General Managers Keeper League

[Cubit]

Cubit trades:

Brett Anderson (prospect)
Dustin Ackley (prospect)
Yonder Alonso
Ryan Roberts


to Kaviksdad for

Francisco Liriano
Brian Roberts
Grady Sizemore
Josh Reddick (prospect)

Cubit also drops, with great regret, Dave Eveland

[Cubit]

[quote:134862735d="sandlotshrink"][color=darkred:134862735d][b:134862735d]I am looking for a platoon LF vs. RH's (preferably LH) with decent OB and SLG for NEXT SEASON.

Willing to offer Fausto Carmona, Joel Pineiro, or Jonny Cueto -- all decent SP cards his coming year with prospects for better in the future. [/b:134862735d][/color:134862735d][size=18:134862735d][/size:134862735d][/quote:134862735d]

Send me a message if you think the Gorillas have anyone you need.

[cirills]

Will do.

[kaviksdad]

Congratulations to the playoff teams, and condolences to Smokey for missing out with a 92 win team. Tough luck Smokey -

Here's the divisional assignments for season 1 in 2011:

[b:0ea516607d]East:[/b:0ea516607d]
AFDickie
Cummings
Nythawk
Sandlotshrink

[b:0ea516607d]Central:[/b:0ea516607d]
Smokey
Qksilver
Beach
Sykes

[b:0ea516607d]West:[/b:0ea516607d]
Kaviksdad
Ninersphan
Cubit
Smitty

[b:0ea516607d]Divisional assignments for season one each year are based on all-time cumulative records, which are:[/b:0ea516607d]

Sandy 618-516
Cummings 610-524
Nythawk 605-529
AFDickie 599-535
Qksilver 576-558
Smokey 570-564
Beach 562-572
Sykes 553-581
Kaviksdad 550-584
Ninersphan 545-589
Smitty 516-618
Cubit 500-634

[b:0ea516607d]The draft order for our annual spring free agent draft is also determined by all-time cumulative win/loss records, so the draft order for next spring's free agent draft is this:[/b:0ea516607d]

[b:0ea516607d]Round 1:[/b:0ea516607d]
Cubit
Smitty
Ninersphan
Kaviksdad
Sykes
Beach
Smokey
Qksilver
AFDickie
Nythawk
Cummings
Sandlotshrink

[b:0ea516607d]Round 2:[/b:0ea516607d]
Cubit
Smitty
Qksilver (from Ninersphan)
Kaviksdad
Sykes
Beach
Smokey
Qksilver
AFDickie
Nythawk
Cummings
Sandlotshrink

[b:0ea516607d]Round 3:[/b:0ea516607d]
Cubit
Smitty
Ninersphan
Qksilver (from Kaviksdad)
Sykes
Beach
Smokey
Qksilver
AFDickie
Nythawk
Cummings
Sandlotshrink

[b:0ea516607d]Round 4:[/b:0ea516607d]
Cubit
Smitty
Ninersphan
Cummings (from Kaviksdad)
Sykes
Beach
Smokey
Kaviksdad (from Qksilver)
AFDickie
Nythawk
Cummings
Sandlotshrink

[b:0ea516607d]Round 5:[/b:0ea516607d]
Cubit
Smitty
Ninersphan
Kaviksdad
Sykes
Beach
Smokey
Qksilver
AFDickie
Nythawk
Cummings
Sandlotshrink

[b:0ea516607d]The draft order for the 2 rounds of the spring prospect draft are determined by the previous season's win/loss records, so here's the draft order for that:[/b:0ea516607d]

[b:0ea516607d]Round 1:[/b:0ea516607d]
Qksilver
Cubit
Beach (gets the tiebreaker by virtue of worse head-to-head against C2)
Cummings
Smitty
Sykes
Nythawk
Qksilver (from Ninersphan)
Beach (from Smokey)
Sandlotshrink
Kaviksdad
AFDickie

Round 2:
Qksilver (from Kaviksdad via Qk)
Cubit
Beach
Cummings
Smitty
Sykes
Nythawk
Ninersphan
Beach (from Smokey)
Qksilver (from Sandy)
Kaviksdad (from Qksilver via KD)
AFDickie

I noticed (probably again) that this league is different than most of the rest in that cumulative [b:0ea516607d]ALL-TIME[/b:0ea516607d] records are used to determine the spring free agent draft order, whereas the other leagues usually use the cumulative record of only the preceding season. Which is why the draft orders are so different between the F/A draft and the prospect draft - and why it might be a shock to those that really tanked it this year to see they aren't necessarily at the top of the spring draft.

Is everyone ok with this? I don't recall it ever being an issue before, but there's such a wide discrepancy this time that it just doesn't look right - but according to the rules it is.

Comments?

[cirills]

Sounds good to me. Even though that leaves me with the last pick, I feel honored AND challenged to keep it for as long as I can.

It helps prevent against "tanking" and "stacking" which was (and is) what a lot of your subtle rules changes were designed to do Marc.

Just another fine example!! :D

[kaviksdad]

Congratulations to Sandy for winning his first GMKL title!

And for completing his "Keeper League Grand Slam," a title in the USKLs, HCKL and GMKL.

Now that's a manager!

[superflymacdaddyjuice]

well done larry.

[cirills]

Thx :)

I'd like to give a shout out to Marc Pelletier aka Luckyman aka Marcus Wilby

He helped me to understand the many nuances of the new bullpen structure which I believed was an asset.

I'd like to think that part of being a good manager is soliciting advice and wisdom from other good (in this case great) managers.

[cslip4]

Guys thanks for having me - I am looking forward to taking over Beach's team and participating in the league. I will brush up on the rules and I trust if I have any questins I can post them here.

[kaviksdad]

Welcome aboard Chris - glad to have you join us.

I'll be sending out the roster updates shortly and will need an email address I can use for you.

If you have any questions at all everybody here is more than willing to help. We've got a great bunch of owners here, and some of the best SOM players online - and they can get quite "passionate" at times. But it's all just competitive intensity.