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8/21/2012 8:37 AM (edited)

EDIT>>>> LEAGUE IS DEAD.  Not enought interest to make it fly.  Thanks for reading






It's been a couple of years since I created a theme league... Let's see how this one flies.

It's a simple concept, but it will make your team difficult to build, and limit cookie players and strategies.  You'll use players that you most likely never used before. 

I'm giving seven rules for player selection.  You must meet exactly (ie:  for 6, you need exactly 6 players that meet that criteria, no more, no less).  Players can overlap (ie:  the same player can fill more than 2 rule roles). 

Here's the 7 rules

1  Player over $10m
2  Pitchers from pre-1930 (All others must be later)
3  Guys who hit 30+ HR's in that season (all others fewer)
4  Players under $500k (yes, only 4 scrubs)
5  Pitchers with WHIP over 1.30 (That's a lot of bad pitchers)
 Hitters with PA/162 under 450 (Hmm...With rule 4?)
7  Pitchers who threw 100 or more IP/162 (Really?)

Think about it....Most of your pitching staff will be from 1930 or later,  You're going to have to manage innings differently, you can only have 4 true scrubs, which means you may need to platoon a bit,

To get in, you have to send me an sitemail telling me the players who fill the rule.

Something like:

My team
Rule 1 - 1895 Cy Young
Rule 2 - 1895 Cy Young and 1928 Garland Braxton
Rule 3 - yadda, yadda, yadda
Rule 4 - Etc.

I will verify that no other players violate the rules after you enter your team.  I will also save screen prints of your team, so if you change your roster after you enter it, you will need to tell me. 

The other basics
$80m cap
No AAA, No WW, No Trading
No SLL, No clones,
All stadiums legal
Random realignment

Who wants a challenge?


 

8/19/2012 9:09 AM (edited)
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1 biglenr
2 redtrain (sitemail received)
3 alleyviper
4 xjchessman (sitemail received)
5 imladris12. (sitemail received)
6 wedhead36
8/13/2012 7:43 PM
3 Guys who hit 30+ HR's in that season (all others fewer) - what season???????
8/14/2012 8:36 AM
Posted by grayfoxx on 8/13/2012 7:43:00 PM (view original):
3 Guys who hit 30+ HR's in that season (all others fewer) - what season???????
They must have 30+ HR's in the player season selected... just being cautious
8/14/2012 10:12 AM
I don't know if I am reading this correctly, but does every player on our roster need to satisfy one of the seven rules?  Or, can anyone be on the roster as long they don't violate one of the rules, and we otherwise meet the rule player quotas?
8/14/2012 10:43 AM

You need to satisfy the 7 rules.  Everyone else on your roster, as long as they do not violate one of the rules, are fine.

So if you can get the seven rules satisfied with 10 players, you have 15 guys to do whatever you want with, as long as they don't violate the other rules.  . ie:  only one guy can be $10m or more, all but 2 pitchers must be 1930 or later,  Exactly 7 pitchers must throw 100 or more IP (you can have 5 more pitchers with under 100 IP, if you want).  Exactly 3 guys can have 30+ HR

I'll build a sample team and post it, probably tomorrow. 

It's really a challenge because we all have such preconceived knowledge of what is good and needed to win in the sim.  We think we need to do a "all $200k scrub" team, we want all deadball pitchers, we don't use our pitchers other than in certain pre-conceived notions. 

8/14/2012 2:42 PM
I'm in. I sent you a sitemail.
8/14/2012 3:57 PM
Welcome redtrain....

I'll send my players to the first 5 owners who send theirs.  It will probably be Thursday, as I need to get a new six-pack of teams tomorrow.

8/14/2012 4:48 PM
I'll get in on this.  Two questions:

1.)  DH y/n?
2.) for 6th rule, it has to be players with 0-449 PAs, not 0-450, correct?
8/14/2012 9:35 PM

Welcome alleyviper


No dh....

And Correct... 50-449 PA/162.

 

8/15/2012 10:15 AM
Well...CRAPP  Building my team now, and it's every bit as hard as I thought it would be. 

Forcing multiple pitchers to have WHIP > 1.30, multiple pitchers to have 100+ ip, and limiting the number of players with under $500k and the number of hitters with < 450 PA.... TOUGH!
8/15/2012 10:26 AM
It still leaves the door open for people to use 2008 Addie Joss.
8/15/2012 10:27 AM
Sorry. I meant it still leaves the door open for people to use 1908 Addie Joss.
8/15/2012 11:35 AM
Yep.. It does.  But it prevents you from loading up your team with only deadball pitchers.  

I'm not trying to prevent every cookie... The point is to encourage people to use new players, and even more importantly, to be forced to manage your teams in a different manner. 
8/15/2012 4:12 PM
I'm all for that.  Unfortunately, '08 Joss is rather dominate and could be more so in this league.
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