Cleaning up the draft
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2021 11:44 am
This is a tricky time since interest in MLB seems extremely low. MLB's handling of last year did not help and a large number of people still can't watch their local team because of Sinclair. I think that's reflected with a portion of our GMs and is the main root of our problem with this draft and losing GMs. However, we need clear rules and we need to enforce them, so I propose for discussion:
1. We make clear and enforce the rule that if someone does not pick in their allotted time, they cannot make up their pick until the end of the round.
2. Two missed picks means your team is expelled from that draft unless you resign during the draft, in which case we don't want to penalize the next person.
3. I'm not in favor of reducing the time to pick to 12 hours when we don't have an auto-draft option, so if the consensus is that we need to reduce the time from 24 hours, I would suggest something like 18 hours or if we do 12 hours then midnight to 6AM eastern not counting against you.
I tend to prefer not shortening the time (though I don't have strong feelings either way on that), just doing a better job of making the rules clear and policing them and I'll promise to contribute better on that moving forward.
I almost posted this in the draft comments thread but figured it would be better to start a more formal discussion here (I know people have talked individually) and then move it to there.
1. We make clear and enforce the rule that if someone does not pick in their allotted time, they cannot make up their pick until the end of the round.
2. Two missed picks means your team is expelled from that draft unless you resign during the draft, in which case we don't want to penalize the next person.
3. I'm not in favor of reducing the time to pick to 12 hours when we don't have an auto-draft option, so if the consensus is that we need to reduce the time from 24 hours, I would suggest something like 18 hours or if we do 12 hours then midnight to 6AM eastern not counting against you.
I tend to prefer not shortening the time (though I don't have strong feelings either way on that), just doing a better job of making the rules clear and policing them and I'll promise to contribute better on that moving forward.
I almost posted this in the draft comments thread but figured it would be better to start a more formal discussion here (I know people have talked individually) and then move it to there.