Rules - To celebrate the third iteration of Pai Gow we will try a Pick 3 variation
Once we get 24 owners, each team will site-mail me the name of three players they want on their roster. If NOBODY else requests any of those players, that team gets them (whatever version/season they choose). Any player who is requested by 2 or more teams immediately gets blacklisted from all rosters and is off the board going forward. That will be Round 1
Regardless of how many picks you roster in a given round, you will then submit a new list of 3 eligible players for the next round. It is quite likely that owners will get 0 players in any given round. Everyone will continue to pick this way until an owner has less than 3 players left to fill their roster. At that point, they will only get to choose enough new players to fill a 25 man roster (ie if someone has 24 players, their future submissions will only be 1 player). It will be interesting to see how this variation will influence selections.
Players are exclusive, so if someone makes a successful request, that player is off the board for other teams.
Yes. . . . the blacklist could get quite large, and this might take a while, but it will be fun and should produce some very interesting rosters. Do you request a high-end player hoping others will “assume” they won’t get him and you sneak one by? Or do you look for someone that you think will get overlooked in a given round?
As commish, I will send my pick to one of the first few submitters each round BEFORE I open any requests.
Please make the subject of your site-mail “Requests - Round X” That will help me keep them straight in my inbox.
If an owner submits a player who is on the blacklist or has already been selected, that request will be treated as if it is a matching request; that is, that owner will need to wait until the next iteration in that round to submit another request.
Each owner will then create their 3 teams using a different season for every one of the 25 players they drafted. To be clear, each of the 3 teams will have the same 25 exclusive players won through the draft using different seasons.
Since there is no salary limit on any of the 3 teams, how you distribute the better seasons for your players is up to you.
Tournament scoring system will be identical to the WISC system:
1 point for each regular season win
5 points for getting into the playoffs
1 point for every playoff win
5 points for every playoff series won
At the end of the tournament, I will pay for 2 prizes:
1) $30 to the overall winner of the tournament
2) $20 to the World Series winner who had the best regular-season record (enhancing the distribution challenge).
Other specifics:
$255mm Salary Cap on all 3 teams
Yes DH, No WW, No AAA, No Trades, No Clones, No SLL, No <300k exception (must only use drafted players)
Injuries turned on.
Player seasons eligible to be used 1885-2020
Multi-Team players: All seasons allowed (full, combined or partial)
Ballpark: Must use a park that one of your rostered players played in for the chosen season in each league
Division alignment - Random
11/13/2020 10:56 AM (edited)