Baseball Card League

[Ceetar]

I just had a random thought, and I don't know if this would be reasonable, but it _would_ require very little time.

You buy one of those 36 packs of Topps cards and rank, in order from top to bottom, the players you get in Yahoo's pre-draft rankings. That's it. No trading/waivers. Just your ~36ish players randomly assigned.

[smg58]

That might be too random, especially if we want to keep most of the players after this season. Plus you'd need to be on some sort of honors system. But if we have a large number of players drafting 40-man teams, some means of shortening the draft might be necessary.

[Ceetar]

smg58 wrote: That might be too random, especially if we want to keep most of the players after this season. Plus you'd need to be on some sort of honors system. But if we have a large number of players drafting 40-man teams, some means of shortening the draft might be necessary.

Well i figured this would be typical Yahoo one-year stuff.

[metsmarathon]

i like it as an alternate league. i worry that it might be very challenging to fill a complete/decent roster with a 36-pack. plus the issue of series one vs. series two.

draft order would have to be randomly assigned, and i think that as long as any player challenges could be met with a photo of all the cards in the pack, we'd be fine.

i would suggest that the players in your pack who you do not draft are available to you as the year goes on. you may pick up any of those players as a free agent, provided you have their card. the player you drop may only be acquired by another team if they also hold the player's card.

and what about if you get a team checklist, or manager card, or what not? can you then pick any player on that team? (i kindof like that idea - a checklist type card would allow you to select anyone listed , but you may only use that card in the last round of the draft).

any feature cards like league leaders or all stars which feature multiple players would count as regular cards. (or would they be single use cards? if your card has, say, three guys on it, can you pick up any three or only one of the three?)

[Ceetar]

metsmarathon wrote: i like it as an alternate league. i worry that it might be very challenging to fill a complete/decent roster with a 36-pack. plus the issue of series one vs. series two. draft order would have to be randomly assigned, and i think that as long as any player challenges could be met with a photo of all the cards in the pack, we'd be fine. i would suggest that the players in your pack who you do not draft are available to you as the year goes on. you may pick up any of those players as a free agent, provided you have their card. the player you drop may only be acquired by another team if they also hold the player's card. and what about if you get a team checklist, or manager card, or what not? can you then pick any player on that team? (i kindof like that idea - a checklist type card would allow you to select anyone listed , but you may only use that card in the last round of the draft). any feature cards like league leaders or all stars which feature multiple players would count as regular cards. (or would they be single use cards? if your card has, say, three guys on it, can you pick up any three or only one of the three?)

Maybe you need two packs? 72 cards? Obviously it'd be pretty honor system-reliant. Even pictures don't really work, unless you want to make a little you tube video of each of us opening the pack and stepping through the order.

I was envisioning a specific order. So you open the top pack, put it on top of the bottom pack and that's your draft order. I'd say checklist/leader cards mean you get to pick one to insert in that slot of the draft. A Wild Card so to speak, but obviously just because you pick a player there doesn't mean you get him, because someone else may have that card and have him higher.

[metsmarathon]

ok. i gotcha. you pick the players in the order that you pick the cards out of the pack. i was thinking you rip open the pack, order the players, and go from there. your way is much more evil.

[Ceetar]

metsmarathon wrote: ok. i gotcha. you pick the players in the order that you pick the cards out of the pack. i was thinking you rip open the pack, order the players, and go from there. your way is much more evil.

evil is my middle name.

Of course I'm open to any interpretation, if enough people want to do it. It probably wouldn't make that much of a difference since there won't be that much overlap between packs.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Nice idea, but strikes me as too random for a game of skill.

Let's get our shit together on that ottoneu thing and make that happen first.

[seawolf17]

I used to do something like this when we used to do a live in-person draft. I'd buy a pack of cards on the way to draft day (football or baseball, depending on the draft) and force myself to draft at least one of the guys in the pack.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

What do you do if you get a card for a player who is retired, has a season-long injury or is Adam Greenberg?

[Ceetar]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: What do you do if you get a card for a player who is retired, has a season-long injury or is Adam Greenberg?

lose?

[seawolf17]

Thankfully, packs have ten or so cards, so you've got some wiggle room there.