Cooperstown Historical Replay 2009 - need 1 Topic

We are replaying history. Draft an entire team from 2009 and do the best you can. Improvement over real life record will vault you up the draft board next season. Some of these teams really suck. But it's still super fun. We've played every season from 1974-2008 at this point and are regressing/progressing until we recreate it all. There is a record book containing season and career stats. Pretty soon we will have our inaugural Hall of Fame voting and induction.

Join us and be a part of re-history!

Rules to follow...,
1/9/2024 1:10 PM
This league attempts to replay each major league season as closely as possible.

The number one thing to understand about this league is that we use the actual rosters from WIS with no variation. This means we do not allow free agents, twists, SIM-generated AAA, or anything else. You get the guys in the WIS database who played for your team, and that's it. And yes, that means each season there is a chance you are going to get a team that is going to suck, and there will not be much that you can do about it. Hey, someone’s going to end up managing the 2003 Tigers.

Please re-read the preceding paragraph carefully before joining this league. In your first season, you almost certainly are going to get one of the weaker available teams. It ruins the integrity of the league, the statistical accuracy, and the fun for your fellow owners if you abandon your team in mid-season. By joining this league you are implicitly committing to seeing it through to the end of the season, doing the best you can with the cards you are dealt. The good news is that most owners are able to work their way up pretty quickly.

Here’s how this works:
  1. We use the actual divisional alignment that MLB used, each season.
  2. That means 8 playoff teams each season - the six division winners plus the two wild cards - exactly as MLB did during this era.
  3. Each owner drafts 1 team from the respective season. Obviously teams are exclusive and no duplicate teams are allowed.
  4. Once you have chosen your team, you will go into the draft center and enter your actual players from that season. You can use the “load historical team” feature if you want…this is often the easiest and cleanest way to build your roster, but it’s not infallible. Occasionally players are missed when you load a team that way. If you prefer to draft your players individually, keep in mind that:
  • For players who were traded or otherwise appeared for multiple teams in a single season, you MUST use the partial-season version of that player. If the player did not get enough PA or IP with your team to warrant a partial-season version then you cannot use him. NO COMBINED VERSIONS OF PLAYERS MAY BE USED.
  • If your team is short of PA or IP, or even very short, so be it.
  • Only players who played for your team in real life may be used in games. If you do not have 25 players in the database (unlikely in this era, but just in case), you will draft additional $200,000 players from the database (from any WIS season) to fill out your roster, but these players MUST:
    • Be manually set to rest at all times
    • Be manually removed from your player rest, defensive replacement, and PH hierarchies.
    • In other words, these non-roster players may not be used in games, unless WIS slots them in because of some sort of emergency, and owners should take every possible step to ensure that doesn’t happen.
5. All players who played for your team in real life, and are in the WIS database, must be on your roster. In most seasons, most teams have MORE than 25 eligible players, we use “draft your own” AAA with the following parameters
  • Each season, the theme rules will be set for a number of AAA players sufficient to allow the team with the largest real-life roster enough slots to incorporate all of their players.
  • Teams that have more than 25 players in the WIS database will draft these additional players into AAA slots. These players MAY be used in games, and the transaction deadline will be set as late as possible (game 159) to allow for roster moves throughout the season.
  • Teams with unfilled AAA slots can either draft your own $200K players to fill the AAA slots, or just let WIS fill those slots with random AAA players, but in either case, those players MAY NOT be used in games. They should remain in AAA the entire season.
  • Again, the purpose of AAA is to include as many real-life players as possible; no SIM-generated AAA players should ever be used in games in this league.
6. By all means, do your best to win as many games as you can with the players you have! This is important for several reasons, including…
7. …This is NOT a keeper league. Each season we will redraft from the pool of available teams following a draft lottery. The lottery is much like the NBA lottery; we will draw ping pong balls for the top 3 picks and then the remaining picks will be awarded according to lottery order. Owners whose teams most overachieve in the current season will receive the highest number of ping pong balls for the lottery. “Overachievement” will be defined as “greatest relative improvement in winning percentage.” Or for those who prefer a formula: (WIS winning percentage – MLB winning percentage)/MLB winning percentage. So, if you get stuck with a terrible team in year 1, fear not. If you can win a few more games than they did in real life, you’re probably in great shape to draw a better team in season 2. If, because of owner turnover, we have new owners in the league, they will draft last in their first season (we will use random.org to generate the order for new owners if there are more than one in any given season.)
8. There will be real drafting strategy here. Do you pick the best remaining team available when it’s your turn? Or the team with the greatest possibility of improving on their real-life record? And obviously there is no benefit - EVER - to tanking. Losing never improves your draft position, and winning never harms it.
9. Obviously we are not allowing trades or waiver wire here. We use the DH in the AL of course
1/9/2024 1:11 PM
Returning Owners:
1. dirtbag13x2
2. summerfield
3. normy17
4. tywebb3
5. cstrohmier
6. odalisgagne
7. loyalcanuck
8. _JJP_
9. dippedncrack
10. Bagchucker3
11. jkorn
12. redcped
13. midknight
14. BeAllEndAll
15. jfranco77
16. Chisock
17. Bill_James47
18. ceno1515


New Owners:
19.jpeterso
20.
21. tigerfan2010x2
22. kneeneighbor
23. cfid
24.
25. kujhawker
26. mjoyce103
27. MarlboroLighx2
28. napolean
29. jtm2016
30. ROCKYPUG


dirtbag13;summerfield;normy17;tywebb3;cstrohmier;odalisgagne;loyalcanuck;_JJP_;dippedncrack;Bagchucker3;jkorn;redcped;midknight;BeAllEndAll;jfranco77;Chisock;Bill_James47;ceno1515;tigerfan2010;kneeneighbor;cfid;kujhawker;mjoyce103;MarlboroLigh;napolean;jtm2016;ROCKYPUG
10/2/2024 3:49 PM (edited)
This is my favorite ongoing league because it takes me back to the replay board games of my youth. We play the real teams, warts and all, and it's always a managerial challenge.

For anyone worried that it's hard to get good draft picks, the 29th pick from 2008 vaulted to the top of the lottery with the best improvement in the league.

Give it a try!
1/9/2024 3:13 PM
2009 Lottery Seed Owner 2008 Team RL W RL L RL PCT WIS W WIS L WIS PCT Pct +/- Rank 2008 Draft Pick Rank Improvement Owner
———— ———————— —————————— ———— ———— ———— ———— ———— ———— ———— ———— ———— ———— ————————
1 dirtbag13 San Diego Padres 63 99 0.389 83 79 0.512 31.7 1 29 28 dirtbag13
2 tywebb3 St. Louis Cardinals 86 76 0.531 102 60 0.63 18.6 2 11 9 tywebb3
3 Chisock Chicago White Sox 89 74 0.546 101 61 0.623 14.2 3 6 3 Chisock
4 summerfield Atlanta Braves 72 90 0.444 82 80 0.506 13.9 4 14 10 summerfield
5 normy17 Chicago Cubs 97 64 0.602 110 52 0.679 12.7 5 3 -2 normy17
6 tywebb3 Arizona Diamondbacks 82 80 0.506 90 72 0.556 9.8 6 18 12 tywebb3
7 footballmm11 Los Angeles Dodgers 84 78 0.519 92 70 0.568 9.5 7 4 -3 footballmm11
8 Bill_James47 Toronto Blue Jays 86 76 0.531 93 69 0.574 8.1 8 1 -7 Bill_James47
9 cstrohmier Philadelphia Phillies 92 70 0.568 99 63 0.611 7.6 9 7 -2 cstrohmier
10 loyalcanuck Boston Red Sox 95 67 0.586 102 60 0.63 7.4 10 9 -1 loyalcanuck
11 odalisgagne Milwaukee Brewers 90 72 0.556 96 66 0.593 6.7 11 8 -3 odalisgagne
12 redcped Washington Nationals 59 102 0.366 63 99 0.389 6.1 12 30 18 redcped
13 dirtbag13 Baltimore Orioles 68 93 0.422 71 91 0.438 3.8 13 27 14 dirtbag13
14 _JJP_ New York Mets 89 73 0.549 90 72 0.556 1.1 14 10 -4 _JJP_
15 Wstevens07 Detroit Tigers 74 88 0.457 73 89 0.451 -1.4 15 25 10 Wstevens07
16 jfranco77 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 97 65 0.599 95 67 0.586 -2.1 16 5 -11 jfranco77
17 dippedncrack Cleveland Indians 81 81 0.5 79 83 0.488 -2.5 17 13 -4 dippedncrack
18 Bagchucker3 Colorado Rockies 74 88 0.457 72 90 0.444 -2.7 18 26 8 Bagchucker3
19 jkorn Houston Astros 86 75 0.534 84 78 0.519 -2.9 19 16 -3 jkorn
20 pbsKids33 Oakland Athletics 75 86 0.466 73 89 0.451 -3.3 20 28 8 pbsKids33
21 BOB_O Kansas City Royals 75 87 0.463 72 90 0.444 -4 21 21 0 BOB_O
22 redcped New York Yankees 89 73 0.549 85 77 0.525 -4.5 22 15 -7 redcped
23 ceno1515 Anaheim Angels 100 62 0.617 94 68 0.58 -6 23 2 -21 ceno1515
24 SamSpeedant Minnesota Twins 88 75 0.54 82 80 0.506 -6.2 24 12 -12 SamSpeedant
25 BeAllEndAll Cincinnati Reds 74 88 0.457 68 94 0.42 -8.1 25 19 -6 BeAllEndAll
26 Midknight Florida Marlins 84 77 0.522 73 89 0.451 -13.6 26 22 -4 Midknight
27 fatguyrd Pittsburgh Pirates 67 95 0.414 55 107 0.34 -17.9 27 23 -4 fatguyrd
28 dippedncrack Seattle Mariners 61 101 0.377 50 112 0.309 -18 28 17 -11 dippedncrack
29 jbar8888 Texas Rangers 79 83 0.488 62 100 0.383 -21.5 29 24 -5 jbar8888
30 strubrosii San Francisco Giants 72 90 0.444 39 123 0.241 -45.8 30 20 -10 strubrosii
1/10/2024 9:53 AM
I did this a while back and would like to join if still open. Thanks.
1/11/2024 6:06 PM
Posted by tigerfan2010 on 1/11/2024 6:06:00 PM (view original):
I did this a while back and would like to join if still open. Thanks.
glad to have you back
1/12/2024 9:18 AM
Posted by tigerfan2010 on 1/11/2024 6:06:00 PM (view original):
I did this a while back and would like to join if still open. Thanks.
glad to have you back
1/12/2024 9:18 AM
Bump
1/23/2024 8:40 PM
Bump
1/23/2024 8:40 PM
Great group of owners, realistic stats, really fun league. Give it a shot.
2/4/2024 11:43 AM
What's the hold up? Do most owners not come back for the next season?
2/4/2024 6:19 PM
Posted by tigerfan2010 on 2/4/2024 6:19:00 PM (view original):
What's the hold up? Do most owners not come back for the next season?
it's a 30-team league and several owners had 2 teams - trying to get down to one team per owner.
2/22/2024 1:42 PM
I will take a team.
2/22/2024 10:27 PM
Count me in. I'll take a team.
2/23/2024 2:19 AM
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