This progressive league follows the BYOP (Build Your Own Progressive) format. 16 owners selected from a list of 42 teams from baseball history, as listed in the league rules in the immediately following post.

The owner of the 1957 Yankee franchise has announced he is not returning. Additionally, reddfoxx and I each own 2 teams in this league and wish to find replacement owners for one each of our teams, the 1972 Orioles owned by reddfoxx and the 1979 Phillies owned by me. Alternatively a replacement owner could select one of the original untaken teams shown in the 2nd following post. In the event you decide to select one of the 3 existing teams you would be able to make such cuts as you wish to the prior years roster. In the event you select a new team you may drop up to 7 players and replace them by players from the ame year as you selected teams.

However, there is a list of ineligible players who are already on another teams roster. These may not be selected  as a draft pick for the 1957 Yankees, 1972 Orioles or 1979 Phillies and if on the roster of a new team you select they also may not be used. The list of taken players is available on page one of the season 3 draft thread in the private forum which will be made available to interested owners.

The rosters and actual upcoming season stats for the 1957 Yankees, 1972 Orioles and 1979 Phillies are  posted below.

If interested, I will also give you access to the league's private forum. Please indicate interest and any questions below or by site mail.

League rules (the italicized red phrase applies to replacement owners)

This progressive will follow the Build Your Own Progressive format. The league will progress one season at a time. Listed below are 42 great teams from baseball history, notable for not only a great season but by being part of a dynasty at least 5 years in length. Replacement owners may select any team not shown in red.  All teams will be able to draft up to 7 additional players from the same year as the team they have selected.  These may replace players on the original roster, or the case of teams without 25 WIS eligible players fill one of the vacant spots. The initial draft will be snake style, 1-24, 24-1, 1-24 etc. 

There are 2 limitations- first, although the Yankees are represented by 9 teams, only a maximum of 4 of these may be selected. Secondly, there must be a gap of at least 10 years between 2 teams from the same franchise. This primarily applies to the Yankees as well but also means, for example, that both the 1929 and 1935 Cubs cannot be selected. As teams are selected teams will be shown by bold face if taken or italic face if ineligible under the 10 year rule cited above.

The league will not allow a player (even though from different seasons) to be on more than one roster. Accordingly, as soon as you have selected a team you should post a list of keepers (a minimum of 18). I will set up a private forum to which you will be given access as soon as you select a team, for use for posting keepers. The private forum will also be used for the 7 round draft. The draft order for the initial draft will be established by a random draw on random.org. Please bear in mind that if you are drafting one of the teams from the early 1900's there may be less than 20 players with WIS eligible seasons. You can use anyone shown on baseball-reference.com as playing for your team who has a WIS eligible season, even if they don't come up on the automatic download from WIS. 

Once a list of keepers has been posted none of the players listed may be listed as a keeper by a subsequent owner. Please check the keepers posted by owners ahead of you to ensure that none of your keepers have been taken. I will update  lists of taken players as frequently as possible.

For future drafts, all teams will progress one year at a time and owners will be able to draft up to 7 players from their current year. Future draft order will be in inverse order of the prior year's final regular season record, with ties broken by the use of random.org

Trades are permitted and traded players will continue to progress in accordance with their original year. Draft picks may be traded up to one year in advance except for the initial draft, where no draft picks may be traded. Trades must be 1 for 1 or 2 for 2 etc.

No DH, WW, AAA, unlimited IR for players with seasons not WIS eligible, injuries off 

Team	Year	Won	Lost	PCT.
Pittsburgh Pirates	1902	103	36	0.741
Chicago Cubs	1906	116	36	0.763
Detroit Tigers	1909	98	54	0.645
Philadelphia Athletics	1910	102	48	0.680
New York Giants	1912	103	48	0.682
Boston Red Sox	1912	105	47	0.691
New York Yankees	1921	98	55	0.641
New York Giants	1922	93	61	0.604
Pittsburgh Pirates	1925	95	58	0.621
New York Yankees	1927	110	44	0.714
St. Louis Cardinals	1928	95	59	0.617
Chicago Cubs	1929	98	54	0.645
Philadelphia Athletics	1929	104	46	0.693
Chicago Cubs	1935	100	54	0.649
Detroit Tigers	1934	101	53	0.656
New York Yankees	1937	102	52	0.662
Cincinnati Reds	1939	97	57	0.630
New York Yankees	1941	101	53	0.656
St. Louis Cardinals	1942	106	48	0.688
New York Yankees	1949	97	57	0.630
New York Giants	1951	98	59	0.624
Cleveland Indians	1948	97	58	0.626
Brooklyn Dodgers	1953	105	49	0.682
Cleveland Indians	1954	111	43	0.721
New York Yankees	1954	103	51	Note-1957 Yankees for a replacement owner
New York Yankees	1961	109	53	0.673
Los Angeles Dodgers	1963	99	63	0.611
St. Louis Cardinals	1967	101	60	0.627
Minnesota Twins	1965	102	60	0.630
Baltimore Orioles	1969	109	53	Note-1972 Orioles for a replacement owner
Oakland Athletics	1971	101	60	0.627
Cincinnati Reds	1972	92	59	0.609
Kansas City Royals	1977	102	60	0.630
New York Yankees	1977	100	62	0.617
Philadelphia Phillies	1976	101	61	Note-1979 Phillies for a replacement owner
New York Mets	1986	108	54	0.667
Oakland Athletics	1988	104	58	0.642
Toronto Blue Jays	1985	99	62	0.615
Cleveland Indians	1995	100	44	0.694
Atlanta Braves	1997	101	61	0.623
Houston Astros	1998	102	60	0.630
New York Yankees	1998	114	48	0.704

Note-the 18 teams shown in red above are not eligible. All teams will have progressed 4 years.

1979 Philadelphia Phillies (Current record 53-74) Roster:

C   Gary Carter, Ted Simmons
1B Steve Garvey, Eddie Murray
2B Willie Randolph, Paul Molitor
3B Mike Schmidt
SS Rick Burleson, Ozzie Smith
OF Goose Goslin, Dave Winfield, Dave Parker, Gary Maddox, Jim Rice
P    J.R. Richard, Randy Jones, Steve Carlton, Ron Gudry, Kent Tekulve
      Gene Garber, Larry Christenson, Ron Reed, Bruce Sutter, Tug McGraw, Rich Gossage

Note-if I were to keep the team I would cut Rice, Maddox, Christenson & Garber and keep all others.

1972 Baltimore Orioles (Current record 63-64) Roster

C   Bill Dickey (1932, acquired by trade), Manny Sanguillen
1B Boog Powell, Hank Aaron, Willie McCovey
2B Davey Johnson, Rennie Stennett
3B Brooks Robinson, Frank Malzone (1957)
SS Miguel Tejada (2000)
OF Chuck Klein (1932), Bobby Bonds, Bobby Murcer, Don Buford, Merv Rettenmund
P    Bert Blyleven, Nolan Ryan, Phil Niekro, Jim Palmer, Mike Cuellar
       Dave McNally, Don Wilson, Dave Roberts, Vida Blue, Jim Brewer

1957 Yankees (Current record 66-61) Roster:

C   Yogi Berra
1B Joe Adcock
2B Nellie Fox
3B Ken Boyer
SS Ernie Banks, Gil McDougald
OF Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Al Kaline
      Charlie Maxwell, Al Kaline, Frank Robinson, Bob Cerv
P    Whitey Ford, Warren Spahn, Herb Score, Johnny Antonelli
       Dick Donovan, Jack Harshman, Tom Acker, Marv Grissom
       Frank Sullivan, Ray Narleski, Bob Grim, Hoyt Wilhelm