Tue Sep 18, 2012 12:05 pm
Jay,
Before a formal vote, let's clarify a few things about these rules:
Other proposed rule changes by league members:
1. Allow teams to acquire more than 3 Supplemental Draft Picks.
I agree with this 100%, but feel as though we should cap the draft at 3 rounds, 36 total picks.
2. Place teams in fixed divisions
3. Allow promotions of prospects whenever there are available roster spots (ie. during drafts).
With our original rules, prospects must be dropped withing 2 years, so the arbitrary date upon which we conducted our prospect draft mattered, and sometimes you'd be able to promote players during the Spring FA draft, other times you'd have to cut them on a random Wednesday before the draft. It was confusing and difficult for no real reason, so we changed it to this way, which captured the idea behind the prospects while providing more structure. I think it's important to clarify what exactly you mean. What I believe the issue is, is that you would like to promote prospects in lieu of a late round draft pick. Is this correct? If so, then it is certainly an option, but it seems like quite an advantage, and when people wanted to use a loophole in the wording of prospects in the middle of a draft, it seemed best to stop it. We should certainly resolve this issue before the Spring 2013 FA draft. It seems to me to be fine to do it either way, though, as someone who voted for less keepers and more turnover, I'd prefer to keep this system as is as well. Happy to have a vote on it, though.
4. All teams will pick at least 3 prospects during prospect draft (if you trade an early pick you will
still be able to pick beyond the 3rd round till you have acquired 3 prospects). I would suggest
putting a cap on the number of prospects a team could acquire to prevent abusing this rule.
I think this rule allows for a lot of abuse, and I don't quite see the reason behind it. Why should you be rewarded for trading away your prospect picks? If I trade you all 3 of my prospect picks for a really good player, I then have the benefit of having 3 extra picks at the end? Granted, they're worse players, but still, it seems like it would create some unbalance. Still, if people are for this, can have a vote on it.
