[IBL] What if.....no 2020?

[Michael Kenlan]

 Assuming no baseball in 2020, I thought it would be interesting to play a one-off season where you look back through your franchise's history and compile your best 30-man roster to play with.  I believe the cards already exist?  If you wanted to add an element of creative roster building, it could be a 29-man roster with one card from each year since '92. No trades.
Simultaneously, if baseball resumes in 2021, waivers would continue to process each week for your regular dynasty roster.  Initially the waiver order would be based off of last year's standings, but after each add you get bumped to the bottom of the order.
A one-off season while maintaining regular waivers on the side would offer a good balance between 2021 fun and playing for the future.
myk_nyk
    On Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 01:19:14 PM MDT, Robert Barnes <roblbarnes67 at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 Throwing my thoughts into this... Obviously what happens in 2020 will change things. 
I like the idea of playing 2021 with projected cards assuming we don't have a 2020 season. Then we keep the same players but different stats but not too far off from reality. So the feel of "what if" that someone already mentioned works for me. My issue is who to draft? Will there be projected players that are not already rostered? Will I be wasting my upcoming T-0 pick? 
I don't really want to play this seasons cards all over again. It's already getting painful!! 😉 Random cards doesn't help with building your team of the future. I'd like to have a solution that keeps me building the team I want to have for tests to come. 
SLG_Rob

On Mon, Jun 1, 2020, 12:24 PM Russell Peltz <peltz38 at gmail.com> wrote:

Hopefully it doesn't come to that, but I was also thinking about what to do in that situation.  Playing the 2019 season a second time with the same rosters doesn't sound very appealing but it's an option.  Some other good and bad ideas to throw out there:
- Play the 2019 card set again, but we redraft from scratch- Play the 2019 card set again, but we each choose a real MLB team to manage- Play the 2019 card set again, but rosters are random
- Play a previous season
In any case, I'd think our rosters would revert to what they were at the end of this year in terms of keepers.
Another topic for discussion -- if MLB plays a shortened schedule, say 82 games, should we play 82 games in the IBL next year?  Or should we finagle things so we play a full 162 game schedule?  It's a fantasy league, in our universe we can pretend there was no pandemic if we want to.

-Rusty

On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 8:39 AM Doug Palmer <aeronutty43 at gmail.com> wrote:


All,

 

Wondering what the contingency plan will be if there’s no 2020 baseball season to simulate next year?  I’ve seen the discussions begin in other forums for SoM and Dynasty.  I was wondering what the thoughts were around here.

 

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