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Post by Ft. Myers Marauders on Nov 20, 2018 20:16:14 GMT
While I was in the lower half of the standings this past season I noticed way too many teams "hanging it up" to get into the 1st-4th pick consolation bracket. I'd like to keep this from happening again so here is what I propose...
I would like to see teams 17-20 get locked into picks 8-5, respectively. That would leave teams in positions 9-16 to compete in an 8-team bracket just like the Championship Playoff bracket (three rounds) with picks 1-4 and 9-13 up for grabs. This would keep teams from not-completely-sucking and having to be mildly competitive throughout the season.
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Post by East Bay Rats on Nov 20, 2018 23:00:20 GMT
Can we do this in DOBL too?
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Post by Ft. Myers Marauders on Nov 21, 2018 15:45:06 GMT
I tried introducing consolation playoffs there a couple years ago but it was voted down. Some people would rather be done in August I guess.
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Post by East Bay Rats on Nov 21, 2018 16:13:34 GMT
Lame, I figured that must have been a reason why we don't do it there. Thanks
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Post by Newcastle Red Star on Dec 5, 2018 10:52:43 GMT
I'd be up for a change, but figure that the fairest way would be to have the bottom 8 teams compete for picks 1-8. That way if you completely tank you might still end up with a middle of the round pick, because the team that finishes 13th is likely to be better than someone at the bottom of the pile.
Under this proposal you could end up with a team finishing 9th (ie just on the fringes of the playoffs) ending up with the 1st pick in each round, as well as presumably the first pick in the FYPD draft the following season, which seems to skew the idea that the consolation bracket is for competitive balance purposes. Teams already above the bottom 4 will continue to get stronger than those at the bottom of the standings, which seems a bit wrong to me.
It also depends how teams were hanging it up - if they were deliberately not picking pitchers and leaving DL'ed players in the lineup then that's something that needs to be addressed, rather than rejigging the consolation bracket.
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Post by Ft. Myers Marauders on Dec 5, 2018 17:43:05 GMT
I felt that people were intentionally not setting daily lineups in order to fall down the standings. There should be competition at the bottom of the standings
during the season to keep from placing 17-20th, instead of being rewarded by it. This is a competition. You can sell assets and still reasonably compete if you use free agency properly. Selling and tanking should not be rewarded. We can't enforce teams to set optimal-ish lineups daily, just too much to police and essentially not important enough to spend time on.
The 9th place team is usually somewhere around .500. That to me is not a team to be afraid of in a single matchup, even if you are 16th. If the 9th place team were to win 1st pick, I wouldn't have any problem with that. They missed out on the money like everyone else and made the most of it.
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Post by Ft. Myers Marauders on Jan 14, 2019 23:43:28 GMT
Consolation playoffs will switch to new format.
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