How many would be intrested in a baseball game

[brewers255]

Rules:

Brewerfan.net Trade Center

Alright the object of this game is play as the real MLB GM and make decision on which trades you should offer or accept so you will get to watch your team evolve over time. I will explain each of the threads that you will be using for this game here. If it were ok with brian, we could have a section for it. Sorry if this is in the wrong forum it should be in the off-topic but I just want to see how many people would be intrested. Also once we get to April we will have a set scoring system like HR is 5 points just like fantasy baseball but its with the players you signed/traded for. Thoughts on this?


Team List And General Talk
First you need to choose a team at this thread. View the first post of that thread to see which team is still not taken. Then decide which team you want and post it. Most likely I will give you the "key to your new office" by adding you to the list and give you further instruction with the link to the thread where you will offer trades. This thread will also be use to hang out and talk about this place if your not actively looking for a trade at the moment.


Trade Center 08

The thread that I will instruct you to go after you posted the team that you wanted will be "Trade Center". This is where you will talk to other teams GM and work out a deal to help out both ball clubs (especially yours). You go here and ask someone what will it take to get that certain player that you want. When you both official agree on the trade, then you need to report your trade on another forum.


Roster and Transaction

The "Roster" thread is where you will make your profile about your team and all the trades that you done so far. This is where you will post your 25 men roster minimum so the other teams GM will know which players you have. You can also use this to view the other teams players to decide which player you want to target when you go to the "Trade Center" thread. Some users like to be creative on this by putting in scouting report on amateur players, the salary of each player, and colorful team text.
Remember try to have only 1 post in this thread so it'll be easier for people to find the team that they are looking for quicker.



Special Rule

Here are some special rules that you should be aware of in this game.


New Acquire Team

When you first pick a team, you will most likely start with the default opening team roster. If it happen that someone use your team before and left before you came, I will tell you to be aware of the trades he did before he left.


Commissioner

brewers255 is the commissioner, his job will be to host the game and decide who to hire and who should fire.


GM Assistance

If you wish, you can team up with another person to GM the same team as the GM Assistance. The original GM must accept you so you can become the GM assistance for the team. The Head GM can fire you and he can restrict you with whatever rule he wishes. You can quit the job whenever you want to. You usually choose to be a GM assistance if there are no remaining team left that you wish to manage or you really like a certain team and you are comfortable working with your buddy. This is also good to lock up being the next Head GM for the team if the Head GM get fired or quit.


Inactivity

If you show no activity to this game for 7 days or more, then you will be fire by the head commissioner of the game and your team will be open for taking unless the team already has a active GM assistance, then he will be promoted as the head GM. Assistance GM can be as inactive as he wants though. After the GM Assistance get promoted, he'll have 2 days to pick up where the former GM left off or he'll also get fire for inactivity.


Switching Teams

At any time that you want, you may switch team by announcing it at the "Team List and Announcement" thread and wait for the Commissioner approval.


Quit

At any time that you want you may announce your retirement at the "Team List and Announcement" thread and we will remove the team from you as you wish. We encourage that if you are going to be inactive, please report that you quit the game so I can open the team as soon as possible so another user can get your team.


Helpful Links

Here some links you can use to dig up useful infomation to help your GM quest.


MLB Stats

http://mlb.mlb.com/stats/sortable_player_stats.jsp
Sort And Compare Players Stat Here From Around MLB


Player Search

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/players/index.jsp
Do A Search On A Specific Player Here By Last Name If Your Having Trouble Finding Him.

If you have any question please post here and I will try to answer them. Team Sign up thread Board Name: AIM: Team Desired: Activity how active are you: Teams Taken Teams Available Every Team Also we are going to make this fun. We will have real life free agency. You will get 25 million to spend on real life free agents. Here is the list of FA. Catchers
Sandy Alomar Jr. NYM
Brad Ausmus HOU
Paul Bako BAL
Rod Barajas PHI
Michael Barrett SD
Gary Bennett STL
Raul Casanova TB
Alberto Castillo BAL
Ramon Castro NYM
Mike DiFelice NYM
Sal Fasano TOR
Wiki Gonzalez WAS
Jason Kendall CHC
Jason LaRue KC
Mike Lieberthal LAD
Paul Lo Duca NYM
Damian Miller MIL
Doug Mirabelli BOS
Chad Moeller LAD
Jose Molina NYY
Josh Paul TB
Mike Piazza OAK
Todd Pratt NYY
Kelly Stinnett STL
Yorvit Torrealba COL

First Basemen
Sean Casey DET
Tony Clark ARZ
Jeff Conine NYM
Erubiel Durazo NYY
Robert F WAS
Julio Franco ATL
Scott Hatteberg CIN
Shea Hillenbrand LAD
Eric Hinske BOS
Ryan Klesko SF
Doug Mientkiewicz NYY
Olmedo Saenz LAD
Matt Stairs TOR
Mark Sweeney LAD
Mike Sweeney KC
Kevin Witt (Japan)

Second Basemen
Mark Bellhorn CIN
Geoff Blum SD
Miguel Cairo STL
Luis Castillo NYM
Damion Easley NYM
Jerry Hairston Jr. TEX
Marcus Giles SD
Tony Graffanino MIL
Tadahito Iguchi PHI
D'Angelo Jimenez WAS
Mark Loretta HOU
Kaz Matsui COL
Luis Rivas CLE
Jose Valentin NYM
Ramon Vasquez TEX

Shortstops
Royce Clayton BOS
David Eckstein STL
Chris Gomez CLE
Nick Green SEA
Cesar Izturis PIT
Tomohiro Niokara (Japan)
Neifi Perez DET
Desi Releford TEX
Omar Vizquel SF
Chris Woodward ATL

Third Basemen
Tony Batista WAS
Mark Bellhorn CIN
Aaron Boone FLA
Russell Branyan STL
Jeff Cirillo ARZ
Pedro Feliz SF
Corey Koskie MIL
Mike Lamb HOU
Mike Lowell BOS
Greg Norton TB
Abraham O. Nunez PHI
Alex Rodriguez NYY

Outfielders
Marlon Anderson LAD
Barry Bonds SF
Milton Bradley SD
Mike Cameron SD
Brady Clark SD
Jose Cruz Jr. NYY
Jeff DaVanon OAK
Darin Erstad CWS
Cliff Floyd CHC
Kosuke Fukudome (Japan)
Luis Gonzalez LAD
Shawn Green NYM
Jose Guillen SEA
Eric Hinske BOS
Torii Hunter MIN
Geoff Jenkins MIL
Andruw Jones ATL
Bobby Kielty BOS
Kenny Lofton CLE
Terrence Long NYY
Rob Mackowiak SD
Trot Nixon CLE
Orlando Palmeiro HOU
Corey Patterson BAL
Alexei Ramirez (Cuba)
Aaron Rowand PHI
Reggie Sanders KC
Sammy Sosa TEX
Shannon Stewart OAK
Rondell White MIN
Brad Wilkerson TEX
Preston Wilson STL

Starting Pitchers
Tony Armas Jr. PIT
Kris Benson BAL
Shawn Chacon PIT
Bruce Chen TEX
Roger Clemens NYY
Matt Clement BOS
Bartolo Colon LAA
Scott Elarton CLE
Josh Fogg COL
Casey Fossum TB
Freddy Garcia PHI
Tom Glavine NYM
Livan Hernandez ARZ
Jason Jennings HOU
Kenshin Kawakami (Japan)
Hiroki Kuroda (Japan)
Brian Lawrence NYM
Jon Lieber PHI
Kyle Lohse PHI
Rodrigo Lopez COL
Wade Miller CHC
Eric Milton CIN
Tomo Ohka SEA
Russ Ortiz SF
Andy Pettitte NYY
Mark Redman COL
Kenny Rogers DET
Curt Schilling BOS
Naoyuki Shmizu (Japan)
Carlos Silva MIN
Julian Tavarez BOS
John Thomson KC
Brett Tomko SD
Steve Trachsel CHC
Koji Uehara (Japan)
Jeff Weaver SEA
David Wells LAD
Kip Wells STL
Randy Wolf LAD
Jamey Wright TEX
Jaret Wright BAL
Victor Zambrano BAL

Relief Pitchers
Jeremy Affeldt COL
Antonio Alfonseca PHI
Armando Benitez FLA
Doug Brocail SD
Jim Brower NYY
Hector Carrasco LAA
Randy Choate ARZ
Francisco Cordero MIL
Rheal Cormier CIN
Marc Croon (Japan)
Elmer Dessens COL
Joselo Diaz (Japan)
Brendon Donnelly BOS
Octavio Dotel ATL
Frank Francisco TEX
Eric Gagne BOS
Eddie Guardado CIN
LaTroy Hawkins COL
Matt Herges COL
Roberto Hernandez LAD
Hitoki Iwase (Japan)
Todd Jones DET
Jorge Julio COL
Joe Kennedy TOR
Byung-Hyun Kim FLA
Ray King MIL
Masahide Kobayashi (Japan)
Scott Linebrink MIL
Ron Mahay ATL
Gary Majewski CIN
Jose Mesa PHI
Trever Miller HOU
Brian Moehler HOU
Mike Myers CWS
Ramon Ortiz COL
Troy Percival STL
Chris Reitsma SEA
Arthur Rhodes SEA
David Riske KC
Mariano Rivera NYY
J.C. Romero PHI
Rudy Seanez LAD
Aaron Sele NYM
Aaron Small SEA
Mike Timlin BOS
Mike Venafro STL
Ron Villone NYY
Luis Vizcaino NYY
Rick White SEA
Bob Wickman ARZ
Scott Williamson BAL
Jay Witasick TB
Kerry Wood CHC
Yasuhiko Yabuta (Japan)


If it were ok with brian, we could have a section for it. Sorry if this is in the wrong forum it should be in the off-topic but I just want to see how many people would be intrested. Also once we get to April we will have a set scoring system like HR is 5 points just like fantasy baseball but its with the players you signed/traded for. Thoughts on this?

[brewers255]

All I would want to know is post here if your intrested and what team you would like to play. Once we get that its ok with brian we will start trading and free agency would begin when we are filled. It will be right on this message board fyi.

[brewers255]

anyone?

[JJHardy7]

I'm interested.

[brewers255]

What team would you be? I am hoping for at least 10-15 people by the end of the night. All teams would be open.

[brewers255]

Anyone else intrested?

[And That]

Please do not reply to your own posts, especially with one-liners. It just bumps the thread, and we frown on that here.

[theavrock]

I would be down. I did this with football and it was super fun. Like fantasy sports on steroids.

[brewcrewkid14]

So this would basically just be fantasty baseball except you choose teams you want instead of creating your own team? I definitely would be interested also. This seems like a very good idea if we can get it going. Props!

 

It doesn't look like anyone has really made any statements on their teams so I guess I will be the first to say. I'll take the Brewers if nobody else is going to claim them. I hope this can get going.

[brewers255]

I would love to do this, we just need Brian's ok to make a seperate section for it. Like right next to the Trading Post and we could go from there. We have 4 people intrested but were going to need a ton more. This worked perfectly last year and its a lot better than a mogul league.

[Brian the Automator]

i'm pretty anti-new forum. It would take a whale of a lot of interested to have me consider starting up a new forum. Frankly, bumping the message a bunch of times didn't turn me on to the idea.

[brewers255]

I bumped it twice.

[brewers255]

Also I got 20 people intrested on ESPN message boards, but we have no where to put it there, and I dont feel like moving it to a new website. So now I am kinda stuck.

[brewers255]

This is a sports forum. It will have the game Trade Center in it. We also have a baseball mogul game and fastbreak basketball. We discuss all sports and have over 100 members.

 

We are using this instead.