IBC

The rules state:

1. Annual Rookie Drafts
A. Prior to the start of each season a universal new player draft will be held. The order will be determined by the records of the teams from the previous season with the worst team picking first. Ties will be broken by Pythagorean winning percentage, head to head record and then finally record in the last ten days of the season.

Someone who understands that should crunch the numbers. It has been years (no make that decades) since I have had to apply the Py theory to anything ...

Also, wouldn't it make sense to go with the first tie breaker being the best record in the last ten days as a means to discourage tanking?

Mets wrote:The rules state:

1. Annual Rookie Drafts
A. Prior to the start of each season a universal new player draft will be held. The order will be determined by the records of the teams from the previous season with the worst team picking first. Ties will be broken by Pythagorean winning percentage, head to head record and then finally record in the last ten days of the season.

Someone who understands that should crunch the numbers. It has been years (no make that decades) since I have had to apply the Py theory to anything ...

Also, wouldn't it make sense to go with the first tie breaker being the best record in the last ten days as a means to discourage tanking?

That's an interesting idea.

Interesting idea, but it only represents the last 10 days, while Pyth represents the whole season, which IMO is more important when considering which team is weaker. Especially considering a bad team who plays a bad team late will likely have a higher L10 than a bad team who plays a good team late.

For waivers, we use Win %, Pyth %, then L10. It would probably be good to change this to be the same for both waivers and draft order.

The sim will give us Pyth%

why is this in exco

I'll try to figure out why.

It's in ExCo because of the name Jim chose for the topic...should be fixed shortly.

Should be fixed now.

We should be able to tell in the next six hours to four weeks.

Oh great Brett...hurry up would ya!

If someone could just help me out with a really good reason to pick one or the other, or if Houston would just trade me #4, this agony could be over.

FWIW, I picked and it hasn't yet posted on a board. It does show up on the draft results though. Also, I got this error when I made the choice:

Could not draft player (1-4-3)

DEBUG MODE

SQL Error : 1062 Duplicate entry '13-5' for key 1

UPDATE ibc_rookie_draft_queue SET priority = priority - 1 WHERE user_id = 13 AND priority > 1

Line : 96
File : draft.php

Problem appears to be fixed.