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Post by MGrage on Oct 4, 2007 9:58:31 GMT -5
Hey! Can anyone play this game? Who was my first ever September Roster Expansion player? I can't even remember what year was my first year to add a degree of difficulty to the request. BTW, what's with all the asterisks after the contracts? I know it doesn't mean what it does now. Also, what the heck is a "Free Replacement"? Finally, please enlighten me as to what all those odd lower case letters between the name & salary represent. Thanks. It's kinda like digging into King Tut's fantasy league tomb or something. Hey, give me a break. I just got off of work and I only had about 6 hours of sleep.  Mahalo Matt |
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Post by Copperfields on Oct 4, 2007 11:43:05 GMT -5
I tell ya, youngsters these days have no knowledge of history. At least young Matt is exhibiting a healthy curiosity about the past... Asterisks -- This was the Rotisserie League's initial attempt to limit dump trades. Any player above a certain salary level (I believe it was $25) or in the final year of his contract (B) was designated an "asterisk player". The rule was that if you made a trade involving asterisk players, each team had to give up the same number of asterisks as they were receiving. There were variations -- you might be allowed a certain number of "unbalanced" trades where you recieved more asterisks than you got, for example -- but that was the gist of it. As I recall, it wasn't terribly effective and the rule has since been replaced in most leagues (including the Rotisserie League) by things like a salary cap or Hometown Discounts. Free Replacements -- In the early days of Ultra - especially pre-1992 when we started with TQS - you were only able to move players between your Active Roster and Reserve List in response to an MLB move. It was almost like the qualifications we currently have for mid-week moves, but these applied to the WEEKLY roster moves. That's one of the reasons the Reserve Lists were only 12 players -- you just needed enough players to be able to replace any injured guys on your active roster. The RL was a set up subs, not the stable of guys you can shuttle back and forth as we do now. Anyway, at one point we wanted to flirt with more freedom in terms of roster moves, so each team was allowed a certain number of "free" moves each year - the ability to activate someone and reserve someone else without a corresponding MLB move. Lower Case Letters - The letters indicate players who are "linked". In those days, anytime you reserved a player in response to an MLB move (put on DL, sent to minors, etc) that player and the player you activated in his spot became linked. When the reserve player came off the DL, you had two weeks to activate him or waive him. If you wanted to activate him you had to reserve the linked player. This link occurred whether you activated a guy from your Reserve List or acquired him from the Free Agent Pool. Wacky, huh? Finally, your first-ever September Roster Expansion player (Sept 1, 2000): the immortal Steve Rain: www.geocities.com/cfclhist4/2000/report/090500.doc |
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