DRB Commissioner League Update

2 wild cards and the top two seeds get byes?

keeper rules…
i just had this thought, it might be really—really—stupid, but here it goes:
there are 480 picks in the draft.

pick #1 is $480 dollars. pick 2 is $479. and so on until pick 480 is $1 (as i type this is sounds stupider)
any who that’s a total of $115440. So cut that in half for a keepable budget and we have: $57720. That seems like too much, so lets make it 1/4 and it’s close to 29K. hand out 1 2 and whatever year contracts and keep up to that amount.

Obviously the numbers are irrelevant but hey, it;s just an idea.

OR

Make a set number of keepers and make them be kept according to the round they were selected in. in this scenario, everything is tradeable including picks. Pujols is picked in the 1st round, he’s a 1st round player next year (year 2). Price in the 12th, he’s a 12th next year. for year 3, you take year 2’s value (price in the 12) and year 3’s projected value (let’s say a 6) and average them. Price’s value year 3 is a 9th round pick.

This is the way I’ve done my other league for the last 5 or so years. We run it off of a spreadsheet. I can link the google doc if anyone’s interested in seeing how we do it.

We used this in our BtB Ball on a Budget league. Here’s how it looks:

Round 1: Pick 1 through Pick 24
Round 2: Pick 24 through Pick 1
Round 3: 1 through 24
Round 4: 24 through 1
Round 5: 1 through 24
Rounds 6 and beyond: 24 through 1

The divisions are awesome

I know I’ve seen about half a dozen e-mails about guys who have dropped out. Are we replacing them? Or are we shrinking the league size down to 16 or 20 depending on how many people are left?

Come on folks. Let’s get our act together.

How can we have a draft if we don’t know what the rules are gonna be for the league?

I just got word I’m going to be sent to South Florida for the rest of the week and won’t have acces to draft. Sorry.

I input the rules I think we agreed on.

I looked at the auction values that CBS outlines, and I did a “mock draft” which basically consisted of me going down their list and having a snake draft with each person picking the next best player with no regard for positions. By doing this each team ended up around 370 mill. in salaries. So from there we should start to get an idea about how much we want to allow as keepers. Should this dollar value have any effect on the first year draft (I don’t think so, but don’t really care)? We also need to decide on contracts.

My thoughts:

21 roster spots- (2) 4-year contracts, (4) 3-year contracts, (6) 2-year contracts, and the rest 1 year deals.
I think we should have a salary cap of $370 mill.

When a player’s contract expires you have 2 “franchise tags” where you can protect them for 1 year. They can’t be traded/dropped until after the AS break that year, and they can’t be franchised two years in a row. The franchise tag should pay the player a set amount, the avg. of their position, or the previous year’s salary times like 120%.

Minor leaguers called up are the rookie min. ($1 mill?) their first year, then they double the next two ($2, then $4). After their third year they are a FA. The first year for our purposes is the first year they are on your active roster (i.e. the year you call them up). So using Wade Davis as an example, if I had called him up last year he would have been $1 last year and $2 this. I also could have kept him as a MiLB player, and if I choose to call him up this year he’d be a dollar. I also have the option of stashing him in the minors all year, but once he loses rookie eligibility you have to either bring him up to the big club or ditch him that offseason.

We’re down to 18 unless PMCY decides he really is a puss. Of that 9 people have paid (including myself), and I haven’t heard from anyone that hasn’t paid asking for a loan. If things keep going this way, then we may be able to do a regular draft or auction as opposed to an extended one. Like I said, at midnight tonight I’m booting people. Depending on numbers, I may open up spots that will paypal me immidiately or just decide to push the draft back if we can do one where we can do it all in one night.

PAY ME!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m uneasy paying $50 and not knowing what I’m getting into. I’ve been reading everything posted regarding draft and scoring formats and can’t find anything to be conclusive.

you don’t know how many you have til everyone pays.
and not everyone’s payin til they know what the draft is gonna be like, or when it will be.

did the chicken or the egg come first?

make the deadline for payment tomorrow or the next day. then those who have paid can determine how it will work.

sorry. but thats how it is. i didn’t want it to be 50 anyhow

How many are actually in? How many are out?

I’m tired of dealind with a bunch of wavering pussies. Get in or get out, but let’s get the damn show on the road. It’s hard to plan this crap when people won’t put up.

would work great for me. Wednesday night I’ve got the playoffs in one of my softball leagues and if all goes well I’ll be playing till after 10pm and then boozing it up with the trophy after that.

If we’re dropping down to 14-16 teams we can go a lot deeper on the rosters if we want to. Something like a MIF, a CI, 5 OF and 8 or 9 pitchers maybe. If we only have 14 teams, 20 man rosters is gonna make for a stacked waiver wire.

so i’m probably not in. srsly, its terrible. there’s not even a method as to which minor leaguers they have in the database. fuckin amateurs. not paying fifty for that.

I’m going to look at my paypal, this thread, and the league website and see what’s up. Expect a new fanshot with a list of people who have paid, so we can get the draft set in the next few hours (depending on how my bosses felt about my absense last week).

Draft tonight at 9

Holler at me if you’re avail.