RAISE THE MOUND ATG VI - LEAGUE FORMED AND LOADING

[dharmabums]

[quote:a1e110e069="Rjnewman"]Can anybody further describe the differences between atg and 1969?Also if you draft a guy that has more than one card u can switch series to series with no consequences?Or because of everybody having pitcher parks switching would be so rare it wont matter?Also is auto draft just ranking guys for last 9 spots getting whomever you get and then waivers and frenzy?I have been almost exclusively playing with u hardcore 69 guys with the real time drafts.[/quote:a1e110e069]

The big difference is the shear size of the player pool in ATG6. There will be plenty of pitchers, although the really big boys (Pete Alexander, Pedro Martinez, Greg Maddux) will go early in the draft. Also, the <$1M position player pool is deep, with a lot of interesting players available. So the draft strategy in this version isn't as risky as it was when we did this using just the 1969 cards.

We will pick 16 players on Diamond Dope, and then autodraft the other 9. That means you will want to put the 16 you've already picked at the bottom of your draft list.

You can use any of the multiple cards that players have, including pitching Babe Ruth (although that doesn't happen very often because you don't get the hitting Ruth along with the pitching Ruth). But, switching cards within players is treated the same as doing a free agent deal. As in the '69 game, you lose money every time you do free agent swaps. So you could lose maybe 80% of the $15M Ruth card if you decided to go for the $13M Ruth card (which, obviously isn't an option in this league, since the only Ruth card that will be available is the pitching Ruth, which isn't a bad card actually). Free agent deals during the season can be very costly, and is an efficient way of making a $100M team into a $80M team, but still be competing against $100M teams.

[GFDWARF07]

Sign up and give it a shot Rich! If you don't like it you always have the '69 game...


We will need to fill in with some of the regular ATG crowd anyway (doubt we will fill here), so get signed-up now.

I'll be in Vegas this Wed through Sunday so will move the sign-up over to ATG when I get back to fill the rest. Getting away for an anniversary weekend with my wife.

[GFDWARF07]

[quote:d5cd0bb6d8="dharmabums"][quote:d5cd0bb6d8="gfdwarf07"]And dahrmabums - what is the minimum for $100M leagues?[/quote:d5cd0bb6d8]

$75M[/quote:d5cd0bb6d8]

There are almost 125 pitchers over 8M. Even considering pure RPs, we should be ok:

Assume:
4 pure RP at 5M average = 20M
6 other P's at 9M avg - 54M
15 batter at .8 Avg = 12.5M

Plenty of wiggle room...

[dharmabums]

Looks good.

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[Rjnewman]

As long as u are under cap?What are the different relief rules?I have not bought a team yet to see the rules and players in case we do not get enough players. Is your experience that the league is certain to fill up?

[GFDWARF07]

[quote:bca1be829e="Rjnewman"]As long as u are under cap?What are the different relief rules?I have not bought a team yet to see the rules and players in case we do not get enough players. Is your experience that the league is certain to fill up?[/quote:bca1be829e]

Yes, we will fill the remaining 9 spots via the autodraft (put these 9 at the top ouf your draft cards) then make the league waivers. Rosters can expand to the max (28) after the AD.

Yes, I am sure the league will fill, RJ, no doubt. It will be a fun theme.

I would just appreciate everyone's patience until I get back next week (late Sunday). Then I will get the draft set up, presuming we fill. If not full, will move sign-up to the ATG boards.

You can access the rules via the TSN strat site somewhere - maybe someone can post a link here (sorry, scrambling tonight for time).