LIVE Draft Challenge - READ THIS FIRST Topic

I feel there is a serious lack of draft leagues in the LIVE world, so I'm going to try to create a recurring set of non-identical leagues so that those of us who enjoy drafts will have several different draft leagues to play.  The idea is that this LIVE DRAFT CHALLENGE will consist of 5 leagues, as follows:

1) $80 million
2) $90 million with clones
3) $100 million
4) $120 million with DH
5) $140 million

I wanted to include a $60 million league, but I didn't know how well it would go over.  The order of the leagues will be as follows:


There were 5 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

  1. 80
  2. 120
  3. 100
  4. 140
  5. 90

Timestamp: 2012-08-29 22:58:47 UTC

I've put together a full list of rules and details on my home computer that I will post later tonight after I get home (admin absolutely refuses to give me a private thread; it would take them 2 minutes to make it, and 30 seconds to delete it if the league never filled, but it's just too much work and goes against policy).  Since 5 leagues will amass five founders credits, I intend to distribute these as follows:

2 to the owner who wins the most total regular season games
2 to the owner who wins the most WS (obviously tiebreakers may come into play, they're listed in the longer rules)
1 to the owner who plays the most cumulative LIVE games

To be eligible for these prizes owners must have made the LIVE minimum in at least N-1 seasons, where N is the number of seasons the owner played.  They must also average the minimum over all seasons played.

If at least 50% of the original owners are still around after 5 seasons (likely given the current size of the LIVE community) we will figure out something to do for a 6th season so we get the 6-season progressive rewards.  Those will be distributed to all players playing in Season 6 who have played at least 2 total seasons, proportionally with respect to number of seasons in which the LIVE minimum has been met.  For each season the following rules will be enforced:

draft utility will be used from 10AM-10PM Eastern; 30 minute picks, fixed pick times will be utilized
No WW, trades, or AAA - have a good draft and you won't need them
LIVE minimum of 50 games
No clones or DH EXCEPT in the one league in which each is explicitly allowed

Please only sign up if you intend to play all 5 leagues.  Obviously sometimes things change and you might not be able to finish out the challenge, but if you know going in you're only planning to play 1 or 2 I'd really prefer you not sign up.  At least not until we get desperate.  Don't know if there's really any hope of filling this thing, but I'd like to hope so.

8/29/2012 7:48 PM
Interest List:

1) dahsdebater
2) joshkvt
3) triflex
4) The_Hodags
5) frozen_rope
6) 11kwyetman28
7) leeelci
8) szczubelek
9) toddleduc

9/8/2012 10:32 PM (edited)
Count me in.
8/29/2012 9:09 PM
ill play too, sounds fun
8/29/2012 9:12 PM
I would like to do it.
8/30/2012 9:11 AM
I'm in
8/30/2012 11:29 AM
Thanks guys.  I'll get the more detailed rules up tonight; I'm fighting a cold my girlfriend gave me (who gets sick in the middle of summer?) and just felt too wiped out last night to put the finishing touches on there.
8/30/2012 3:13 PM
Count me in.  Finding drafted leagues are more fun you have a variety of players.  Will players be exclusive or player and yr for example If I picked 1927 Babe Ruth would all Babe's seasons be exclusive for that yr or just the 1927 version?
8/30/2012 4:38 PM
Players are exclusive except in the $90 million league.
8/30/2012 4:43 PM
Im in
9/4/2012 10:30 AM
put me in
9/8/2012 10:18 AM
if you can dream it, you can do it...  I'm in & lets get 24 !  :-))
9/8/2012 10:08 PM
Thanks guys.  Eventually I'll get those full rules posted up...
9/8/2012 10:32 PM
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