Sorry about the length of this, but it's important, all the way to the end. If you're in more than one of my leagues, you don't need to read each one. They are basically the same. I'm going to address the common questions I am being asked in all my leagues. I will answer here (save this) so I don't have to reply to each and every manager asking the questions.
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1)?Cloud Numbers - All the codes for Cloud are on the 'Cheat Sheet' tab of the GS.?
2)?CMs - Are always due on the 6th of the month
3)?Games - are always due on the last day of the month.
4)?Claiming teams - If you are not familiar with how to claim your team in the Cloud, see the bottom of the RULES tab.
5)?Pushing CMs - If you are not familiar with how to push your CM to the Cloud, see the bottom of the RULES tab. You must claim your team PRIOR to pushing a CM.
6)?Minimum Usage Requirements - If you have players that do not have at least 60 PA or 20 IP showing in the LZP, they are ineligible and WILL NOT be in the LZP. They are still yours and will show on your GS Roster.
7)?CM Requirements - These are the things you must have in every CM
? ?a)?A complete Starter Schedule for the?entire season.??This may be changed every month. If you are not aware of how easy this is to do, in the game, highlight your team and click?Team, Update CM. Then make sure you have at least 5 starting pitchers listed on the right and click?SAVE.?Then click?Team, Update CM.?In the category box select?Starter Schedule. Then click?Generate?and?select?Even Distribution. Ta Da, done.
? ?b)?Starting Pitchers should be INACTIVE. Your active roster should be no more than 22 players, which will be position players and relief pitchers. Select?Team, Promote/Demote Minor Leaguers?to check you are within the limit.
???c)?You MUST have a backup on your active roster for every position. OFs are never a problem because an OF can play any OF position. However,?catchers?(and SS) are sometimes overlooked. If you have one guy who has C, OF, 1B, 2B, 3B, and SS on his card, technically he could count as your backup for every position.
? ?d)?You must have at least 2 lineups - 1) vs LHP and 2) vs RHP. Lineup #3 is used for vs reverse LHP, and #4 for reverse RHP. You may use as many lineups as you like, BUT MAKE SURE each one has a player assigned to every position.
8)?LZP in the Cloud - I update the Cloud often. To make sure you always have the latest version, click?Cloud, View League Status.?This will show you the last time I updated it.?
9)?If you find the players on your roster in the LZP are incorrect and ask me to make a correction, please wait until I do, and you re-download the LZP BEFORE pushing a new CM. If you don't, this will sometimes cause players to drop from your roster. NEVER move players from Free Agents to your team, or anywhere at all. This also causes problems.
10)?STRAT DRAFT - SUCKS! I can't even tell you how many hours this site cost me in fixing all kinds of problems with the importing of rosters (something which has to be done every season), guys were drafting players and they were still not showing on their SD roster, and errors appearing on many trades that I had to fix manually....and if anyone noticed, when a trade is made, SD doesn't even include the name of the league on the trade announcement. I brought this up to SD and was told it was a minor issue, and they did not intend to fix it.
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Effective 4/6 (the day CMs are due),?WE WILL NO LONGER USE STRAT DRAFT.?Google Sheets (GS) will be the bible for roster information. This means if you have any discrepancies between your SD roster and your GS roster, I must know by then. GS will be used. I will be creating a TRADES tab to track trades. When making trades, you must email the trade via the IO Group, and the other party must confirm it the same way.
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Next season we will see how everyone would like the league to run going forward. I will tinker with a way to use GS to be able to draft with, or we can use the new and improved Flory site. I have spoken with the group undertaking this effort, and they are looking at testing it out on some of the winter leagues. They will get the bugs out and hopefully it will be ready to go for us summer leaguer's next season. At this point, they haven't gotten very far with it yet. This will be an off-season discussion PLEASE, not right now.?
