$255M: Increasing Salary Draft w/ DH
This will be a full, 25 round serpentine draft. Each player you select must have a higher salary than the player you selected in the previous round. Each player can only be selected once, but you must also post the year you intend to use, and their salary, when you make your pick.
Draft order will be determined randomly, while divisions will be grouped by draft order.
After the player draft has concluded, there will be a 1 round draft of stadiums. The stadium draft will be in inverse order of team salary. Stadium names with the same dimensions are considered the same park. Each stadium can only be selected once.
Note about penalties: On the chance that someone plans poorly and is left with a situation where there are no players available with a higher salary than their previous pick, they will need to pick a player with a higher salary than the player they selected two rounds prior, and they will incur a penalty of 5 points per player they need to select this way. If there are no options higher than the player they selected two rounds prior, they will need to use the salary of the player they selected three rounds prior and will be penalized 10 points per player, etc. Alternatively, the owner will be given a chance to rework their roster (using different years of the same players), but only if their new configuration meets the increasing salary rule, based on the round in which the players were drafted. I will not be calling out during the draft if I see you are getting into trouble and will not make exceptions for this rule, so this is really on you to keep an eye on.
EDIT: If the round we are in is x, you get 25 - x penalty points if you have to make a switch. So, making a switch of the player you picked in Round 1 would give you 24 penalty points. There's some good faith here not to do this in the later rounds, even when it costs fewer points. I'll flag anything suspicious.
Other Specifics
Seasons: 1885 - 2017
DH: Yes
WW: No
AAA: No
Trades: No, but trading of draft picks is allowed both before and during the draft.
Clones: No
Injuries: Turned On
Multi-team players: No restrictions (i.e., you can use partial or combined)
Ballpark: You will draft your unique park
300K Exception: No
Team Name: No restrictions
Division Alignment: Based on draft order (i.e. teams 1-4 in NL East, 5-8 in NL Central, etc.)
10/22/2018 9:35 PM (edited)