Preparation for Season 1

[PowerBug]

Alrighty well we are nearing Sheffield Shield season again, so time to open this up and get some action going. First thing will be to try and get all managers back and interested for a full season, secondly will be to run through how this is going to work for this season.

- Reminder that the players on your lists are there forever, unless you which to trade (there will be an opportunity for this)
- There will a heap of you that want to delist players that have retired, there will be an opportunity to do this before any drafts begin. A thread will be started up for that. There will be no compensation for losing a player to retirement.
- Each team will be allocated a certain amount of money to which they can use on collecting players from the auction periods. Once a copy of the team lists are obtained the free agents auction will be able to begin. There will also be a T20 only auction once the Big Bash is close to starting. The auction will be run differently to Season 0 keep an eye out for that
- There will be a trade period available. A cap will be there on how many players can leave your club, at this stage I was thinking 7 players out and 7 players in. Trades don't have to be one for one. Trades cannot involve the use of team finances.



There is plenty more I want to add, all of this can be discussed and there are many more ideas I have in my head about how to make this game interesting, but also I don't want to make it too much like a management game.

[Scrads]

Looking forward to it mate :)

[Jay]

Looking forward to it mate :)

[R.Griffen]

Looking forward to it mate :)

[Pkbaldy]

forward it mate Looking to :)

[PowerBug]

To decide how things will go might have to run a scenario or two just to find it's flaws:

Scenario #1
- Every team is given $1,000,000. This is the starting/opening cash amount for everyone, this is what must be used wisely.
- Player Cap is 25 full time Contracts, and 5 T20 Contracts.
- I don't think it's necessary to have too much of an equalisation for the poorer teams from the prologue, however a little bit will occur. WA and SA (8th and 7th) can each have two free agents for no cost. Tas and NT (6th and 5th) can have 1 free agent for no cost. The free agency auction will start then.
- There will be an auction thread and in that thread teams post who they are bidding on and how much they are bidding. If no one outbids them in 48 hours, they will get that player. Teams can only post once per day, and in that post they may bid on a maximum of 5 players.
- It is my guess that most teams will not be making many changes and teams won't be spending more than $100,000 on players here. Some teams may not even bother contributing I reckon.
- Cash obviously carries over, and there's a big T20 competition to bid for as well. Just going off last year; Kallis, Mike Hussey, Ten Doeschate, Tait, Carberry, Wright, teams that need T20 players will be splashing out here. Along with those that need to field a keeper as fielding a keeper is necessary in T20 (Not for FC or OD though).
- Cash still carries over to future seasons, but there needs to be enough cash inflow which allows for teams to make similar bids in future seasons.
- As it'll be tough for poor teams to get better, some sort of method needs to be in place that gives the weaker teams a chance of catching up in future seasons. In addition to getting first dibs at the FA pool the following season and a cash inflow, I was considering some kind of player poaching method, but it would be more realistic in the sense that the only players that can get poached are those that don't get games at the team they are currently at. (There would need to be a set number in place for this so just an idea, would people like sometihng like this?). I feel that a cash inflow won't make that much of a difference as all it will allow them to do is get better T20 contracts, got to be a way for them to get the players that aren't being used at other clubs.


How would something like that sound?

[BratPack]

I agree with most of it but at the same time I don't think the stronger teams should be penalised for good development, maybe something like the IPL system would be better only slightly different IE: you sign a player for 2 seasons and if you play them the set number of games you can resign them but if you don't play them those set number of games you have to pay a "retainer" fee to hold them after the season, say for example if I had Maxwell but didn't play him but wanted to keep him and avoid poaching I have the option of either keeping him at 5-10% more of his salary or if the low finishing team offers more then that the higher team has one "Right to Match" card. It penalises the strong teams for hoarding (by giving them less cash for Free Agents) and still offers enough for the poorer teams to go after

[PowerBug]

Alright so how would this sound:
At the end of the season a list of players that have not been given enough matches will be available for "poaching". Every team gets to send in a list of player they wish to poach and the price they are willing to pay to get the player. This information becomes public then the team that has the player has the option to match that offer to keep the player.


Determining whether someone has been played enough is the biggest issue here.

[Scrads]

Alright so how would this sound:
At the end of the season a list of players that have not been given enough matches will be available for "poaching". Every team gets to send in a list of player they wish to poach and the price they are willing to pay to get the player. This information becomes public then the team that has the player has the option to match that offer to keep the player.


Determining whether someone has been played enough is the biggest issue here.

Does not playing enough games via injury count as a poachable player though?

[PowerBug]

Alright so how would this sound:
At the end of the season a list of players that have not been given enough matches will be available for "poaching". Every team gets to send in a list of player they wish to poach and the price they are willing to pay to get the player. This information becomes public then the team that has the player has the option to match that offer to keep the player.


Determining whether someone has been played enough is the biggest issue here.

Does not playing enough games via injury count as a poachable player though?

No I would say only those that play actual matches and are not regularly picked by their D6 teams would be in a position of being poached.

[PowerBug]

I turn your attention to the picture below. It contains the list of all players and their respective type. There are blanks for those players I do not know, so that is where I would like you guys to help me out and give me the first names of those I have ? next to, and the types to those that I have left blank. (F means they are a Bowler)

If you know about a player that is not on your roster then please mention it, the quicker this gets sorted the quicker we can move on to the interesting stuff.

In addition, if you feel like someone's player type is incorrect, then you may lodge a dispute. If I see the dispute as somewhat reasonable, then it can go to a vote where 8 franchises each receive 1 vote. If tied then Admin will make the final ruling.


http://i61.tinypic.com/2qxoq5k.jpg (The link if the picutre is too small)

[Nige]

For Vic, it's Michael Hill and Nick Winter, the latter is a bowler.

As for the rest that I know.

Tom Beaton's a batsman.
Ben McDermott's a keeper.
Ben Ashkenazi's a bowler.
Luke Butterworth's an allrounder.
Matt Short and Jake Reed for Tassie.
Dom Michael for NT.

[PowerBug]

For Vic, it's Michael Hill and Nick Winter, the latter is a bowler.

As for the rest that I know.

Tom Beaton's a batsman.
Ben McDermott's a keeper.
Ben Ashkenazi's a bowler.
Luke Butterworth's an allrounder.
Matt Short and Jake Reed for Tassie.
Dom Michael for NT.

Legend Nige 8) Jake Reed, ahh I knew that one. He was the lad that kept falling over when bowling in his BBL debut wasn't he? ;D

[PowerBug]

In addition, if you feel like someone's player type is incorrect, then you may lodge a dispute. If I see the dispute as somewhat reasonable, then it can go to a vote where 8 franchises each receive 1 vote.

[Nige]

For Vic, it's Michael Hill and Nick Winter, the latter is a bowler.

As for the rest that I know.

Tom Beaton's a batsman.
Ben McDermott's a keeper.
Ben Ashkenazi's a bowler.
Luke Butterworth's an allrounder.
Matt Short and Jake Reed for Tassie.
Dom Michael for NT.

Legend Nige 8) Jake Reed, ahh I knew that one. He was the lad that kept falling over when bowling in his BBL debut wasn't he? ;D

That the one.