[USML Announce] USML - Comments on transactions and reporting

[Andrew R. Klein]

All sounds good.  Thanks, Jeff & Mark. 

-Andy

JHWinick at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 4/11/2007 8:56:26 A.M. Central Daylight Time, 
> mblocker at Sidley.com writes:
>
>     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.
>
> Mark,
>  
> 1.  You are correct on the transactions being back-dated too far.  
> That was my fault and is a function of entering things in the middle 
> of the night.  Thanks for pointing that out.  I'll be happy to correct 
> those so that they reflect activation on the 8th, rather than the 1st.
>  
> 2.  The GOP transaction should be effective on the 8th.  Another 
> mistake on my part, but one that's easy to correct.
>  
> 3.  I think you and I are on the same page with respect to FAAB.  But 
> here is my take.  We will use the automated system, with the 
> understanding that the system will automatically award the player to 
> the successful bidder at the full bid price.  Teams will have to 
> shadow their bids with submissions to USMLTrans and either you or I 
> will then correct both the salary of the player as well as add dollars 
> back to the successful team's FAAB budget.  As for all other 
> transactions issues, including contingent bidding, I think we agree 
> that we will allow what the system will accommodate and otherwise our 
> rules will change to match the functionality of All Star Stats.
>  
> Jeff
>
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