College Fantasy Wrestling League Discussion Thread
This is still a work in progress, but I figured I'll open up sign ups now. I'm going to be running this league, any others that want to adept the format that I set up here you're more than welcome to.
1. This is going to be a 14 team league. We'll do a standard reverse snake draft, a date, and order is to be determined.
2. You'll start 11 guys every week, 1 guy each 125-285, then one flex guy from whatever weight you want. Teams will be comprised of fifteen wrestlers, so you'll have four guys on your bench to insert as necessary
3. Scoring will be the same all the time. Your guy wins a decision, thats three points, your guy gets a major, thats four points, and so on and so forth. If your guy knocks off a #1 ranked USA Today/Intermat ranked wrestler then you'll pick up a three point bonus on top of that for that match.
Come playoff time, as it'll only apply then, you'll get five bonus points for having a Conference Champion. Then for the two guys in the final, they'll get as many as an eight point bonus for each All American they have.
4. In terms of what events will count, all duals will count. As will the Kaufman Brand, Vegas, Reno, Midlands, and Southern Scuffle tournaments during the regular season, and then conferences and NCAA's will count as well.
5. This is going to be a roto league, it isn't going to be head to head each week. What I mean by this, is that you won't be having week long "duals" with each other.
I'm thinking that I'll separate the league into two, seven team divisions for the regular season. Then when Conferences comes around I'll seed the top two teams from each division into a four team playoff. Conference tournaments will eliminate two teams, then the two winning teams from that week will compete during NCAA's to determine the winner.
6. Trades are allowed, and encouraged. As of right now, I'm not planning on making Free Agency an option though, this means you need to be careful when you draft. To deal with problems that may arise however, over the Winter Break when teams aren't competing we'll have an optional supplemental draft where you can drop guys who are injured, have moved up, or just haven't performed, and then draft guys who have come out of no where.
Edit: Injuries: If you have a guy who has established himself as the guy at that weight on his team and he gets hurt, I'll use Reiter last year as an example, I've decided that you won't be left with nothing until the supplemental. You'll get the guy who fills the line up spot for them. So last year had we done a league, the guy who got Reiter would have gotten Thorn, and only Thorn. All other alterations will have to wait until the supplemental.
Weight/Beat out: With this, you have a guy who moves up in weight after the draft, or gets beat out of the line up, then you'd better have drafted another guy at that weight, or else that spot in your line up will be empty until the supplemental draft. Examples this year, most specifically just platooning, for the Gophers you take one of their 165's, 174's, or 285's, you may want to consider getting the other one as well, same for Iowa's 133.
7. I'd personally prefer if we make this a money league, just something real nominal like $10, but just enough to make sure people pay attention to their teams. What I would do, was just set up a Paypal account for the league, and then whoever wound up winning, I'd give them the details of the account to do what they liked with it. Naturally the winner would also come up with a sig that the losers would all have to wear for a month.
I'll leave it up to the people who sign up though, when you sign up make sure you note yay, or nay for making it a money league.
Edit: Due to a majority of votes, this is going to be a money league. The entry fee will be $10 as mentioned above to be deposited into a Paypal Account.
7. Any questions, or feedback about the rules, toss it out there, as I said at the top this thing is, and will likely continue to be until we get to the draft a work in progress.
FYI: I'm not putting Gofer in the league already just because he's my boy. He, along with Schlottke helped me write up the rules. The supplemental draft is his baby, so if you hate it, call him an idiot, not me.
I've made a slight alteration to the rules in terms of injuries, moving up weight in the middle of the season, or getting beat out of the line up. I'll put it in the main rules, and here as well.
Injuries: If you have a guy who has established himself as the guy at that weight on his team and he gets hurt, I'll use Reiter last year as an example, I've decided that you won't be left with nothing until the supplemental. You'll get the guy who fills the line up spot for them. So last year had we done a league, the guy who got Reiter would have gotten Thorn, and only Thorn. All other alterations will have to wait until the supplemental.
Weight/Beat out: With this, you have a guy who moves up in weight after the draft, or gets beat out of the line up, then you'd better have drafted another guy at that weight, or else that spot in your line up will be empty until the supplemental draft. Examples this year, most specifically just platooning, for the Gophers you take one of their 165's, 174's, or 285's, you may want to consider getting the other one as well, same for Iowa's 133.
Will you still play if it turns out that it is a money league?
When would I have to decide by? I'm already in another fantasy league with completely different rules so I dont know if I'd want to commit money to something that I might not be able to devote my fullattention to
Also what is the reason for not having a free agent market? Personally I would rather have free agents available for pickup with maybe a limit of 10 transactions so that people don't go crazy and pick up guys just because they have a big week. Also(if its a money league) it could cost a dollar to pickup a free agent.
How will the supplemental draft work in terms of picking order?
To be honest with you, I decided to nix the idea of free agents, because without any dedicated software to keep track of it, setting Waiver Wire order, and keeping track of who's available, and who isn't available, is just more work than I feel like doing.
Supplemental draft will be lowest scorer by the time it comes up gets the first pick, and then just up the row we go.
Lost: I've got a real tentative draft date set in my head right now for 11/1'ish. For everyone, that isn't even close to set, but I'd prefer to know exactly who we have in and out as soon as possible, if we do wind up going on 11/1 or so, I'd prefer to have everything set in stone by around a week or so before.
I've put both you and Champ down for now, I hope you two don't feel like I'm picking on you.
I've asked you guys specifically about whether you'd play, as it is looking like its going to be a money league, and I just want to make sure you guys are definitely in.
I assume if we get a run of people, and the money idea is voted down those who said yes to money would still play anyway.
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