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The Draft
« on: January 24, 2018, 11:07:09 PM »
I'm no longer going to be involved in administering the draft.  I do not have the time to continue with it.  I made that clear to the Commish yesterday and need it clear to the league so you all can address your questions/issues appropriately. 

I've also advised that the draft is too long and I recommended a 10 round draft going forward.  There are an incredibly few number of players drafted in the later rounds of our draft each year that ever amount to anything in MLB, certainly nowhere near enough to be worth my time to record all of those selections in excel and/or Fantrax.  Whenever the length of the draft has been presented as a problem in the past, we've had owners complain about reducing the draft length but also refusing to help at all.  So whatever is decided regarding the length of the draft, someone else will have to put in that time from now on. 

If you all have questions about free agency I'm glad to help and will continue processing those signings.  Thanks.
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Re: The Draft
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2018, 11:14:21 PM »
I'd like first 10 rounds like normal, then every team that still wants to pick send a proxy list to the Commish. The Commish auto drafts the rest of the draft off those lists. Certaintly on the GM to keep track of when they're up in the later stages of the draft. You can't hold hands until the end. Also, I agree that those later picks are not as valuable that a skip should even matter, but with 200 minors and teams like mine having 100 open spots, those picks are still useful.
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Re: The Draft
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2018, 12:07:13 AM »
Here we go again...

Jim Those was a 13th round pick.  These picks have value.  Not everyone is going to make it, but that isn't the point of the league.  It is fun to find that diamond in the rough.  A ten round draft will not even keep our minors half full and free agency is getting ridiculously overpriced in this league.  Besides if you're not going to do the work, why does it matter to you any more?
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Re: The Draft
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2018, 12:28:07 AM »
Here we go again...

Jim Those was a 13th round pick.  These picks have value.  Not everyone is going to make it, but that isn't the point of the league.  It is fun to find that diamond in the rough.  A ten round draft will not even keep our minors half full and free agency is getting ridiculously overpriced in this league.  Besides if you're not going to do the work, why does it matter to you any more?

I can give my opinions on whatever the hell I want just like you've always given your opinions and let someone else do all the work.

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Re: The Draft
« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2018, 11:19:07 PM »
Rather than shorten the draft (I think many owners would complain about this) I think we should look into the possibility of moving the draft start date forward and/or pushing the FA start date back a week in order to avoid them overlapping. It’s when they overlap that the workload becomes unbearable.

Things to consider:

Real life FAs have been signing later in recent years so it would help avoid situations where players are being signed in AFB before they are signed in real life. (Obviously only applies to players who happen to be FA in both but for example Napoli just signed a not insignificant contract in AFB with AFB owners not even knowing his playing situation for next year)

The draft becomes harder to track and log in later stages as more teams are skipped and make up picks happen. This hitting at the same time as start of FA is tough for Chris, Jeremy and I.

We can combine positions or shorten the window for each position to be signed in order to start FA later and still have it completed in time for the season to start.
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Re: The Draft
« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2018, 10:32:28 PM »
I'd like first 10 rounds like normal, then every team that still wants to pick send a proxy list to the Commish. The Commish auto drafts the rest of the draft off those lists. Certaintly on the GM to keep track of when they're up in the later stages of the draft. You can't hold hands until the end. Also, I agree that those later picks are not as valuable that a skip should even matter, but with 200 minors and teams like mine having 100 open spots, those picks are still useful.

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