Double Franchise League- 1981 - Hak champ! Vote on awards

[BC Manager]

[quote:3fdadf03f6="bjs73"][quote:3fdadf03f6]One minor trade slipped under the radar.

I traded Billy Swift to RR for Jamie Quirk.[/quote:3fdadf03f6]

Unless I'm mistaken??? Billy Swift isn't even eligible until 1985???

I show Swift's career span to be 1985-1990. I believe that is the case and if so, then that would be an invalid trade. BC Manager or YountFan can confirm this???[/quote:3fdadf03f6]

BJS is correct. Bill Swift did not play until 1985 and at that time through the decade was a Seattle Mariner. Therefore no one can claim his rights, or trade him for that matter. This trade will have to be reversed or reworked. Will post a message on the league boards.

Please tell me no one else has inelligible players on their teams. Can guys check their division opponents? There's no way I'll have time to do this before tomorrow night.

[Runnin Rebel]

Thanks for the catch on Swift. He was in the AutoDraft and I didn't check past the point that he was a Mariner.


[quote:22d6425f32]1985 23 SEA AL 6 10 23 21 0 0 0 0 120.7 131 71 64 8 48 55 5 5 532 5 3 4.77 4.23 89 1.483
1986 24 SEA AL 2 9 29 17 1 0 3 0 115.3 148 85 70 5 55 55 7 2 534 2 1 5.46 4.27 78 1.760
ETC

1997 35 COL NL 4 6 14 13 0 0 1 0 65.3 85 57 46 11 26 29 2 2 304 0 2 6.34 5.18 82 1.699
1998 36 SEA AL 11 9 29 26 0 0 0 0 144.7 183 103 94 21 51 77 10 1 663[/quote:22d6425f32]

We'll have to get in the time machine, void the trade and set everything back the way it was.

[jsam9801]

My bad :oops: . I did not even check baseballreference.com to see b/c I had no interest in Swift. I have cut Quirk to return him to RR.

js

[BC Manager]

So, will our 1981 resemble the real 1981? (Hopefully without a strike). To refresh your memories:

[b:e903876ca0]WORLD SERIES CHAMPS[/b:e903876ca0]

Los Angeles Dodgers

[b:e903876ca0]AL CHAMPS[/b:e903876ca0]

New York Yankees

[b:e903876ca0]AL West Champs[/b:e903876ca0]

Oakland A's

[b:e903876ca0]NL East Champs[/b:e903876ca0]

Montreal Expos

[b:e903876ca0]Other division series teams[/b:e903876ca0]

Milwaukee Brewers
Kansas City Royals
Philadelphia Phillies
Houston Astros

[b:e903876ca0]Overall records better than playoff teams[/b:e903876ca0]

St. Louis Cardinals
Cincinatti Reds
Baltimore Orioles
Texas Rangers
Chicago White Sox

[b:e903876ca0]AL MVP[/b:e903876ca0]

Rollie Fingers

[b:e903876ca0]NL MVP[/b:e903876ca0]

Mike Schmidt

[b:e903876ca0]AL Cy Young[/b:e903876ca0]

Rollie Fingers

[b:e903876ca0]NL Cy Young[/b:e903876ca0]

Fernando Valenzuela

[b:e903876ca0]AL Rookie of the Year[/b:e903876ca0]

Dave Righetti

[b:e903876ca0]NL Rookie of the Year[/b:e903876ca0]

Fernando Valenzuela


I guess the one thing I can say won't be duplicated is Fingers being the MVP/Cy Young.

[roofinghorse]

gotta look at what the rules were.about keeping your secondary team or not....maybe some others do too.

[BC Manager]

I'll try to explain the rule about this as clearly as possible:

[b:bfa5db95c2]• Owners are not automatically committed to their secondary team, from year to year.

• If an owner has made a trade of players from their secondary team that goes beyond the current season, then they are committed to that team for those players for the duration of their tenure with the secondary team. For example, if the Giants are my secondary team and I trade Jack Clark to another team, not just for this season but for future one’s, I am obligated to keep the Giants as my secondary team through 1984 (as Clark was a Giant through 84 in real life). If this is the only ‘secondary’ player I’ve dealt, than I may change secondary teams prior to the 1985 season. (In reality, I traded Clark for the 81 season only, therefor I’m not obligated to SF beyond this year).

• Because of the above rule, it is necessary to declare the length of terms for any deal when announcing a trade.

• After a season ends, each owner will declare whether they are keeping their secondary team (teams committed through trade will have no choice but to keep the second team).

• Teams will declare their decision whether to keep/not keep their second team in order of finish (that being – 1. Champion 2. Finalist 3. Semi-finalist w/ best record 4. other Semi-finalist 5. Non-playoff team w/ best record 6. Next best record, etc.; in the event of a tie, run-differential will be used).

• Those not keeping their secondary team from the previous season may then choose their new secondary team in reverse order of above (ie., Worst record gets first pick and so on).

• To prevent teams from ‘tanking’ in order to exchange their second team for the best available, a lottery will be held (using Pick 3 numbers) to determine the order among the bottom four teams (those with the top 4 picks). However, only teams in the bottom 4 will be in the lottery – if only one of these owners is exchanging teams, then no lottery will be needed. [/b:bfa5db95c2]

[BC Manager]

For those of you headed for playoffs, I listed some guys available for trade that could help in the post-season. Make an offer quick as the trade deadline's tonight.

[BC Manager]

Here's what I've determined, so far:

[u:805ee5e021]Committed (due to trades or declared)[/u:805ee5e021]:

jsamia (Phils)
sean (A's)
jablowmi (Braves)
YF (Reds)
Albert (Mets)
RR (Padres)
Sykes (ChiSox)

[u:805ee5e021]Uncommitted)[/u:805ee5e021]

Hak (Indians)
bjs (Twins)
BC (Giants)
crossing (Astros)
BigA (Cubs)

[BC Manager]

If you know you're committed to your second team for next year, feel free to post it. But no one's obligated to declare until their turn (determined by final standings).

[albert2b]

BC, I've commited to the Mets next year.