[USML Announce] USML 2006 - important league update

Mon Mar 6 12:38:35 EST 2006

Oh, Jim, Jim, Jim.  This league doesn't live by the standards of "most of the roto baseball magazines and websites."  We are way above that.  AL leagues ideally have 12 teams--as God (and the Founding Fathers) meant them to have.  We do not want to cheapen ourselves by living down to the standards of the masses.

Mark 

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And to the extent it matters, I think most of the roto baseball magazines and websites use 10 teams as a default.  In other words, our current budget and roster spaces are standard to 10 team leagues.  If anything, its the 11 and 12 team leagues that should have the adjustments.

"Richard E. Robbins" <RERobbins at iTinker.net> wrote: 
Our constitution is geared to league sizes from ten to twelve. See Article
II (at www.usml.net).

So I'm not sure I agree with the notion that an adjustment is consistent
with the Constitution. The text of the document is clear.

I don't recall fiddling with these things when we've gone up or down by a
team in the past.

I am troubled that we are thinking about revising some but not all rules
that could be relevant.

We will have fewer players retained and we will be s ucking undervalue out of
the league, why not allow each team to roster one additional keeper?

I'm not advocating for that result, I'm just saying that there are all sorts
of things that get distorted a little bit from year to year.

When we draft before opening day, the draft pool is larger. That has an
impact too.

On balance, I don't think it makes sense to tinker with this stuff and I'm
not comfortable doing it in part and not thinking about all the rules that
might require tweaking.

I join Andy, Jim and Buddha.

-- Rich 

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Yes, I guess some clarification is needed. I guess you'd expect some price
de flation of player values given the reduced # of teams if you kept salary
cap the same, which may affect your retention decision. By increasing roster
size and /or salary cap, you theoretically should diminish that impact. So,
I think salary caps should be adjusted upward, and I'm also amenable to
roster size increase, for the reasons that Jeff W. mentioned.

"Richard E. 
Robbins" 

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John,

I'm not sure how to interpret your message.

Do you think we should increase roster sizes to add two players and add $20
to budgets?

-- Rich

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I think league size at 10 is fine, but I agree the salary caps should be
adjusted to keep integrity of player dollar values.

"Andy Klein"

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I agree with Buddha and Jim. We've played with 10 (and even 9) teams before
with little problem.

-Andy

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I vote to play with 10 teams under the current rules---no amendments.

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League:

Here is an update on arrangements and deadlines for the coming
season.

1. League composition: Unfortunately, the Protective Cups have decided not
to participate in 2006. Therefore, we will proceed with 10 teams this year,
unless there is an immediate consensus for 11 and we have an available owner
in mind. This may have an impact on the rules we want for this year; see
below.

2. Roster Freeze Day: Roster Freeze Day, according to our constitution
(section 17.2), is March 15. However, because that is a Wednesday, I
propose we move roster freeze day to midnight on the 18th, in case people
are busy at work during the week. That deadline would still give owners two
full weeks from the draft to adjust their strategies.

3. Draft location: More to come shortly.

4. Adjustments to Rules: Given the loss of one team and its 23 active
roster players, we may wish to consider the following adjustment to our
rules for this season:

Active Roster size: 25 (one additional pitcher and hitter - U) Reserve
roster size: 18 Cap/ceiling ? 380/220

I am not seeking to impose this. I have discuss this with one other
owner, and it at least merits some discussion.

This is all for now. Please comment on issues raised above.

-- Mark B.
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