Friday DL Rule For 2007

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:45 am

After talking with STATS, it is possible next year to keep the DL rule in place as is with a 12:01 a.m. Friday deadline for players officially on MLB's DL list and to manually add players who obviously are headed to the DL. I would add these players to the list on Thursday night through STATS if it is ABSOLUTELY obvious that they are going on the DL. Case in point would be Derrek Lee breaking his wrist on Wednesday night and being declared out for six weeks on Thursday. There's little need in a case like that for waiting for the official MLB papers to be filed.

I will be the official person to make these calls during the season and in September when teams don't use the DL lists. It adds a level of interpretation on our part, but I think it will make the rule better and help NFBC owners who suffer early week injuries. This will be updated in the 2007 NFBC Rules link that will go live next week.

Walla Walla · Post by **Walla Walla** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:17 pm

Greg, Your final decision on this? No poll no nothing? Your buddy put up the idea and you rubber stamp it? What happened to the we'll review this after the season? Oh well good luck.

JohnZ · Post by **JohnZ** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:35 pm

Originally posted by Walla Walla:

Greg, Your final decision on this? No poll no nothing? Your buddy put up the idea and you rubber stamp it? What happened to the we'll review this after the season? Oh well good luck. The inmates running the asylum is not wise. You're not 100% objective.

751542 · Post by **751542** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 5:03 pm

i like your ideas greg. RT

Edwards Kings · Post by **Edwards Kings** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 1:05 am

Greg,

Sounds very reasonable to me.

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 2:22 am

Originally posted by Walla Walla:

Greg, Your final decision on this? No poll no nothing? Your buddy put up the idea and you rubber stamp it? What happened to the we'll review this after the season? Oh well good luck. John, I have reviewed the facts of this season and I see that many owners use the Friday DL rule. With the system we have in place, it really doesn't take much more than checking your roster on Friday morning to see if you have any players who qualify for a move to your reserve and then activating someone from your reserve and moving an active player to reserve. The system is simple and easy to use.

That being said, there were two holes in the system: 1) MLB teams sometimes waited too long to officially put players on the DL list on Friday and I'll have the chance to correct that in 2007. And 2) there were no official September DL moves and again I'll be able to correct that with obvious injuries in 2007.

I understand if some owners don't like the Friday DL move. I also understand that some owners don't like KDS or FAAB or the fact that we make you start two catchers. I honestly think that if we educate everyone enough on the DL rule that this can be a positive for the NFBC and take an element of luck out of our competition (someone getting hurt on Monday or Tuesday and being on the DL for a whole week of action).

Thanks for starting the conversation to improve the September injury situation. We couldn't have gotten to this point without you.

Sack · Post by **Sack** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:54 am

Greg:

While this sounds like a step in the write direction it also becomes dangerous in leaving this as somewhat arbitrary as to who is placed and who is not.

Lets use Austin Kearns this year. The guy has the collison with Johnson and all reports are the guy is hurt physically and mentally. Hasnt started since BUT he pinch hit once and afterward stated he didnt think he would play again. Mike Jacobs has been excused for personal reasons does he qualify? Why make it difficult, ESPECIALLY in September. I think you need to reward the players that have a bench in place and allow Friday substitutions.

Guys have several days to adjust there lineups and again we could restrict this to the final four weeks. I used the Friday DL rule a few times this season, but had a few instances where it didnt work as well.

[ September 29, 2006, 09:57 AM: Message edited by: Sack ]

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 4:33 am

Originally posted by Sack:

Greg:

While this sounds like a step in the write direction it also becomes dangerous in leaving this as somewhat arbitrary as to who is placed and who is not.

Lets use Austin Kearns this year. The guy has the collison with Johnson and all reports are the guy is hurt physically and mentally. Hasnt started since BUT he pinch hit once and afterward stated he didnt think he would play again. Mike Jacobs has been excused for personal reasons does he qualify? Why make it difficult, ESPECIALLY in September. I think you need to reward the players that have a bench in place and allow Friday substitutions.

Guys have several days to adjust there lineups and again we could restrict this to the final four weeks. I used the Friday DL rule a few times this season, but had a few instances where it didnt work as well. Correct, in September those guys wouldn't be on the DL. Broken bones will have to do. I'll be the DL Master and it will be used correctly and hopefully infrequently.

Ken, we're talking about mid-week injuries that qualify before Friday. Injuries in September where a guy is out for the rest of the season. Those will be the ones that earn a DL designation in September. The bumps and bruises will be part of the tough luck in fantasy baseball for that week.

As for just opening it up for twice-a-week moves in September when we haven't done that for the other five months, well, that's not even a consideration. The last month is important, but we definitely won't change the contest structure just because MLB teams don't use official DL lists in September.

I don't see this as a problem. At least not any more of a problem than taking players out of leagues' free agent pools is!

[ September 29, 2006, 11:02 AM: Message edited by: Greg Ambrosius ]