Plaw and I have been discussing the league settings and he will be making three hopefully innocuous changes:

1 - After the draft is over, players go on waivers instead of the free agency list. This change was made to give people a couple of days to study their teams and see who is available rather than being obligated to do this studying immediately.

2 - Wins count for +7 instead of +6

3 - Save Opportunities count for -6 instead of -4

For the last two, Plaw and I discussed the "breakeven" concept - i.e. what type of record should a pitcher have to be considered average. An average pitcher should get no points.

We agreed that the breakeven point for a starting pitcher should be .461 since a win is harder to get than a loss. With change #2, if a pitcher has 6 wins and 7 losses, he gets no points for those wins and losses.

We also agreed that the breakeven point for a closer should be .750 - i.e. he should convert 3 out of 4 save opportunities. Change #3 corrects for this.

Please let us know what you think.

I looked over the pitcher rankings and these changes dont really affect the rankings of the pitchers very much, if at all.

What it does chhange slightly is the points spreads between the pitchers, so, for example, Chris Carpenter, who was the #1 rated starter last year, now has a greater difference in points between himself and Johann Santana, last year's #2 rated starter, because Carpenter was 16 games over .500, giving him an additional 16 points, while Santana was only 6 over .500, so he gets an additional 6 points.

SC tells me that he'll be posting the draft order about 4:30 or 5:00 or so this morning.

Everyone all excited, or is it just me?

Sorry for the delay.

**************** DRAFT PICKS ORDER *************************

1. JL
2. DB
3. DA
4. CC
5. DJ
6. LZ
7. JG
8. PL
9. TM

Good luck everyone!

Thanks, SC.

I regret to inform you, however, that next year I'm gonna ask someone else.

(Didn't you get my PM that the commissioner is supposed to get no worse than third pick?)

let me get this right. I get the first pick, then the last pick of rd 2, then the 1st pick of rd 3, etc.....

That's right JL. They call this the "Snake Draft" because of how the picks snake around.

Thanks SC!

wow seems I'm lucky this year :rolleyes:

maybe I can find a way to make this work out well...

Well, you do get 2 picks in a row...

Of course if I win, PL will blame it on the draft. :p

Well, you do get 2 picks in a row... [/b][/quote]yeah that's my hope.

I don't know, I have always been lame in math, but according to me (watch out) I'll get 9th, 10th, 27th, 28th, 45th, 46th picks and on and on... is that right?

I tried, plaw, when you asked me to pick you a winner. Unfortunately all I could come up with was this:

Your prompt payoff, uh, umm, payment will be appreciated.

I almost wish I didn't pick first, because most likely I'm going to have pick someone that I really can't stand.

Take Pujols; You loved him in Salary Cap last year.

Actually, we can start "unofficially" drafting now. Save some time on Monday.

yeah I'd love to know who you guys are picking before me. come on, DA let's get it started! (since we know who the first 2 picks will be)

just remembered... now that the draft is all set, I have a new doubt: more especifically, how does the draft works? I'm talking about how much time do we have to make a pick, or what we know about what the other players are doing, or anything related to that

I'm still going to have to figure out how to do this draft. I'm working until 9:45 and really don't feel like sitting in my office all night doing this. ...And maybe I will take Pujols, and maybe I won't. :p

TM....

It will all be self-explanatory once the draft starts.

If you rank the players yourself, Yahoo takes them off your list as they are drafted. If you don't, Yahoo takes them off the list that they have there now, based on their rankings.

I believe you get 90 seconds to make your pick. If you don't manually pick within 90 seconds, Yahoo will pick for you, taking the next player on the list - either your list if you've ranked the players yourself, or their list if you haven't.

You don't have to go by your list, either, maeaning you don't have to pick the player you have ranked next when your turn comes.

Just log into the draft early, and you'll see how it works.

We'll all be there; they even have a chatroom set up so we can talk to each other while it's going on.

thanks again plaw. now, okay I'm a lazy muthafacka and don't feel like looking throught the thread all over again, so please remember me some key elements that I don't remind.

- how many bench players our teams will have?
- how many SP? 6 right?
- relievers? 5 ?
- when we set the team for opening day, we just pick 3 outfielders or are they separated in right, center and left?

thanks!

Am I allowed to trade the #1 overall pick?

Hey guys, when's the draft again? :p

Of course. You looking for offers?

Of course. You looking for offers? [/b][/quote]....Yes

This Is Important:

While the "Roster Configuration" calls for 14 offensive players and 11 pitchers, and that the 11 pitchers be 6 SPs and 5 RPs, this is really gonna have to be an "unwritten rule", since I believe Yahoo will allow you to have your entire bench consist of pitchers.

The advantage to having your entire bench consist of pitchers is that it would give you a great deal of flexibility every day in deciding which pitchers to have in your lineup and which to have on your bench.

You can only have a maximum of 6 SPs and 5 RPs in your lineup every day, but if you had 16 pithers all together (by using your 5 bench spots for pitchers as well), that would give you much more of a choice of who to use every day.

Of course the drawback is that you have no one on your bench to play offense if needed.

In any case, the limit is 11 pitchers, and if anyone has more on their roster ata given time, I will void the transaction that added the extra pitcher(s) and put that person's roster back to 11.

You can, however, configure those 11 pitchers any way you wish.

You can carry 6 SPs and 5 RPs, giving you the flexibility of having 6 SPs to choose from in making your 162 starts.

Or, even 7 SPs and 4 RPs, which gives you even more flexibility with SPs, requires that you sacrifice potential points that your RPs may get, since you are allowed to have 5 in your lineup every day and you will only have 4 on your roster.

Or, you can carry 5 SPs and 6 RPs. This gives you no flexibility with your starters, since you will pretty much have to use each of the 5 every time they start to reach the 162 games started, but you will gain the flexibility of having 6 relievers to choose from every day to fill the 5 RP slots on your roster every day.

I hope I explained that so everyone understands it......

Trying to control our BENCHES now? What difference should it make to anyone? What if I wanted 5 catchers on my bench, shouldn't that be up to me?

What if I wanted to pick up a SP or RP for a one day strategic move, even if I already have 11 pitchers - you're really gonna play God and change my roster? :rolleyes:

I vote NO on that - at least until you give me a good reason for it. :p

Boy did I make the right decision. :p


Don Cardi

LOL