Coach hiring and rehiring

Hiring and rehiring coaches is possibly one of the biggest nightmares in building your team, it is also the easiest. OK, the hiring process is probably the toughest process we will do in building our teams. I am often mad because some coaches want to leave that I absolutely want that I thought might stay because they had a high loyalty rating. Also I am often a wee bit ticked off because some coaches want new positions that they are not close to being qualified for that I want to stay but I won't give them something they are not qualified for. And the last reason I'd like curse out the person responsible for the hiring process is that there are some coaches that want to advance into positions that I do not want to advance them into because a returning coach is much better, but these are coaches I want to keep. It would be nice to take the coaches that want to return and we want to keep and offer them the same position or a better position and let them decided from there. Of course having the ability to hire and fire coaches during the season would be great, but I don't think it would be nessecery because I get the feeling that we would not be able to get a better coach for the position. Generally in real life the interm coach is not much of an improvement so I would not expect much of an improvement for an interm coach for this game. These are all wishes that I do not expect to see anytime soon. The object to coaching is to have a graduated effect over time. The ideal situation would be to hire a coach as a coach in the rookie league and ease him into the major leagues, like you are advancing a player. This isn't going to happen. Coaches want promotions, coaches leave, there will be better coaches available. But that is the idea. Some GMs do it different, as they pidgen hole coaches at certain levels. That allows them to only go after good coaches for that level and not worry too much about the other levels. Is that a good idea? That is up to you decided. I do not like that approach because you are shorting yourself coaching ability at the other levels. Coaches are fairly straight forward. They have stats in each category just like players. However some are actually better than others even with basically the same stats. How can that be you may ask? Pitching coaches should have high pitching, the higher the better. However if both pitching coaches have the same pitching stat and one has a better teaching stat, then that coach is the better coach.
Another category I look at is loyalty. That gives you a chance that the coach will return for the next seasons and they might want advancement. I will never take a coach with a low loyalty rating, ever. If you take a coach with a low loyalty rating you are basically renting the coach for the year because the coach is very likely to leave the next year. I sometimes look to discipline, but not always. Of course if the stats are higher, the better. The bench coach is by far the most important position. He is suppose to be the one that carries out what you want to be done. An example would be if you put together a slugging team you would want his hitting IQ to be higher, or if you put together a very good pitching squad you'd want his pitching to be better. I like to look for a well balanced coach. I want the coach to be balanced in all areas. If I can not find one of those, I look for a coach with a high pitching rating. One thing I've noticed is that the other coaches will learn from the bench coach. So keep that in mind. One thing to keep in mind is if you are rebuilding, you do not want to spend a fortune for major league coaches but if you have a ton of young players you absolutely do not want the worst coach either. If you have to worst coach you will hurt your team in more ways than you can imagine. A bad coach will kill your players improvement. If I am rebuilding I will make sure I have great minor league coaches with ok major league coaches. If I know I can not compete for a playoff spot then I am not going to spend the money on those coaches, but I will spend the money on the coaches that will improve my team for future seasons at that time. I've found a good minor league coach will jump at the chance to coach at the major league level, a good AA coach will jump at the chance to coach at the AAA level, a good HiA coach will jump at the chance to coach at the AA level, a good LoA coach will jump at the chance to coach at the HiA level, and a good rookie league coach will jump at the chance to coach at the LoA level. I haven't found a level below rookie that will jump at the chance to coach rookie league yet. If you do, please tell me =). I hope this helps you out a little bit. I know this part of the process can be one of the most frustrating for all of us. Hope you have a decent coaching rehiring/hiring expirence.