The Trophy moves to Maui

 

The trophy has moved back to the US and will be hanging out in Maui for the next JBL season. Well done again to the Maui Ribs!!

The JBL rookie lottery was also held last night and French Lick, with only 2 balls in the pot, somehow defied all the odds and won the lottery. That was until we clarified the situation regarding the now defunct Jizzlies squad. Since we are not adding an expansion team and simply relocating the Jizzlies, once we reviewed the video, it was actually the #12 ball that came out first. So our new owner will get the #1 rookie pick. 

The JBL chat feed is active this morning. Seemingly OK with a round 2 of the JBL rookie draft. The key part is allowing teams to "PASS" on making a 2nd rookie pick. I'd like to think we could make this happen quite easily. A 2nd round, inverse order, all 2nd round picks are $1, and JBL teams could PASS if they didn't want a 2nd rookier.

A 15th team thru expansion didn't pass its vote from last year. So we'll be adding one owner to get us back to 14 teams.

Also, I fully support just eliminating the Injured Reserve spot and just allowing 16 players per team from Auction night. 12 active, 4 bench. Means we would be drafting one extra player each on draft night (except for hose teams that select a 2nd rookie).

I still support moving to 51% majority on potential rule changes. Needing 11 of 14 votes to reach the 75% threshold is seemingly impossible. But suggesting that move to 51% -would need 10 of 13 (current # of JBL teams) to happen. 

You can read my previous Chronicle from June 24th for a scoring suggestion (which was floated to me) as well as an additional idea about dynasty options (allowing more keepers)

So...here's where I'm at on all these changes for now:

- Move to 16 roster spots (12 active, 4 bench) - no IR (it's merged into a full-time spot)

- Add 2nd round of rookies; inverse order; all 2nd rounders are $1; teams have ability to pass 

- Replace the 14th team to fill the Jizzlies spot. This is a relocation situation so it means the new owner will inherit the Jizzlies roster, get 2 keepers and it also means that, based on the video review, they get the #1 pick in the JBL rookie draft. 

- propose to move to a 51% majority for rule changes