2020 season open forum

[Ace]

Preface: We should be aware that MLB season may not go ahead as planned due to covid.

Money played for: Anywhere from $20 to $40 is fine be me.

Format ideas: Play every team in your league (AL/NL) each week for 6 weeks, then 3 weeks of playoffs (8 teams). Split whatever pot we have 50/50 between regular season and postseason. If play stops after 6 weeks then split the playoff money between top 12 evenly. Or could just have a 9 week regular season playing 6 games per week in one giant division.

Contracts: If no season or we don't play for a large % then toll all prospect contracts and let GMs decide on vets. Ultimately i'd prefer to take the team control unless we played for a decent amount of money and had at least half of that for the regular season.

Extensions: For 2021 would use highest of 2018, 2019 and 50% of 2020. Back to normal by 2023. I'd wipe 2020 if the real life season ended up being less than 50 games; too much variance. Could also consider not counting 2020 if we only played for $20.

Draft: Could do an average of 2019 and 2020 finishes to work out positions for next draft. Obviously we'd just use 2019 if MLB doesn't play any (or many) games.

Scoring: Maybe look at QS; might not be a viable category if pitchers are rarely going deep and/or openers are used a lot. Fantrax has a Quality Appearance option which is IP of 5 or more and ERA of 4.5 or less. Link to 2019 leaderboard (i added it as a category temporarily so people can evaluate).