Rookie Signings

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Cricket Web Blue would like to offer a contract to James May-Quinlan.

 

[Goughy]

haha, denied a pick for staying within the rules and being organised.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

haha, denied a pick for staying within the rules and being organised.

There are only a limited number of rookies. We need to ensure that every team has at least 17 players, thus we need to restrict the signing of rookies until that is met.

 

[Goughy]

Equal squad size is one rule we've had pretty much all the time, so that should come as no surprise.

Equal squad size makes sense, but why penalise a team for staying within the rules. The teams with less players can make them up at the end of the draft. The salary cap mentioned a min of 15 players were required to be signed for 60 or below points.

Black did that. There was no mention of a maximum and certainly no mention of any penalty in loss of draft picks for following that particular rule.

New rules are being brought in an being applied retroactively and its a punishment for getting everything done properly compared to other teams.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Equal squad size makes sense, but why penalise a team for staying within the rules. The teams with less players can make them up at the end of the draft.

But there are a limited number of rookies. They may all be gone by the time a team goes to make up their 17. It makes much more sense to get the teams at the minimum before allowing expansion beyond 17. As rookies can be signed for free, a team could theoretically sign them all. The intention is that all squads have at least 17 players before we allow that to occur.

Also, it's not CW Green's fault that players went inactive. And that's the reason that they didn't meet their 15.

 

[Goughy]

Also, it's not CW Green's fault that players went inactive. And that's the reason that they didn't meet their 15.

Whether it was their fault or not, it was a rule that they had to have a minimum of 15 within the salary cap. How many players did they pursue to try and meet their minimum numbers, how did they recruit to make sure this situation would be avoided?

Either a rule is a rule or it isnt. At the moment the whole new system is a joke as certain rules can be dropped and then the teams given an advantage due to their failings.

One team has been better organised than the rest and stayed within every rule and have repeatedly been disadvantaged for that and new rules are being brought in to help the others.

If rules are set ie min 15 players and a 60 pt max then they should either be enforced or got rid of.

It is a joke (whether deemed justifiable or not or even if rooted in common sense) to hurt teams that fulfill their obligations. Goes against any just and fair system.

I understand why the new system has come into being, but unless enforced it makes far more sense to drop it and go back to the old way

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Whether it was their fault or not, it was a rule that they had to have a minimum of 15 within the salary cap. How many players did they pursue to try and meet their minimum numbers, how did they recruit to make sure this situation would be avoided?

There were also a limited number of players in the contract period. The fact that a team could not approach a player until that player turned down a contract with his incumbent club meant that there were no players on the open market. A club could only approach certain players within the rules. IIRC, only a couple of players made themselves open to talks with other clubs.

Either a rule is a rule or it isnt. At the moment the whole new system is a joke as certain rules can be dropped and then the teams given an advantage due to their failings.

Your captain sees the logic in it. It's about fairness. It's not an anti-Black agenda.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Whether it was their fault or not, it was a rule that they had to have a minimum of 15 within the salary cap. How many players did they pursue to try and meet their minimum numbers, how did they recruit?

You're assuming players were free to sign, which they clearly weren't: each team had first option on the players they had contracted last season, and went for them, with only a couple of players released on free transfers, so it was essentially impossible for Green to fill their target. "Professional recruiting" carries its own advantages: Black and Colts get to sign most of the more experienced players they "professionally recruited" last season (while ensuring that no squad ends up with 11 centrally contracted players to have a somewhat level playing field), Green get to gamble on sixth- and eighth-choice rookies, who rarely set the world alight in their first season.

 

[Goughy]

It's not an anti-Black agenda.

Im not necessarily implying it is. What it is is a poorly implemented system where the rules are not being followed and failure to meet the rules is punished with advantages over those that did.

If the new system isnt being followed then go back to the old

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Im not necessarily implying it is. What it is is a poorly implemented system where the rules are not being followed and failure to meet the rules is punished with advantages over those that did.

If the new system isnt being followed then go back to the old

The new system is being followed. That's why Green could only sign 11 players...

 

[jammay123]

im intrested in signing for cw blue

 

[silentstriker]

Thanks for the offer. I accept.

@Towns: I don't know if you received my last email, but I did reply to your original one.

 

[marc71178]

haha, denied a pick for staying within the rules and being organised.

Give it a rest.

It's hardly Green's fault that they've had a lot of inactive players this close-season.

 

[marc71178]

New rules are being brought in an being applied retroactively and its a punishment for getting everything done properly compared to other teams.

What new rules are these - the equal squad size has always been a rule.

 

[age_master]

Green offer contracts to

B Read
D Hogarth

 

[Loony BoB]

CW Colts would like to offer a place in the squad to Manan Shah. We also await contact from another player.

 

[roseboy64]

What new rules are these - the equal squad size has always been a rule.

Marc has a point. If we go with Gough's idea then Green would be in breach of that rule as well about squad size. At the end of last season, the Green squad was pretty much set but somehow in this offseason during organization people went missing. Certainly you can't penalise a team for circumstances outside of their control.

 

[nightprowler10]

CW Colts would like to offer a place in the squad to Manan Shah.

You team is sunk tbh.

 

[David]

Goughy, please stop the whining until after the draft is finished. It's just a game, for crying out loud, and there's no point throwing more spanners into the works.

I put you on notice before, so I will again, the world is clearly out to get you.

 

[silentstriker]

CW Colts would like to offer a place in the squad to Manan Shah. We also await contact from another player.

I accept.