• 16 team single season progressive which began with the 1961 season. IMPORTANT: We will be expanding to 20 teams starting with the 1969 season. In order to do this, the existing 16 teams will likely not have the 1969 first year players available to them as they will all go to the expansion teams. We will be discussing expansion details as a league during the 1966 season and get those details finalized, but again please know going in that you likely won't have a chance at any of the 1969 first year players.
• No DH to start with. We will take a league vote soon to determine if we will add the DH starting with 1973 season, and if so, if we will do AL only or both leagues.
• Injuries on
• No live play
• Unlimited IR
• No salary cap
• For seasons 1961 through 1981 or so we will use WIS auto-generated players. AAA player quality below average. Real names (you will just need to figure out the year of that player if you are so inclined). 6 bats (C,1B,2B,SS,3B,OF) and 2 arms (starter and reliever) will be automatically assigned to each team each season. We will draft our own AAA players beginning sometime between 1982 and 1987 (subject to league vote) from the leftover players who aren't drafted in the regular draft
• Full/combined/partial seasons of players are all eligible to be used.
• Trading of draft picks allowed up to one season in advance (we will likely discuss and vote to possibly allow up to two seasons in advance as the suggestion has been made). I have no idea if the majority will want this or not, but please be aware that we will have a vote on this soon.
• We have a 48 hour add/drop period after each draft.
• We absolutely do not condone tanking games in this league. This has never been much of an issue here and the league takes great pride in that. Eyes are always watching, and even the appearance of tanking games can lead to dismissal from the league, period. If you play progressive leagues using this strategy, then you aren't welcome here. If you want to play in a league where everyone is trying to do their best regardless of what their roster looks like in any given season, then please choose us!
• You have the ability to shuffle players up and down from AAA virtually all season (deadline is before game 160 of the season).

Posted by houseofbayne on 4/21/2013 10:26:00 PM (view original):

The Talkin' Baseball league is a fairly standard, single season progressive: Alternate WIS Format E (4 divisions, 4 teams in each. Division winners make playoffs. Each series best of seven). No DH. No live play. Unlimited IR. No salary cap. 6/2 below average AAA players, randomly generated (6 bats, 2 arms).

A two-tier lotto system to determine next season's first round draft order after 120 games. 8 worst teams get put in lotto for picks 1 through 8 in next season's draft, 8 best teams get put in lotto for picks 9 through 16. Lotto is for first round of draft only. Subsequent rounds are worst team to best team.

 

As you read this, we are talking about expanding from 16 to 20 teams in the future. This won't happen before 1969. The goal is to have an expansion plan in place within a week or three.

 

We attempt to keep things moving at a semi-brisk pace. We start drafting off the clock not too long after the 120 game mark at a leisurely pace. Once the playoffs start, we draft on the clock and pick up wherever we are in the draft at that point. We attempt to keep down time to a minimum between seasons, as we usually finish the draft around the same time that the World Series is finishing up.

 

 

Feel free to sitemail or post any questions, and looking forward to hearing from you! Team available is below.

Posted by ff09 on 11/29/2014 4:34:00 PM (view original):
Did you get your 4 owners?