ATG VI DREAM LEAGUE SEASON 1 lDANRED, WE WAIT, AGAIN

[MEAT]

bombers actually have draftus interuptus half way through the roster, but hopefully ill be filling by tommorow, and he doesn't take anyone targeted.

[Munich_Man]

Hey all, just wanted to point out the divisions our esteemed Commish listed are much different than the division structure I have been listing, which is how we did the other Dream Team leagues.

The Commish is the Commish, and his word is law. Itchy, you need to send the password to the me and ldanred. Charlie, if you've already joined the East, you'll need to drop out for now.

[Goreds54]

Looks like I need to drop out of the east too. :oops:

[Goreds54]

I just realized that I built my pitching staff around by the teams I thought I was going to be in my division. One was an extreme lefty team and another was an extreme righty team. :(

[Goreds54]

Looks like I should have proof read my grammer in my last comment.

[Munich_Man]

Meat is up, and only two more after that. We still may be able to fill it by tonight for a Monday start. Itchy or Goreds, can you sent the password to the other East teams so we can fill? Actually, you might as well just post it and we can just enter in the correct divisions.

Hope we can fill tonight!

[Munich_Man]

[quote:387b3358f7="Goreds"]I just realized that I built my pitching staff around by the teams I thought I was going to be in my division. One was an extreme lefty team and another was an extreme righty team. :([/quote:387b3358f7]

Yeah, I was afraid that was going happen. Not to impugn the infallible Commish, but it would have been nice to correct the division structure before the drafting started, as people have been drafting to the 1,4,7, 10 - 2,5,8,11 - 3,6,9,12 alignment.

I posted that alignment from the beginning since that is what has been used in every other Dream Team league I've been in.

[Goreds54]

the password is twix

[Munich_Man]

What we could do is keep the original alignments for this first season, as I imagine many players have built teams specifically for their presumed divisions, and move to the 1,2,3,4 - 5,6,7,8 - 9,10,11,12 structure in subsequent seasons.

One thing I would like to say, the 1,4,7,10... structure actually allows people to more easily build against division mates, or at least better distributes that ability more equally. If I have the 9th pick, which is not that good, why should I also have the added disadvantage that the other three teams in my division can build specifically to take advantage of my team's weaknesses?

With the 1,4,7,10, the top draft picks are already at a disadvantage as subsequent teams can build against them from the beginning.

At least that was the rationale for doing it the 1,4,7,10 way in all the other Dream Team leagues (I've done 4, I think). That and the great satisfaction you get when your 7th or 10th picked team wins the division over the 1st or 4th picked team, which happens far more often than you might think. I believe in the other Dream Team leagues, the average champion draft position was 4.7, if memory serves, with one 11th pick winning once (I also made the playoffs with an 11th pick), and this with a substantially smaller player pool.

It also makes inter-division play more balanced. I'm sure the Central and West aren't going to be thrilled when they have to go against the East with all those top-picked teams...

Just a suggestion for keeping the status quo, Commish. :D

[Goreds54]

I will second Munich Man's motion. I will be happy to do it either way but it does seem more balanced and fair to do the 1,4,7,10- 2,5,8,11 and 3,6,9,12 set up.