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Subject: RIBC 2013: Draft discussion
Posted by: Guru
- [330592710] Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 09:40
The draft will be activated momentarily, although the clock will not be turned on until tomorrow. Here are the ground rules for this year.
Please read carefully, as some standards have changed from prior years.
In general, I discourage you from using a designated picker unless that is the only way to make the proper pick. The software now allows for automatic queues (with or without a time delay), and that is the preferred method for making a pick if you are unlikely to be available when your pick is due.
As such, please do not mark any queue as AVAILABLE unless you have specifically provided instructions to your designated picker(s). DP’s should only be used if you need some logic applied to the pick (e.g., don’t take someone at the same position as my pick in the previous round).
If you mark your queue AVAILABLE, that means that designated pickers (and me as commish) can see it when it is your turn to pick. Regardless, even if I can see your queue, I will not pick from it unless you have provided specific instructions. I encourage everyone else to adhere to the same standard.
Please be diligent about the current auto-pick settings for your general and round specific queues. If you do not want auto-picks to be made, then make sure that both queues - general and next pick - have auto-pick set to "No Auto-Pick". Every year, it seems that someone gets stuck with a surprise pick because auto-pick was inadvertently turned on.
Teams at the endpoint of each round will have only one clock period to make their pick. Similarly, anyone who has timed out in any round will have subsequent picks skipped until you show up to make your pick.
I will activate a 4 hour clock beginning on Friday, and this will be on for the duration of the draft, including weekends. Chronic time-out offenders may have their clocks manually shortened. The nightly clock moratorium will run from midnight until 8am EDT. This means that the moratorium will be from 9pm until 5am PDT. If you are on the West Coast and your pick comes due overnight, you will not time-out until 9am PDT. For those of you who live outside of the local US/Canadian time zones, I realize that the clock moratoriums are not ideal, but I appreciate your attempts to make it work.
The ESPN site will not be updated with draft results until the draft is over. You will need to figure out how to keep track of player availability on your own. (Of course, Draftime will not allow you to pick someone who is already drafted.)
When making your draft pick, please indicate the primary position at which you intend to use him. Do not pick anyone for the UTL slot unless he is not eligible at any other position. It is not necessary to draft a player for every position.
If you want to draft a player who is not available in Draftime, you should use the "Contact" link at the bottom of the Draftime page to request that the player be added to the system. Please anticipate these situations so that we don’t have to wait. If it is you turn to pick and a player is not listed in Draftime, then you may select a player who is unlikely to be drafted at all as a placeholder, to be substituted later on. If a drafted player is not available at the ESPN site, we will also assign a placeholder until that player has been added. Once the draft is over, you may only add players who are listed at ESPN.
You may use this thread to ask questions, comment on your upcoming availability or unavailability, and (eventually) to post rationales that have been skipped in the rationale thread. We will not begin posting rationales until after two rounds are completed.
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| 1 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 09:47
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Rules recap:
Here are the general parameters of the league:
# Teams: 16
Scoring Type: Rotisserie
Player Universe: All baseball
Max Acquisitions for Entire Season: No maximum
Max Trades for Entire Season: No maximum
Trade End Date: August 30, 2013
Allow Draft Pick Trades: Yes
Waiver Time: 1 days
Waiver Type: Continual rolling list
Can't Cut List Provider: None
Trade Reject Time: 1
Trade Review: Commissioner (four veto votes will trigger a full vote)
Post Draft Players: Follow Waiver Rules
Max Games Played: 162 per slot, enforced by position
Max Innings Pitched: 1350
Lineup changes: Daily - Lock Individually at Scheduled Gametime
Roster Positions: C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, CI, MI, OF, OF, OF, OF, Util, SP, RP, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, BN, BN, BN, BN
Batters Stat Categories: Runs (R), Runs Batted In (RBI), Stolen Bases (SB), On-base Percentage (OBP), Slugging Percentage (SLG)
Pitchers Stat Categories: Wins (W), Saves (SV), Strikeouts (K), Earned Run Average (ERA), (Walks + Hits)/ Innings Pitched (WHIP)
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| 2 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 09:51
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If you want to track the various RIBC league drafts, here are the links:The draft grid (by position) appears at the top of each page, and a sequential list of picks follows below that.
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| 3 | blue hen
Dude
ID: 710321114
Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 14:19
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I think Tilt is waiting to see if the Angels or Marlins name a closer.
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| 4 | JKaye
ID: 31192314
Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 14:55
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Anyone having trouble accessing players on the general queue on draftime?
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| 5 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 16:41
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Nope. Just type 3 or more letters and a name (or all matching names) should appear.
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| 6 | Uptown Bombers
ID: 81262014
Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 16:48
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JKaye, I was having trouble on my phone using google chrome. I switched to a different browser (stock)and it worked.
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| 7 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Fri, Mar 15, 2013, 10:02
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4 hour clock has now been turned on, and will remain on for the rest of the draft. Overnight pause is from midnight-8am EDT.
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| 8 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Fri, Mar 15, 2013, 12:06
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The draft rationale thread has been set up. When we reach pick 3.01, please start posting the rationales in sequence for round 1.
If you must post your rationale after a placeholder has already been inserted, then post it here and it will be transferred into that placeholder slot.
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| 15 | Uptown Bombers
ID: 81422417
Sat, Mar 16, 2013, 12:04
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I have an email saying I'm a designated picker for Kokeshi but on Draftime his queue is empty. Just as a heads up for people.
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| 22 | Seattle Zen
ID: 3310162612
Sun, Mar 17, 2013, 19:34
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Tosh Craig Kimbrel -
I am stepping into uncharted territory here. In all my years of fantasy baseball, I do not recall ever taking a closer so early.
I have to barge into your thread here because you have chartered these waters before, just two years ago you took the first closer in the PCL AAA. Heath Bell. Perhaps you wiped that from your memory.
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| 23 | Tosh
Leader
ID: 057721710
Sun, Mar 17, 2013, 20:08
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I have certainly tried to wipe Heath Bell from the memory banks. But I am also correct. Bell was taken with pick #76. Kimbrel was pick #62. A full round earlier. (hat tip to Draftime)
I have never taken a closer so early in RIBCs. :)
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| 30 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Mon, Mar 18, 2013, 00:53
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I was away most of Sunday, and when I got home, I had to process hoops stats, GuruGolf results, and setup Market Madness brackets. I'm going to have to wait until morning to figure out what to do for my next draft pick. I'm bushed.
Draft is really flying along.
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| 33 | blue hen
Dude
ID: 710321114
Mon, Mar 18, 2013, 11:15
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Re: 22, that's awesome.
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| 55 | JeffG
ID: 15859720
Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 19:14
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Curse you tilt :) I had Gyorko queued up this round.
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| 91 | Tosh on phone
ID: 461382213
Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 22:30
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I'm stuck at a rental house for the weekend with sucky Internet. I will get past rationales to you when I can. I left the house with an 80 man queue, and am picking on the phone. Not much researching going on right now.
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| 93 | Da Bomb
Donor
ID: 487112814
Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 23:30
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Thanks Guru. And to any mods doing the housekeeping.
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| 154 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Sat, Mar 30, 2013, 10:13
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Rationales are now complete!
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| 155 | Da Bomb
Donor
ID: 487112814
Sun, Mar 31, 2013, 23:18
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Erik Bedard!
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