Broken Bat - Suggestions: True Draft

Post ID	Date & Time	Game Date	Function

#11721	11/11/2014 3:48:52 am
MukilteoMike Joined: 08/09/2014 Posts: 3294 Inactive	My brain refuses to let the trade idea walk away silently into the night. There must be a way to incorporate a one-person-a-season trade process that is fair. It's just one person a year! After days of pondering that, finally the obvious hit me... Why not have one true draft per season? It could go something like this. Immediately after the season ends, the next year's new pool of players is generated. The top 1000 players or so, pitchers obviously included, are then put on public display. Their full player cards are made available for consideration (what we see after we draft them currently), not just the abbreviated generalized scouting reports we get at the drafts now. Each owner then has the entire off-season to rank them however they would like. The first draft of the new season would use those rankings in an auto-draft and give each team their top player at their respective draft position. I won't bother discussing how that order might be decided here because that's really a whole other issue. The point is each team gets a fair look at the best players available and gets to choose a player that they think would help their team the most down the road. Owners could also use sort/search functions to assist them with their list. Position, potential (as is shown on the player card with the 1-20 number, not the unknown skills number), and scouting grade--very good, good, etc.--could be a few of the options to get teams started. If an owner doesn't do anything with their list, a random player is chosen for them (and they forfeit all crying rights). Obliterate pure dumb luck from the first draft. Make it a decision. Give the power to the owners. Updated Tuesday, November 11 2014 @ 4:06:51 am PST

#11722	11/11/2014 3:55:07 am
cqk328 Joined: 07/28/2014 Posts: 289 Inactive	Actually, this suggestion is not a bad idea. On the ratings, I think they should be better than what are given during the season. However, it would still make sense that these numbers are less accurate, maybe even putting a +/-5 difference on the actual level of the trait. Because it has happened many a time that a college stud becomes a dud in the majors. Other than that, love the idea!

#11726	11/11/2014 4:40:05 am
Haselrig Joined: 04/13/2014 Posts: 2812 Inactive	Hmm, sounds similar to how BuzzerBeater does their draft. You spend the first half of the season buying scouting points then after the all-star break the prospects become available to scout. You then scout them individually or as a group and rank them according to what order you want to draft each player. It works in that game because the prospects are basically blank until you scout them. The first guy might be a dud. The 47th guy may end up being a Hall of Fame potential guy. I don't see that system working in Broken Bat because we are free to look at any player's card and see exactly what everyone else sees. Everybody would pick the same prospects and it would be just like the waiver system.

#11736	11/11/2014 9:14:16 am
dwindacatcher Joined: 04/03/2014 Posts: 633 Inactive	I don't see this as being necessary.

#11741	11/11/2014 12:59:08 pm
Tiger504 Joined: 06/17/2014 Posts: 1353 Kalamazoo Bloody Tigers II.2	I get good picks. I get bad picks. I have a limit of 50 players on my complete roster. I can pick training emphasis. I can scout. I can claim anyone I want but I better know how to evaluate talent beyond the obvious because I am unlikely to win a claim on a blue chipper anyone can tell is a winner. But I'm okay with that because nobody is going to get them all. I have actually found some very productive major leaguers most others apparently thought weren't. Who knows, maybe the guy who cut them just didn't have room for them or didn't want to train them. Doesn't matter to me, I found them. This game is fair. We are all doing the best we can with the talent we find. Enjoy! Just enjoy it.