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2.End the season one week earlier

• Pro: no need to deal with the starting pitching ‘bingo’ and playoff player resting malaise of late September; our current rules where rosters have to lock the night before games do not facilitate the flexibility needed to execute this well and the drama all happens during the fantasy playoffs. We’re not mind readers and it messes with championships.
• Con: classical fantasy baseball goes all the way to the end and there is an argument there is a skill in being flexible and ready for ‘bingo.’

Yes

No

3.Change 2 bench spots to starting hitter spots (likely an Infield Spot (IF) and an Outfield Spot (OF))

• Explanation: our league rules are set up to over-value pitching. We hold about 15-18 pitchers and they can all play, but we can’t play more than 12-13 hitters. This would address that
• Pro: adds more balance to our rosters without increasing the roster size; this would keep the free agent wire interesting and making pitching talent on the wire even more interesting.
• Con: some may say it was already hard enough to fill our rosters with everyday hitters, this would make that harder

Yes

No

Yes but Amend (please specify)

4.Remove maximum moves per week

• Pro: with as deep as the rosters are now: we don’t need the streaming pitching protections that this rule once provided and many of the streaming pitchers aren’t that good anyway.
• Con: opens the door to the active managers getting more ‘lottery tickets' to take chances on players, for better or for worse

Yes

No

5.Remove restrictions around number of picks held in any rounds

• Explanation: we put these restrictions in place to prevent teams tanking or holding too many draft picks for the next year to prevent creating an uneven advantage heading into the next draft. Well. We found ways around that AND we didn’t install protections the other direction so now the rules are off-weighted AND were voted against fixing it last year. This rule no longer prevents tanking or outweighed-draft-capital-acquisition, it only over-complicates draft pick trading.
• Pro: save Michael the sanity during trade deadline season. Protect the less-analytically-inclined managers that don’t care to talk about draft pick dollar values
• Cons: you hate Michael and/or you want to be able to take advantage of a manager that may not care to find out if a 1st, 5th, and 15th is as valuable as a 2nd, 4th, and 14th, for example.

Yes

No

Yes but Amend (please specify)

6.Update bidding wars

• Explanation: there’s a lot of fine print required here, and I can share with anyone that cares what I have in mind, but for voting purposes, let’s just say that the proposal will shorten bidding wars and require less back and forth AND it will put slightly more value in the first pair of managers that make a trade and slightly less value in vultures just waiting for a deal to come in to outbid it
• Pro: less headache to get trades across the finish line. It’s not fair to managers that actually agree to trades to then deal with 20 text messages and emails for a week nor is it fair to either manager to have a trade bid linger for days on end.
• Con: the current process is as fair as it gets and if you want the player or pick bad enough you should have to work for it

Yes

No

7.Anti-tanking option a) allow unlimited draft picks with one caveat: You cannot trade away rounds 1-5 during the season.

• Explanation: This will limit the advantage of teams for the next year. The way it is set up, teams should alternate years of buying and selling to maximize your chances. This will limit the skipping a year strategy.
• Pro: limits draft capital able to be dealt during the season to prevent tanking
• Con: people should be allowed to tank if they can handle the repercussions

Yes

No

Yes but Amend (please specify)

8.Anti-tanking option b) The loser of the BSC forfeits their 3rd round pick to the BSC champion with the offsetting pick being in the 30th round…IF the loser of the BSC acquired during the year more than $20 of next year’s draft capital than they had to start the year (approximately a third round pick)

• Explanation: If you want to sell off your team you’d better not lose the BSC.
• Pro: we’re tired of people selling off their team to go for a champion and then throwing away the next year.
• Con: let teams manage however they want and/or this punishment is too much

Yes in addition to Anti-tanking option a)

Yes, but instead of of Anti-tanking option a)

No

Yes but Amend (please specify)