Access to Rosters, Scores, ect.

This is pretty cool. These mystical spread sheets that I've spoken of are now available for viewing on google docs. I uploaded them and everytime I adjust anything, you will be able to see it here. So, if you want to know if you want to check your score, your standing, whether a certain team is available for pick up, who has what on their roster or whatever, this where to do it. Also the scoring rubric is laid out under "scoring events". The doc is read only, so only I can adjust things. Take a look. The title of this blog is a link to the sheets.

Draft Day

Proposed Draft Day:

Talked to Brian and Herman and the evening of Sunday January 11 is looking like the best draft time so far. If possible I would still like to do a combination live/online draft. Let me know if this is bad timing for any of you. Brian has a new show opening on the 10th, so he can't draft before the 11th. Herman will be out of town on each remaining weekend in January. Hopefully this works for all.

Decisions have been made

Alright. Just finished an excel tutorial with Brian (Team A). He voted for a full year. He invented this shit, so I give his vote some credence. Add my vote and we have 5 for a year and 0 votes for six months...even if a full vote would result in a tie, I'm awarding Brian the tie break on this.

Therefore, the list of sports has expanded. What follows is the new menu, with the scoring events and point values for scoring events. Think about the way scoring will influence your strategy for the year and post comments if you think it needs to be tweaked. Don't be freaked out by the volume of events to be considered. This is still less complicated than what goes into scoring fantasy football. If your teams are winning, your scores will reflect that.

After the draft each team will be allowed 2 transactions per week. A transaction can be a trade with another team or a drop/add. When you drop a scoring unit or trade away a scoring unit you get to keep the points that unit has already earned, so you can play different scoring units every week based on match-ups if you want. Obviously, you only get points for scoring that occurs while you control the unit (except for the very limited exception in the next paragraph).

Units never absolutely lock. Meaning, if you draft the Celtics and they win the championship and score you, say, 175 points for the season, you are allowed to trade them (and all their points) for another unit that hasn't finished scoring yet (like the yankees in June). This is the ONLY time that trading a unit also trades the points already accumulated. However, the open scoring unit aquired does not bring its points with it. All such deals are highly suspect and require 2/3 of the league to vote in favor of the trade. Non-voters are considered dissenters. I can veto a deal if the majority loses its mind (this is the "Cutler" clause.) I know this sounds complicated, but if November rolls around and a team is risking mathematical elimination they should be able to gamble what they've got for a chance at a good NFL team or something.

Tennis and Golf lock at the start of an event.

Oh, if you haven't already, give your team a name.


Here goes:

Scoring Unit Scoring Events
NBA win=2, make playoffs=10, advance round=10, champion=50
AFC win=10, tie=5, make playoffs=20, advance round=20, super bowl
champ=50
NFC win=10, tie=5, make playoffs=20, advance round=20, super bowl
champ=50
CFB(BCS) win=12, pre-xmas bowl invite=12, win pre-xmas=12,
pre-new year's invite=17, pre-new year's win=17, NY's+ invite=20,
NY's+win=20, make BCS=25, BCS win=35, BCS Champ=50
CFB(NBCS) win=12, pre-xmas bowl invite=12, win pre-xmas=12,
pre-new year's invite=17, pre-new year's win=17, NY's+ invite=25,
NY's+win=20, make BCS=35, BCS win=35, BCS Champ=100
(NOTE: Non-BCS teams that make a Post-December 31 Bowl game, BCS
bowl game or win the BCS Championship intentionally receive more points
for those accomplishments than BCS conference teams.)
AL win=.5, Make playoffs=30, adv. round=30, champion=50, All-star (League)
MVP on team you control at all-star break=10
NL win=.5, Make playoffs=30, adv. round=30, champion=50, All-star (League)
MVP on team you control at all-star break=10
NHL win=2, tie=1, make playoffs=10 (they all make it, right?), adv. round=10,
champion=50
CBB(BCS) win=2, make ncaa=10, adv. round=12, champion=50
CBB(NBCS) win=2, make ncaa=15, adv. round=12, champion=75
PGA make cut=7, 21-30=10, 11-20=15, 5-10=20, 4=22, 3=24, 2=26, 1=30,
major tournament win bonus=20
(NOTE: All majors will be scoring events, non-major scoring events are
TBA.)
WTENNIS win match=5, win tournament bonus=10, major win bonus=20
(NOTE: Under this system the winner of a final round match receives 5
points for the win and 10 points for being champion (15 total for that match
win. Winning the final round of a major would be worth 35. All majors are
scoring events, non-major scoring events are TBA.)
UEFA win=5, tie (with advantage)=5, tie (without advantage)=2.5, champion=50
(NOTE: I know this looks weird, however, if a team gets a tie, when they
only need a tie, that is like a win. Also, not all teams will have the same
number of games. Don't care. I want a rooting interest in each individual
game.)
CYCLE Stage win=3, Time Trial win=3, champion=25
(NOTE: The two scoring events for cycling will be the Italian thingy and
the Tour de France. I would say this is the "kicker" position of the UFL.)
WBC Adv. to Round 2=12, Adv. to Semi=20, Advance to final=20, Champion=25
(NOTE: WBC=World Baseball Classic)
LLWS Adv. 2nd round=10, Adv. 3rd Round=10, adv. final=10, Champion=25
(NOTE: LLWS=Little League World Series.)

Season Length

Time to just vote on this. The season can either end at the all-star break or superbowl 2010. If the votes of patty, dan and player to be named later would matter in the final tally, then I will keep the voting open until they all register. Vote now!