Proposal
First, this would go into effect beginning with the second half & we’d see how it’d work and then maybe revisit at the beginning of next year to see if we wanted to continue or revert back to the way things are now. Second, some background: as we all know, 95% of the time the MLB week consists of a team having two separate series, the first going from Monday-Thursday, with team days off usually taking place within those four days, and then every MLB team playing the weekend series from Friday-Sunday. Currently, our stats period go from Monday-Sunday & any and all trades are reflected during that stat period. With that being the case, most trades take place on the weekends, otherwise you trade and then pray that your new guy doesn’t get hurt before he appears on your team.

The actual proposal is that the trading structure change to coincide with MLB’s team series concept and the players that are traded in the RRL go to their respective “new” teams for the weekend series (beginning Friday) if they’re traded prior to the series. If a trade takes place after that series begins, it would be treated just like it is now. So, if you make a trade on M, Tu, Wed, Thur or Friday before the games begin, your “new” player comes to your team for the weekend series beginning on Friday. If you trade after Friday’s games begin, your “new” player comes to your team at the beginning of the next stat period, which is Monday.

A lot of words, but in a nutshell it is simply that trades officially show up on teams’ stats twice per week, either on Friday or Monday, instead of just Monday. So, if you traded Lou Gehrig for Babe Ruth on Wednesday, you’d get the Babe officially on your team’s stats beginning with the weekend series instead of waiting until the following week.

I have the caveat of possibly revisiting this, should it pass, because I want to know how much this will affect my weekend time prepping the stats since 99% of my work, if you wish to call it that, takes place on Tuesdays to type in each move/trade. If it’s what I think it’ll be, everything should be fine. Of course, if everyone used the rosters/spreadsheet option, we could have every trade take place immediately in the stats, but that’s another discussion (ahem).

FYI, I’ve been chosen for jury duty beginning Monday the 14th.

No idea how that’ll change things, but the chances are very good that stats will be updated in the evenings next week.

Update: Keep an eye on the drummer. Allen, this is the style you should adopt.