Entry Draft Rules (RC Members only Please)

[papps]

Promoting your own EDRs is not the question or an issue in the discussion.  I am suggesting that we be allowed to place EDRs we get in trades on our EDR roster--instead of being required to place them on our 40 man roster.  This is the only change I am suggesting in our present EDR rules.

I agree with Ernesto.  I think we should be able to put EDR players we trade for on our EDR roster instead of having to move them to the 40 man roster.

[shooter47]

With the removal of Draft bonuses (Vote can be found here: http://www.profsl.com/smf/index.php?topic=73468.0 ) the rules for FGM need to be changed. Here are my proposal to reword the rules.

Full Rules found here: http://www.profsl.com/smf/index.php?topic=30.0

Entry Draft Contracts
These are bonuses to be paid in the entry draft per the rankings provided by Baseball America.  These bonuses are not based on actual Franchise GM draft position.

1 - $7.0m
2 - $6.0m
3 - $5.0m
4 - $4.0m
5 and 6 - $3.5m
7 and 8 - $3.0m
9 thru 12 - $2.5m
13 thru 17 - $2.0m
18 thru 31 - $1.5m
32 thru 46 - $1.0m
47 thru 64 - $0.5m
all picks from 65 on require no signing bonus

Change this section to the following:
Players drafted in the FGM entry draft will be given Prospect Contracts, (P-n/a), and can be placed on a teams EDR roster or 40 man roster.

How Draft Will Be Conducted
•If a team is not present for the draft / times out, and did not provide a proxy pick, they'll be awarded the next highest ranked player that they can afford, and then placed on auto-draft.
•The players ranking list is of the same order of Baseball America followed by the actual draft order.
•Entry Draft will only have players who are eligible for the real life MLB Entry Draft.

Entry Draft Roster (EDR)
•The EDR is a roster of additional players not included on the 40-man roster for each team.  The maximum size of this roster is 15 players.  It will expand to 20 players at the beginning of the 2012 season.
•Only players drafted by the current team are eligible for the EDR, players acquired via trade or free agency are not eligible.  In other words, players may only be placed on EDR directly after being drafted by your franchise.
•Players that have never played an MLB game are eligible for the EDR.  As soon as a player on the EDR has one MLB game played, they must immediately be moved to the 40-man roster or released.  If the player is moved to the 40-man roster, they are subject to standard prospect contract rules.  Players on the EDR may be traded, but the acquiring team must place them on the 40-man roster
•The Franchise GM Entry Draft will last 10 rounds, but teams are not required to make picks if they do not wish to make room on their EDR
•Signing bonuses paid to drafted player count against the teams salary cap - after required signing bonuses are paid, players on the EDR are kept at no cost.  Players may be dropped from the EDR at any time, at no cost, to make room for newly drafted players (signing bonuses are not reimbursed).  Players released from the EDR are subject to standard free agency rules. Delete this Section
•Only players eligible for the MLB Entry Draft will be eligible for the Franchise GM Entry Draft - foreign players and unprotected prospects will be handled via free agency (however foreign players may warrant consideration for an additional rule)
•If a player is not signed by their respective MLB team, the Franchise GM team can retain the player but must increase the signing bonus from the original fixed, pre-draft price to 150% of that value, with a minimum of 0.5M (if they originally did not require a signing bonus).  If a 1.0M player goes unsigned, you can either cough up an extra 0.5M for the signing bonus (1.0M*150%=1.5M, -1.0M already paid = 0.5M), or lose the players rights and receive no compensation (but the originally paid 1.0M is reimbursed). Delete this Section
•The 60-day no trade ruling is extended to include draftees.

At this time I would also like to propose the following change to the FGM Entry Draft. I would like to propose the change that only players that were signed in the real life MLB draft can be drafted in FGM. I am making this proposal for the following reasons.

1) With the removal of draft bonuses there is no longer an additional cost to drafting players who haven't signed. To better simulate the real draft players who haven't signed should not be draft eligible.

2) Drafting players who haven't signed creates problems for player and draft administration in FGM. The draft eligible player list must be manually looked at and players already owned in FGM must be removed from this list. Draft administration would be simplified by not allowing unsigned players to be drafted in FGM.

3) There is no longer an issue with knowing if players have signed since the FGM Entry Draft starts the day after the MLB signing deadline. (The draft has been delayed until 9/2/2013 this year due to the league not being ready to draft and the changes to the Entry Draft Rules above).

RC Members please respond with any concerns, questions or comments that you may have.

Shooter

I also cast my vote for making these changes to the rules for the Entry Draft and eliminating players who are unsigned from being drafted in the FGM Entry Draft.

The following have voted yes to these changes:

Brewers GM , VolsRaysBucs , Kungfuwig , Papps , Flash and shooter47

Colby , Rcankosy and BHows have all yet to cast a vote.

With the current tally being 6-0 in favor of yes these changes have passed the RC.

The language in the Rules for the Entry Draft will be updated. Also unsigned players from the real life MLB Draft will no longer be eligible to be drafted in FGM. Any player that is currently on a team and was drafted when they were an unsigned player in the MLB draft will continue to be owned by their current team. This rule applies to the 2013 FGM Entry Draft and future drafts.

Thanks,
Shooter