems to be built to keep the strong teams strong, and keep bad teams tanking. id love to start to build an offense, but knowing that i still wont be a world series contender with or without mays, to give up a top 10 pick for a guy thats gonna still keep me as an 80 win team, i might as well just continue to flounder and keep getting high draft picks.

It's not too late to alter that as I haven't started free agency yet and Type A has never been used thus far.

I could just create anoter 5 star. I'll give it some thought and discussion. Nothing's set in stone yet.

Or perhaps the signing team gives up their pick if they're in the bottom half but the top half just creates another 5 star, which is similar to the old real world system where only the bottom 15 gave up their pick and they got a sandwich pick if it was a top 15 team.

[Hammer]

bottom half of the 1st round, or top half of the 2nd round from the signing team, plus that 5 star spect... aka, me giving up a top half 2nd round pick, would definitely intrigue me more to sign him... and would probably still make for the team losing them to be somewhat satisfied, since theyd still be getting a 5 star spect with a 4-5 star player in the draft [depending on the depth of the class, and where the signing team slots]. obviously its dependent on you, and maybe some other lower tiered teams feel differently than me... if the guy holding the first pick in the draft decides to go after mays, then obviously id be in the minority... so you could always run this free agency year through, and see how it goes.

[Prez WilCo]

wouldn't mind me to run this FA year thru...

[schisno]

case in point.

don't hate the player

[Kingdom]

I completely agree with hammer. Perhaps 1-16 is protected and 17-24 is not. I like hammer's thought process though. I wouldn't bid on Mays and give up my 5th pick.

[Providence A's]

Any comp is better than nothing; no need to be greedy about it.

[HollywoodLeo]

I'll go with that. The thought process behind allowing type A super stars to include a lost draft pick for the signing team was that it would typically be a low pick anyway...but I don't want to punish the bad team that wants to start winning.

[Mach]

Somewhere 5 years from now Hammer's going to sign Magglio Gonzalez and Detroit's going to get a 5 star SP out of it.

[HollywoodLeo]

I'm sure that's just a joke going over my head because Magglio will be 41, and likely dead/retired in 5 seasons.

[Mach]

facetious snark to be frank.

[HollywoodLeo]

With the regular season over here is how 2048 compensation shakes out with everyone that would currently be a free agent (extensions still open, of course)

Type A (Signing team's 1st + 4.5 prospect at same position if signing team drafts 15-24, signing team's 2nd + 5.0 prospect at same position if signing team drafts 1-14)
CF Willie Mays (Chicago Cubs)

Type B (low end 5.0 prospect at same position)
2B Rogers Hornsby (LA Dodgers) (Forfeited due to signing Mays)

Type C (3.0-4.5 prospect at same position)
2B Eddie Collins (Oakland A's)
MR Stu Miller (Oakland A's)
MR Jim Konstanty (Atlanta Braves)
CL Andrew Evans (San Francisco Giants)
1B Bill White (St Louis Cardinals)
MR Ivan Cruz (St Louis Cardinals)

These have been imputed

[Kingdom]

imputed.

Oooohoohhoh

[Foster]

Last time something was imputed, there was a surprise 9 months later.