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WAR Budget Draft Test League

Lead Story - 4/12/2024

Instructions for this "League"

This league has been constructed to test the new Fav Teams Draft by WAR feature. I'm mostly looking to understand if the WAR budget feels fair to keep the league competitive for most if not all franchises.

  1. Once you join, go to your Team Page and use the Draft My Team link.

  2. You can choose to draft any franchise that hasn't already been chosen. (Ignore whatever your team name is - that doesn't matter.)

  3. Draft as if you're trying to build the best team.

  4. You're welcome to test out the Quick Finish option, but it's not meant to be a great option, just there to help speed it up toward the end.

  5. You can "draft" as many times as you want, changing franchises as many times as you want.

  6. The idea is really to test the function of building your team as if you were playing in a real league.

Thanks for helping out!

10/24/2012

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4/17/2024 Gauging WAR vs. Rnk in the newgbacci
I created the original FIRE formula so I'm glad it had some logic to it, but I think what some people would argue is why does McGwire in this example need the extra boost when his only real advantage over Harrah was homeruns?

In fact I see McGwire sitting on the bench in a lot of 1980s leagues, including teams owned by people on this thread.:)

So in the old formula, if you put McGwire and Harrah in the lead off spot for all 162 games, McGwire would have been On Fire 23 times and Harrah 17 times. In the new formula, it's Harrah 12, and McGwire 10. Just because McGwire was going to be a great player and Harrah was old, doesn't mean Harrah's single season (in this case 1982) doesn't stack up to McGwire's 1987 season. I think despite the new On Fire we'd all draft McGwire first because of the 49 homeruns, so it hasn't really tanked his value.

Again, these are all rhetorical questions as we don't yet know how this is going to play out.
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