New Way to "Earn" Points

[CSCommish]

As you know, I've made an attempt to neutralize the haves and havenots by setting floors and capping earnings in attendance, merchandise and TV deals. I am hopeful that I will never have a luxury tax system to implement and so far, so good.

While this helps, I do want to enable teams who are stuck in the hole with meh major league talent AND lackluster minor league system.



Therefore, I am planning to roll out an amendment to the Reward Points system. There is nothing you need to do, it is automatic. This is how it works:

For any non-playoff team, the following points are distributed at file flip:

(.650 - WPCT) * 5 * Minor League System Rank, Rounded up, Capped at 25 points



For example, if you finish in second place with 97 wins and at file flip, you have the #4 system, you will earn .650 - .599 = .051 * 5 * 4 = 1 point. Big whoop. If you're that good and loaded in the minors, that's all you get. However, if you finish with 75 wins but have a bad #18 system, you will earn .650 - .463 = .187 * 5 * 18, you will earn 17 points. Likewise, if you finish with 53 wins but have decent #10 system, you will earn .650 - .327 = .323 * 5 * 10, you will earn 16 points. Finally, if you finish with 62 wins and have a #15 system, you will get 20 points. And so on and so forth.

The idea is to give the teams that could use the points the points they need.

This will take affect at the end of next season.

[Sha-Le Unique]

I love this.

[soonerfantu]

I don't like this, btw.

Reason being, a lot of the teams that are going to end up at the bottom of the standings, are there (over multiple seasons) b/c they simply don't put the time into the game/league.

Also, a lot of teams may be missing the playoffs, but may also have a ton of young talent. In some cases, they may have more talent than teams that are above them in the standings, for various reasons.

If you really wanted to do this, I'd prefer a lower cap on points, and I'd really prefer only doing it for the bottom 5-10 teams in the league.

I know you and others are worried about what the Yanks and Dodgers have done at the start of this league, but it is going to catch up to both of us. Snider is about done, McDermott won't be far behind. I haven't drafted a decent player in the draft in 3-4 seasons. It's just going to take some time.

JMO. Doesn't sound like you were really looking for opinions though.

[CSCommish]

I respect your opinion, but young talent will lower the available points.

If there are others who share the same concern, I am willing to lower the cap to say 15. Maybe 15 for the next 2 seasons, to test it. Then ramp it up to 20 for the next 2 and then to 25.

[Ashes]

Dec 24, 2014 12:08:14 GMT -5 soonerfantu said:

I don't like this, btw.

Reason being, a lot of the teams that are going to end up at the bottom of the standings, are there (over multiple seasons) b/c they simply don't put the time into the game/league.

Also, a lot of teams may be missing the playoffs, but may also have a ton of young talent. In some cases, they may have more talent than teams that are above them in the standings, for various reasons.

If you really wanted to do this, I'd prefer a lower cap on points, and I'd really prefer only doing it for the bottom 5-10 teams in the league.

I know you and others are worried about what the Yanks and Dodgers have done at the start of this league, but it is going to catch up to both of us. Snider is about done, McDermott won't be far behind. I haven't drafted a decent player in the draft in 3-4 seasons. It's just going to take some time.

JMO. Doesn't sound like you were really looking for opinions though.

I also don't like it that much, but it's whatever.

But I also disagree with the above. It's really easy to stay on top once you've gotten THAT good. Not saying that's a bad thing though.