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Anyone have any issue starting up the draft thread now? Draft doesn't officially begin until the 15th, but I think top end won't care who keeps signing in the coming week. My thought for this is just to get interesting going sooner heading into the draft. We'd just have to make it clear that while people can start making picks now, no one is obligated to and time doesn't start on any pick until the 15th.

Fine with me if people want to go this route.

Marlins wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 9:56 am Anyone have any issue starting up the draft thread now? Draft doesn't officially begin until the 15th, but I think top end won't care who keeps signing in the coming week. My thought for this is just to get interesting going sooner heading into the draft. We'd just have to make it clear that while people can start making picks now, no one is obligated to and time doesn't start on any pick until the 15th.

Works for me ...

Fine by me

Thought for next year:

I know the guys who love to trade are really feeling this ability to go after picks as guys are on the clock. I can understand that, and I tried to do it with Nate last round. I think I'm in the minority on this but I do not like the draft rolling into late March and April. I think there's way too much risk of late round picks being more valuable than early ones, and it being just straight out unfair to be on the clock while minor league games are being played. We have looked at various options for just shortening the time on the clock in the past, but not decided to do that.

So, a thought - how about a four or six hour time limit (excluding something like Midnight-6:00 AM ET) on trading your pick while you are on the clock? We are trending hard into guys who like to have picks and like to wheel and deal having the vast majority of the picks, and there is no reason that you can't start negotiations while someone's pick is coming up if you really want to do a trade.

I also know it's somewhat toothless because people can still trade behind the scenes, but my proposal on that would be that if you don't submit the trade by that deadline, you cannot execute the trade until after the picks are converted to players, whenever that is, so you have to sit on all involved players and theoretical drops until then.

Other than the one (quickly fixed) issue, I don't think the draft pick trading thing has been a problem. I like the ability to reach out to an owner if there's a guy who i didn't think would drop is there and try to deal without sitting on assets for another few weeks until the draft ends. I think we've also been a lot more active as a league and this is a big reason why. We even got trades out of two of our deadbeat California teams!

I think if we move the start date up to 2/1, it solves a lot of problems. We need to go and audit the last few years and see if anybody noteworthy signed 2/1-2/14, but it would end any conversation about having later picks become more valuable and still allow the league to trade with a full clock.

Cardinals wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 4:52 pm I think if we move the start date up to 2/1, it solves a lot of problems. We need to go and audit the last few years and see if anybody noteworthy signed 2/1-2/14, but it would end any conversation about having later picks become more valuable and still allow the league to trade with a full clock.

An earlier start makes sense. I don’t believe there have been any relevant signings between 2/1 and 2/15.

I'm good with both a 2/1 start and also with Brett's idea of a 4 to 6 hr limit which shuts off at night.

I'm good as well with moving forward to 2/1 as a first measure.

2/1 is fine with me.

Did we ever officially announce the change in the draft start date to 2/1?

I don't think so. JP: want to post just to make it official?