BJMB Mock Offseason #1 - You be the GM (Preliminary Interest Thread)

[TwistedLogic]

This is a thread where I will try to gauge the interest of our community to see how many people would be interested in signing up for this game.

 

Basically what it is, is that it is sort of a fantasy baseball league designed for the offseason. Instead of picking up players off waivers and competing against other teams in head-to-head matchups like traditional fantasy baseball, you are becoming the General Manager of an entire baseball organization and experiencing the off-season; trading with other squads and signing free agents to make your franchise the best ball club in the MLB. Your objective is to make your team as good as it can be through trades and signings, and then at the end of the mock, the rest of the forum will be able to vote on which team they think is the strongest. The winners will be declared the first BJMB Mock Offseason Champions. There will be two winners and two runner-ups. One champion and one runner-up will be rewarded for having the strongest 2014 roster, while the other champion and runner up will be rewarded for having the best ball club of the future (best young talent, best farm system).

 

By having two paths of competition (best team, best future), you allow players to decide whether they want to be buyers and trade their prospects and young talent for proven veterans, or if they want to be sellers, trading their expensive and ageing players for talented new prospects.

 

The game is played by players signing up on a first-come, first-serve basis, acquiring real baseball teams with their current rosters, payrolls, coaching staffs and all else. For example, I can sign up to be the GM of the San Diego Padres. I'll get their entire roster, farm system and front office, along with their current payroll and each player will be worth his real life salary. It is then my job to either trade my older players for prospects, or vice versa, but my ultimate objective is to try to gain as much talent as possible.

 

The rosters will probably be based on what they were the day the 2013 World Series ended. Free Agents will be handled by commissioners, which will be me, and one to three others that sign up for the position. To complete a trade, you will need to agree on one with another General Manager, and then both GM's will need to send me (or any other commissioner) the trade details via PM, and it will be then be the commissioners duty to judge whether it is a legitimate trade (we won't be too strict, but we won't be allowing trade rapes either). Arbitration numbers will be based on MLBTR projections, and salaries will be based on Cot's Baseball Contracts. Rosters and prospect information will be found through MLB.com and minorleagueball.com respectively.

 

This is an incredibly fun and engaging game once it is cleanly organized. I just need to see if there would be enough people interested in playing before taking the time to set it up.

 

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Tentative interest list:

 

TwistedLogic

GordieDougie

BabbaGanoush

NorthOf49

LetTheBallFly

King

Angrioter

Edited November 26, 2013 by TwistedLogic

[GD]

I'm in.

[TwistedLogic]

Would be you be interested in being a commissioner, player or both? From now on, if anyone posts, could you guys please put that down? That way I can get a gauge of how many people would want to be commissioners and then select from that bunch. If Admin sees this thread, it would also be great to see what he thinks.

 

Games like this definitely greatly increase forum activity.

[GD]

No preference.

[BabbaGanoush]

Man, this seems like a lot of work. If someone is willing to co-gm with me, I'd be interested.

[TwistedLogic]

It seems like a lot at first because most of you guys have never seen the game played before. It isn't that bad, it just looks like a lot in writing, but the commissioners are the ones that have to do a lot of the work (most of which I'll probably handle). It also comes down to how seriously you want to take it, some players that really want to win might spend more time than others that are just along for the ride. This is the first edition of this game anyways, so I think everyone will be getting their feet wet in terms of learning the ropes.

 

Teams that have two GMs definitely will be easier to handle because you can share duties.

 

I can also arrange the game for it to play quicker than it usually is done on other sites, just to make it easier on the players.

[Daniel Labude]

I am in...preferably as a player(GM) not as the commissioner.

[TwistedLogic]

We can; the way we did it on other websites was just keep track in a separate sub-forum where each GM makes their own club's thread and keeps all their information for roster and payroll, etc updated.

 

As for your question in the other thread about budgets, there will definitely be budgets. As you said, not every team can spend like the Dodgers as it's unrealistic. Each team will get their real life payroll as it stands, but each team will also have the opportunity to request for more salary cap from the commissioners. Of course, teams like the Dodgers and Yankees will have the hardest time scoring more dollars, but teams like the Rays and Athletics will have a far easier go of it. If there are teams that are just generally suckish from top to bottom, I might award them more salary dollars for them to try to fix their roster up through free agency, just to try to keep the game more fair as a whole, but we'd have to think on that. All of this is way in the later stages as we don't even know if enough people would be interested enough to play.

 

And I want at least three commissioners, who can also run teams if they wish. There will be arrangements to make sure that commissioners cannot favor their own teams.

[TwistedLogic]

Looks like we already have 4 or 5 potential players. Keep em coming.

 

And guys don't worry about having to do a lot of work for this, I'll handle as much of it as humanly possible lol. I'm not working right now so I have the time. If you've got time to watch a baseball match on nights during the season, trust me, you'll have way more than enough to handle one of these teams, it won't take nearly that much time.

[TwistedLogic]

Just got news from Admin that if we can get enough players to run this game, he'll make us a separate forum string so we can put Roster threads, free agent threads and rules threads, etc, all in that forum dedicated purely to the Mock and future fantasy redrafts, dynasty leagues, etc.

 

This way we won't have to use google docs, we can contribute to the forums post count by having everything written localized to this website.

[TwistedLogic]

Let's get some more ideas/brainstorming.

 

When it comes to signing up for teams, what are we going to do about the Blue Jays? lol. Every site I've done this game on had fans from every team, so everyone got something they wanted. This is a Blue Jays site, so I'm sure most of the people playing will want the Jays as their #1 priority. Should we make the team off-limits, run by the league (commissioners) or do a raffle of the first 10 players that put it down as a team they want?

 

The sign-up process will be three teams of your preference, in order of priority.

 

Hypothetical example:

 

Signing up as a General Manager, with King as Co-GM and Gordie as Assistant.

1. Toronto Blue Jays 2. Houston Astros 3. Pittsburgh Pirates

 

King and Gordie can then quote my post and just write "^" or "Signed." to prove that they've agreed to be my co and assistant.

[Angrioter]

I'm an agent, one very tough.

[TwistedLogic]

lmao, you think people won't want the Jays?

 

I know what team I want if I play. It definitely isn't the Jays haha.

[GD]

Are we posting priorities? Edited November 26, 2013 by GD

[TwistedLogic]

You can, but you're just giving away your ideas. This is just an interest thread. If we get enough players, I'll make the signup thread at that point, and then you can pick your teams.

[GD]

Gordie wanted the ----- everybody.

 

I would advise you to delete this if you wish to consider reasonable negotiations in WTP.

 

You are making a very powerful enemy here my friend.

[TwistedLogic]

lmao *******. I could simultaneously do signups in here, but then people might see their favourite team gone and lose interest in playing.

 

Want everyone to know about the game before people start picking their teams. And I know some teams might look like they have an advantage, but any team can win. As I said, there will be two equal winners, one for best current team, one for best future.

[theblujay]

I could care less.

 

*Couldn't*

[theblujay]

I could care less.

 

I couldn't

[GD]

King I swear to god allah science and every f***ing worshippable deity out there I will be the end of you

[GD]

I couldn't not care less?

 

A double negative. You.

 

You little s***.

[kcjaysfan]

King I swear to god allah science and every f***ing worshippable deity out there I will be the end of you

 

Don't lump science in with those fairy tales, you dirty prole.

[GD]

Don't lump science in with those fairy tales, you dirty prole.

 

I figure if I'm gonna get trolled by King tonight I might as well troll back a little.

[kcjaysfan]

I figure if I'm gonna get trolled by King tonight I might as well troll back a little.

 

I will take a giant s*** on you.

[GD]

I will take a giant s*** on you.

 

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[kcjaysfan]

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[theblujay]

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Good one, you're great with these funny image macros!

[GD]

Good one, you're great with these funny image macros!

 

Thanks man! Compliments like these really make living in my mother's basement worthwhile, really appreciate your kind words, man.

[theblujay]

Thanks man! Compliments like these really make living in my mother's basement worthwhile, really appreciate your kind words, man.

 

Rustled Jimmys...aw man I'm still ROTFLOL as I type this.

[P2F]

Rustled Jimmys...aw man I'm still ROTFLOL as I type this.

 

ROFLCOPTER or bust.