All-Time Franchise Baseball Tournament: RED SOX WIN IT ALL!

[Kaius]

"So it might be a 34 game season now? Looks like I'm going 9-0 in the regular season and 6-0 in the postseason. 15-0, bitches."

"You seem to have placed 1 in the wrong column, friend."

[Lament]

"So it might be a 34 game season now? Looks like I'm going 9-0 in the regular season and 6-0 in the postseason. 15-0, bitches."

"You seem to have placed 1 in the wrong column, friend."

"Didn't you once lose game seven of the World Series to a guy named Mickey?"

[BigRedLedbetter]

Two things about my Royals team....

I'd like 2011 Alex Gordon not 2013 and here is my starting lineup game 1

LF
Otis CF
Brett 3B
Beltran RF
Sweeny 1B
Porter C
Bell SS
White 2B
SP

[Lament]

With the regular season approaching, I thought I'd post some details/rules. Some are old, some are new, all have been updated in the OP.

-We will have a regular season before the tournament. Everyone will play everyone else twice, once at home and once on the road.

-The playoffs will be best-of-seven series. We will use the same rules about pitching rotations/rest as we did in the Post-Strike tournament. You will have the option to start someone on two games' rest twice during the playoffs. You will have the option to do it twice during the regular season as well (where the same three games' rest rule applies).

-The top eight teams in the standings at the end of the season will make the playoffs. Tie-breakers for seeding will be based on head-to-head record. If the teams split their meetings, the tie will be broken by whoever had the better record against the highest seeded team overall (this will carry down in the standings until the tie is broken).

-If there is a tie for the eighth/final playoff spot, we will have a play-in game. The play-in game will follow the rotation rules from the regular season (so you can't use a pitcher in that game unless he's had three games' rest or you still have a two days' rest option available).

[Lament]

I'd like to have two chances (one during the regular season and one before the playoffs) for people to make roster changes. We'd limit how many you could make each time (maybe five during the regular season, three for the playoffs). Any thoughts?

[@SkitchP]

I'd like to have two chances (one during the regular season and one before the playoffs) for people to make roster changes. We'd limit how many you could make each time (maybe five during the regular season, three for the playoffs). Any thoughts?

I see no real point of making a roster change.

[Lament]

I think halfway through the season there'll be more than a few people who are gonna want to make alterations to the way their pitching staff is assembled.

[EJ]

I think halfway through the season there'll be more than a few people who are gonna want to make alterations to the way their pitching staff is assembled.

Do you mean changing starting pitchers? And, general lineup changes?

[Lament]

I mean if you want to drop a few players and replace them with different ones, or change what season you have of a certain guy. If you want to carry more pitchers and less bench players or vice versa, stuff like that.

[EJ]

I mean if you want to drop a few players and replace them with different ones, or change what season you have of a certain guy. If you want to carry more pitchers and less bench players or vice versa, stuff like that.

I'm actually against re-drafting any other players for your team. I think the only thing that should be allowed is lineup changes and changes to your rotation (as long they still fit in your 3 days' rest rule.)

Here's a weird question - can players get hurt in these sims? Or is that beyond that scope of this thing?

[Lament]

If people are against the roster changes, we'll scrap it. I was just kinda throwing it out there for people who maybe weren't as familiar with how these things work. But we won't do it.

As for injuries EJ, I've yet to see someone get hurt in one (though we had a manager tossed in the last tournament, so anything is possible). Because we run them as individual exhibitions though, even if someone were to get hurt in one game, they'd be back in the roster for the next game (if that makes sense).

[Norah]

F that

[EJ]

As for injuries EJ, I've yet to see someone get hurt in one (though we had a manager tossed in the last tournament, so anything is possible). Because we run them as individual exhibitions though, even if someone were to get hurt in one game, they'd be back in the roster for the next game (if that makes sense).

It does, thanks. I was thinking it'd be really bizarre to have someone put on a DL. But, I suppose there are some serious Sims leagues that would have this type of thing.

[Lament]

I think if you do a paid league on there, there are injuries and fatigue. I looked a bit into how much it would cost to do that (since they also keep your stats for you and everything), but every league has to have thirty teams.

[numbers]

How much is the league?

[Lament]

I think I stopped investigating when I saw you needed thirty teams.

[Lament]

It appears to be $12.95 per team.

The features are actually pretty cool. I'd consider doing it sometime in the future if enough people wanted to. It'd probably require a bit of planning though.

[numbers]

That seems outrageous. I figured the whole thing would be like 80 bucks or something like that.

[Lament]

Little bit of housekeeping before the roster deadline Sunday night/Monday morning...

Ruddo & Skitch, make sure you remember to post your rosters and your lineups/rotations for opening day in the thread (I know you posted the Tigers, Skitch, but I still need the Reds one, and I can't see your whole rosters via whatif).

Jorge & numbers, will you be hosting your teams or do I need to host them on my accounts? Let me know so I can set aside time to input them.

Kaius & #BRL, I know you hosted your own teams for the last tournament, can I assume you'll be hosting your teams from this one as well, and that they'll be under the same account name?

Spike, is there gonna be a Brewers team (and therefore a Mets team from Phil as well)?

As soon as I know if we're gonna have sixteen or eighteen teams, I'll post a schedule. I'm 95% certain at this point we're just gonna have people play the same team twice each day, home and away. I know that's not as fun, but it'll make things much, much, much easier on me. Sorry.

Also, I'm thinking we'll have season-end awards for Most Outstanding Pitcher and Most Outstanding Position Player. Unfortunately I still have yet to find a site or program that makes it easy to track these stats, so if you want one of your players to be considered, you'll be responsible for making their statistical case. If you don't care, no big deal. If you do, cool, it'll add another element of fun. Especially when your star pitcher finishes second in voting behind Ed Walsh.

[Lament]

Also, this is getting close.