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10/31/14 2:38 PM
Viva los Spurs wrote: We had a near 20-year run as a 24-team DMB draft league that died on the vine this year. I'm trying to re-start something but I don't have the time to be a full-time commish for a 24-team league. A good friend and fellow owner in our league and I have had long discussions about the merits -- and potential problems -- with taking the 12 or 14 most active members from our previous league and starting over using just AL (or NL) players. While not perfect, I feel I could take on commish roles for a league like this.The #1 problem is what do you do when Randy Johnson circa 1998 gets traded from the Mariners to the Astros in the middle of a real-life pennant race. My initial thought is you offer a compensatory pick based on the quality of player lost -- or you allow that manager to designate a different player on his current roster as a "new" protected player. The benefit to the latter is you'll be making your decision at the end of the season and you'll know what kind of season the guy had.Really I'm just wondering if a scaled-back league like this has been attempted by anybody and if it was successful. One of the guys in our league has a grand notion of re-starting a 24-team league with many of the same managers but he's got three kids -- the youngest is around 6 months old -- and he's part of a start-up company. He has no chance to get it off the ground.Thoughts?
We had a near 20-year run as a 24-team DMB draft league that died on the vine this year. I'm trying to re-start something but I don't have the time to be a full-time commish for a 24-team league. A good friend and fellow owner in our league and I have had long discussions about the merits -- and potential problems -- with taking the 12 or 14 most active members from our previous league and starting over using just AL (or NL) players. While not perfect, I feel I could take on commish roles for a league like this.
The #1 problem is what do you do when Randy Johnson circa 1998 gets traded from the Mariners to the Astros in the middle of a real-life pennant race. My initial thought is you offer a compensatory pick based on the quality of player lost -- or you allow that manager to designate a different player on his current roster as a "new" protected player. The benefit to the latter is you'll be making your decision at the end of the season and you'll know what kind of season the guy had.
Really I'm just wondering if a scaled-back league like this has been attempted by anybody and if it was successful. One of the guys in our league has a grand notion of re-starting a 24-team league with many of the same managers but he's got three kids -- the youngest is around 6 months old -- and he's part of a start-up company. He has no chance to get it off the ground.
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