I think I can take 1974 Gaylord Perry??

Unless I'm missing something, I should be safe to take 1980 J.R. Richard

Posted by mpitt76 on 8/7/2022 3:50:00 PM (view original):
I think I can take 1974 Gaylord Perry??

You can, yes.

And with that, my decision time arrives. I started this round thinking about three players I was deciding between and now I'm not going to end up taking any of them. Go figure.

RP Tim Burke, 1987, $4,411,812

Such a strange draft this turned out to be.

Posted by NebHusker on 8/7/2022 3:26:00 PM (view original):
Well this eases the sting a little bit. I totally missed the mid-draft rule addition/change regarding salary if you get stuck (I went back and read the original rules before risking it). I don't always read all of the "chat" posts especially if I'm trying to catch up after a bunch of picks. I thought by getting stuck in round 25 I would then have enough cap for 90 Eck, and it looked like he might be pretty open. But after the surprise (to me) penalty, Eck was a no-go. So it all came down to happyhours. If he takes 77 Goose I am in a world of hurt. After much gnashing of teeth, he takes Clemente, thank you sir your check is in the mail. With nobody else having 77 open or enough cap space I can take:

1977 Rich Gossage

I should have sent a site-mail out to all. Sorry about that.

Jtpsops asked the question in the draft thread and that's when I realized that there was some ambiguity and also realized there was an unintended loophole.

In version 1, there was a salary penalty if you got stuck. That penalty was that you got an additional salary added to your total that pushed you to the end of the round 25 draft order. Round 2, it was less likely to get stuck, so you just got pushed to the end of the round 25 draft. But since there was no cap in rounds 1-2, all the top payers would get picked first and you would get whatever was left over.

But in round 3, since there is a salary cap, just getting pushed down to the end of the draft really isn't a big penalty and some might find it advantageous to keep their salary low and purposely get stuck (or not try to not get stuck). Jtpsops asked if you get stuck with a <300K player in round 25 if you got stuck. I thought that would be too punitive, so to close the loophol w/o being punitive, I thought a small salary penalty would be a fair compromise.

The player I'd been targeting, naturally, was 1987 Tim Burke. So it's on to Plan B.
1988 Pascual Perez

Posted by nocomm999 on 8/7/2022 4:05:00 PM (view original):
The player I'd been targeting, naturally, was 1987 Tim Burke. So it's on to Plan B.
1988 Pascual Perez

Until juice took Mantle, I wasn't thinking about Burke. But once I only had pitching options I started studying them deeper and he made more sense for me than Wilhelm or Peterson, I believe. Lots of ripple effects here.

Overall, we averaged 36 picks day, but this includes the normal slow start during the early part of the draft (round 1-3) as everybody does their research. Starting in round 4, we averaged 42 picks per day. Great job!

Posted by schwarze on 8/7/2022 4:08:00 PM (view original):

Posted by NebHusker on 8/7/2022 3:26:00 PM (view original):
Well this eases the sting a little bit. I totally missed the mid-draft rule addition/change regarding salary if you get stuck (I went back and read the original rules before risking it). I don't always read all of the "chat" posts especially if I'm trying to catch up after a bunch of picks. I thought by getting stuck in round 25 I would then have enough cap for 90 Eck, and it looked like he might be pretty open. But after the surprise (to me) penalty, Eck was a no-go. So it all came down to happyhours. If he takes 77 Goose I am in a world of hurt. After much gnashing of teeth, he takes Clemente, thank you sir your check is in the mail. With nobody else having 77 open or enough cap space I can take:

1977 Rich Gossage

I should have sent a site-mail out to all. Sorry about that.

Jtpsops asked the question in the draft thread and that's when I realized that there was some ambiguity and also realized there was an unintended loophole.

In version 1, there was a salary penalty if you got stuck. That penalty was that you got an additional salary added to your total that pushed you to the end of the round 25 draft order. Round 2, it was less likely to get stuck, so you just got pushed to the end of the round 25 draft. But since there was no cap in rounds 1-2, all the top payers would get picked first and you would get whatever was left over.

But in round 3, since there is a salary cap, just getting pushed down to the end of the draft really isn't a big penalty and some might find it advantageous to keep their salary low and purposely get stuck (or not try to not get stuck). Jtpsops asked if you get stuck with a <300K player in round 25 if you got stuck. I thought that would be too punitive, so to close the loophol w/o being punitive, I thought a small salary penalty would be a fair compromise.

All's well that ends well, schwarze. Goose's 133 IP will probably be way more useful than Eck's hugely overpriced (albeit impressive) 74 innings anyway.

I believe I can take one of my two options now:

82 Vincente Romo

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Posted by pedrocerrano on 8/7/2022 5:18:00 PM (view original):
I believe I can take one of my two options now:

82 Vincente Romo

I missed out being able to take Romo by 18,000. If just one more of my players had been taken, any one of them, I could have squeezed him into the lineup. As it is, a sub 300k scrub is my only option.

was distracted on the golf course and thought I took the good Gaylord Perry. Oh well. See you in last place. Fun draft as usual schwarze, thank you.