CREATiVESPORTS.com on the NFBC

Ken · Post by **Ken** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:50 am

As long as there's no "Spirit of the Game" :rolleyes: provision I'll be happy.

BARBERIAN · Post by **BARBERIAN** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 12:51 pm

KEN....... IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE BASEBALL GODS ARE UPSET WITH YOU FOR MESSING WITH THEIR GAME??????? : BARBERIANS

PittIsIt95 · Post by **PittIsIt95** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 2:28 pm

Ken, how does the Looper/Hoffman and 7 A pitchers theory look right about now??

LOL

King of Queens · Post by **King of Queens** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 2:50 pm

You guys are harsh.

Brian Walton · Post by **Brian Walton** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 3:16 pm

I am not choosing sides in this, but do want to comment that 40-man rosters are not nearly as volatile as a previous poster asserts.

For example, the team I follow most closely, St. Louis, has had the same 38 players on their 40-man for three-and-a-half months now. (FWIW, that will change tomorrow, as one player goes off and two come on.)

If it is decided to draft from the roughly 1200 player pool represented by the aggregrate 40-man rosters of all 30 teams, that should be pretty easy to keep track of and should also be a large enough population to enable drafting 450 of them to make up each league.

Brian Walton

CREATiVESPORTS.com

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[ April 04, 2005, 09:17 PM: Message edited by: brian ]

BARBERIAN · Post by **BARBERIAN** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 3:33 pm

KEN...........LET ME REPHRASE MY LAST POST.......IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE BASEBALL GODS AREN'T UPSET WTH YOU FOR MESSING WITH THEIR GAME??????? BARBERIANS

King of Queens · Post by **King of Queens** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 3:40 pm

You're right, Brian, there is little movement on the 40-man rosters. However, what movement there is occurs right before or right after the season starts--mostly due to teams adding NRI veterans that were signed to minor league contracts. The biggest problem is the timing of these moves: sometimes they are rumored to have already happened, other times they actually occurred. Who wants to deal with that confusion?

Dyv · Post by **Dyv** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 5:32 pm

I suppose...

The best solution (IMHO) for 2006 is to have a static list of anyone who accumulated 2005 MLB stats as your eligibility pool. The key minor leaguers would get their cup of coffee and qualify... done.

Add an 'exception' rule where people can email or post player names and Greg and Tom can approve them. Say close the list 3 days before the draft and then email it to every participant as well as have handouts with the list of acceptable exceptions and we've got a viable, workable player pool.

Now, if you want to legislate the baby pitcher strategy then toss in 100 IP minimum and you'll have achieved a token victory and we can all pretend nobody can punt pitching

Dyv

Ken · Post by **Ken** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 6:21 pm

Originally posted by barberian:

KEN...........LET ME REPHRASE MY LAST POST.......IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE BASEBALL GODS AREN'T UPSET WTH YOU FOR MESSING WITH THEIR GAME??????? BARBERIANS LOL It sure looks that way

Oh well at least my class A pitchers didn't let me down today

One thing for sure I'm going to be extra carefull on the freeway tomorrow and if the sky starts to grow dark tomorrow I'm heading indoors double time

sportsbettingman · Post by **sportsbettingman** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 1:25 pm

Thanks to Creativesports.com for their weekly e-mails on the prior weeks bidding wars league wide! I enjoyed it, and look forward to seeing if I get bargains or waste $$$ on future bids.

Keep up the good work!

~Lance

Buster · Post by **Buster** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 7:46 pm

Thursday's Outside the [Batter's] Box deals with Ken Bayes and Crazytown.gov's explanation of their respective strategy, etc.

That column can be found at http://www.creativesports.com/newsmanag ... 9&zoneid=8

Best to all,

Buster