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Post by Buffalo Bats on Feb 12, 2016 13:56:14 GMT -7
Hey everyone! Welcome to the Forumboards for the Fantasy of Their Own baseball League.
Once you get signed up for this forum please reply to this post so I can tell that everyone has gotten this set up.
This forum is absolutely crucial to the healthy function of the league. If you stay active here you will be up to date with everything happening in the league.
Here is where any questions or concerns can be addressed. Also all of the bookkeeping information will be available here. To make the lives for all of us extremely easier make sure to use this forum.
If there is any questions please let me know either here, fantrax, or at my email sonny.urbino@gmail.com
Thanks again and can't wait to get this fantasy league started.
Best,
Sonny Urbino aka Buffalo Bats!
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Post by durham on Feb 13, 2016 1:15:39 GMT -7
Hi! Thanks for getting this going, can't wait to get started!
This is Seth btw, hometown durham, doing the Durham Dawgs this time around!
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Post by cobbcounty on Feb 13, 2016 18:49:45 GMT -7
I cannot wait to get drafting. Thanks for all the work, Sonny!
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Post by bron0623 on Feb 20, 2016 10:20:03 GMT -7
Hey all, newcomer here should be all signed up on fantrax and here. Joined via Seth, looking forward to the league, sorry in advance for all the questions as I try to absorb all of the league's rules and formats.
Sam (Fresh Meat)
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Post by durham on Feb 20, 2016 13:23:06 GMT -7
Happy to have you Fresh Meat!
Don't worry, there is a lot to the league, but once we get drafting it all gets easier and totally worth it.
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Post by dandert17 on Feb 20, 2016 14:20:12 GMT -7
Another newbie here... Looking forward to the salary/contract dynamic of this league.
-Dave
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Post by cobbcounty on Feb 20, 2016 18:52:35 GMT -7
Welcome Sam & Dave! It's good to hear from you both and I look forward to starting this thing up.
Where are you guys from?
-Stuart
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Post by nakatomi on Feb 20, 2016 19:58:03 GMT -7
Hi Guys, my name is Ed and I am from Ohio. My team name is Nakatomi Trading Corporation. I am ready to draft as soon as everybody else is!
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Post by dandert17 on Feb 20, 2016 20:21:17 GMT -7
Quick Intro...
Name: Dave
From: Illinois
Occupation: Computer Science Teacher
Alma mater: Indiana University
Favorite MLB Team: Chicago Cubs
Favorite Player (Present): Rizzo
Favorite Player (Past): Ryno
Best Player Ever (All Sports): Jordan
Current Baseball Factoid: "Back to the Future 2" predicted the Cubs to win the World Series last year.
Favorite Baseball Factoid: Shoeless Joe Jackson batted .375 in the '19 Series, didn't make an error, but still was banned for life.
Favorite Baseball Statistic: OBP
Fun Fact: Long before internet betting, I placed my first sports bet March of 1997 in Vegas: $10 on the Florida Marlins to win the World Series. And yes, after a 90+ win season, they went on win me what seemed like a lot of money at the time. To this day, Livan Hernandez is my favorite September call up.
Quick question...
What prevents an owner from blowing his load in any single season? Shouldn't there be a cap for at least the draft?
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Post by durham on Feb 20, 2016 23:33:54 GMT -7
Quick question... What prevents an owner from blowing his load in any single season? Shouldn't there be a cap for at least the draft? Oh yeah, sorry I forgot to get back to you about this! We thought about coming up with an initial salary cap for the draft, but decided it went too much against what we'd like to do in the league. We want the cap to be fluid from year to year, and reflect the average team salary(+125% = salary cap). We really like our soft salary cap (luxury tax salary cap, like the MLB), which will allow teams to spend as much as they'd like, but be penalized for going over the average team spending. We tried to think of ways to come up with this number ourselves, but I think the cap works better when it really reflects what the average team spends. It worked out a lot better than I thought it would last time around. |
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Post by cobbcounty on Feb 21, 2016 0:22:02 GMT -7
Quick question... What prevents an owner from blowing his load in any single season? Shouldn't there be a cap for at least the draft? Good question, Dave. Before I try and answer your question, just keep in mind we are trying to imitate the real MLB as much as we can. With that being said, I believe there is an error on our part by saying there is a salary cap, because technically, there isn't one. Its really a luxury tax but we just call it a 'soft salary cap'. If a team wants to draft/spend a ridiculously amount of money, we believe they should be able to do so. However, they will be penalized for being over our 'soft salary cap' (aka luxury tax). If you are one dollar over, then you will not qualify for the league revenue sharing, which ends up being a significant amount of money, or at least it has in years past. Then, after a certain amount of money being over the soft salary cap (luxury tax), that team ends up paying a fee, just as in the MLB. I certainly hear and understand the complaints about there not being a number before the draft, but when we initially created a league similar to this, we projected a soft salary cap for teams to try and shoot for if they wanted to be under the cap. However, our predictions were waaaay off and ended up being a lot more than we initially thought. (Real life example: I think we initially predicted the soft salary cap (luxury tax) to be around $160, when in actuality, it was over $220. This caused more problems and contention than anything else, especially for those teams who were abiding by that number as law.) Seth and I will try and predict a number in which we think the salary cap (luxury tax) will be around, but please keep in mind, this number will not be set in stone. Directly following our draft, we will figure out the real salary cap for the year, and then teams will have a couple weeks to make trades before the season starts to shed or gain salary. Then, once that date comes, half of that teams salary will be owed and count towards that teams salary for the year (see constitution for rest of rules). I hope this somewhat makes sense but feel free to give me a call so I can better explain over the phone. 678-814-7040 |
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Post by dandert17 on Feb 21, 2016 1:08:25 GMT -7
I get the luxury tax concept, and like it. And with player salaries already set, that controls spending to an extent anyways.
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Post by cobbcounty on Feb 21, 2016 1:29:13 GMT -7
Name: Stuart
From: Born and raised in Suwanee, GA but I have lived in Salt Lake City for the past 7 years or so.
Occupation: Career Student. I should be on my last semester though (knock on wood)
Alma mater: University of Utah
Favorite MLB Team: Atlanta Braves
Favorite Player (Present):
Andrelton Simmons
Favorite Player (Past):
John Smoltz
Best Player Ever (All Sports): Michael Jordan
Current Baseball Factoid:
(least favorite factoid): Frank Wren is the worst general manager in the history of baseball. Fact!
Favorite Baseball Factoid:
More people attend MLB games in a given year than the other entire 4 major sports in the United States combined (NFL,NBA,NHL,MLS)
Favorite Baseball Statistic: According to the new defensive WAR stat, Andrelton Simmons is the best defensive player to ever play the game as he holds the best defensive year ever for any player at any position
Fun Fact: I was 10 years old and cried my eyes out when Eric Gregg handed the Marlins a win over the Braves in the 1997 NLCS, specifically, game 5 in which Livan Hernandez pitched. Even though Eric Gregg is long dead from a heart attack, I still wish terrible things on his posterity
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Post by Buffalo Bats on Feb 21, 2016 21:58:31 GMT -7
Name: Sonny
From: Grew up in Salmon, ID and moved to Salt Lake City in 2009 and been here since.
Occupation: Bartender
Alma Mater: University of Utah, not finished yet but hopefully will be going back soon.
Favorite MLB Team: New York Yankees
Favorite Player (Present): Dellin Betances
Favorite Player (Past): Derek Jeter
Favorite Player Ever (All Sports): Barry Sanders
Current Baseball Factoid: It's only a matter of time before Bryce Harper is in pinstripes and the Yankees win 6 WS in a row.
Favorite Baseball Factoid: Dock Ellis' trippy no hitter.
Favorite Baseball Statistic: Stolen Bases, no matter if the guy is safe by a mile or barely into the bag its exciting when the runner takes off.
Fun Fact: My freshman year of college one of my best buddies on campus was a Phillies fan. I got to spend that entire year rubbing in his face that the Yankees won the 2009 WS against them.
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Post by dandert17 on Feb 22, 2016 16:22:00 GMT -7
Sleeper/Prospect hunting? Check out this website I built this this Winter... www.mymlbnow.com |
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