[IBL] Hello and Possible Ballot Items

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Hello all -

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.

*Draft Calendar*

*Goal*: To reduce the length of lists, give owners more information as the
draft proceeds, and increase trading opportunities.

*Proposal*:  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.

The first and second draft rounds would each be divided into three, 8-pick
tiers.

Each of rounds three through seven would be divided into two, 12-pick
tiers.

Round 8 would be a 24-pick tier (as it is now).

Round 9 and later would be due on one day as the last day of the draft (as
it is now).

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).

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.

A summary of the resulting draft calendar parameters is attached, along
with draft language for the Constitution.

*Injuries*

*Goal*: 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.

*Proposal*: Another owner shared with me an idea that is the basis of this
proposal:

   - 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.

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%.

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.

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).

*Draft Tier of IBL Champions*

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.

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.

Thanks

- David (oxy)
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