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"You're a boring old man"
Welcome all,
We've all seen the long standing ATD become rather stale, with overall participation waning into the low 20's in recent years. While the draft itself is still the cat's meow and runs smoothly, there are little surprises. Draft tendencies rarely change. Draft placement rarely changes outside active players moving up/down. Post draft participation might as well be scrapped all together with many GM's not even debating.
Here is the alternative many have spoken of over the years. This will drastically alter how teams are built because of my specific rule of having daily randomly selected pools of players drafted in previous ATD's. No GM will have any idea who will be available to bid on day 1, or day 25. One pool of players may have bench fodder and low end starters. Others could contain multiple HOF'ers.
Please, I am very open to feedback and criticism of what you see below. My goal is to make this experience as user friendly as possible. If morale is high then the entire operation goes better.
The first (hope of many) ATA!
Rules:
1. Salary Cap will be set at 82 million.
-This was done because this closely resembles real life so the top players in real life today will sort of be a benchmark for the top players all time. Gretzky, Howe, Orr should likely all be the highest paid players here, so you'd expect to see at least 13 million per, possibly more depending on how top heavy a GM wants his/her team to be. Would somebody be willing to go nuts to ensure one of the big 4? Will a GM try to get Gretzky AND Orr or will depth reign supreme?
2. Roster will consist of 23 players.
12 starting F
6 starting D.
1 starting G.
1 backup G.
3 reserves (F or D)
3. Any player in hockey history will be available to sign in the daily auction pools. This includes pre NHL stars and non NHL Euro's.
4. Pools will consist of 15 players each.
5. Daily bidding on each pool will occur over 40 days, Monday-Friday, totaling 600 players offered (15 players per pool x 40 days of bidding).
-Basically if they've been drafted in the ATD, they'll show up here for bidding. Also, Monday-Friday allows us to catch a breather each week.
6. The daily pools will be randomly generated. There will be no set order. You could have 8 goalies in one pool and 12 C's in the next.
7. I will be generating the daily random pools.
-If you have a problem with that, then consider. One, getting somebody else, not involved to pledge the better part of 2 months to be here daily for that is not something I"m willing to ask someone to do for a trial run. Two, even if I were to set up the pools manually (scheming for my benefit), I'm still not guaranteed to get the player anyway (someone can outbid me). I hope people realize that this is for fun first and foremost. Plain and simple. I'm willing to be vested for the betterment of all. I've already typed up 600 names for the random generator. RANDOM.ORG - List Randomizer . This course of action ensures there are no delays because of attendance. We get the pools up on time, every time.
8. You may bid on up to THREE players from each pool. You don't have to bid on any though.
9. EACH GM WILL SUBMIT ONE BID PER PLAYER (UP TO 3 PLAYERS TOTAL) DAILY BETWEEN 0700 and 2100 (9) PM EST. See #10 for unique bid instructions.
10. MINIMUM BID FOR THIS YEAR WILL BE 750K. ALL BIDS MUST BE AT LEAST THAT HIGH AND BIDDING INCREMENTS WILL BE 10K UP TO 1 MILLION. ONCE YOU REACH 1 MILLION INCREMENTAL BIDDING WILL BE 100K.
So, examples of acceptable bids
750K or 760k so on and so forth up to 1 million.
Then it goes 1.1M, 1.2M, 1.3M, etc.
10.1M or 10.2M
Any bids that do not adhere to the above rule/examples will be thrown out. Do not moan after the fact. You have all day to plan your bids out and get them in properly.
11. Any tied bids will go to a do or die bid off, where the GMs tied must submit a final offer. We will discuss the time frame of a bid off once we get closer to the start date. Obviously I'd like to have a new pool of players up daily but with bids happening from 7 am to 9 pm EST, we would probably need part of the next day to allow for any tied bids to be resolved.
13. After we've completed 40 days of bidding, all players who did not receive a bid throughout will go into a FA pool. This pool will be used to fill out any open position on rosters. Some teams may have all 23 guys signed and others may need 2-3 roster spots filled.
14. We will hold a one round draft for coaches after the bidding finishes on players.
-I like MM's idea of having the draft order set by remaining cap space. Whoever has the most cap space available at the end of the auction would get the first pick. Whoever has the least amount of cap space would get the last selection.
15. NO VOTES WILL BE SENT TO ME.
-To absolutely ensure validity, I will have an outside party collect the daily bids and submit winners each night/or morning. This way I have no access to when/how much a GM bids on any player. I'm working on securing that person now.
16. No trades of any kind after the draft. Who you sign is who you keep.
17. Depending on # of teams, we'll figure out conferences/divisions.
17. Playoffs and voting procedures will be discussed by the inaugural members but I will be recommending that a panel from the HoH forum be judges on the round to round match ups. Obviously that will be volunteer based and the members would have to be agreed upon by the GM's here as well.
INTERESTED MEMBERS:
@ImporterExporter
@VanIslander
@Namba 17
@DannyGallivan
@The Macho Man
@Habsfan18
@tinyzombies
We've all seen the long standing ATD become rather stale, with overall participation waning into the low 20's in recent years. While the draft itself is still the cat's meow and runs smoothly, there are little surprises. Draft tendencies rarely change. Draft placement rarely changes outside active players moving up/down. Post draft participation might as well be scrapped all together with many GM's not even debating.
Here is the alternative many have spoken of over the years. This will drastically alter how teams are built because of my specific rule of having daily randomly selected pools of players drafted in previous ATD's. No GM will have any idea who will be available to bid on day 1, or day 25. One pool of players may have bench fodder and low end starters. Others could contain multiple HOF'ers.
Please, I am very open to feedback and criticism of what you see below. My goal is to make this experience as user friendly as possible. If morale is high then the entire operation goes better.
The first (hope of many) ATA!
Rules:
1. Salary Cap will be set at 82 million.
-This was done because this closely resembles real life so the top players in real life today will sort of be a benchmark for the top players all time. Gretzky, Howe, Orr should likely all be the highest paid players here, so you'd expect to see at least 13 million per, possibly more depending on how top heavy a GM wants his/her team to be. Would somebody be willing to go nuts to ensure one of the big 4? Will a GM try to get Gretzky AND Orr or will depth reign supreme?
2. Roster will consist of 23 players.
12 starting F
6 starting D.
1 starting G.
1 backup G.
3 reserves (F or D)
3. Any player in hockey history will be available to sign in the daily auction pools. This includes pre NHL stars and non NHL Euro's.
4. Pools will consist of 15 players each.
5. Daily bidding on each pool will occur over 40 days, Monday-Friday, totaling 600 players offered (15 players per pool x 40 days of bidding).
-Basically if they've been drafted in the ATD, they'll show up here for bidding. Also, Monday-Friday allows us to catch a breather each week.
6. The daily pools will be randomly generated. There will be no set order. You could have 8 goalies in one pool and 12 C's in the next.
7. I will be generating the daily random pools.
-If you have a problem with that, then consider. One, getting somebody else, not involved to pledge the better part of 2 months to be here daily for that is not something I"m willing to ask someone to do for a trial run. Two, even if I were to set up the pools manually (scheming for my benefit), I'm still not guaranteed to get the player anyway (someone can outbid me). I hope people realize that this is for fun first and foremost. Plain and simple. I'm willing to be vested for the betterment of all. I've already typed up 600 names for the random generator. RANDOM.ORG - List Randomizer . This course of action ensures there are no delays because of attendance. We get the pools up on time, every time.
8. You may bid on up to THREE players from each pool. You don't have to bid on any though.
9. EACH GM WILL SUBMIT ONE BID PER PLAYER (UP TO 3 PLAYERS TOTAL) DAILY BETWEEN 0700 and 2100 (9) PM EST. See #10 for unique bid instructions.
10. MINIMUM BID FOR THIS YEAR WILL BE 750K. ALL BIDS MUST BE AT LEAST THAT HIGH AND BIDDING INCREMENTS WILL BE 10K UP TO 1 MILLION. ONCE YOU REACH 1 MILLION INCREMENTAL BIDDING WILL BE 100K.
So, examples of acceptable bids
750K or 760k so on and so forth up to 1 million.
Then it goes 1.1M, 1.2M, 1.3M, etc.
10.1M or 10.2M
Any bids that do not adhere to the above rule/examples will be thrown out. Do not moan after the fact. You have all day to plan your bids out and get them in properly.
11. Any tied bids will go to a do or die bid off, where the GMs tied must submit a final offer. We will discuss the time frame of a bid off once we get closer to the start date. Obviously I'd like to have a new pool of players up daily but with bids happening from 7 am to 9 pm EST, we would probably need part of the next day to allow for any tied bids to be resolved.
13. After we've completed 40 days of bidding, all players who did not receive a bid throughout will go into a FA pool. This pool will be used to fill out any open position on rosters. Some teams may have all 23 guys signed and others may need 2-3 roster spots filled.
14. We will hold a one round draft for coaches after the bidding finishes on players.
-I like MM's idea of having the draft order set by remaining cap space. Whoever has the most cap space available at the end of the auction would get the first pick. Whoever has the least amount of cap space would get the last selection.
15. NO VOTES WILL BE SENT TO ME.
-To absolutely ensure validity, I will have an outside party collect the daily bids and submit winners each night/or morning. This way I have no access to when/how much a GM bids on any player. I'm working on securing that person now.
16. No trades of any kind after the draft. Who you sign is who you keep.
17. Depending on # of teams, we'll figure out conferences/divisions.
17. Playoffs and voting procedures will be discussed by the inaugural members but I will be recommending that a panel from the HoH forum be judges on the round to round match ups. Obviously that will be volunteer based and the members would have to be agreed upon by the GM's here as well.
INTERESTED MEMBERS:
@ImporterExporter
@VanIslander
@Namba 17
@DannyGallivan
@The Macho Man
@Habsfan18
@tinyzombies
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