'Extremely Ambitious Live Draft' - Champions League!!

[ArrylT]

Here is a way to get most of the Player Pool in ATG III used, without resorting to limits of any kind.

48 owners*
26 Rounds
Live Draft on Penngrays website
1200 Players of 1500 used (80%)
Unique Ballparks means 48 of 70 used (68.6%)
80m with No DH**
Frenzy***
Trading Allowed Post-Draft
Owners can drop down to 24 players after autodraft
TSN Autodraft restrictions apply - so be sure to draft exactly 10 P (3 of which must be pure RP) & 15 H (2 of which must be Catcher rated)

1st Round No clock (to ensure everyone checks in)
4 Hour clock imposed Rounds 1-8
3 Hour clock Rounds 9-16
2 Hour clock Rounds 17-26****

Draft order will be determined by Random Number Generation done by uninvolved owner. The position at which you join would be the # assigned to you, then the volunteer goes to the random number site, puts in 1-48 and hits randomize, and instant draft order.

Owners will be expected to use Proxies whenever possible

Divisions will be

1, 13, 25, 37
2, 14, 26, 38
3, 15, 27, 39

4, 16, 28, 40
5, 17, 29, 41
6, 18, 30, 42

7, 19, 31, 43
8, 20, 32, 44
9, 21, 33, 45

10, 22, 34, 46
11, 23, 35, 47
12, 24, 36, 48

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* - We can go with 36 owners if need be

** - I am willing to consider 100m, but I doubt many if any owners will be able to get past 80m when drafting ... having done a 36 Owner ATG II Draft.

*** - Not that it matters since you can only use the players you drafted

**** - Draft clock speeds up as we go along because it will already take 2-3x longer than a normal draft due to the # of owners involved

[ArrylT]

[b:703b82b9ce]List of 36:[/b:703b82b9ce]

1 - ArrylT (AT on draftsite)
2 - msheaf1 (Martin)
3 - Crabby Appleton (Crabbyappleton)
4 - HK Mossy (use the HKMOSSY login for pennsite)
5 - goffchile
6 - MrBBW-WI(pick 4-first three numbers)
7 - FoggyOne/wockenfuss (use FoggyOne) BUT can't start until after 8-30 (travelling 8/24-8/30)
8 - SteveAmes-VA
9 - JAMIE399
10 - Doctor_tax1
11 - Ehlekev- ID
12 - Unclerowser
13 - Frank M(use frankm on penns site)
14 - TMM6883 ( TMM9883 FOR PENN'S SITE )
15 - wjanssen (wjanssen on penn's site)
16 - ado_jake
17 - Rube (rube)
18 - Sykes (Can Assistant Commish if needed)
19 - giddyup81
20 - spicki17
21 - cristano1
22 - LMBombers
23 - Danville2002 (Swany @ LiveDraft Site)
24 - doctorhendor (I do not have a Penngray password/ID)
25 - rosenthm - Will assist if needed
26 - Munich Man - Set me up as an alternative time zone admin (munichman on the site)
27 - Red Beards
28 - Bobschwartz22 ( My Penn Site ID is Bobschwartz not Bobschwartz22)
29 - mhornet (I need a Penngray ID)
30 - ratioman
31 - hakmusic
32 - irish iii
33 - sjkorte
34 - daman (daman)
35 - dacelo
36 - denorien (denorien)

[ArrylT]

[b:eaeaf03e35]Differences with 36 Owners instead of 48:[/b:eaeaf03e35]

1 - 3 Leagues instead of 4

2 - 32 Rounds instead of 26
31 player picks x36 = 1116 Players used rather than 1200

3 - 6 player Farm (you'll have 6 players that you can rotate into your roster throughout the season

4 - With 36 owners instead of 48 - Divisions will be:


1, 10, 19, 28
2, 11, 20, 29
3, 12, 21, 30

4, 13, 22, 31
5, 14, 23, 32
6, 15, 24, 33

7, 16, 25, 3
8, 17, 26, 35
9, 18, 27, 36

5 - I'll only need 2 Assistant Commishs/League Co-Ordinators

6 - If there is enough interest, the playoff teams from the 3 leagues can meet in a 'Champions' League.

7 - 36 Ballparks used instead of 48

[LMBombers]

If there is no clock during the first round how long do we give someone who we have not heard from before deciding he has dropped out of the league?

[TONYDIMINI]

So the champions league will be the drafted teams from this, correct? That would be pretty neat.

[ArrylT]

LMBombers: Starting Tuesday I'd say no more than 48 hours tops. I'm going to ask every owner that is around to send league mail reminders to any owner on the list that is also in another league with them.

DaMan1836: That would be correct.

[Denorien]

Any particular rules around drafting the ballpark? Any round?

Another thought for the champions league (which sounds real neat):

3 WS winners
3 WS loser
next 6 best regular season records regardless of playoffs.

Then Rank 1 - 12 by regular season records with tie breakers. Then 1,4,7,10 - 2,5,8,11 - 3,6,9,12

Of course, you can't change ballparks.

[errormagnate]

I am not sure I understood the divisions? were all the teams there?

Also we ARE going to use Penn's site for this - right? so we will be able to leave proxies etc.

[errormagnate]

never mind I see the divions now - happens to us stupid people all the time :oops:

[ArrylT]

denorien: Ballparks can be drafted at any time - just 1 per owner (since we don't have enough for all 36 owners to have 2).

steveames: Yep we'll be using penngrays site - I'll post once the draft has been created.