National Archives Fantasy Baseball: Winter Meeting Live!

Agenda for Winter Meeting:

Meeting Agenda (as of 3/12/2009)

I. Draft

II. Commissioner

Officially approve Commissioner for next season
Issue of dispute involving the Commissioner's team. Federals suggest these should be resolved by arbitration or a vote of the league owners
What constitutes a dispute?

III. Minor League Draft and Picks

Federals suggest we cut minor league draft back to 2 rounds and keep 5 in the minors. Federals believe there are not enough players available to draft and to pick up during the season. Discussion. There are a variety of alternatives if we want to tweak these rulesIV. IP and AB team requirements
We have had teams fall short of the IP and AB requirements in each of the last two seasons. At a minimum we should discuss these requirements. Please consider changing the IP and AB requirements for each team during the entire season to match totals in Roto Book, 900 IP and 4250 AB's - or something close to this. Currently, our rules call for 1,000 IP and 3,000 at-bats.
In 2008, teams had the following total team AB's: 6295, 6267, 6589, 5777, 6930, 5696, 5907, 5138, 4994, 5803, 5548, 5856.
In 2008, teams had the following total team IP's: 1002.3, 1333.7, 1206.0, 1286.3, 1268.7, 1557.0, 1314.7, 1218.0, 1507.3, 1252.3, 642.7, 1109.3.

V. Salary Cap

WizNatSkins would like to consider raising the salary cap for each team. Is there a need for this? What impact would this have? Further clarification - this would be a salary cap raise to the bottom half of the league. Only about .10 per team. Those would be considered small market teams or perrinial losers, and be the ones to benefit.

VI. NL Players

WizNatSkins would like to discuss the possibility of adding 1 NL player to each roster. Clarification - This is a suggestion for fun. The NL player won't be bid on, take one player @ that position. If that player is injured, his replacement has to also play same position.

VII. Other Business

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