Ver 1.51: League Realignment, Dispersal Draft, New Offseason

Version 1.51 is out!

The headline feature is League Realignment: you can now reshape your league structure in an ongoing save, and players from clubs that leave the league move on through a Dispersal Draft. The offseason also grows in a big way with the Active Draft, Fall/Spring Camps and Winter Leagues.

League Realignment — reshape your leagues mid-save

• When you wrap up the offseason, the game now asks "Change the league setup for next season?" (the prompt can be turned on/off in Settings)
• Using the same wizard as a new game, you can rework the number of leagues and clubs, divisions, games played, DH and postseason format starting next season. You can add clubs or drop them from the league
• Expand 12 clubs to 30, shrink back to 12 a few years later — repeat realignments all you like; past standings, stats and records are fully preserved

Dispersal Draft — where do the dissolved clubs' players go?

• If clubs leaving the league still have active players, a Dispersal Draft is held. Starting with last season's weakest club, the remaining clubs take turns picking players
• Clubs with no roster space left take players on development contracts. Anyone left unselected becomes a free agent you can sign from the market later
• Your club takes part too, of course. Race everyone to the dissolved club's stars, or scoop up prospects on development deals — or skip the draft and release everyone as free agents
• Every move is covered in the news and recorded in each player's career log

Active Draft — a fresh start for underused players

• Just like the real NPB, an Active Draft is held after the rookie draft. Each club submits two underused players and must acquire one and give up one
• The pick order follows the real rule too: the club whose player was just taken picks next. Round 2 is optional
• You choose both who to submit and who to pick (or leave it on auto). Will you rescue a buried gem from another club — or watch your own hidden talent walk away?
• The selection screens show ability ratings and farm stats, with position filters, sorting by ability/age/farm results, and a hover preview pane. FA compensation and dispersal draft picks use the same screens
• Moves are reported in the news and each player's career log

Fall & Spring Camps — offseason training shapes next season

• A Fall Camp after the draft and a Spring Camp before opening day. Assign a focus menu to each player — anyone left unset simply trains under their usual policy
• Younger players improve the most, and fall gains outweigh spring. A report shows exactly who improved which abilities and by how much
• Camps can also work on position conversions and learning new pitches. Fail in fall, keep the same menu in spring, and success becomes far more likely

Winter Leagues — send your prospects abroad

• From the Fall Camp screen, send up to three players aged 26 or under to overseas winter leagues (5M yen per player)
• Choose from Taiwan, Australia or Central America — each league tends to develop different abilities, so pick the destination that fits your plan
• Dispatched players return around Spring Camp with a report of their stats and growth. Sometimes a jackpot, sometimes a dud — that's the fun
• AI clubs send their underused prospects too

League Customization — divisions, promotion/relegation, presets

• New-game league setup is massively expanded: 1–6 leagues, up to 30 clubs, divisions within leagues, and promotion/relegation pyramid structures
• Japan, US, Korea and Taiwan style presets recreate a 30-club, 162-game division setup or a single-league split season in one click
• Schedule rhythms now match each country: Taiwan plays five games a week (two midweek + three weekend) ending in early October, Korea opens on the fourth weekend of March, and the US preset runs every day including Mondays from a late-March Thursday opener
• Postseason formats fit the structure, such as division winners plus wild cards

Other updates & fixes

• In-game pitching changes now give your designated setup men (7th/8th-inning roles) a dedicated badge and list them first (requested by a player from Taiwan)
• New-game default rules revised to match modern pro baseball (FA compensation now defaults to player compensation). Fixed settings leaking from your previous save into new games
• The settings screen is reorganized into tabs, and rule settings like games played and injuries can now be viewed and changed any time in-game (also fixed volume settings not being saved)
• Player career logs now include pre-pro yearly stats (high school, college, industrial league)
• The number of games a demoted player must wait before re-promotion is now configurable
• Fixed veteran farm players never retiring (retirement talks now cover farm players too)
• Fixed auto-draft occasionally re-running the development draft repeatedly
• Eased the drift toward pitcher-dominated scoring in long-running saves
• Fixed the count not resetting after a bunt at-bat, and defensive substitutions ignoring managing settings while watching games

Thank you for playing! Bug reports and requests are always welcome on the community hub.