All 16 participants in League 5 have confirmed their participation in League 6.

thejuice6 is out for League 7 and is being replaced by ff09
nocomm999 is out for League 7 and is being replaced by mpitt76
Everybody else is in.

Just to get ahead of this...

What is the policy on tanking? Let's say I know I'm going to advance, but I can tank into a better pick...Allowed? Encouraged?

In other leagues, if I've clinched a playoff spot, I'll often heavily rest my starters for the playoffs. In past Juice tournament leagues, I would NOT do this since better regular season record meant better pick next round, but in this league I would do that since it helps my pick AND my playoff chances.

I've thought about that, and I'm not going to prohibit tanking. There is still a prize for most cumulative wins in the first round. So if you want to throw games at the cost of not winning the overall title, knock yourself out.

Makes sense, thanks

I forgot to post this before the last draft.

ff09 and mpitt76 are replacing nocomm999 and thejuice6 for league 7. Both may come back for later drafts, when they return from vacation.

For league 8, happyhours is replacing eblankenstei.

For league 9, mpitt76 & happyhours have opted out. The good news is that nocomm999 and thejuice6 are back in.

We will start drafting League 9 on September 29 (this is when juice returns from his month-long trip to the Canadian Rockies).

I made the executive decision to add 2025 to League 12. The players will be out by the time we draft, and we all know we could use more innings in the player pool. I updated page 1 appropriately.

I just realized that I didn't address how tie-breaker games affect advancement or the draft order for the mini-draft.

In previous "thejuice6" tournaments, tie-breaker games have never counted in the calculus for determining draft order for the next round. And that's how I would lean here. Of course, a division winner with a bad record that required a tie-breaker game to win that division just to advance would still get into the next round over the team it just beat (despite the exp win% of each team).

Here is an example of how a 3-way tie would work:
If three teams were tied with a record of 90-62, and two of these teams were tied for first in the NL East and the other team was in second place in the NL West (and also had the worst Exp Win% of the three tied teams), it doesn't make sense to penalize this third team, b/c counting the playoff game would bump the losing team (90-63) ahead of the team not playing a playoff game (90-62).

In other words, the mini-draft draft order is determined after game 162 regardless of what happens in any possible tie-breaking game.

And yes, it would be possible for a team winning a one-game tie-breaker to pick ahead of the team he just beat in the tie-breaker, in the next round's mini-draft.

Schwarze, just clarifying how advancement works to Round 3.

in Round 2, Legaue 1 there are 6 owners with a team in both NL and AL. They each can only advance one team, correct?

if they have both in place for advancement, do they get to choose which one? Or automatically the one with better record?

Correct, only one team per 1/2 league.

It's the team with the better record (standard tie-breakers apply).

All 16 participants in League 9 have confirmed their participation in League 10.

I found replacements for both ff09 and kstober for league 11.

How does Shohei work? Hitter and pitcher are just two separate players?