Anybody have any issues to bring up at the Draft? We could get some of it hammered out now and save a bit of time. Does anyone have any rules to introduce? Any rules you need explained? Any questions you need answered. Here are a couple of things to get the ball rolling...
1. It has been mentioned to me that we should bring up for vote again the rule the Wahoos proposed last year regarding the Draft order for the 1st round. The rule missed out last year by one vote, but at least two of the nays have said they have reconsidered. Here's the proposal:
In the first round of the Draft (and ONLY the first round), the Draft order among the non-playoff teams will be reversed. Of the ten non-playoff teams, the team with the best record would pick first. Second best record would pick second, and so on. The six playoff teams would still pick 11-16. Rounds 2+ would not be changed from the way we do it now. The reasoning is that it gives teams more incentive to win down the stretch, even after it becomes clear they are not going to make the playoffs. It also prevents tanking - whether in the form of drafting an all-prospect team designed to lose or just flat out not trying your best to win games. The new rule, if passed, would begin with the 2010 Draft.
2. I was asked this week about the number of uncarded players you can draft. The current rule says that a team can only protect/draft/own as many uncarded players as they have Reserve spots. If you have your two spots, you may protect 2 uncarded players before the Draft and not take any more. Or you could not protect any and then draft two. Or protect one and draft one. But you cannot own more than two at any time - and that includes trading for an uncarded player - from the time of roster cut down until you set your official roster for the season.
Example... Let's say the Sidewinders have two reserve spots, and they list on their protected roster two uncarded players (like Willis and Brignac). Then their turn in the Draft comes up and the Snakeman realizes he could draft heralded 7-tool prospect Ben Dover. He's thinking, "I'll draft Dover and just cut that bum Willis." Sorry, but you can't do that. Once you protected the two uncardeds, you took away any chance you had of drafting an uncarded player.
If you have three Reserve spots, you can protect/draft as many as three uncarded players (and so on). And if you have NO Reserve spots, obviously, you cannot draft an uncarded player.
And just to be clear... you do not HAVE to take uncarded players. The rule just sets the maximum you may own.
The number of Reserve spots you own is listed beside your team name on the rosters page. If it says (32), you have 2 spots.
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I am still unclear about the pow of closers. Do we add the closer number to POW for all relievers? If we do then we do not add points for ERA?
As far as POW goes, would it make sense to use strato's rules. When one plays on the computer, that is the rule most people use. The Inmates are the only team I have played on the computer that use our homemade rule.
SSWs
On computer, "home made rule" supercedes HAL unless both teams agree to HAL rules and are present at the computer. That's the way I've always dealt with it.
If I only have a computer manager for a visitor and I'm solo playing, I always use HAL rule. If their computer manager is an idiot, should have netplayed, lazy beotch!
Send me a manager and the email only says, "knock em out", I simple fire it up and EQA. Don't piss and moan about lineups and innings two weeks later!
Lrn2HAL or STFU!
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