This progressive will follow the Build Your Own Progressive format. The league will progress one season at a time. Listed below are 53 terrible teams from baseball history. The test is to see which owner can do the best job of improving one of these terrible teams. There are 2 important decisions you must make: 1. which of the available terrible teams has the best potential for future development and 2. selecting the right era with not too much competition for available players. Owners who select early will not know how many following owners are likely to select teams that will compete with them for available players as outined below. I will select after 8 other owners have entered.

There is 1 limitation-  there must be a gap of at least 10 years between 2 teams from the same franchise. This means, for example, that if the 1925 Red Sox are seelcted the 1932 Red Sox  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.

It is my intention to make this a 24 team league but I reserve the right to make it a 16 team league if it looks like it will take an inordinately long time to fill.(note-league actually was set at 20 teams). I also reserve the right to permit owners to take 2 teams with the dual provisos that the teams will be placed in separate leagues and trades will not be permitted between two team with the same owner. I will permit ownership of more than 1 team only if we have exceeded 16 teams and it appears it will be difficult to get to 24 teams. Because I am trying to make this a stable 24 team league, and to reduce turnover, I also reserve the right to refuse entry to owners who do not have a track record of long term ownership in progressive leagues. 

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, 1-20, 20-1, 1-20 etc. The order of the initial draft will be in inverse order of W/L Pct.-i.e.the team with the worst W/L Pct. will draft first. Ties will be broken by the use of random.org

The league will not allow a player (even though from different seasons) to be on more than one roster. Accordingly, as soon as possible after 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 late 1800's or 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 that season  who has was WIS eligible for the 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 desired 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 5 players from their current year. If the number of retirements and players on IR (not cuts) causes a team to need more than 5 draft picks, additional picks (also from the current year of progression) will be allowed subject to the following provisions: 1. The salary of any pick in excess of 5 will not exceed $1.5 million and 2. The picks in excess of 5 may not be keepers for the following season. 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. If a tie involves myself, I will ask an owner not involved in the tie to do the randomization. The limitation of 5 players per year for all drafts after the initial draft will require owners to carefully think out their strategy with respect to which players to cut as well as which players to draft.

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