Paul_Long71 wrote:The current rule is that in order to be drafted in the supp. draft a player must have been available in that season's FA draft. Which means that a player must have played in a MLB game prior to the current season.
As it applies to this year. The 2020 FA draft will be coming up and any player who has played in an MLB game prior to 2020 is eligible to be selected. Then later this season, we will have a supp. draft in which that same condition must be met.
If I'm reading this correctly, Piloneus would like to change the rule so that the supp draft will be only for players who are carded in the current year. I still see the supp draft being mainly a grab for players having a hot year and aimed towards the next year's roster, but it does limit this a bit.
I will send out the rules proposal to be voted upon, but first.....are there any other rules proposals anyone would like to submit. If there are, I'd rather send a couple out together then constantly sending one after another.
I'd like to throw out the idea of a weighted draft moving forward, starting in 2021. Having just joined the TKL league, they use it, and it seems like an extra element of fairness that would slightly penalize a pure "tank" approach and give more incentive to win now as it doesn't pay as much to be the worst of the worst. This would also help in the final weeks of the season to help make sure games are competitive where the opponent of a tank team getting a free win could substantially affect other teams playoff chances. The rule they have is:
3) The annual spring free agent and prospect draft will be determined by the lottery numbers on the day AFTER the previous season's Strat postseason ends. Prospect draft numbers on the 2nd day after the Strat postseason ends.
4) We will take the pick 3 of the first state (WI), using only the last two numbers and use the chart below to determine who receives the first choice. We'll use AZ to choose the second choice, and CT to choose the third. If any of the first 3 states are duplicates (say WI and AZ numbers both choose the team with the 23rd best record, then we use the last two states (NJ and CA). If after 5 states, we still have not chose 3 choices, then we go in reverse order after the choices that have been chosen.
Regular and prospect lotteries should be drawn separately, despite the fact they happen at the same time of year.
Record of Team-last two numbers of pick 3 #
worst team 01-24
23rd best team 25-41
22nd best team 42-54
21st best team 55-64
20th best team 65-72
19th best team 73-79
18th best team 80-85
17th best team 86-90
16th best team 91-94
15th best team 95-97
14th best team 98-99
13th best team 00
example: On the day of the draft the numbers are WI-1(94), AZ-7(08), CT-3(19), NJ-8(66), The first choice goes to the team with the 16th best record, because of WI 94, the second choice goes to the team with the worst record because of AZ - 08, the 3rd choice would also have gone to the worst team, but the same team can not have 2 draft choices, so we got to the tiebreaker state, NJ, and the 66 means the 3rd choice goes to the team with the 20st best record. the 5th state is not needed. The 4th pick goes to the team with the second worst record, and from this point on we go in reverse order of W-L record among teams who did not draw a high choice
Thu Feb 20, 2020 11:26 pm
So ultimately no preference on that count.