Basic Concept

Each season, using random.org, a basket of player-seasons will be generated. All the rookies from those seasons will be included in the draft pool. The players that get drafted will then progress through their careers until they are either dropped or retire. To keep things manageable, when we generate a basket of seasons, all seasons will end in the same digit. Hypothetically, if we start with season ending in "1", then the next basket of seasons will end in "2", then "3"....etc. That way, as players progress and new rookies are added, all player-seasons will end in the same digit. This will help make roster verification/compliance easier to manage.

Since initially it will be hard to gather enough PA/IP's....we'll start with 1885 since it is the biggest "rookie pool". I realize that in real life these players weren't all rookies, but for our purposes it doesn't matter. This allows all teams the ability to build a "base" of players at the beginning of the league. We'll randomly choose three more seasons that end in 5. After the season is over, we'll randomly choose four seasons that end in 6. Going forward, we'll always at four player-seasons at a time.

After we progress through ten seasons and thus arrive back to player-seasons ending in 5, we'll exclude the previously chosen seasons to avoid repeat players (as some of these players would still be in the league). It would probably take us around 7 calendar years to go through all the available seasons in the WIS database. If we get that far, then we can choose to begin recycling some of the previously used seasons as those players would have long since retired.

Looking back over the rules, I don't guess I formally addressed cut players and whether they will stay in the league. I was thinking I had said they would be dropped out of the league if they are cut. I'm open to discussion on this rule.

I would be ok if we say that if a player gets "cut" then maybe he is on the available players list for the current draft and if he remains undrafted, then at that point he drops out of the league. My main goal is to avoid an ever growing list of mostly worthless players who were cut and will probably never be re-drafted.

I think it would be fairly easy to have a list of "free agents" who had been cut and keep them on a separate list and when the draft is over, we just flush the rest of them from the league.

It will be difficult and likely a big headache to keep track of cut players each season and make them draft available.

One way to handle it could be to leave still active players off the draft list when the season repeats. For example if 1885 comes round again any players still on rosters from the first time around could just be removed from available list when draft starts. That would solve a clone problem which I believe most owners would like to avoid.

See above where I highlighted in red.....we'll blacklist previously used seasons until we've used up all other available seasons. For example, in 10 seasons when we roll back around to "5", we'll blacklist rookies from 1885, 1945, 1965, and 1995. That means we'll randomly choose four seasons from 1895, 1905, 1915, 1925, 1935, 1955, 1975, 1985, 2005, and 2015.

Posted by Razorhawg1 on 10/2/2020 2:06:00 PM (view original):
See above where I highlighted in red.....we'll blacklist previously used seasons until we've used up all other available seasons. For example, in 10 seasons when we roll back around to "5", we'll blacklist rookies from 1885, 1945, 1965, and 1995. That means we'll randomly choose four seasons from 1895, 1905, 1915, 1925, 1935, 1955, 1975, 1985, 2005, and 2015.

So even the players with 20 or more seasons will be gone by the time their rookie season comes along again. No clones. Sounds good

OF Mike Dorgan

with the 7th pick of the 10th round
Petroff selects:

P Carlos Perez

10 Round Pick:
P Larry McKeon

C - Doggie Miller

OF - Ed Swartwood

11 Round Pick
OF. Cleon Jones

P Ed Knouff