Thursday, April 2, 2009

Please Confirm Draft Picks, Draft Day Resources

Please take a few minutes to confirm that the league records accurately reflect your undertanding of your current set of2009 Rotation Draft (Reserve List) picks. If you notice any discrepancies, please let Rich and I know as soon as possible.

There are a couple ways to do this:

  • Rotation Draft Pick Tracker - Team-by-team listing of the picks each team owns, which picks they've traded away, and where acquired picks came from. This page is updated throughout the season as trades are made and is available from both the links in the sidebar of this blog and from the Quick Links section of the CFCL Internet Headquarters.
  • Rotation Draft Pick Order - Round-by-round listing of the Rotation Draft picksin Excel format. This is available each off-season/pre-season in the Download Center.

Important Note: In previous years, we provided printed copies of the Rotation Draft Pick Order on Draft Day. In the spirit of sharing costs and administrative duties - especially since not everyone used these listings - we're asking anyone who wants a copy to print it themselves from the website. I'd wait until later on Friday or Saturday to print it - just in case people identify changes.

Other helpful resources:

  • NL Spring Training Rosters - Matt G. has been doing a bang-up job of tracking NL roster moves this spring, and his work had received kudos from even outside the CFCL, including one message board post that called the rosters "the greatest thing ever". The rosters are helpful not only for identifying who is still in camp (and thus eligible on Draft Day) but whose been put on the DL, etc. Well done, Matt!
  • 2008 Games Played Listing - Helpful, obviously, for confirming position eligibility for the 2009.

Both the above items are available in the Download Center.

Monday, March 30, 2009

The Ramon Martinez Incident

Continuing our look back at the CFCL's first 25 years, we return to the 1992 Draft for another classic incident.

It's every Roto player's nightmare -- getting stuck with a player you didn't want, usually while trying to drive the price up for other owners. In the case of Six Packs owner Kelly Barone, that player was Ramon Martinez - a name Kelly had tossed out because he wanted to wait a while before nominating the Dodger pitcher he really wanted, Tom Candiotti.

Ending up with Martinez put Kelly into a funk that lasted the rest of the Draft - as the video shows, he was still visibly upset about it - not just 10 minutes afterwards, but over an hour later.

Of course, Kelly's leaguemates were very sympathetic and supportive...

The following video is a long one - nearly 9 minutes - but that's just a fraction of the time that Kelly's grief lasted, and there's some additional fun stuff inlcuded as well. Enjoy!