Comments on: Transcontinental Baseball League draft online: Feb 21

By: The Baseball Zealot

The Baseball Zealot — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 04:48:28 +0000

hmm. smart pick :)

By: Steve Stein

Steve Stein — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:42:17 +0000

Soto was last year. He went 24th. (All unowned cards and XBs are included in the draft. No XCs)

http://jrat.net/steve/tbl/draft/2008/index.html

By: The Baseball Zealot

The Baseball Zealot — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:24:23 +0000

haha we have something similar, too.

One more question.. G Soto wasnt in your draft. Just curious why.

your list of available players look similar to ours so i had to ask.

By: Steve Stein

Steve Stein — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:43:16 +0000

Bonus A and Bonus C are indeed “bonus” rounds, awarded for good citizenship – mostly getting results in on time and not exceeding usage limits. All full-year managers can earn Bonus As. Managers who took over mid-year can earn Bonus Cs.

Details can be found in the TBL Constitution.
http://www.geocities.com/r_murph3/08rules.pdf

By: The Baseball Zealot

The Baseball Zealot — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:27:04 +0000

Steve,
just curious.. what is the Bon-A and Bon-C ?

I assume some sort of Bonus round???

By: The Baseball Zealot

The Baseball Zealot — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:24:37 +0000

that’s awesome.

and I concur, it’s seeing everyone FTF that puts it all together. In the IAL, we’re lucky that we can do it 3 times a year.

By: Steve Stein

Steve Stein — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:38:06 +0000

The 3rd and 4th round were brutal, trying to find any nuggets left in the increasingly skimpy pickins. After that, the last 4 rounds went by in a relative flash. Best of all was the comeraderie of friends who see each other face-to-face once a year.

Truly, a good time was had by all.

By: The Baseball Zealot

The Baseball Zealot — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:26:05 +0000

I changed the link, Steve. Thx.

Should be interesting.

Ironically (at least in my experience), the first part of any draft goes by pretty fast. It’s when we’re agonizing over the two-bit players when it takes longer. :)

By: Steve Stein

Steve Stein — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:44:56 +0000

The draft usually takes about 4 hours.
ALERT! Due to ftp connectivity problems, the website has changed. It’s now on:
http://walterhunt.com/TBLDraft/index.html

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:18:15 +0000

When I was in the All-Modem League, our draft was done via ICQ, and it typically took 3-4 hours; although that was for a pretty long draft – in the 10-20 round range, and with 28 teams.