BKDB Leadership Team

[Rockies GM (Alex)]

Hey guys!

As most of you know, I've been flying solo with most of the commissioner duties for the last couple of years.  I thoroughly enjoy it, so please don't see this is post in a complaining tone.  I would like to get together a team of 4-5 of us that would share these duties, or at least all have equal access and ability to keep this league up to date and running smoothly!  

We're tried this in the past with the league staff, which was hit or miss depending on the year.  


Ideally, these 4-5 individuals would be able to help with the following (myself included):

- update roster transactions as they occur (trades, signings, cuts, etc.)
- be able to handle administrative duties on Fantrax
- be equipped to improve and fix ProBoards issues
- feel readily able to answer questions as one of the leaders of the league, especially with new owners and rules that have grey areas
- keeping league rules and records up to date
- writing league content if so desired


Let me know if you have any other thoughts/ideas, even if you are not interested in being a part of this team.  Again, not looking to step back, but I don't think anything great is run by a single person.  

Thanks guys!

[Braves GM (Jared)]

I’ll help out again if you need buddy

[Das (Former Giants GM)]

Happy to contribute when needed or wanted

[Rockies GM (Alex)]

Is this something you guys think should be voted on? Or me just picking people? I've had quite a few volunteer... I'm guessing we don't want 10 different people updating the rosters. Curious your thoughts?

[Blue Jays GM (Stephen)]

I don't think anything needs to be voted on, just agreed upon on segregation of duties amongst the people helping.

[D'backs GM (Kyle)]

What Stephen said. I’m also willing to help out.

[Rockies GM (Alex)]

Appreciate the feedback you guys. Let me more clearly define what would be most helpful and then I'll pick a few guys, with preference to those who've been around longer and/or have helped in the past and done a great job!

[Rockies GM (Alex)]

Teams that have reached out to help include D'backs GM (Kyle) , Das (Former Giants GM) , Braves GM (Jared) ,  Astros GM (Will) Guardians GM (Thomas)


Requests for each of you are as follows.  I won't be backing off of each of these, but would be helpful to have someone with me on each of them:

Astros GM (Will) - Helping update Official Rosters after trades, free agent signings, and releases as you are able.  Updating League Projections Yearly.

D'backs GM (Kyle) - Helping update Official Rosters after Amateur and International Drafts (adding prospects after each round is completed), ensuring teams have adequate cap space to make draft picks, and notifying them if they do not.  Staying up to date on auto-drafts and auto-skips.  Updating the drafted/available players board during the Amateur Draft.

Guardians GM (Thomas) - Helping update Official Rosters MLB teams by each players name.  Go through rosters periodically (I typically do this at least twice a year) to update teams.  Update teams after you hear of a big trade in the MLB.

Das (Former Giants GM) - Helping update Official Rosters MiLB teams by each minor league players name.  Go through rosters periodically (I typically do this at least twice a year).  Update players after you hear of a big trade involving prospects.

Braves GM (Jared) - Fantrax administration.  Review rosters and matchups periodically to ensure teams are not neglecting rosters, failing to add their players to their rosters on Fantrax.  Add or subtract points (case by case) if needed after matchups during the week.  I.e., if a team accidentally goes over the start limit, those points need to be subtracted.

Each of you let me know if you'd be willing to help with these things, and I'll get you the appropriate permissions to be able to do so.  Again, I'm going to continue leading in each area, but I want to have others equipped to handle all of them should I get busier in the future.  



Three other things I'm looking for (let me know if interested):

**Something that would be helpful would be if anyone has experience creating graphics/logos in photoshop.  I'd like to do more of this.  

**Coupled with that is someone else learning Proboards and continuing to make our site better, along with continuing the maintenance of it as needed.** Let me know if you could help.

**Finally, I would like to get more people involved in writing power rankings, previews, recaps, etc..  If you are interested, let me know.  There's so much more we could do or make better with more people's awesome opinions and writing styles involved!  A team would lighten the load and probably make the content more entertaining and better too

[D'backs GM (Kyle)]

Count me in

[Braves GM (Jared)]

I can do that