Gold Points 2019

[Ben (Rays GM)]

In order to ensure teams are not explicitly rewarded for tanking, we use a system called Gold Points to determine draft order. Here's how it works:

Once you're mathematically eliminated from contention, you start accumulating gold points, and draft order is determined by a ranking of most points earned. You earn points in the following ways:

1) You automatically earn one gold point each matchup of the regular season starting with the week you are eliminated, as long as you make an effort to field the best lineup you can with what you have available to you that week.

2) You earn one point for every category that you win after being eliminated (not including the week of elimination). Starting in 2020: If you win a matchup 7-5, you get 7 points. If you lose 10-2, you get 2 points. If you win a category on Yahoo due to your opponent not meeting the IP minimum, but don't actually win the category naturally (for example, you have a higher WHIP than your opponent but Yahoo gives you the win because they only had 13 IP), no gold point will be awarded for that category, to either team (if you do win the category naturally you can still earn the point).

3) Starting in 2020: You will lose one gold point each time you fail to reach 20 IP or 80 PA in a matchup, including those that take place prior to elimination. You get one free pass each season, the first time you fail to reach either of these thresholds. After that, one gold point will be deducted each time your weekly total falls short of one of the benchmarks. You can lose two points the same week if you fail to hit both minimums.

The team with the most points at the end of the regular season drafts first, followed by the team with the second most, etc. Ties are broken by looking at record (lower record picks first). If still tied, we'll look at the previous year's record and keep going back until the tie is broken.

I will update this thread each week with the eliminated teams and the number of Gold Points they've earned.

Eliminated Teams:
Team name (Week of Elimination) - Total Gold Points

1. Texas Rangers (14) - 43
2. New York Mets (15) - 36
3. New York Yankees (14) - 35
4. San Francisco Giants (16) - 32
5. Chicago Cubs - (17) - 27
6. Miami Marlins - (13) - 26 ... (0-21-0)
7. Oakland Athletics (15) - 26 ... (4-16-1)
8. Chicago White Sox - (18) - 25
9. Boston Red Sox (15) - 24 ... (4-16-1)
10. Atlanta Braves - (17) - 24 ... (8-10-3)
11. Milwaukee Brewers - (18) - 23
12. Pittsburgh Pirates (14) - 21
13. San Diego Padres (16) - 20 ... (6-15-0)
14. Arizona Diamondbacks - (17) - 20 ... (7-11-3)
15. Kansas City Royals (13) - 19
16. Minnesota Twins - (18) - 8
17. Cleveland Indians - (20) - 7
18. Philadelphia Phillies - (20) - 4
19. St Louis Cardinals - (playoffs) - 0 ... (12-5-4)
20. Los Angeles Angels - (playoffs) - 0 ... (14-6-1)
21. Detroit Tigers - (playoffs) - 0 ... (15-6-0) ... (5-13-3)
22. Houston Astros - (playoffs) - 0 ... (15-6-0) ... (11-9-1)
23. Los Angeles Dodgers - (playoffs) - 0 ... (15-5-1)
24. Colorado Rockies - (playoffs) - 0 ... (15-4-2)
25. Baltimore Orioles - (playoffs) - 0 ... (16-4-1)
26. Seattle Mariners - (playoffs) - 0 ... (17-4-0) ... (15-5-1)
27. Washington Nationals - (playoffs) - 0 ... (17-4-0) ... (17-4-0)
28. Toronto Blue Jays - (playoffs) - 0 ... (18-3-0)
29. Tampa Bay Rays - (playoffs) - 0 ... (18-2-1)
30. Cincinnati Reds - (playoffs) - 0 ... (19-0-2)

[Ben (Rays GM)]

Week 13:

Royals eliminated, +1 GP
Marlins eliminated, +1 GP

[Ben (Rays GM)]

Week 14:

Marlins score 2, +3 GP
Royals score 0, +1 GP
Pirates eliminated, +1 GP
Yankees eliminated, +1 GP
Rangers eliminated, +1 GP

[Ben (Rays GM)]

Week 15:

Marlins score 4, +5 GP
Yankees score 4, +5 GP
Pirates score 3, +4 GP
Rangers score 2, +3 GP
Royals score 1, +2 GP
Mets eliminated, +1 GP
Red Sox eliminated, +1 GP
Athletics eliminated, +1 GP

[Ben (Rays GM)]

Week 16:

Rangers score 12, +13 GP
Yankees score 6, +7 GP
Mets score 4, +5 GP
Athletics score 2, +3 GP
Pirates score 1, +2 GP
Marlins score 1, +2 GP
Royals score 1, +2 GP
Red Sox score 1, +2 GP
Giants eliminated, +1 GP
Padres eliminated, +1 GP

[Ben (Rays GM)]

Week 17:

Red Sox score 6, +7 GP
Giants score 4, +5 GP
Rangers score 4, +5 GP
Mets score 3, +4 GP
Pirates score 3, +4 GP
Yankees score 2, +3 GP
Royals score 2, +3 GP
Marlins score 1, +2 GP
Padres score 1, +2 GP
Athletics score 1, +2 GP
Braves eliminated, +1 GP
Cubs eliminiated, +1 GP
Diamondbacks eliminated, +1 GP

[Ben (Rays GM)]

Week 18:

Mets score 11, +12 GP
Padres score 7, +8 GP
Athletics score 7, +8 GP
Cubs score 6, +7 GP
Red Sox score 5, +6 GP
Yankees score 5, +6 GP
Giants score 4, +5 GP
Rangers score 4, +5 GP
Pirates score 3, +4 GP
Braves score 2, +3 GP
Marlins score 1, +2 GP
Diamondbacks score 0, +1 GP
Royals score 0, +1 GP
Brewers eliminated, +1 GP
Twins eliminated, +1 GP
White Sox eliminated, +1 GP

[Ben (Rays GM)]

Week 19:

Brewers score 9, +10 GP
Giants score 8, +9 GP
White Sox score 4, +5 GP
Diamondbacks score 4, +5 GP
Twins score 3, +4 GP
Mets score 3, +4 GP
Rangers score 3, +4 GP
Pirates score 3, +4 GP
Braves score 3, +4 GP
Royals score 2, +3 GP
Athletics score 2, +3 GP
Cubs score 2, +3 GP
Padres score 1, +2 GP
Red Sox score 1, +2 GP
Marlins score 1, +2 GP
Yankees score 0, +1 GP

[Ben (Rays GM)]

White Sox score 12, +13 GP
Cubs score 11, +12 GP
Giants score 9, +10 GP
Diamondbacks score 9, +10 GP
Yankees score 8, +9 GP
Braves score 6, +7 GP
Rangers score 4, +5 GP
Red Sox score 3, +4 GP
Marlins score 3, +4 GP
Athletics score 2, +3 GP
Padres score 2, +3 GP
Brewers score 1, +2 GP
Royals score 1, +2 GP
Twins score 0, +1 GP
Mets score 0, +1 GP
Pirates score 0, +1 GP
Indians eliminated, +1 GP
Phillies eliminated, +1 GP

[Ben (Rays GM)]

Week 21:

Brewers score 9, +10 GP
Braves score 8, +9 GP
Mets score 8, +9 GP
Rangers score 6, +7 GP
Athletics score 5, +6 GP
White Sox score 5, +6 GP
Indians score 5, +6 GP
Marlins score 4, +5 GP
Royals score 4, +5 GP
Cubs score 3, +4 GP
Padres score 3, +4 GP
Diamondbacks score 2, +3 GP
Yankees score 2, +3 GP
Phillies score 2, +3 GP
Giants score 1, +2 GP
Red Sox score 1, +2 GP
Twins score 1, +2 GP
Pirates score 0, +1 GP

[Ben (Rays GM)]

The final Gold Points standings have been calculated and the 2020 draft order has been determined! Please look over your tally for any potential errors and let me know by PM as soon as possible, before we finalize the order for the Rule 5 Draft.

I also want to use this opportunity to announce a couple Gold Point rule changes for next season:

1. Any team that fails to reach 20 IP in a single week or 80 PA in a single week will lose 1 gold point for each instance. This includes instances both prior to and after elimination, and a team can lose 2 points in the same week if they fail to reach both thresholds. Bad luck happens, so each team will get one free-pass. In other words, if a team fails to reach 80 PA twice in a season and fails to reach 20 IP three times in a season, they will lose four gold points at the final tally (2+3=5, -1 free-pass).

2. If an eliminated team wins categories solely by virtue of their opponent failing to reach 20 IP, they will not receive gold points for those categories that they didn't actually lead. In other words, if Team X is playing Team Y, and Team Y only reaches 17 IP, according to Yahoo Team X would win all of the pitching categories for the week, even the ones where Team Y finished ahead. With this rule change Team X would ONLY receive gold points for the pitching categories they won naturally. So if Team X had a lower WHIP and more Ks, for example, they'd still win gold points for those categories. But if Team X had a higher ERA and an equal number of SVs, they would not win those gold points even though Yahoo said they did (Team Y would not win these gold points either - neither team would).