If the sim that encompasses the July 31st trade deadline is due to begin more than one week before the 31st (on or before July 24th), then that sim will be for less than two weeks, and will end on the morning of the 31st, allowing one last day for player trades. The following sim, and all remaining sims during the regular season, will be for the normal two-week period.
If the sim is scheduled to begin on or after July 25th, it will be for the normal two-week period.
I know we're a trade-happy league, so I'm hoping I have support for this. Zev has told me that he would enact this proposal this season (since the next sim starts on the 22nd) if a majority of the owners agree.
I'm all for it. We do it that way in the OEL, I seem to recall. We also stop at roster expansion time.
ReplyDeleteI second (or third) that emotion
ReplyDeleteI'll note that the sims in the SDMB league always start and stop on the same days (e.g., we always have one end on July 23) because we always start with a two week sim on April 1, the next on April 15, the next on April 30, and everything just rolls from there. So, if we adopt this proposal, we'll always have one sim that goes from July 23 to July 31, because the days always line up that way. I suspect it's because the days of the week in the schedule don't match the actual calendar for the given year.
ReplyDeleteAs to this specific proposal, I don't particularly care one way or the other. I can adapt (and have adapted) to an effective trade deadline of July 23 as easily as I can for July 31. If I absolutely had to take a position, I guess I would lean slightly against it as I don't want to prolong the season by extra sims, but I don't really care one way or the other.
P.S. With the traditional "every two weeks" approach, a sim ends on September 2, so we're able to adjust our rosters after just one day lag. If we end a sim on July 31, then that would kind of screw that up, forcing us to significantly delay adding additional people or resulting in a pretty short sim.