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The minimum is definitely 1 mill. Pretty sure AAA counts against 190 cap. As far as fielding less than 10, I assume that is okay but I could be wrong

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Minor leaguers make 0.1 mil

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Feb 26, 2016 18:29:33 GMT -5 @trinethunder said:

The minimum is definitely 1 mill. Pretty sure AAA counts against 190 cap. As far as fielding less than 10, I assume that is okay but I could be wrong

So this implies that everyone MUST reserve 1m for their minors, and up to 10m for their AAA team. Then factor in a *minimum* of 8m reserved to cover your free agents slots on the active roster, after the draft. So the *maximum* one can spend during this first year draft is 171m?

I probably missed it but is there a reason the minimum salary is 1m, rather than 500k?

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Feb 26, 2016 16:08:32 GMT -5 @enjoyingcarp650 said:

I know DL doesn't get points, I shouldn't have added that. I was trying to figure out how we were getting to 30

your total came to 19 but you forgot the 3 P spots and only 8 bench brings us to 30. The dl spot doesn't count as one of those active 30

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AAA is separate from your minors. You can still spend 190 in this draft and be able to draft minor leaguers as well.


AAA Team

The AAA team can consist of anyone regardless of how many years they have played in MLB, it can also consist of any other injured or suspended players that you have.

The AAA team is made up of 10 roster spots and is separate from your Minor Leaguers. This for all intent and purposes is the extra 10 of your Active Roster. You can call anyone up from AAA to the majors at anytime. When you are sending players down into AAA they must go through the waiver process if they have over 3 years of experience. Less then three years and they start to eat up their options.

Until the first game you can place anyone you want in to the AAA ballclub without having to worry about minors. For example, before the first game if you wanted to put Albert Pujols in the minors you could, but after the first game he would have to pass waivers before going to your AAA team.

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Feb 15, 2016 15:19:16 GMT -5 Eric (Guidopolis) said:

Good question, it does count against your salary cap team. And no, basically the draft will fill up your roster. At that point anyone else that made through free agency can be bid on. I think a great example is Pujols. His contract could be so inflated that no one wants him. He goes to free agency. Even though everyone already has 30, theres those 10 extra spots that are in AAA. Everybody bids on Pujols. Winner gets him. Then about a week before the season we will have all the rosters finalized. Meaning everyone chooses who starts out in AAA and who starts on their team.

Ok, still somewhat confused here.
Above states the AAA team players count against the 190 cap. So the cap includes:
a. 20-22 drafted players;
b. 8-10 free agents at 1m minimum each, mostly comprising your bench;
c. 10 AAA players at 1m minimum each
d. 10 minor league players at 100k min each

If you draft 22, you've still got to reserve 8m minimum to fill out the major league roster, 10m minimum for AAA players, and 1m for the minors. That's 19m off the 190m cap. Unless someone wants to clarify further.

p.s a salaried minor league player like Kenta Maeda, he would count his 3.1m against the cap, or just 100k?

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Minor leaguers don't count until the called up. And you do not HAVE to have any AAA if you don't want or don't have the funds.

Also the bench players are not necessarily going to be only 1 mill each. We will be bidding on them so it depends on how much you want to cap your bids.

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Feb 26, 2016 21:09:35 GMT -5 @trinethunder said:

Minor leaguers don't count until the called up. And you do not HAVE to have any AAA if you don't want or don't have the funds.

Also the bench players are not necessarily going to be only 1 mill each. We will be bidding on them so it depends on how much you want to cap your bids.

So the realistic draft budget is more like 150-160m, and the absolute max you can spend in the draft if you want 10 AAA players is 172m. That's a lot different looking than 190m, I hope everyone sees it.

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the 10 AAA are basically 10 extra bench spots just not on ESPN since ESPN only allows 30 max I believe. I'd be surprised if anyone actually wants 10 extra bench spots in a 16 team league where those 10 guys will be mediocre at best. Also you would still have a legal roster with 22 players should you decide to spend all 190 in the draft and not leave any to bid on players for your bench. I personally will only use AAA if I have enough players to exceed my DL spots so for me my draft budget is 182 max

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Feb 26, 2016 21:28:17 GMT -5 @trinethunder said:

the 10 AAA are basically 10 extra bench spots just not on ESPN since ESPN only allows 30 max I believe. I'd be surprised if anyone actually wants 10 extra bench spots in a 16 team league where those 10 guys will be mediocre at best. Also you would still have a legal roster with 22 players should you decide to spend all 190 in the draft and not leave any to bid on players for your bench. I personally will only use AAA if I have enough players to exceed my DL spots so for me my draft budget is 182 max

Ok, I follow you. But I thought it was clear that you had to have a full 30 players on your ESPN roster at all times--- 30 *active* players, not even injury stashes.

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I think you just have to have active players in the starting spots so it would only be 22

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Feb 26, 2016 22:33:37 GMT -5 @trinethunder said:

I think you just have to have active players in the starting spots so it would only be 22

Ok, so then we need an official ruling on these points, as I see this from the Rules:

Max/Minimum Roster Size

You must have a minimum of 30 players on your active roster on ESPN.

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Alright, so Thrine is right how the AAA works. You don't have to have anyone in your AAA if you don't want to. The main goal behind the AAA was to have somewhere for like when someone was struggling or hurt or, even sent back down to the minors. It's not a requirement to have anyone in AAA though. That's kind of just extra space. In baseball there are guys on the 42 man roster that are not in the majors since they can have only 25 people active at a time. We can tweak the 30 player active roster a little bit on espn. Maybe put it at like at least 26. I'll set up a poll for that or something.

But there is a reminder that you can stop drafting at anytime as well. Right now you are picking up peoples contracts if everyone in the league stopped drafting right now everyone available would go to free agency. But at the same time you would be missing out on some surpreme talent if you were the only team to just stop drafting. The real requirements are to field a major league team, ive been in a lot of leagues of rebuilding where people put out players who aren't even in the majors it def makes the game a lot easier for teams who have to play them twice. We can tweak those rules and things like that though

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I figured people would get confused. The commish added on the contracts page in the final column on the first page an average salary remaining per player. This column shows how much you can spend per player for your 40 player roster. Watch that and you will be fine.

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Feb 27, 2016 9:11:37 GMT -5 @crypticfreak1 said:

I figured people would get confused. The commish added on the contracts page in the final column on the first page an average salary remaining per player. This column shows how much you can spend per player for your 40 player roster. Watch that and you will be fine.

So column L is the ave/40 man, what is column J?