This is schwarze idea in the regular fourm amd eman7400's from live play in 2009.  I'd love to run it again! 

There are just two many damn teams in Major League Baseball. Let's go back to the days when there were only 8 teams in each league. In this theme, we'll keep just 16 of the current MLB teams (8 AL, 8 NL) and have a 5-round dispersion draft for the allocation of players from the other teams.

League Name: Contraction GM Challenge
Salary Cap: None

Description:  Once 16 owners sign up, we will have a lottery to determine a draft order for team selection. Each owner will select one team from the 2010 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 regular season record.  A total of 80 players will be chosen. Only players from the 14 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.


Other Details
DH: No
WW: No
AAA: No
Trades: Only picks and/or drafted players before season
Clones: No
SLL: 40 min to make the playoffs
Ballpark: The ballpark that your team called home
Team Name: Use actual team name (i.e., New York Yankees)
Division Alignment: 4 x 4 (8 AL, 8 NL) Based on East/West as much as possible. Balanced schedule, 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, 2010 Clff Lee is the property of the Texas Rangers.

SIgn up below:

1)  Steve9955
2)  szczubelek
3)  joshkvt
4)  besterateam
5)  soxyanks12
6)  stlbombers
7)  chris_son
8)  ratedpg_13
9)  kleinevoet
10) verynice
11) kevo21
12) Jesters
13) cjnuss7
14) harnclan
15) eman7400
16) harrelson

Sitemail list:  Steve9955; szczubelek;  besterateam; soxyanks12; stlbombers; dimeslot10; ratedpg_13; kleinevoet; verynice; kevo21;  Jesters; cjnuss7; harnclan; eman7400; harrelson; joshkvt;

I'll play

TEAM RANKINGS for Draft -- Additional players will be drafted in INVERSE order.

          TEAM                W       L        PCT
1)     Philadelphia     97     65     .599
2)     Tampa Bay       96     66     .593
3)     NY Yankees     95     67     .586
4)     Minnesota        94     68     .580
5)     San Fran          92     70     .568
6)     Cincinnati        91     71     .562
7)     Atlanta              91     71     .562
8)     Texas               90     72     .556
9)     San Diego       90     72     .556
10)   Boston             89     73     .549
11)   Chicago WS   88     74     .543
12)   St. Louis         86      76     .531
13)   Toronto           85      77     .525
14)   Colorado        83      79     .512
15)   Oakland          81     81     .500
16)   Detroit             81     81     .500
17)   Florida            80     82     .494
18)   LA Dodgers   80     82     .494
19)   LA Angels      80     82     .494
20)   NY Mets         79     83     .488
21)   Milwaulkee   77     85     .475
22)   Houston        76     86     .469
23)   Chi Cubs      75     87     .463
24)   Cleveland     69     93     .426
25)   Washington 69     93     .426
26)   KC                 67     95     .414
27)   Baltimore     66     96     .407
28)   Arizona         65     97     .401
29)   Seattle          61    101    .377
30)   Pittsburgh    57    105    .352

After we have 16 players, we will have a RANDOM ORDER draft for teams.

After the teams are selected, we will have a 5-round draft for the players from teams not selected.  

I'll play. I assume that when you said 2009 in the description, that you really meant 2010.

Thanks..... my bad..... fixed the year to 2010 

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Timestamp: 2011-03-30 16:28:35 UTC

DRAFT ORDER

1) harnclan - Philadelphia
2) harrelson - Texas
3) Steve9955 - Atlanta
4) Jesters - St. Louis
5) joshkvt - Oakland
6) kleinevoet - Colorado
7) stlbombers - Minnesota
8) kevo21 - Boston
9) szczubelek - Los Angleles Dodgers
10) cjnuss7 - Tampa Bay
11) eman7400 - San Francisco
12) ratedpg_13 - Cincinnati
13) chris_son - New York Yankees
14) verynice - Milwaukee
15) soxyanks12 - Detroit
16) besterateam - Toronto 


AMERICAN LEAGUE - 1) Texas; 2) Oakland; 3) Minnesota;  4) Boston; 5) Tampa Bay; 6)  NY Yankees; 7) Detroit; 8) Toronto
NATIONAL LEAGUE - 1) Philadelphia; 2) Atlanta; 3) St. Louis; 4) Colorado; 5) LA Dodgers; 6) San Francisco; 7) Cincinnati; 8) Milwaukee

Draft order for dispersal draft of players from teams not selected...

1) verynice - Milwaukee
2) szczubelek - Los Angleles Dodgers
3) soxyanks12 - Detroit
4) joshkvt - Oakland
5) kleinvoet - Colorado
6) besterateam - Toronto
7) Jesters - St. Louis
8) kevo21 - Boston
9) harrelson - Texas
10) Steve9955 - Atlanta
11) ratedpg_13 - Cincinnati
12) eman7400 - San Francisco
13) stlbombers - Minnesota
14) chris_son - New York Yankees
15) cjnuss7 - Tampa Bay
16) harnclan - Philadelphia

It was a fun league last year -- let's start 2011 off with it!

This is an awesome idea   I would like to do it

4 in -- need 12 more!

Give it another shot before packing it in... sigh...

u can put me down steve...

great.  looking for another 11