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Post by cristane on Jan 23, 2017 11:53:12 GMT -5
Preseason starts today! 1. Show of hands, who's back for some fantasy madness. 2. Should we stick to MLS official game, or try out some draft league, like draftmls.com/? It would make dealing with player pickups and such so much easier to manage. 3. Keepers! After last year's constructive discussions, I suggest we try to implement some early form of keepers for the league - like, say, 2 players to be kept for 2018. If you guys are OK with this, we can then talk in more detail. |
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Post by daviscups on Jan 27, 2017 18:02:22 GMT -5
In my view, keepers are not workable on the MLS website. The captain bonus creates too much of an advantage for the teams that draft early. And trying to reduce the advantage would be exceedingly difficult, in light of the salary aspect of the game.
The website suggested above apparently does away with the captain bonus and the salaries. That makes keepers at least a possibility, if we switch websites. I am inclined to favor the new site, with or without keepers, because I hate the captain bonus.
If we plan to have keepers for 2018, I would suggest that the keepers become draft picks. In other words, if you keep Giovinco from 2017, then Giovinco is required to be your first round pick in 2018. You have to decide in advance of the draft. If Atlanta United signs Lionel Messi, and you luck into the first pick, you might waive Giovinco to take Messi. But you would have to do that before the draft starts.
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Post by cristane on Jan 30, 2017 16:59:54 GMT -5
If we plan to have keepers for 2018, I would suggest that the keepers become draft picks. In other words, if you keep Giovinco from 2017, then Giovinco is required to be your first round pick in 2018. Of course they will be draft picks. In this (awesome) baseball league I'm in, the rule is we can keep players with a 2 round penalty in the next draft. So if you want to keep whoever you drafted in round 5, next year you'll have to use your round 3 pick on him, etc. Also, this way, players drafted in rd 1 and 2 cannot be kept - which makes searching for valuable keepers a much more fun activity, and it prevents teams from always sticking to the same rd 1 pick. |
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Post by epikoinos on Feb 2, 2017 10:56:34 GMT -5
I wasn't aware of Draft MLS until Cristane posted the link. That is excellent! I need to take a closer look at the scoring system, but it looks very promising.
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Post by tarvinodos on Feb 3, 2017 18:44:53 GMT -5
Checking in.
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Post by romaniac on Feb 5, 2017 9:24:03 GMT -5
I'm on the fence guys...I've had trouble keeping up with fantasy due to some heavy parental care duties and some extra stuff going on at school. I haven't tended my EPL team for weeks. My father's treatment (cancer) is over though and things are lifting a little. And draftmls looks promising; it might make it easier to keep up and help us avoid some of the recent rules/roster complications. I'm going to give it a look and see how things go in the next week or two, will stay in touch.
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Post by daviscups on Feb 5, 2017 13:57:11 GMT -5
Aviators and PhilMatic have informed me they are dropping out. That leaves at most 10 teams from last year, not really enough, given the MLS has now expanded to 22 teams.
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Post by lobomojo on Feb 5, 2017 23:21:15 GMT -5
I am interested in dropping back in again if there are open spots; please those who have my contact info and/or are on BigSoccer let me know if there is availability
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Post by macracing on Feb 6, 2017 12:40:04 GMT -5
I'm still in. I agree about DraftMLS - it looks very interesting. I would be on board for giving it a go.
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Post by topshelf on Feb 9, 2017 23:38:12 GMT -5
Hey all. I've been crazy busy and meaning to check in for a while. I really can't commit to do much work to make things happen this year but I think I could commit to playing again. I'd probably be in favor of DraftMLS too. Might not be perfect for what we all like but it is set up already as a draft league I think so a lot of our challenges are addressed for us. I'll start checking in regularly to see if we have enough to give it a go.
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Post by mustangsally on Feb 11, 2017 16:20:21 GMT -5
I am interested in playing for 2017. Hugh mentioned your were lookin for extra players. Cheers
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Post by daviscups on Feb 11, 2017 17:33:27 GMT -5
Okay, our current list is:
Yankees
Redmond Town
Epikoinos
Long Beach
LoboMojo
Rocket City
Mustang Sally
Top Shelf
Romaniac is coy. We need to hear from Stanley, Highbury and Waterloo.
If all those players return, we have 12 teams, barely enough. I would like to see 14. So please recruit if you know anyone who might be interested.
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Post by cristane on Feb 14, 2017 10:38:43 GMT -5
Tried registering a test league on draftmls.com, and it looks pretty good to me. I don't know how the season and point calculations and stuff will go, but the early options are solid, I feel this could actually work.
First of all, we can have a draft. An actual live draft. So we have plenty of time to find 12-14 teams for the league - we could have the draft just before the season starts, we don't need to do it manually over 2 weeks in the forum.
Also, for people concerned about lack of time, this will considerably simplify things. Picking up free agents will be as simple as browsing the list of available players.
Speaking of free agents - the site allows for 2 options for waivers - either "reset to reverse standings each week", or "move to last after claim, never reset order". We can discuss which one we should use.
Thoughts?
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Post by epikoinos on Feb 14, 2017 12:28:00 GMT -5
I just texted Stanley, I know he's been busy in real life lately.
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Post by epikoinos on Feb 16, 2017 10:24:23 GMT -5
Stanley is the process of moving to a new city/new job, so he doesn't think he can draft. If we can find someone to pick his team, he thinks he would be able to pick it from there and play.
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