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Post by richard nationals on Sept 18, 2015 7:34:24 GMT -5
You can post any suggestions you have for rule changes for 2016. Just remember we want to keep this league as close to real MLB as possible.
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Post by yankeesgm on Sept 19, 2015 7:18:37 GMT -5
I'd like to propose that instead of taking away points for the day for roster violations, that instead the owner's roster is locked until it is fixed. They will be notified of the violation via email at the time of discovery.
I found the rule in these sections:
If you have a player who is no longer on a minor league contract on your minor league roster then you will have an illegal roster and will receive no stats for the day or days your roster is illegal. If your team has more than 40 minor league contract players your team will receive no stats for day or days this occurs.
Exceeding Roster Limits: Not at any time will a team be allowed to have more than 30 players on there mlb roster that are not on the dl. Any team caught with having more than 30 players on there mlb roster on fantrax will receive no stats from any player on that day or days.
DL: Only a player that is on the DL in real life will be allowed on the DL. Once they come off the DL in real life they must be back on your 30 man roster on fantrax failure to do so will result in no stats for that day or days it occurs.
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Post by richard nationals on Sept 19, 2015 8:35:06 GMT -5
I do think we should change the rule because the punishment is to harsh for an honest mistake. If the team did not gain an advantage by the mistake then they should be given a warning. If they did gain an advantage then maybe we could take away stats from one player instead of the whole team. I would like to hear from more owners on this rule.
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Post by richard nationals on Sept 19, 2015 9:00:43 GMT -5
With the idea of keeping this league as real as MLB as possible, I would like to make two proposals.
1. If a player with a mlb contract is sent to the minors in real mlb then we should be able to send to our minors too if we have room. We had a few players with mlb contracts that spent most of the year in the minors, but we were stuck with them our 30 man roster. It would be easy to monitor because fantrax puts a green flag next to a players name if they are in the minors. When that player is called up in real mlb then you would have to put him back on your 30 man roster.
2. At the start of the playoffs an owner would have to announce their 30 man roster for each week. If they advance to the next round then they could change their 30 man roster. If you have a player with an mlb contract that is not in the minors in real mlb and you don't put him on your 30 man roster for the playoffs then we could temporarily drop him from your team. No team could add him because we have a rule that you can't add players during the playoffs. We would put him back on your roster when your season ends.
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Post by max11 on Sept 19, 2015 10:15:15 GMT -5
A couple rule clarifications:
Season Begin Date - would like to see in the timelines when the league is classifying the season begin date. My interpretation was different then that league interpretation last season so I lost some Rookies.
Waiver wire - when waiving a player with a minimum contract can you pick them up off the waiver wire at 40% or do we pick them up a minimum contract. $0.50 at 40% we would pick him up at $0.20 M per year. Clarify this in the rules.
Do we always have to have 30 players on our MLB roster. Set a limit of max 30 min. of 27 to allow flexibility. Last season I had so many on the DL at times I would have to bring up minors to keep my roster full.
I like the 2nd rule for the playoffs.
1st rule not sure yet. We went to a 30 man roster for some of that flexibility so not sure we really need to change that. WE could keep it that if the MLB player has a contract but still meet minor stats then they can stay on the minor league roster.
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Post by yankeesgm on Sept 21, 2015 12:53:08 GMT -5
Responding to the best of my ability: Season Begin Date - would like to see in the timelines when the league is classifying the season begin date. My interpretation was different then that league interpretation last season so I lost some Rookies. - I thought this was pretty clearly communicated via email/PM prior to the season starting. There is a thread with key dates though here baseballdcfantasy.freeforums.net/board/51/deadlinesdatesWaiver wire - when waiving a player with a minimum contract can you pick them up off the waiver wire at 40% or do we pick them up a minimum contract. $0.50 at 40% we would pick him up at $0.20 M per year. Clarify this in the rules. - A player cannot be added for less than the .5m minimum salary. If you claim someone off waivers, and their salary would be less than the minimum, you must pay them the minimum. e.g. A player making .5m is waived, typically 60% would be .3m, would be bumped up to .5m at the minimum bid. Do we always have to have 30 players on our MLB roster. Set a limit of max 30 min. of 27 to allow flexibility. Last season I had so many on the DL at times I would have to bring up minors to keep my roster full. - You don't always need 30 players on your MLB roster, that is just the max. Per the fantrax rules, you must have 21 total players. That is the only minimum listed anywhere. |
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Post by Phil - Rangers on Sept 23, 2015 22:48:25 GMT -5
Moving forward, I would like to eliminate all trading of tags (franchise and restricted). I think this is in alignment with being more like real MLB.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2016 16:26:48 GMT -5
Could we have in the offseason a posting process to acquire milb free agents? Basically make it like fa but where if you want someone you post a thread then people can actively bid if wanted. This cost is just for the rights to the player, if noone wants the player no cost otherwise make them bid to the nearest .10.
Example 1:
Blue Jays post player John Doe.
No other Managers put in bids, awarded to Blue Jays after 48hrs.
Example 2:
Blue Jays post player Smith.
Rays bid .2 for rights to Smith
White Sox bid .5 for rights
Blue Jays bid 1m for rights
No other bids. Blue Jays win rights for 1m.
This would be much more inline with mlb ways of handling milb fas. The current add as fast as you can is really not realistic at all and it comes down to who can be on and faster on milb fa opening which i dont think is entirely fair or realistic.
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Post by Rockies GM(Ron) on Feb 29, 2016 12:42:31 GMT -5
I have not seen any replies to any other suggestion so I am not sure if anyone is reading these. I have a couple of suggestions.
#1
I would like to see the draft moved to the beginning of the season instead of the middle or end of the season. We have the most activity and I would imagine new owners would like to draft for their own teams and it seems like it would be a great time to draft. In addition, at the beginning of the season you can make a more informed decision on whom to pick as well. I also think we should change it from the amateur draft to the rookie draft. This simply means that if players do not meet the 200 at bats and the 100 innings they are available to be drafted. For example, if we were to have this draft say now, eligible players would be Byong ho Park, Kenta Maeda, Anderson Espinoza, Anthony Alford, Yoan Moncada, Andrew Benintendi, and 2015 draftees etc. I believe this would give draft picks more value and make the draft pool deeper. I think it would also help spread some talent around to some of the teams with less talent in our league. Yasmany Tomas makes 19M in our league but makes 4M in real life for this season, Alexander Guerrero makes 11M here but 5M in real life this season, etc. Why? They have no more experience than the amateurs we draft against other MLB talent. Cespedes, Abreu, Yu are a few examples of good players that would have been drafted with this system instead of FA. With that type of talent, potential teams can make a quicker rebuilds than waiting on 18 year olds to get to the majors. This would make the whole draft process better and the league.
Actually, I think that we could do a version of that right now instead of the free for all minor pick up. We could have a one round draft with all the minor league eligible players giving teams a better chance to get better. After that, we can still have a date to pick up the rest of the minors left. Great thing about this is that it could start today if we wanted it to. We have the draft order already set from last year.
Like to know everyone thoughts and if some owners share, the same opinion would like to see if we could get a league vote on it if possible.
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As Phil suggested I think trading tags only hurts the league because of the old saying the rich gets richer. Of course not in all cases. I think a few of the teams in our league definitely have an advantage over others in talent and trading for tags so we can keep that advantage (i.e. players) does not make for equal play . Take my team for example I think everyone would like to have an opportunity to go after Machado or Arenado but if I just trade for a tag it makes getting guys like that nearly impossible. Think we all will have to make some tough decisions at times. Ultimately, I think it could also help spread the talent around the league eventually.
Thanks for Reading
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Post by Steve (Padres) on Feb 29, 2016 15:40:05 GMT -5
Since this was getting hard to follow in the chat, Blue Jays and I have questions on the existing RFA system the league employs. As of now, 11 of the 12 winning bids have been matched and returned to their existing teams, with 2 winning bids pending. That's a very poor rate of talent moving from team to team. I also feel that the current system causes significant salary bloating that really doesn't need to exist.
Here's my proposed fix: I feel the matching system is backwards. To better transfer talent, we could use a QO system similar in nature to the real MLB. Rather than teams bidding on an RFA and the posting team matching winning bid, we would require posting team to offer the player a QO with a year/value range from 1 year, 9M to 2 years, 25M. There would be the option of adding a 1-year CO to the end of that at existing CO rates (20% above AAV).
After the QO is offered, the player is posted and teams can bid to match at least 10% above QO level. Bids must stand for 24 hours to finalize. If a bid is offered and finalizes, that team gets the player, and gives up a 2nd round pick to the posting team.
If a team wishes to not offer a QO to a player after contract expiration, said player is included in UFA for open bidding as is currently.
Example:
Rays post Lorenzo Cain and offer a QO of 2 years, $15M per plus a third year CO at $18M.
No bids placed, Rays retain Cain at posted value.
Example 2:
Rays post Matt Moore and offer a QO of 2 years, $10M per. No CO attached.
Blue Jays bid 2 years, 11M per with a 13.2M CO attached.
No other bids.
Blue Jays acquire Moore at bid price and give up 2nd round pick to Rays.
We can use this option to fix the tagging system as well. Rather than Franchising a player or RFA'ing a player, each team could get 4 QO tags per year (non-tradeable). The idea that the poster retains the player at QO if he passes 24 hours posting will self-combat teams posting a player at max contract just to prevent bidding. It will also allow for better passing of talent around the league and hopefully easier salary cap management.
This could also tie in with what Rockies mentioned above (rookie draft). He's maximizing draft value, and if we do that giving up the 2nd round pick means that the posting team will have a substantial value in return and a means to recoup some of the talent they may have lost.
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Post by Trey - Astros GM on Mar 1, 2016 10:55:24 GMT -5
I'd support some things from each of Ron's and Steve's posts.
1. A one round pre-season draft of minors/rookies - not sure that international veteran types should be included though. I could go either way.
2. No trading of tags
3. Reduction of RFA tags per team to just one to increase the rate of FAs reaching new homes
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Post by richard nationals on Mar 1, 2016 11:15:46 GMT -5
I agree with a pre season draft for minors and rookies. We have a 5 round draft now. We could make it less than 5, but I would not want to cut back to 1 round.
I am not sure about international players. Eliminating trading of tags is good and reducing number of tags would help. Richie and I have already talked about a draft soon for minors instead of the free for all we have had in past years.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2016 11:54:09 GMT -5
Richard, I run the draft in my deep dynasty league (20 teams / 30 man no milb roster theyre all on the active)and I think a three round draft of all non mlb players (no international) would be perfect.
Also thank you guys so much for recognizing the changes that are being requested / discussed. You guys earn a lot of points in my book for hearing us.
Also I have a 2017 suggestion:
For prizing can we please add a prize for most improved? This would be a great carrot for the non playoff teams.
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Post by Trey - Astros GM on Jan 30, 2017 19:22:46 GMT -5
Thinking about ways to improve the draft.
1. We could assign hour time slots per draft slot such that each owner knows they're respective times. You can pick earlier if the ones before you go faster but you'll always be given until the end of your time slot to pick.
Or 2. Two people on the clock at all times. This would help incentivize people to consistently keep up with the draft and pick as quickly as they can.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2017 9:47:31 GMT -5
The draft is going well outside of non draft related issues. We are well on pace to finish before spring training which is awesome with 140 picks to make. I dont think we have a speed issue at all, more of a patience issue.
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