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[Guynemer]

I've never done an auction draft; how exactly does it work? We each get a "salary cap", and bid on different players? How do roster changes after the draft work?

[Berzerker]

Daily

Berzerker
Snoopy
Guynemer
Ramsey
Slowhand
Stuie
Vlad

Weekly

Ninot
Imran
Fistandantilus
Snoopy (if needed)
Berzerker
Slowhand
Stuie
Guynemer
Vlad

we'll start drafting before Mar 1st hopefully but we need someone to run the weekly league

[Berzerker]

who we missing?

[Berzerker]

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=162253

the daily league

League name PolyDay
password appleday
ID 80832


we need someone to run the weekly league...



Imran

[Guynemer]

3 SP, 2 RP, 2 P? I think I'd prefer 4, 2, 1.

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Guynemer
I've never done an auction draft; how exactly does it work? We each get a "salary cap", and bid on different players? How do roster changes after the draft work?

Everyone gets (dollar amount), and then bids on the players. After the draft, usually the money goes away and you return to normal style roster moves (no salary cap or anything like that).

So, we each get say $260 for 26 players... then one at a time each manager in the game puts forth one player, and a starting bid, and bidding continues until nobody wants to bid any further. Max bid is ($ left)-(# of players left)+1, ie you can't bid such that you couldn't afford to fill your team with $1 players.

Not exactly sure how it'd work online - perhaps we'd all nominate someone at once, therefore allowing it to move faster?

[vlad]

I am all signed in to the daily, whooooooooo hooooooooooo another season is upon us!!!!

[Berzerker]

JDD and EmpFab are among the missing

3 SP, 2 RP, 2 P? I think I'd prefer 4, 2, 1

These are the standard settings used for this league because daily requires more flexibility than the weekly league. Since we use saves and holds, relievers play a bigger role and if we lack flexibility certain players (SP-RP) become even more valuable. If enough people prefer 4-2-1 over 3-2-2 we'll go with it.

One category I didn't include is K/BB ratio for pitchers, I think both leagues adopted that last year because we needed a pitching cat and since Ks tend to be negated by BBs, adding the K/BB ratio at least helps as a tiebreaker. We can add it if y'all want...

If anyone has suggestions, present them here or in the thread we have in the sports forum.

We have 1 request for 4-2-1 (4 SP, 2RP, 1P) so far, post if you support the change. If you dont, I'll assume you're happy with 3-2-2

I dont think Imran is chomping at the bit to commish the weekly league, anyone interested?

[SlowwHand]

We wish to serve but one master, Lord Berz.

[snoopy369]

I prefer 2-2-3 personally but 3-2-2 is certainly acceptable. 4-2-1 is not preferred.

I know i'm bringing up something I brought up last time, but why H2H? Baseball is not as much fun h2h, it's a lot more fun roto-style...

[snoopy369]

I'd remove SHO and IP (or at least remove IP) ... I don't like shutouts as they're so uncommon that having a whole stat to them imbalances things; and IP just doesn't make sense (and it significantly enhances the SP/RP tradeoff, which is not beneficial for strategy). Batting wise remove AVG (and TB if you remove SHO); AVG isn't needed with OPS and H there, and TB doesn't really add anything (people high in TB will have a high OPS, high HR, etc.)

Basically I think you always have too many stats in your games berz, it makes it too complex such that the strategic decisions aren't as interesting.

[Berzerker]

IP is very important in daily, we use it at FFZ and it makes for some hectic decisions for the weekend when people are put in the position of losing IP or taking a chance on a starter who could hurt in a different category. Shutouts are rare but they are such a dominant reflection of your pitching it deserves the honor. Would you rather win SB by 1 or shutouts by 1? I'm open to making changes but you guys gotta convince us

Roto? Tried it one year and it lacks the week to week excitement of H2H, but I'm sure if you want to start a roto league you'll get a few people from Poly to play. And more categories means more options and more strategic decisions. If I had my way we'd be using even more categories I like singles, doubles and triples, OBP, Slg, K/BB, K/9 inn. I agree with 2-2-3, hell I'd go all 7 as (P) but the categories we are using have been established more or less over the years we've been doing this. I'm open to removing CG or SHO since a SHO qualifies as both, but consider just how important it is to throw a shut out. Obviously if the 2 teams are comparable in the pitching dept, a shut out should create an imbalance.

CHIME IN PEOPLE

People proposing changes want your support...if you support their proposed changes

We got a few days to get this done and if we have 10 or 8 people the draft will run fairly fast.

I did bump the minimum IP per week from 16 to 20 and removed K/BB. I'm in favor of using K/BB because using Ks and BBs tends to cancel each other out while K/BB makes it a 2 out of 3 contest - K, BB, K/BB.

I'd go for dropping Shutouts and putting K/BB back in. We have CG to reward shutouts and K/BB creates a 2 out of 3 contest with Ks and BBs which tend to cancel each other out.

WHAT SAY YOU?

Help us out here people, post if you like any changes being proposed.

[Berzerker]

c'mon now, we gotta settle the rules before drafting

[SlowwHand]

I'll be drafting the same people regardless of the rules, so it's all good. Throw the pitch and let me swing.

[Berzerker]

put me in coach

where the hell is Jdd and Emporer Fabulous? How do I PM them? My browser doesn't allow me to use the icons along the date time line