[USML Announce] Three Proposals
Andrew R. Klein
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Tue Feb 3 13:32:27 EST 2004
I'm against trading FAAB $ until we vote on the "Blocker Proposal" that I
recirculated a week or so back.
In general, my view is that if we continue to encourage use of FAAB $ to buy
asterisk players for unbalanced trades, we should just scrap the
anti-dumping rules altogether and return to the old days.
-Andy
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Andrew R. Klein
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I'm FOR being able to trade FAAB dollars and AGAINST ever using NL stats.
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Is anyone else going to vote or comment on Rich's proposals?
"Richard E. Robbins" <RERobbins at iTinker.net> wrote:
Jim,
I would not be averse to your suggestion on the third proposal, but I need
to think about it a bit more.
-- Rich
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From: Jim Barrett
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 21:18:39
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Rich,
I vote as follows:
Proposal 1 (Trading FAAB funds) - Yes (incl. Yes to trading player to
another owner, who would then be able to waive and claim funds). I think
it might an additional spark to deal making. Note that we may also have to
clarify whether trading $25 FAAB balances a deal for an asterisk player.
Proposal 2 (ebay style bidding) - Yes for the reasons I indicated in my
email a few days ago
Proposal 3 (keeping NL stats) - No. I think this is a risk we all
knowingly undertake by having an AL only league. However, I believe that
if this proposal is approved it should not be limited to just players that
are traded to the NL. It should also players who are released by their AL
team and then sign with an NL team as a free agent.
"Richard E. Robbins" wrote: I submit the following three rule proposals
and assume that these (and all others) will be gathered by Mark Blocker
and circulated in a more formal fashion in the near future.
If you intend to submit a proposal, please include the necessary changes
to our rules to implement what you propose.
I have attached a word file that contains text needed to implement each of
my proposals. The file has been marked to highlight changes to the
existing rules.
Thanks,
-- Rich
Proposal ??" Permit Trading of FAAB Funds
We should permit in-season trading of FAAB funds and, to be consistent, we
should permit an owner who trades for an NL-traded player to claim FAAB
dollars by waiving the player.
As proposed, FAAB dollars acquired in trade would not be available for use
until the next reporting period. Similarly, as proposed, an NL player
acquired in a trade could not be waived until the next reporting period.
If we do not adopt this proposal, we should modify Section 14.6 to provide
that the only team that can claim FAAB funds by waiving an NL-traded
player is the League team rostering the player at the time of the trade to
the National League. This would be nothing more than a codification of
existing practice.
Proposal ??" Adopt Modified eBay Style FAAB Bidding
I propose that we adopt a modified eBay style approach to FAAB bidding by
awarding a player to the highest bidder and using a salary of one dollar
more than the second highest bid, $5 in the case of a single bidder (i.e.,
the minimum bid) and the highest bid in the event of tied winning bids.
The rule would also prohibit collusive bidding to generate Asterisk
Players. I recognize that a violation of the collusion prohibition is
virtually impossible to prove. Nevertheless, I believe that USML
participants are honest and that the explicit prohibition would suffice.
Others have suggested an approach where we would use a slender bidding
currency; with the result being that, FAAB players have salaries less than
$25, which would mean that the FAAB acquisition process could not be used
to generate Asterisk players. That approach is not subject to the
collusive bidding problem found in my proposal. On the other hand, that
approach will let teams that are close to the salary ceiling roster
players that they would otherwise not be able to fit under the salary cap.
Proposal ??" Count Statistics of Players Traded to the National League
It is clear that there is no perfect solution to the problems created when
a player is traded to the National League. We adopted our current rule
many years ago in an effort to provide at least some compensation to the
owner that loses a player to the National League. I believe that the
compensation afforded by the current approach is essentially meaningless.
Some will argue that allowing other-league stats is wrong because they are
not comparable to American League statistics. That may be so. On the other
hand, we do not do anything with statistics generated during inter-league
play.
Some will argue that like injuries, this is simply a risk of playing the
game that we should accept. I believe that this is a risk that we can do
without and one that we can (and should) eliminate. The injury risk
problem is a different thing entirely. In the real world, general managers
don???t wake up in the morning to discover that they have been stripped of
a player (unless you work for George Steinbrenner).
Some will argue that we should be able to identify the players that are
likely to be traded, and consider that risk when bidding. That may be the
case ??" on the other hand, it is really hard to predict whether a player
is likely to land in the other league.
The impact of inter-league trades on the USML season can be dramatic. That
just seems wrong to me. Let???s avoid the problem.
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