My take on creating a theme is to make it seem like your team has the strengths and weaknesses of a "normal" MLB team.

1. Pick a franchise.
2. Pick 2 seasons of your franchise ** 1985 - 2014 ** and select all your pitching from those seasons. No twists.
3. Pick 2 seasons of your franchise ** 1985 - 2014 ** and select all your position players from those seasons. No twists.
4. Substitute one player from either your pitchers or your position players with a star from your franchise ** 1985 - 2014 **.
5. 200K scrubs can be from any season ** 1985 - 2014 ** of your franchise.
6. Pick any ballpark, but league-wide uniqueness is on.

Other details:

100 mill cap
DH Yes
AAA No
Trades No
WW No
clones No
injuries No
Each franchise can be selected by two different owners, and their teams will be placed in opposite leagues.

Please sign up below with your chosen franchise and ballpark.

# OWNER FRANCHISE BALLPARK
1 Datatrek Jays Braves Field in Boston
2 wedhead Mets Shea
3 papabilly Dodgers Bush
4 marlowe Astros Minute Maid
5 farmer88 Yankees Yankee Stadium
6 finn2030 Mariners Cleveland Stadium
7 specsman Dodgers Shibe Park
8 dcates Cards Sportsman Park
9 cholatse Phillies Citizen's Bank
10 Rattlers Red Sox Riverfront
11 Simisox Red Sox Tropicana
12 zephyr1949 Astros Ebbets Field Phoenix
13 sjh0825 Braves Fulton County
14 jfranco77 Braves Enron
15 bronxcheer Angels Crosley
16 RWHAY A's Jacob's
17 pg99 Rangers Baker Bowl
18 RWHAY Indians Ameriquest
19 summerfield Reds ???
20 diehard Cubs Wrigley
21 hoopsrus Phillies Kingdome
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Signups that have not yet entered:

summerfield Reds ???
dewelch71 Mariners ?????
ddodge02 Cards Three Rivers


As it stands now, the Phillies, Braves, Dodgers, Astros and Red Sox cannot be taken again...sitemail me if you want to be on a waitlist for any franchise that is already taken twice.

Datatrek; wedhead; papabilly; Marlowe; farmer88; finn2030; specsman; dcates; cholatse; Rattlers; Simisox; zephyr1949; sjh0825; bronxcheer

jfranco77

I will do my Indians and place them in Nationals Park.

White Sox for me and Enron Field.

4 in already!

Can you put me down for the yanks, Yankees stadium

Will do! Which Yankees Stadium are you selecting? I think there's 3 of them, and contrary to public opinion, Ruth didn't actually build any of them!

I'll try the Cubs at Riverfront, please.

cards sportsman park

Do you get the entire multi-city history of a franchise (does Braves = Boston, Milwaukee, and Atlanta)? Or just a single city iteration of a given franchise?

Giants in AT&T

But only if I can use New York and San Francisco. If not, I'll pick something else.

Posted by tycho88 on 11/26/2014 9:02:00 PM (view original):
Do you get the entire multi-city history of a franchise (does Braves = Boston, Milwaukee, and Atlanta)? Or just a single city iteration of a given franchise?

Thanks for your question, tycho88, because it prompts me to include a rule not yet stated.

Franchises that moved their team, like Expos to Nationals, is fine to be considered one franchise, so you could take a combination of Expo seasons and Nationals seasons, as well as the "star" from either.

The problem that always occurs with franchise leagues is the huge disparity between longer vs. shorter number of seasons available per franchise. In addition, deadballers are so like cheating because their salary structure is so exploitable.

SO...

there are several ways to limit these effects and keep the variety of choice for seasons within a franchise diverse, yet not make it unreasonably unfair to use a franchise that has fewer seasons to choose from.

NEW RULE: ALL SEASONS MUST BE 1985 - 2014. This allows 30 seasons to choose from for most franchises, and doesn't cripple badly the new franchises that came in during the 90's. Hopefully, this creates a level playing field for most franchises.

...sorry for not thinking of that earlier...I'll edit the front advertisement to add this rule.

Thanks again!

The new seasons are not what I'm interested in, so please withdraw my entry.