*** VD 7 Draft Thread ***

[johnnya24]

Downloads:

I didn't remove any of the pre-1970's years. Best we keep the spreadsheet together so it's easier to adjust from one draft to he next. Below is a 1970+ Hitters & Pitchers only spreadsheet in case you want a lighter sheet to mess about with. I've hid all the matrix stuff from the Snapshot thread, so bare that in mind if you start adding things of your own to that page.

VD7 SCORING SHEET

Here's a pre-sorted list of the eligible players from the main Spreadsheet. It's very lightweight. Use the Excel "filter" sorts from the column drop-down arrows for speed (the bottom of the 6 options when you click a column arrow).

1970+ Hitters & Pitchers


Rules Overview:

Limited player pool: 1970-present only (eligibility determined by the BY chosen)
No letter, decade or franchise restrictions
10x10
25 Rounds (14 hitters & 11 pitchers)
Multi + 0.75
No KO's

Draft Order

1. Heyelander
2. Frae
3. Pogues
4. TS Garp
5. Eldiablo
6. Johnny
7. Long John
8. Hacko
9. Controller J
10. Feral Slasher
11. Revo

[johnnya24]

VD 6 Rules:

Summary:

Post 1970 Vintage Draft

25 Rounds:
14 Hitters
11 Pitchers

Letters:

No Letter Handicap

Decades:

No Period Handicap

Changes from VD6:

No KO's
No Letter Restriction
No Decade Restriction
Limited player pool (1970-present)

Scoring Change:

We are using "Multipicative Scoring +0.75" for VD7 (instead of Multi+1)

Format:

Limited player pool: 1970-present only (eligibility determined by the BY chosen)
No letter, decade or franchise restrictions
10x10
25 Rounds (14 hitters & 11 pitchers)
Multi + 0.75
No KO's

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1a. i (NOT APPLICABLE FOR VD7) Players from all time periods are eligible to be drafted. Each team may not select more than one hitter and one pitcher from each decade. A player is assigned to a decade based on the best season selection. The decade assignment cannot be changed once the pick is made. For the purposes of this rule, the decades are defined as 1871-1879, 1880-1889, 1890-1899, 1900-1909, 1910-1919, 1920-1929, 1930-1939, 1940-1949, 1950-1959, 1960-1969, 1970-1979, 1980-1989, 1990-1999, and 2000-2007. For pitchers only, 1871-1889 are combined into a single decade.

1a ii Only players who had an eligible Best Year on or after 1970 are eligible to be drafted in VD7 (see rule 2 for eligibility).

1b. (NOT APPLICABLE FOR VD7) Each team may only draft one player whose last name begins with each letter of the alphabet. Every letter must be selected including all 5 QUIZY's. There are also 2 Wildcard letters available. Both wildcard letter can be the same.

1c. Each team shall consist of 25 players (14H & 11P), comprised of the following positions: C, C, 1B, 2B, SS, 3B, CI, MI, OF, OF, OF, OF, OF, UT 11 x P. The UT positions must be filled by a hitter.

2. Qualifications for players

a. To be eligible for the draft, a player must meet the following requirements:

i. There are no career minimums to be met. A player must have at least one qualifying season, as explained in Rule 2.a.ii.

ii. The player must have an eligible season. For a hitter's "best season", the hitter must have at least 100 ABs during the season. To be an eligible season for a pitcher's "best season", the pitcher must have at least 100 IP or 40 appearances during the season.

b. Hitter Positional requirements

i. For a hitter to be eligible for a position, he must have played 200 games at that position. If a hitter has not played 200 games at any position, then the position that player has played the most games at will be considered their eligible position. If you choose to take a player who has the most games played at pitcher or designated hitter (and does not have any other position where they met the 200 game minimum) then that player only qualifies for the UT slot.

ii. To be eligible at CI or MI, the player must be eligible at 1B or 3B, or 2B or SS, respectively. To be eligible at INF, a player must be eligible at any of the 4 positions. Teams cannot add the games played at 2B and SS to obtain MI eligibility for a player, for example. However, there is no games played based eligibility requirement for the UT. The only requirement is the 100 season ABs.

3a. There will be a team career IP requirement of 18000 IP. Failure to meet that minimum requirement will result in one point in career ERA and career WHIP. The career ERA and career WHIP of the penalized team will be used as normal for the purposes of determining the standings of the other teams in those categories, i.e., the penalty will be applied after the standings are determined for those categories.

3b (Not applicable for VD7) There is a team Best Year IP minimum requirement of 2000 IP. The same sanctions as rule 3a will be implemented if this rule is not met.

4. The draft will be conducted in the form of a standard snake-draft, with draft order randomly determined at the beginning.

5. Scoring Categories

a. The scoring categories are the standard 5x5 for career and the "best season" as defined by these rules. These categories are AVG, HR, RBI, Runs and SB for hitters, and ERA, WHIP, Wins, Saves, and Ks for pitchers. At the time that each player is drafted, the drafting team must announce the season it is choosing for that player's "best season." It cannot be changed once selected unless it is an obvious typo. A pick without a season mentioned is not a complete pick.

b. The "official" winner will be the team with the highest total when adding or multiplying the points scored in each of the 20 categories together. In VD7 we will be using "multiplicative scoring +0.75" - this means that we wll be adding +0.75 to the final score for each category score (e.g. a last place will not be awarded 1+0.75=1.75pts; third from last will be award 3+0.75=3.75pts etc).

6. If a team backs itself into a corner somehow and is not able to draft any eligible players to complete its team, the blank slot will count as zeros in all categories. Any such team will also have fifteen (15) points deducted from their final score to account for any advantage in ERA, WHIP or AVG that such an empty slot might give. In addition, if anyone runs past their 12 hour clock, then shows up in the Pen but doesn't pick or post why they can't, they are subject to a one point deduction from their final score, if an (absolute) majority of teams vote to apply the penalty in any given case.

7. "The John Montgomery Ward Rule." Players who qualify to be drafted as both hitters and pitchers are treated as two separate players. They can be drafted by one team as a pitcher and another as a hitter. They must qualify separately in each category to be eligible in that category. A team may draft a player twice if they so choose to use their wild card letters in such a manner.

8. If any ambiguity is discovered in the rules, the ambiguity will be resolved by the committee of three as determined in the VD XVIII discussion thread. Their decisions are binding and final.

9. We allow 12 hours between picks during week day periods, with an extra 5 hours added if the clock runs past midnight EST. We don't count weekends as many will not have access, or be able to check up on things. Weekday holidays are considered as on the clock unless otherwise agreed upon beforehand. This rule is intended as a guideline encouraging consideration for the other drafters. If you will not be able to make a pick within the allotted time, it is appropriate that you let someone know via PM or phone message.

10. If your pick is going to be due soon, and you think you might not be around, you can either tell us to skip your pick, or better still, PM a list of possible selections to someone else, and they can pick for you. It's better to PM picks to someone at the other end of the draft. In that way it won't affect whom the people around you will be taking in the mean time (no one can steal your picks!!).

11. We have a policy of not talking about players before they have been selected. Occasionally this will be unavoidable ... but as a rule try not to throw out the names of unselected players.

12. Please put your picks in BOLD so it's easier to catch up on who's been selected. Also, include the round and pick number.

13. If a player makes an invalid or incorrect selection, he will have 1 hour to correct the pick from the time the error is noted in the thread. After that time has passed, the next player will be on the clock to pick. Anyone who is skipped may reselect their pick whenever they return from all players still available at that time.

14. (NOT APPLICABLE FOR VD7) Players from all time periods are eligible to be draft. However, each team may only draft a maximum of 3 Dead-Ball hitters, 3 Dead-Ball pitchers, 3 Contemporary hitters and 3 Contemporary pitchers.

For the purposes of this rule, a Dead-Ball hitter is any hitter who played at all in 1898 or any season prior to 1898.

For the purposes of this rule, a Dead-Ball pitcher is any pitcher who pitched at all in 1913 or any season preceding 1913.

For the purposes of this rule, a Contemporary hitter is a hitter who played at all in 1999 or any season after 1999.

For the purposes of this rule, a Contemporary pitcher is a pitcher who played at all in 1999 or any season after 1999.

15. We usually accept late entrants up until the end of Round 1. In such circumstances, the new participant will pick last in the first round. We will then do a double blind to randomly determine where they will draft for every consequent round - e.g. Joe Bloggs wants to join after pick 1.05. For the first round he picks last: 1.12. We then do a double blind to determine which slot Joe will draft from round 2 on-wards. This way there is no first round advantage, and the draft order is still random.

16a. (NOT APPLICABLE FOR VD7) VDX will permit 4 Knock Out (KO) picks per person between the Rounds 6 and 13 (inclusive). Any player can be KO'd, except from the following letters: QUIZ ENVY.

16b. (NOT APPLICABLE FOR VD7) The draft will not stop for KO mispicks. If the mispick is corrected before the next player is drafted, then it will be considered valid. If the next pick has been made, the KO will be voided. The time on the edit will determine the validity of the KO repick.

[johnnya24]

HEYELANDER

1.01 Alex Rodriguez SS 2007


54HRs

[revo]

For Frae:
1.02....Barry Bonds, OF, 2001

[Pogues]

1.03 Larry Walker, OF, 1997

49 HR, 33 SB, .366 BA

Man it's weird taking him so high in a draft.

[TS Garp]

1.04 Mike Piazza, C, 1997

[johnnya24]

1.06 Pedro Martinez P 2000

18/284/174/0.74

[Long John]

1.07 Hank Aaron OF 1971
.327/47/118/95

[hacko]

1.08 Randy Johnson P - 2001

372 K's

[Controller Jacobs]

1.09 Tom Seaver 1971 P

289 Ks

[The Feral Slasher]

1.10 Mariano Rivera 2008 P

1.40 ERA

[revo]

1.11.....Trevor Hoffman, P, 1998

2.01.....Derek Jeter, SS, 1999

[The Feral Slasher]

2.02 Craig Biggio - C - 1998


.325 avg

[Controller Jacobs]

2.03 Greg Maddux 1995 P
181 Ks

[hacko]

2:04 Roger clemons - P 1997

292 K