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OK, another excecutive decision: everyone can choose 4 keepers at the end of the season. I think a small number is good since there are so many teams. It can be whoever you want, so it doesn't matter what round they were drafted it or if you picked them up off waivers or traded for them or however you aquired them. You can keep 4 players of your choice at the end of the season. We'll make draft picks tradeable as well, but of course it's up to the teams to always announce to transfer of draft picks so I can keep a record of it. Sound good? Anyone have a problem with the draft day/time?

The 2006 Orioles Outfield: Reclamation Project City! Starring: Corey Patterson, Richard Hidalgo, Kevin Millar and Luis Matos! Featuring Jeff Conine as the wily old sheriff and David Newhan as the young cop trying to earn his stripes. Nah, I actually like the amount of depth we're piling on. Competition should make everyone play harder and you got to figure some of these guys are gonna bounce back.

I think we can decide on the keepers situation after the season. I'm thinking 4 since we have so many teams.

Al, we've got a 28 inning minimum on pitching with a weekly roster edit setup, so I think we should be ok in that regard. Holds was the only other stat to get more than 1 vote (with 4) and I think it will be a useful incentive to draft relievers. Anyway, the next order of business is a draft day and time. I scheduled it for Mon. March 20 at 8:30, figuring most of us should be around for Monday nights being RAW is on. If this is a flawed way of thinking, please let me know. I wouldn't mind moving up the draft date if you all want to as well. So do reply and let me know if the scheduled date and time is alright and if it's not please suggest an alternative.

Oh shit, I forgot about ERA! That got 9/9 too. Thanks for noticing. I'll make sure to edit the post. Also, considering we have TWENTY teams being picked, you might not have much choice but to draft a middle reliever or two. Using holds actually makes having them on your roster relavent.

Well, turnout for this one wasn't quite as plentiful. Just 9 responses. But, I'm happy to report that using the majority votes rule we've got our 6 offensive stats: Runs 9/9 Hits 5/9 Home Runs 8/9 RBIs 9/9 Stolen Bases 7/9 On-base Percentage 5/9 As for pitching, we got 5 stats in the majority: Wins 9/9 Saves 9/9 Strikeouts 9/9 WHIP 9/9 Earned Run Average (ERA) 9/9 (EDIT: Forgot to add it for some reason the first time). Now, to make things even I'm going to make an executive decision and add Holds 4/9 which was one vote away from a majority. So, those will be the stats we use, hopefully no one is too offended.

Just a reminder, please get your stat nominations in by tonight at midnight. Next order of business will be to decide the draft.

Stop spamming. We'll make the deadline for this one Friday at midnight if you have not turned in your stats nominations. Raza, that means you too since your post didn't count.

Every Monday.

Here are mine: Runs ® Hits (H) Home Runs (HR) Runs Batted In (RBI) Stolen Bases (SB) Walks (BB) Batting Average (AVG) On-base Percentage (OBP) Wins (W) Saves (SV) Strikeouts (K) Holds (HLD) Total Bases Allowed (TB) Earned Run Average (ERA) Strikeouts per Walk Ratio (K/BB) Strikeouts per Nine Innings (K/9)

OK, deadline has come and gone. We got 18/20 teams to respond so that should be enough to consider this what the league wants. Some blowouts, some close ones. 1. Head to Head or Rotisserie? We will be playing a Head to Head League as it was a shutout 17-0 (with 1 no preference). 2. Max on player aquisitions/trades for season? (if yes, how many?) There will be no max. on player moves, another shutout 18-0 (with 2 for max on free agents) 3. Time managers have to protest pending trades? (No or yes and # of days) Managers will have 2 days to protest trades. This got 11 votes, with 3 votes for 3 days and 4 for no protests. 4. Trade deadline? (if yes, use July 30, Aug 6, Aug 13, Aug 20 or Aug 27?) This one had some contention to it. 7/30 won the plurality with 6 votes, but 4 abstained from giving a preference, 3 for 8/6, 2 for 8/20, 2 for 8/27 and 1 for 8/13. If you guys want we could do a run-off between 7/30 and 8/6 or just leave it as is. 5. Time players are on waivers (days or no waivers) Players will be on waivers for 2 days. This got 10 votes with 4 votes for 1 day, 3 votes for 3 days and 1 vote for none. 6. Use "can't cut list"? We will not use the "can't cut list". 13 no, 4 yes, 1 no preference. 7. Trades reviews by commisioner or league votes? In a razor sharp vote, you elected trades to be reviewed by your humble commisioner 9 votes to 8 with 1 no preference. 8. After draft, all unclaimed players free agents or waivers? Players will be put on waivers, 15 votes to 3. 9. Minimum innings pitched per week? (if yes how many) This one was all over the board since there weren't set options, but the plurality went to about 28 innings with 7 votes. 4 votes for 30 innings, 3 votes for 24 innings and 1 each for none, 20, 35 and 1 no preference vote. We'll go with 28 innings unless enough people want to elect a run-off number. 10. Roster changes weekly or daily? We will do weekly roster changes, 13-5. Thanks to all who voted. Next order of business is what stats to use. Again, I'm looking for concensus, so I'll just post all the stats avaliable and you all can select the ones you'd like to use. Whichever ones get majorities (of the total number of teams that elect to vote, deadline to be determined), we'll use in the league. Sound good? Ok, get to it! Games Played (GP) Games Started (GS) At Bats (AB) Runs ® Hits (H) Singles (1B) Doubles (2B) Triples (3B) Home Runs (HR) Runs Batted In (RBI) Sacrifice Hits (SH) Sacrifice Flys (SF) Stolen Bases (SB) Caught Stealing (CS) Walks (BB) Intentional Walks (IBB) Hit By Pitch (HBP) Strikeouts (K) Ground Into Double Play (GIDP) Total Bases (TB) Putouts (PO) Assists (A) Errors (E) Fielding Percentage (FPCT) Batting Average (AVG) On-base Percentage (OBP) Slugging Percentage (SLG) On-base + Slugging Percentage (OPS) Pitching Appearances (APP) Games Started (GS) Innings Pitched (IP) Wins (W) Losses (L) Complete Games (CG) Shutouts (SHO) Saves (SV) Outs (OUT) Hits (H) Total Batters Faced (TBF) Runs ® Earned Runs (ER) Home Runs (HR) Walks (BB) Intentional Walks (IBB) Hit Batters (HBP) Strikeouts (K) Wild Pitches (WP) Balks (BLK) Stolen Bases Allowed (SB) Batters Grounded Into Double Plays (GIDP) Save Chances (SVOP) Holds (HLD) Total Bases Allowed (TB) Earned Run Average (ERA) (Walks + Hits)/ Innings Pitched (WHIP) Strikeouts per Walk Ratio (K/BB) Strikeouts per Nine Innings (K/9)

Good to see my Bullets getting into the game.

Nash stands out.

Marv has probably had a few.

They are hard on the eyes. I think they're going for the "retro" look that the kids these days like. I would have preferred solid colors.

That was hilarious, it's like they expected Yao to speak Chinese and he's like "fuck them, I'll say what I want"

I thought they broke up years ago? Then again I pay little attention to pop music trends.

I could do without the orchestral version of Crazy Train, but otherwise I like it. The All Star game is just as much about spectcle as sport. And like I said, this entrance seems to have been stolen from Pride which constantly blows away WWE with their production values. Also, seeing the East starters dancing like a boy band was priceless.

The NBA has obviously been watching Pride.

Reminder if you haven't voted yet, to do so by tonight at midnight!

Just for the sake of expediancy, let's say the deadline to respond to the survey is the end of the weekend, so Sunday at midnight (ET). So all of you who haven't chimed in yet, get to it because there are some close categories and you can't say I didn't give you a chance!

How did you not know that is me? A little skill called Proccess of Elimination. I knew the other ones and I know you were invited into the league earlier than the other guy and I remember seeing Midcard 4 Life sign up earlier than the other one so I made an inference. That, or magic psychic powers.

This league is closed. There is another league looking for participants though. *sigh*, I guess I better edit the opening post.

We've got 11 responses so far. Almost half of the league has not given their input yet, and there are some close races (and some not so close ones). I want to get a move on so if you haven't replied to the survey yet, do so soon, or else you can't complain your opinion wasn't heard.

OK, the league is filled. From here on we'll be discussing what rules/stats to use. I think it's a great idea to start another league for anyone who didn't make this one, but please create another thread for it so we don't get confused. OK, first off as mentioned the # of teams has been expanded from 18 to the maximum of 20. Returning from last season: MJ Styles- Rockbirds Wart- Wart’s Wackos iggymcfly- Cranky Old Men treble- Brockvegas Posse Marvinsalunatic- NuclearChinlocks Cartman- Pawtucket Patriots Colluden Hastings- Landfall Jacobites Cena's Writer- Infinite93Intensity Bravesfan- Heavy Lumber Bored- Rebels of Oakland Will Scarlet- Will Scarlet thepinjockey- Serenity Razaztec- Midcard 4 Life Cuban Linx- Scott Boras Allstars New to the league: jWpeer- jwpeer - KnklBl4Life Deep_Thought- Dangerous by Design Canadian Chris- Team Canada Krankor- Random Heros Kingofthe909- Kings of Crunk Stephan Joseph- John Galt Express Leaving the league from last year: LightningFlik- left TSM alkeiper- declined invitation, lack of time HarleyQuinn- declined invitation SmellTheRatings!!!- left TSM Before we decide on which stats to use, draft time, etc. I want to establish what settings we'll use for the league. At the end of the season, these can be changed if a majority of players wish them to be, but what we establish now will be used for the season. So, all players are welcome to give their response to the following questionaire: 1. Head to Head or Rotisserie? 2. Max on player aquisitions/trades for season? (if yes, how many?) 3. Time managers have to protest pending trades? (No or yes and # of days) 4. Trade deadline? (if yes, use July 30, Aug 6, Aug 13, Aug 20 or Aug 27?) 5. Time players are on waivers (days or no waivers) 6. Use "can't cut list"? 7. Trades reviews by commisioner or league votes? 8. After draft, all unclaimed players free agents or waivers? 9. Minimum innings pitched per week? (if yes how many) 10. Roster changes weekly or daily? Since I am a member of the league as well, I will give my votes: 1. H2H 2. No 3. 2 days 4. yes, July 30 5. 2 days 6. No 7. commisioner 8. waivers 9. No 10. weekly