League Rules Updated!

[White Sox GM (Michael)]

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However, I think some changes need to be made. We should look into changing:

Waiver Wire system
Developing Players claiming system
IFA draft pick loss system (for last season's IFAs, I will not make anyone give up draft picks)

Please post any suggestions!

Michael

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I think we should expand our MiLB rosters. Over time through draft picks accumulated essentially every team will be over that 25 man limit.

[Tigers GM (Alex)]

I definitely agree with Owen. Real MLB teams have so many players in the minors, why do ours need to be so limited?

[Deleted]

Adding onto Owen's comment. An addition of 3 or 4 MiLB roster spots would be a good idea. Most teams have close to five draft picks or at least that would be the league average. Plus, most teams would have a couple of prospects graduate to the majors. Add a few spots, but not a ton.

[White Sox GM (Michael)]

We did have a poll here:

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Seven voted for Unlimited, while six voted for 30. How about making it, say, 40 or 50?

[astrosgm]

Unlimited makes much more sense.

[Rays GM (forbz)]

i think 40 works

[Tigers GM (Alex)]

I like unlimited but 40 or 50 would be fine too. We'd need to increase it by like 3 every season though.

[Deleted]

I think a max of 75 is ideal considering teams have primarily 3 levels of minors. 25x 3 = 75?

[Diamondbacks GM (Jason)]

I agree with somewhere in the neighborhood of 75 or so, but because it was unlimited with a cost, which i think is a good idea to keep. we should not pick a number lower than someone has prospects. or at least allow teams to be grandfathered into the rule.

[Diamondbacks GM (Jason)]

For the waiver system I have thought of a new idea. I think the current one is pretty bad.
1) I think the person that finds or originally claims the player needs an advantage.
2) I propose that a team claims a player then any other team has 7 days to put in a claim.
3) We count the total number of other teams that put in a claim
3a) say royals finds Joe Buck
3b) 12 other teams put in a claim on Joe Buck over the next 7 days
3c) We take 12 and multiply it by 2, making 24
3d) We use a random number generator(easy to find online) and pick from 1-24 and
3e) the original team gets numbers 1-12 and then the other teams get 13 -24 in order of their claim

This is just a proposal and it can be tinkered depending on standings and a few other things. I just think this is much more fair and gives the "finder" more of an advantage unlike before.

[White Sox GM (Michael)]

I definitely like that idea over the one we have in place. However, I don't know if owners even want to stick with the random # generator idea.

[White Sox GM (Michael)]

On the other site, this was the most popular option:

"Marlins' suggestion: A player is posted, every one has 48 hours to PM a designated owner their high bid, highest bid wins, we resort to the 1-100 rule as a tiebreaker. No cap on bidding."

Here was Twins' idea:

"Since we have decided not to do this based on current records. I say that we assign everyone a number 1-30 randomly at the beginning of the season. If a player comes up to be claimed, you may make a claim. If you have the lowest number at that time you win the claim. Then after a player is awarded, that team is now number 30 and all teams move up. If you don't place a claim your number stays the same, so if you don't make a claim you will stay at present spot or only improve. It causes teams to be smart about what players they would like to claim.
Thats how we do it in my football league and it creates additional strategy, not just blind claims on every player.

We could also base this on record after the season to make things easier going into next season."

[White Sox GM (Michael)]

A variation on Marlins' idea:

"We bid on them (lump-sum like IFAs, you pay that bidded number in addition to the player's salary for one season) until the bidding reaches a certain number, then you PM your high bid to the designated owner."