Need 1 for 1971 Career Prog. League-Div.Leader !! Topic

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We need 1 owner for a Diamond Legends or Career Progressive League which started in 1961 and will soon be advancing to the 1971 (it's 10th) season. Details on the teams available will be provided in the following post.

In the Diamond Legends (or Career) WIS leagues, players use their average career statistics. In this specific league, that will mean using their average career statistics in a progressive from their first year of eligibility starting in 1961 through their last year of WIS eligibility. In this league, Don Sutton (whose rookie season of WIS eligibility was 1966) will be eligible every season from 1966-1988-no IR seasons !!

The league has 16 teams, Alternate WIS format E (4 teams make playoffs) No DH,No WW, No AAA, No injuries. General Managers must be able to deal with a salary cap of $80 million. Owners must use the actual ballpark used by their franchise in 1971. 

Annual drafts will be in inverse order of finish except that for the first round only there will be a random weighted lottery among the 4 teams with the worst record (4 chances for the team with the worst record, 3 chance for 2nd worst etc.). The tiebreaker will be run differential (runs scored less runs allowed) with the team with the worst run differential drafting higher.
8/20/2015 9:14 AM
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The team available is the New York Yankees. The Yankees finished last in the ALE in 1969 but lead the ALE by 4 games with 38 games remaining in the 1970 season. The Yankees are 69-55 so far in 1970.

The $80 million salary cap has resulted in a well balanced league with only 1 team in the 10 year history having won more than 100 games and only 2 teams having won fewer than 60 game.

The Yankees had no players retire after the 1970 season so the amount of salary available for draft picks will be $7,318,622 plus the salaries of any players cut. There are 38 games still left in the 1970 season and it is difficult to predict where the Yankees but only 2 teams have better records than the Yankees so it appears they will be drafting somewhere between 8th and 15th, most likely around 13rh or 14th.

Following are the batting statistics for the Yankees 13 returning hitters for the 1971 season:

FIRST LAST     Last   Annual                   Total Other
NAME NAME     Year Years Salary Bats PA HR AVG OBP SLG OPS SPD FLDG Salary Positions
John Bateman C   1972 2 $1,613,773 R 341 8 0.230 0.271 0.356 0.627 43 C+/A/B+ $3,227,546  
Duffy Dyer C   1980 10 $1,060,515 R 192 3 0.219 0.304 0.320 0.624 42 A-/A-/A- $10,605,150  
Phil Roof C   1976 6 $1,008,392 R 177 3 0.215 0.287 0.316 0.603 44 B/B/A+ $6,050,352  
Ken Harrelson 1B   1971 1 $1,908,676 R 330 13 0.239 0.327 0.412 0.739 66 B-/C- $1,908,676 OF
Don Mincher 1B   1972 2 $2,704,401 L 431 18 0.248 0.347 0.444 0.791 54 B/C- $5,408,802  
Bobby Grich 2B   1986 16 $5,716,591 R 663 18 0.267 0.372 0.425 0.797 68 A/A- $91,465,456 1B,3B,SS
Bobby Knoop 2B   1972 2 $1,844,328 R 375 5 0.235 0.295 0.332 0.627 63 B/B+ $3,688,656  
Sal Bando 3B   1981 11 $4,207,366 R 667 20 0.254 0.352 0.410 0.762 60 B+/B $46,281,026  
Maury Wills SS   1972 2 $4,318,240 S 693 2 0.281 0.330 0.333 0.663 87 B/B- $8,636,480 3B
Ken Henderson OF   1980 10 $2,995,443 B 507 12 0.256 0.342 0.394 0.736 74 B-/C+ $29,954,430  
Larry Hisle OF   1981 11 $3,616,827 R 512 18 0.273 0.346 0.453 0.799 79 B/B- $39,785,097  
Bill Robinson OF   1982 12 $2,284,168 R 411 14 0.258 0.299 0.432 0.731 73 B/D- $27,410,016 1B, 3B
Del Unser OF   1981 11 $3,095,392 L 510 8 0.258 0.319 0.363 0.682 76 B+/B $34,049,312 1B

And following are the pitching statistics for the Yankees 12 returning pitchers for the 1970 season:

FIRST LAST     Last   Annual                     Total
NAME NAME     Year Years Salary Throws IP G GS W L SV ERA WHIP OAV Salary
Bobby Bolin P   1973 3 $2,866,286 R 122 37 13 7 6 4 3.41 1.24 0.231 $8,598,858
Tom Bradley P   1975 5 $3,448,797 R 151 17 11 8 9 0 3.70 1.28 0.253 $17,243,985
Ken Brett P   1981 11 $2,450,343 L 119 26 15 7 7 1 3.94 1.35 0.257 $26,953,773
Bruce Dalcanton P   1977 7 $2,248,470 R 107 10 2 6 5 2 3.65 1.38 0.253 $15,739,290
Bill Hands P   1975 5 $4,520,750 R 195 36 26 11 11 1 3.34 1.22 0.253 $22,603,750
Grant Jackson P   1982 12 $1,863,123 L 85 42 5 5 5 5 3.90 1.30 0.250 $22,357,476
Jerry Koosman P   1985 15 $5,016,777 L 209 32 29 12 11 1 3.36 1.26 0.253 $75,251,655
Paul Lindblad P   1978 8 $1,968,434 L 91 49 2 5 5 5 3.17 1.27 0.252 $15,747,472
Jim Merritt P   1974 4 $3,677,352 L 164 32 21 9 10 1 3.68 1.21 0.258 $14,709,408
Jim Nash P   1972 2 $2,898,067 R 138 24 21 8 8 0 3.60 1.32 0.251 $5,796,134
Jim Ray P   1974 4 $1,666,431 R 76 37 2 5 3 3 3.46 1.31 0.238 $6,665,724
Jim Rooker P   1979 9 $3,682,436 L 164 28 23 9 10 1 3.47 1.32 0.249 $33,141,924
8/20/2015 9:48 AM (edited)
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Interested owners will be given access to the league's private forum, which has preliminary lists of available players (including 1971 rookies and previously undrafted players but NOT including any 1971 cuts), and a table of 1971 pre-cut roster totals and pre-cut available funds for draft picks for all 16 teams.

Please indicate your interest below and/or site-mail me with any questions you may have about the career format.
8/20/2015 9:45 AM
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The first task of a new owner will be to decide upon player cuts. 7 of the 16 teams have posted cuts. The 1970 season ends on Tuesday September 1.
8/20/2015 9:47 AM
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Try the career format progressive-an interesting change from the regular format. No IR seasons, no bad seasons for your players
8/21/2015 7:54 AM
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Yankees still leading their division by one game !
8/24/2015 2:32 PM
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Yankees have dropped 3 games behind with 4 to play-current owner seems to be inactive.

They are 81-77 and will likely draft about 9th in the 16 team league.
8/31/2015 1:39 PM
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im interested
9/8/2015 5:07 PM
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Posted by jmarino2 on 9/8/2015 5:07:00 PM (view original):
im interested
Will send site mail
9/9/2015 6:21 AM
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