Hey Bailey- you need to set your draft budget during the preseason. They changed the game this year and basically require you to set aside the money in order to use it for draft signing.
this isn't necessarily true. as long as you have budget room, you can use any of that excess to sign draftees. as long as you're paying slot or below, you also can sign them regardless of budget
Draft Budget is a line item you can change on the Player Development tab before the season starts. It is the budget for all your signing bonuses. The evil A's owner defaults to a budget that's way below the slot value of the picks. So you have to check the Player Development tab in the offseason and set the draft budget to what you need it to be next year (which will eat money out of your pool for free agents/extensions). I wish you could adjust this mid-season. Why not, if there's budget available.
Okay so I have a question. If I set draft budget to say $8million and the player I draft is in a $6million slot but asking for $7million, would I be able to offer him what he wants if he's the first person I offer and THEN offer slot to the others even though the total would be well over $8million after doing so? Or would the game revert the offer to the slot offer or remove it after then going over the budget offering slot to the others?
You can increase your draft budget in the player development tab during the preseason. During the preseason, you can increase player development $, draft budget $, and international FA $ all from that tab, and scouting $ from the scouting tab When you do that, it will tell you the "recommended budget" for the draft based on your slots and their value, and you can choose to just do that, go over, or go under that. You can also increase player development $ to help development and increase your international FA budget $ up to whatever the cap is to help you sign players Your owner won't let you go over slot because you are exceeding the budget you set. Lets say the value of all 6 of your picks in the first 5 rounds was $19 million, and you set your budget at $20 million, then if you offered everyone slot, you would have $1 million left over, so if someone wants a little more, you can give them a little more, and whatever you don't spend goes back into your team. However, because your draft budget is set so low, your owner won't let you go a penny over slot for guys (this is all based on my gameplay in OOTP 25, if everything I just said is because of some setting I have on that you have off then my bad but I don't think so)
Okay so I have a question. If I set draft budget to say $8million and the player I draft is in a $6million slot but asking for $7million, would I be able to offer him what he wants if he's the first person I offer and THEN offer slot to the others even though the total would be well over $8million after doing so? Or would the game revert the offer to the slot offer or remove it after then going over the budget offering slot to the others?
@@clibby8776 (heads up there is a chance my answer is wrong but I’ll give you my answer based on how I understand it) So if your budget is $8 mil, that is the budget you have for all picks in the first however many rounds you set that you have to sign players (standard appears to be 5). So if you sign a guy for $7 mil, you will have $1 mil remaining for the rest. If you offer him, and offer slot to all your other guys at the same time, odds are the other guys will be over $1 mil, so if they sign first you might not have enough money to sign the other guy for $7 mil, though I could be wrong about that part, the owner may give the OK if you have already offered it but be careful cause I don’t know for sure about that
I've simmed 2024 half a dozen times now and Tarik Skubal has won the AL Cy Young all 6 times. Seeing how he's performing in your sim has only reinforced to me that he's the most consistent superstar pitcher in the OOTP 2025 model
@@saintbeesechurger2800To be fair, they changed it this year - you used to be able to go over your draft budget as long as you stayed within your overall budget, now you can’t offer over slot once you exceed your draft budget.
@@FroyoMNS Okay so I have a question. If I set draft budget to say $8million and the player I draft is in a $6million slot but asking for $7million, would I be able to offer him what he wants if he's the first person I offer and THEN offer slot to the others even though the total would be well over $8million after doing so? Or would the game revert the offer to the slot offer or remove it after then going over the budget offering slot to the others?
Kruz Schoolcraft had the potential to be a premium stopper/DH/Platoon 1B against RHP (His bat is exactly what 4th rounder Donovan Jeffrey had stat-wise). Unique pick for sure but doesn't mean he was best pick. Still, a lefty stopper (45 control too low for a starter) with random power in his bat and defensive potential at 1B (6'8) is a lot of versatility. Might have been overlooked a little bit.
I'm a sports writer/photographer in southern Illinois and one of the local teams I regularly cover (Father McGivney, a 250-student school in Glen Carbon) played against Jayden Stroman and IMG Academy in a tournament this season in Memphis. I traveled with our local team to that tourney and got to cover that game. Stroman crushed a lead off solo shot on the third pitch of the game. It was the most pissed on baseball I've ever seen in a game I've covered.
Draft budget is under the Player Development Tab, that's where you can set the Development budget, draft budget and international FA Budget along with seeing all your prospects in your org.
I just did a quick Google search (and the article I found wasn't recent), but I only saw one other occasion where a team swept the LCS and then got swept in the World Series: the 1976 Yankees Edit: Apparently the article I found was total BS
Looks like that one random article I found (which didn't give a full list, so I was mentally compiling as I read) really let me down XD Thanks for the corrections.
as the biggest triston casas fan in the whole wide world that 49 hr .380 OBP season on a 101 win red sox team would probably kill me for good if it ever played out in real life
Bailey, you should start keeping track of your players’ zone runs. OOTP’s version of DRS or UZR. Can dramatically impact your pitchers’ development if you have players with massively negative ZR. Can really moneyball OOTP with a good defense and pitching staff that fits it
also for dev lab, it makes it way more fun to increase slots to like 10. Since most players arent successful, its more realistic too. Then i usually choose 3-4 months for all except one or two, which are 3-4 weeks. After those 3-4 weeks are done u can put another player in. So you can useone slot multiple times throughout off season as long as theres still time
Go into Commissioner Mode and put your entire available money into your draft budget when it comes time to sign draft picks. Once their all signed, then 0 out your draft budget and you have all that money left
When negotiating for draft picks you need to offer guys that want more than slot first. If you offer the guys that want slot or under slot first then those offers count against the draft budget, but if you offer them after the guys who are above slot it does not count against
When you were looking at draft prospects, always make sure to check their full ratings. Schoolcraft was a true 2 way prospect and a better bat prospect than a pitcher
not 100% certain but I don't believe you need a license to use names, only for images/likenesses. I think there is an age cutoff; in Football Manager it's 16.
22k still watching on average 4k people drop off each video its gone from saving the Oakland team to ssving this thread wanna see years 5-15 lets see how first 10 years in lv go with the foolish super team hand picked for the big d 😳
Julio Rodriguez is the most overrated player in the game right now. He’s just not that good. He’s not even playing good defense. He looks like he doesn’t know where he is
He’s had a subpar start to the season, sure, but he’s only 23! And he’s still stealing bases like nobody’s business, the offense is going to come along just fine.
Hey Bailey- you need to set your draft budget during the preseason. They changed the game this year and basically require you to set aside the money in order to use it for draft signing.
Yeah, this is new in OOTP 25 which is why Bailey might not be familiar
this isn't necessarily true. as long as you have budget room, you can use any of that excess to sign draftees. as long as you're paying slot or below, you also can sign them regardless of budget
Ty I am lost
@theseanie9958 any other tips
@@theseanie9958 I think that’s no longer true in OOTP 25 - but was true in earlier versions.
Draft Budget is a line item you can change on the Player Development tab before the season starts. It is the budget for all your signing bonuses. The evil A's owner defaults to a budget that's way below the slot value of the picks.
So you have to check the Player Development tab in the offseason and set the draft budget to what you need it to be next year (which will eat money out of your pool for free agents/extensions).
I wish you could adjust this mid-season. Why not, if there's budget available.
Specifically when the “preseason” starts, because the owner will initially set it then
Okay so I have a question. If I set draft budget to say $8million and the player I draft is in a $6million slot but asking for $7million, would I be able to offer him what he wants if he's the first person I offer and THEN offer slot to the others even though the total would be well over $8million after doing so? Or would the game revert the offer to the slot offer or remove it after then going over the budget offering slot to the others?
Next years OOTP should have a system where you can mutiny against the owner and force them to do your bidding.
Hire a PI with team finances to blackmail the owner with incriminating photos
a feature where you’re able to revolt and distribute the team to the locals packers-style
Babe wake up, new Bailey fixing Oakland just dropped.
Oakland has been dominant dont fix what aint broken
@@MichaelHawkins-yd6ge yeah so dominant lmao
You can increase your draft budget in the player development tab during the preseason. During the preseason, you can increase player development $, draft budget $, and international FA $ all from that tab, and scouting $ from the scouting tab
When you do that, it will tell you the "recommended budget" for the draft based on your slots and their value, and you can choose to just do that, go over, or go under that. You can also increase player development $ to help development and increase your international FA budget $ up to whatever the cap is to help you sign players
Your owner won't let you go over slot because you are exceeding the budget you set. Lets say the value of all 6 of your picks in the first 5 rounds was $19 million, and you set your budget at $20 million, then if you offered everyone slot, you would have $1 million left over, so if someone wants a little more, you can give them a little more, and whatever you don't spend goes back into your team. However, because your draft budget is set so low, your owner won't let you go a penny over slot for guys
(this is all based on my gameplay in OOTP 25, if everything I just said is because of some setting I have on that you have off then my bad but I don't think so)
Okay so I have a question. If I set draft budget to say $8million and the player I draft is in a $6million slot but asking for $7million, would I be able to offer him what he wants if he's the first person I offer and THEN offer slot to the others even though the total would be well over $8million after doing so? Or would the game revert the offer to the slot offer or remove it after then going over the budget offering slot to the others?
@@clibby8776 (heads up there is a chance my answer is wrong but I’ll give you my answer based on how I understand it)
So if your budget is $8 mil, that is the budget you have for all picks in the first however many rounds you set that you have to sign players (standard appears to be 5). So if you sign a guy for $7 mil, you will have $1 mil remaining for the rest. If you offer him, and offer slot to all your other guys at the same time, odds are the other guys will be over $1 mil, so if they sign first you might not have enough money to sign the other guy for $7 mil, though I could be wrong about that part, the owner may give the OK if you have already offered it but be careful cause I don’t know for sure about that
I've simmed 2024 half a dozen times now and Tarik Skubal has won the AL Cy Young all 6 times. Seeing how he's performing in your sim has only reinforced to me that he's the most consistent superstar pitcher in the OOTP 2025 model
Thoroughly enjoying the series. I've picked up OOTP maybe 4 times over the years. This is making me want to give it a go again.
Same but every time I find out. Foolish is what makes this game fun 😆 it is way too complicated for my girl brain.
If the Guardians sweep the Dodgers in the 2025 WS IRL I will get the Winged Fastball logo tattooed on my right asscheek
Even in fiction the Mariners choke at the last moment
In this foolish ootp reality, the Mariners have missed the playoffs three straight years by a combined 4 games
I’m going to take this as a predictor for real life, my Guards are sweeping the Dodgers in the World Series!! WOOOOO
game bugged out thats supposed to be the TWINS BABY THE MINNESOTA TWINS TWINS WIN
(/j)
Man watching this draft with Bailey having no idea how to do it was painful.
The fact that Bailey has been playing OOTP for years and doesn’t know how draft budget works is pain.
@@saintbeesechurger2800To be fair, they changed it this year - you used to be able to go over your draft budget as long as you stayed within your overall budget, now you can’t offer over slot once you exceed your draft budget.
@@FroyoMNS Okay so I have a question. If I set draft budget to say $8million and the player I draft is in a $6million slot but asking for $7million, would I be able to offer him what he wants if he's the first person I offer and THEN offer slot to the others even though the total would be well over $8million after doing so? Or would the game revert the offer to the slot offer or remove it after then going over the budget offering slot to the others?
@@clibby8776 Yes, you would be able to.
Isbel shows that he was an all star in 2024 while this season is the 2025 season. So his all star pin is for last season.
Kruz Schoolcraft had the potential to be a premium stopper/DH/Platoon 1B against RHP (His bat is exactly what 4th rounder Donovan Jeffrey had stat-wise). Unique pick for sure but doesn't mean he was best pick. Still, a lefty stopper (45 control too low for a starter) with random power in his bat and defensive potential at 1B (6'8) is a lot of versatility. Might have been overlooked a little bit.
I'm friends with Kruz so this is fun to see u talk good about him
Really enjoying the "Bailey Beane" series of videos
Giants being 81-81 two seasons in a row is just phenomenal and that makes me trust the simulation that much more
Sweet both my teams win the world series back to back. Thank you for guaranteeing these results irl as well Bailey.
this series should get wayyyy more views
Hey Bailey, thanks for posting these consistant let's play videos. I appreciate the content :)
I'm a sports writer/photographer in southern Illinois and one of the local teams I regularly cover (Father McGivney, a 250-student school in Glen Carbon) played against Jayden Stroman and IMG Academy in a tournament this season in Memphis. I traveled with our local team to that tourney and got to cover that game. Stroman crushed a lead off solo shot on the third pitch of the game. It was the most pissed on baseball I've ever seen in a game I've covered.
Thanks for blessing my Thursday Bailey may the ootp odds be in your favor
Damn, never been so lucky to pull up the YT app and have a brand new, posted a min ago goated video
As a cleveland fan I'll do anything for a sweep over LA in two years
Man, if this was a semi-regular Bailey live stream for a few hours a couple times a week that would amazing.
Bailey i love this series. Great job dad.
When these episodes are uploaded, my heart skips a beat
Even just watching a sim, as a Guardians fan I'm giddy
let's goooo man, i needed this!
Draft budget is under the Player Development Tab, that's where you can set the Development budget, draft budget and international FA Budget along with seeing all your prospects in your org.
loving the series
Day 2 of asking: Bailey, please upload this daily
I just did a quick Google search (and the article I found wasn't recent), but I only saw one other occasion where a team swept the LCS and then got swept in the World Series: the 1976 Yankees
Edit: Apparently the article I found was total BS
The 1990 A's swept the Red Sox in the ALCS then got swept by the Reds in the WS
2007 Rockies did that too. Swept both the LDS and LCS, and then were swept by Boston in the WS
2012 Tigers also swept the ALCS but then were swept in the world series
Looks like that one random article I found (which didn't give a full list, so I was mentally compiling as I read) really let me down XD
Thanks for the corrections.
checked baseball reference and it's just the 1990 A's, 2007 rockies, and 2012 tigers. that 1976 yankees team won the ALCS in 5 games
22:15 Jesus, look at that Angels collapse
OOTP really has the Guardians just running it back every year with like 1 pick up each season lol. So realistic actually
15:50 when you look at Bradfield and Jones here, it’s on the OSA view and not our scout
as the biggest triston casas fan in the whole wide world that 49 hr .380 OBP season on a 101 win red sox team would probably kill me for good if it ever played out in real life
He definitely has the potential to do that, maybe even with a higher OBP. I can’t wait to get him back from the injured list.
Bailey, you should start keeping track of your players’ zone runs. OOTP’s version of DRS or UZR. Can dramatically impact your pitchers’ development if you have players with massively negative ZR. Can really moneyball OOTP with a good defense and pitching staff that fits it
also for dev lab, it makes it way more fun to increase slots to like 10. Since most players arent successful, its more realistic too. Then i usually choose 3-4 months for all except one or two, which are 3-4 weeks. After those 3-4 weeks are done u can put another player in. So you can useone slot multiple times throughout off season as long as theres still time
Bangeliers!
When signing draft picks always sign the guys over slot first. The cpu owner will always let you sign a player at slot even if you are over budget.
Go into Commissioner Mode and put your entire available money into your draft budget when it comes time to sign draft picks. Once their all signed, then 0 out your draft budget and you have all that money left
Episode 3 of asking where Tyler soderstrom is
Mariners missing the playoffs by a game again is just so realistic
Colin Poche nation we rise
When negotiating for draft picks you need to offer guys that want more than slot first. If you offer the guys that want slot or under slot first then those offers count against the draft budget, but if you offer them after the guys who are above slot it does not count against
Wow, i like that Ootp believes in Jose Soriano
My 🐐 uploaded again 😭
Juan frometa sounds like facebook got a new spokesperson
Wow, Soto to the Dodgers.
We need a yearly trout update with Ohtani
Coy James was always unreal in ootp 24
Draft budget can be found in controlled budgets
The all star rules are definetly in the game, just change it in the offseason.
When you were looking at draft prospects, always make sure to check their full ratings. Schoolcraft was a true 2 way prospect and a better bat prospect than a pitcher
ETHAN PETRY REFERENCE RAHHHHH
gg Cleveland.
How many seasons were you planning on doing?
Team was so bad you broke the All Star selection algorithm
Bailey if you don't click "draft player" and click "meet demand" -if you do this, I don't think the Owner gets a say, but I could be wrong.
Don’t worry Bailey, your owner doesn’t hate you specifically, he hates anything that has to do with baseball in Oakland!
Dodgers were doing better than usual in the playoff...
The Foolish A’s are cooked
Is this available in advance on your patreon? If so how much?
I’m gonna make it available in advance on Patreon soon, maybe tomorrow. $5 a month but you can cancel before the 1st and you won’t be charged.
Is this the fabled daily bailey?
Bailey's getting fired
John Fisher looks like Gary Cohen’s evil twin
"my owner hates me" my dog is always saying this when i don't let her eat trash off the sidewalk
that CANNOT be paul blackburn's nickname for real
2 minutes ago lets goooo
Love to watch the Dodgers lose, big fan.
hi, u rly gotta up that dev budget to max. Otherwise its useless to draft players or get prospects, they justwont develop. matters way more this year
Kruz Schoolcraft. I have nothing else to say but Kruz Schoolcraft
Ladies Love Coy James
@@ARMTOASTshe kruz on my craft
(puddle of mudd voice) my owner hates me
mariners missed by 1 game last year and now by 2 😭
What you have to do is offer over budget players first, then offer all the slots bc the owner will let you sign people for slot even over budget.
Even then he couldn't offer him the $9.5million because his budget is half that hahaha
bailey you really gotta be careful being on OSA ratings so often, it can really lead to some mistakes in roster decisions
Does anyone know why some players names are in all caps and some are normal in the draft
The player names in caps have been shortlisted by Bailey
pretty wild how deep they go into actual real life prospects...any idea how they get the licensing for these guys?
great series FB
Yea these kids are like 17 and 16 right now … are they paying their parents ?
The draft prospects are user uploaded and downloadable. OOTP doesn’t have their rights, although theoretically they can now for college guys
@@CrescentCitySweaters oh wow. So are attributes randomly assigned ?
not 100% certain but I don't believe you need a license to use names, only for images/likenesses. I think there is an age cutoff; in Football Manager it's 16.
Isbels all star was 2024
That thumbnail is anti-clickbait.
Guards Guards Guards Guards Guards Guards Guards Guards Guards Guards Guards Guards
Again the mariners miss the playoffs by 1 game! 2nd straight year!
Look at how Anaheim just completely fell off in the second half of the season. Goodness gracious.
Kyle isbel was a 2024 all star for you not 2025
Starting a 16 year old at the Dominican league? 🤔
22k still watching on average 4k people drop off each video its gone from saving the Oakland team to ssving this thread wanna see years 5-15 lets see how first 10 years in lv go with the foolish super team hand picked for the big d 😳
Hey Bailey what up
Redbar is doing an investigation into you and his findings will be released soon. I pray he doesn’t find anything damaging.
what
@@FoolishBailey Redbar's watching
Feels like a bot account
I’m sorry, Paul blackburn’s nickname is w h a t
Julio Rodriguez is the most overrated player in the game right now. He’s just not that good. He’s not even playing good defense. He looks like he doesn’t know where he is
He’s had a subpar start to the season, sure, but he’s only 23! And he’s still stealing bases like nobody’s business, the offense is going to come along just fine.