So I run a men's league, and we draft Friday. Some rules you need to know.
Each team has 14 roster spots
Our draft is broken into three parts
Returning Player Draft
Free Agents
New Player Draft
All players that were in the league last year are either protected or unprotected by their manager.
All unprotected players go into the Returning Players Draft, so they are guaranteed a spot in the league.
Each team can bring in one free agent, a new sign up that is placed directly on the team.
If a team doesn't use their FA spot, they will have an extra pick from the New Player Draft pool before the New Player Draft starts
Remaining roster spots are filled with the New Player Draft
Notes:
Managers can protect 7 players, in addition to themselves.
They have an option to protect an 8th player by forfeiting their 1st pick in the New Player Draft
They have an option to protect an 9th player by forfeiting their 1st pick in the Returning player draft (must exercise the 8th keeper, New Player option above first)
So, a team can essentially bring back 9 players, plus the manager for 10 total.
Draft order - This is kind of funky. When you pick first in a round, you go to the back of the next round
Out order goes:
Round 1:
1-8 (8 being the champs)
Round 2:
2,3,4,5,6,7,8,1
Round 3:
3,4,5,6,7,8,1,2
Round 4:
4,5,6,7,8,1,2,3
This has lead to a lot of "luck" in the returning player draft. In the scenario above, lets say there were 20 returning players. You'd be done when you got to the 5th pick in round 3. Those are teams 7+8 in the scenario above, your Runner Up and Champion. They just miss get the 2 worse remaining players in the Return Draft and essentially get an extra pick in the New Player Draft. The New Players are typically significantly better than the last 10-12 or so returning players.
So we put in a rule last year that we would "re-order" whatever the last round of the draft was to ensure the Championship team got the last pick, and work backwards from their. It worked out fine last year...this year, it's looking like an issue.
The Championship team (Sliver Bullets) along with 2 other teams, are exercising their free agent and the 2 extra protected players. Those players are slotted below in Blue. They are removed from the returning player pool.
That gives a count of 31 returning players to be drafted in the 'first' draft.
You can see below that spills them over to the first two picks (30+31) of round 5. Our rule would give those two picks to Blue Sox and Silver Bullets. BUT their rosters are going to be already full because they get their 10th player in round 2, 11th in 3, 12th in 4. Their free agent is 13 and their slotted returning player in the New Player Draft is 14.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
My original thought was to skip their 4th round picks, and add them to the end of the draft. But the effect is when they are skipped, it just makes another player available and extends the draft. I did this an rearranged the last two rounds of the draft and it ended up giving the Orange Crush (worst team) two picks in a row (22+23). But they kept 1 fewer player than everyone else in hoping to rebuild. It seems like a penalty for them in this case to get the extra returning player. If they had kept the minimum amount of 7+ manager, then using that same logic, they would only have a single new player pick, when they are really the team that should be getting at least 2.
I know it's a lot of info, but I have until Friday to iron this out.
The easiest thing would be to make them carry 15, but that sucks and I don't think it will pass (rule changes need a 5-3 vote to pass). So I'm hoping to bring some other stuff to the table.
I'm sure there are questions, so ask away...
Each team has 14 roster spots
Our draft is broken into three parts
Returning Player Draft
Free Agents
New Player Draft
All players that were in the league last year are either protected or unprotected by their manager.
All unprotected players go into the Returning Players Draft, so they are guaranteed a spot in the league.
Each team can bring in one free agent, a new sign up that is placed directly on the team.
If a team doesn't use their FA spot, they will have an extra pick from the New Player Draft pool before the New Player Draft starts
Remaining roster spots are filled with the New Player Draft
Notes:
Managers can protect 7 players, in addition to themselves.
They have an option to protect an 8th player by forfeiting their 1st pick in the New Player Draft
They have an option to protect an 9th player by forfeiting their 1st pick in the Returning player draft (must exercise the 8th keeper, New Player option above first)
So, a team can essentially bring back 9 players, plus the manager for 10 total.
Draft order - This is kind of funky. When you pick first in a round, you go to the back of the next round
Out order goes:
Round 1:
1-8 (8 being the champs)
Round 2:
2,3,4,5,6,7,8,1
Round 3:
3,4,5,6,7,8,1,2
Round 4:
4,5,6,7,8,1,2,3
This has lead to a lot of "luck" in the returning player draft. In the scenario above, lets say there were 20 returning players. You'd be done when you got to the 5th pick in round 3. Those are teams 7+8 in the scenario above, your Runner Up and Champion. They just miss get the 2 worse remaining players in the Return Draft and essentially get an extra pick in the New Player Draft. The New Players are typically significantly better than the last 10-12 or so returning players.
So we put in a rule last year that we would "re-order" whatever the last round of the draft was to ensure the Championship team got the last pick, and work backwards from their. It worked out fine last year...this year, it's looking like an issue.
The Championship team (Sliver Bullets) along with 2 other teams, are exercising their free agent and the 2 extra protected players. Those players are slotted below in Blue. They are removed from the returning player pool.
That gives a count of 31 returning players to be drafted in the 'first' draft.
You can see below that spills them over to the first two picks (30+31) of round 5. Our rule would give those two picks to Blue Sox and Silver Bullets. BUT their rosters are going to be already full because they get their 10th player in round 2, 11th in 3, 12th in 4. Their free agent is 13 and their slotted returning player in the New Player Draft is 14.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
My original thought was to skip their 4th round picks, and add them to the end of the draft. But the effect is when they are skipped, it just makes another player available and extends the draft. I did this an rearranged the last two rounds of the draft and it ended up giving the Orange Crush (worst team) two picks in a row (22+23). But they kept 1 fewer player than everyone else in hoping to rebuild. It seems like a penalty for them in this case to get the extra returning player. If they had kept the minimum amount of 7+ manager, then using that same logic, they would only have a single new player pick, when they are really the team that should be getting at least 2.
I know it's a lot of info, but I have until Friday to iron this out.
The easiest thing would be to make them carry 15, but that sucks and I don't think it will pass (rule changes need a 5-3 vote to pass). So I'm hoping to bring some other stuff to the table.
I'm sure there are questions, so ask away...
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