Considering how very deep this league is, one or two injuries could leave you with having to start a part-time utility player.

and combining BB and AVG into OBP to balance the pitching/hitting stats

I would like to see a DL slot or two added. I would also be happy with a roster reduction. Perhaps we could get rid of two bench slots when we move from 16 to 20 teams? Use the players or loose them!

I like having seven batting and seven pitching statistics. If we change any categories I hope we keep batting and pitching evenly balanced.

I will win next year. No other result is possible.

As wanting to join, I’ll email shortly…

Obviously, whoever joined would have to build slowly, but I think it is possible. Just let all four expansion teams (five?) have six picks to essentially form their own set of keepers, and then conduct the draft afterwards, with the expansion teams picking at the beginning of each round.

So, basically, here is how it would work out:

EXPANSION DRAFT

1) Team A
2) Team B
3) Team C
4) Team D
5) Team E
6) Team E
…so on…

And then, when the Draft with everyone starts, just reverse the order. So it would go:

REGULAR DRAFT

1) Team E
2) Team D
3) Team C
4) Team B
5) Team A
6) Existing Team
…so on…

It still wouldn’t even the playing field, but would at least give the expansion teams a shot if they draft well enough and make enough trades/waiver wire pickups.

But yeah, I definitely want to join, just don’t know your email, grudz.

For the new managers… email is in profile now…. So, email me…

So far … on settings…

We want to lose a two of the bench spots. GS will be replaced by what OBP? And, add two DL spots… Am I right?

How about if the new six managers get the first six picks and the rest of the draft would follow in order of your finish in 2008. That would make it about as fair and as realistic as we can be.

Assuming this is an online draft, there probably isn’t going to be a site that would have the capabilities to set up a draft that would allow only 4 teams in a 20 team league draft the first 6 rounds, so I think that is out (its a good idea, but hard to pull off w/o a face to face draft)…

You could simply abandon the ‘snake’ format, and allow the 4 new teams (and the take over team) to draft the first 5 picks every round. Would it help that much to have the 1st, 21st & 41st picks as opposed to the 1st, 39th & 40th though?…

Maybe, we hold a "true’ expansion draft, using the players that were declared as keepers? i.e.the 90 players that have been declared keepers are tossed back into the ‘expansion draft’ for the 5 new teams to choose from. We’d have to to this pretty much right before the real draft starts, because everybody will have to be online for it. As soon as 1 player is selected from a particular teams lot of keepers, the owner of the player that was drafted can then protect 2 players, and no team can lose more than 2 of their declared keepers…

SOOOOOoooooo, using Royals Reviews team as an example…
1) Lance Berkman
2) Josh Beckett
3) John Lackey
4) Jeremy Bonderman
5) Hanley Ramirez
6) Derek Lee

If the 1st pick in the expansion draft is Lance Berkman, he can then choose to protect 2 players. Say he protects Beckett & Lackey. Then a later expansion draft pick is Bonderman, so RR can’t lose any more players, and he winds up with 4 keepers…

That would be a ‘true’ expansion draft at least. Maybe you can even have it so the existing owners can protect one player BEFORE the expansion draft, so, RR could protect Berkman before the draft, leaving 5 players exposed…

If we’re having expansion teams, I know we want to give them some kind of shot to put together a decent lineup, but I don’t think we should make it too complicated. I mean it’s Grudz’s call if he wants to do a lot of work here, but if I were the commish, I don’t know that I’d want to do all the work that would be necessary to make the expansion draft as fair to the expansion teams as possible. I’m all for doing something reasonable and something which isn’t too much work.

We will have a non snake draft with the four expansion and one orphan managers (order chosen by blind draw by the Comm.) will get the first five picks in every round and the remaining draft slots will be filled by order of the team finish of the 2008 season.

For 2009…is this what you want?

Roster Positions: C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, OF, OF, OF, Util, Util, SP, SP, RP, RP, P, P, P, P, P, P, BN, BN, BN, DL,DL

Stat Categories: R, HR, RBI, SB, BB, OBP, AVG, W, CG, SV, K, HLD, ERA, WHIP

There would be a 19 player draft for the established teams and a 25 player draft for the new teams. I would like to keep the scoring cat’s. even at 7 hitting and pitching if we could.

Roster Positions:

 C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, OF, OF, OF, Util, Util, SP, SP, RP, RP, P, P, P, P, P, P,
BN, BN, BN, DL, DL

Stat Categories:

R, HR, RBI, SB, BB, AVG, W, SV, K, HLD, ERA, WHIP

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