League Name: Contraction GM Challenge
Salary Cap: None

Description: The first season that we will use is 2009. Once 16 owners sign up, we will have a lottery to determine a draft order for team selection. Each owner will select one team from the 2009 season (8 AL and 8 NL teams must be selected).

Once the 16 teams are selected, there will be a 5-round player dispersion draft, where the draft order for each round is based on inverse regular season record (i.e., 2009 Yankees will pick last each round). A total of 80 players will be chosen. Only players from the 14 teams not selected are eligible to be taken. AL teams can take NL players and vice-versa. So your 25-man roster will consist of 20 players from your selected team and 5 players from the dispersal draft.

$$$ Bonus: In order to make things more interesting, I will donate my theme league creator $$$ credit to the team that has the best differential between the sim regular season win% and the team's real-life win%.

Subsequent Years:The team that has the best record at the 120-game mark will get to choose the season that is used for the next iteration of this theme (after I survey how many owners are returning). The draft order for teams for the next iteration will be in inverse order of sim win% at the 120-game mark. In case of ties, I will use the sim expected win%. Any new owners will pick last.

Other Details
DH: No
WW: No
AAA: No
Trades: Only picks and/or drafted players before season
Clones: No
Injuries: Turned On
SLL: Not allowed
Ballpark: The ballpark that your team called home
Team Name: Use actual team name and win% (i.e., New York Yankees .636)
Division Alignment: 4 x 4 (8 AL, 8 NL) Based on East/West as much as possible. Balanced schedule, no interleague play.

Multi-team players: I only want one occurance of a player in the league, so for players with multiple teams, only the full-season "player card" will be eligible and the team that he played for last during the season will get ownership of that player. For example, 2009 Matt Holliday belongs to the St. Louis Cardinals.

We'll wait until the 2009 players are released before drafting.

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Here is the draft order for team selection. We draft 8 AL and 8 NL teams.

Draft	Owner	Team	Win%
1	thejuice6	Dodgers	.586
2	mpitt76	Cardinals	.562
3	specsman	Giants	.543
4	combalt	Red Sox	.586
5	ronthegenius	Yankees	.636
6	mllama54	Rays	.519
7	llcoach	Braves	.531
8	umdterp397	Phillies	.574
9	schwarze	White Sox	.488
10	mikemiele	Angels	.599
11	sgsmith	Rockies	.568
12	Disco Dogs	Cubs	.516
13	grayfoxx	Twins	.534
14	newarkwilder	Marlins	.537
15	markeking	Tigers	.528
16	odalisgagne	Blue Jays	.463

Division Alignment

NL East
Atlanta Braves
Chicago Cubs
Florida Marilins
Philadelphia Phillies

NL West
Colorado Rockies
Los Angeles Dodgers
San Francisco Giants
St. Louis Cardinals

AL East
Boston Red Sox
New York Yankees
Tampa Bay Rays
Toronto Blue Jays

AL West
Chicago White Sox
Detroit Tigers
Los Angeles Angeles
Minnesota Twins

The following is a list of players (50+ ABs, 25+ IPs) that played for multiple teams... Note that some of the names are abbreviated.

HITTERS
Anderson,Brian (Bos, ChW)
Anderson,Josh (KC, Det)
Baker,Jeff (ChC, Col)
Balentien,Wladi (Sea, Cin)
Belliard,Ronnie (LAD, Was)
Betancourt,Yuni (Sea, KC)
Burke,Jamie (Sea, Was)
Cabrera,Orlando (Oak, Min)
Castro,Ramon (NYM, ChW)
Cedeno,Ronny (Sea, Pit)
Church,Ryan (Atl, NYM)
Coste,Chris (Hou, Phi)
Dellucci,Dave (Tor, Cle)
Derosa,Mark (StL, Cle)
Encarnacion,Edw (Tor, Cin)
Francisco,Ben (Cle, Phi)
Francoeur,Jeff (Atl, NYM)
Freel,Ryan (ChC, Bal, KC)
Garko,Ryan (SF, Cle)
Gerut,Jody (Mil, SD)
Giambi,Jason (Oak, Col)
Gonzalez,Alex (Cin, Bos)
Hairston,Jerry (Cin, NYY)
Hairston,Scott (Oak, SD)
Hall,Bill (Mil, Sea)
Hannahan,Jack (Oak, Sea)
Hernandez,Ander (NYM, Was)
Hinske,Eric (Pit, NYY)
Holliday,Matt (Oak, StL)
Huff,Aubrey (Bal, Det)
Johnson,Nick (Fla, Was)
Kotchman,Casey (Atl, Bos)
Kotsay,Mark (Bos, ChW)
Laroche,Adam (Atl, Pit, Bos)
Lopez,Felipe (Mil, Arz)
Lugo,Julio (StL, Bos)
Marson,Lou (Cle, Phi)
Martinez,Victor (Cle, Bos)
Mclouth,Nate (Atl, Pit)
Milledge,Lastin (Was, Pit)
Miller,Corky (Cin, ChW)
Morgan,Nyjer (Was, Pit)
Rios,Alex (Tor, ChW)
Rodriguez,Ivan (Hou, Tex)
Rolen,Scott (Tor, Cin)
Salazar,Oscar (Bal, SD)
Sanchez,Freddy (SF, Pit)
Thome,Jim (LAD, ChW)
Wilson,Jack (Sea, Pit)
Wilson,Josh (Arz, Sea, SD)
Woodward,Chris (Sea, Bos)
Zaun,Gregg (TB, Bal)

PITCHERS
Ayala,Luis (Fla, Min)
Beimel,Joe (Was, Col)
Bennett,Jeff (Atl, TB)
Betancourt,Rafa (Cle, Col)
Boyer,Blaine (Atl, StL, Arz)
Breslow,Craig (Oak, Min)
Broadway,Lance (NYM, ChW)
Burnett,Sean (Was, Pit)
Cabrera,Daniel (Arz, Was)
Contreras,Jose (Col, ChW)
Eaton,Adam (Bal, Col)
French,Luke (Sea, Det)
Garland,Jon (Arz, LAD)
Gaudin,Chad (SD, NYY)
Gorzelanny,Tom (ChC, Pit)
Grabow,John (ChC, Pit)
Grilli,Jason (Tex, Col)
Hanrahan,Joel (Was, Pit)
Hart,Kevin (ChC, Pit)
Herges,Matt (Cle, Col)
Hernandez,Livan (NYM, Was)
Kazmir,Scott (LAA, TB)
Kensing,Logan (Fla, Was)
Lee,Cliff (Cle, Phi)
Macdougal,Mike (Was, ChW)
Mahay,Ron (KC, Min)
Masterson,Justi (Cle, Bos)
Meredith,Cla (Bal, SD)
Misch,Patrick (SF, NYM)
Mortensen,Clayt (Oak, StL)
O'Day,Darren (NYM, Tex)
Padilla,Vicente (LAD, Tex)
Pavano,Carl (Cle, Min)
Peavy,Jake (SD, ChW)
Pena,Tony (Arz, ChW)
Penny,Brad (SF, Bos)
Perez,Chris (StL, Cle)
Rauch,Jon (Arz, Min)
Richard,Clayton (SD, ChW)
Rincon,Juan (Col, Det)
Roenicke,Josh (Tor, Cin)
Sherrill,George (LAD, Bal)
Smoltz,John (StL, Bos)
Snell,Ian (Sea, Pit)
Springer,Russ (Oak, TB)
Tomko,Brett (Oak, NYY)
Vargas,Claudio (Mil, LAD)
Veras,Jose (Cle, NYY)
Washburn,Jarrod (Sea, Det)
Weathers,David (Mil, Cin)
Wells,Kip (Was, Cin)

The pressure...the pressure...

I can tell you right now - the first pick will "probably" be one of the following:

The Philadelphia Phillies
The Los Angeles Dodgers
The St. Louis Cardinals
The San Francisco Giants
The New York Yankees
The Boston Red Sox


I'll have to wait and see the total team stats when the new players come out before I can decide. This is going to be tough though...

Jeff, I assume I can make my pick whenever I've decided - let me know if you want me to withdraw this...

I never thought I'd see the day where I'd go with the team that knocked my team out of the playoffs. After looking at the 2009 stats and all, man I've got to go with the Los Angeles Dodgers. On paper, that team has it all...

Yep, go ahead and start the draft. The data is available via the spreadsheets.

Cardinals

going with pitching and hope I can draft some hitting SF Giants