[IBL] IBL: Something has to change

[Mike Monostra]

I think Alex hit the nail on the head with everything. From 4.6.2:

*There will be no deadline for any member to announce and no member should
feel pressured to announce a selection prior to the first Friday.*

If a team wants to hold out and wait 4, 5, 6 or more weeks to make a pick,
they have every right to do so. I'd be open to listening to people if we
want to change how the draft is conducted overall. But unless that happens,
I don't have a problem sitting and waiting for a pick to be made.

I  agree that the playoffs are an issue, but one that can be solved easily.
If you read sections 2.2.4 through 2.2.7, they detail a playoff calendar in
the final paragraph (two weeks for the best-of-five Wild Card Series, three
weeks for each best-of-seven series). Rusty recently put in artificial
deadlines similar to these in the last newsletter, which was absolutely
necessary. If these are simply implemented and properly followed each year
from when the regular season ends, we're talking about the IBLCS ending by
mid-January. Two months total for playoffs is a perfect compromise between
giving teams time to play FtF (if they can) and allowing for the typical
delays related to the holidays, life, etc.

NJR Mike

On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 4:04 PM, Alex Campbell <arc213 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The draft doesn’t officially start until Feb 1. The pick by pick portion
> is a type of accommodation that is outlined in section 4.6.2 of the
> constitution. There is no time limit by pick and no owner should feel
> pressure to pick per the constitution.
>
> Personally, I am more troubled by the lack of progress in the playoffs.
>
> AC
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 21, 2018, at 10:51 AM, Doug Palmer <aeronutty43 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Joel,
>
> I was thinking the exact same thing!!  I can't believe that we're only 8
> picks in not to mention the IBL Playoffs are STILL going on!!  The season
> ended months ago.  I wish I had an answer but I don't.  A time limit (3
> days?) from the time you're on the clock?  Go to lists faster?
>
> It would probably be beneficial to have the 2017 season finished before
> the 2018 season starts :)
>
> Doug/BAL
>
> On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 12:56 PM, Joel Roberts via Members <
> members at lists.ibl.org> wrote:
>
>> So, we are (by my count) 12 days from going to pick-by-list and we are
>> only on the eighth pick of the draft. This has to be some kind of record.
>>
>> If we look at the number of days spent on each pick a pattern emerges:
>>
>> 1. 19
>> 2. 0 (yay?)
>> 3. 0 (yay...)
>> 4. 0 (Yay!!!)
>> 5. 13
>> 6. 8
>> 7. 2 (Maybe things are moving?)
>> 8. 13 and counting
>>
>> Now, one might assume from this rant that I am against the idea of not
>> having deadlines for the draft. This could not be further from the truth.
>> *I do not prefer a draft with per-pick deadlines.* I like that this system
>> accommodates the fact that people have lives, especially around the
>> holidays, and I don't want to see people chained to the draft on an
>> artificial schedule for two months.
>>
>> In the past this system has worked perfectly well, but for the past few
>> drafts it seems to be broken. And the cause of this, it would seem to me,
>> is that people delay action and planning until their pick is actually up.
>> If people are looking to trade their pick, they sit until they are actually
>> on the clock and only then do they shop the pick. This leads to the
>> following.
>>
>> -- Somebody (finally) picks.
>> -- The next person realizes they would rather trade the pick than choose
>> any of the remaining players.
>> -- They wait up to two weeks before realizing they aren't going to get
>> any offers they like.
>> -- They finally pick the guy they would have picked anyway.
>> -- (Repeat the cycle)
>>
>> This is actually a culture shift from the time when the draft was working
>> better. In the past people with an impending pick have had a list of a few
>> players they would like, on the presumption that some of them might be
>> picked ahead of their pick. If it looked like all their faves might be
>> gone, they actually shopped their pick ahead of time so that their
>> negotiations could move along in time to be done soon after they were on
>> the clock.
>>
>> Like I said before, I like the framework we have now. And I think it
>> could work, because it has in the past. But it's not working now so, unless
>> something culturally changes to improve the situation. when the next round
>> of constitution amendments comes around I will put a proposal on the table
>> that has some kind of per-pick deadline. Maybe people will vote for it and
>> maybe they won't. If it doesn't pass, fine by me. That just means I am one
>> of the few, if not the only, people annoyed by this. But I don't think I am.
>>
>> Joel
>> CAN
>>
>
>
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