italstallianion

Of the people remaining, only A700 would surprise me if he doesn't have his power rankings in by tonight.

Here is who I have rankings from Italstallianion Jacoby Ellsbury RSFFL Ytrb Y228 Will Keeper Dipre Forsyth WhiskeyBreath Jbay Divinity A700 Everyone else (Flynnatic, Exman) needs to send me their power rankings by tonight.

For the record, the way I'm doing the scoring is to assign point values to each rankings, and then tally up the points in the end. The difference is that I'm doing it DIRECTLY proportional to the rankings (ie 1st = 1 point, 2nd = 2 points....13th = 13 points, 14th = 14 points) rather than INVERSELY proportional (ie 1st = 14 points, 2nd = 13 points....13th = 2 points, 14th = 1 point) because doing it directly will punish those that don't vote. For example, by doing it directly proportional to the rankings, the person with the lowest amount of points wins. When people vote, since they aren't voting for themselves, they are still helping themselves because they give themselves 0 points (since they can't vote for themselves) and the team that they put in 1st still gets 1 point, so by voting, the people help themselves out. Therefore, by scoring the votes directly proportional to the rankings, it gives people an incentive to vote, since they get punished if they don't vote. Whereby if I scored it inversely proportional to the rankings, people would have an incentive to NOT vote, since the people with the highest amount of points would win, and people would gain 0 points from voting since they can't vote for themselves, and they'd be giving the last place person at least 1 point. Therefore the people who haven't voted yet are hurting themselves, and that should hopefully get the remaining votes in. I'll post the results either as soon as the 15th power rankings come in, or sometime tomorrow morning.

Just got your rankings WB, so at this point only 5 people (Jbay, Flynnatic, Divinity, Exman, and A700) need to send in their rankings.

People that still need to send me their rankings Exmen Flynnatic A700 Divinity

I just got your rankings Forsyth, so I'll add you to the list.

Keep in mind that you're only ranking the other 14 teams. So send me a list of the teams and how you'd rank them 1-14. Or if you want to be cute and put yourself at the top, rank the other 14 teams from 2-15.

I just got Dipre's rankings.

Btw Forsyth (and this applies to Dipre too) send me your damn power rankings before tonight.

Forsyth, it's all because chicks dig the long ball.

I didn't receive any power rankings over night, so I still only have about half of them. Here is who I have rankings from Italstallianion Jacoby Ellsbury RSFFL Ytrb Y228 Will Keeper Dipre Forsyth WhiskeyBreath Jbay A700 Everyone else (Flynnatic, Exman, Divinity) needs to send me their power rankings by tonight.

Just so everyone knows (although I'm sure that most people don't care) I'm sending my friend the rosters so he do his own power rankings. I've had him do it for all of the redrafts that I've been apart of, and each time he doesn't know which team is mine, so the only bias he has is that he's a NY sports fan (which is probably why he favoured Divinity's team in the last baseball redraft) I think he had WB's team in the NBA redraft and my team in the NFL redraft. Anyway, if anyone cares I'll post his power rankings when he gives them to me (around the time I post the other rankings) On another note, I only have about half of the rankings, so the other half of you guys need to make sure you give me your power rankings by tomorrow night.

I just got Will's power rankings. There's been a lot of variety thus far.

At this point I have 5 people's Power Rankings, and I'm working on mine right now. Everyone else has until tomorrow night to message me your power rankings, and I will do the calculations and display the results on Tuesday.

Through Dipre I have JE's rankings, so unless JE wants to send me his rankings to confirm them, he doesn't have to.

Jbay, do you have an email, Dipre really wants to discuss trading with you.

I also have Y228, RSFFL, and Keeper's rankings.

Make sure to use this clubhouse thread when doing your power rankings rather than the chart on the first page of the draft thread.

I'll make a list of people who's power rankings I've received: Keep in mind, DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR OWN TEAM IN THE POWER RANKINGS. ONLY RANK THE OTHER 14 TEAMS. Ytrb RSFFL Y228 Keeper Jacoby Ellsbury Italstallianion Will

Also since everyone has done their lineups, people can start looking over the clubhouse rosters and making their power rankings. Make sure to look at both lineups, the entire roster (bullpen, bench) as well as defense and various intangibles (lockerroom cancer, whether or not the people are being drafted to play the actual position that they play etc) Since this should take people a while, the power rankings will be open today and tomorrow. I will look at all of the votes by tomorrow night and do the calculations and I will post the results on Tuesday.

How about this, how about we have everyone send me their power rankings in private, I'll do the calculations, post the results, and if enough people want, I can eventually post the individual votes. That way the votes should be completely honest, and if anyone has any concerns on how the voting was tabulated, they can have the opportunity to see what the votes were.

I think that the rankings should be done privately because I feel that more people would be honest. For example, if Keeper, or Dipre posts their rankings first, people might change their rankings to spite another person's rankings, or if someone is undecided and sees someone elses rankings, they might make an adjustment or two based on what previous people have said. (For example, if Keeper puts Dipre's team last, Dipre might lower Keeper's team when he makes his rankings, and other people might think that they don't have good teams and lower their rankings) I just think it'll be more honest if it's done privately so that people can't be attacked for who they rank. To Forsyth's point, keep in mind that these are just initial rankings, they are virtually meaningless other than to see what people's perceptions of the teams are. The voting (tournament) won't be done until AFTER the season is over, so all of the players have a fair chance to prove it on the field. Whoever ends up last will have the exact same chance to kick a** as the team ranked first. These power rankings have no effect on the voting, or even the other power rankings (which will be done throughout the season and will be based on performance)

I figured that you'd all PM me the power rankings. Particularly because there's going to be A LOT of personal s*** once the voting starts. I want to keep it as civil as possible until then. If anyone has any problems with the power rankings being sent to me, then we can do it out in the open.