NEXT SIM
Here are the notes about our next sim, League Divisional Series 1, which will be run on or soon after 2018-Apr-23 09:00:00 ET:
| League Divisional Series 1 |
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| This sim includes the first three of five games of the League Division Series of the Playoffs. NOTE: GMs should start protecting Rule 5 eligible players as the Rule 5 Draft is coming up. Also, no free agent offers are allowed through the Playoffs and until the Rule 5 Draft has concluded. Teams not involved in the Playoffs are allowed to make trades for any players that are NOT pending free agents. Commissioner to run a test sim to get CPU nominations and open polls to accept nominations for Gold Glove Awards and Comeback/Breakout Player Awards. |
The sim after that will be League Divisional Series 2, which will be run on 25Apr:
| League Divisional Series 2 |
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| This sim includes the remaining games of the League Division Series of the Playoffs and the off days until the League Championship Series start. NOTE: GMs should start protecting Rule 5 eligible players as the Rule 5 Draft is coming up. Also, no free agent offers are allowed through the Playoffs and until the Rule 5 Draft has concluded. Teams not involved in the Playoffs are allowed to make trades for any players that are NOT pending free agents. Nominations still accepted for Gold Glove Awards and Comeback/Breakout Player Awards. |
CURRENT SEASON'S PROJECTED SIM SCHEDULE
This schedule is subject to change without notice. Please advise the Commissioner if the dates are off or need updated or if any other notes or reminders should or could be added.
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| 05Feb | Spring Sim 1: This is the NEW Season! Commish needs to roll over the IP files. This sim will simulate the first 10 days of Spring Training. Incentive Point Spending are processed during this sim. Commish to set messages to 10 days to ensure that all in-game messages are included with the files. |
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| 07Feb | Spring Sim 2: This sim will simulate 10 more days of Spring Training. Incentive Point Spending are processed during this sim. The draft pool should be published by now. The Commissioner will move the draft into Stats+ and validate the draft order (correcting the Supplemental picks if needed). All teams will be set to Auto with the live draft clock set to begin at midnight of the night of the Opening Day sim. All teams will have 2 sim periods to go in and turn off the Auto selection and set up lists. | |
| 09Feb | Spring Sim 3: This sim will simulate the remaining days of Spring Training, stopping 1 day before Opening Day to allow GMs to demote players auto assigned to the ML roster without using Options. Incentive Point Spending are processed during this sim. | |
| 12Feb | Season Sim 1: This sim will begin with the day before Opening Day and simulate until the first Monday of the season and will be designated as Week 1 of the season. All GMs should make sure that all of their 25 Man active roster players have a * by their name on the Rosters and Transactions page, ensuring that all non-roster invites are now on the 40 man roster before the season begins. Be mindful of minor league roster limits when demoting. The last of the Incentive Point Spending are processed during this sim. Commissioner will remove the Comp status from any player that was previously Compensation Eligible and reduce the messages setting back to 7. |
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| 14Feb | Season Sim 2: This sim will simulate all of Week 2 of the season. | |
| 16Feb | Season Sim 3: This sim will simulate all of Week 3 of the season. | |
| 19Feb | Season Sim 4: This sim will simulate all of Week 4 of the season. | |
| 21Feb | Season Sim 5: This sim will simulate all of Week 5 of the season. | |
| 23Feb | Season Sim 6: This sim will simulate all of Week 6 of the season. | |
| 26Feb | Season Sim 7: This sim will simulate all of Week 7 of the season. | |
| 28Feb | Season Sim 8: This sim will simulate all of Week 8 of the season. | |
| 02Mar | Season Sim 9: This sim will simulate all of Week 9 of the season. | |
| 05Mar | Season Sim 10: This sim will simulate the start of Week 11 of the season. Once we get to June 15th, in game, the Live Draft will be paused and all current selections will be imported in game. GMs should set up their draft lists in the draft utility for all remaining rounds, if desired, as the draft will be completed at the start of the next sim. | |
| 07Mar | Season Sim 11: This sim will simulate all of Week 11 of the season. All-Star Voting is open in Stats+: https://statsplus.net/theshow/awards?league=135#ballotlist | |
| 09Mar | Season Sim 12: This sim will simulate all of Week 12 of the season. All-Star Voting is open in Stats+: https://statsplus.net/theshow/awards?league=135#ballotlist | |
| 12Mar | Season Sim 13: This sim will simulate all of Week 13 of the season. All-Star Voting is open in Stats+: https://statsplus.net/theshow/awards?league=135#ballotlist | |
| 14Mar | Season Sim 14: This sim will simulate all of Week 14 of the season. All-Star Voting is open in Stats+: https://statsplus.net/theshow/awards?league=135#ballotlist | |
| 16Mar | Season Sim 15: This sim will simulate all of Week 15 of the season. | |
| 19Mar | Season Sim 16: This sim will simulate all of Week 16 of the season. | |
| 21Mar | Season Sim 17: This sim will simulate all of Week 17 of the season. | |
| 23Mar | Season Sim 18: This sim will simulate one day of Week 18 of the season, stopping just before the end of the day, to allow trades to be posted before advancing. | |
| 26Mar | TradeDeadline: Trade Deadline-trades will be entered before sim. The remainder of Week 18 will be simulated afterwards. | |
| 28Mar | Season Sim 20: This sim will simulate all of Week 19 of the season. | |
| 30Mar | Season Sim 21: This sim will simulate all of Week 20 of the season. | |
| 02Apr | Season Sim 22: This sim will simulate all of Week 21 of the season. | |
| 04Apr | Season Sim 23: This sim will simulate all of Week 22 of the season. Upcoming: Rosters expand to 40 on Sept. 1 |
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| 06Apr | Season Sim 24: This sim will simulate all of Week 23 of the season. | |
| 09Apr | Season Sim 25: This sim will simulate all of Week 24 of the season. | |
| 11Apr | Season Sim 26: This sim will simulate all of Week 25 of the season. | |
| 13Apr | Season Sim 27: This sim will simulate all of Week 26 of the season. | |
| 16Apr | Season Sim 28: This sim will simulate all of Week 27 of the season. | |
| 18Apr | Season Sim 29: This sim will simulate the final game of the regular season. | |
| 18Apr | Tie-Breaker: This sim will be used for any one-game playoffs to determine tie breakers for Division titles going into the playoffs. This sim may not be needed, and thus the schedule will skip down to the Wild-Card Round. | |
| 20Apr | Wild Card Sim: This sim includes the entire Wild Card Series of the Playoffs and the off days until the League Divisional Series start. NOTE: GMs should start protecting Rule 5 eligible players as the Rule 5 Draft is coming up. Also, no free agent offers are allowed through the Playoffs and until the Rule 5 Draft has concluded. Teams not involved in the Playoffs are allowed to make trades for any players that are NOT pending free agents. |
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| 23Apr | LDS Sim 1: This sim includes the first three of five games of the League Division Series of the Playoffs. NOTE: GMs should start protecting Rule 5 eligible players as the Rule 5 Draft is coming up. Also, no free agent offers are allowed through the Playoffs and until the Rule 5 Draft has concluded. Teams not involved in the Playoffs are allowed to make trades for any players that are NOT pending free agents. Commissioner to run a test sim to get CPU nominations and open polls to accept nominations for Gold Glove Awards and Comeback/Breakout Player Awards. |
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| 25Apr | LDS Sim 2: This sim includes the remaining games of the League Division Series of the Playoffs and the off days until the League Championship Series start. NOTE: GMs should start protecting Rule 5 eligible players as the Rule 5 Draft is coming up. Also, no free agent offers are allowed through the Playoffs and until the Rule 5 Draft has concluded. Teams not involved in the Playoffs are allowed to make trades for any players that are NOT pending free agents. Nominations still accepted for Gold Glove Awards and Comeback/Breakout Player Awards. |
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| 27Apr | LCS Sim 1: This sim includes the first four of seven games of the League Championship Series of the Playoffs. NOTE: GMs should start protecting Rule 5 eligible players as the Rule 5 Draft is coming up. Also, no free agent offers are allowed through the Playoffs and until the Rule 5 Draft has concluded. Teams not involved in the Playoffs are allowed to make trades for any players that are NOT pending free agents. Nominations still accepted for Gold Glove Awards and Comeback/Breakout Player Awards. |
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| 30Apr | LCS Sim 2: This sim includes the remaining games of the League Championship Series of the Playoffs and the off days until the World Series starts. NOTE: GMs should start protecting Rule 5 eligible players as the Rule 5 Draft is coming up. Also, no free agent offers are allowed through the Playoffs and until the Rule 5 Draft has concluded. Teams not involved in the Playoffs are allowed to make trades for any players that are NOT pending free agents. After the sim, the Nomination posts for Gold Glove Awards and Comeback/Breakout Player Awards are closed and polls are created in the forums for these Awards. Stats+ Award ballots opened for all other awards. |
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| 02May | World Series 1: This sim includes the first four of seven games of the World Series. NOTE: GMs should start protecting Rule 5 eligible players as the Rule 5 Draft is coming up. Also, no free agent offers are allowed through the Playoffs and until the Rule 5 Draft has concluded. Teams not involved in the Playoffs are allowed to make trades for any players that are NOT pending free agents. Voting for all Post Season Awards continues in the forums and in the Stats+ Awards Page. |
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| 04May | World Series 2: This sim includes the remaining games of the World Series. This sim will stop just after the calendar rolls over to the Post Season. NOTE: GMs should check in-game messages for Player Option emails and should start protecting Rule 5 eligible players as the Rule 5 Draft is coming up. Also, no free agent offers are allowed through the Playoffs and until the Rule 5 Draft has concluded. Trading is open for all teams for any player that is not a pending Free Agent. Voting for all Post Season Awards concludes in the forums and in the Stats+ Awards Page. Winners added in-game during Post Season Sim 1. New budgets are announced. |
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| 07May | Post Season 1: This sim takes the league just before the Post Season Award announcements. NOTE: GMs should check in-game messages for Player Option emails and start protecting Rule 5 eligible players as the Rule 5 Draft is coming up. No free agent offers are allowed through the Playoffs and until the Rule 5 Draft has concluded. Trades can be submitted (for players that are not pending Free Agents), but the GMs are responsible for designating and assigning newly acquired players to prevent them from becoming Rule 5 eligible. |
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| 09May | Post Season 2: This sim takes the league just past the Post Season Award announcements. NOTE: GMs should check in-game messages for Player Option emails and start protecting Rule 5 eligible players as the Rule 5 Draft is coming up. No free agent offers are allowed through the Playoffs and until the Rule 5 Draft has concluded. Trades can be submitted (for players that are not pending Free Agents), but the GMs are responsible for designating and assigning newly acquired players to prevent them from becoming Rule 5 eligible. |
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| 11May | Post Season 3: This sim takes the league to Monday before arbitration hearings. No free agent offers are allowed through the Playoffs and until the Rule 5 Draft has concluded. Trades will NOT be processed this sim to prevent the acquired players from becoming Rule 5 eligible. | |
| 14May | Post Season 4: This sim takes the league through the player contract arbitration hearings and concludes after the eligible players file for Free Agency and takes us to the start of the Rule 5 Draft. NOTE: GMs can protect Rule 5 eligible players until the Rule 5 Draft begins, since the Rule 5 Draft is completed in-game with lists. No trades will be processed this sim. Also, no free agent offers are allowed through the Playoffs and until the Rule 5 Draft has concluded. |
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| 16May | Post Season 5: This sim takes the league through to the conclusion of the Rule 5 Draft. NOTE: No free agent offers are allowed through the Playoffs and until after this sims files are posted. |
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| 18May | Free Agency 1: This sim takes the league through the first four days of Free Agency to allow for some responses to come in. NOTE: GMs should be familiar with TheShows rules regarding contracts and contract incentives before submitting offers. These rules are posted in the League Rules section of the website. |
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| 21May | Free Agency 2: This sim takes the league through the next 7 days of Free Agency. NOTE: GMs should be familiar with TheShows rules regarding contracts and contract incentives before submitting offers. These rules are posted in the League Rules section of the website. |
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| 23May | Free Agency 3: This sim takes the league through the next 7 days of Free Agency. NOTE: GMs should be familiar with TheShows rules regarding contracts and contract incentives before submitting offers. These rules are posted in the League Rules section of the website. |
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| 25May | Free Agency 4: This sim takes the league through the next 7 days of Free Agency. NOTE: GMs should be familiar with TheShows rules regarding contracts and contract incentives before submitting offers. These rules are posted in the League Rules section of the website. |
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| 28May | Free Agency 5: This sim takes the league through the next 15 days of Free Agency. NOTE: GMs should be familiar with TheShows rules regarding contracts and contract incentives before submitting offers.These rules are posted in the League Rules section of the website. |
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| 30May | Free Agency 6: This sim takes the league through the next 15 days of Free Agency. NOTE: GMs should be familiar with TheShows rules regarding contracts and contract incentives before submitting offers.These rules are posted in the League Rules section of the website. |
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| 01Jun | Free Agency 7: This sim takes the league through the next 15 days of Free Agency. NOTE: GMs should be familiar with TheShows rules regarding contracts and contract incentives before submitting offers.These rules are posted in the League Rules section of the website. |
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| 04Jun | Free Agency 8: This sim takes the league through the remaining days of Free Agency. NOTE: GMs should be familiar with TheShows rules regarding contracts and contract incentives before submitting offers.These rules are posted in the League Rules section of the website. |
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| 06Jun | Pre Season 1: This sim takes the league first 15 days of the Pre-Season. NOTE: GMs should be familiar with TheShows rules regarding contracts and contract incentives before submitting offers. These rules are posted in the League Rules section of the website. |
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| 08Jun | Pre Season 2: This sim takes the league through the remaining days of the Pre-Season. NOTE: GMs should be familiar with TheShows rules regarding contracts and contract incentives before submitting offers. These rules are posted in the League Rules section of the website. |
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| 11Jun | Spring Sim 1: This is the NEW Season! Commish needs to roll over the IP files. This sim will simulate the first 10 days of Spring Training. Incentive Point Spending are processed during this sim. Commish to set messages to 10 days to ensure that all in-game messages are included with the files. |
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| 13Jun | Spring Sim 2: This sim will simulate the next 10 days of Spring Training. Incentive Point Spending are processed during this sim. |
