mike carter free state compromise

carter, i'm behind your system if there's some way to figure out the 'value' of a waiver wire pickup. potential solution: keeping a waiver wire player would result in the loss of your last overall pick. since that's the value of undrafted guys the day of the draft.

sticking with carter's solution would require ironing out the 'how long can you keep a guy' question. i would submit that anyone off the waiver wire could be kept for one year ('put under contract', but i hesitate to use that word since it gets people kind of crazy. personally i like the idea of mailing pete a 'contract' i signed with a fictional david wright. that's just me.)

i still am at a loss as to why people (i guess not people so much as omar) think that using the yahoo stats to decide what picks are given up is too complicated, but since i'm the only one that voted for it, whatever.

>if someone like andy wants to keep younger guys like liriano
>that's his perogative. i don't think his team will necessarily
>be worse off than a team that keeps guys like billy wagner.
>if you look through last year's first three rounds you'll
>find what ended up being many medicore players.

concede that you never really know what players are going to do - the point of my argument was simply that what ben's system is -actually- asking you to do is to draft your #1, #2 and #3 pick from the pool of players you had last year instead of the general draft pool. vlad might not be top 10 next year. who knows. that said, most people would agree that drafting ryan howard in the top 3 rounds would be a bad idea, no matter how faliable the preseason rankings are. i'll play no matter what system we settle on, but if we just hack off the first three picks no matter who we keep, we're going to end up with a pretty dull, one-dimensional system. and once people figure out the strategic implications of all this i'm predicting some pretty serious buyer's remorse.

i tried to login to the blog at work today, but the school filter blocked everything useful on the page. too much cursing, i guess. fuck.