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**John Shoemaker** · 08-26-2012, 10:10 AM

The rules seem very straightforeward. It should be a lot of fun. I hope we get a few more participating.

**J W** · 08-26-2012, 03:25 PM

I'll hop on board. The Athletics are one of the non home-town teams I'm most interested in.

Are we planning on running a 154 game simulation? If so, should be designate which games the backups play in? For Diamond Mind league I put in % games played for reserves against left handed pitching and right handed pitching.

**ian2813** · 08-26-2012, 04:22 PM

Originally posted by J W View Post

I'll hop on board. The Athletics are one of the non home-town teams I'm most interested in.

Are we planning on running a 154 game simulation? If so, should be designate which games the backups play in? For Diamond Mind league I put in % games played for reserves against left handed pitching and right handed pitching.

Welcome aboard, J W!

As I mentioned on another thread, you don't actually have to declare the number of games each player plays at each position, you only need to make sure they balance out.

I was assuming we'd just vote on the teams like usual, but if someone has a simulator, I'm open to that. Even though he's not participating in this draft, Tyrus said he has a simulator that might work. I guess we'll see when the time comes.

I think six is a good minimum number of drafters. Is everyone else cool with it?

**J W** · 08-26-2012, 04:34 PM

I'd love to see that if Tyrus is up for it. By turning off injuries we could whip through 154 games using eight teams, 22 games each against each opponent. We would just input our managerial profile and wait for the results. All games could be played on a neutral field. We'd just need two more people to sign up.

**ian2813** · 08-26-2012, 04:50 PM

Originally posted by J W View Post

I'd love to see that if Tyrus is up for it. By turning off injuries we could whip through 154 games using eight teams, 22 games each against each opponent. We would just input our managerial profile and wait for the results. All games could be played on a neutral field. We'd just need two more people to sign up.

Well, realistically we'd be trying to consider how many games a player actually played. If you draft a guy who missed some time due to injury, he shouldn't get credit for games he didn't actually play. If we don't have a simulator that takes into account actual production, then maybe subjective voting is the way to go.

**Wade8813** · 08-26-2012, 05:05 PM

We could always do both...

**Wade8813** · 08-26-2012, 05:06 PM

BTW, are we allowing all A's players? Only from 1900 on?

**John Shoemaker** · 08-26-2012, 05:20 PM

Originally posted by Wade8813 View Post

BTW, are we allowing all A's players? Only from 1900 on?

I'm hoping we allow all of them because I've got my eye on some that played before 1900, but whatever ian decides is fine with me.

**ian2813** · 08-26-2012, 05:24 PM

I was thinking only the current A's franchise from 1901-present. I actually forgot there were some 19th-Century franchises that called themselves the Philadelphia Athletics.

**Wade8813** · 08-26-2012, 05:31 PM

Also, do we allow 2012? If so, we should just pick a cutoff date or something for what point we'll use for stats

**ian2813** · 08-26-2012, 05:38 PM

Originally posted by Wade8813 View Post

Also, do we allow 2012? If so, we should just pick a cutoff date or something for what point we'll use for stats

I was thinking that 2012 would be allowable, because we're pretty far along in the season. Do you want to say that the stats available for the player would be the ones he has at the moment he's drafted?

Either that or we could assume that the season will be close to finished by the time we complete the draft. Then we could perhaps wait it out until a guy's final stats are in. Of course, if we do it that way, you'd have to make sure your guy already has enough to meet your requirements when you pick him.

**BigRon** · 08-26-2012, 06:34 PM

Originally posted by ian2813 View Post

I was thinking only the current A's franchise from 1901-present. I actually forgot there were some 19th-Century franchises that called themselves the Philadelphia Athletics.

I think the franchise that is the Phila/KC/OaklandAthletics came into existence in 1901. Why would previous, non-related franchises be allowed?

**Wade8813** · 08-26-2012, 06:46 PM

I think we should pick a cutoff date for 2012, and it should be one that's already occurred. It would be kind of awkward if we pick a player, then suddenly he goes into a giant slump/streak for the rest of the season. This draft is about what players have done, not predicting the future.

Originally posted by BigRon View Post

I think the franchise that is the Phila/KC/OaklandAthletics came into existence in 1901. Why would previous, non-related franchises be allowed?

We probably wouldn't. But if you didn't realize those were separate franchises (which I didn't at first), it would be an easy thing to screw up

**ian2813** · 08-26-2012, 08:09 PM

Originally posted by BigRon View Post

I think the franchise that is the Phila/KC/OaklandAthletics came into existence in 1901. Why would previous, non-related franchises be allowed?

That was my reasoning. Are you interested in joining this draft, BigRon?

Originally posted by Wade8813 View Post

I think we should pick a cutoff date for 2012, and it should be one that's already occurred. It would be kind of awkward if we pick a player, then suddenly he goes into a giant slump/streak for the rest of the season. This draft is about what players have done, not predicting the future.

That's reasonable. So are you saying we should do it that a 2012 player's stats are whatever they are at the time he's drafted?

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