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#7545	05/08/2014 9:21:28 am
Krakonico Joined: 01/04/2013 Posts: 312 Inactive	Old text: Signing New Players Every week, a team will have the option of signing a new player from one of five sources: from High School, from College, from a Latin Academy, an International Player or a Free Agent. Each source will produce players of varying ages, nationalities and experience. High School: A 17 or 18 year old player from the United States or Canada. College: A 20 to 22 year old player from the United States or Canada. Latin Academy: A 16 to 21 year old player from Latin America. Asian Posting System: A 18 to 23 year old player from Asia. Note, the Posting System is a player transfer system between Asian and American professional baseball leagues. International: A 18 to 23 year old player from Europe, Australia and the rest of the world. Free Agency: Players that have been cut from others teams can be signed via free agency. Their age and skills will vary, but they will tend to be older, more developed players that other teams didn't want or couldn't afford. Also, for fairness reasons, all free agents must be signed before September 1st. Afterwards, roster additions are frozen until after the playoffs. Waivers: Released players will go on waivers for up to a week before being released into free agency. Players on waivers can be viewed from the free agent search, but cannot be immediately signed until they come off of waivers. If you would like to sign a player on waivers, you can put a claim on him and when his waiver date arrives, he will be randomly assigned to a claiming team (provided they have roster space). Trading: Because unbalanced trades are almost impossible to regulate and can lead to cheating and uneven game play, they are not permitted at this time. Note: older players will tend to have more experience. How to sign new players: To sign a free agent, click on the 'Free Agent' link on the navigation panel on the left side of the page. Select the parameters for the free agent search and submit. Find the player you'd like to sign and click the 'Sign' button. To sign a rookie, click on the 'Roster' link on the navigation panel on the left side of the page. Select the 'Add Player' button at the bottom of the page and click on the appropriate button for the type of player you'd like to obtain. New text: Signing New Players Rookie Every week, a team will have the option of signing a new rookie player from one of five sources: from High School, from College, from a Latin Academy, an International Player or from the Asian Posting System. Each source will produce players of varying ages, nationalities and experience. High School: A 17 or 18 year old player from the United States or Canada. College: A 20 to 22 year old player from the United States or Canada. Latin Academy: A 16 to 21 year old player from Latin America. Asian Posting System: A 18 to 23 year old player from Asia. Note, the Posting System is a player transfer system between Asian and American professional baseball leagues. International: A 18 to 23 year old player from Europe, Australia and the rest of the world. To sign a rookie, click on the 'Roster' link on the navigation panel on the left side of the page. Select the 'Add Player' button at the bottom of the page and click on the appropriate button for the type of player you'd like to obtain. Note: You can only sign a new rookie in a given week (economic update). Existing Players Waivers: Players that have been cut from others teams will go on waivers for up to a week before being released into free agency. Their age and skills will vary, but they will tend to be older, more developed players than rookies that other teams didn't want or couldn't afford. Players on waivers can be viewed from the free agent search, but cannot be immediately signed until they come off of waivers. Free Agents: Players that have been cut from others teams and didn't have a waiver claim can be signed via free agency. How to sign existing players: Waivers If you would like to sign a player on waivers, you can put a claim on him and when his waiver date arrives, he will be randomly assigned to a claiming team (provided they have roster space). Free Agents To sign a free agent, click on the 'Free Agent' link on the navigation panel on the left side of the page. Select the parameters for the free agent search and submit. Find the player you'd like to sign and click the 'Sign' button. Note: For fairness reasons, all waivers claims and free agents must be signed before September 1st. Afterwards, roster additions are frozen until after the playoffs. Trading: Because unbalanced trades are almost impossible to regulate and can lead to cheating and uneven game play, they are not permitted at this time. Updated Thursday, May 8 2014 @ 9:26:58 am PDT

#7609	05/10/2014 10:01:02 pm
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	Trying to sort out what the gist of this recommended change is. In general, I don't want to change 'new player' to 'rookie'. A rookie is typically a player in his first year in the big leagues, not necessarily a player just out of high school or college. Steve

#7615	05/11/2014 7:54:33 am
Haselrig Joined: 04/13/2014 Posts: 2790 Novi Doubledays III.4	Could go with "Prospect" instead of "Rookie" or "New Player".

#7631	05/12/2014 3:12:01 am
yanksfan13 Joined: 04/25/2014 Posts: 83 Inactive	Hey Steve, It looks to me like the main thrust of the text change is to explain how the waiver claim system works.

#7634	05/12/2014 9:28:35 am
Krakonico Joined: 01/04/2013 Posts: 312 Inactive	Yeah, it's fine if the "rookie" is changed to "New Prospect", because the new player can bring a confusion even with those free agents and the the waiver claims, because all of them are "new" players. In general is just a wording change, this is not to pretend to change anything in the game mechanics, but to give a better explication how it works.