The Commissioner for a fantasy baseball league is not an easy task. The hours are long. You manage often a bunch of crybabies. And wages: it sucks.
Hopefully you'll get the rules so that there is no possible disputes in the season, you have the rule, but there is always a guy looking for a loophole in the rules to take advantage of. It is, of course, a game of dots, so why should not be leaders look for ways to maximize their points. It is up to you to create a set of rules that attempt to cover all possible situations that occur. Not easy.
Here are some of the decisions, a Commissioner needs to make when you start a League.
I think its always a good idea to have a cash prize. Secure, winning the league trophy and bragging rights are important, but there is nothing motivates fantasy baseball managers through a long season than a cash prize.
Cash price should not only be for first place. Give cash prizes for the entire first half of the League. If a manger falls early, they have an incentive to get involved and try to move to fifth place in a ten team league.
How much money is the issue. The amount of money invested per player will depend on how wealthy friends in the league. It should be enough to keep them interested, but not so much that they start hating you, if you make a decision as Commissioner to cost them more than just a night out with their wife or girlfriend. Consider about $ 100-$ 300 per manager.
LEAGUE SIZE AND DEPTH
It is not often that you can get a group of more than 10 into a League. It is useful if you have 20 or more in a League, but it is really a lot of work and hard to assemble.
Get cash up front or you want to see the team disappear in the week before the draft. Who plays havoc with Commissioners and many leagues is abandoned at the last moment of precisely this reason.
It has always been my opinion that a League, is profoundly more fun than one where the teams are comprised of all all stars. All are familiar with Derek Jeter and A-Rod. A true test is to find out who knows about Dustin Moseley and Francisco Cervelli. (A deep league is someone who has almost as many fantasy team as real-life teams so that teams must be stocked with both starters and reserves from MLB).
Really get a deep league together, you will often have to decide whether to make the National League or American only-only League.
THE POINTS SYSTEM
In the early years of fantasy baseball, was the original 4 x 4 League invented as the norm. Keep track of 8 statistical categories was about everything a League Commissioner could handle if he does not have a job at IBM.
Today, however, with the spread of the State Internet services, you do an almost unlimited amount of statistical categories. Some services will even keep track of balks you!
Add a category like CATEGORY SPACES will make your league more life to the real game of baseball. Reduced men overlooked usually in fantasy baseball, seems sensible statistical category. As for sacrifice bunts, balks or I will leave that to them to decide.
While have oddball statistical categories can be fun, usually more is less.
TO LEADER LIGÆR OR POINT LIGÆR
There is certainly something to say to both the leader and point leagues, so this is a personal decision. One of the advantages of leader leagues is to seem to keep players motivated, they want to turn off their comrades, even if it means playing spoiler late in the season. It is also better reflects the true baseball, but it goes against traditional fantasy baseball leagues cereals.
With Commander leagues, vibrations can occur every week, just as in real games. Better managers and better team win not always every week as a weaker team can get hot. During the long season, however, want better teams and leaders victories in a points league.
Daily or weekly LINEUP changes
Some leagues allow for daily lineup changes. This is almost too much work for busy guys. It means you numregenerator players and out every day and take advantage of days, potential rainouts and special sequences for the night.
Regardless of how much of a fantasy baseball nerd you are, it is almost too much over a 6 month season. You do not want to be responsible for a divorce.
Weekly Shift leagues be more sensible, but educate potential question of starting pitcher streaming (where a manager uses 2 starting pitchers this week on his starting lineup). Frankly, I think 2 starting pitcher streaming is an interesting addition to a fantasy baseball leagues, so I would recommend the possibility of weekly lineup changes.
If you have a group of friends who are reliable and at least half of them will return to the next season, perhaps a keeper league makes sense for you. Most leagues allow for up to 15 users from year to year; Some may be as few as 3 per year.
You will always have the conveyor belt in leaders each year. Gives fewer users from one year to the next will promote new blood in your league so keep users to a minimum from year to year seems to be the most sensible.
The draft--Auction or Snake draft
It is a different decision based on the commitment and experience of your players. An auction draft is more complicated and will require further preparation to your leaders, but in the end its more fun and adds a new element in relation to the draft process. Make an auction draft, you must almost be in the same room with all the other leaders, which makes it online or by telephone would be a long and difficult process.
The draft is not an auction for each League, but if you can drag it off, it is clearly more fun.
It is inevitable that you will some controversy over the rules. You can not think of everything. While it is ideal to have a Commissioner who is not the owner of a team in the League, is unrealistic and rarely is there a knowledgeable person willing to be involved, without the need to have a team in the League.
To put things up for a vote will only make things worse. When controversy arrives, search everyone's opinion and then rely on a group of 3 of the most experienced and fair managers to be your advisory board, and then make your decision. Not everyone will like it, but in the end, the Commissioner shall decide.
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