Idea for a theme draft

[rutkap]

I was thinking about ways to use some of the lesser used players in this game and came up with this idea, what about a Screw your neighbor draft. Instead of drafting for yourself you get to draft one player for everyone else in the league. After 11 rounds of the draft each owner gets to draft one player for themselves, then fill their remaining roster through the autodraft. The 12 players drafted cannot be dropped for any reason (even your pick)

The problems:
How to figure out who you are drafting for. (one alternative would be that each person in your division drafts 3 players for you)
Draft will have to take place through the message board(no Proxies :( )

Let me know what you guys think - To me it seems like a fun Idea.

[roofinghorse]

mixed in with my regular leagues..

1 that i thought of was a league where you could NOT draft any * pitchers or 1,s at defense. now wouldn,t that be a nice twist to mix with your league?just a thought.
and the not able to drop a player at all is a little too restrictive, but if you have to carry players(or trade them) until you can drop them at games 39,78 and 141.

just some thoughts rutkap....i,d like to draft some one elses players too.could be a fun idea...

slug

[roofinghorse1]

i,d join a league of drafting someone elses players with a mix of no * starting pitchers and no 1,s at defense. :? drafting 2s,and 3s on defense could be challenging.and sifting through starting pitchers without a (*) could ,well,there ain,t no tellin what kinda team you,d wind up with..... :shock: and then with somebody else picking some of your players to boot. :evil:

wicked league

[LMBombers]

I like the idea too. There would have to be some guidelines so that you don't have 11 catchers drafted for your team or something like that.

[rutkap]

I do not think either will be necessary given the format. Everyone will be given at least a couple of non *ed SPs. Players will be forced to use a few 4s in their lineup, maybe even up the middle. could you imagine being given 4 bad Shortstops? you would almost be forced to play one even if you could add Yount or Trammell since you would not have enough bench space for everyone else. (I think we would have to limit the roster size to 25 to force people to use all the crap)

The Catcher Thing does make sense, maybe we will have to cap it at 5 :) most do play other positions.

Any Idea as to how you would make the draft run fairly and smoothly?

[roofinghorse1]

1.Start with a serpentine draft of lottery no.s high to low.

2.we pick 20 of the 25 man roster for our fellow league mates.-this will require a little keeping up of drafted players and roster of teams.

3.Each manager will pick for each team 1 stadium and 19 players.(this will require the keeping up of players/rosters.)the max for each team will be:
1- stadium
2- catchers---------------------(all players are eligible-no limits on 1,s)
2- first basemen
2-second basemen
2 -shortstops
2-thirdbasemen
2-leftfielders(first fielding position on card)
2 -centerfielders " " " " "
2-rightfielders " " " " "
5-starting pitchers(no limits on a *pitcher-all are eligible)
5-relief pitchers

at each players turn to pick,he will pick 4 players per turn and is only allowed to put 1 pick per team(keep things as even as possible)for if you don,t there will be a high risk of 1 or 2 teams emerging with better players....

when the 19 players and 1 stadium are picked,then we will fill out the rest of our rosters via auto draft.

rutkap(or a designate) must rule on any questionable objections as there may be some disputes unforseen in such as a draft as this.

i think this can work and the only hard part to it is keeping up wiith picks/rosters...

anyother thoughts would be appreciated...HORSE out

[gmac94]

I like the concept here. I'm not following roofinghorse's draft logic yet. I need help understanding.

When we draft, we select 4 players (or 3 players and 1 stadium) and assign them to four other teams of our choosing. Then, when each team roster hits 20 (19 players and 1 stadium), you can't assign them any more picks. So theoretically, some teams will fill up faster than others? How do we protect against stacking up against certain teams?

I am interested in this, especially since I missed out on the $4M or less league!

G

[roofinghorse1]

You can view each teams roster and add your duds to any team as you see the need.We (the managers) control the balance of the other teams roster....the reason i left it at 20 players was for each manager to choose 5 of his own players

Now if you choose only 5 of your players and everybody else chooses the rest of your players, whats that leave you? SCREWED.But we,re all in the same boat right?

I think we should be able to drop 5 and only 5 players over the course of the entire season so the season will not become too dull. BUT I WARN YOU,CHOOSE THEM DROPS WISELY...trades at any time. I,ve got a feeling there will be a lot of them going on. It will be better to trade a guy that to outright drop him.

this can work.

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[gmac94]

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[roofinghorse1]

Hey everybody. i pm,ed each of you managers who showed interest in this theme and would like to run a new post for the rules and would like your input so if you,re still interested you can pm me or post something here.

i,d like to hear from you so let me know.

P.S.-i,ll be leaving around 6 pm to go to my daughters play but i,ll be back around 8.30..................jeff