winter league

[felipe]

Hey, I made this suggestion in a different thread; just wanted to get more looks at it, to see what people thought...


Re: MBBA - PLEASE READ - Offseason Update

Postby felipe on Thu Nov 04, 2010 12:03 pm

This all looks good - I just want to make a couple of suggestions (yes, I know, i'm extremley late to this party), feel free to shout 'em down.

I'd like to push the draft to Nov.1, and start the rookie league season to conicide with the six free agency sims.

Why?

1)It gives us a winter league; and I dig conjuring up a locale and nickname for my winter league team. Southern Europe? Maybe Cuba? Hmm..Arizona is always nice...maybe Brazil...

2)It gives me a chance to get to know these draft picks - and it gives incentive to draft a team rather than 8 shortstops and 12 catchers...it gives my team history from the ground up, and it gives me something else to do while I'm eyeballing free agents. I think it'd be cool to go back and read the winter league TN's five years into the future, when my 4th rd pick is 'finally' tearing up the MBBA.

3)While everyone else is in the playoffs, I get time to look at the ammy draft pool - it fills my month (week and a half real time) of downtime.

4)I may have a chance at winning a rookie league pennant.

It'll never work

Sure it will, all we have to do is submit a numbered thirty positon list after the rounds (3?) we do manually. IE) I know I have no pitchers, so I'd submit maybe picks 4 thru 9 as starting pitchers, and the simmer/game engine would just pick the best starting pitcher available at my pick. If everyone prioritizes pitchers, you'll get a shit one, while there's still good outfielders available. It gives everyone a reason to really look at the draft pool and evaluate it positionally, plus we'll be holding the draft at a time while we're not super busy with our MBBA team.

Have a rule that you can have 5 existing farm team members (pre-draft) on your rookie team, to fill team 'holes' left from the draft.

Now, we'll have some players ready to move up in April, to our A teams, instead of sitting around all summer, doing nothing.

[recte44]

Not a bad idea. I'll see what we can do for next year....

[Fat Nige]

Us Talon managers ought to stick together and so I like to try and revive this. A winter ball leage would be really good. Move the draft to January (right after the history is done, so it doesn't screw that up) Winter ball (56 games?) starts right away ( perhaps Frick lge teams compete in one country and Johnson lge in another?). As felipe said gives you a chance to watch your new draftees + rookie ball players you've sent while there's nothing else going on. Connect with your draftees and find out who'll be in the job centre before the rookie season even starts (at it's normal time)

Any thoughts? Apologies if this has already been laughed out of court while I was away

[scottsdale_joe]

I like the draft in the off season.
The winter league creates another admin thing to remember and worry about at a time when FAs are the focus.
But I'm not particularly opposed to it.

[aaronweiner]

Not sure there's a huge point to the winter league, actually. Not that I don't like the idea, but what's the advantage? Does anyone believe it would help player development or would it just expose players to injury?

[Fat Nige]

I don't think it would aid development but it would give you the chance to concentrate and get to know your lowest level without having the distraction of any other leagues playing. You might find an unnoticed superstar-to-be lurking in your rookies

[jcrmoon42]

It should absolutely aid in development. It could also hinder development if a player lumps, but more time at the plate/on the mound/in the field should definitely help. It also gives more input to scouts. Injuries are really the only downside.

Sounds like fun, and that's really the point of all of this, right?

[7teen]

I like the idea of adding a winter league.

[jumpmancol]

Agreed...it would add another layer of potential dev time, and also, give us some games to look forward to in the off-season!

[LambeauLeap]

I like cheese.

[Fat Nige]

I like cheese.

So do I