I'm a firm believer that 60 prospects is not too many. The reason we are adjusting slowly, is because if we jump double the prospects all of a sudden, it will seem like all our prospects suck. If we go slowly, you will become attached to your prospects and by the time we hit 60 prospects you won't know who to drop eazch season for your new drazft picks.
On of my favorite parts of this league is managing my prospect system and following the growth of the players from around the league. So I also think 60 is not to many. It will be fun if someone hits on a few of their players and can't fit them in their active roster, would make for more trades.
Post by MTL (Andrew) on Mar 21, 2018 20:06:35 GMT -8
The growth should continue as is. I like planning it out and looking ahead. 60 seems fine, we are still years away from it being an issue, unless you think it is too high.
I am fine to keep growing it ad infinitum, I think we should just limit the growth at this point. We already have huge prospect rosters so adding 7 each year is a lot imo. I think 7 is fine for the next 2 years as we have already been trading draft picks with the intention of drafting 7 prospects but beyond that I think we should consider limiting the year by year growth until we hit the cap will be better than pushing 7 ever year and then having it cut off. Maybe we do 5 in 2020, 4 in 2021 and beyond or something, with draft pick rounds reflecting that. Then I would feel comfortable growing past 60 if we are only adding 4 a year. That way there is no cut off point and the draft will remain great and draft picks will remain valuable.
Are people in favor of the cut off point and having to drop prospects in favor of draftees? I feel that will supremely devalue draft picks and draft rounds after round 3 will just be boring as you are just "drafting" a player to place on the wire(kinda like the 7th round is now)
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Post by NYI (Nick) on Mar 23, 2018 10:05:49 GMT -8
I voted yes but im not too sure. As long as we choose a cut off point, thats fine. 60 sounds fair. Its just that, if we build our pools up forever players will graduate and the bottom few prospects will be 13 year old figure skaters.
60 is a fine cut off point as long as thats what we decide on. I would also be open to having a vote as to how many we cut off at. Rather than a 60 or infinate vote.
I voted yes but im not too sure. As long as we choose a cut off point, thats fine. 60 sounds fair. Its just that, if we build our pools up forever players will graduate and the bottom few prospects will be 13 year old figure skaters.
60 is a fine cut off point as long as thats what we decide on. I would also be open to having a vote as to how many we cut off at. Rather than a 60 or infinate vote.
Yeah, the plan was never to expand past 60. There is definitely a cut off point.
Post by MTL (Andrew) on Mar 25, 2018 7:54:02 GMT -8
I think that as the league gets older it will stabilize. Lets get real some trades early on were fucking loony tunes (Myself included). Even some made last year and a few this year already look terrible and did on day one. Again I point to the other league I am in. In our league their are 115 draft picks draft traded though just 2019. My other older much stabler league has only 52 through 2020, also we have a ton of early picks moved around, it is a far more smoother curve in the other league, again stability (I have 7 firsts this year 4 of which are in the lottery...).
Also, as a bottom team prospect management has pretty much been my whole season. Only 4 picks is nothing, all that is gonna happen is people are gonna grab the picks who would have been picked on the waiver wire.... We might as well just draft them. There are still a ton of hidden gems on our board no one has identified yet, I have a watch list full of players I am hoping to add as spots open up for on my team, A few guys I missed out on this year too by being greedy and trying to wait.
Our number of rounds should always match the NHL. IDC on what our cut off is, I still don't think it matter for a 2-3 years though
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