[USML Announce] From Contact Us: FAAB processing

Mon Aug 2 10:13:27 EDT 2021

Good morning Jeff,

Please also amend the “Delmonico Clause”, which is XV, 3.

Right now it explicitly says that non-contingent waiver claims take precedence over contingent ones, and it even has a helpful example. This is incorrect, too, according to the email that the Commish sent around yesterday with Kerber’s waiver claim from 2018.

Thanks,
Frank

> On Aug 1, 2021, at 2:21 PM, Jeffrey Winick <jwinick at hwhlegal.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks. I’m going to review it front to back and send around a redline. 
> 
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>> On Aug 1, 2021, at 2:19 PM, springkerb at aol.com wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Minor suggestions for related changes, while you're in there:  (1) where the rules refer to the old AllStar site name as the official source of stats/scoring, change that to a generic reference, and (2) delete or modify the provision that says stats are reported weekly.
>> 
>> Mark
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jeffrey Winick <jwinick at hwhlegal.com>
>> To: USML Announcements <announce at usml.net>
>> Sent: Sun, Aug 1, 2021 1:56 pm
>> Subject: Re: [USML Announce] Fwd: From Contact Us: FAAB processing
>> 
>> Agreed. I’m drafting an amendmen
>> Jeffrey H. Winick
>> Harris Winick Harris LLP
>> 333 West Wacker Drive
>> Suite 2060
>> Chicago, IL 60606
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>>> On Aug 1, 2021, at 12:58 PM, Mark Blocker <blockermark at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> Already agreed.  See earlier email from this morning.
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 12:57 PM Bill Strotman via Announce <announce at usml.net <mailto:announce at usml.net>> wrote:
>>> This is great work.    But let’s change the constitution for those who weren’t in the league in these years so the rules are clear.     Agree??
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>>> On Aug 1, 2021, at 12:54 PM, Mark Blocker <blockermark at gmail.com <mailto:blockermark at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Forwarding the explanation of FAAB bid processing that I received from Onroto in 2012...
>>>> 
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>>> From: Mark Blocker <blockermark at gmail.com <mailto:blockermark at gmail.com>>
>>>> Date: Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:50 AM
>>>> Subject: Fwd: From Contact Us: FAAB processing
>>>> To: USML <announce at usml.net <mailto:announce at usml.net>>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> League:
>>>> 
>>>>   See below regarding guidance from Onroto on FAAB bidding.  Anything written below should trump what I am about to tell you, but I think the bottom line is that the Onroto system treats contingent bids as having the same priority as non-contingent bids.  This was not true before we started using Onroto.  In Onroto, a contingent bid of $X will win over a non-contingent bid of less than $X; it was the opposite in our old system.  While not really relevant, my own view is that the Onroto system is a fairer way to do things.  Note also below how Onroto handles the fascinating circumstance of placing both a contingent and non-contingent bid on the same player!
>>>> 
>>>>   Hope this helps.  
>>>> 
>>>>   -- Mark B.
>>>> 
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: <support at onroto.com <mailto:support at onroto.com>>
>>>> Date: Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:04 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: From Contact Us: FAAB processing
>>>> To: mbblocker at aol.com <mailto:mbblocker at aol.com>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Mark,
>>>> 
>>>> The commish always get a blow-by-blow of what happened each week:  Commish
>>>> Pages -> Transactions -> View Bid Logs.
>>>> 
>>>> You guys are a FAAB league, so that makes it a simple explanation:  Dollar
>>>> values always trump priority *except as a team runs out of money*.
>>>> 
>>>> Example:
>>>> 
>>>> 1.)  replace X by bidding $10 on A
>>>> 2.)  replace Y by bidding $17 on B
>>>> 
>>>> If you have more than $27 to spend, the program will go ahead and give you
>>>> player B to replace Y in all instances.  If you have $17, however, it will
>>>> try to give you player A first, before moving on to see if you've won
>>>> player B.
>>>> 
>>>> If you do this:
>>>> 
>>>> 1.)  replace X by bidding $10 on A
>>>>                   bidding $15 on B
>>>> 2.)  replace Y by bidding $17 on B
>>>> 
>>>> the program will try $10 on A first -- if you're not the high bidder, it
>>>> will try $15 on B -- and there it will see that someone has a $17 bid on B
>>>> and so will quash your $15 bid.  In effect, you trumped yourself.  This
>>>> prevents people from hedging, as it were.
>>>> 
>>>> You can also induce an infinite loop if you mix and match higher and lower
>>>> contingent bids on the same sets of players.
>>>> 
>>>> Hope this helps.
>>>> 
>>>> -- Scott
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> > Sir/Madam:    Is there somewhere on the website where you explain how the
>>>> > BidMeister system processes FAAB bids?  Some of our owners are interested
>>>> > in knowing how the system process contingent and non-contingent bids.  Any
>>>> > help you could provide would be appreciate.    -- Mark B.
>>>> > League Abbrev: USML
>>>> > User: mblocker
>>>> > Sport: baseball
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