<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Hey all,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Last call for any suggestions about the below proposals that might make them better and/or expose their flaws before I submit any of them to the Commish this weekend. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">My current intention is to submit the Draft Calendar and Injuries proposals, but not the Draft Tier of IBL Champion proposal. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The feedback on the calendar and injuries proposals, albeit limited, has been positive.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The draft tier of champion proposal has been pointed out to potentially run into the “stalled playoffs” scenario. The final draft order could not be set until the playoffs were finished, and the playoffs are sometimes stalled pretty close to the start of the draft (or could even be unfinished at the time the draft is slated to begin).</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">So the champion draft tier proposal would best be paired with new rules around timeframes for finishing the playoffs, as was done on the last ballot. I wasn’t in favor of that proposal, but I am not sure of an alternative that is a great approach either. Without a good solution to a stalled draft, the juice of moving the champion to tier 3 (in some years they are tier 3 anyway) does not seem worth the squeeze. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Thoughts welcomed. Thanks much and take care all.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">David</div><div dir="ltr"><br><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> D <genny429@gmail.com><br><b>Date:</b> July 26, 2021 at 1:43:02 PM CDT<br><b>To:</b> IBL teams <members@lists.ibl.org><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Hello and Possible Ballot Items</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hello all -<div><br></div><div>Hope everyone is having a good summer so far. I am considering submitting mid-season ballot proposals on three subjects: the draft calendar, injury time, and the draft tier of IBL champions. Before deciding whether to submit any proposals to the Commish, comments or suggestions on any/all of the below are welcomed.</div><div><br></div><div><u><b>Draft Calendar</b></u></div><div><u><br></u></div><div><u>Goal</u>: To reduce the length of lists, give owners more information as the draft proceeds, and increase trading opportunities.</div><div><br></div><div><u>Proposal</u>:
The proposal would move away from 24-pick rounds. Instead, each draft day would cover 8 or 12 picks (except for Rounds 8 and 9, which would stay as is). Picks would still be made on M, W, F, with no picks on weekends. The pre-draft, pick-by-pick phase would be unchanged. </div><div><br></div><div>The first and second draft rounds would each be divided into three, 8-pick tiers.</div><div><br></div><div>Each of rounds three through seven would be divided into two, 12-pick tiers. </div><div><br></div><div>Round 8 would be a 24-pick tier (as it is now). </div><div><br></div><div>Round 9 and later would be due on one day as the last day of the draft (as it is now).
</div><div><br></div><div>To accomplish this, list drafting would start approximately two weeks before it does now and end at approximately the same time. The draft would begin on the third Monday in January. Depending on where the third Monday falls, the draft would run from January 15 through February 26 at the earliest and from January 21 through March 2 at the latest (see attached proposal).</div><div><br></div><div>The Commissioner would have discretion to convert more rounds from 12-pick to 8-pick tiers depending on how far the pick-by-pick phase progresses. For every 8-pick tier finished in the pick-by-pick phase, an additional round can be converted from 12-pick tiers to 8-pick tiers without affecting the overall draft calendar. </div><div><br></div><div>A summary of the resulting draft calendar parameters is attached, along with draft language for the Constitution. <br></div><div><br></div><div><b><u>Injuries</u></b></div><div><b><u><br></u></b></div><div><u>Goal</u>: To reduce the risk that a single player suffers injury days that substantially exceed his "real-life" injury days. The chances of a single player accumulating multiples of his injury days would be mitigated, but not eliminated.</div><div><br></div><div><u>Proposal</u>: Another owner shared with me an idea that is the basis of this proposal:</div><div><ul><li>If a player's card has DL days above 0 and has already served as many or more than his DL days, add 2 to his durability rating prior to rolling for additional injury and days missed. The durability rating is modified only once per season, and a player's modified durability range cannot exceed 8. </li></ul></div><div>As an example, if a 5/18 guy accrued 18 injury days or more, he'd convert to 7/18 for the rest of the season, which would reduce his 100% DL range by 20% and his 50% DL range by 30%.</div><div><br></div><div>If a 7/10 guy accrued 10 days or more, he'd convert to durability 8/10, reducing both his 100% and 50% DL ranges by 10%. Capping the durability rating at 8 is meant to prevent 7 durability players from becoming essentially bullet-proof as a durability 9. The trade-off is guys with durability 6 and durability 7 both would get adjusted to durability 8.</div><div><br></div><div>The proposal maintains injury risk by avoiding a hard cap on injury days, but lessens the risk of injury-day multiples. Rollbot-driven variability remains (for example, a player suffers a 50% injury then 100%, or a player gets hit multiple times with injury even under the mitigated durability rating).</div><div><br></div><div><b><u>Draft Tier of IBL Champions</u></b></div><div><b><u></u></b><br></div><div>One of the offseason ballot proposals that failed included a sub-proposal that the IBL champion is automatically placed in Tier 3 in the offseason draft that follows the ticker-tape parade. Seemed sensible.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thoughts on any of the above are more than welcomed. I have been on the fence about suggesting anything, but the draft calendar and injury multiples are perennial considerations for me so I figured it couldn't hurt to offer them up. <br></div><div><br></div><div> Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>- David (oxy) </div></div>
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