No Trade Clause - Season 6 -Full - Wait List Topic

mhulshult
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(If you want to read about the idea of why the world was created, start here)
The biggest problem I encountered in HBD is that too often trades go through that upset the balance of a world. Player evaluation takes time to learn, and new owners get so excited when they take over a team that they want to tinker with it, many times trading away valuable players for lesser talent. When unbalanced trades do go through, other teams are often times so concerned with their own team that they don't take time to evaluate pending trades (especially when there are many coming at once). 

And I can tell you from experience that I can't evaluate many trades fairly/accurately because I don't invest in advanced scouting. So I loved the idea of a no trade league when I heard it, and decided to create a world that would be competitive, fair, and strategic, while still being a place where owners can learn without making huge mistakes that damage a world, sometimes permanently. 

With an emphasis on the Rule 5 draft, amateur draft, free agency, international free agency (IFA), and waiver wire pickups, owners are challenged to build their teams without the use of trades. I understand that disallowing trades may encourage two extreme strategies for building a team. 

The first being tanking at the major league level and building through the draft/IFA, or, secondly, punting the draft/IFA and loading up solely on high-priced free agents. Realizing this, rules are set up to discourage owners from taking either extreme. 

(If you just want the meat and potatoes, you'll want to start here...)

---------------------RULES--------------------- 

1) No trades - each team is responsible to veto any trade that goes through. 

2) Minimum win rule (55/125/195/280) - each team must win 55 teams in any given season,125 in any two consecutive seasons, 195 in any three consecutive seasons, and 280 in any four consecutive seasons. Failure to meet any of these minimums will result in expulsion from the world.   Beginning in Season 6, first season owners will not be subject a minimum win requirement during their first season, however, the normal minimum win requirement will begin in their second season (including needing to meet the 2 season MWR using the sum of the user's first and second seasons). 

3) $110MM maximum player payroll.  If you have a budget higher than $110MM, you will be notified to transfer money out of player payroll to either coaching or prospect payroll. Failing to do so within 7 days of notification will result in expulsion from the world.  


If this sounds like something you're interested in, please let me know. 



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6/4/2012 3:30 PM (edited)
mhulshult
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Currently in the second round of the playoffs.
5/20/2012 11:23 PM
mhulshult
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Will be rolling in the next day or so.
5/29/2012 8:46 AM
bjschumacher
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We rolled! And need just a few good owners. Great world. Teams will go fast.
5/30/2012 6:48 AM
bjschumacher
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Bump to the top.
5/30/2012 4:09 PM
jrobert77
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Awesome world.
5/30/2012 6:37 PM
obiewon777
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The way this world works is you have to have a different strategy since there is no trading. The marginal players in splits turn out to be above average players in this world because no one can make an uneven trade to have better players. You have a much more balanced team not one that had been made desolate with a former manager that made bad trades. This also means you can make a difference very quickly by recruiting the right guys. The waiver wire has much more meaning because you have some talent coming there. I have picked up a couple of players that were starters right away off the wire in this world. Other worlds I would just make a trade to get that talent.  I won the world series this past season and this team is not loaded with talent. The past 5 seasons we have had different World Series winners. This means your management in this league is much more important and the teams are much more even so anyone can build a winner. Give it a try with a great bunch of coaches, and with no trades there is little to  no drama about who did what to whom because of an unbalanced trade.  

6/1/2012 8:28 AM
bjschumacher
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Don't sell yourself short, obie. You're a tremendous slouch.
6/1/2012 12:55 PM
obiewon777
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I think you spelled sleuth wrong ;)
6/2/2012 8:50 AM
tacosluss
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Great world.  Takes a good balance between short and long term thinking.  Much more like actual baseball management.  4th season and loving it.
6/2/2012 3:56 PM
bjschumacher
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All BS aside, get into this world. A slightly different twist on the norm, and the owners are great. Really.
6/2/2012 8:55 PM
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I am a relative newcomer to GD, but this group of guys have been amazing thus far.
6/4/2012 9:29 AM
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Full, adding names to a waiting list for in-season replacements and first dibs for season 7.
6/4/2012 3:30 PM
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