Lower caps aren't very popular. Add in a DH and there is a realistic chance that those inexperienced with low caps and DH-related fatigue will under-draft innings and experience the fatigue death spiral, inflating the W-L records of the other teams in that league.

My hope was the $70M theme would allow people to use their favorite players from their team's recent seasons who would be unusable outside of a progressive.

Posted by 06gsp on 3/29/2022 7:10:00 PM (view original):
My hope was the $70M theme would allow people to use their favorite players from their team's recent seasons who would be unusable outside of a progressive.

Yeah I'll definitely consider a bunch of players I'd never looked over before - which is great to get stretched that way.

I’ll be honest, my first thought when reading the $70m was “this is gonna be easy!” Then I saw the DH requirement and that’ll definitely add a challenge

Posted by chargingryno on 3/29/2022 10:32:00 PM (view original):
I’ll be honest, my first thought when reading the $70m was “this is gonna be easy!” Then I saw the DH requirement and that’ll definitely add a challenge

I like the themes. Simpler rules does not mean simpler strategy. Some past themes involved a lot of searching and record keeping, which is not the same as strategy it's just time consuming grunt labor. Glad we don't have much of that now.
Only issue is the $20m rule does not allow for much choice, I suspect a lot of repetition.

Posted by rbow923 on 3/30/2022 2:04:00 AM (view original):
I like the themes. Simpler rules does not mean simpler strategy. Some past themes involved a lot of searching and record keeping, which is not the same as strategy it's just time consuming grunt labor. Glad we don't have much of that now.
Only issue is the $20m rule does not allow for much choice, I suspect a lot of repetition.

This mostly describes my thoughts towards the themes. This has been my thinking about the 140m league since looking it over.

Sentence 1 of rbow's post is the only thing I would change, adding 2 words. After "like", add "most of". The 70m with the DH is not something I look forward to with such a small time frame and lower cap. However, that thought is just after "eyeballing" the theme before doing any research.

These are a vast improvement (IMO) over some of the last few seasons' themes. Some of the past themes were just so time consuming, it took out much of the fun, therefore ruining the experience.

Thanks for taking on the task of keeping the tourney going!

Posted by 06gsp on 3/28/2022 5:44:00 PM (view original):
$140M Q&A

Q: Can the >$20 million player be the same player as one of my eight cloned players?

A: Yes

Not sure I get this. Rules state we must clone each of our 8 players EXACTLY 3 times, and our 25th player must cost at least $20M. If the $20M player is one of your cloned players, wouldn't that give you 4 clones of that player?

Posted by Jtpsops on 3/30/2022 9:19:00 AM (view original):

Posted by 06gsp on 3/28/2022 5:44:00 PM (view original):
$140M Q&A

Q: Can the >$20 million player be the same player as one of my eight cloned players?

A: Yes

Not sure I get this. Rules state we must clone each of our 8 players EXACTLY 3 times, and our 25th player must cost at least $20M. If the $20M player is one of your cloned players, wouldn't that give you 4 clones of that player?

Not to be difficult here, but if I clone something 3 times … I will have 4 of it. So clearly that’s not going to work. I will assume it means you have 3 versions each of 8 players, but you can have a 4th version of one of them or a different 9th player.

Posted by redcped on 3/30/2022 11:37:00 AM (view original):

Posted by Jtpsops on 3/30/2022 9:19:00 AM (view original):

Posted by 06gsp on 3/28/2022 5:44:00 PM (view original):
$140M Q&A

Q: Can the >$20 million player be the same player as one of my eight cloned players?

A: Yes

Not sure I get this. Rules state we must clone each of our 8 players EXACTLY 3 times, and our 25th player must cost at least $20M. If the $20M player is one of your cloned players, wouldn't that give you 4 clones of that player?

Not to be difficult here, but if I clone something 3 times … I will have 4 of it. So clearly that’s not going to work. I will assume it means you have 3 versions each of 8 players, but you can have a 4th version of one of them or a different 9th player.

I assumed it meant exactly 3 versions of each player. I was trying to clarify if the 25th had to be different or could actually be a 4th version of one of those players.

Posted by Jtpsops on 3/30/2022 11:49:00 AM (view original):

Posted by redcped on 3/30/2022 11:37:00 AM (view original):

Posted by Jtpsops on 3/30/2022 9:19:00 AM (view original):

Posted by 06gsp on 3/28/2022 5:44:00 PM (view original):
$140M Q&A

Q: Can the >$20 million player be the same player as one of my eight cloned players?

A: Yes

Not sure I get this. Rules state we must clone each of our 8 players EXACTLY 3 times, and our 25th player must cost at least $20M. If the $20M player is one of your cloned players, wouldn't that give you 4 clones of that player?

Not to be difficult here, but if I clone something 3 times … I will have 4 of it. So clearly that’s not going to work. I will assume it means you have 3 versions each of 8 players, but you can have a 4th version of one of them or a different 9th player.

I assumed it meant exactly 3 versions of each player. I was trying to clarify if the 25th had to be different or could actually be a 4th version of one of those players.

the 25th player can be a fourth version of one of your eight clones if he costs more than $20 million and is not a 19th century pitcher

I already don’t know how to build a 70M team, then you added a DH…

I'm going to sound like such a newbie, but can someone post a link for the broader "theme" list of ballparks? The one on the Team Center is just for open leagues of course. Thanks.

Posted by 06gsp on 3/28/2022 5:43:00 PM (view original):
$140M: Trip Eights and the Big Joker

Choose eight players. You will clone each of those eight players exactly three times. The 25th player on your roster must cost at least $20 million and cannot be a 19th century pitcher.

Seasons: All
DH: Yes
Clones: Yes
Ballpark: All

Spent most of the day yesterday working on this one, took a lot of time to land on something that I feel (somewhat, at least right now) good about