[USML Announce] USML - Comments on transactions and reporting

[Brad Jansen]

Mark:
  WRT Item 3, I like your suggestion, at least for now.  Thanks,
Brad


On 4/11/07, Blocker, Mark B. <mblocker at sidley.com> wrote:
>
>  Gang:
>
>   Some comments on the various e-mails about transactions.
>
> 1.  Week One transactions:  Unless I misunderstood the transaction
> reporting for the first week, I do not think we properly entered the
> post-draft transactions.  On the website, all of the players that were the
> subject of post-draft transactions appear to have been activated as if they
> started the season on the active roster, and my understanding was that those
> players would be activated effective 4/8.  Here is an example.  I drafted
> Juan Rivera, who is on the DL, and after the draft replaced him with Mike
> Sweeney, who I obtained in the rotation draft.  Again, my understanding was
> that for players I obtained at auction, I got their first week stats no
> matter what (in this case, a zero since he is on the DL), and then Sweeney
> was activated as of Sunday, April 8.  However, on the system, all 20 ABs
> that Sweeney has since opening day (4/1) show up on my team totals.  In
> addition, if you click on transactions, there are zero transactions listed
> with an effective date of April 8, even though there should have been
> numerous such transactions.  Am I wrong about this or just missing
> something?  IF I am right, I will compile a list of post-draft transactions
> and go back and fix all of this retroactively.
>
> 2.  GOP transaction:  A transaction was entered yesterday for GOP, but it
> shows an effective date of 4/9 (Monday).  That can't be right under any
> scenario, is it?
>
> 3.  Future FAAB transactions:  I had not considered the issue of how to
> handle our e-bay style FAAB bidding.  I do not believe that we can handle it
> by simply adjusting down the contract of the obtained player, because I
> think the system will deduct the full amount of the actual bid from a team's
> FAAB budget.  I will do some looking around the site, but it seems to me
> that the likely fix will be to (1) continue to have teams submit sealed bids
> to usmltrans and (2) sometime on Sunday evening, I will review at them, and
> then "un-do" any affected transactions and re-enter them as if the
> appropriate e-bay price had been paid.  This will still reduce the burden on
> the commissioner, because the only transactions that will need to be
> re-entered are ones where there are competing bids.
>
>   I am interested in people's thoughts on the above items.
>
>   -- Mark B.
>
>
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