CAGLB: MLB 14 PS4 Online Franchise (Red Sox open; 0-0 record)

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CAGLB 2014: CAG League Baseball

Disclaimer: I was planning on starting this league before the game came out. I simply wanted to wait to see what the options were for online franchises since I didn't own the PS3 version of the game. So I am not trying to compete with or take anyone away from snakeybro's league. I will play in both, and I hope others will do the same.

I have had close to a decade's worth of experience playing in CAG leagues, and I've run online leagues as well. I will try to use that experience to make this league as enjoyable as possible for all who choose to participate.

With that out of the way, welcome to the CAGLB! The settings for the league are all default. Pitching and hitting difficulty are on Veteran. Quick counts are off, but the presentation is set to fast play to make for a quicker experience. Most importantly, there will be no CPU teams. The league is capped at 10 teams (4 make the playoffs), and all of them will be user controlled. That makes for 2 leagues consisting of 5 teams each.

In the interest of getting in multiple seasons before people lose interest, the regular season schedule shall be comprised of 14 games. The entire schedule is open from the start, so you can play whomever you want, whenever you want. You will be expected to play 2 games every 7 days of real time. However, you are more than welcome to play more.

2 teams in each league make the playoffs every season. I didn't want the playoffs to drag on so those of us who don't make it (I'll probably lose often, LOL) don't have to sit around waiting for the offseason activities and the following season. The LCS will be best of 3, and the World Series will be a best 5.

Rosters are current as of May 22

I think that covers most of the important stuff. Teams will be assigned on a first come, first served basis. Please post your PSN user name along with your preferred team, and I will send you an invite A.S.A.P. Teams will be assigned to the leagues they are a part of in real life. If one league fills up, all remaining teams will henceforth be assigned to the other league.

I hope I can muster up some interest here and we can get things going very soon. Thanks for reading, and I look forward to playing!
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Team / CAG user name / PSN name

National League:
 

Arizona Diamondbacks / ruffinra / Beacho_A

Atlanta Braves / Droogs / DroogsDontRun
Chicago Cubs / V4Oldboy / MrOldboy
Los Angeles Dodgers / GamerDude316 / Garrus_Lannister
Washington Nationals / chriscolbert / chriscolbert


American League:

Boston Red Sox / OPEN
Chicago White Sox / Matt Young / MattYoung730
Los Angeles Angels / Spokker / Spokker
New York Yankees / melokeith / cusemanKeith
Oakland Athletics / ECB / EASTCOASTBIAS

 
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Great! That's 3/14 already. Chris, I sent your invite just a minute ago since you replied to my message on there. Droogs- along with anyone else who may join- I'll be back on my PS4 later tonight to invite you guys. Don't be alarmed if you're in the wrong division. I can't swap a team into an empty spot- has to be swapped for another team. So once people are invited and start joining, I will correct the divisional alignments.

 
Awesome. We will be half full once everyone who has posted joins. I'll send friend requests and invites to bestkeeper and GamerDude in a few minutes.
 
I turned free agent signings on in the settings. I was going to wait to bring it up after some more people joined, but since you asked: my idea was to allow each team to sign 1 free agent before the season, with the possibility of another round of pickups around midseason. A random draw would determine the order in which people get to choose before the season, and any later rounds would have the team with the worst record picking first, and so on.

If you guys don't like that idea, feel free to suggest alternatives. I'm open to any ideas. Oh, and I should mention how trades work as well. Trades require my in-game approval. But I won't make the decisions completely on my own. Trade proposals should be posted in the thread, and I will listen if anyone thinks a trade is unfair.

I will edit the OP to include this type of stuff once it's all set in stone.
 
We have 10 users committed now. 8 have signed up. 1 of the other 2 was just invited. We have an even split of American and National League teams: 5 each.

Unfortunately, I cannot change the number of teams without recreating the franchise. However, if I remake it, we will have 2 five-team leagues rather than 4 uneven divisions, and the only thing you guys would have to do would be to accept a new invite.

Would anyone be opposed to this? If I remake it (same settings, just fewer teams) and everyone joins up over the next 2 days, I can activate this thing in time for the 3 day weekend.
 
I will be out of town (but visiting PNC Park for the first time!) and PS4-less from Friday through Monday, so I don't mind re-doing things and signing up again but whoever needs to play me will just have to play the CPU during that time.
 
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If I remake it tomorrow and send the invite, would you be able to sign on and accept that tomorrow night?

Nobody would have to play your CPU. In fact, I'm not sure that is even possible. The schedule is open, so games can be played at any time. Not a problem.
 
If I remake it tomorrow and send the invite, would you be able to sign on and accept that tomorrow night?
Nobody would have to play your CPU. In fact, I'm not sure that is even possible. The schedule is open, so games can be played at any time. Not a problem.
Yeah I can definitely do that. Tomorrow is my wife's birthday so it may be late in the evening due to going out to dinner and all, but there's no doubt I can accept the invite before we leave Friday.
 
Alright, gentlemen. I sent PM's to all of you, but in case you somehow missed that- the league has been remade. Same settings and al that, but with only 10 teams. 5 NL and 5 AL. Invites have been sent to all 9 of you.  We're all filled up, commitment-wise, so all we need is for everyone to accept their invites.

Please accept your franchise invitation by tomorrow night if at all possible so we can start playing this weekend!

 
accepted mine just now.  Tomorrow night is the best night for me to play as we have 8 people coming to my apartment this weekend and none of them share the love for The Show that I do.

 
I can play Friday night if we're matched up at all. But you don't have to play this weekend. I just wanted to give people that option, especially with it being a 3-day weekend.
 
I'm in!  Now if I could just figure out baserunning (have never been able to master that in previous iterations of The Show either)

 
Thank you, melokeith! I understand about the baserunning problems. I can advance and retreat my runners decently enough, but if I'm caught in a rundown situation, I usually get caught.

Just need one more person to accept his invite, and then I will activate the league.
 
Alright, guys- the league has been activated! Go ahead and start scheduling your games.

Regarding free agents: I used the random draft order tool at http://www.fantasyfootballnerd.com/random-draft-order to set this up. We will be doing 1 round of free agency now, along with another one (if necessary) at mid-season or the trade deadline (which comes after 10 games). Here is the order in which we will be allowed to select free agents.

# 1 : Atlanta Braves- 1B Kendrys Morales
# 2 : Boston Red Sox
# 3 : Washington Nationals
# 4 : Chicago White Sox
# 5 : Arizona Diamondbacks
# 6 : Los Angeles Angels
# 7 : Los Angeles Dodgers
# 8 : Oakland Athletics
# 9 : New York Yankees
# 10 : Chicago Cubs

Each team gets 1 player. Please post that player's name and position in the thread once you make your selection. Atlanta is "on the clock".

Thanks guys, and have fun!
 
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Alright. I know his position, but please include the player's position when the rest of you post your picks. And just to clarify, you can sign your guy after you post your pick in the thread. I just have that in the title so people don't start picking up players randomly.

I'll PM jedi0077 now to let him know he's up.
 
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So players that are on the DL are assigned to triple-A, I guess.  Do I leave them there until they return in real life?  (CC Sabathia, Pinetar Pineda, etc)  - or are the out for our season?

 
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Should be available tonight and tomorrow for anyone who wants to play. Msg me even if I'm not online. I've got the PS app on my phone.

 
So players that are on the DL are assigned to triple-A, I guess. Do I leave them there until they return in real life? (CC Sabathia, Pinetar Pineda, etc) - or are the out for our season?
You are free to call up and send down players as you please. Chris Sale, who returned the day after these rosters came out, was in Triple A. I called him up and had him pitch against Spokker.
 
Damn, I just saw the last post now. Arizona asked me to play, but it turned out we weren't scheduled. I do, however, face the Dodgers in interleague play.

If you guys want, to help coordinate games, you can list your time zone and availability, and I'll add it to the OP. This is, of course, optional. I personally am on Pacific time and can generally play at or after 3 P.M.
 
The Nationals signed SP Tommy Hanson from the FA pool.

I'm in the Eastern time zone and tend to be more of a late gamer. Typically anywhere from 10:00 PM until 1:00 AM will work for me.
 
I've been trying to get my router sorted out over the weekend, its been a bit wonky via ethernet. AT&T sent me a new router/modem and it seems to be working fine now. Was holding off playing online since i would randomly get disconnected once in a while. I'll be on late tonight and tomorrow night if anyone wants to get a game in. 

 
You guys- GamerDude and Oldboy- are actually my two interleague series opponents. How much I play tonight depends on what time Watch Dogs arrives from UPS. But I will be getting on early this afternoon to pick up my free agent. After that, the Cubs will be up.
 
Haha, wow. Thanks for pointing that out. Chalk it up to not getting to sleep til 1-2 A.M. over the last few days. I'll send Arizona a PM.
 
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