Baseball Draft Champions Leagues

poopy tooth · Post by **poopy tooth** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:52 pm

Greg/Tom,

Will there be any kind of draft champions leagues in baseball for 2007?

I really like the format in football.

Just an idea.

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:46 am

Originally posted by poopy tooth:

Greg/Tom,

Will there be any kind of draft champions leagues in baseball for 2007?

I really like the format in football.

Just an idea. The hard part about doing this for baseball is finding the optimal scoring lineup each week that is picked by the computer. In other words, does a guy who hits .250 but steals four bases become more valuable than a guy who hits .320 with two home runs and six RBIs? We'd almost have to incorporate a setup where YOU set the starting lineup at the END of each week, right? Otherwise, how does the computer pick the lineup each week?

NFBC Draft Champions: 40 rounds, no free agent pickups during the season, owners set their lineups each Monday morning for the previous weeks games to create optimal scoring lineup. Hmmm, interesting concept. I'd have to ask STATS if this is possible as it would be an interesting league.

Quahogs · Post by **Quahogs** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:51 am

Mike, there was some talk of it last feb/mch but nothing got off the ground. I too think it would be a fun play if just for the fact that it'd be fun to follow but not take up additional time for 26 weeks. Keep in mind it'd probably have to be around 40 rds - a long haul online (maybe it would have to be a split 2 day type draft). Let's keep this idea out there.

Q

751542 · Post by **751542** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 3:29 am

i have been in favor of this idea as well. how about this, cumulative stats for every player in majors?? that way you dont have to worry about optimal stats per category. if you want to draft minor leaguers for the end of the year callups thats fine but you are risking cumulative stats. i believe there is great strategy in looking for a mix of players. thoughts?? RT

Quahogs · Post by **Quahogs** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 3:51 am

I personally like having the structure of 14 offense players (2 C, 5 OF etc) and 9 pitchers. Your idea RT is an interesting twist but a bit different than how the DC is set up in football. What kind of inning requirements would you have in mind RT because if there werent any then it would be one big mad dash draft for offense and relievers.

Q

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 3:51 am

Originally posted by RoundTrippers:

i have been in favor of this idea as well. how about this, cumulative stats for every player in majors?? that way you dont have to worry about optimal stats per category. if you want to draft minor leaguers for the end of the year callups thats fine but you are risking cumulative stats. i believe there is great strategy in looking for a mix of players. thoughts?? RT Okay, so here is a proposal for 40 rounds using ALL player stats for 26 weeks. No roster moves after Draft Day, just cheer for 40 players per team EVERY day. Very interesting and obviously very doable.

I think the Draft Champions concept is very worthy and something I'd like to do in 2007 for serious owners. I think we'd have to do the draft online and possibly over two days or everyone would have to plan on about a six-hour draft, which is doable (we average 6-7 rounds per hour). This seems worthy of a $500-$650 price point, paying top three finishers with drafts in March.

Playing everyone on your roster would be easy to run. Creating an optimal scoring lineup is possible if the masses want it; we'd just have to figure out how. But this is a concept whose time has come for baseball and I'll gladly make it work.

ToddZ · Post by **ToddZ** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 7:10 am

You could always use fantasy points scoring instead of roto-style scoring. Maximize just like football, although with MI, CI and UT this might be a little trickier.

With fantasy points instead of roto, there is little need to try an all reliever strategy but you could always assign pitchers as starters and relievers and require "X" starters, "Y" relievers and "Z" either to be counted in the optimal lineup each week.

Latham · Post by **Latham** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 7:54 am

Just another possible idea to throw in the mix. What if you had each owner pick his starting lineup at the end of the week. Each owner could decide which players stats would be optimal for their situation. Instead of having computer pick optimal lineup, each team would be responsible for that decision. Just a thought

Randy