Okay, I guess I'll take the 1964 Sam McDowell.

Here are the batting stats for my team "Beck in Black"...

Player	Yr	AVG	ObP	SLG	OPS	Salary	PA162
Gedman, Rich	1984	0.269	0.312	0.506	0.818	$4,177,049	486
Boggs, Wade	1983	0.361	0.444	0.486	0.931	$7,166,327	685
Castillo, Luis	2003	0.314	0.381	0.397	0.778	$5,197,540	676
Gaetti, Gary	1986	0.287	0.347	0.518	0.865	$6,509,834	661
Garciaparra, Nomar	2000	0.372	0.434	0.599	1.033	$7,521,319	599
Oliva, Tony	1970	0.325	0.364	0.514	0.878	$6,012,831	674
Puckett, Kirby	1986	0.328	0.366	0.537	0.903	$7,574,261	723
Clemente, Roberto	1967	0.357	0.400	0.554	0.954	$6,448,637	632
		0.328	0.383	0.513	0.896	$50,607,798	5136
Sims, Duke	1969	0.236	0.374	0.426	0.801	$3,940,183	401
Jones, Chipper	1995	0.265	0.353	0.450	0.803	$4,407,708	677
Wills, Maury	1967	0.302	0.334	0.365	0.700	$4,581,725	664
Howard, Frank	1973	0.256	0.327	0.463	0.789	$1,245,413	251
O'Brien, Charlie	1997	0.218	0.311	0.347	0.657	$2,217,525	267
						$12,452,371

I ended up talent-heavy at 3B and light at 1B, so either Boggs or Gaetti will play 1B for me. Wills will back up Nomar at SS for 100 or so PA. Sims (good obp) will spell Gedman at C. All three of my catchers have A+ arms.

My pitching stats...

Player	Yr	IP	OAV	WHIP	ERA	HR9	Salary
McDowell, Sam	1969	287	0.213	1.14	2.94	0.41	$9,265,581
Clemens, Roger	1997	264	0.213	1.03	2.05	0.31	$10,538,044
Maddux, Greg	1995	236	0.197	0.81	1.63	0.34	$10,842,285
Martinez, Pedro	2000	217	0.167	0.74	1.74	0.71	$11,707,138
Hall, Tom	1970	156	0.173	1.03	2.55	0.63	$5,712,453
Hiller, John	1973	126	0.198	1.02	1.44	0.50	$4,586,649
James, Bob	1985	110	0.226	1.03	2.13	0.41	$3,739,249
Beck, Rod	2000	41	0.222	1.13	3.10	0.44	$1,293,448
		1437	0.199	0.97	2.15	0.46	$57,684,847
Tudor, John	1983	242	0.255	1.31	4.09	1.19	$4,868,925
Helling, Rick	2003	155	0.277	1.37	5.17	1.80	$2,490,005
Nelson, Gene	1985	146	0.258	1.45	4.26	1.42	$2,555,412
Stanley, Bob	1984	107	0.267	1.28	3.54	0.76	$2,299,731
		650					$12,214,073

This better be my strength because my top 3 draft picks were for Maddox, Clemens and McDowell. I could have rostered a good Killebrew (1b) but really wanted Tom Hall.

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I have sent ronthegenius 3 seperate division alignments (A, B, C). I randomly created them, but with the requirement that the six owners who have teams in each league are not placed in the same division with the same owner for both teams...

I have asked calhoop to post a letter in the 1920-60 forum thread. (A, B or C). Once he does that, then ronthegenius will cut/paste the text of the site-mail there.

Here is the division alignment...



ALIGNMENT A

East Oli35
East malinowt
East schwarze
East marlowe
Central northof49
Central pmars2001
Central shysters3
Central mllama54
West mpitt76
West calhoop
West boozerep
West ronthegenius

East thejuice6
East schwarze
East calhoop
East ff09
Central northof49
Central Oli35
Central specsman
Central bheid408
West jtpsops
West ronthegenius
West grayfoxx
West mllama54

Salary Totals

Player	Salary	Drafted	Teammate
schwarze	136,899,272	48,812,565	88,086,707
Oli35	133,433,924	42,818,379	90,615,545
northof49	130,356,794	36,556,751	93,800,043
calhoop	125,096,761	39,978,688	85,118,073
jtpsops	124,044,750	36,117,213	87,927,537
grayfoxx	123,252,922	50,762,443	72,490,479
thejuice6	122,404,315	52,132,195	70,272,120
ronthegenius	121,620,712	43,989,349	77,631,363
ff09	120,675,570	43,988,164	76,687,406
bheid408	119,829,191	48,286,355	71,542,836
specsman	118,341,432	46,407,417	71,934,015
mllama54	115,218,408	40,285,567	74,932,841
Average	124,264,504	44,177,924	80,086,580

Here is the cumulative salary of the nominated player (and his teammates) by owner. Note that some owners prefer to nominate a cheap player to preserve a good draft position...

Owner	Salary	Nomination	Teammates
northof49	30,192,227	1965 Maury Wills	Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale
grayfoxx	24,439,451	1968 Sam McDowell	Sonny Siebert, Luis Tiant
calhoop	22,672,982	1985 John Tudor	Ozzie Smith, Willie McGee
Jtpsops	22,544,145	1994 Charlie O'Brien	Greg Maddux, Fred McGriff
specsman	21,637,574	1999 Chipper Jones	John Smoltz, Kevin Millwood
schwarze	20,521,905	2000 Rod Beck	Nomar Garciaparra, Pedro Martinez
Oli35	17,687,244	1986 Bob Stanley	Wade Boggs, Roger Clemens
bheid408	17,461,411	1992 Kirby Puckett	Brian Harper, Chuck Knoblauch
ronthegenius	16,921,145	1996 Rick Helling	Kevin Brown, Gary Sheffield
thejuice6	16,373,281	1969 Frank Howard	Mike Epstein, Dick Bosman
mllama54	16,070,287	1964 Tony Oliva	Al Worthington, Bob Allison
ff09	14,182,671	1990 Gene Nelson	Dennis Eckersley, Rickey Henderson

Ranked by cumulative salary, here were the top 20 most expensive draft picks...

Player Drafted	Owner	Salary	Pick
1998 Chipper Jones	thejuice6	16,507,399	6
1963 Maury Wills	ff09	16,096,494	5
1966 Maury Wills	Oli35	15,947,655	14
1965 Sam McDowell	bheid408	15,916,817	21
1996 Chipper Jones	calhoop	15,395,431	19
1995 Chipper Jones	schwarze	15,249,993	3
1963 Frank Howard	bheid408	15,235,667	10
1962 Maury Wills	mllama54	14,726,053	18
1969 Maury Wills	thejuice6	14,620,375	23
1986 Kirby Puckett	schwarze	14,084,095	79
2008 Chipper Jones	northof49	14,073,927	7
1970 Sam McDowell	specsman	13,494,286	41
1968 Tony Oliva	ff09	13,474,203	17
1988 Kirby Puckett	specsman	13,353,507	58
1969 Sam McDowell	schwarze	13,205,764	28
1997 Chipper Jones	ronthegenius	13,108,297	25
2002 Chipper Jones	Oli35	13,040,862	27
1967 Tony Oliva	northof49	12,840,927	52
1964 Maury Wills	specsman	12,774,866	8
1997 Charlie O'Brien	schwarze	12,755,569	16