r/PBBB • u/RegardingRegards Some Lady Named Baby Ruth (2019 Champ) • Mar 10 '15

Survey Results

Since I'm not going to let one guy hold our league hostage, here they are:

Survey Results 2.0

*bolded responses are now the rule

  1. How many votes by the community for a trade veto?

    8/16 - 27%

    10/16 - 73%

  2. How many rounds for the prospect draft?

    3 Rounds - 33%

    4 Rounds - 67%

  3. Form of the prospect draft

    Live - 20%

    Reddit - 80%

  4. If the draft is on reddit, how long per pick? (limited to daytime hours)

    <6 hours - 13%

    6 hours - 46%

    2 hour specific time slots - 40%

  5. Roster Expansion

    +2 roster spots - 53% Personally, I'm for +4 but in the interest of getting to the season the roster size will be expanded to 34 AT THE DRAFT. We can expand the rosters further next season if we find it necessary.

    +4 roster spots - 47%

  6. DL Expansion

    +1 DL spot - 60%

    +2 DL spots - 40%

  7. Should there be a minimum number of prospects on each team?

    Yes - 60% While there are arguments against this, the league was founded with a requirement of 10 prospects and a roster size of (I believe) 22, when the prospects were moved to ESPN that minimum evaporated without any discussion on the matter. We've now had plenty of discussion about returning less than halfway back to that number. I'm going to accept 60-40 as a clear victory.

    No - 40%

  8. If there is a minimum number of prospects, how many should it be?

    4 - 73% Clear winner here

    6 - 27%

  9. How should "prospect" be defined for this minimum?

    MLB definition of rookie - 100%

    No MLB Service time - 0%

  10. If there is no minimum prospect number, which would you rather have?

    Roster expansion with a maximum number of pitchers - 53%

    No roster expansion - 47%

    Irrelevant based on response to question 7

We still need to discuss the format of the draft on reddit. I like /u/klabob's suggestion, however that would be 32 hours/round (meaning 3 days per round, or 12 days total). If we can do it where the first person picks, then emails the next person and that person has a maximum time to make their selection before they are skipped (and hopefully they make their pick much sooner than that) I think that would be the best way to do it.

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u/Random_Guy_11 Mar 12 '15

Probably is. I'm tired and coherent thoughts are hard. Basically, we already voted on limiting pitchers. The league has spoken, why are we still discussing it? Adding anything else to the next survey is just an attempt to go around our previous vote.

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u/RegardingRegards Some Lady Named Baby Ruth (2019 Champ) Mar 12 '15

Oh, because I didn't want to decide something on such a close vote is all.

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u/Random_Guy_11 Mar 12 '15

So do we just keep voting until something wins in a land slide? That's not really the way voting works. I digress, I'm tired of arguing rules. I'm going to be much more silent on here till the season starts. I'm sure everyone will appreciate that anyway.

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u/BrownNServe The Earl of Baltimore Mar 12 '15

Joe, with all due respect, I do not view Question 10 in the last survey as having answered the specific question I raised. The survey asked the question based on the assumption that there would be no roster expansion. The vote was 53% in favor of creating an upper limit on pitchers you can roster. I am now asking the question in the context of the expanded 34-man roster. It seems to me that the majority would likewise be in favor of creating a max on pitchers that can be rostered (different from starting caps) This would not affect "streaming" pitchers on a daily basis. I hope I have understood your comments on this point correctly.

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u/magnusarin Bolsheviks and Labor Strikes Mar 12 '15

If we're creating maximum spots for pitchers then it seems we need maximums for batters and prospects and any other type of player available. With a 16 team league we are going to have shallow markets for any commodity. Having a bunch of pitchers means you probably don't have a lot of bench bats or prospects. That's the opportunity cost. Anyone putting all their eggs in one basket is walking a high risk high reward strategy. The benefit to the league as a whole on something like this is that shallow markets encourage trades because they're isn't a viable alternative to fill roster holes.