In the spirit of increasing parity in the SDMB OOTP league, I am hereby announcing the "Commissioner's Parity Plan." This plan is designed to make it easier for teams that have never won a Cecil Cup to make it to the playoffs. It is also designed to discourage the centralization of talent in only one team located on the North Pacific.
The plan works as follows: For every Cecil Cup that a team has won, they must contribute a player to a parity pool. Furthermore, the winner of the previous year must contribute two players. Therefore, by way of example, Seattle would have to contribute five players to the pool this year (one for each of their four Cecil Cup wins and one additional one for being the last winner). Houston, on the other hand, would have to contribute two, for their two victories.
The players to be placed in the pool will be selected by the owners of the teams that will be drafting the players (i.e. those that do not contribute any players).
Once the player pool has been formed, teams that have not won a Cecil Cup will draft from the pool in team number order.
This will continue until every team has won a Cecil Cup -- or at least until Brooklyn does.
Zev
An owner who I will graciously allow to remain anonymous emailed me to ask if this post was real. When I assured him that it was, he then called me to figure out how the mechanics of this plan were going to work, what players were eligible, etc.
ReplyDeleteI love this day.
By the way, I was the one who emailed Michael to tell him that I had been taken in for a few minutes by his post. In my defense, it was very early in the morning when I checked the blog. But, I still did spend a few minutes wondering how and why the new version of the game took off the field legal problems into account.
An owner who I will graciously allow to remain anonymous emailed me to ask if this post was real.
ReplyDeleteOkay, I'll fess up. It was me.
Zev
In all seriousness, this got me thinking about a new expansion draft, and, in turn, about expansion (to 16 teams).
ReplyDeleteAny thoughts, anyone?
I was not around for the last expansion, but I think the more the merrier.
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