Anyone Tried Contraction?

Juggernt · 01-03-2019, 10:03 AM

Has anyone made their fictional league smaller? If so, did you just release the players from those teams or was their some kind of draft?

mitchkenn · 01-03-2019, 02:36 PM

i've reduced my league from 52 back to 48 after the 52 with 3 minors got to be a bit much to deal with. i went through the league history and picked the 4 worst teams over the previous 10 years to delete. i just released the players, and let the remaining teams pick and choose what players they could use. It did make a glut of my Free Agent list for a few years and some players i felt were more than good enough to be picked up by some of the weaker teams weren't.

Juggernt · 01-26-2019, 05:53 PM

When you contracted, was there a choice to release the players to FA vs. a draft, or did the act of deleting the teams just make the players FAs?

mitchkenn · 01-26-2019, 06:09 PM

don't recall. i just deleted the teams and let them go to FA and let teams bid on whomever they desired. i guess i could have held a free agent draft at that point. you can schedule a FA draft anytime.

01-03-2019, 10:03 AM	#1
Juggernt Major Leagues Join Date: Dec 2017 Posts: 357	Anyone Tried Contraction? Has anyone made their fictional league smaller? If so, did you just release the players from those teams or was their some kind of draft?

01-03-2019, 02:36 PM	#2
mitchkenn Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Oregon, not by design Posts: 2,872	i've reduced my league from 52 back to 48 after the 52 with 3 minors got to be a bit much to deal with. i went through the league history and picked the 4 worst teams over the previous 10 years to delete. i just released the players, and let the remaining teams pick and choose what players they could use. It did make a glut of my Free Agent list for a few years and some players i felt were more than good enough to be picked up by some of the weaker teams weren't. __________________ "This is my opening farewell " - Jackson Browne “They make a desolation and call it peace.” ― Agha Shahid Ali "Maybe she just has to sing, for the sake of the song - And who do I think that I am to decide that she's wrong." - Townes Van Zandt "I saw a young man leaning on his wooden crutch - He called out to me, 'Don't ask for so much' And a young woman leaning in her darkened door She cried out to me, 'Why not ask for more?' " - Leonard Cohen "Hello darkness, my old Friend ...." - Paul Simon Before Mays, before DiMaggio, there was Oscar Charleston. "All the lies about Babe Ruth are true." - Waite Hoyt Avatar is the late great Townes Van Zandt. rip.

01-26-2019, 06:09 PM	#4
mitchkenn Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Oregon, not by design Posts: 2,872	don't recall. i just deleted the teams and let them go to FA and let teams bid on whomever they desired. i guess i could have held a free agent draft at that point. you can schedule a FA draft anytime. __________________ "This is my opening farewell " - Jackson Browne “They make a desolation and call it peace.” ― Agha Shahid Ali "Maybe she just has to sing, for the sake of the song - And who do I think that I am to decide that she's wrong." - Townes Van Zandt "I saw a young man leaning on his wooden crutch - He called out to me, 'Don't ask for so much' And a young woman leaning in her darkened door She cried out to me, 'Why not ask for more?' " - Leonard Cohen "Hello darkness, my old Friend ...." - Paul Simon Before Mays, before DiMaggio, there was Oscar Charleston. "All the lies about Babe Ruth are true." - Waite Hoyt Avatar is the late great Townes Van Zandt. rip.

01-26-2019, 05:53 PM	#3
Juggernt Major Leagues Join Date: Dec 2017 Posts: 357	When you contracted, was there a choice to release the players to FA vs. a draft, or did the act of deleting the teams just make the players FAs?