BBFL Owners Vote Overwhelmingly in Support of Expansion

Thursday, February 19 2004 @ 08:26 AM EST

Contributed by: Pepper Moffatt

By a 16-2 margin, current BBFL owners chose to double the size of the league and add a 2nd 20-team division that will start play this season. Eighteen of the twenty current owners voted on all 11 propositions, with one team abstaining, and one person simply not showing up. In a rather close vote, the league decided to have three teams relegated between divisions each season.

Now on to the important information!

What you need to know

  1. The Draft
    We have obtained the following draft slots:

  2. Owners on the waiting list: We now have 20 open spots in the league. If you are on the waiting list and would like a team, you have until Monday, February 23, 11:59PM EST to tell me that you'd like a team. You can do that either via e-mail at economics.guide@about.com, or you can just leave a message in this thread. If we have more than 20 respondents, teams will be handed out based on the priority ordering of the waiting list.


On to the voting results! The numbers in brackets beside some outcomes indicate how many 1st, 2nd, 3rd. etc. votes a particular proposition received.

Proposition 201: Rule Changes be limited to the Off-Season Rule Change Period
(a) yes - 18 votes
(b) no - 0 votes

Proposition 202: 2004-2005 Off-Season Time Line
(a) Use Current Moffatt Schedule Next Off-Season 11 votes
(b) Discuss at Beginning of Next Off-Season 7 votes

Proposition 203: Add a Second Twenty Team Division (the Barfield Division) to the BBFL
(a) Yes - 16 votes
(b) No - 2 votes

Proposition 204: If Proposition 203 Passes, How Many Teams Relegated Each Year
(b) 3 - 58 points (9,5,3,1)
(c) 4 - 55 points (4,11,3,0)
(d) 5 - 38 points (2,2,10,4)
(a) 0 - 29 points (3,0,2,13)

Proposition 205: If Propositions 203 and 204 Pass (where pass is implied to mean 0 not chosen), What Order Used to Swap Teams
(b) Worst Alomar Finisher Assigned Worst Promoted Barfield Team (and so on) - 65 points (5,5,5,2,1)
(e) Rosters of Relegated and Promoted Teams Drafted at Season's End - 56 points (6,2,2,4,4)
(d) Barfield Team Chooses Alomar Team to Take Over - 54 points (4,5,2,1,6)
(a) Worst Alomar Finisher Assigned Best Barfield Team (and so on) - 50 points (1,5,3,7,2)
(c) Random Assignment - 45 points (2,1,6,4,5)


Proposition 206: Switch to Yahoo Premium with a Cost of $7 Per Team
(a) Yes - 15 votes
(b) No - 3 votes

Proposition 207: If Proposition 203 Passes, Will Barfield Division Be a Keeper League?
(a) Yes - 12 votes
(b) No - 6 votes

Proposition 208: Adopt names Alomar Division and Barfield Division (if nec) permanently:
(a) Yes - 14 votes
(b) No - 6 votes

Proposition 209: If Proposition 203 Passes and 204 Passes, should the bottom "X" teams of the Barfield division be relegated, where "X" is determined by Proposition 204.
(a) Bottom X Barfield teams be relegated to the Carter Division if it is created. If Carter Division is not created, teams not relegated. - 44 points (8,10,0)
(c) Bottom X Barfield teams not relegated - 33 points (5,5,8)
(b) Bottom X Barfield teams be relegated to the Carter Division if it is created. If Carter Division is not created, owners of these teams replaced by people on the waiting list. - 31 points (5,3,10)

Proposition 210: The draft be held at 9:00PM EST to accomodate players from the West Coast, and that we attempt to get a date around the 1st of April.
(a) Yes - 18 votes
(b) No - 0 votes

Proposition 211: If Propositions 203 and 204 Pass, how should standings for relegation purposes be determined?
(a) By order of regular season finish - 14 votes
(b) By order of playoff finish - 4 votes

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