Hello
Buffalo takes pride in not going over usage in any of our 3
years in this league. It has been difficult though, we have had to scramble at
the deadline to trade for innings or AB's each year. I agree with Brandt
that something needs to be done and with Ray that it should be proportionate.
Irregardless of the final NCR limit it is important that those
of us at the bottom of the standings take advantage of the opportunity.
There are many sources of free info on prospects on the Internet. Use the
google and in an hour or so you will be well versed on the top young talent.
There's also a few getting carded this draft.
Buffalo first draft was spent futilely chasing the playoffs. Had
we filled our usage needs and then drafted NCR's chances are some of them
would be playing by now. As it is only Zobrist remains from our first
draft. Last year we went into the draft with no NCR's. With 7 picks in the
first
4 rounds we picked 6 NCR's and 23 year old Kenley Jansen. Two of last
years NCR's (Pineda & Britton) will give us 300 + innings this year. We were
fortunate in that there were two teams available when we joined NOMBL and i
believe we got Ray's old team, the Purple Doodles. Had we gotten the other
team we would have had little to trade for draft picks.
As I plan on playing in this league as long as it or i am
around i will do all i can to help it grow. The quality seems to improve each
year. The owners have been for the most part gentlemen and the discussions
both lively and informative. It would be something to see if some time soon
we didn't need a stink draft because we all did such a fine job of drafting
and trading.
Good Luck in the draft.. especially those of us near the bottom
of the standings
Blaine
In a message dated 1/9/2012 7:33:38 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
My curiosity got the better of me since we are talking about NCR's and
over usage, so I made a chart of every team and who they overused and how many
NCR's they own. If a player was overused less than a full inning or AB I
did not mark it down (for example .1 ip over)
The results are:
9 teams had zero over usage: Norfolk, Buffalo, Tidewater, Suffolk, Dublin,
Newton, Des Moines, Oakland, Virginia
(Fiji and North Bay barely missed by having only 1 player over with less
than 2 ab/ip over.)
4 teams had player/s between 1 - 4 ab/ip over usage
7 out of 20 teams had overused player/s between 5 - 22 ab/ip over
including 3 players that where over by at least 20 ab/ip.
Of the 9 teams that had zero over usage 4 of them had all 6 NCR's
Of the 4 teams wit 1-4 over usage 1 of them had 6 NCR's
and Of the 7 teams that had over usage only 2 had all 6 NCR's
What does it all mean? I have no idea. I did notice that Fiji, Norfolk and
Buffalo who own the 2,3,4 spots in the draft all have 6 NCR's and have no
problem managing over usage.
I still think we should do a sandwich draft between the 1rst and 2nd round
for all teams with 0-4 ab/ip over usage. There should be some kind of
reward, punishment when a third of the league is breaking the rule. I don't
think it should go into affect until the 2013 draft and every new manager
(like Tracy this year) that enters in the offseason should be put in it
regardless.
I'm not sending out my detailed results to respect the privacy of how much
certain teams went over. Its not my place in the league to point negative
fingers at teams. If you want to know its not to hard to look it up.
Brandt
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