Sim Schedule

This is a guide to help new owners get accustomed to the league. It is merely a guide, and schedule changes can occur on a permanent or temporary basis as stated in the regular updates on the message board.

The Classic Baseball Union simulates on a semi-strict daily sim schedule. The following things you can count on week to week:

  • Simulations occurring once a day Monday through Friday.
  • Simulations occurring around 8:00 AM CST
  • Simulations that do not occur before 2:00 PM CST are postponed to the following day, in some cases an extra simulation on Saturday is permitted.
  • Simulations typically do not occur over holidays, but generally discussed before hand in a  league thread.
  • Simulations times and dates may change during the post-sesaon or off-season times, in efforts to best keep the league moving forward.
  • Each simulation during the regular season will typically go from Monday-Sunday (7 days).
  • Each simulation during the playoffs will simulate the first 4 games of the series, followed by a sim of the final 3 games of each series if needed the following day.
  • Spring training will be simulated in 3 days, giving owners extra time to reduce their rosters to the opening day 25 requirement.
  • Each off-season sim will last between 2-3 weeks in-game time, usually scheduled before the beginning.
  • The commissioner has a right to make changes on the fly of the sim, due to any unforeseen circumstances.
A regular season is typically 24 sim’s long. However there are a few key dates that stop the sim mid-week, resulting in two sims to complete the week:
  • First-year Player Draft Pool in June
  • Trading Deadline in July
  • Roster Expansion in September
With an additional built in commish off-day, each regular season should take roughly 28 simulation days or less than six real life weeks.
The playoffs are divided into 6 full simulations (unless any round of playoffs finishes in just the first four games) lasting just over one week.
After the playoffs are completed, the offseason begins on the next sim date as such. The offseason is 16 simulation weeks broken into a mix of long and short simulations. At no time will a simulation go past 21 in-game days, but we will also stop here:
  1. The start of online league award voting, a day for writing the season recap.
  2. Simulating to the official offseason-start day.
  3. Simulation to the salary arbitration hearings. (Final day to attempt to resign potential free agents)
  4. Simulation to the opening day of free agency.
  5. Simulation to the start of winter meetings.
  6. Simulation to the end of winter meetings.
  7. Simulation to the start of pre-season. (Enter any rule changes here)
  8. Simulation to the start of spring training.
Depending on how the schedule plays out, the off-season should last about 12 sim periods. We encourage owners to make aggressive offers in free agency, as there’s less opportunities to continually one up the other guy.
Roughly a calendar year in the CBU will take 45 simulation days, or 9 real life weeks. As always there are unforeseen circumstances, technical difficulties, vacations, sickness, and holidays. Typically in the past the CBU has run a pace of about 5 CBU years in each and every real life year. This is a fairly brisk pace, but it keeps the game flowing extremely well.
Again this is a guide to help new owners get accustomed to the league. It is merely a guide, and schedule changes can occur on a permanent or temporary basis as stated in the regular updates on the message board.