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

[Norah]

I think we should start the LCS era tournament right after the World Series start, but have a drawn out drafting period so the tournament itself doesn't start right away. I'm sure there would be times where we would blow through a couple rounds in a short period of time, but if there were, say, 12-24 hours before you get skipped then we could take our time and give Lament a nice break over the holidays.

I don't like this. What keeps the draft fun is the very short window. We should either do it right away or wait until Lament is ready, but none of this best of both worlds bullshit.

[philpritchard]

I think we should start the LCS era tournament right after the World Series start, but have a drawn out drafting period so the tournament itself doesn't start right away. I'm sure there would be times where we would blow through a couple rounds in a short period of time, but if there were, say, 12-24 hours before you get skipped then we could take our time and give Lament a nice break over the holidays.

I don't like this. What keeps the draft fun is the very short window. We should either do it right away or wait until Lament is ready, but none of this best of both worlds bullshit.

Whatever, man.

[BigRedLedbetter]

I'm not a big holidays person. I dig Thanksgiving though. But Christmas/whateveryoubelievein season I'm around. So I'm down for whatever. I'm Switzerland about this topic but really want to do something else. This is a lot of fun. I like the drafts. Fuck let's just agree about something and do it.

If we do a region tourney I can field a Cuban team if someone wants the Midwest. Looking at you Skitch and Lament and the Cardinal fan.

[Lament]

Game three is about to be run...

[Lament]

Boston Red Sox at Cleveland Indians

World Series, Game 3

http://www.whatifsports.com/slb/Boxscor ... pbp=0&tf=0

Spoiler: show

Red Sox 12, Indians 7
W - Young, L - Tiant
HR - Williams, Varitek 2

Red Sox lead series, 3-0

[BigRedLedbetter]

This is so romantic.....

[Norah]

Varitek for World Series MVP.

[numbers]

YES. One more, Chud.

[Lament]

Game four matchup...

Boston Red Sox at Cleveland Indians
Grove (L) vs. Feller (R)

[Norah]

[Lament]

Damn. Varitek has been ridiculous.

[philpritchard]

Twice in the same game, Cleveland walked three straight batters then served up a grand slam.

Twelve walks usually doesn't bode well.

[The Argonaut]

Since we are keeping track of stats and stuff, I like the idea of being allowed to kick players off your roster in favor of someone else. Especially under-performing pitchers, since we have so little control over how pitchers are used by the simulator. We'd have to set some kind of limit, like five add/drops max all season, a one-day waiting period, or a deadline past which all add/drops need to stop.

[Norah]

I wouldn't mind having an add drop period at the halfway point. After the 30th game, you can sub out up to 3 players or whatever.

If it was a franchise tournament it would be easy, if it was a tournament in which we drafted teams it could be a waiver priority type thing (last place team gets to sub first, and then go down the last until you get to the first place team)

[philpritchard]

I wouldn't mind having an add drop period at the halfway point. After the 30th game, you can sub out up to 3 players or whatever.

If it was a franchise tournament it would be easy, if it was a tournament in which we drafted teams it could be a waiver priority type thing (last place team gets to sub first, and then go down the last until you get to the first place team)

I would be all for that.

[The Argonaut]

Yeah, that sounds manageable.

[BigRedLedbetter]

We should come to an agreement on what the theme of the next tournament will be. I just wanna do some scouting/researching for my next team.

[Norah]

LCS era

[philpritchard]

LCS era

Yeah, I like being able to just throw a team together like the Franchise Tournament, but drafts are awesome.

[Jorge]

Can I start Alex Avila?