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Pretty interesting ideas laid out by Ron in today's newsletter. You can read the full details here: http://www.baseballhq.com/library/hqtoday.shtml (not sure how long that link will keep working, I'll try to edit as needed). The basic ideas are:
1. You get $500 to acquire your players for the whole season. That includes your active roster, your reserves and your FAAB. So if you spend $350 at auction you have $150 for "FAAB" and if you spend $450 at auction you have only $50 for "FAAB."
2. You have a 40-man roster that you can build through the auction and FAAB (and obviously trades). So if you want to buy 36 guys at auction you can. If you want to buy 26, you can do that too.
3. Each team has a salary cap of $500 that they have to stick to all season. So in a sense, you never 'run out' of FAAB - if you can trade a $50 guy for a $5 guy, then you can bid more the following week.
----At this point I'd be curious to think about a league using JUST these parameters. To me that is a really intriguing idea. But Ron has some additional components.
4. Each player has a set price (based on their last 2 seasons).
5. BUT, the set price is really a price floor. The way the draft/auction works is that you draft a player (say Pujols $52) and then people can bid more than that if they want to. Each team can only top a bid 3 times so it's kind of a mix between a draft and an auction.
6. Scoring is changed as well. It's 4x4 with OBP, HR, SB and runs produced (R + RBI -HR) on offense, and Wins, Ks, ERA and saves/holds (Sv + H - BS) on the pitching side.
While I'm not sure I see this sweeping the nation in a giant craze, I do think there are some interesting ideas here that could be incorporated into existing leagues.
1. You get $500 to acquire your players for the whole season. That includes your active roster, your reserves and your FAAB. So if you spend $350 at auction you have $150 for "FAAB" and if you spend $450 at auction you have only $50 for "FAAB."
2. You have a 40-man roster that you can build through the auction and FAAB (and obviously trades). So if you want to buy 36 guys at auction you can. If you want to buy 26, you can do that too.
3. Each team has a salary cap of $500 that they have to stick to all season. So in a sense, you never 'run out' of FAAB - if you can trade a $50 guy for a $5 guy, then you can bid more the following week.
----At this point I'd be curious to think about a league using JUST these parameters. To me that is a really intriguing idea. But Ron has some additional components.
4. Each player has a set price (based on their last 2 seasons).
5. BUT, the set price is really a price floor. The way the draft/auction works is that you draft a player (say Pujols $52) and then people can bid more than that if they want to. Each team can only top a bid 3 times so it's kind of a mix between a draft and an auction.
6. Scoring is changed as well. It's 4x4 with OBP, HR, SB and runs produced (R + RBI -HR) on offense, and Wins, Ks, ERA and saves/holds (Sv + H - BS) on the pitching side.
While I'm not sure I see this sweeping the nation in a giant craze, I do think there are some interesting ideas here that could be incorporated into existing leagues.
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