by Page2 » Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:35 pm
Hi Guys,
Just wanted to get a note on the boards and cover a few things.
1. I will post tomorrow's draft times as soon as I get done with this and fill them in in my data base. I usually try to post it around 11:00 pm est for the next day, but night we had our winter sports awards at school so my real life team had me busy.
2. A couple of people sent me a pm today to draft some players for them, I posted twice on the boards that I can't help with the draft until 7:00 pm est for some reason surf control at work won't let me on with any regularity. So after I post this I will go and make the proxy picks for the ones that sent me proxies, sorry if you missed out on someone I hope that didn't happen.
3. Bunbruy is leaving the country tomorrow and won't be back until April 1st late and will be getting his team in on the second. He will send me some proxies and I will try to fill out the last of his team the best it can be done (he just has back ups to go and is okay with taking whats left). Although he is worried about delaying things. Which I don't see as a big problem only a 5 day delay at the most, plus this will allow us to go deeper into the real baseball season and decide who we may or may not want to keep.
4. The big one for last dropping players. I don't think we did it as a policy last year. If my memory is correct someone near the end of the draft realized that they were over the cap and had to drop a player at the end to fit under the cap and make his team legal to draft. So I said okay and they did. This year lumbercompanysouth dropped a couple of players and smackk asked if the drops would stand, cause if they did he would pick one of them up. So I had to make a decision either tell smackk no we need to vote which is nearly impossible to do during the middle of a draft. Hold the draft up mess up peoples checking in times and so on. So I said yes go ahead to keep things on time and moving ahead.
The way I say it was that lumbercompanysouth may have looked down the line and saw that he was going to have cap issues and needed to drop those players. My thought and I posted this before is drop them now that way another player can draft them. Lets say I went off and drafted all the top players (if they were available) Bay, Jones, Vlad, A-Rod, Jeter, Roberts, Lee, Pujols, Varitek well that would lock anyone out from picking them and I would be way over the cap with the rights to the top guys until it came time to enter my team. Then I would have to drop them and nobody would have a shot at them. The way I looked it was lumbercompanysouth was just trying to put some players back in the pool that he may have over drafted on and giving as many a shot at them as posible.
Maybe the best plan is to next year only draft until we have 17 players and then just auto draft the rest that way it would be easier to figure where you may be against the cap instead of having to add it up on the fly during the drafting of all 25. Hope no one is too upset over this I just saw it a player trying to stay under the cap. Anyone have any good ideas as to what direction to go on this next year. I really like that we all came back again this year, I think it shows the strenth of this league. I hope we continue to stay strong and have this league for as long as SOM/TSN have it going.
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