Here is a rough draft proposal for a new world with a cash prize. I am throwing this out there for your thoughts and ideas as well as your critique of this proposal since it will be sent to WIS.
Thanks, maharacer
Greetings,
I am writing to enquirer about an idea that I have been mulling over for some time now in Hardball Dynasty, and now, due to the depletion of players in Gehrig World (among others), it seems a favorable time to present my idea. I would like to run an HBD Invitational world that will have a $500.00 cash prize (which may increase to $1000.00 at a later time) for the World Series winner. It will be winner take all. The money will come from a private account that I have created for this purpose. WIS will not have to contribute any money or incur any costs other than normal operating costs that already in place in an active world.
The world will be called the HBD Invitational. I will choose the owners and send them invitations to join based on several criteria:
1. The owner must have a minimum of 5 championships – This is the only hard requirement, no exceptions
2. In order to maintain the peace and prosperity of the league, the owners that I invite will be those that I have enjoyed playing against, who have been fair and ethical, and who have not engaged in too much controversy (some controversy is always welcome). Examples of behavior that will prevent an owner from being invited are past indiscretions like constant tanking, collusion, predatory trade activities.
In other words, I will invite owners that I know. Since I don’t know everyone, and there are many more qualified owners that deserve to be invited, I will seek the opinion of a two long time owners with experience that far surpasses mine. One will be assigned as the American League representative, the other the National League Representative, and each will be given five invitations to hand out. Both of these reps can also help me since I have never been a commissioner before and may have questions.
Game Structure (upon approval of WIS staff)
An exact time will be given for the league to begin (ie. button is pushed)
Budgeting: will take place. You will be limited by player salaries so owners must mind their budgets. Transfers will operate as normal. See rules below!
Coaching: will take place as usual
Inaugural Draft: Two (2) weeks following coaching.
All players in the current world will be dumped into two (2) separate pools based on their current level. One pool will be major league players and one pool will be minor league prospects and placement will be determined by their status at the end of the last season.
There will be two straight drafts, one for the majors and one for the prospects. The draft order will be randomly determined by the commissioner. The major league draft order will be the inverse of the prospect draft order so that the owner who drafts first in the major league draft, will pick last in the prospect draft. There will be no altering the order once determined. Once the majors are drafted, the prospects will be drafted the following day at the same time.
The draft pool will be available two (2) weeks before the draft in order to give owners time to determine strategy and will be similar to an amateur draft that everyone knows. The only difference is that the salary of the major league players will be visible beforehand.
Private Rules: not set in stone yet
1. Prospect budget limit. TBD. The idea is to prevent players from dumping salary in order to spend $40 M for International players. Probably in the range of $26M- $30M
2. Beginning season four (4) the team with the worst record in each league will be removed. In other words, everyone in the inaugural class has three (3) seasons to get their team in order. My thinking here is that this will prevent tanking and allow an influx of new owners from the waiting list. Therefore there is no MWR at any level. The new owners who comes off the waiting list (tbd) only have one (1) season (the current season) to get out of the cellar or risk losing the team. There is no three (3) game grace period.
3. The World Champion will need to provide a current address in order to receive payment which will arrive by certified mail. I have done this in my fantasy football league for years and have never had a problem.
4. When naming your team, pick a name that doesn’t make you look like an ***. No stupid **** or you will be asked to change it. Besides, if there is a future blog, you will need to have an icon for your team, and any icon for a team named Farts or Dickwhippers would be tough to produce. Besides, since this league is privately funded, looking professional may bring in higher prize money. Imagine, albeit foolishly, someday making a living playing simulated baseball
Well that is the basic structure. I am not sure if it is feasible or if the current code will even allow such a league. The critical part, to me, is the draft. Ideally, I would prefer a live draft as in fantasy sports, but the amount of players would make it a huge endeavour. As it stands now, I am not sure how new worlds are assigned players, but I believe that they are already complete teams and it is first come, first serve. I could be wrong in this view however. Anyway, let me your thoughts everybody and if it can’t be done, it is not a problem. Comment here or drop me a site mail. After I get some input I will send this off to WIS. Thank you for your time.