2089 Season Thread - Where's the Beef?

[GeorgesGoons]

Potential Draft Changes
A concern has been brought up by a few people how quickly the draft goes - specifically the first round. I would like to test out the following changes to the draft timer this year:


- Increase the round times to the following: 1st (2 hrs), 2nd and 3rd (90m), 4th and 5th (60m), 6th-20th (30m). This gives more time for important picks. Keep in mind if the draft isn't finished by draft time I would have to auto to finish the draft but we've never really had that issue. Also, 90% of teams go on auto after about the 4th or 5th rd anyway but some of us like to still manually pick so I didn't want to butcher those remaining time slots.

These times are going to be miserable. Let's just go back to drafting in game.

They are currently 30 min per rd starting at the 1st rd.

We going to see at least 5 teams use all 2 hours in the first round because they never set a draft list, set auto-pick and/or won't show up to make the pick themselves. This is one of those Fantasy Football betting locks

[Wasted Memory]

Only to have them turn off auto pick after the 2 hours is up for round 1 and then going through it all over again the next round

[TheGobOne]

Anyone purposefully turning off auto pick and using their whole timer to auto again will lose that rd pick next year.

[TheGobOne]

Top 20 ranked player who put up 6 WAR last year sitting in FA....nothing wrong with that.

[GeorgesGoons]

Top 20 ranked player who put up 6 WAR last year sitting in FA....nothing wrong with that.

If I had money......

[Kslaze]

Potential Draft Changes
A concern has been brought up by a few people how quickly the draft goes - specifically the first round. I would like to test out the following changes to the draft timer this year:

- Officially start the timer 1 day earlier (3 days before draft in game). Was 2 days.
- No more unofficial extra day since 2 years in a row now we've been stuck on 1 team for the rest of the day and it's just frustrating.
- Increase the round times to the following: 1st (2 hrs), 2nd and 3rd (90m), 4th and 5th (60m), 6th-20th (30m). This gives more time for important picks. Keep in mind if the draft isn't finished by draft time I would have to auto to finish the draft but we've never really had that issue. Also, 90% of teams go on auto after about the 4th or 5th rd anyway but some of us like to still manually pick so I didn't want to butcher those remaining time slots.

Would love some feedback and this is just testing. I'm willing to adjust more next year after we see how things go but I don't want to jump straight to 12hr time slots or something like that because that would require starting the draft very early and right now players are still developing while we draft (this is something that can be disabled but I don't see the need right now).

Thanks.

I would like to keep it at 30 minutes per round. If you do your scouting and make a list it shouldn’t be an issue. Just my two cents.

[TheGobOne]

File is up. Reports and S+ to follow.

News and Awards
Rick Ruiz (San Fran) wins NL RotM
Rob Hunter (Cleveland) wins AL RotM
Dale Farley (LA) wins NL PotM
Armando Gonzales (Prosper) wins AL PotM
David Adams (LA) wins NL BotM
Dave O'Crouley (Hollywood) wins AL BotM
Howard Jackson (San Fran) wins NL PotW
Luis Costa (Bowie) wins AL PotW

Major Injuries
Clyde Sanchez (San Antonio) out 9 months with a torn UCL

Signings
None

[DRiccio21]

Prosper having pitching feels yucky

[plasma1896]

in regards to the draft, if the importing of the draft list off game to statsplus makes it way easier. takes less than 5 minutes to get a list of 400 guys on game. then you can move them around how you like. less time between picks is my choice. 30 min is fine.

[Cnasty]

Prosper having pitching feels yucky

Icky even

[GeorgesGoons]

in regards to the draft, if the importing of the draft list off game to statsplus makes it way easier. takes less than 5 minutes to get a list of 400 guys on game. then you can move them around how you like. less time between picks is my choice. 30 min is fine.

how do you import your draft list from game to stats+?

[GeorgesGoons]

The Beef pitching is atrocious!

[plasma1896]

in regards to the draft, if the importing of the draft list off game to statsplus makes it way easier. takes less than 5 minutes to get a list of 400 guys on game. then you can move them around how you like. less time between picks is my choice. 30 min is fine.

how do you import your draft list from game to stats+?

George, i have the link on my home computer, when i get home ill send you the link

[TheGobOne]

I've received more positive feedback than negative on the draft changes so we're going to test out the initial setup I posted earlier. I will monitor how it goes this year and adjust accordingly if needed next year for sure.

The draft will officially start on Saturday, Mar 12 @ 11 AM EST!

[cougnix]

in regards to the draft, if the importing of the draft list off game to statsplus makes it way easier. takes less than 5 minutes to get a list of 400 guys on game. then you can move them around how you like. less time between picks is my choice. 30 min is fine.

how do you import your draft list from game to stats+?

George, i have the link on my home computer, when i get home ill send you the link

me too

[nick]

Villy is gonna have the worst end of a career ever and he's still a 1st ballot HOF'er.. I ran him into the ground holy fuck. I might get lucky and get a MR for a few years but god damn.

[qazhby]

Villy is gonna have the worst end of a career ever and he's still a 1st ballot HOF'er.. I ran him into the ground holy fuck. I might get lucky and get a MR for a few years but god damn.

I wonder at what point does he retire

[TheGobOne]

File is up. Reports and S+ to follow.

- Draft starts Saturday morning. Players are already loaded in so you can start making a list.

News and Awards
Jose Vidro (Bloordale) wins NL PotW
Jose Romero (Ann Arbor) wins AL PotW

Major Injuries
Wayne Ruffin (San Francisco) out 2 months with a torn quad

Signings
Tsukasa Ichikawa signs with Miami for 1y/14M
Mike Orosco signs with Miami for 1y/9.5M
Robby Matthews signs with Seattle for 1y/5M

[DRiccio21]

Anyone ever been to Prosper in May?

It's beautiful there ... highly recommend.

[Cnasty]

Knew it was coming and it still stung.

Good to see all those 1st round picks finally making an impact from all those lowly years in New England.