Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 01:01:14 +0000
From: Tony Wright 
To: bbowl-l@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: Some League variation rules

Here is an interesting twist we put on our league this time.

Treasuries start at 1.5 mil in the stead of 1 million.  No star players 
are included in your team lists.  Instead, the league commissioner, with 
input, makes up a host of star players, generally 2 star players for 
every player in the leage.

Then there is a DRAFT.

We distribute the star player list to all the coaches, and set up a 
draft time.  We had a live auction for each star player, with a minimum 
bid of the cost of that sort of player.  Players were limited to races 
that they would normally have access to as allies.

This achomplishes several things.

1st--  As long as the commish is a pretty cool guy (he was, as it was 
me), this avoids any absurd star players.  No one with amazing str and 
agl, no griffs, no morgs.  Just a lot of good, fairly moderate, fairly 
specialized star players. 

2nd-- It was a BLAST.  Draft night was a whole lot of fun, people had a 
great time bidding against each other.

----

As this is my first league up here, who knows wha we'll do for the 2nd 
season.  All of the stars go to free agency and are in a new draft?  I 
dunno.  Kind of an interesting permutation, tho.

Regards,

-t

ED: Tony has a page with the stars drafted and how much they went for.