League Name: Contraction GM Challenge v3
Salary Cap: None

Description: The second season that we will use is 2003. We have 16 owners committed. The draft order for team selection is reverse order of win% from the previous season at game 120 (new owners pick last). Each owner will select one team from the 2003 season (8 AL and 8 NL teams must be selected).

Once the 16 teams are selected, there will be a 5-round player dispersion draft, where the draft order for each round is based on inverse real-life regular season record. A total of 80 players will be chosen. Only players from the teams not selected are eligible to be taken. AL teams can take NL players and vice-versa. So your 25-man roster will consist of 20 players from your selected team and 5 players from the dispersal draft.

$$$ Bonus: In order to make things more interesting, I will donate my theme league creator $$$ credit to the team that has the best differential between the sim regular season win% and the team's real-life win%.

Subsequent Years:The team that has the best record at the 120-game mark will get to choose the season that is used for the next iteration of this theme (after I survey how many owners are returning). The draft order for teams for the next iteration will be in inverse order of sim win% at the 120-game mark. In case of ties, I will use the sim expected win%. Any new owners will pick last.

Other Details
DH: No
WW: No
AAA: No
Trades: Only picks and/or drafted players before season
Clones: No
Injuries: Turned On
SLL: Not allowed
Ballpark: The ballpark that your team called home
Team Name: Use actual team name and win% (i.e., New York Yankees .636)
Division Alignment: 4 x 4 (8 AL, 8 NL) Based on East/West as much as possible. Balanced schedule, no interleague play.

Multi-team players: I only want one occurance of a player in the league, so for players with multiple teams, only the full-season "player card" will be eligible and the team that he played for last during the season will get ownership of that player. For example, 2009 Matt Holliday belongs to the St. Louis Cardinals.

Site-mail list:
abfball60; combalt; llcoach; markeking; mikemiele; mllama54; mpitt76; newarkwilder; nin311ff; odalisgagne; ronthegenius; schwarze; sgsmith; specsman; thejuice6; umdterp397

List of Players on Multiple Teams

Bold = Eligible team (you must take combined season)
(thanks to newarkwilder for his help with the batters)

Hitters
Alomar, Roberto (ChW, NYM)
Bay, Jason (Pit, SD)
Bellhorn, Mark (ChC, Col)
Boone, Aaron (Cin, NYY)
Burnitz, Jeromy (LA, NYM)
Conine, Jeff (Bal, Fla)
Delgado, Wilson (Ana, StL)
Dellucci, David (Arz, NYY)
Everett, Carl (ChW, Tex)
Garcia, Karim (Cle, NYY)
Giles, Brian (Pit, SD)
Glanville, Doug (ChC, Tex)
Guillen, Jose (Cin, Oak)
Hammonds, Jeffrey (Mil, SF)
Harris, Lenny (ChC, Fla)
Hernandez, Jose (ChC, Col, Pit)
Hillenbrand, Shea (Arz, Bos)
Jimenez, D'Angelo (ChW, Cin)
Kapler, Gabe (bos, Col)
Kielty, Bobby (Min, Tor)
Liefer, Jeff (Mon, Tb)
Lofton, Kenny (ChC, Pit)
Ludwick, Ryan (Cle, Tex)
Lugo, Julio (Hou, Tb)
Matthews Jr., Gary (Bal, SD)
McCarty, David (bos, Oak)
Merloni, Lou (bos, SD)
Mondesi, Raul (Arz, NYY)
Petrick, Ben (Col, Det)
Piatt, Adam (Oak, Tb)
Ramirez, Aramis (ChC, Pit)
Sanchez, Alex (Det, Mil)
Sanchez, Rey (NYM, Sea)
Sears, Todd (Min, SD)
Sierra, Ruben (NYY, Tex)
Simon, Randall (ChC, Pit)
Spencer, Shane (Cle, Tex)
Stewart, Shannon (Min, Tor)
Stinnett, Kelly (Cin, Phi)
Ventura, Robin (LA, NYY)
White, Rondell (KC, SD)
Womack, Tony (Arz, ChC, Col)
Young, Eric (Mil, SF)
Zaun, Gregg (Col, Hou)
Zeile, Todd (Mon, NYY)

Pitchers
Acevedo, Juan (NYY, Tor)
Ainsworth, Kurt (Bal, SF)
Almonte, Hector (Bos, Mon)
Anderson, Brian (Cle, KC)
Anderson, Jason (NYM, NYY)
Appier, Kevin (Ana, KC)
Benitez, Armando (NYM, NYY, Sea)
Bernero, Adam (Col, Det)
Bierbrodt, Nick (Cle, TB)
Callaway, Mickey (Ana, Tex)
Davis, Doug (Mil, Tex, Tor)
de los Santos, Valerio (Mil, Phi)
DeJean, Mike (Mil, StL)
Fox, Chad (Bos, Fla)
Glover, Gary (Ana, ChW)
Harang, Aaron (Cin, Oak)
Helling, Rick (Bal, Fla)
Heredia, Felix (Cin, NYY)
Herges, Matt (SD, SF)
Hermanson, Dustin (SF, StL)
Hitchcock, Sterling (NYY, StL)
Jones, Todd (Bos, Col)
Kim, Byung-Hyun (Arz, Bos)
Leskanic, Curt (KC, Mil)
Levine, Alan (KC, TB)
Linebrink, Scott (Hou, SD)
Lloyd, Graeme (KC, NYM)
Mercker, Kent (Atl, Cin)
Miceli, Dan (Cle, Col, Hou, NYY)
Moss, Damian (Bal, SF)
Nelson, Jeff (NYY, Sea)
Orosco, Jesse (Min, NYY, SD)
Perez, Oliver (Pit, SD)
Ponson, Sidney (Bal, SF)
Roa, Joe (Col, Phi, SD)
Sauerbeck, Scott (Bos, Pit)
Schoeneweis, Scott (Ana, ChW)
Service, Scott (Arz, Tor)
Sparks, Steve (Det, Oak)
Sullivan, Scott (ChW, Cin)
Suppan, Jeff (Bos, Pit)
Urbina, Ugueth (Fla, Tex)
Van Poppel, Todd (Cin, Tex)
White, Gabe (Cin, NYY)
White, Rick (ChW, Hou)
Williamson, Scott (Bos, Cin)
Williams, Mike (Phi, Pit)
Wright, Jaret (Atl, SD)
Yan, Esteban (StL, Tex)

I still need to update the multiple player list with the appropriate teams. If anybody wants to volunteer, feel free.

hope I do better with the 14th pick than I did in season 1...

I hear ya. League ONE, I picked first - and my team was one of the worst trainwrecks out there. League TWO, I picked sixth - and the Reds are playing better than I could have ever imagined. Now picking 15th, I'm expecting to go 161-1 (nobody's perfect).

Thanks a bunch! I've updated the list.. You can delete your post