The draft that never was....

Oh my gosh, you can do that? I knew there were good reasons I NEVER play non salary cap leagues!

If there is no cap or cap is high enough to absorb the cap hit you can drop a card and pick up another year version of same player and since that is considered a "different" card injury and fatigue will not carry over. It is much the same thing as having say George Brett and having him go down for 15 so you grab his slightly cheaper version and play it until the injury time period has passed. Dropping one Pedro for another year would have the same impact.

It can also be done if you have 2 teams in a league so you can trade the card back and forth. Fatigue is not remembered after a trade. Most leagues do not allow 2 teams so that is rarely an issue. But if you are joining a league which was created to allow that best to bring it up early to verify if it is part of the theme or not so you avoid arguments if someone decides to use the strategy after teams are drafted and season starts. No making everyone happy if not established ahead of time as those not using it may cry foul while if team using it thought it was part of the theme (such as a deadball theme) and based draft cards on the strategy.

This is something that should be allowed for theme purposes but should be an optional feature with the default not allowing it. And I am talking about both the pitcher swapping to avoid fatigue and the swapping to avoid injury. They are both 2 sides of the same coin IMHO.

Thanks for the clarification.

Just a heads up for people trying to get live drafts off the ground, once the date of the live draft has passed and it is NOT full you must change the date or else NO NEW PEOPLE CAN JOIN YOUR LEAGUE AND IT WILL NEVER FILL.

Thanks for the clarification.

Just a heads up for people trying to get live drafts off the ground, once the date of the live draft has passed and it is NOT full you must change the date or else NO NEW PEOPLE CAN JOIN YOUR LEAGUE AND IT WILL NEVER FILL.

The new time will be an an undetermined future date. I know it won't fill until the date is moved, I wouldn't want it to fill at this point, as I'm not going to have the time to get a draft done this week.

Just a heads up for people trying to get live drafts off the ground, once the date of the live draft has passed and it is NOT full you must change the date or else NO NEW PEOPLE CAN JOIN YOUR LEAGUE AND IT WILL NEVER FILL.

An excellent point. But if draft was scheduled for say 9 tonight and failed to fill would you want more people joining and the league to fill say 4 hours later? When would the draft run then?

One solution might be for Strat to add to the league creation options the ability to list one or more alternative planned draft dates/times. Then I might create a league with preferred date of 5-22 but with alternate dates of 5-26 or 5-29. Then if the league fails to fill by 5-22 it could remain open for others to join with the draft time automatically shifted to 5-26, etc.