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. Interested owners should select one of these 42 teams. I will select after 12 other owners have entered.
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
1.dspahlinger-St. Louis Cardinals 1942
2. shawbigred-Atlanta Braves 1997
3. MMTDad-New York Yankees 1927
4. pmars2001-Cleveland Indians 1948
5. dspahlinger-Philadelphia Phillies 1976
6. reddfoxx-Chicago Cubs 1906
7. benfc-Philadelphia Athletics 1929
8. beirnej1-Brooklyn Dodgers 1953
9. cardsfan-Los Angeles Dodgers 1963
10.coled-Pittsburgh Pirates 1902
11. shysters3-Cincinnati Reds 1972
12. Rattlers-New York Yankees 1998
13. Wifflking-New York Yankees 1954
14. kallison1-Baltimore Orioles 1969
15. shawbigred-Boston Red Sox 1912
16. coled-New York Giants 1912