1866 (Season 29) Off-season Thread

[Young Drachma]

Might as well get the draft lottery out of the way.

[Young Drachma]

Obviously this is for 1866, for the newbs, since we moved the draft to the end of the year, the draft basically runs a year behind. But it's a lot better now because you all have more time to reflect on your picks and junk.

[Young Drachma]

In the 1865 draft(the one coming up next Thursday), the expansion teams Minnesota will pick 3rd and San Diego will pick 4th and everyone after that will be moved down a pick as a result.

[Young Drachma]

[Young Drachma]

[TurnerONU22]

To quote the Simpsons: "Everything's coming up Millhouse!"

After all the years that I was terrible and not getting good draft picks, I'm mediocre, yet I end up with the 2nd pick now 2 years in a row!

[wolvie109]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M67E9mpwBpM

[TurnerONU22]

Originally Posted by wolvie109

Everything's coming up Milhouse! - YouTube

Thanks!

[Subby]

Ok, I feel better.

[Young Drachma]

Yeah a 2% chance at the top pick and nailing it. That's clutch a year removed from a playoff appearance.

[Young Drachma]

sttfrk
(aka statfreak) from over at OOTP is a longtime member of the forums there and has decided to join us in SLOP which we're pleased about! He'll be taking over the NL's Minnesota Muskies.

[Young Drachma]

Also the HTML is updated and now features the divisional realignment.

[sttfrk]

Originally Posted by Young Drachma

sttfrk
(aka statfreak) from over at OOTP is a longtime member of the forums there and has decided to join us in SLOP which we're pleased about! He'll be taking over the NL's Minnesota Muskies.

Thanks. Looking forward to being a part of the league.

[Young Drachma]

EVERYONE: Make sure that you download the LATEST file (as in, the one I just put up) before you submit a finalized draft list for next Thursday night's draft. I've gone ahead and just entered everyone in STREP into this year's draft as the pool was very weak.

[Young Drachma]

We're going to do the draft tomorrow, nerds. So if you haven't done a draft list, you should probably go ahead and make that happen. Here's the schedule that should eventually get us back to a normal one.

The schedule will then be:
FA1: Friday (12/28)
FA2: Saturday (12/29)
FA3/Spring Training: Wednesday (1/2)
1st Half: Thursday (1/3)
2nd Half: Friday (1/4)
Playoffs: Tuesday (1/8)

[Young Drachma]

draft and sim to FA tonight.

[Young Drachma]

The Minnesota Muskies are moving to Portland, Oregon to become the Portland Thorns.

[Young Drachma]

In other clerical news, critch a veteran of both OOTP and these here forums will be taking over the hapless Boston Blue Sox. Another FOBLite coming to poison the masses.

[wolvie109]

Originally Posted by Young Drachma

FOBLite

I read this as Fobblite.

[Subby]

Faux Bull...aight?

[Subby]

Originally Posted by Young Drachma

draft and sim to FA tonight.

hmm do you have a file from me?

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by Subby

hmm do you have a file from me?

Nope.

[Young Drachma]

Ok, let's do this shit.

[Young Drachma]

For the newbs, the draft runs a year behind because we moved it to the off-season, so the draft happening now is actually the 1865 draft, not the 1866 draft. Alas, the draft order is from last year.

1st round
1. Kauai
2. Columbus
3. San Diego (EXPANSION TEAM)
4. Portland (EXPANSION TEAM)
5. Boston
6. Denver
7. Washington (via Rio Grande)
8. Brooklyn
9. Chicago
10. Gettysburg
11. Wyoming
12. Kauai (via St. Louis)
13. Cleveland
14. Memphis
15. Lake Tahoe
16. Winnemucca
17. Washington
18. Las Vegas
19. Carolina
20. Cuyahoga

2.1 St. Louis (via Kauai)
2.6 St. Louis (via Denver)

3.12 Denver (via St. Louis)

[wolvie109]

Man the list is so long. Good thing I gave away the 2.1

[Young Drachma]

Holy cow. There's some crazy guys in FA this year.

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by wolvie109

Man the list is so long. Good thing I gave away the 2.1

Hahaha..yeah, it's sort of crazy to me too that there are so many teams.

[Young Drachma]

League file is uploading right now, but I'm about to leave. So give it 30 minutes from this post and then try to download it. I'll do the HTML remotely tomorrow.

[Young Drachma]

We're supposed to do FA1 tonight. Would it be easier for everyone if I consolidated the FA1/FA2 stages into one stage and simmed it tomorrow night?

We'll see based on the # of exports we get, but..I feel like that'd be the case.

[Gomer]

That doesnt give much chance to negotiate with FA's or to reconfigure our offers based on who's still left on the board.

Just sayin'.

[Young Drachma]

Ok, then we'll stick to the plan. Works for me. FA1 tonight. FA2 tomorrow night. Bring yer offers.

[Young Drachma]

Was able to access my desktop via Splashtop on my phone. Just set the HTML to upload and so...it'll be updated over the next hour or so.

[sttfrk]

what time do exports need to be in by?

I have several offers to make, but can't export until after 8:00pm.

[Young Drachma]

Midnight eastern. You should be good to go.

[Subby]

So I have the 1.1 NEXT draft?

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by Subby

So I have the 1.1 NEXT draft?

Correct. Next off-season.

[Gomer]

Originally Posted by Subby

So I have the 1.1 NEXT draft?

Fuckin cheeter.

[Young Drachma]

Let's spend some cash

[Young Drachma]

Thursday, November 16th, 1865
Portland Thorns: Signed free agent SP Tony Irizarry to a 1-year contract worth a total of $900,000.
Cuyahoga Spiders: Signed free agent SP Diego Carrasco to a 6-year contract worth a total of $123,000,000.
Kauai Emeralds: Signed free agent MR Amari Gray to a 3-year contract worth a total of $20,500,000.
Memphis Smokers: Signed free agent SP J.D. Carter to a 5-year contract worth a total of $91,000,000.
St. Louis Aviators: Signed free agent C J.J. Adler to a 2-year contract worth a total of $1,000,000.
St. Louis Aviators: Signed free agent 1B J.D. Guthrie to a 2-year contract worth a total of $1,600,000.
Kauai Emeralds: Signed free agent MR Teuk-chin You to a 1-year contract worth a total of $3,375,000.
Sunday, November 12th, 1865
St. Louis Aviators: Signed 1B Steeven Grand to a 4-year contract extension worth a total of $31,800,000.

[Young Drachma]

I'm doing this on the laptop remotely, so the graphics won't update and I won't do HTML generation until I get home next week. (For some reason, that stuff doesn't work when I do it on work or the laptop) But anyway..we'll do FA2 tomorrow. Still lots of big ticket fish out there.

Anyway, the file is up.

[claphamsa]

i hate FA in this league :P

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by claphamsa

i hate FA in this league :P

Spend more money. Be more happy.

[Young Drachma]

Columbus IF A.J. Hoogland should have reverted to a ML deal and so, even though he's in the FA pool, I'm going to put him back on Columbus roster. I should've last night, but forgot.

[Young Drachma]

Ok, FA2 time. Let's get 'er done.

[Young Drachma]

Wednesday, November 29th, 1865
Gettysburg Gomers: Signed free agent CF Tylor Dunbar to a 3-year contract worth a total of $16,500,000.
Monday, November 27th, 1865
St. Louis Aviators: Signed free agent SP Ron Prehn to a 6-year contract worth a total of $79,130,000.
Denver Crows: Signed free agent SP Ted Ryder to a 5-year contract worth a total of $53,000,000.
Thursday, November 23rd, 1865
Brooklyn Titans: Signed free agent C Adrien Childs to a 3-year contract worth a total of $2,850,000.
Columbus Crusaders: Signed 2B Tommy Bonner to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $16,000,000.
Columbus Crusaders: Signed free agent C Adan Langford to a 2-year contract worth a total of $2,500,000.
St. Louis Aviators: Signed free agent C Brendon Good to a 4-year contract worth a total of $4,800,000.
St. Louis Aviators: Signed free agent SP Carlos Resendiz to a 3-year contract worth a total of $9,400,000.
St. Louis Aviators: Signed free agent SP Eddie Santos to a 2-year contract worth a total of $1,400,000.
Portland Thorns: Signed free agent 3B Gordie Harvey to a 1-year contract worth a total of $600,000.
Sunday, November 19th, 1865
St. Louis Aviators: Demoted C J.J. Adler to International St. Louis.
Cleveland Laborers: Demoted MR Edward Alvarez to Triple A Columbia.
Cleveland Laborers: Purchased the contract of MR Dave Markin from Rookie League Wahpeton.
Cleveland Laborers: Purchased the contract of MR T.J. Kennedy from Triple A Columbia.
Cleveland Laborers: Purchased the contract of SP Oscar Ramos from Triple A Columbia.
Columbus Crusaders: Demoted MR Chad Robertson to International Columbus.
Denver Crows: Purchased the contract of LF Tom Robinson from Triple A Aurora.
Memphis Smokers: Purchased the contract of 2B Javon Monie from Triple A Little Rock.
Memphis Smokers: Purchased the contract of LF Jimmy Renard from Triple A Little Rock.
The St. Louis Aviators traded 30-year-old second baseman Dave Costa, 18-year-old minor league starting pitcher Dante Fennell and 19-year-old minor league starting pitcher William Matos to the Cleveland Laborers, getting 27-year-old second baseman Joey Dreyer and a 3rd round draft pick in return.
St. Louis Aviators: Demoted 1B J.D. Guthrie to International St. Louis.
St. Louis Aviators: Purchased the contract of RF Charles Durand from Triple A Los Angeles.

[Young Drachma]

Wednesday, December 20th, 1865
Gettysburg Gomers: Signed free agent LF Robby Braden to a 6-year contract worth a total of $80,000,000.
St. Louis Aviators: Signed free agent SP Dave Bennett to a 5-year contract worth a total of $19,000,000.
Denver Crows: Signed free agent MR Jimmy Hill to a 2-year contract worth a total of $4,400,000.
Washington Grays: Signed free agent SP Dave Renninger to a 4-year contract worth a total of $57,000,000.
Tuesday, December 19th, 1865
Cuyahoga Spiders: Signed free agent LF Melvin Jimenez to a 5-year contract worth a total of $16,000,000.
Saturday, December 9th, 1865
Lake Tahoe Syndicate: Signed free agent RF Fred Caldwell to a 6-year contract worth a total of $87,000,000.
Kauai Emeralds: Signed free agent 3B Félix Maestas to a 6-year contract worth a total of $81,000,000.
Columbus Crusaders: Signed free agent SS Brian Winter to a 4-year contract worth a total of $60,000,000.
Columbus Crusaders: Signed free agent SP Pat Samons to a 5-year contract worth a total of $91,416,000.
Columbus Crusaders: Signed free agent SP Walt Thomas to a 4-year contract worth a total of $72,000,000.
Gettysburg Gomers: Signed free agent 1B C.J. Miller to a 2-year contract worth a total of $3,000,000.
Monday, December 4th, 1865
Washington Grays: Signed free agent 2B Dave Plummer to a 9-year contract worth a total of $90,555,000.
St. Louis Aviators: Signed free agent SP Jamie Henkel to a 4-year contract worth a total of $37,000,000.
Cuyahoga Spiders: Signed free agent MR Tyrese Bridgett to a 1-year contract worth a total of $1,525,000.
Washington Grays: Signed free agent SP Marat Aplecheev to a 2-year contract worth a total of $2,400,000.
Gettysburg Gomers: Signed free agent SP Ian Chapman to a 4-year contract worth a total of $31,000,000.

[Young Drachma]

Monday, January 1st, 1866 ▾
St. Louis Aviators: Signed free agent CF J.J. Abrams to a 4-year contract worth a total of $23,040,000.

[Young Drachma]

FA3/Spring Training: Wednesday (1/2)
1st Half: Thursday (1/3)
2nd Half: Friday (1/4)
Playoffs: Tuesday (1/8)

So that's the deal. We're off until after the new year and then we'll dive into a quick season with an odd schedule and then get ourselves back to normal-ish after that.

File is up. We'll do Spring Training on Wednesday. I imagine there will be trades by then, with St. Louis and Columbus both over the cap.

[Young Drachma]

We're back to a 162-game schedule and continue with the no-more interleague play thing. Each team plays every team in their league (regardless of division 18 times) this will prevent the whole weaker division thing from happening despite the league structure.

[Cole]

Hey, I got married on Saturday and am heading to my honeymoon here today and as such will be out of OOTP land for the week .. Can anyone take over my team temporarily for the week just to keep things in order? It's been hectic lately and I have neglected my SLOP but hopefully someone can do some housekeeping on the team while I'm gone (Commish?) and I'll pick it back up when I return ..