The JLB playoffs are finally here and I’m not in them.
It’s hard to believe after the run I had in the second-to-last week, cutting a 12.5-game lead by the Dude to a half-game.
Then the National League Champ showed me why he is the champion, destroying my team, my hopes and my season.
The Sex Panthers did the same to the Choo, knocking him out and nearly booting the Gamblers who only survived thanks to a similar rout of the Bombers.
In the end, it’s the Steaks with the division title in the National League and Big Ol’ Country Breakfast with the title in the American League.
From the bottom to the top, that’s the American League way.
(It’s looking good for the Bombers next year.)
Ol’ Country heated up over the summer and put the division away in mid-August, and that gave him the bye week to rest and watch the Crox and Gamblers go at it.
It’s out-going Outs vs. the Dude National League. One last title for the Outs before he tips his cap and tells us he’s freaking out? Or with the Dude who “should have traded” in the offseason continue to silence the naysayers?
We shall see. I’ll cover the playoffs more closely than I have the season, I promise.
OTHER NEWS/NOTES:
Expansion mini-draft
Well, it’s not expansion, but it’s a draft for the two new teams coming in as they will combine the Outs and Vandelay rosters to form a draft pool from which they will choose from.
The draft will go back and forth (no snake) and I will flip a coin (on video) tomorrow with Ryan to decide who gets the first pick, a.k.a., Mike Trout. I’ll post the video on the Facebook page for all to see.
Gina might be scratching her head and wondering why, but the fact is, there is so much anticipation for this draft. Many want it to be a Google Hangout live draft event, so I will work to make sure that happens. It will happen sometime in late September/early October depending on the schedules of Ryan and Matt.
The new rulebook will say trading starts Oct. 1, but we will not open trades until these two new owners have filled rosters to make a fair open market in the winter.
New Rulebook Coming
I was able to go in and cut out a lot of the minutia in the rulebook, and I even was able to delete that silly section on behavior because we don’t need it anymore.
The biggest changes that everyone should know are:
1) Effective day after JLB World Series is complete, teams can move whoever they want in and out of their minor leagues as long as they qualify.
- Only exception comes from draft to June 1 for minor leaguers you keep. If you keep someone in a green roster spot, they are automatically kept at the very end of the draft. Therefore, because of that luxury, you are bound to that keeper until June 1. Even if they get called up, you cannot fill the void until June 1.
2) Effective 2018, the DL will be unlimited. Sounds a bit crazy at first, but makes sense. We spend too much building these teams to have to make decisions in June when eight of them are DL eligible and you have to drop just to compete. Teams, just like in MLB, should be able to keep those who are injured.
- Stashing was my main worry with this, but if someone wants to use their 7 moves to build the biggest cache of DL players, that’s there choice. They will be hindered down the road because we will institute the following:
1. You cannot trade DL eligible players while they are still on DL. You must physically move them to bench (make them one of the 35) to make a trade.
2. You have 1 day to move a healthy player off of DL and onto your roster. LM will issue warning and then remove player from team if it is not fixed.
3) Minor leagues will expand to 4 after the 2018 draft. You can only keep 2 in the green spots going into the draft, and then you have the option to fill the other two in draft or through waivers.
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