Factors involved in their decision include the number of seasons they have played, how well they performed in the previous season, and how well their team performed in the previous season. Any player who has suffered a career-ending injury will retire at this time as well. Notification that players have retired appears in the Team News and Association News screens. You can view retired players statistics from the Association Statistics screen. Due to time constraints and the impossibility of 28 owners individually training each of their 50 players, the commissioner opts to have the computer take care of training allocations.
Training is allocated to each of the individual skill ratings.
If sufficient training time is allocated to a particular skill, a player's actual ratings for that skill will increase. The amount of increase in actual ratings depends on the amount of training time allocated and the percentage of his potential ratings the player has reached. If a player has an actual rating that is very close to his potential, very little increase will be gained even by a large amount of training. The free agent draft basically uses the players on the standard free agent list. Also, rookies from real life baseball that are not yet in TIBL are also added to the free agent draft.