2006 LACBL Off-Season Newsletter
Hello LACBL members,
I am a little amazed that I already have to think of baseball, but it is that time of year again. Get ready, Cyrus – that target on your back in awfully large. I am sending out the 1st annual off-season LACBL newsletter. We are getting ready to begin Year #2 under the keeper rules. This should be the year where you will notice the big difference between the keeper format and the year-to-year format. For instance, we now actually have an off-season in which important decisions and transactions can and will be made. As such, I have a number of announcements pertaining to this off-season. Please read carefully.
1) Tomorrow, I will be holding the draft lottery to determine the 2007 LACBL draft order. The lottery will be held in Rich’s office with Adam, Cyrus, and (hopefully) Josh as witnesses. I will be sending out an e-mail with the results tomorrow as well as an entire draft order that will include traded picks. Please make sure to check the draft order to ensure that I haven’t overlooked any trade. To refresh your memory, here are the rules governing the draft lottery:
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The league draft order will be determined based on the following rules:
The 1st round draft order will be determined each year by a lottery system (similar to the NBA draft lottery)
The 7 teams that did NOT finish “in the money” participate in the Draft Lottery. Thus, the following teams already have had their draft fate determined: 8th – The Crazy 88’s (Josh), 9th – The Zesty Enterprise (Jeff), 10th – One Hitter Quitters (Cyrus)
The number of entries is determined by the team finish the previous year:
Gashouse Gorillas (Mark) - 7 entries
Rule of the Wrist (Adam) - 6 entries
Gutterballs (Mac) - 5 entries
Pepe’s Pollsters (Rich) - 4 entries
Nympho Stepmothers (Kelly) - 3 entries
The Seattle Seven (Joe) – 2 entries
NoTalentAssClowns (Marc) – 1 entry
The 1st team name drawn receives the 1st pick in the draft. The 2nd team name drawn receives the 2nd pick in the draft. The 3rd team name selected receives the 3rd pick in the draft. After the top 3 picks are selected, the remaining draft order will be based on the previous season’s final standings.
In all subsequent rounds, the order is based strictly on the snake-format based on the 1st round order.
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2) I have not yet signed up our league in Yahoo (it’s not available yet but soon will be), so it’s important that you read and respond quickly. Currently, the plan is to continue to host the league through Yahoo’s free league. However, this makes it imperative that EVERYONE be available to draft. Otherwise, we will have big problems since everyone needs to select their keepers in the first 6 rounds and pick for other people based on traded picks. This is, quite obviously, not ideal. We may want to consider upgrading to a Yahoo Plus league, which will increase the costs of participation rather considerably. However, I am not even sure if I am able to alter the draft order even in a Plus league. If any of you have participated in a Plus league, please share your experience with me.
So I want everyone to look at their schedules and send me their preference for a draft date including any times that will not work for you. Opening day is on April 1st this year so we MUST draft by at least March 31st. I would prefer to draft between Monday, March 26th and Friday, March 30th.
3) Once the draft date is determined, the rest of the league schedule will be determined. The trade period will begin six weeks prior to the draft. Final keeper decisions MUST be submitted no later than one week prior to the draft.
4) To correct an oversight in the original rules, I am instituting a new provision to the league bylaws. Henceforth, any changes to the league rules, which includes any changes to the scoring system or rules governing keepers, must have the support of a supermajority of league owners (7 out of 10). While I am aware of the incongruity of arbitrarily instituting a law governing the passing of laws, I am instituting this change to ensure that the league continues to remain vibrant. A condition of unanimity to change league rules creates a situation in which the entire league is held hostage any one owner. Having experienced other keeper leagues that stagnated and died under this condition, I decided to avoid this problem relatively early in the league’s existence. I think requiring a supermajority avoids the inherent problems of unanimity while avoiding most of the excesses of a simple majority rule.
5) For those of you that wish to remain in the league after my brief exercise of executive power, please send me any rule change requests that you wish to bring before a league vote. We will vote on these proposals two weeks before the draft (and one week before final keeper decisions are made). After this vote, all proposals to change the league rules are tabled until the next off-season, except under special circumstances (i.e. an owner quits mid-season or something else equal in magnitude).
6) One item for consideration is the league entrance fee. Some owners have suggested raising the fee to $30 or $40 to increase the payout at the end of the year. I put this proposal to a league vote.
7) I have attached the final rosters of each team from last season. These players are still owned by their respective team until the final keeper decision date at which they are released into the draft pool. This sheet will be helpful for those of you still contemplating trades or making keeper decisions.
Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. I am really looking forward to this season. Hopefully, we will begin to see the fruits (and, in some cases, perils) of a keeper league.
Best,
Marc
I am a little amazed that I already have to think of baseball, but it is that time of year again. Get ready, Cyrus – that target on your back in awfully large. I am sending out the 1st annual off-season LACBL newsletter. We are getting ready to begin Year #2 under the keeper rules. This should be the year where you will notice the big difference between the keeper format and the year-to-year format. For instance, we now actually have an off-season in which important decisions and transactions can and will be made. As such, I have a number of announcements pertaining to this off-season. Please read carefully.
1) Tomorrow, I will be holding the draft lottery to determine the 2007 LACBL draft order. The lottery will be held in Rich’s office with Adam, Cyrus, and (hopefully) Josh as witnesses. I will be sending out an e-mail with the results tomorrow as well as an entire draft order that will include traded picks. Please make sure to check the draft order to ensure that I haven’t overlooked any trade. To refresh your memory, here are the rules governing the draft lottery:
*************************************************************************
The league draft order will be determined based on the following rules:
The 1st round draft order will be determined each year by a lottery system (similar to the NBA draft lottery)
The 7 teams that did NOT finish “in the money” participate in the Draft Lottery. Thus, the following teams already have had their draft fate determined: 8th – The Crazy 88’s (Josh), 9th – The Zesty Enterprise (Jeff), 10th – One Hitter Quitters (Cyrus)
The number of entries is determined by the team finish the previous year:
Gashouse Gorillas (Mark) - 7 entries
Rule of the Wrist (Adam) - 6 entries
Gutterballs (Mac) - 5 entries
Pepe’s Pollsters (Rich) - 4 entries
Nympho Stepmothers (Kelly) - 3 entries
The Seattle Seven (Joe) – 2 entries
NoTalentAssClowns (Marc) – 1 entry
The 1st team name drawn receives the 1st pick in the draft. The 2nd team name drawn receives the 2nd pick in the draft. The 3rd team name selected receives the 3rd pick in the draft. After the top 3 picks are selected, the remaining draft order will be based on the previous season’s final standings.
In all subsequent rounds, the order is based strictly on the snake-format based on the 1st round order.
*************************************************************************
2) I have not yet signed up our league in Yahoo (it’s not available yet but soon will be), so it’s important that you read and respond quickly. Currently, the plan is to continue to host the league through Yahoo’s free league. However, this makes it imperative that EVERYONE be available to draft. Otherwise, we will have big problems since everyone needs to select their keepers in the first 6 rounds and pick for other people based on traded picks. This is, quite obviously, not ideal. We may want to consider upgrading to a Yahoo Plus league, which will increase the costs of participation rather considerably. However, I am not even sure if I am able to alter the draft order even in a Plus league. If any of you have participated in a Plus league, please share your experience with me.
So I want everyone to look at their schedules and send me their preference for a draft date including any times that will not work for you. Opening day is on April 1st this year so we MUST draft by at least March 31st. I would prefer to draft between Monday, March 26th and Friday, March 30th.
3) Once the draft date is determined, the rest of the league schedule will be determined. The trade period will begin six weeks prior to the draft. Final keeper decisions MUST be submitted no later than one week prior to the draft.
4) To correct an oversight in the original rules, I am instituting a new provision to the league bylaws. Henceforth, any changes to the league rules, which includes any changes to the scoring system or rules governing keepers, must have the support of a supermajority of league owners (7 out of 10). While I am aware of the incongruity of arbitrarily instituting a law governing the passing of laws, I am instituting this change to ensure that the league continues to remain vibrant. A condition of unanimity to change league rules creates a situation in which the entire league is held hostage any one owner. Having experienced other keeper leagues that stagnated and died under this condition, I decided to avoid this problem relatively early in the league’s existence. I think requiring a supermajority avoids the inherent problems of unanimity while avoiding most of the excesses of a simple majority rule.
5) For those of you that wish to remain in the league after my brief exercise of executive power, please send me any rule change requests that you wish to bring before a league vote. We will vote on these proposals two weeks before the draft (and one week before final keeper decisions are made). After this vote, all proposals to change the league rules are tabled until the next off-season, except under special circumstances (i.e. an owner quits mid-season or something else equal in magnitude).
6) One item for consideration is the league entrance fee. Some owners have suggested raising the fee to $30 or $40 to increase the payout at the end of the year. I put this proposal to a league vote.
7) I have attached the final rosters of each team from last season. These players are still owned by their respective team until the final keeper decision date at which they are released into the draft pool. This sheet will be helpful for those of you still contemplating trades or making keeper decisions.
Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. I am really looking forward to this season. Hopefully, we will begin to see the fruits (and, in some cases, perils) of a keeper league.
Best,
Marc
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