Golden era 5 round player draft- Drafts complete!

^^^ I'm going to try to arrange this playoff format with Strat, for this league. I am optimistic that this will be done. Let's proceed with the sign ups on this basis please.

Good news! Strat-O-Matic confirmed that they would accommodate my request for the modified playoff format for this league!

Their reply is as follows:

"Hi Geoff,

Yes, we'll be able to do this. We can do either one of these options:

24-team leagues: Best-of-5, Best-of-7
24-team leagues: Best-of-7, Best-of-7

Just create the league and let us know which option you want to use.

Sincerely,
Strat-O-Matic Baseball Online"

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Good news! Strat-O-Matic confirmed that they would accommodate my request for the modified playoff format for this league!

Well done Geoff. This would be a nice option to have for all leagues to use.

Good news! Strat-O-Matic confirmed that they would accommodate my request for the modified playoff format for this league!

Well done Geoff. This would be a nice option to have for all leagues to use.

Thanks, but the kudos go to strat!

Interesting concept I'm in. Looked over the teams, it appears you would be using the EXP era rosters exclusively? If so then you can eliminate Colorado and Arizona correct? Neither has 15 draftable players.
There will be a premium placed on Middle Infielders, Catchers and Starters/Relievers in the FA draft.





Re: Geoff's golden era 24 team theme league ("GG24")

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Interesting concept I'm in. Looked over the teams, it appears you would be using the EXP era rosters exclusively? If so then you can eliminate Colorado and Arizona correct? Neither has 15 draftable players.
There will be a premium placed on Middle Infielders, Catchers and Starters/Relievers in the FA draft.

The player set for this league is any ATG8 card year that is between 1968 and 1995, inclusive. As such, it is a subset of the expansion era ATG cards. But, when you are going to select the card set to use for this league, you're going to need to select the ATG8 Post-WWII card set. Then, when you're building your team, you can only use players that have cards anytime between 1968 and 1995 inclusive. It just happens to be the case that it also falls within the strat team listings that are "EXP" or expansion era teams. But when you get to that screen (or any other free agent screen), you have to remember not to draft any player cards that are 1967 and prior, or 1996 and later.

You're right about the Rockies and the Diamondbacks. See card set comments above.

Yeah, I'm really thrilled to try this out! Remember to read the rules on the starting post on page 1 of this thread!

Remember that your team will need to have a minimum of 15 core players for your franchise at all times, while the remaining roster spots can be filled up with free agents (i.e. any players carded to teams other than your own franchise, but not drafted by other managers in the 5 round player draft). Also remember that, in the autodraft, you must use your first selections to claim your 5 players draft in slots 1-5, and then the remaining players you need to complete your 15 core players right after that. It's only after those autodraft rounds (i.e. the later autodraft rounds) that you can autodraft additional free agents to complete your roster.

Geoff

I reread the rules but don't see this addressed...
When/how do we pick our Franchise? Or is that determined by your first pick in the board draft?

tks
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Geoff

I reread the rules but don't see this addressed...
When/how do we pick our Franchise? Or is that determined by your first pick in the board draft?

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From the rules on page 1:

"There will be a draft to select real life teams from that era (with a random order determination for the draft order). ("The franchise draft").

Then, there will be a 5 round draft for special player selections ("the player draft"). The 5 round player draft will be serpentine. The first round will be in the opposite order of the franchise draft."


So there are 2 separate drafts:
1. A one round franchise draft (order selected randomly), in which each manager picks his "franchise" or real life team.
2. A five round player draft, in which each manager can pick EITHER a core player from his team (might be important to do this where a player is carded to more than one team) OR a free agent who is not carded to one of the other franchises elected in the franchise draft (admittedly a small-ish pool for free agents at this point).

The five round player draft is serpentine, with the round 1 order being the inverse of the franchise draft order. I guess another way to describe this pre-autodraft process would be to say that it's a six round, serpentine draft, in which the first round must be used by each manager to select their franchise (MLB team).

Remember that the free agent pool expands during the autodraft to include all other players (i.e. except those picked in the 5 round player draft), for the later-ranked autodraft picks, and during waivers and the frenzy). For the autodraft, see the rules on page 1 of this thread. The main point is that you must use your first priority autodraft picks to select your core players first, for your autoraft list. Since no-one can check this, it is on the honour system.

Same goes for the waiver draft - you must use your first picks to make sure that you have at least 15 core players - or at least attempt to do so (if you didn't get them in waivers, i.e. if someone beat you to the player in the waiver draft). If you still don't have your 15 core players after waivers, your first frenzy add's must be core players, to bring you up to 15 core players. After that, you can pick any number of free agents (essentially any player not picked in the 5 round player draft).

Does this make sense Rosie2167?