[BASEBALL] Game of Throwns

[Mario LeMoose]

Draftime Home Page:
http://www.draftime.com/

[Mario LeMoose]

Scoring ... head-to-head
New players become available ... wait until called up to majors
Maximum moves for entire season ... 100
Maximum trades for entire season ... no maximum
Trade reject time ... 2 days
Trade end date ... August 30, 2015
Waiver time ... 2 days
Waiver type ... continual rolling list (waiver claims are processed in waiver priority order and each successful claim moves a manager to the end of the waiver priority list)
Waiver mode ... standard
"Can't cut" list provider ... none
Trade review ... league votes
Post-draft players ... follow waiver rules
Maximum acquisitions per week ... 7
Minimum innings pitched ... 15 (per week)
Weekly deadline ... daily–tomorrow (daily starting lineup changes)
Start scoring ... Week 1
Playoffs ... Weeks 22, 23 and 24 (6 teams)
(Week 24 runs 7 days from September 21 to September 27)
Playoff reseeding ... no
Lock eliminated teams ... yes (prevent teams eliminated from the playoffs and consolation games from adding and dropping players during playoff weeks)
Divisions ... no
Draft rounds ... 23
Roster positions ... C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, OF (3), Util (2), SP (2), RP (2), P (3), BN (6); DL (2), NA
Stat categories ... R, HR, RBI, SB, AVG, OPS; W, SV, K, HLD, ERA, WHIP

Remember that you can use Draftime to trade picks, players, or both.

NEW FOR THIS LEAGUE:

Allow one end-of-draft replacement pick per team if, while the draft is underway, a manager loses a player to a confirmed season-ending injury. The replacement pick priority order will coordinate with the injured player's original draft position. Replacement picks must be identified within 24 hours following the conclusion of the draft.

(This is not a setting available in Yahoo; Commish Tools will be used to execute the replacement player transaction.)

[Mario LeMoose]

Our draft order, as determined by random.org:

01 ... St. Louis Psychos
02 ... Fuzzy Warthogs
03 ... Curby's Team
04 ... Dirtbags
05 ... Stuck60
06 ... Nexen Heroes
07 ... Fairwell To The King
08 ... Roxboro Roosters
09 ... Hartford 'Canes
10 ... Dumb and Dumberer
11 ... Akron A's
12 ... Snowball's Chance

[Mario LeMoose]

Official draft start: Tuesday, March 17, 9:00 a.m. (Eastern)

• The draft will run without a time limit between picks for the first round, assuming no prolonged delays.
• After the first round, a time limit between picks will apply, if necessary, so that we do not fall behind pace.
• Our goal is to complete the draft by April 3. The 2015 MLB season begins April 5.
• The overnight pause will be midnight to 9:00 a.m. Eastern; this is a daily pause, i.e., also includes Saturday-Sunday.
• We will be drafting on weekends.
• Add a secondary e-mail address, if you have one, to your Draftime user account to ensure that draft notification messages are received. Make sure your primary e-mail address on record with Draftime is a current one.
• Please do not post draft-related messages at Yahoo!; use this forum. If you need to get a private message to me, use the "PM" feature here, as I rarely check my personal (rr.com) e-mail account during work hours.
• Managers with the first and last draft positions in each round have a single clock, not double time, for their picks.

All draft picks are restricted to players in the current Yahoo! pool for our league at the time your turn occurs. Please remember that the Draftime player list is not customized by league. If you have any questions regarding a player's eligibility, take a moment to check the Yahoo! player list for our league before you draft him. "Placeholders" are not allowed.

Slacker penalty: Evil Commish reserves the authority to impose reduced clock time upon any manager who repeatedly misses his/her turn. Such an extreme measure should not be necessary, given the auto-pick options available in Draftime.

[Mario LeMoose]

The draft room is now open so that managers can review the player list and set queues. Player selection begins Tuesday morning.

[Mario LeMoose]

If you haven't already taken advantage of the "Upcoming Pick Notification" alert, please consider setting one to notify you when your turn is a couple of picks away. Here's how:

Log into your Draftime account and, from the links across the top of the page, click "Edit Account." Next, click "Manage Email Notifications." Two choices are available. Under "Upcoming Pick Notification," set a number of picks before *your* next pick, then click the Edit button. You should see the following message in green type: "Preference Updated: Upcoming Pick Notification X Pick(s) Before." (X represents the number of picks that you selected.) It's that easy!

[Funston]

What does this mean?

[Mario LeMoose]

What does this mean?

Draftime began experiencing technical issues Wednesday evening and was inaccessible starting sometime after 10:00. The site administrator stopped all drafts so that draft admins could review their league's status before continuing. The stoppage also prevented the system from automatically picking or skipping picks, if a time limit between picks was being used, because of the amount of time that passed between the outage and site restoration.

Everything looks good for our league and the draft has been resumed.

[Funston]

TY, commish

[sjnocill]

Did BJ Upton really get drafted or did someone get their Uptons mixed up?

[Mario LeMoose]

Did BJ Upton really get drafted or did someone get their Uptons mixed up?

I'll check....

[Mario LeMoose]

Did BJ Upton really get drafted or did someone get their Uptons mixed up?

Received confirmation that it was a mix-up, should have been Justin Upton. I've edited the pick.

[Mario LeMoose]

Adjusted jaker's 9.07 unintentional autopick (e-mail request sent at 1:23 p.m. that I just opened). Brian McCann is back in the pool of available players.

I seldom check my RR e-mail account during work hours. The best way to get word to me while the draft is underway is to send a Draftime PM.

[Mario LeMoose]

Our draft is finished and teams are now available at Yahoo. Select March 31 or a later date to view your roster; please check it carefully and report discrepancies, if any, before undrafted players become free agents. In addition, the waiver priority order has been set to the inverse of the draft order.

Scoring begins with the Cardinals vs. Cubs game scheduled for Sunday, April 5. Get those starting lineups ready!

Good luck, and enjoy the season.