Draft Discussion

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This post is all draft related issues in 1 post so it will be a little lengthy but broken down into parts in blue.

For now I do not want to revote on anything because nothing will change here until next offseason (except maybe draft pick trading).

However, either way, I think this a good season long discussion now that we have several new owners and hopefully more to come. We will certainly have official revotes at some point on trading pick and number of rounds.


Draft player list

Current Rule

Currently Armchair uses the BA top 500 as the draftable players list

Rule Change (to take into effect next offseason)

Armchair will use BA MLB Draft Database to create the list of draftable players. This list will be created in the order players were drafted and only include players that signed with their team.

https://www.baseballamerica.com/draft-history/mlb-draft-database/#/?Year=2019&Round=0&TeamId=0&Position=&SchoolName=&FourYearSchoolType=false&JuniorCollegeType=false&HighSchoolType=false&OtherSchoolType=false&StateOrCountry=&Signed=&SigningBonusMin=0&SigningBonusMax=0&PlayerName=&OverallNumber=0



Draft Timing

Current Rule

Currently the draft timing is set at 24 hours per owner per pick.

Rule Change (to take into effect next offseason)

The draft timing will be set at different increments by rounds. The first 3 rounds, owners will have 24 hours per pick, rounds 3-15 owners will have 12 hours per pick, any rounds after 15 owners will have 6 hours per pick.

Any owner who misses a pick will be skipped, a pick will not be auto selected for that owner until the next time it is their turn to pick.

Example: If an owner misses their pick Round 5 pick 15, that pick will either be made up by that owner before Round 6 pick 15 or if the owner misses that pick as well R15 P15 will be autoselected with the highest available player being selected.

Any owner who misses two picks in a row will be placed on autopick, everytime their pick comes up the highest available player will be selected for them and cannot be undrafted.

Any owner may place themselves on auto pick at any time.

Every owner will be placed on Auto pick at the beginning of the off-season and will only be removed once they have answered the “Check-in” poll announcing their intention to return for the upcoming season.




Draft Pick trading


Current Rule

Draft picks are not currently allowed to be traded

Vote was done here and revote to be done at a later date: http://www.profsl.com/smf/index.php?topic=366486.0

Proposed Rule Change

Allow all draft picks to be traded, but they cannot be traded for cash, they must be part of a larger deal.



Draft Expansion

Current Rule

Currently the draft is set at 15 rounds

Vote was done here and revote to be done at a later date: http://www.profsl.com/smf/index.php?topic=366487.0

Proposed Rule Change

Expand the draft from 15 rounds to 20 or 25 rounds