If you don't like the Assistant GM's actions/recommendations, is there an "undo" function?

So ...what happened? Our world rolled, the ML roster change to 26 was reflected, the assistant GM button was there(Said available after budgeting) Budgeting completes and the roster max went back to 25 and the asst GM button says available after next roll. I had called up a minor leaguer to get to 26. Now it's gonna cost me an option year to move him back down? Can anybody tell me what's going on?

Submit a ticket. Or, if you aren't commish, have the commish do it.

TheDirtyDog - Looks like we had a bug on our end where we missed the fact a world's underlying "version" was being set when the world schedule was generated.

This bug impacted the following worlds:

• Ruth
• Capra
• Dirt
• Ichiro
• Pine Tar
• UBA/Fisk

We have since upgraded these worlds to use the new version and corrected the mistake so it won't impact future worlds.

It would not take years. It wouldn't even take one year. "Hey, scouts, this season go watch college guys instead of high school guys." There's already a complete lack of logic in how scouting works because teams spending the same amount in the same category often don't even see the same guys. How many leagues have you been in where you didn't see a top 10 pick? In what universe are the top 25-50 guys not known to all teams? I understand the way our game has to work to differentiate college and high school, and why it has to operate that way for an autodraft based on our spending, but if that's how it works, we should be allowed to adjust more readily. MLB is currently considering eliminating high school players from its draft. Do you really think every franchise would take years to figure out how to draft college players instead?

If not the whole 20 million why not 10 million a year? Currently taking my HS budget from 20 to 0 and it takes 4 full seasons.

Well, 10m would be an upgrade. Still suboptimal. I mean, it used to be 4m -- and take 5 seasons to make a big change -- before it was 5m. I'm not a coder, but making every range 0-20 seems like one of the easiest updates to make, no? And much more practical than creating some AI assistant GM.

My world just rolled into these new rules. Why weren't franchise budgets increased since active rosters were expanded to 26? Like $190M vs $185M?

Posted by the_mad_monk on 9/25/2026 1:33:00 PM (view original):
My world just rolled into these new rules. Why weren't franchise budgets increased since active rosters were expanded to 26? Like $190M vs $185M?

I thought about that for a bit too but it assumes there are available $5M players worth signing. IMO it's far more likely that any additional budget money someone had would go into a top end free agent or International, thus driving up the top end of the markets. I figure a 26th player is probably only going to be making in the neighborhood of $327k.

Just my opinion, but id say the reason for the declining interest in baseball is the decline of the attention span of Americans. Add that to the impact a single has on the outcome a team's season and you have your answer. I can't spend 3.5 hours watching a game that has 1/162th impact on the outcome of my favorite team's season. I have too many things competing for my time.

Absolutely it is the decline of the attention span in people in tandem with one of its main causes, being busy, and having corporate interests contributing to the shortening of the attention span so that people impulse buy, need constant stimulation which will commonly be solved with shopping, and do not pay attention to their own profits, shenanigans, and desire not to be held accountable for ethical and environmental concerns.

Posted by justindoom on 9/21/2026 10:20:00 PM (view original):
Make every single budget item 0-20 every season (like prospects). There's already the 50% tax on all in-season movements. If I want to chase IFAs one season and then not, or if I notice everyone is drafting high school guys and I want to switch to college for a year, I should be able to do that every offseason. And I'd be much more likely to take over a team in another world if I could start a full rebuild immediately.

I’m sure I’m a minority here, but I’ve always liked the $5 limit on budget changes. It forces people to think longer term and prevents wild strategy shifts from one season to the next. If I have a team full of aging veterans and only $12 in one of my prospect scouting budgets, I have to think about how long it’ll take for my overpaid veterans to collapse. I can’t just jump into rebuild mode right away. It also has a slight deterrent on people who tank for a bunch of years and then try to go from like 50 wins to 110. They can’t do an immediate FA splurge until they pare down their prospect budgets a bit.


btw, It’s actually more generous than it used to be - back in the old days you could only go up or down by 4. And if you took over a team you had to start over at $10 instead of going off the previous owner’s totals.

Posted by tlowster on 9/25/2026 4:43:00 PM (view original):
Just my opinion, but id say the reason for the declining interest in baseball is the decline of the attention span of Americans. Add that to the impact a single has on the outcome a team's season and you have your answer. I can't spend 3.5 hours watching a game that has 1/162th impact on the outcome of my favorite team's season. I have too many things competing for my time.

That could be part of it. I think it’s also a matter of way more entertainment choices. Back in the 50s/60s when there were only 3 TV channels, a single tv show might yet 40 million viewers. Now we have thousands of channels plus streaming, and a successful network show gets maybe 3-4 million.

Similarly, back in the mid 20th century, baseball didn’t have too many competitors among sports fans. The NFL didn’t truly take off until the 80s and 90s. The NBA was kind of a niche thing until the Michael Jordan days. And in the 1950s most Americans probably hadn’t ever heard of soccer or thought it was some sort of Commie conspiracy. There are just way more things (sports and otherwise) to occupy peoples’ free time now.

oh, also doesn’t help that the teams and league have started gouging consumers wherever they could. It’s super expensive to follow the game now. Even adjusted for inflation, MLB tickets are more than three times as expensive as they were in the 70s and 80s. Merchandise costs have also skyrocketed. And you used to be able to watch almost every single one of your teams’s games for free. Now you have to subscribe to cable or satellite to get whatever regional sports network won the latest $50 million contract for broadcast rights.