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Post by Little Bacon (Commissioner) on Sept 25, 2014 16:11:01 GMT -5
Guys, just thinking about the prospects draft and updating the rules a bit.
I'd like to have everyone draft 10 prospects to start. After the draft, there will be no limit or minimum for # of prospects you can have, and each year we'll pick 5 new prospects. Additionally, I want to get rid of the rule that says prospects have to be called up or cut after 4 years, 5 for goalies. I think that rules complicates things for everyone, makes it more difficult for teams to rebuild, and is also inconvenient for everyone given how some teams (redwings) take forever to call up prospects and dmen take a while to develop as well.
Not huge changes, but let me know what you guys think.
Thanks, James
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Post by burnsy00 on Sept 25, 2014 16:47:09 GMT -5
I am fine with it, it takes forever for players to hit 100 played games but maybe that could be the standard going forward? 100 games played and decision time? For goalies it could be higher like 150?
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Post by Little Bacon (Commissioner) on Sept 25, 2014 16:52:42 GMT -5
I'd rather not limit on when a prospect becomes a non-prospect. It'll make it easier so we won't have to track violations of such a rule.
If a player is good, you're gonna call him up and use him, so no reason for a game/year limit in that sense. If he's bad, you're gonna cut him, but not if there's an unlimited prospect roster size. So maybe we cap prospect rosters at 10 instead. At the end of the year, you can cut guys, and you draft as many guys as you have prospect spots available. I've seen this work well in baseball.
thoughts?
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Post by Little Bacon (Commissioner) on Sept 25, 2014 16:55:51 GMT -5
the prospect roster limit will prevent teams from stashing random prospects, not matter how good/bad they are.
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Post by Serge (Yak The Faulk Upov Me) on Sept 25, 2014 20:09:07 GMT -5
I'd like to see the number of prospects capped so I'm definitely on board with your second suggestion. I'm personally not a fan of leagues where you see teams with 60-70 prospects on their roster and where basically every player under the sun is on someone's farm. I also like the idea of letting teams decide whether they want to cut any number of their prospects at season's end in order to make room for new draftees.
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Post by MikeP (Lakeshore Legends) on Sept 26, 2014 17:54:36 GMT -5
Trying to catch up.... What's the final decision about prospect, so it's clear?
(The Yahoo league rules, shows something different then stated above suggestions, and James I've seen you post about 1 game condition).
The Yahoo NHL Draft is coming up soon, and I don't have time beyond tonight to prep... so clarification on all aspects to drafting including prospects, would be great.. so a plan can be established. If this is going to be a dynasty keeper league, I'd rather plan out a game plan accordingly.
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Post by Little Bacon (Commissioner) on Sept 26, 2014 18:20:38 GMT -5
Mike, I'll be sending out an email shortly with a bunch of notes, but basically for this initial draft, any players with >1 game NHL experience is in the yahoo draft, with 0 game of nhl experience is in the prospect draft.
You're right though the rules state differently. the 25 game limit in there will be for whether a player can be sent back down or not.
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