on the pitching if no cap/daily isn't an option (which it appears it isn't, which is fine)
then i'm for weekly no cap

eta: if we do have daily/cap 1000min/1200cap sounds silly, that's like one starters difference between the min and max. 1500 sounds ok, but with benches this deep, 9 pitcher spots, and the minor leaguers which i'm not entirely sure how that works since I didn't read it (hopefully you did like I told you to nutshot) i'd prefer something like 1800

I think that's the point where an actual GM would put the phone on mute and go get a cup of coffee. Or hang up.

I'm fine with a cap higher than 1500, too. I've only been in one other league with an innings cap though (it wasn't set up very well, so I'd rather not use it as a model), so I'm not sure what an ideal number would be. Anywhere between 1500 to 1800 seems reasonable to me though. Less than that seems like it'd be too low.

1442 is league average, so i think 1500 makes decent bit of sense. and 1000-1500 is a pretty wide gap for different strategies.

I'd still rather have weekly line up changes, but 1500 innings cap and daily lineup changes is my second preference.

Maybe a higher min? 1100?

it should be noted that primetime admitted himself he couldn't go after a player he wanted b/c he has no money.

also does it take a rocket scientist to see that the offer was Victorino, Guiterrez AND whatever players you can pick up with $7 mil in cap space for Kemp and Beckham?

Why am I catching so much flack for this proposal?

Daily lineup changes.

1000 min IP

1500 max IP

this seems to be right around where everyone is talking

if you are adamantly opposed to the above, voice your opinion now or forever hold your peace

I don't understand. So there will be a cap on how many innings pitched, but we can stream hitters? How does that help?

162 G cap at each position

Karak,

What's the status of the rule changes you proposed (the free add/drops for calling up minor leaguers and not having to carry 10 minor leaguers)? Also, what do you think of the rule change I proposed (5 free add/drops for picking up min-salary injury replacements)?

Love it.

I sympathize with the guys who don't want to micro-manage, but you can set every day for a week ahead in about ten minutes. Done, back to grinding.

Is Jeff Clement gonna be catcher eligible this year?

just to put what we discussed in chat in here:

2009: He was C eligibile from 38 games at C at MLB. But then played 0 MLB games in 2009, and 90 AAA games. 26 @ 1b, 16 @ C and the rest at DH.

So now he is a.... ?

I vote 1B only

Incident in auction.


When you nominate a player it counts as a min bid of $400k.

Yes/No?


edit:

I know the answer but i thought i should ask to see if most people are confused. Only bother posting if you thought the answer was No.

Yes

So for people who weren't around to see the chat:

Juan Rivera had 5 minutes left to sell at $4 to Karak. Problem is Thunder nominated him and forgot to bid 4. So I decided that i'd bump it to 5, if Karak had that covered then he would win at 5 - if not and I win Rivera at 5 - Rivera would then go to Thunder for 4.

This is fair right?

I have a question about 30 man rosters...

I think its pretty clear that for pretty much all 13 teams, your 1st round draft pick is going to be better than the 30th man on your roster. Which begs the question why be required to select 30 players if your 30th guy isn't even going to make your team?

Without giving the whole league my rookie draft cheat sheet I'll just say I can see every team landing a player with their 1st pick (some teams could land more than just 1 rookie to immediately promote) that they will want to immediately promote to their big league club.

So this goes back to the whole are we going to have 4 free ad/drops during the first 3 weeks of the season (or was this all season long?) b/c if you draft your 30th player Bill McSpare and give him $400k which is guaranteed only to have to immediately cut him a day later when the rookie draft is completed and you landed Jason Heyward. That seems like a very poor set of rules that weren't visionary enough to foresee teams in this position.

Another thing I brought up with exit in AIM chat is what happens to the minor league roster once you promote a player from your 10 man minor league roster to the 30 man big league club? He said to his understanding your minor league roster is now just 9 players. I disagree with this for a couple of reasons. A) that leaves you with a 39 man roster. Which major league team ran with that last year? the goal of this league is to also learn and apply mlb rules and I don't think that does a very good job of it. B) there could be a strategical advantage if you're then allowed to go pick up another minor leaguer.

I also think you should be able to demote a player to the minors and bring him back up. I believe thats called optioning a player and all clubs have a certain number of times they can option a player due to certain guidelines. This is the type of stuff I wanted to learn joining this league. Not rules like you can never send a player down, b/c thats not how the mlb teams do it and I can't see a reason why its too complicated for us to make that part of our rules as well.

Lastly, I have a draft dilemna b/c none of this is decided right now, yet I'm trying to draft optimally right now. I only have $1.6 mil left that I can spend (unless someone outbids my current player bids). If I win the players I have bids in for I'll have 27 players total. I'll then need to attain 3 more players for $1.6 mil, yet if I had the option of only acquiring 2 more players with the idea that I would promote my 1st round pick in the rookie draft and then have a 9 man roster for my minor league team. Then I could essentially bid $2 mil on 3 players instead of $1.6 mil, which at this point of the draft every dollar is very important. I still have 2 players targeted that can make a huge difference on my club and having an extra $400k to get them means alot b/c alot of other teams are up against their cap too.

Also, I don't see the point in saying you can drop this $400k player for free, but this $500k guy you have pay his salary if you cut him. There should be some sort of unilateral line for minimum player contracts. The reason that works in the mlb is players are brought up by their teams from the minors and are required to play for the minimum due to the CBA. You think Nelson Cruz would of only earned $408k last year if the Yankees or Red Sox had been allowed to bid on him? So even though I'm going after bottom of the lineup talent I still gotta compete with 12 other managers and I can't even get a scrub like Felipe Lopez for $400k. Not to mention that now it has to be someone you nominated b/c other ppl can't get that player for $400k if you nominated them. Which means that if your 4 nominations just happen to stay on the board b/c of persistent sniping you could lose out on getting a chance to get anyone for $400k that qualifies for the free add/drop policy due to no fault of your own. Unless you wanna say hey don't nominate players that are in such demand, but I don't see how any of us can forecast that before our nominations.

A nomination automatically puts the owner on the spot for $4. So the only way Karak could have won was if he bid $5. So yeah, that's perfectly fair.

If this is the case than I suppose should have to take him for $400k b/c there were only 5 min left in the draft and chances are pretty much at 0% anyone was going to come in and bid $500k

afaik, lots of teams don't have a full 40 man roster. the rule is a 25 man roster and UP TO 15 others.

the other points you have are valid. though, the draft software wont allow you to only draft 28 players (it will force you to save $2 for those two spots)

edit:

You're going to get him for 400k. assuming no one comes in and bids 6. i don't feel right ending it right now because there were 5 minutes that someone could have decided to pay 5 - and i blocked that from happening.

so basically this would've been solved if karak hadn't been a bitch and followed his own rules by not making an illegal bid

This is kind of after the fact since those projections have been posted already, but I'm calling sergz as the winner this year. I'm really impressed with the team he put together off of some pretty smart bidding.

Hey Karak,

you think you could put the bottle down long enough to keep up with this thread bro?