My favorite theme of all time. I've decided to bring it out of retirement and add some tweaks. It truely is, I believe, the most realistic theme. It gives owners a team with a couple of studs, several good & average players, platoons, trade options, and a few holes you'll need to fill. Not just drafting 8 all-star position players, 9 sub-1.00 WHIP pitchers and letem' play without thinking. Also, if you enjoy researching & drafting, this is your league.

I've randomly (using random.org) created 24 teams listed in the next post. The only tweaking I did was to ensure the each team was made up of 5 different franchises. Owners can pick the team that they want. I'll take 2 teams.  My first will be assigned randomly in just a few minutes.  My second team will be the last available team with a Cincinnati component.  If you do not like the team you've been assigned you can swap with me.  After my second team is assigned I can decide which one to keep and owners are welcome to swap with the other one should they choose.

Each team will be made up of 5 "components" (INFIELD, OUTFIELD, BATTERY (SP+C), PEN and WILDCARD). The wildcard player is a single player from one of the years. You will use the 5 different franchises and years assigned randomly by admin to draft your team. The following decades will be used and matched with your team;

1. 2002-2011

2. 1992-2001

3. 1982-1991

4.  1972-1981

5.  1962-1971

After you pick your team I will assign you a random 5 number sequence from 1 to 5 that you apply to the team you've chosen (using random.com).  For instance, if your sequence is "3,1,5,4,2" and your team is TEAM 1 (SF, CHC, OAK, SD, PIT) the decades above get matched with your team, ie. SF gets matched with (1982-91), CHC gets matched with (2002-11), and so on OAK (1962-71), SD (1972-81) and PIT (1992-01).  I will then assign you a # between 0 and 9, which will correspond to the SINGLE season of each decade that you'll use.  So if you get "6" you will use the 6th season of each decade. So your team would be made up from the following 5 seasons; SF 1986, CHC 2006, OAK 1966, SD 1976 & PIT 1996. There's another example in the 4th post.

-Each Franchise can only be used for a SINGLE component. 

- $120m cap. I'm guessing most teams will be between $80m and $100m, but the cap and your team payroll doesn't mean alot. One of my previous blend seasons was won by the team with the LOWEST payroll.

- Must use the stadium from your Battery season

- YES to trades, injuries, AAA (6/2 BELOW AVG). NO to WW, CLONES, DH.

- For franchises that don't date back to 1962, I've paired them with the expansion franchises (see the bottom of the second post)

- Owners must use a 4 or 5 man rotation. No starter can start more than 5 more times than their real life starts. Any pitcher can have up to 20 starts. I'm asking owners to please try to keep things realistic. Don't reach the start limit for a pitcher and then throw him into the pen for another 5-10 relief appearances. Any starting pitcher that breaks the maximum start rule will forfeit one game vs. each division rival for EACH illegal start.

- 60 games live to reach the playoffs which MUST be played live

DRAFTING RULES:

- ANY OFer with an IF defensive rating can be drafted with your IF, and vice-versa. For instance, Foster '75 was an OFer but has an IF rating. So you could draft him with the Reds '75 IF. In your draft center if you click on one of the utility positions, set your search to "all" for positions and "0" for games you'll find all eligible players. I always double check the rosters to ensure that owners don't miss any eligible players.

- AL DH players without a defensive rating can be drafted as either IFers or OFers as long as they were rated there at some point during their career.

- The season you use as your BATTERY you'll draft both the SPs and the catchers from that season. So if you went with the '63 Dodgers rotation you'd draft the '63 Roseboro and Camilli. Any reliever with 5 or more starts can be drafted with your starters and any starter with 5 or more relief appearances can be drafted with your relievers.

- TWIST- You can twist ONE player on your team to either the season immediately BEFORE or AFTER the season you've been assigned, as long as the player wasn't on a different team.

- BLACKLISTED SEASONS - Any Bonds, McGwire or Sosa season either over $10m or with 60+ HRs

***I'm asking all owners to accept the team they're assigned.  Remember you always have a choice to swap with one of my teams***

***Owners with 2 teams - you must reach the min with EACH team to be playoff eligible***

***TEAMS*** (Bold Entered)

TEAM 1 - SF CHC OAK SD PIT

TEAM 2 - Braveboy -  ATL BAL SF LAD CHW

TEAM 3 - LAD CIN CLE CHC BAL

TEAM 4 -BastanRedSox- CLE SF MIL HOU NYY

TEAM 5 - CHW NYM KC CLE WAS

TEAM 6 - DET OAK SD CIN LAA

TEAM 7 - Frozenrope - HOU DET LAD OAK BOS

TEAM 8  - WAS CHW CIN BOS STL

TEAM 9 - PIT LAA HOU CHW CIN

TEAM 10 - Leeelci - BAL KC LAA PHI SF

TEAM 11- Brando46 - MIN LAD NYY SF MIL

TEAM 12 - Verynice - STL MIL MIN NYY OAK

TEAM 13- Arvidjosef - PHI BOS BAL PIT MIN

TEAM 14- The Taint - KC HOU ATL BAL LAD

TEAM 15- Evetsriot - SD CLE DET ATL KC

TEAM 16 - Arvid - BOS MIN TEX NYM SD

TEAM 17- CHC PHI PIT KC HOU

TEAM 18-  Joshkvt - NYM NYY STL TEX ATL

TEAM 19-  Rob infinite - CIN SD NYM STL PHI

TEAM 20-  OAK TEX WAS LAA DET

TEAM 21- LAA STL PHI DET TEX

TEAM 22- Taint - NYY ATL BOS MIL NYM

TEAM 23- Summerfield - MIL PIT CHW WAS CHC

TEAM 24 - TEX WAS CHC MIN CLE



***FOR TEAMS THAT DON'T DATE BACK TO 1962, OR THAT SUCKED A$S IN THE 1960'S***

HOU - 1962-71 REPLACED BY SEA 1982-91

KC - 1962-71 REPLACED BY SEA 1992-01

LAA - 1962-71 REPLACED BY FLA 2002-11

MIL - 1962-71 REPLACED BY TOR 2002-11

SD - 1962-71 REPLACED BY TOR 1992-01

WAS - 1962-71 REPLACED BY TOR 1982-91

TEX - 1962-71 REPLACED BY SEA 2002-11

EXAMPLE:

You pick team 11 - Min, LAD, NYY, SF, MIL

If your sequence is 3,2,4,1,5 and the second # is "4" (so the 4th season of each decade)

You'd draft your team from MIN 1984, LAD 1994, NYY 1974, SF 2004 and since MIL get's the 60's you'd get TOR 2004.

So you might do this;

IF Tor '04 - Delgado (twisted to '03), Hudson, Hinske, Menechino

OF LAD '94 - Butler, Mondesi, Rodriguez, Webster

Battery Min '84 - Viola, Smithson, Butcher, Schrom with Engle C

Pen NYY '74 - Lyle, May (eligible since he had more than 5 relief appearances), Upshaw and Beene

Wildcard - Schmidt SF '04

This team ended up at $85m. 

im in summer

Welcome Bastan, that was quick......3 in.  Pick a team and I'll randomize you.

team 7 please.

Bastan, please randomize me;
1) go to random.org
2) on the top right there is a "true random # generator" - enter 24 for max and hit generate - that will be my team #
3) then under "numbers" go to "sequence generator" and enter "5" for largest value and hit get sequence.  that will give me my 5 digit sequence.
4) finally go back to "true random # generator" and enter 0 for min and 9 for max.  hit generate and that will give me my year.
thanks

Here are your random numbers:

23

Timestamp: 2012-01-04 03:34:22 UTC

TEAM 23- MIL PIT CHW WAS CHC

 

Here is your sequence:

3 4 2 1 5

Timestamp: 2012-01-04 03:35:28 UTC

 

Here are your random numbers:

8

Timestamp: 2012-01-04 03:36:09 UTC

Thx Bastan;
My team
Mil (82-91), Pit (72-81), CHW (92-01), WAS (02-11) and CHC (62-71)
MIL 88
PIT 78
CHW 98
WAS 08
CHC 68

Bastan;

Here is your sequence:

2 3 1 5 4

Timestamp: 2012-01-04 03:54:11

 

figured it out, need to use "random inteteger generator", can't use "true random number generator" on first page can cut/paste

Taint - here you go;

Here is your sequence:

5 2 4 1 3

Timestamp: 2012-01-04 04:01:17 UTC


 

Here are your random numbers:

8

Timestamp: 2012-01-04 04:02:01 UTC

Let me double check with ya:

KC, Hou, Atl, Bal, LaD

Kc switches to sea 92-01  98 Mariners
Hou 92-01                         98 Astros
Atl 72-81                            78 Braves
Bal 02-11                           08 Orioles
LaD 82-91                         88 Dodgers

The Wildcard has to be from one of those seasons right?  It can't be a random player from any year of that franchise?