EAST-WEST TEAM LEAGUE (draft in progress)
Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 5:03 pmThis is a variation of the AM-NAT league already in progress. It uses the same rules as that league, with the following changes:
-GMs draft teams from an "EAST" list and a "WEST" list (MIL had to be moved to the WEST list to make the lists even (13 teams each; two will not be drafted [one from each list]). List is at end of this post.
-There is a "raid" option involving non-drafted teams (#10, below).
-There is a tiebreaker rule concering pick 3's.
-Daryl Boston is now available. :) (#11, below)
EAST-WEST League
Synopsis:
-80M, DH league
-Managers draft one EAST and one WEST team. Players only play for the teams they actually appeared for (with ONE exception [trades, see below).
1) BASIC PREMISE AND DRAFT ORDER: Each manager selects a team from the “EAST” list and a team from the “WEST” list. The manager may only draft players from those two teams during the initial draft phase. These teams are selected in a serpentine draft. Draft order is determined randomly. I will conduct the random draft via lotto, low to high. In the case of ties, the previous day's pick three will be used (low number wins the tie breaker).
EXAMPLE: After lotto, I select Boston in the first round and St. Louis in the second (lucky me!). This means I can only draft players from these two teams, using the "team" selection tool on the free agent sort screen. All of these players will be selected in the autodraft phase.
2) BALLPARKS: The manager's team must play in the ballpark of one of the teams he picks.
EXAMPLE: In my Boston-St. Louis combo, I'd have to play either in Fenway or Busch Stadium.
3) TEAM NAMES AND LOCATIONS: The team's name must clearly reflect the team's home site (place name) as well as the other team taken in the draft (mascot). We will try to place teams in their proper divisions, according to the parks people have chosen.
EXAMPLE: Boston-St. Louis. My place name is determined by the stadium I took. If it was Fenway, I am the Boston Cardinals. If it was Busch, I'd be the St. Louis Red Sox (quite a mouthful there). Depending on which park I took, I could end up in the EAST (Boston) or CENTRAL (St. Louis). If, however, there is a plethora of CENTRAL placenames, St. Louis could slide to the west (I can't imagine any scenario where Boston is in the Central).
NOTE, “ORDER OF PREFERENCE:” It is possible to place several teams in more than one division. To mitigate the confusion of where teams go, I have listed each team’s possible divisional placements using a “preference” or “seeding” of sorts. An obviously EAST team, like New York will always be in the east. An obviously WEST team, like L.A., will always be in the WEST division, and so on. Other teams may have two designations, for example “CHC—CENTRAL/EAST.” This means that, in a perfect world, the Cubs go in the central. But if there are multiple CENTRAL teams and an east slot is open, CHC moves to the EAST.
NOTE #2, PLACEMENT: In cases where teams of certain divisions are so numerous, or configuration is so unusual, or disagreement is so prevalent that no other way can be found to place teams, such issues will be resolved by placing teams in any free slots of divisions in alphabetical order, starting from east to west. This ONLY applies when there is disagreement as to placement of teams, or otherwise irresolvable and or confusing issues over placement.
4) DETERMINING PLAYER OWNERSHIP, PRESEASON (AUTODRAFT) PHASE: Many players played for more than one team, and will appear on two or more team screens. When determining if you own a player during the DRAFT PHASE, click on his card portrait. If the player played three or more years for your drafted team, he is yours. If he played two with your team, two with another, and one with someone else, then the team name that appears FIRST on the card gets the player (the team name of the team that had the player TWO YEARS). This holds true even if the years are non-consecutive. Finally, if a player appeared for 5 different teams, that player belongs to the team that appears FIRST on his card.
EXAMPLE: Fred Lynn's card shows he played for BOS (2 years, or 2y), BAL (2y) and CAL (1y). According to the rules above, he belongs to Boston for draft purposes. Kevin McReynolds portrait shows that his first two years were with SD, his last three with NYM. Because he played THREE years with NYM. He counts as a MET (or a "3y-MET).
NOTE #1: “Ownership” of players in the above manner is only applicable during the autodraft phase. After autodraft, managers may select ANY players that appear on their “by team” rosters.
NOTE #2: For the purposes of clarity, a player who played two years with two different teams is called a "2-2." A "franchise player" is one who played all five years with one team. PRIOR TO THE SEASON STARTING, YOU CAN ONLY DRAFT PLAYERS THAT FULLY "BELONG" TO YOUR TEAMS (as detailed above).
5) FRANCHISE PLAYERS: Players who played ALL FIVE YEARS for their selected (drafted) team(s) are considered "franchise players," and CANNOT be traded to other teams. They must either remain on the active roster, or in the franchise's "minor league system." As they are 5y players, they are always untouchable by other franchises.
6) NON-DRAFTED (NDT) TEAMS: One EAST and one WEST team willl be undrafted after the team draft phase. Players from these two teams are available to franchises, provided they appear on the GM’s “by team” screens. “Franchise players” from non-drafted teams are simply not available at all. They all died in that terrible plane crash, and are thus buried and forgotten.
EXAMPLE #1: SEA ends up being an NDT. Richie Zisk, a 3y-SEA player not available during autodraft, is still available to the TEX franchise, as he has 2y in TEX. He won’t be available to anyone else, however.
EXAMPLE #2: MIN ends up an NDT, as everyone is completely afraid of taking on their pitching staff. There are still plenty of MIN players available out there (like the immortal Ron Davis, who is still available to the Yankees). Unfortunately, all those wonderful 5-MIN stalwarts (among them Viola, Puckett, Gagne, Hrbek and Gaetti) are all simply unavailable. They’re gone – poof! Finito. (Too bad they boarded the death plane that day.)
TO REITERATE: you MUST use players that appear on your “by team” screens ONLY. That’s IT (exception, TRADES, below)
7) WAIVER PERIOD: Because everyone’s draft picks are free and clear, there is no reason to observe a waiver period. Waiver order would not be fair to anyone, anyway (as we ALL got ALL our players). GM’s will wait until the waiver period ends before picking up any free agents. Trades are allowed during this time, however (see #9, below). Rules concerning free agency are detailed in #8, below.
8 ) FREE AGENCY: After autodraft and waiver period, any player listed on a manager's team screens may be picked up. It does not matter how many years they have had with that particular team. All players that show up on "by team" screens are fair game, as per the normal game rules.
EXAMPLE: OAKLAND. I have drafted my team, but do not like all the pitchers I selected. The autodraft runs, so I check out the free agency list on my "by team" screen to see if anyone fell through the cracks. I notice that Joaquin Andujar, a 4y-STL player that the STL player passed on is available to me, since he is also a 1y-OAK player. STL's loss is my gain. I drop a player and pick up Andujar in free agency prior to beginning the season.
9) TRADES: In order to as much as possible maintain the “players only play with their actual teams” theme, franchises are allowed only ONE TRADE PER SEASON. These trades may include any players on the active roster EXCEPT franchise players. Obviously, any players acquired in this manner are not held to their actual team” status. As a courtesy, the commissioner requests that teams conducting such trades announce them via broadcast message to other teams in the league. REMEMBER: ONE TRADE PER SEASON.
10) “RAIDS”: Once per season, and ONLY after the season has begun (the team must have played a series), any team may “raid” ONE NDT roster for ONE PLAYER. This is a first-come, first serve basis, and the team must announce via e-mail to all that the raid has been made. This email should include the name of the player taken. Raided players CANNOT be traded and, if released are available for later raids by other teams.
EXAMPLE: SEA is an undrafted team. After playing a single series, I decide to dump my starting 2B and pilfer Harold Reynolds (a 5y-SEA) from SEA. After doing so, I e-mail the rest of the league and inform them of my coup. I can no longer raid either NDT roster for the rest of the year. If I release Harold later, anyone who has not used up their “raid” option may do so. NOTE: Raid options ARE tradable commodities.
11) Special Daryl Boston rule: This rule has been rescinded. You may now actually own Daryl Boston (yaaaaaaay!).
THE LISTS
[i:fb66e2c6f0]NOTE: In order to balance out the two lists (13 teams each), I was forced to place an obviously EAST team (MIL) in the WEST bracket.[/i:fb66e2c6f0]
TEAM (division pref)
EAST
ATL (EC)
BAL (E)
BOS (E)
CHC (CE)
CHW (CE)
CLE (CE)
DET (CE)
MON (EC)
NYY (E)
NYM (E)
PHI (E)
PIT (EC)
TOR (E)
WEST
CAL (W)
CIN (CW)
HOU (CW)
KC (WC)
LAD (W)
MIL (CW)
MIN (CW)
OAK (W)
SD (W)
SEA (W)
SF (W)
STL (WC)
TEX (WC)
-GMs draft teams from an "EAST" list and a "WEST" list (MIL had to be moved to the WEST list to make the lists even (13 teams each; two will not be drafted [one from each list]). List is at end of this post.
-There is a "raid" option involving non-drafted teams (#10, below).
-There is a tiebreaker rule concering pick 3's.
-Daryl Boston is now available. :) (#11, below)
EAST-WEST League
Synopsis:
-80M, DH league
-Managers draft one EAST and one WEST team. Players only play for the teams they actually appeared for (with ONE exception [trades, see below).
1) BASIC PREMISE AND DRAFT ORDER: Each manager selects a team from the “EAST” list and a team from the “WEST” list. The manager may only draft players from those two teams during the initial draft phase. These teams are selected in a serpentine draft. Draft order is determined randomly. I will conduct the random draft via lotto, low to high. In the case of ties, the previous day's pick three will be used (low number wins the tie breaker).
EXAMPLE: After lotto, I select Boston in the first round and St. Louis in the second (lucky me!). This means I can only draft players from these two teams, using the "team" selection tool on the free agent sort screen. All of these players will be selected in the autodraft phase.
2) BALLPARKS: The manager's team must play in the ballpark of one of the teams he picks.
EXAMPLE: In my Boston-St. Louis combo, I'd have to play either in Fenway or Busch Stadium.
3) TEAM NAMES AND LOCATIONS: The team's name must clearly reflect the team's home site (place name) as well as the other team taken in the draft (mascot). We will try to place teams in their proper divisions, according to the parks people have chosen.
EXAMPLE: Boston-St. Louis. My place name is determined by the stadium I took. If it was Fenway, I am the Boston Cardinals. If it was Busch, I'd be the St. Louis Red Sox (quite a mouthful there). Depending on which park I took, I could end up in the EAST (Boston) or CENTRAL (St. Louis). If, however, there is a plethora of CENTRAL placenames, St. Louis could slide to the west (I can't imagine any scenario where Boston is in the Central).
NOTE, “ORDER OF PREFERENCE:” It is possible to place several teams in more than one division. To mitigate the confusion of where teams go, I have listed each team’s possible divisional placements using a “preference” or “seeding” of sorts. An obviously EAST team, like New York will always be in the east. An obviously WEST team, like L.A., will always be in the WEST division, and so on. Other teams may have two designations, for example “CHC—CENTRAL/EAST.” This means that, in a perfect world, the Cubs go in the central. But if there are multiple CENTRAL teams and an east slot is open, CHC moves to the EAST.
NOTE #2, PLACEMENT: In cases where teams of certain divisions are so numerous, or configuration is so unusual, or disagreement is so prevalent that no other way can be found to place teams, such issues will be resolved by placing teams in any free slots of divisions in alphabetical order, starting from east to west. This ONLY applies when there is disagreement as to placement of teams, or otherwise irresolvable and or confusing issues over placement.
4) DETERMINING PLAYER OWNERSHIP, PRESEASON (AUTODRAFT) PHASE: Many players played for more than one team, and will appear on two or more team screens. When determining if you own a player during the DRAFT PHASE, click on his card portrait. If the player played three or more years for your drafted team, he is yours. If he played two with your team, two with another, and one with someone else, then the team name that appears FIRST on the card gets the player (the team name of the team that had the player TWO YEARS). This holds true even if the years are non-consecutive. Finally, if a player appeared for 5 different teams, that player belongs to the team that appears FIRST on his card.
EXAMPLE: Fred Lynn's card shows he played for BOS (2 years, or 2y), BAL (2y) and CAL (1y). According to the rules above, he belongs to Boston for draft purposes. Kevin McReynolds portrait shows that his first two years were with SD, his last three with NYM. Because he played THREE years with NYM. He counts as a MET (or a "3y-MET).
NOTE #1: “Ownership” of players in the above manner is only applicable during the autodraft phase. After autodraft, managers may select ANY players that appear on their “by team” rosters.
NOTE #2: For the purposes of clarity, a player who played two years with two different teams is called a "2-2." A "franchise player" is one who played all five years with one team. PRIOR TO THE SEASON STARTING, YOU CAN ONLY DRAFT PLAYERS THAT FULLY "BELONG" TO YOUR TEAMS (as detailed above).
5) FRANCHISE PLAYERS: Players who played ALL FIVE YEARS for their selected (drafted) team(s) are considered "franchise players," and CANNOT be traded to other teams. They must either remain on the active roster, or in the franchise's "minor league system." As they are 5y players, they are always untouchable by other franchises.
6) NON-DRAFTED (NDT) TEAMS: One EAST and one WEST team willl be undrafted after the team draft phase. Players from these two teams are available to franchises, provided they appear on the GM’s “by team” screens. “Franchise players” from non-drafted teams are simply not available at all. They all died in that terrible plane crash, and are thus buried and forgotten.
EXAMPLE #1: SEA ends up being an NDT. Richie Zisk, a 3y-SEA player not available during autodraft, is still available to the TEX franchise, as he has 2y in TEX. He won’t be available to anyone else, however.
EXAMPLE #2: MIN ends up an NDT, as everyone is completely afraid of taking on their pitching staff. There are still plenty of MIN players available out there (like the immortal Ron Davis, who is still available to the Yankees). Unfortunately, all those wonderful 5-MIN stalwarts (among them Viola, Puckett, Gagne, Hrbek and Gaetti) are all simply unavailable. They’re gone – poof! Finito. (Too bad they boarded the death plane that day.)
TO REITERATE: you MUST use players that appear on your “by team” screens ONLY. That’s IT (exception, TRADES, below)
7) WAIVER PERIOD: Because everyone’s draft picks are free and clear, there is no reason to observe a waiver period. Waiver order would not be fair to anyone, anyway (as we ALL got ALL our players). GM’s will wait until the waiver period ends before picking up any free agents. Trades are allowed during this time, however (see #9, below). Rules concerning free agency are detailed in #8, below.
8 ) FREE AGENCY: After autodraft and waiver period, any player listed on a manager's team screens may be picked up. It does not matter how many years they have had with that particular team. All players that show up on "by team" screens are fair game, as per the normal game rules.
EXAMPLE: OAKLAND. I have drafted my team, but do not like all the pitchers I selected. The autodraft runs, so I check out the free agency list on my "by team" screen to see if anyone fell through the cracks. I notice that Joaquin Andujar, a 4y-STL player that the STL player passed on is available to me, since he is also a 1y-OAK player. STL's loss is my gain. I drop a player and pick up Andujar in free agency prior to beginning the season.
9) TRADES: In order to as much as possible maintain the “players only play with their actual teams” theme, franchises are allowed only ONE TRADE PER SEASON. These trades may include any players on the active roster EXCEPT franchise players. Obviously, any players acquired in this manner are not held to their actual team” status. As a courtesy, the commissioner requests that teams conducting such trades announce them via broadcast message to other teams in the league. REMEMBER: ONE TRADE PER SEASON.
10) “RAIDS”: Once per season, and ONLY after the season has begun (the team must have played a series), any team may “raid” ONE NDT roster for ONE PLAYER. This is a first-come, first serve basis, and the team must announce via e-mail to all that the raid has been made. This email should include the name of the player taken. Raided players CANNOT be traded and, if released are available for later raids by other teams.
EXAMPLE: SEA is an undrafted team. After playing a single series, I decide to dump my starting 2B and pilfer Harold Reynolds (a 5y-SEA) from SEA. After doing so, I e-mail the rest of the league and inform them of my coup. I can no longer raid either NDT roster for the rest of the year. If I release Harold later, anyone who has not used up their “raid” option may do so. NOTE: Raid options ARE tradable commodities.
11) Special Daryl Boston rule: This rule has been rescinded. You may now actually own Daryl Boston (yaaaaaaay!).
THE LISTS
[i:fb66e2c6f0]NOTE: In order to balance out the two lists (13 teams each), I was forced to place an obviously EAST team (MIL) in the WEST bracket.[/i:fb66e2c6f0]
TEAM (division pref)
EAST
ATL (EC)
BAL (E)
BOS (E)
CHC (CE)
CHW (CE)
CLE (CE)
DET (CE)
MON (EC)
NYY (E)
NYM (E)
PHI (E)
PIT (EC)
TOR (E)
WEST
CAL (W)
CIN (CW)
HOU (CW)
KC (WC)
LAD (W)
MIL (CW)
MIN (CW)
OAK (W)
SD (W)
SEA (W)
SF (W)
STL (WC)
TEX (WC)