Offseason rules proposals

[SoonerorLitigator]

This is just something that the commish did in leagues that I was in for about 15 years.  He had 30+ fantasy baseball leagues, and the entry fee was $200 per team per season.  He closed down his fantasy service in about 2015.

He did something called a re-stocking draft.  It was basically used to improve teams whose owners had left the league.

Let's say 2 owners leave the league.  One of the teams has a .300 winning pct, and the other abandoned team was at .400.

The commish had a formula.  I don't remember exactly how it went, but it was something like this.
If an abandoned team had a winning pct below .300, that team would get 4 major league players in the re-stocking draft.
If an abandoned team's winning pct was .300 to .400, it would get 3 major league players in the re-stocking draft.
If an abandoned team's winning pct was .400 to .500, that team would get 2 major league players in the re-stocking draft.

These players would come from the better teams in the league.  So in the example, the abandoned team at .300 would get 3 players.  The other abandoned team at .400 would get 2 players.

The way it worked is that would be 5 total players, so the top 5 teams with the best winning pct would submit a list to protect 12 players, and then the commish would take one player from each of these teams and put them on the two abandoned teams in order to make them more sellable.

I just thought I'd mention this in case it was needed.

Understanding the desire to make teams more attractive to new owners, I would be opposed to this. I took over my team when they were a dumpster fire at the major league level. I didn't win more than a game or two that first season. However, the prior owner had a stocked farm system. He did, because he had traded major league assets to acquire more minor league assets and draft picks. Fast forward two years and I will be very competitive as those players are getting to the majors. I don't think my team should have been given an advantage because it was abandoned. 

I think we protect the integrity of the league with making sure trades are balanced and fair. We can reserve something like this for rare instances when a team is such terrible shape that they aren't viable and have limited hope for the future.