Strat-O-Matic Baseball 365

Can someone tell me how the "Free Agent Drop" works? I see after 42 games there is a 5% penalty. After 80 there is a 10% penalty, after ??? games there is a 20% penalty.

Are those penalty's just if you drop some players from your roster? Or......Does it mean when you pick up a Free Agent and they take the percentage also from that transaction?

Thanks,.....bh327

The penalty applies only to the free agent drop. So let's say the penalty is 5%. You drop a player whose salary is 1 million. Your available cash now goes up, but only by .95 million. You lost 5% of his salary by dropping him.
Also, here is the standard schedule:

Free Agent Drop Penalty
5/10/20% (default)
games 1-41 : 5%
games 42-80 : 10%
games 81+ : 20%
game 142+ : no more transactions allowed

Thanks jjii. Much appreciated for the info.

Why do think there is a rule for " Free Agent" drop? 5%, 10% and 20%. The big leagues don't do this as far as I know.

bh327

I think there are a number of reasons for the Free Agent Drop Penalty. In the major's you can't simply drop someone from your club if he is hurt, you must put them on the DL. So the DL doesn't give $ back to purchase on another player. In MLB, Teams have a large amount of players connected to the Team including the 40 man Roster and all the minor Leagues. It would be too much work for a strat team to draft all the available players MLB has under contract to bring up someone new.

So If you release a MLB player you have to continue to pay his contract and usually an additional penalty in order to get out of the contract - it is very costly for the Team to let someone go and they don't usually get ANY $ back, in strat we Do get $ back...

Also in Strat there are so many Quality players available who are not under contract - Not so in MLB. Additionally in Strat we would simply purchase all the best high injury players who have lower salaries, then swap them out with no penalty when they get injured - not so in the Real MLB.

It would throw off the competitive balance in Strat...

I hope this makes sense.

Without a penalty you could field a completely different team every night. It would be absurd.

Thanks Max and Bilbo. Good info