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Click here for a copy of this report in Word for Windows format March 27 DAVID'S COPPERFIELDS trade Craig Biggio (.13D) to DA PAUL MEISTERS for the Meisters' 2nd and 7th round Rotation Draft picks in 2006. Click here for updated
rosters in Excel format. 2006 Draft Day Kit Here it is, boys--your complete 2006 D-Day kit, containing all you need to prepare for this year’s Draft. This year, the draft will again be held at Rich’s office in Oakbrook. Rich has provided directions on the enclosed sheet, if you don't understand them, contact me or Rich. It looks like we'll need to auction off 145 players on Sunday -- 5 more than last year. According to my figures, here's where the Draft Day finances stand. Let me know if you have something different (not only possible, but likely!):
Draft Day Info
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note on food and drink for the draft – I will supply the traditional CFCL
pretzel rods and licorice (Twizzlers, of course). However, for beverages, it’s
every man for himself (and remember, we're in an office, so no alcohol).
There's a fridge that has some space we can use for keeping drinks cool (a
couple cans or bottles per person – you can rotate others in as you take the
cold ones out). Other notes about Draft Headquarters: Laptop Users: Please be sure to bring an extension cord (or two or three) unless you’ve got enough battery power to last you through the day. Don’t assume there will be an outlet within a foot and a half of your seat – you may need to plug in halfway across the room.Workplace Considerations: As noted above, we’ll be Drafting in Rich’s office. Even though it’s Sunday, Rich anticipates there WILL be people in the office to do things other than draft a baseball team. Just advance warning that we probably won’t be the only ones there. There are rumors the Office Manager may be there part of the time, so unless we want to end up drafting in the parking lot it would be best to keep things under control.Neatness Counts: Please try to keep things neat throughout the day. There will staff meetings in the room the next day and the cleaners don’t come in on Sunday. Hopefully this isn’t necessary since Jason’s gone, but NO PRETZEL WARS please -- they leave crumbs! Telephone Policy: If you think you might need to make a call during the day, please plan to bring a cell phone. It is NOT cool to use the office phones. At the end of this report, you'll find a set of links to other documents, including a list of everyone who was cut by their CFCL team and rosters that reflect how the all teams stand after the cuts were made. On Draft Day, I will have the complete list for everyone of all the players available in the draft and their position eligibilities. NOTE: Since we’re drafting before Opening Day and before official 25-man rosters are set, the list I’ll be providing will consist of my best information as to what the current major league rosters are (you can download an in-progress copy of this list from the Download Center. I've been keeping track of non-roster invitees and demotions to the minors, but there are bound to be some guys I miss. All the obvious people should be listed, but one or two may slip through. As always, I'm making no guarantees about the accuracy of the list. It should be used only as a supplement to your own research. Note, however, that it will be the OFFICIAL list, so if you try to nominate someone not on the list, you’ll have to convince me he’s still on an NL roster. Finally, just a couple more notes about the draft. Along with the list of who's available, I will provide worksheets for you with everyone's pre-draft rosters printed on them and with spaces to fill in the roster as the draft progresses. I will also have sheets for everyone to fill in the reserve rosters for each team. Our supplies will otherwise be limited, so if you need extra scratch paper or pencils/pens, you might want to bring them yourself. I’ll have the big color-coordinated name cards to flip up and down to show who’s in and who’s out of the bidding. These will be important, since we won't be using the Bidding Spreadsheet that we projected at previous Drafts. Knowing exactly who is in and who is out of the bidding makes things go a lot more quickly and smoothly. Speaking of smoothly and quickly, please remember to use courtesy in bidding. This does not mean that you can't call Eric a slimy, scum-sucking lizard when he raises your bid on Bobby Abreu by a penny. We just don't want you to take a minute and a half to decide if you're going to raise it another cent. Thirty seconds should be enough for an educated owner to decide, and sixty seconds should be enough for Dave H., so that's the general rule we'll use. We won't use a timing method to begin with, but if things start to drag we'll have to institute a sixty second rule. To help move things along, please take a few minutes to review the Draft Speed and Courtesy Guidelines. Well, that's about it. There's less than a week 'til D-Day. Good luck! 200 6 Hometown DiscountsBased on the 2005 standings and point totals, here are the teams that will receive a Home Town Discount Budget, the amount of their budget, and the players who are eligible for a discount.
Using the Home Town Discount Budget. When a player whose Discount rights are owned is nominated for bidding, the League Secretary will announce the team that owns that player’s Discount rights. That team will not participate in the bidding for that player. Bidding will proceed as usual, until only one bidder is left. Once all the owners but one have dropped out of the bidding, the one remaining team will be given the opportunity to make one final bid (in effect, raising his own bid). After the highest bidder has submitted his final bid, the team that owns the Discount rights for the player can then decide to: 1. Let the player go to the team that bid the highest. In this case all ties and rights to that player are broken. There is no compensation for not being able to or choosing not to use a Discount. 2. Bid on the player WITHOUT using his Discount Budget. In this case, he must raise the bid by at least .01. The other team can then rejoin the bidding, which then continues between the two teams as normal. Other teams CANNOT rejoin the bidding. Once the owner holding the Discount rights takes this route he forfeits the right of exercising any discount on that player. 3. Use a portion of their Discount Budget to acquire the player. In this case, the team holding the Discount rights decides how much of his Discount Budget to use. This amount is then deducted from the final bid and that becomes the player's salary. The amount used must be at least .01 (no .00 discounts allowed), and cannot be more than half of the team's remaining Discount Budget, rounded down. Exception: If a team has only .01 remaining in their Discount Budget, they may use that entire amount to acquire the player. Teams do not have to use their Discount Budget to acquire players for which they hold Home Town Discount rights, but then they must participate in the bidding for the player as described in Option 2, above. If an owner has used his entire Discount Budget but still holds Discount rights for un-drafted free agents he may participate in the bidding for the player as usual, but receives no special consideration for holding the Home Town Discount rights. Draft Day Kit
Below is a set of links with all the info currently available about Draft Day.
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