Double Decade redo - 1972 canauscot, Jsam & RR to load

[Sykes25]

I have a few proxies loaded and will check in later.

I will re-check the draft as often as possible to approve the Bowa drop if needed.

[BC Manager]

Have we done all we can to reach RR? (PM, league emails, does anyone have his email?)

[Yellow_Dog]

Looks like a few more picks have been made. I've turned off my proxies, so the drafting will stop when it reaches my turn (if canauscot picks) so we can get the Bowa pick straightened out.

[Runnin Rebel]

OOPS.....I'm in the middle of a 40-hour stretch where we are trying to prep for a big Labor Day Blowout and just realized that I left a proxy open on Bowa who is not eligible until next year. (No wonder he was still around) I'll drop him ASAP.

Sorry,
RR

[BC Manager]

I approved your drop RR. You're free to pick again.

[UGLYJERRY]

I probably would be interested, I would just like the rules. If Sean comes back and would like his team I would step aside no problem.

Ugly

[LMBombers]

Here are the rules:

1.players are elligible for the seasons from the first carded year to their last, when they "retire". The exceptions are for 70's players that also have an 80's card. Those players don't retire until their last carded year in the 80's game. One exception to that rule is if the 80's card is a 75¢ card then they are only considered a keeper player for you thru 1979.

2. You can use any 75¢ player in any season. They never retire. They can never be a keeper either. All 75¢ players are free agents every season.

3. You can keep all players on your roster from one year to the next that has a salary over 75¢ as long as they haven't "retired".

4. There will be a rookie draft of players before each new season. Rookies are players with a salary over 75¢ who's first carded year is the new season about to be played. The draft order for the rookie draft is based on the just completed season standings. The 4 teams with the worst record will give a lotto state and the numbers of the 3 digit state lotto will be used for a random order of the first 4 picks. The next 4 picks will be the non-playoff teams in order of worst record to best. Tie-breaker will be worst H2H record then worst run differential then commissioner's decision. The last 4 picks of the draft are the playoff teams from the prior year. First round loser with worst regular season record gets pick #9 followed by the other first round loser. Finals loser gets pick #11 and the Champ gets the last pick in the FA draft. This same draft order is used each round of the draft which lasts until there are not enough FA left to pick for a full round or everyone is done, whichever comes first.

5. Draft Card - Your new draft card can include elligible players from your prior year's ending roster, your rookie picks, 75¢ players or elligible players that were free agents at the end of the prior year. Keep in mind that you lose rights to any player NOT on your roster after the AD. You don't have to keep players on your prior year's roster but if you don't draft them then they are now considered free agents for anyone to pick up.

6. You must immediately drop any players you get in the AD that are not elligible for that season which would either be players over 75¢ that are not rookies yet, players that have already retired or if you mistakenly took someone else's player.

7. 80M, 1971 & 1972 (no-DH), 1973-1989 (DH)

[canauscot]

That's about it.

BC posted a copy of the full original rules early in this thread.

The only major exception for this one is to do with the yearly rookie drafts which I think will be based on record at some earlier stage in the season, with some sort of tie-breaker system, so that we don't have to wait for playoffs to get ripping thru the draft. Game 141 has been proposed, and that has its merits with the roster freeze, so you can still trade away the performing player for a draft pick in the upcoming draft. I'd be happy to make it game 120, to really take away the temptation to tank and maybe stop the giving away of a killer 75 for a bag of balls.

[canauscot]

I waited as long as I could. I'll be out for a while today and I didn't want to hold us up when RR comes back to pick. My proxy should fire after that. I don't suspect RR would go for an expensive pitcher after missing out on an inexpensive SS anyway.

[BC Manager]

RR has repicked (Singer). Yellow Dog is on the clock (not that we have a clock -- maybe we should revisit that idea?)