Rosters

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The average if you used all your money on your active 22 roster.

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Also, I think the end game of the draft would be a lot simpler to manage if we dropped the minimum salary down to the actual Major League minimum, approximately 500k. Then you could afford to carry a fuller AAA/reserve roster. And for trading purposes, the salary exchanges would match more closely what we see on baseball reference and sportrac.

[kickthepony (Isotopes)]

I think a big part of what Eric said that is being looked over, you don't have to pick 22 guys. If you feel like your money will be getting tight or something you can just say hey, pass me I'm done drafting, and then try to get guys on the cheap in free agency. There are many ways to skin this cat, you just gotta make sure it works for you.

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Most of your AAA won't be worth a damn anyways after all 16 of us sign our 22-30 active roster players. That'd be 352-480 players before the potential 160 AAA players. Once you get to about 450-500 players the rest won't make a enough of a difference to make it worth it provided you don't have a plague of injuries hit your team.

[kickthepony (Isotopes)]

Very true. In our league last year I was desperately using my triple A team due to injuries down the stretch, using the likes of Melvin Upton and Will Middlebrooks. It took me from the 4 seed in the playoffs to out of the playoffs in the final month

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Feb 27, 2016 20:53:13 GMT -5 @trinethunder said:

Most of your AAA won't be worth a damn anyways after all 16 of us sign our 22-30 active roster players. That'd be 352-480 players before the potential 160 AAA players. Once you get to about 450-500 players the rest won't make a enough of a difference to make it worth it provided you don't have a plague of injuries hit your team.

Not to mention that the free agent pool for in-season moves is going to be extraordinarily shallow. I wasn't here yet for the setup discussions, but if things are still up for discussion I'd advocate for some alternatives:

a. 25 player roster on ESPN, and a 15-man offline roster consisting of the 10 player minor league draftees, and up to 5 free agent stashes. Because nobody really needs 30 players in H2H, because you will be tempted to give Jose Ramirez starts to keep up on counting stats. Then no AAA team at all, just 1 15-player minor league. You control 40 players max besides DL. Benefit here is deeper free agent pool for in season moves, and better quality major league talent used on teams.

b. 30 player roster on ESPN, a 10 minor league team of actual minor league players, and no AAA team. Think of this as your AAA team folded into your 30 active players. Benefit: much simpler to manage. You only need to fill in 8 free agent spots.

I'm also a bit skeptical of 10 full rounds of minor leaguers. I can identify and have a slight sense of perhaps 36 prospects, tops. I know who Jesse Winkler is and when to expect his ETA. Beyond that, I can look up the same prospect lists as everybody else here, but at least 100 of those prospects would be random chance guesses.

I really like this league so far and all the thought that has gone into it so I'll play any way it is set up. But it would also be ok with me to downsize it a little bit with the players.

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That's the challenge of a league like this is to do your own scouting. Just like with actual MLB teams you will have prospects that don't turn out but others that end up being solid starters. As for the roster size, I don't mind a 30 man roster. I like having a bigger bench. It just means those players you would get in free agency in a 25 man roster league are already on your team.

By the way, in your point B you mention only needing to fill 8 free agent spots. This is still the case now. As I've stated before you are not required to field a AAA team. It's only there should you choose to use it. I personally will not use it unless my 30 man team gets a plethora of injuries and I need active players, otherwise I have no intention of using AAA. AAA in this league basically serves as the extra 10 players an actual MLB team has on their 40 man roster to go with their 30 on the major league team

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Yeah, I'm fine with it the way it has been set up. Just saying that rostering 30 now will reduce free agent options later on, when player situations typically shift.

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Did we ever get an official ruling on roster sizes? In addition to the 22 active roster spots, do we need to grab minimum 8 players from free agency? (that would be in AAA)?

[Eric (Guidopolis)]

You don't have to fill triple a you just have to fill your ESPN team

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So that means we need to grab 30 players for our ESPN team then?

[kickthepony (Isotopes)]

Yes