2006 Tournament Board sign-up thread

[teepack]

cristano, that's a TSN issue, not a Tour issue. I agree with the 20 percent penalty, though. It keeps people from making a ton of moves.

[spicki17]

teepack -- bernie's new 2006 teaser is that when the league is set up the penalty percent for a dropped player can be set...i agree 10% would be nice, unless they offer something like the 80's has, where it is staggered (5% until 40 games, 10% until 80 games, 20% after).

[tersignf]

tee--we could always throw a wildcard in there for one of the theme leagues. could start it with a reduced drop/add penalty option 80M league, with further approved variations when we know what tsn offers which we will by the end of the first round anway.

[teepack]

OH, I didn't see that. So they are going to make the percentage of drops an option where you choose the percentage? Interesting. That may have to be one of our theme leagues, then.

If we have the optional percentage drops, maybe we'll make that a theme league and do away with the Auction League. I love the Auction League, but it seems to be the format that causes a lot of controversy and confusion, to paraphrase Sir Topham Hatt.

I have been in discussion with Bernie. They are interested in making the Tour official. They will offer some prizes (tentative) and will help promote it. I will probably write some sort of regular column about the Tour (like I did with my Blog at the end of the season) and provide more regular updates.

[cristano11]

how can u do away with the auction? its the most skilled event by far...

[Rigged Splits]

The auction is the best. I think simplifying the rules to it would help. It's a big pain to have to figure out who's on everyone's auction roster before making TSN roster moves. If you just kept your auction players until the season started and then all players not on a TSN roster were free agents it might help. Also you would not have to go to the auction to bid on free agent pick ups. You could use the new add/drop penalties on this league.

[Stoney18]

Even though I totally sucked at the auction I liked the format.

[Sykes25]

Sorry for not getting back. Everything looks great. Auction league needs to stay in. 8)

[JAYDINGESS1]

Tee - agree with Sykes. I personally hated the Auction Draft (my first one) but there is a groundswell of support for it. With 7 rounds and the necessity of only playing 5, don't like it, just skip it. Also agree with Sykes, you did a great jobs on the rule changes. Good to go.

Have one thing, unless you post a poll very soon, I don't think you should add anything to the tour. Just don't want anyone bowing out because something critical was added just because TSN added it.

My 2 cents.

Jay

[teepack]

OK, we'll keep the Auction League format in. I wasn't aware that many people liked it. It's my favorite way to build a team.

I'm still dialoguing (is that a word?) with Bernie to figure out exactly what TSN's involvement is going to be. I do know that he is interested in helping promote the Tour to everybody who plays SOM on-line, so I am hoping we'll get more players this year. The more, the better, right? As soon as we can get some definitive word on prizes, we'll post the rules. But in lieu of that, I'm going to go ahead and start a sign-up thread in the next day or two! Spring training has begun, so it's time to get this puppy rolling!