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308 Rays.  Aaron Griffin RHP

Either way, we need to come to a resolution of the roster issue.  I don't have excel which makes my updating these sheets not possible.  Things that aren't absolutely necessary to distinguish a player are just superfluous for these sheets in my opinion.  I have no interest in looking up the birthdates of 6 or 700 draftees because 5 or 10 players in the whole league may have duplicate names.  As long as the appropriate player is given to the appropriate team in FanTrax I think birthdates are a time consuming luxury.

This league has been in existence two seasons and the Commish role has been a revolving door.  The reason for this is undoubtedly the large amount of time to maintain all of these types of things.  So when there are things that take an extraordinary amount of time that don't have a significant impact then we can either ditch those things or we need more of a group effort to handle them.  This is why I proposed the fixed arbitration and simpler rosters. 

If we can't resolve this then free agency won't begin on time and the season may be pushed back.

I agree. This is why I think it would make he most sense to delegate a lot of the tasks. I know we sort of had an executive committee for Fantrax but I think we need something like that for the league. For example a head commissioner to oversee everything and verify some peoples work from time to time to make sure nothing funny is going on and have a few tasks they do themselves (Chris) and then a group of people to handle different areas. For example, I already volunteered to do the extensions. Now that rosters are updated on fantrax we could have 1 or 2 people be in charge of updating fantrax rosters when trades/FA/Promotions happen. We could have one person in charge of updating the roster spreadsheets once that gets up to speed. 2 people in charge of updating draft, etc. Then get people to help on short term projects as needed like when a group of us helped with the fantrax rosters.



Identify the tasks and delegate them out to a group of 3-5 people that are on here fairly consistently and willing to help.

A sort of executive committee that is overseen by the commish would help a lot I think.

As far as the rosters, I like the DOB. it happens with more than a few players and not just duplicate names. A lot of names on rosters are something like billy jones when on bbref it is William jones and it helps to ensure it's the correct player.

Anyways, I'm all for the setup Jss0062 has going up. It's just hard to read. I agree the handedness is somewhat superfluous and I would understand if he didn't want to include it for workload.

here is what my personal roster looks like.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_fh6DsIXtJ1S0dSZE9wSElNNEk/edit?usp=sharing

link should work now

Personally, I like this format better than Chris'

It is easier to read the contract/arb  info and I like how it list things
 like DOB,  age,  handedness, etc. It  is not uncommon  to encounter common
 names and  this info,  especially DOB,  helps identify players.

example -  David  Carpenter of the braves and angels systems.

I am not sure how I feel about organizing by position rather than minor league
 level. I like it because it makes it easier to see where you have positional depth
 in the minors but it also makes it harder to arrange players if we still have roster limits
 at each level.  This  roster setup would be nice if we just had one general minor league roster
 instead of different levels.

I agree that the current setup is a bit cumbersome.  However,  this league is supposed to be as realistic as possible. If  we do this then as a Mike Trout  owner I would be paying just as much (4M)  in the final year of arbitration as for a AAAA  type reliever. That just isn't very realistic or fair. If  we go that route then why even have arb  values? I  think it is fine the way it is.  If people use cots then it isn't that hard to get values for most every player.

To be fair, we posted this trade a week or so ago and Boston confirmed.  Chris suspended all trades until rosters were available, so I reposted it with the salary info.  I can't find the old post, it's not in invalid transactions.  Boston knew the salaries of all involved players though we didn't include them in the last posting.

You are correct however he did not give an explanation or reasoning behind the trade then either. That is my issue. I don't think you are making up a trade, I believe at one point this trade was agreed upon between the two you. I also believe this was special circumstances with trades being suspended due to a lack of access to spreadsheets with commish change.

However, with a trade this seemingly lopsided, an explanation is needed in order to pass.