RULE DISCUSSION: Bid on All FAs on Sportsline List

[Copperfields]

TQS used to do an outstanding job of only listing major league roster players on their free agent list. As we've seen, Sportsline isn't so discriminating - they list minor leaguers, as well as guys who retired in 1992 and I think a couple people they just made up. Whenever someone bid on a player I wasn't familiar with (I know fewer and fewer players these days), I'd have to do some research to verify that he actually was on an NL major league roster.

Right now our rule says only players on NL major league rosters can be bid on. What if we changed it to say anyone can be bid on except AL players and AL minor leaguers (guys who aren't listed on the Sportsline free agent list)? Sure, once in a while you might have someone waste some FAAB on a guy who has no hope of ever seeing the majors again, but it serves them right for not researching the player themselves.

One touchy area would be minor leaguers, though. There are a lot of them on the Sportsline free agent lists, and I could see certain owners really getting into (Rocky) cherry-picking un-owned minor leaguers. On the other hand, it might encourage people to pay more attention to the minors. Plus, if we assigned D contracts to all free agent acquisitions, it discourages fishing for future value too much.

[stones]

copperfields said:

Sure, once in a while you might have someone waste some FAAB on a guy who has no hope of ever seeing the majors again, but it serves them right for not researching the player themselves.

Now there is no call for this kind of snideness, David! Just because every single FAAB bid I made last year was for some relic from years gone by doesn't mean I should be called out like this. Oh wait, you didn't actually use my name...sooo if I just pretend I never replied then....



I like this proposal with the D contract a lot.

[Nick's Picts (archived)]

Don't we already assign D contracts to all FA? Then again, we haven't allowed bidding on players who would qualify as M.

I got it. Just a little slow....

Bid on CBS FAs and everyone gets a D. Sort of like my high school auto shop class...

[kenndoza (archived)]

I don't know if I like being able to bid on minor league players, but not enough to vote against this. I guess I'm on the fence, and would like to hear more discussion.

[MGrage]

copperfields said:

One touchy area would be minor leaguers, though. There are a lot of them on the Sportsline free agent lists, and I could see certain owners really getting into (Rocky) cherry-picking un-owned minor leaguers. On the other hand, it might encourage people to pay more attention to the minors. Plus, if we assigned D contracts to all free agent acquisitions, it discourages fishing for future value too much.

You want me to devote more time to studying the minor leagues??? I already have all the AAA & AA rosters hard wired into my cranium. I guess it'll be worth it to give the same treatment to leagues all the way down to the Dominican Summer League now. I really have too much time on my heads. ;D

I guess it would have the effect of increasing the talent pool for free agent bidding, but I still don't like it. I'm of the belief that FAAB should only be spent on Major League players. Mahalo

Matt

[Copperfields]

mgrage said:

copperfields said:

I'm of the belief that FAAB should only be spent on Major League players.

I would tend to agree. The problem then becomes determining exactly which of the players listed on Sportsline's FA report are and aren't on an MLB roster.

This is another case where we can 1) Keep the existing rule, which requires someone to monitor it, or 2) Change the permissions surrounding the rule to eliminate the need for oversight.

I'm not sure which is better/worse.