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Sounds complicated. I like complicated.
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Joseph
Sounds complicated. I like complicated.
I've been dying to do a league modeled after the real mccoy. This will have almost every sort of realistic touch to it imaginable right down to the same waiver system, organizations, contract structure and even arbitration and service time. The main difference, of course, is that we will actually have meaningful salary thresholds, unlike real baseball.
For interested folks, I will have a rules outline typed up in a few days. I have two people interested. I figure even if we don't get all 24 teams filled from here, we can explore some other team boards to find enough owners. The good news is that we will never actually need a "draft day" so coordinating such an event would not be necessary.
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Sounds like a neat concept. I am interested to see how it works out. I imagine it would be a lot of work for the commissioner to keep all the records and tabulate the scoring.
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AtomicDumpling
Sounds like a neat concept. I am interested to see how it works out. I imagine it would be a lot of work for the commissioner to keep all the records and tabulate the scoring.
Yes it would definitely be a lot of work. My thinking is either A) find someone to design a website for teams to input the necessary items or B) we collect a nominal franchise fee each season to go toward a stat service and the leftover could be a payout.
I could probably easily design a spreadsheet to keep track of the roster information and send it out in a converted PDF file to league owners every week. I imagine, though, it would be necessary to have each AL and NL league both have oversight commissioners to help see to it transactions and rosters are legal.
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Have you considered just doing an OOTP league?
It's pretty complex.
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nate
Have you considered just doing an OOTP league?
It's pretty complex.
I have not looked at that extensively. I'm only vaguely familiar with them. However, what I know about them, it does not seem the salary/structure is as realistic as I was going for (perhaps I am misinformed or don't know enough about some of them).
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Brutus the Pimp
I have not looked at that extensively. I'm only vaguely familiar with them. However, what I know about them, it does not seem the salary/structure is as realistic as I was going for (perhaps I am misinformed or don't know enough about some of them).
It might very well be customizable.
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nate
It might very well be customizable.
I'll keep that in my back pocket if this looks like it might not be real feasible.
I do think I have the resources to make this work, though. But thanks for the suggestion!
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I'm interested but I want to read your full outline...
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FYI,
I am going to have a PDF outline at some point later this weekend.
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*BaseClogger*
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Good time for an update.
I'm still working on the outline. However, I do have some news on the feasibility.
After doing some research on the capabilities of some sites that host fantasy baseball, it seems that CBS will be able to accomplish most of what we need to incorporate such a task. It will require some offline documents for detailed information, but CBS will be able to track in-season payrolls, 40-man rosters, as well as active and full minor league rosters (in aggregate). So this is good news.
The only downside is that the scoring is not quite fully customizable to the point we need it to be. We would be able to track live scoring as far as statistics, but will have to come up with a method of release of the actual results (I can easily make up a spreadsheet that people can calculate that on the fly by simply inputting the stats copied from a CBS report.
The outline is coming, I promise. I'm trying to devise some ways to most accurately account for the player dynamic in things like arbitration, contracts, free agency, etc. I think I've got some things to make that work.
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I'd be game, but I'd first need to know time commitment. I'm going to be a freshman in college, the whole college thing is new for me so I don't want to commit to something I couldn't put the necessary man hours in.