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FROM THE DESK OF THE COMMISH |
April 19, 2002
"d-day" Draft Proposal
What is being proposed: a complete overhaul of the way that free agents are acquired in the BDBL pre-season draft.
Why it is being proposed: in order to make the free agent acquisition process more realistic, to remove the incentive for teams to lose and to remove the incentive for non-contending teams to trade their star players to contending teams.
When this would take effect: the January, 2003 draft.
Rule changes being proposed:
7.16 On January 1st, the top 80 free agents available will be placed into the BDBL's "d-day" drafting application. These players will be determined by the best statistical reference available (for example, "win shares" or "VORP".)
7.17 Players will be ranked from 1-80 based upon the statistical reference used above, then broken up into ten lots of eight players each. For example, Lot 1 will consist of players ranked #1, #11, #21, #31, #41, #51, #61 and #71.
7.18 The auctions for Lot 1 will end on January 3rd at 10:00pm ET, and each day after that, the auctions for the next lot will end at the same time. Results of each day's auction will be posted on the league web site.
7.19 Bidding for each player will start at $1 million and may increase in $500,000 increments. Bidding will be done by proxy, with bidders entering their maximum desired bid for each player. These maximum bids will be kept secret. Only the current bids will be displayed each night.
7.20 There is no maximum limit for bidding.
7.21 Players earning salaries of $10 million or more must be signed to a contract (either one year or long-term) at the end of the season.
7.22 Bidders may retract any previous bid before that player's auction expires, but may not bid again on any player for whom they retracted a bid.
7.23 Bidders may increase their previous bid at any time before that player's auction expires.
7.24 If, when an auction ends, two or more teams have bid the same maximum amount on the same player, the team that owned the player at the end of the prior season will win the player. If neither team owned the player, the winning bid will go to the team that won the most games in the prior season. If there is still a tie, the team that outscored their opponents by the most runs the prior season wins the auction. And if a tie still exists, the team that submitted the first bid for the player will win the auction.
7.25 The BDBL "d-day" draft will end on January 13th. A live draft will be held on the first Sunday after the 13th, during which time all remaining free agents (including those whose auctions were not won) will be drafted via live draft format.
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