Get Ready to Test Your Managerial Mettle: 2022 Parameters (rough draft)
Alright - we’ve all seen how you do managing an All-Star team of players where everyone on your roster had cards where they hit over .300 and all your pitchers had ERA’s under 4. We’ve seen you win divisions and world championships with those hand-picked super-squads.
Guess what?
We’re not impressed. My grandma could have won titles with some of those teams. It’s time to see what kind of a manager you really are. What happens when we hand you the reins to a piece of crap team? Will you turn it around? Or will you drive that franchise even further into the ground? 2022 will let us all know. Here’s how it will work:
In real-life 2007, there were 14 major league teams with losing records. In the 2022 draft, you will select one of those teams and turn that rag-tag bunch of losers into a champion….or will you? Time will tell. Obviously this draft will take like 3 seconds since there will only be one round. This will leave more time for HR derby and other lofty pursuits (assuming we can swing a live draft). Although the draft itself will be quick, I think the research up to the draft will be interesting, fresh and fun. Scouting teams rather than players will I think prove refreshing.
Other parameters:
*To enhance the managerial aspect, no DH will be used (keep this in mind as you scout american league teams)
*Everyone on the team roster will be eligible (no min requirements). Will you take a gamble on a low-AB guy even though the rest of his crappy team sucks?
*Since you’re drafting a team, no salary cap will be in force.
What do you guys think? I’m definitely open to changes - perhaps adding a 2nd round of the draft where you draft a “free agent” player from a team not being used? This would make it a little easier for the teams picking late in the draft, but it might defeat the purpose of managing a bad team, too. Thoughts?
June 25th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Wow. It was exactly one year ago today that I offered up 2019 parameters for your consideration. That is some serious synchronicity.
June 25th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I LIKE it. I wouldn’t be opposed to a couple GM moves. 1 pitcher 1 hitter “Free Agent” signings or something like that to make the draft more reflective of your ability to “find the missing piece”.
June 25th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Will we all be in the same division?
June 25th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
I think you just blew my mind. Rock me, Amadeus.
I’m game for WHATEVER, and I’m coming to this fruit fight with a WATERMELON to take on your teeny little pomegranite seeds. Tell me what parameters are, and I’ll be there.
I do think the 2nd and 3rd guys to pick (yeah, that would be YOU GUYS)need SOME kind of a second round to even out draft order - like one extra player each, batter or pitcher. How do we work the computer teams into this? OR DO WE?
Love, Ted
June 25th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
PS I love how the site still celebrates my 5 month old championship. Jerry, sorry, but all they are talking about is the way the Hogs took control back on ‘20. The Hairy’s championship is SO 2021.
June 25th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
I think I like the idea of a “free agent” signing or two as well. Chances are there will be several holes on your team, so picking up one or two guys won’t automatically make your team a championship contender, but the guy you select with that pick would be HUGE. Big decision.
As for the division, it’s definitely more challenging all being in the same division, but I think it’s more fun. However, we’ve done it that way the last two (?) seasons, so if it’s getting stale we can each have our own division, too.
June 25th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
your BUTT is getting stale.
June 25th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
I like having our own divisions. Who was that idiot that changed parameters so we were all in the same division anyway? Oh, never mind.
June 25th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Actually, Ted, YOUR butt is stale. I mean painfully stale. I have never been the same since you abused me on that draft night all those months ago…
June 26th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
I miss you guys. And not in the platonic way. The ghey way.
June 26th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
I like having our own divisions too. I win more of them that way.