~ Ultimate Progressive Draft # MLB88206 ~

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The Basics:
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$140 Mil Cap
No DH.
6/2 average AAA for filler.
Partial Seasons are allowed.
15 Keepers each season.
I.R.- 1 Injured Reserve Player Allowed per Team.
You can choose to Keep more injured players, but they will have to be used as one of your 15 Keepers.
Injured Reserve Players will NOT add into your Keeper Salary.
50 Live games required.
(failure to meet min. will drop you 5 Draft Slots)

Trades OK- subject to standard League Veto.
Allignment- Random every season.
Stadiums- Exclusive, Any. Stadium Draft will take place after Round 25.
Stadiums may be switched from season to season. Simply post or sitemail what stadium you will be switching to the next season at any time. First come, first served.
Team Names- Whatever you darn well feel like calling 'em. They're your teams after all...

* Draft Times- Draft Times are (EST) same as WIS time.
* At Midnight (EST) the next days picks can begin, regardless of Missed Picks. This will help get the next Day's Round started the night before. I am up late and can take Midnight Proxies if you'd like. I can take daytime/evening proxies as well.

* Draft Order Each Season will be set based upon your 15 Keepers Salaries, lowest total salaried teams will Draft first. There should be so much talent out there each season that we should all be able to add 10 pretty darn productive players (or future studs) to our teams each season.

* Hitters & Starting Pitchers can begin their League careers in either their first $5 million+ salaried season, or an earlier cheaper season if you prefer. (Also aplicable to Hitters/Starting Pitchers that don't have a $5 million Season. In these cases, you may choose any season to begin with, i.e.- Oscar Gamble.)

* Relief Pitchers can begin their League careers in their first $3 million+ season, or begin at any earlier cheaper season beforehand.

* This is to ensure that we all have a team full of usable players instead of teams full of Rookies that have 200 PA's and hit .215 for 3 years... You can always opt for a lower season. A lot of great reliever seasons are less than $3 mil, and many of the great Part-time players and pinch hitters will be less than those benchmarks as well.

* The season you choose as owner will be the season that player will be officially “Born into the League” season.

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Other specifics:

* Players that are in the WIS database as BOTH pitchers and hitters (i.e. Babe Ruth/ BobCaruthers)-- the Drafter will be able to choose the Drafted Player as either a Pitcher or Hitter and start their career accordinglt based on the $5 million+ rule above.

* Pitchers that had careers as both starters and relievers (such as Dennis Eckersley and Hoyt Wilhelm) can be Drafted as either a Starter and can be "born into the League" beginning in either 1975 ($4.8 mil) or 1976 ($5.5 mil).
OR Eck can be drafted as a Reliever in which case he would be born into the League" beginning in 1987 ($3.7 mil).

* Once the “Born into the League” Season is set, all Drafted Players Progress Season to Season as in any other Progressive.

* Keep 15 Players each season and Cut 10. Those 10 cut players (240 in all each season) will progress as well and can be Drafted any time from season to season by any team as Cut Free Agents. They will be tracked and listed in a Thread alphabetically for Pitchers & Hitters and progress chronologically wether drafted or not until they are officially retired.

* Seasons 2, 3, 4, ect. Draft Player Pools will consist of any Rookies not yet brought into the League, or any previously Cut Free Agents that progress each year wether they are on someone's team or not. So for guys with a few productive seasons over a career, they may be jobless durring their down seasons and redrafted when they hit another good season.

* War Exemptions- (Passed w 16+ Votes) Players such as Ted Williams, Joe Dimagio, Hank Greenberg, Bobby Doerr, ect. can skip their Baseball gap durring their service years and go into their next active WIS Season. WWI, WWII, Korea... if you can find evidence that your player missed a season due to military service, you can fast forward them to their next usable WIS season.

~ Questions & Answers ~

1) Once a player retires in real life- (runs out of WIS Seasons) that player is retired and will forever be gone from the League. We'll have to find new players & draft new players into the League. We'll see a lot of 1 and 2 year wonders come and go. Yes, Koufax will have his good 6 year run and then retire.

2) Also- for CURRENT players that hit their WIS "end of the road" in 2009 (or 2010) such as Chase Utley, Prince Fielder, Ryan Howard, Tim Linsecum, ect-- once they run out of WIS Seasons (say Linsecolm who has basically 2 seasons- 2008 & 2009) you will have the option of using our 1 allotted Injured Reserve Slot or use one of your 15 Keeper slots to retain Linsecolm until he has a 2010 database season- or you can cut him and he'd be available again the next Draft that he has a database season.

3) You cannot skip seasons. Any player drafted and chosen to be "Born into the League" in a below $5 million season (or a below $3 million season for WIS listed relievers) the Season you choose to start with becomes that Player's "Born into the League" Season. No skips from there on.

4) To answer dlrawon's question via sitemail about a player Drafted who goes on WIS IR-- you must also choose to Keep that Player as your 1 allotted IR slot (or use one of your 15 Keeper slots) for all of the seasons that player is on IR before they resurface in the WIS database. For example- if you Draft Rafael Soriano (P) who you could start in 2003- he doesn't resurface again in WIS until 2006. So for our League Season 2 (2004 for Soriano) and Season 3 (2005 for Soriano) you will have to either save a Roster or IR spot for him or Cut him. If Cut- Soriano would progress as an Injured and undraftable Free Agent until Season 4- when he comes off the IR in his 2006 season.

* The ONLY exception to the Injured Reserve Rule is the WW II Injured Reserve Exemption the League Voted on & passed. ONLY WW II Vets who served in the war (1942-1945) depending upon the player's service time are eligible to skip their war years and progress to their next WIS Database Season. *If you are unsure whether your player was injured Stateside (in which case they would go on the IR like any Injured player) or to Baseball to serve in WW II- you can Google your player before you Draft them and the Google Biography should say whether they served in WW II or not.

ultimate Progressive League Members:

1. toddleduc
2. leeelci
3. verynice
4. joshkvt
5. The Taint
6. eman7400
7. szczubelek
8. staindman
9. sloadrock
10. hbomb223
11. mrnelson10
12. moneybonn
13. topkat
14. vincevegga
15. dlrawson
16. billingsby
17. kevo21
18. soxyanks12
19. calcutta
20. tycobb32
21. wlj3b
22. steveymer
23. tato526
24. brian1648



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Official Draft Order:

1. szczubelek
2. mrnelson10
3. soxyanks12
4. dlrawson
5. hbomb223
6. tycobb32
7. wlj3b
8. sloadrock
9. brian1648
10. eman7400
11. The Taint
12. leeelci
13. billingsby
14. topkat
15. moneybonn
16. joshkvt
17. vincevegga
18. steveymer
19. kevo21
20. tato526
21. toddleduc
22. calcutta
23. verynice
24. staindman



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Round 1

1. szczubelek- Babe Ruth- P or OF(1915 or 1919)
2. mrnelson10- Walter Johnson- P(1908)
3. soxyanks12- Cy Young- P (1891)
4. dlrawson- Christy Mathewson- P (1901)
5. hbomb223- Pete Alexander- P (1911)
6. tycobb32- Lou Gehrig- 1B (1926)
7. wlj3b- Ted Williams- OF (1939)
8. sloadrock- Ty Cobb- OF (1907)
9. brian1648- Ed Walsh- P (1906)
10. eman7400- Greg Maddux- P (1988)
11. The Taint- Rogers Hornsby- 2B (1917)
12. leeelci- Tom Seaver- P (1967)
13. billingsby- Honus Wagner- SS (1899)
14. topkat- Albert Pujols- 1B (2001)
15. moneybonn- Pedro Martinez- P (1994)
16. joshkvt- Addie Joss- P (1902)
17. vincevegga- Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown- P (1904)
18. steveymer- Roger Clemens- P (1986)
19. kevo21- Jimmy Foxx- 1B (1929)
20. tato526- Sandy Koufax- P (1961)
21. toddleduc- Bob Gibson- P (1962)
22. calcutta- Tris Speaker- OF (1909)
23. verynice- Stan Musial- OF (1942)
24. staindman- Barry Bonds- OF (1987)


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Round 2

1. staindman- Joe Dimagio- OF (1936)
2. verynice- Dwight Gooden- P (1984)
3. calcutta- Willie Mays- OF (1954)
4. toddleduc- Ed Delahanty- OF(1892)
5. tato526- Jesse Burkett- OF (1893)
6. kevo21- Arky Vaughnn- SS (1933)
7. steveymer- y Grove- P (1926)
8. vincevegga- Mickey Mantle- OF (1952)
9. joshkvt- NapLajoie- 2B (1897)
10. moneybonn- Alex Rodriguez- SS (1996)
11. topkat- Rickey Henderson- OF (1980)
12. billingsby- Eddie Collins- 2B (1909)
13. leeelci- Juan Marichal- P (1962)
14. The Taint- Wade Boggs- 3B (1983)
15. eman7400- Al Simmons- OF (1924)
16. brian1648- HankAaron- OF (1955)
17. sloadrock- Willie Keeler- OF (1894)
18. wlj3b- Billy Hamilton- OF (1889)
19. tycobb32- Harry Heilmann- OF (1921)
20. hbomb223- John Clarkson- P (1885)
21. dlrawson- Mel Ott- OF/3B (1929)
22. soxyanks12- Pete Rose- 2B/3B/OF (1965)
23. mrnelson10- Ichiro Suzuki- OF (2001)
24. szczubelek- Al Kaline- OF (1955)

Round 3
Monday December 7th

1. szczubelek- Jackie Robinson- 1B/2B (1947)
2. mrnelson10- Tip O'Neil- OF (1886)
3. soxyanks12- Mariano Rivera- P (1996)
4. dlrawson- Rube Waddell- P (1900)
5. hbomb223- Dan Brouthers- 1B (1885)
6. tycobb32- Charlie Gheringer- 2B (1928)
7. wlj3b- Luke Appling- SS (1933)
8. sloadrock- Tony Gwynn- OF (1984)
9. brian1648- Jack Pfiester- P (1906)
10. eman7400- Carl "Meal Ticket" Hubbell- P (1929)
11. The Taint- Tim Keefe- P(1885)
12. leeelci- Gaylord Perry- P (1964)
13. billingsby- Mike Schmidt- 3B (1974)
14. topkat- Ed Reulbach- P (1905)
15. moneybonn- Babe Adams- P(1909)
16. joshkvt- Lou Boudreau- SS (1940)
17. vincevegga- Eddie Mathews- 3B (1953)
18. steveymer- George Brett- 3B (1975)
19. kevo21- Joe Mauer- C (2006)
20. tato526- Todd Helton- 1B (1999)
21. toddleduc- Chipper Jones- 3B (1996)
22. calcutta- Randy Johnson- P (1990)
23. verynice- Hugh Duffy- OF (1890)
24. staindman- Wilbur Wood- P(1968)- RP or (1971)- SP


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Round 4
Tuesday December 8th

1. staindman- Manny Ramirez- OF (1995)
2. verynice- Russ Ford- P (1910)
3. calcutta- Mickey Cochrane- C (1927)
4. toddleduc- Roberto Alomar- 2B (1991)
5. tato526- Hughie Jennings- SS (1894)
6. kevo21- Chuck Klein- OF (1929)
7. steveymer- Don Sutton- P (1966)
8. vincevegga- Johan Santana- P (2003)
9. joshkvt- Warren Spahn- P (1947)
10. moneybonn- Richie Ashburn- OF (1948)
11. topkat- Deacon Phillippe- P (1899)
12. billingsby- Eddie Plank- P (1901)
13. leeelci- Jim Palmer- P (1969)
14. The Taint- George Sisler- 1B (1917)
15. eman7400- Johnny Bench- C (1968)
16. brian1648- JoeMorgan- 2B (1965)
17. sloadrock- Ernie Banks- SS (1955)
18. wlj3b- Doc White - P (1901)
19. tycobb32- Harmon Killebrew- 3B (1961)
20. hbomb223- Nomar Garciaparra- SS (1997)
21. dlrawson- Tim Raines- OF (1983)
22. soxyanks12- Ken Griffey Jr.- OF (1990)
23. mrnelson10- Ferdie Schupp- P (1916)
24. szczubelek- Johnny Pesky- SS (1942)