This will be the new home for the refugees of the now defunct Super Progressive League
After much discussion on the boards and via sitemail, I've made the final decision that instead of trying to resuscitate our doomed draft in the fourth round, that it's in the best interests of everyone if we simply start again from scratch.
I hope that everyone from the original Super Progressive will join us in this re-boot. If not, the owners still on board will vote to either recruit new owners, or shrink the league down to 16 or 20 teams.
This time around we are going to have clear-cut rules, keeping in the spirit of dureseam's original concept. We are however, due to the requests of many existing owners, going to go with a new draft pool.
I did some figuring and decided on what I think it the best position/decade alignments. We're going to start with seasons ending in "1" instead of "0" so that all our players in season one will be from years like 1911, 1921, 1931, etc.
Unless there's any major objections, the positional/decade alignments will be as follows:
Catchers: 1921, 1981
Corner Inf: 1931, 1991
Middle Inf: 1911, 1971
Outfield: 1891, 1951
Pitchers: 1901, 1961
WILD CARD: 1941, 2001
SUPER RE-BOOT LEAGUE RULES
# of teams TBD.
No cap
No WW
No DH
No Clones
4 draftable AAA (optional)
Unlimited DL (player must not be in sim to qualify)
Alignment will be geographically based
Draft pool/positions: Each position will be represented by the seasons indicated above. Available player lists will be provided, and they will be the FINAL WORD on who is available and who is not. If they're on the list, you can draft them, if they're not, you can't. ELIGIBILITY will be determined by PRIMARY POSITION only. Secondary positions will not have any bearing on a player's eligibility.
Wild Card: You may select up to two wild card players during our inaugural draft, one pitcher, and one position player. In future drafts, you will have the opportunity to select one wild card player if you wish. There will be no restrictions on how many wild card players any particular team has at any time.
I would be in favor of voting to include wild card players in future seasons (they are locked in for seasons one and two, we can address future drafts once we get going).
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ADDITIONAL RULES CLARIFICATIONS WILL BE POSTED HERE. Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions that need to be addressed in terms of league rules. I want everything to be 100% clear for everyone as we proceed.
DRAFT ORDER: Our initial draft order will be randomized. Future draft orders will be based on w-l record at the 120 game mark with a 30 win minimum. A league-wide vote can be called to change future draft orders if necessary.
TRADING DRAFT PICKS - Trading of draft picks is allowed up to one year out. In the season one draft, and during season one, you may trade season two picks, but no further out. This is to prevent any owners from trading away too much of their team's future in case anyone needs to take over that team.