Happy Birthday Progressive League! need 7 to play Topic

The Happy Birthday Progressive League is based on a progressive league run by Frazzman80 in the regular sim. It is now starting the 9th season and has been a lot of fun to draft and play. I took his version and tweaked it a little bit.

When an owner signs up he also selects a date (Month and Day) and a ballpark.  Dates and ballparks are exclusive.

The player pool for the 1st draft will be made up of all players born on the owners selected dates. Baseballreference.com will be the source of the players birthdays. Two more dates will be randomly chosen to make sure there are enough players in the draft pool.

Each new season a few random dates will be added to create that seasons "rookie" class. In frazzman80's league 3 new dates are added and that seems to be enough players, but this will be flexible and if a 4th date is needed it will be.

Players that have missing seasons will not go on IR.
(Example: If you have Ted Williams on your team, after his 1942 season he will not miss 3 seasons as he did in real life. He will move to his next available season, in this case 1946)

The only instance for a player going on IR is for current players
(Example: If you have Mike Trout on your team and he plays 2011,2012 and 2013 and the 2014 season is not available he would go on IR until his next season is in the WIS database.)

I would love to have this be a 24 team league but I realize with the state of live play now it is next to impossible to get 24 for a progressive league, so we may have to settle for 16. If you are not willing to play a 16 it is probably best you don't sign up.

Draft order will be determined by random.org after all owners have signed up.

No salary cap
No WW or DH
AAA will be 6/4 below average
trades are allowed
trades of draft picks allowed only one season ahead
40 games must be played live to participate in the post season

This has been a great league to play with the mix of all the eras. It should be even more fun live.

Any questions or comments post here or sitemail me.

I will pick my park and date last.

9/23/2013 3:47 PM (edited)
Interested owners:

1.szczubelek-TBD
2.stroh23   April 14   Riverfront
3.verynice   October 20   Petco
4.Fiireballers   September 3   TBD
5.topkat   July 7   Connie Mack Stadium
6.joshkvt   October 16   Kauffman Stadium
7.cstrohmeier   March 29   Forbes Field
8.Yaz_Benders  August 22   Robison Field
9.blaisebbss8-TBD
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11/14/2013 12:09 PM (edited)
Available Players(includes April 14, October 20, September 3)  
  year listed is rookie season, ( ) number is WIS seasons remaining

Pitcher   (44 players)

Jay Aldrich   1987   (2)
Steve Avery   1990   (10)
Brandon Beachy   2011   (3)*
Frank Bertaina   1964   (6)
Mark Bomback   1980   (3)
Tom Brewer   1954   (8)
Archie Campbell   1930   (1)
Dave Campbell   1977   (2)
Matt Capps   2006   (7)
Sandy Consuegra   1950   (7)
Jess Doyle   1925   (1)
Kyle Farnsworth   1999   (15)*
Chad Fox   1997   (4)
Art Fromme   1906   (9)
Cory Gearrin   2013   (1)*
Bill Gilbreth   1971   (1)
Don Heinkel   1988   (2)
Johnny Hutchings   1940   (5)
Chris Leroux   2011   (1)**
Bobby Livingston   2007   (1)
Wild Bill Luhrsen   1913   (1)
Greg Maddux   1986   (23)
Juan Marichal   1960   (15)
Morrie Martin   1949   (8)
Rick Ownbey   1982   (3)
Mike Paxton   1977   (3)
Brad Pennington   1993   (1)
Carlos Perez   1995   (5)
Juan Perez   2013   (1)*
Eric Plunk   1986   (14)
Nate Robertson   2003   (8)
Adam Russell   2008   (2)
John Russell   1921   (1)
Ron Schueler   1072   (7)
Rudy Seanez   1990   (11)
Bobby Sprowl   1981   (1)
William Stecher   1890   (1)
Ben Tincup   1914   (2)
Mike Trombley   1992   (10)
John Van Benschoten   2004   (2)
Jose Veras   2008   (6)*
Chris Welch   1981   (5)
Lefty West   1945   (1)
Jake Woods   2005   (2)


*active in 2013
**active in 2013 but did not have enough IP to have WIS season

11/17/2013 11:29 AM (edited)
Available Players  (includes April 14, October 20, September 3)

year listed is rookie season, ( ) number is WIS seasons remaining

Position Players

Catcher (8)
Brad Ausmus   1993   (18)
Harry Decker   1886   (2)
Jerry Donovan   1906   (1)
Mike Kahoe   1900   (7)
Jesse Levis   1993   (3)
Wickey McAvoy   1915   (3)
Greg Myers   1990   (14)
Gregg Zaun   1995   (17)

First Base (6)
Kerby Farrell   1943   (2)
Billy Goeckel   1899   (1)
Pat Hartnett   1890   (1)
Keith Hernandez   1975   (17)
Ed Konetchy   1907   (15)
Josh Whitesell   2009   (1)

Second Base (7)
Dave Berg   1998   (7)
Bobby Floyd   1969   (4)
Roberto Mejia   1993   (3)
Chris Nelson   2011   (3)*
Parson Nicholson   1888   (2)
Pete Rose   1963   (24)
Eddie Stanky   1943   (10)

Third Base (3)
Randy Asadoor   1986   (1)
Steve Boros   1961   (4)
Craig Wilson   1990   (12)

Shortstop (1)
Rafael Robles   1970   (1)

Outfield (22)
Herb Adams   1949   (2)
Alan Bannister   1975   (11)
Domonic Brown   2010   (4)*
Bruce Campbell   1932   (11)
Dave Clark   1986   (11)
Dave Collins   1975   (16)
Jocko Fields   1887   (6)
Choo Freeman   2004  (2)
Juan Gonzalez   1989   (16)
Luis Gonzalez   1991   (18)
David Justice   1989   (14)
Marty Keough   1958   (7)
Joe Lahoud   1968   (9)
Ced Landrum   1991   (1)
Mickey Mantle   1951   (18)
Dusty Miller   1890   (7)
Don Mueller   1948   (11)
Tom Niland   1896   (1)
Harvey Pulliam   1993   (2)
Jigger Statz   1919   (7)
George Stone   1905   (6)
Marty Sullivan   1887   (5)

Designated Hitter


*active in 2013




11/17/2013 11:46 AM (edited)
I would play
9/22/2013 9:22 AM
thanks for starting it off stroh! pick a date (Month and Day) and ballpark whenever you are ready
9/22/2013 9:58 AM
Oct 20th Petco
9/22/2013 7:05 PM
few questions
1. how many keepers
2. how does 2nd year draft work
3. we can take players from all 3 years (year selected and 2 random)?
4. how many live
5. Have to draft 1st available WIS season?
sorry szzy :>))
9/22/2013 7:10 PM
September 3rd, ballpark TBD
9/22/2013 7:14 PM
April 14, and Riverfront Stadium
9/23/2013 4:25 AM
Posted by verynice on 9/22/2013 7:10:00 PM (view original):
few questions
1. how many keepers
2. how does 2nd year draft work
3. we can take players from all 3 years (year selected and 2 random)?
4. how many live
5. Have to draft 1st available WIS season?
sorry szzy :>))
No I'm sorry left out a few important details.

1. keepers unlimited

2. Each new season random dates will be selected to create the "rookie" draft pool (will add this to opening post)

3. Players can be drafted from all the birthdays. Tonight when I get home and get a chance I will start creating the available players list from the dates we have so far and I think it will make more sense.

4.  40 games live (will make change to opening post)

5. Yes you must start a player with his 1st WIS season

9/23/2013 3:44 PM
Thanks verynice and Fiireballers for joining. I am excited for this to get going.
9/23/2013 3:51 PM
let's fill 'er up
9/28/2013 7:47 PM
x
9/29/2013 3:40 PM
July 7 and Connie Mack Staduim..........
9/29/2013 4:14 PM
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