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Post by The Commish on Feb 13, 2008 0:09:42 GMT -5
There were several concerns about a previous league I was a GM in, and I wish to clear those up before this league starts.
1) What to do about payroll budgets:
Answers:
1) I can reset all of the payroll budgets so that everyone is on a level playing ground.
2) I can leave everything the way it is and allow people the challenge of competing with a team that has financial realities. If this is the case I plan on offering several ways to throw some spending cash (read available cash, not payroll budget increases) every teams' way via your creative submissions for your teams such as news articles, rookie of the week/month/awards for the AL/NL, rookie pitcher of the week/month for the AL/NL, player of the Week/Month for the AL/NL award, a bonus based on players elected to the ALL Star Game, and year end award winners. The amount of money I give out is not set in my mind yet. It won't be crazy, but perhaps $50,000 for a weekly award, $100,000 for a monthly award, $150,000 for an all star player, and $250,000 for a year end award.
3) Same as above but without any of the bonuses I mentioned.
What to do about the draft:
1) Well, I certainly do not want an autodraft"
Answers:
1) We do a full draft: This will take a LONG time and probably kill most of you in the process.
2) We can do a 25 man roster draft and allow the CPU to fill the rest of your roster. I personally like this option.
3) A live draft via AIM chatroom. The draft will be broken up over a couple of days possibly over a couple of weekends, perhaps 5 rounds a day with 2-3 minutes allowed per pick.
4) A "block draft" where people submit to me a top 5 draft pick sheet and I draft the highest rated player on your list that is avialable at your pick, going 5 teams at a time. If a player is not available that you listed I will AIM IM you to make a new selection. You will have 3 minutes to make a choice or a pick will be made for you that is the highest OVR rated player available.
What do you all think? Have any more suggestions?
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Post by Angels GM on Feb 13, 2008 8:19:51 GMT -5
It all sounds very good to me. Perhaps we can do a group chat session for the draft. I'm in another draft league and that was how it was done and the draft was complete within a week which was great. Just a suggestion and of course up to the commish.
For reference, my AIM is nightwingDOT and my email is nightwing_1240@hotmail.com
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Post by The Commish on Feb 13, 2008 12:28:10 GMT -5
Gotcha.
Like I said I am looking for input from all the GMS and hopefully with that we can come up with something that works for everybody hopefully. If not everyone then mostly everyone. I'll take all the comments and then start up a poll once we get some more GM's on board. The E-mail I sent out asked for people to get back to me by this Sunday, so by then I hope to know where we stand with GMs and then I will actively try to promote this new league to get new GMS involved.
Thanks fo posting.
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Post by sfgiantsgm on Feb 14, 2008 10:51:12 GMT -5
reset budget to zilch or give us all a high budget like the nyy. suggest the block draft but have 3 mins to pick is insane. Just have the time to send in a pick if they dont they get skipped until they can make it.
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Post by brewcrew on Feb 17, 2008 5:09:33 GMT -5
I think the budgets should be evened out. With a fantasy draft like this, it isn't fair for teams like the Yankees to be given an advantage. They should have to earn their high payroll through winning.
I think the draft should be a combination of a couple things.
First of all, I think we should do about 30 rounds, so teams can draft their MLB roster along with some top prospects.
Secondly, I think we should have an open draft thread on the forums that is constantly moving. Give teams a 5 hour limit or so to make their pick, with a "dead period" from midnight to 10 AM or something like that. Then, try to have a couple "AIM drafts" a time or 2 per week, in which we would knock out a few rounds with 3 minute pick limits. If a manager isn't able to attend the AIM draft, they would send you a list of players for you to pick for them. Anyone that fails to do either will be out of luck, and the computer will draft for them.
I've done a couple draft leagues in the past, and that has been most successful in my experiences.
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Post by idlefool on Feb 17, 2008 13:07:05 GMT -5
I have already given my thought on the payroll issue in a different thread. But yea, I think the group chat suggestion for the draft is a great idea. It would be the quickest and most efficient way to finish up a draft regardless of how many players are being drafted. I think most of us are anxious for the league to start.(since technically we have been waiting since the other league)
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Post by The Commish on Feb 18, 2008 18:19:40 GMT -5
So then, what is a fair payroll budget limit for all of the teams then?
$70 million?
No budget at all?
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Post by The Commish on Feb 18, 2008 18:29:42 GMT -5
I think the budgets should be evened out. With a fantasy draft like this, it isn't fair for teams like the Yankees to be given an advantage. They should have to earn their high payroll through winning. I think the draft should be a combination of a couple things. First of all, I think we should do about 30 rounds, so teams can draft their MLB roster along with some top prospects. Secondly, I think we should have an open draft thread on the forums that is constantly moving. Give teams a 5 hour limit or so to make their pick, with a "dead period" from midnight to 10 AM or something like that. Then, try to have a couple "AIM drafts" a time or 2 per week, in which we would knock out a few rounds with 3 minute pick limits. If a manager isn't able to attend the AIM draft, they would send you a list of players for you to pick for them. Anyone that fails to do either will be out of luck, and the computer will draft for them.I've done a couple draft leagues in the past, and that has been most successful in my experiences. I am questioning this draft thread topic. How does that work exactly? I mean, one team could bog down the process and screw up the other teams by not making a pick for 5 hours or so, then making a pick at the last minute and everyone else is hung out to dry? I have a feeling we are going to have to tweak the draft process at some point, so I am open to all ideas for how to make everyone happy and get the draft done in a time frame you all agree with. Personally, the draft can take as long as it needs to as I am under no time constraint. I know most of you don't have that same option and I don't want people dropping out because the draft takes a month to complete. It is important for sure and everyone should feel that way. A draft thread I think might be useful maybe when it comes to the later rounds and especially in the AAA/AA players being drafted. I suppose I could open a thread with the draft order for a particular round, leave the thread open for that day, and all the GMS would be responsible to make a pick. An issue arises if somebody doesn't make a selection. What time limit should I have on somebody making a choice? In order to get a round done per day it would have to be less than an hour between picks. I'd say about 10 minutes. I would notify the board ahead of time when this style of drafting will take place, giving everybody about a day's notice, then open up the thread, and I will check it every few minutes to make sure people make their picks. If a team misses their selection, they forfeit that pick and will get a player chosen for them that hasn't been selected by another team in that round. Does this sound fair? What do you all think?
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Post by brewcrew on Feb 18, 2008 22:49:15 GMT -5
The majority of the picks in the draft would come from the AIM draft. The forum portion would be simply to keep things moving and get as many picks as possible out of the way.
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Post by The Commish on Feb 18, 2008 23:42:32 GMT -5
And what about the pitfalls I brought up? How do you work around those?
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Post by brewcrew on Feb 19, 2008 1:24:17 GMT -5
I don't see what pitfalls you brought up... You can't control when a manager picks inside the time limit, but if they miss it, you just give them the best player available, or the 5th best avaiable or so if you want to punish them a little bit.
Again, the forum portion is just to keep it moving a little bit, even if it's a pick per day. The AIM draft is where give people a couple days in advance to be there, and knock out 3-5 rounds with 2-3 minute time limits.
As far as you 1-hour time limit idea. I can pretty much guarantee that won't work.
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Post by rvill90 on Feb 21, 2008 20:14:15 GMT -5
i think we should do the live draft on aim in a possibly two to three weekends with staggered round timers as it goes on
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Post by vikesfan541 on Feb 25, 2008 9:25:15 GMT -5
i think we need to reset the payrolls so we are all even. Add up the total payroll of all teams and divide by 32...that seems fairest to me. Also, when I joined the league i was assuming wed be drafted by march 1, but i will be out of town from the 8-31 of march so hopefully we can work around that somehow
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Post by The Commish on Feb 29, 2008 9:50:52 GMT -5
WEll, I can't control when people sign up. I was very upfront in saying that this thing wouldn't start until I had a set number of GM's. Within the last couple of days we have gotten a couple more and it looks like the total is 17. I would like to get 3 more to make it 20 even. Then I will probably just make a league with 20 teams and not 32, Make 4 divisions instead of 6.
What do you all think?
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Post by The Commish on Mar 5, 2008 10:13:07 GMT -5
Vikesfan,
I will do my best to keep the draft closed until you can get back, or maybe you will still have access to a computer during that time you will be away. I have just made a post on ESPN FLB so hopefully I will get some visitors and GMs from that post.
Will you still be able to answer e-mail and get online while you are away?
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