Well, I had fun last year. Gave us all a chance to draft players we've never owned any probably never will, and now have to part ways with. John's Trout isn't the freshest and prettiest fish in the sea anymore, and he's going to have shortstop blue balls from Tatis for quite some time. Good luck ignoring his texts Russ...
One exciting experiment from 2020 was our playoff structure. Pilot program inspired by the Franchise Fantasy Football league (still waiting for my invite. Not like, desperately or anything. I mean, league sounds kinda cool. But like, not THAT cool. I mean, I don't think about it at all. I guess I'd join maybe...). This brings us to our first objective, which is to create a list of voting topics for the beginning of our zoom draft. Let's start the board:
1. Do we want to always do playoffs in playoffs? Can structure payouts differently so that winning the regular season still counts for something... My initial thought would be to vote this year on how many people would even be interested, and then figure the intricacies out for next year and vote on installing it then.
2. Buy-in and payout structure listed on draft sheet. Any suggested changes?
3. Eddie's value keeper. Refer to GroupMe for entire details. Personally I like the spirit and strategy of it. My thoughts are two-fold. One, this league seems rooted in simplicity with simple small rosters and simple basic scoring categories and it's taken us this far. I'm worried that this rule change might take us down a rabbit hole of future rule changes / amendments this might create that we can't see yet. And, on a simpler note, I like the level of sacrifice we are currently required to make in order to keep prospect talent. For instance, the first time I kept Trea Turner, if I was able to keep him at the draft pick I drafted him the next year, when he already went to a top 20 or something pick the next year, and also had a 4th rounder... I think it makes the strong stronger and potentially more top heavy. Sorry Eddie, but those are my thoughts.
4. Saves plus holds? I'm a big fan of holds, personally. And the closer carousel is running a lot faster than it has in the past. Definitely down to remove the "net". The relief pitcher category definitely needs some discussion.
5. RF/CF/LF designation instead of generic OF?
6. Championship bat engraving? Last place pays? Does last year count (no offense Mark)?? I only ask cause like, if we're being honest, does anybody not in LA care that the Dodgers won last year?
I think that's it.
I was going to do more fun stuff here, but, I'm a big dumb asshole and left my charger at work. So, not only do I have to go there now before the draft, which makes me sad. But, I also have about ten minutes left currently before my computer dies.
Roundtable starts at 8:30. Would like to have the first pick in by 8:45. And off we go!
