Cocktails and Dreams wrote:A few thoughts, opinions and questions.
1. It seems like there are conflicting statements on how the bidding will work in the overview section versus the roster requirement section. One place says rosters go to 41 the first period and then 46 the next. The other section says rosters go from 36 to 45 the first faab.
2. If bidding is on Monday nights, will they be eligible to be used even if they played on Monday? Not a huge fan of having to bid amounts needing to be changed based on actual results on Monday games if that is how it works. If they are not allowed to count until the next week, then I believe it would make more sense, as KJ mentioned to have the free agent period mid week. I think Thursday night would be idea, as it gives people more time to take on this project, and it will be a project. It separates it as far as possible from the Sunday free agent periods in your other leagues. KJ mentioned Friday specifically. Thursday is better as there is no lineup setting for regular leagues, and it is also further away from the Sunday regular bidding. Two completely different thought processes would be required for the two kinds of games. The more separation the better.
3. There is no way that this scoring system designed to mirror roto baseball, will do anything resembling that. This is not roto baseball. It is points baseball. Roto baseball cannot be replicated into a points system. So you have a scoring system that will be gamed. The type of offense that wins this will be asinine and will not resemble anything that remotely looks like a normal winning roto baseball team. Everyone will play by the same scoring so it doesn't matter much. But an odd system like this should not be used to try to replicate roto scoring. It is impossible. Roto baseball involves rankings in specific categories. Certain types of players are going to be insanely too valuable. It is really silly. Not awarding walks and HBP in points baseball is absurd. It is going to be absolutely comical looking at the winning offenses with this mess. I explained to Greg once already why this is horrific. He should reconsider immediately. I can already picture Mark at his computer gaming this scoring system.
4. I also wonder if way too much emphasis isn't given to offense with this. I have not spent much time trying to figure it out, but in roto baseball, pitching points are the same as hitting. At first glance, it does not seem like that will be anywhere close to being the case with this roster construction. One again, this is not roto baseball. It is points baseball. If you want pitching and hitting to be similar in scoring, the roster does not have to be the same as roto baseball.
5. Aside from the ridiculous scoring system, you are on the right track with this contest. It is so bad though, that I fear it will ruin the contest.
Chad, I'm not saying this game is perfect right out of the gate but none of our games were ever perfect right out of the gate. We've had 12 years of tweaking the Main Event on everything from minimum innings pitched to position eligibility to league prizes. I expect similar tweaking with this game. I just think there is merit to running an optimal scoring league with little in-season management and the only way you can do that is with a points-style scoring system. So give us a season to run this game, tweak it and make it better because we think it's a great entry-level game for new users and a format that should also appeal to some of our veteran players.
After all, we have a lot of cold, winter days ahead of us and some night in February someone may come home from work and want to draft a baseball team, knowing that there's little work involved in managing during the season. And we'll be there, every night of the week with our 10-team, 36-round format. In less than 3 hours that person can enjoy a night of drafting and camaraderie with 9 other guys just like him. That's the goal here.
As for your questions:
1. I fixed the one spot that was wrong. Rosters go from 36 to 41 and then finally to 46.
2. Correct, bidding is on Monday nights and folks may know some of the Monday results before rosters lock. But again this is an optimal scoring format, so there's no guarantee that one good night will even earn someone a spot in their lineup for that week. And these pickups are for the next eight weeks and even longer with the second FAAB, so I hope people aren't basing their FAAB bids on that one night because that roster spot is very, very important. But yes, that is the one fault of hosting FAAB on Monday nights, but we wanted them on a separate night from our Sunday FAABs.
3. We need points-style scoring for an optimal scoring lineup. That we all agree on. Let's see if this scoring replicates Roto enough to work for our veteran owners. Again, we can always tweak the scoring at season's end, but let's roll this out and see how it works. We've fought over the scoring long enough and now it's time to Play Ball!! We'll know soon enough if this works or not. As for anyone "gaming" this scoring system, best of luck to all.
4. Pitchers will be very valuable in this game, as they are in Roto 5x5. I have to believe that if you have a wide range of stud pitchers that you're scoring will be near the top of your league because you could have several 2-start pitchers per week without even realizing it. But again, let's run the season and tweak the scoring before next season. Assumptions do us no good; let's see results.
5. I hope your fears are incorrect. If we're one and done then it's totally my fault. It won't be my first mistake, though, that's for damn sure.
Thanks for the feedback.
