Draft Day
July 27, 2000
Hello all,
Thought I would give everyone an update on the expansion draft issue and the
draft date. As was previously announced, the draft will be held on Saturday,
August 12. It will be at 1:00pm at Warren's. If you don't know directions
to Warren's let me or Warren know. That means that protections will be due
on August 5. Which brings up the issue of the expansion draft.
The option that the people seem to like best, and is the fairest, is to have the existing teams protect 6 players at protection time. On draft day the expansion teams will pick one player per position from unprotected roster players. Once a team loses a player they may re-protect two players, if they have the protections to use on them. The expansion teams will also recieve supplemental draft picks at the end of the 1st and 2nd rounds. This is the plan we are going to go with, unless I hear massive opposition to it in the next couple of days.
Finally, the optional meeting to determine the draft order has been unattended for the past couple of years, so this Saturday I will generate the draft order based on the new weight rules. The expansion teams will recieve a weight of 1 plus the highest weight in the league.
SUMMARY:
- Draft August 12 at 1:00 at Warren's
- Protections due August 5th, (1 at each position plus 1 other, but only 6 maybe used by August 5th).
- Draft order will be announced this weekend
As usual, if anything in this email is unclear let me know and I'll try and clear it up. That's all for now.
Josh
Commissioner WMFFL