Change your ballpark after the draft

[bernieh]

[b:e3ca91e7ed]Effective immediately, you have the ability to change your choice of home ballpark until 11:59pm ET the night before your season starts.[/b:e3ca91e7ed]

For example, if your opening day is Monday, March 10, you can change your ballpark up until Sunday, March 9 at 11:59pm ET. If you're doing a salary cap auto-draft, you'll still be asked to choose a park before you join a league, but now, after the draft, you'll see a link on your Front Office page that will let you modify your choice until the night before your opening day.

This feature applies to all player sets in the central SOM Online site, namely 2007, ATG III and 1986. It was necessitated by the fact that the new Live Draft does not support selecting a ballpark during the draft (yet), so there needs to be a way to select one afterwards, but it will also address the issue where your team coming out of your auto-draft doesn't fit your originally chosen park, as well as eliminate the countless emails we get from managers who accidentally chose the wrong park.

[the splinter]

Bernie...not a bad option...but...I think the declaration time is too close to Opening Day. It makes it difficult to plan for your opponents if they keep changing their park up until OD. I could set up my team days in advance only to have the league flip on me the day before OD...crazy stuff man ...crazy.

[LMBombers]

I think that only a small percentage of league will use the new live draft tool to create their leagues.

[quote:e5d5a2e864="bernieh"]eliminate the countless emails we get from managers who accidentally chose the wrong park.[/quote:e5d5a2e864]

I don't know how many people contact TSN to change their ballpark, and can appreciate wanting to cut down on some Customer Service requests, but is that reason enough for the change?

If we were able to change the ballpark for say 24 HRs after the draft runs but then it locks so that we can see how our teams match up vs our division opponents it would be a good tool. The way it is now is ripe for abuse by the unscrupulous IMO.

[blue turtle]

For what's it worth, I dislike this option. Free agent decisions are not made simply in consideration of the home park, but also those of the opponents, at least those in my own division. I understand your decision and the reasons behind it; I just don't like it.

[keyzick]

Shoot I don't like that at all. I hadn't even realized you could do that now. Half the fun is trying to draft a team to fit not only your own park, but also your division's (and to some extent the league), and then scrambling in waivers and free agency if you have a crappy draft, to try and accomodate.

I always look to see if I should make adjustments to my team based on what other parks are chosen.

Maybe a happy medium, as some have suggested, with locking in stadiums at waiver time. Although I'd vote against the ability all together.

[toshiro]

That option could lead to some crazy play, esp since you can do it right before starting time. That could lead to some serious "gaming the game".

[dennisfs561]

I like the option, but it should only be available between the time the auto draft is ran, and 12a.m the next day. (24 hours total)

Many of us tailor our waiver picks based on opponent's ballparks. This gives the option to change, and gives stability to the waiver process.

Ballparks need to be locked in before waivers.

Didn't see LM Bombers post :oops: So----- I 2nd his idea.

[goredsox33]

I like the option of being able to change the ballpark after the draft, but I think that the option should end at the same time waivers begins.

As another poster stated, teams are built not only based on the home team ballpark, but the opponents ballparks as well.

[Play By The Rules]

Bernie, I'm sorry, this is a terrible option. Please change it back.