NFBC Message Boards

I'm glad to hear that high stakes players want to play out a 50-60 game season. I agree. Does it really matter if it's 50, 70 or 100 games? Would you really draft differently for each of these scenarios? The bottom line is we can debate how a shorter season impacts player performance but nobody know...

Thanks for the welcome! I've actually been playing since 2014 (and trolling the boards) but had a problem logging onto the boards until this year. Anyway, I'd prefer to play out the season regardless of the number of games. Nobody really knows how to draft for a 50 game season, so I feel we're all o...

How would a 50 game season and playoff schedule work? Are you saying that we would use the players we drafted for the playoff schedule? If so, how is that fair? Not all players will be participating in the playoffs. Players weren't drafted based on their likelihood of participating in the playoffs.

Here are the rules used for a 2011 All Time Draft from the "All time leagues" forum thread (I don't think the 1500 innings minimum is necessary if you require 7 starting pitchers): You can draft any player who played in the AL or NL starting from 1901 to present (no Federal League players). We are u...

I'd be interested in doing this but I'd want it to be a slow draft and I'd prefer the pool of draftable players are from a period longer than one year. There is another thread about this in the forums under the topic "All time leagues."

I'm also interested.