Checking to see if there was enough interest in an Icon startup.....this is a great concept where every franchise has a chance to succeed with a bit of crafty trading, smart drafting, and a bit of luck....

pretty much every rule of this league will be lifted from existing Icon Leagues...they are well thought out and seem to work

Basic Rules:

Salary Cap - None

AAA - 12/6 Below Average (Any Career Keeper/Team Icon with fewer than 60 IP/ 150 PA may be placed in AAA or on the MLB roster to start the season).

DH – No DH

Trades - Allowed and almost needed. Teams can only trade for eligible players though. Draft picks may be traded 2 years in advance. Players to be named later (future random AAA players) may also be traded.

IR - Unlimited. Restricted to any player without a WIS season, or any CK/TI that did not play for your franchise at all during that season (at owner’s discretion).

WW - No

Keepers - Unlimited. Any players who were assigned to your roster as career keepers, team icons etc. must be kept for the duration of their career.

Subsequent Seasons Draft Order - Will be determined at the transaction deadline (120 games). 40 wins are needed to qualify for a top 3 pick. Teams that do not reach 40 wins will be slotted from the 4th spot on by most wins. The rest of the draft (including top 3 picks) is inverse order of record. The first pick in rounds 2-4 belongs to the team with the fewest wins and continues in inverse order.

Divisions – As close to real life as possible

Team Names and Stadiums - Same as real life. If your team changes names or moves parks, then you must do the same.

Specific League Rules:

Keeper Rules - All players that fall in to the 3 keeper categories below will be forced on their respected franchise. They can not be traded or cut.

CAREER KEEPERS - Any player who has played his entire career for one team (or entire WiS career) will belong to that team. If a player has played for several teams but has only racked up 50 AB or 25 IP in a season for one team he will also belong to the team for which he played the bulk of his career. So if Player A plays four full seasons for the Dodgers, then goes to the Cubs where he only nets 30 ABs and is traded to the Mets where he gets another 30 he will be still be considered a Dodgers Career Keeper.

TEAM ICONS - Any player whose first ten or more eligible WIS seasons are with the same team, and who has had no more than 3 WIS seasons with other teams (including expansion teams) will be designated a Team Icon and belong to the team whom he played 10 years for.

-Any player who racked up more than 25 IP/50 AB with a single active franchise, regardless of seasons with a defunct franchise (Rockies, Marlins, D-Backs, Rays, whatever franchises go untaken) will be the property of the active franchise.

- Any Team Icon being may be placed on IR any season he did not play for your franchise.

- Any player who played every game for an expansion/defunct team or has fewer than 25 IP/50 AB will not be eligible to be drafted by any team.

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*Every other player who does not fall in to one of these rules will be eligible to be drafted by any team he appeared in 1 game for (any team that shows up on his B-R page at the time of the draft).

Franchises Claimed:

NL EAST
1-Philadelphia Phillies-scottyboy4
2
3
4

NL CENTRAL
1
2
3
4

NL WEST
1
2
3
4

AL EAST
1-Boston Red Sox-edsortails
2-New York Yankees-coled
3
4

AL CENTRAL
1-Detroit Tigers-dh0220
2
3
4

AL WEST
1
2
3
4

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Also, although it is common practice for a commish to wait until others have chosen teams before selecting, there is no specific advantage to having any franchise that I can see, and much of my doing this is to have a team that is near and dear to my heart....so I am claiming the Boston Red Sox to get things started....

I'll join as the Philadelphia Phillies. Might be willing to take an AL team too if needed.

thanks....for now, we'll try to find 24 owners, but it's good to know....welcome aboard

I am intrested in joining what is the draft order random to start the league also why is DET  and MIL considered defunct francises the played in 81 ?

they are not defunct, that will be deleted....they were just untaken franchises in the Icon League I was in before...from which I basically just copied the rules from


Year 1 draft order will be brought to us by random.org

I'm interested, but you might want to know that another ICON league is in '77 right now.

As long as the rules stay as is ('81 and random draft order) I'll join with the Yanks

'81 and random are pretty much set in stone as far as I'm concerned....

I'm already in all three icon leagues (46, 77, 98) and it is my favorite WIS progressive format. But we're nearly approaching 1981 in our 70's Icon league. Tough to get invested in the same league, in roughly the same timespan. I think many of the ICON mainstays will feel the same way and this league could be tough to fill (the recently drafted 1946 league took a while to get just 12 owners).

Just throwing this out there, but we haven't ever done an Icon REGRESSIVE. Not sure what year since all of our progressives are relatively spread out. 2010?

Posted by edsortails on 7/26/2011 5:41:00 PM (view original):
they are not defunct, that will be deleted....they were just untaken franchises in the Icon League I was in before...from which I basically just copied the rules from


Year 1 draft order will be brought to us by random.org

Also consider that the initial draft order in all the other Icon Leagues was established in inverse order of team winning percentage over a 10 year span. The drafts were not serpentine, either. These provisions were introduced to provide incentives for owners to take inferior teams that have fewer career keepers/team Icons. These are some vital rules which gives, as you put it above, "every franchise a chance to succeed with a bit of crafty trading, smart drafting, and a bit of luck...."