Manage your favorite Franchise

[ndowdy]

1. Choose a franchise to manage; you must play in their park. 80 million cap, DH, weighted waivers.

2. You own the rights to all players currently on your roster (in real baseball) i.e. Troy Glaus is a Cardinal; C.C. Sabathia is a Brewer etc.

3. You must keep 20 players that currently play for your franchise, or used to. Players not belonging to a team in the league are up for grabs if they used to play for your team. This webpage

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/index.html#Players

is a good reference for this information. So for example, if nobody is managing the Yankees then Alex Rodriguez could play for Seattle or Texas and so on.

4. To provide some balance for lesser teams, after all 12 teams are selected they will be grouped into three tiers according to their records. Then there will be a draft in reverse order of records (from 2007). These picks can be used to secure any player that doesn't belong to another team (on their current roster.) Top tier teams only participate in round one, second tier teams in rounds one and two and third tier teams will select 3 players.

5. Any additional players added to the roster must be under 1.00

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[LARRYLANG]

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[LARRYLANG]

So the way I understand it is---Even though Percival is carded to STL he would belong to TB not Stl. Is that correct?

[ndowdy]

That's correct. I've played in leagues where the player belongs to the team he's carded to (Page2 does one every year) but getting late in the season, I thought it might be more interesting to own the players who are on your favorite team now instead of last year.

[The Turtle]

I'd like to sign up as the Cubs but I don't know about this rule.

[quote:57f30db7c9]To provide some balance for lesser teams, after all 12 teams are selected they will be grouped into three tiers according to their records. Then there will be a draft in reverse order of records (from 2007). These picks can be used to secure any player that doesn't belong to another team (on their current roster.) Top tier teams only participate in round one, second tier teams in rounds one and two and third tier teams will select 3 players.[/quote:57f30db7c9]


If we are using 2008 players why use 2007 records to determine this? With Pelzer's pick of Tampa Bay he gains Percival, who adds a lot to a team that had an awful record. Adding 3 players versus 1 on top of that is a lot and makes the drafting of the actual team the main strategy. With the Cubs I could not add it the players like Percival, since they are not in the set - Fukodome and Soto. Although, he does not Longoria, He will get 3 picks to get a 3B and I will get 1 pick to fill my 2 holes.

So why don't we make it 1 and 2 or 2 and 3 instead, or cap the second round at a salary level (say below 4.0) and the third at below 2.5 to lessen the impact.

[LARRYLANG]

I'd like to sign up as the Cubs but I don't know about this rule.

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To provide some balance for lesser teams, after all 12 teams are selected they will be grouped into three tiers according to their records. Then there will be a draft in reverse order of records (from 2007). These picks can be used to secure any player that doesn't belong to another team (on their current roster.) Top tier teams only participate in round one, second tier teams in rounds one and two and third tier teams will select 3 players.



If we are using 2008 players why use 2007 records to determine this? With Pelzer's pick of Tampa Bay he gains Percival, who adds a lot to a team that had an awful record. Adding 3 players versus 1 on top of that is a lot and makes the drafting of the actual team the main strategy. With the Cubs I could not add it the players like Percival, since they are not in the set - Fukodome and Soto. Although, he does not Longoria, He will get 3 picks to get a 3B and I will get 1 pick to fill my 2 holes.

So why don't we make it 1 and 2 or 2 and 3 instead, or cap the second round at a salary level (say below 4.0) and the third at below 2.5 to lessen the impact.


I agree--I will also lose Delmon Young if someone takes the Twins...Why not just make it a two or three rd draft , equall for everyone but with the lower tier teams with the first picks.

[thisisray]

1. Cardinals - ndowdy
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[ndowdy]

I'm open to other possibilities to the balance idea. Usually when we run these leagues we don't have a draft and your team's record doesn't matter at all. You just have to keep 20 of your own players and you can fill out the remaining picks with 2.00 or less players. This works just fine and I would be happy to do it like that or another way that everybody likes. The reason why I added that draft idea is because the last couple of times it has taken the league a long time to fill because people felt they were at a big disadvantage with the weaker teams.

I'm open to whatever you guys think will make the league fill. I just want a chance to play St. Louis in some reasonable facsimile of their current form. I don't think there is much chance that any balancing rule we come up with is going to make the Cardinals' flood of .50 cent starters a viable championship candidate, but alas, they are my favorite team... ;)

If we change the rule we should start a new thread so it doesn't confuse everyone.

[The Turtle]

1. Cardinals - ndowdy
2. Tampa Bay- Pelzer
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[RICHARDMILTER]

I would be interested as well ,but the rules seem a little confusing. Once you figure out exactly how it is going to work(and if the league is not yet full) I may join. My first choices would be either the Cleveland Indians or Angels.