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[CATom]

Petaluma? augh, I love Petaluma - only about 70 miles away from me NOW- great "cheese" town! :) KEWL :lol:

I'm startin a "C" thread - PLEASE, the rest of you STAY OUT!

:evil:

[ArrylT]

[quote:d1a0d4bcd2]The 2nd round will take the 6 best records(Using the usual tiebreakers if necessary)from League A and B to form the 1st 12 team League in the 2nd round. The 2nd 12 team league will be comprised of the 6 best records from Leagues C and D.[/quote:d1a0d4bcd2]

Obviously the same # of owners will advance from each League into Round II ... The question becomes which League will advance the most into the Final 12 of Round III.

We already know what I think. :wink:

[ROBERTVOZZA]

That a friend sent... :lol:

Married 25 years, I took a look at my wife one day and said, "Honey, 25 years ago, we had a cheap apartment, a cheap car, slept on a sofa bed and watched a 10 inch black and white TV, but I got to sleep every night with a hot 25-year-old blond. Now, we have a nice house, nice car, big bed and Plasma screen TV, but I'm sleeping with a 50-year-old woman. It seems to me that you are not holding up your side of things."
My wife is a very reasonable woman. She told me to go out and find a hot 25-year-old blond, and she would make sure that I would once again be living in a cheap apartment, driving a cheap car, sleeping on a sofa bed..............

BTW can someone from each League post standings so players from each league can follow everyone else's progress? I don't know how to do it.

Thanks, Robert :wink:

[KEVINEHLE]

EAST Manager W L
Diamond Smugglers JAMIE399 (3632) 7 5
Geneva Coorsbats genevajack (857) 7 5
Baytown Boomers Assmeriten (1650) 6 6
Member Of The Bottom Six Club ehlekev (959) 4 8

CENTRAL
Manager W L
a lot o lovin spicki17 (1875) 8 4
Carolina Flukes Jeepdriver (2414) 7 5
It gets late early out there stevep107 (1287) 5 7
Montreal Olympians doctrcpa (347) 4 8

WEST Manager W L
Ghardaia Desierto maligned (96) 7 5
Fresno Bulldogs II freakfrosh182 (577) 7 5
King Kong Lotto Part Deux pacoboy (2661) 6 6
Coventry PonyExpress Jerlins (693) 4 8

My teams is nearly mathematically eliminated. I'm creating a bottom 6 league next week. :cry:

:wink:
Kev

[LMBombers]

LEAGUE B

EAST
Vegas Mania B.o.b.b.y... (5426) 9 3
ARIZONA CHA CHA'S robvoz (606) 6 6
Hoosier Daddy J-Pav (2468) 5 7
Battlin Beavers giddyup81 (1689) 4 8

CENTRAL
Runaway Trains edgecitytx (1101) 10 2
Ashby Astroids gjtjeff (112) 6 6
Main Street USA alphonso1 (1461) 5 7
Scratch Off Tickets LMBombers (868) 3 9

WEST
Taylor Maids VII etdefender (2792) 7 5
Doctor's IndaHouse doctor_tax1 (755) 6 6
The LongHaulers charliewb (408) 6 6
Ottawa Jedi Masters ArrylT (2320) 5 7

Kev, Your team is ahead of mine. :oops:

[doctrcpa]

Kev - don't forget that I have reserved a spot in your new league already! :wink: :(

[KEVINEHLE]

Thanks Doctr, we'll see if we can get Randy (LM Bombers) into our league as well. 8) 8)
It could be the only league in strato history in which all 12 teams end up with a losing record. :? :? :?

Kev

[maligned]

Hey, guys, this is a league I'm starting that I wanted all of you to know about. Please sign up on the Big Board if you're interested. This is my post from there:

This is an idea I've been thinking about for quite a while. Please read the details before you sign up. It seems complicated at first, but it's actually pretty simple.

"The 24-Team Challenge"
1. 24 franchises are drafted live by 24 different owners on Penngray's site (www.fantasysportstools.com)
2. Unique stadiums are drafted
3. Four total leagues are formed in which each owner must compete two times with the one team that he has drafted. Teams are dispersed in leagues such that each owner would not see any team twice in his division and would face 17 different owners in total between the two leagues he joins. Each team will compete in either League 1 OR League 2 AND League 3 OR League 4. See listing below:

League 1
East 1,2,3,4 Central 5,6,7,8 West 9,10,11,12
League 2
East 13,14,15,16 Central 17,18,19,20 West 21,22,23,24

League 3
East 1,10,15,24 Central 5,2,19,16 West 9,6,23,20
League 4
East 3,12,13,22 Central 7,4,17,14 West 11,8,21,18

4.All four leagues run simultaneously.
5.Any transactions performed by a franchise must occur with BOTH of his teams...(example: Owner 1 drops Torres to pick up Schilling in League 1. He is required to do the same with his franchise in League 3.)
6.An overall champion will be determined with the following scoring system:
Regular Season win: 1 point
Playoff Series win: 5 points (10 points max earned by a team in the postseason)
Because the emphasis here is trying to recognize the best team in overall performance, there will be less emphasis on simply getting to the playoffs (which is many times determined by just being in the right division), but still some bonus points available for winning a series.
7. $65M salary cap (read below)
8. DH rule applies
9. No salary cap penalty for waivers (read below)

Reasons for a league like this:
1.It forces owners to create a balanced team. They will have to be successful competing against 6 different divisional opponents and 17 different league opponents. If someone wants to make an adjustment to his team, it must help the team's overall balance because the change will occur in two different league settings.
2.It adds even more intrigue to the live draft. With 24 franchises, there is a feel more similar to that of real baseball.

Problems with this setup:
1.An $80M salary cap is unworkable. There is not enough salary to go around. Having no salary cap is also unworkable. Some owners will have significantly more salary than others because of the disparity in player values in the top 75 players.
2.If transactions must take place across two leagues, there could be issues with owners making a transaction in one league, then not being able to pull it off in another league because another owner claimed the player he wanted. In reality, league owners will need to have access to information about transactions in all four leagues at all times to be sure players are available.

Solution to transaction problem:
1.Make all transactions public on a message board string before performing them. For example, Owner 1 will post a message saying he is claiming Torres and dropping Schilling. He must hit "enter" and doublecheck that no other owner of the 24 has claimed Torres before his message gets posted. He then must claim Torres and release Schilling in both of his leagues within one hour. Once a posting has been made that Schilling is available, he officially becomes available to all other owners.
2.Trades may be made from ANY owner to ANY other owner. In the case of two owners not being in the same league with both of their teams, they would circumvent this problem by simply releasing and signing the correct players. For example, Team 1 trades Torres to Team 3 for Schilling. In League 1, this is no problem. They simply conduct the trade as normal. In League 3, the computer would assume that Schilling is unclaimed since Team 3 is not in League 3. Thus, Team 1 would simply drop Torres and pick up Schilling. In League 4, Team 3 would need to do something similar: drop Schilling and pick up Torres (who the computer sees as unclaimed).

Solution to the Salary Cap Issue:
1. Because of the types of transactions described above, there is almost no way to do a salary cap that could be governed by the computer. The only solution is to do a $200M league in which owners follow a given salary cap. A $65M cap will force us to use the large majority of the top players, but will allow everyone to be competitive.
2. Since there will be only very cheap free agents available, there will be no penalty for adds and drops throughout the season. Again, we can pull this off because the computer will think we're using a 200M cap.

Additional considerations:
1.25-man required roster
2.26-round draft (unique stadiums must be drafted at some point)
3.Unlimited trades during the draft, but you must finish with a 25-man roster that fits salary cap and autodraft requirements
4. After the draft, no transactions may be made until after the autodraft. There would be no need for a waivers period, but no transactions would be allowed until noon ET the day after the leagues fill. At that point, people could begin posting transactions on the league discussion thread. Obviously, everyone would have to pay close attention and refresh his computer often while making decisions. Whoever shows up first on the thread gets to make the proposed transactions that are listed.
5.As I mentioned, all four leagues would run simultaneously.

Draft Details:
1. Serpentine
2. Pick-3 Lotto Numbers will be used to determine draft order (please enter a state when you sign up)

[ANDREWLAITURI]

Well I'll try to link to the standings, never tried this before so I don't know if it'll work or not??

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2006/league/standings.html

[LMBombers]

didn't work.