New type of baseball draft - gathering input and ideas

[ucffans]

In about a month (after the Multi-sport Game used draft concludes), I would like to do a baseball draft with parallels and inserts from the past few years.

Here is my thought:

Each person enters 25 parallels or Inserts

Most of these types of cards are around .50 - $1.00 in value

Cards would consist of:
* blue, orange, red, etc. background colors (usually from Target, Walmart packs)
* Sparkle cards from Topps the past few years
* Inserts such as the 1987 Topps minis, 1972 Topps minis, etc

Shipping would only need to be about $2

Not sure about cards like Walk off, or Timeless Treasures. Thoughts on these?

Questions / Feedback:
Would you be interested in doing a draft like this? Do you have suggestions as to what to include / not include? Would 25 cards be the right amount - thought it would make worthwhile for the shipping? Are there some inserts that are much cheaper or much more expensive which we need to be aware of?

[ucffans]

Biggest question/help would involve how you might suggest I do the inserts. Topps has tons of inserts and some of them are borderline to me as far as whether to include them. For example, do people collect Timeless Treasures, Walk off, and a bunch of other ones.

[ocanseco55]

Any inserts would be okay with me.

[ucffans]

Just looking at Topps from 2013, these could include:
Topps Inserts
Calling Cards:
Chase It Down:
Chasing The Dream:
Chasing History:
Cut To The Chase:
Elites:
Making Their Mark:
1972 Minis:
Blue Sparkle Pack Redemptions:
Camo Border:
Emerald Borders:
Gold Borders: #ed /2013
Spring Fever Redemption Cards:
Target Red Borders:
Toys R Us Purple Borders:
Walmart Blue Borders:
World Baseball Classic:

[schwood]

I would say any of those would work bud. And really I would say something like a Refractor or XFractor from Bowman or something like that would be fine as long as people understand the value of these and that they are not guaranteed to get a card of the same value. I would open it up and say any insert or parallel would work for it. That way you don't have to figure out what would or would not work. Just my two cents. I am in on this for sure.

[whitney777]

Good idea Brett. I'm not sure I have enough from the last couple of years, but I'll look.

[azdbacks1998]

I'm pretty sure I'd have enough to get in on this......sounds fun.

[ucffans]

My son actually helped come up with the idea. He doesn't have the high quality cards but he would gladly take inserts of his favorite teams and players. It is a good way to clear out some doubles, too.

I'll just have to make sure people know the idea of the inserts is that they are very basic less than a dollar. If someone wants to put in a $3 insert, that is fine, but they need to realize a lot of these cards are going to be around $.50-$1

[ocanseco55]

I am in when you start it up