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 2011 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: AL Only
CAP: 90 mil
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 or obvious variation
Division Alignment: 4 x 4 (8 AL, 8 NL) Based on East/West as much as possible. Balanced schedule, interleague play.

Multi-team players: Only 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, 2011 Eric Bedard is on the Boston Red Sox.

SIgn up below:

1) Steve9955 
2) Jesters
3) donaldjtrump
4) 9ookoloo
5) achillesred
6) joshkvt
7) elixerr 
8) szczubelek
9) 5pointtoss
10) stlbombers
11) harrelson
12) 9ookoloo
13) The_Hodags
14) chris_son
15) btillis
16) ConansDad

Sitemail list:  Steve9955; donaldjtrump; Jesters; achillesred; joshkvt; elixerr; szczubelek; 5pointtoss; stlbombers; harrelson; 9ookoloo; The_Hodags; chris_son; btillis; ConansDad

2011 STANDINGS (win totals)

1) Philadelphia (102)
2) NY Yankees (97)
3) Texas (96)
4) Milwaukee (96)
5) Detroit (95)
6) Arizona (94)
7) Tampa Bay (91)
8) St. Louis (90)
9) Boston (90)
10) Atlanta (89)
11) San Francisco (86)
12) LA Angels (86)
13) LA Dodgers (82)
14) Toronto (81)
15) Washington (80)
16) Cleveland (80)
17) Cincinnati (79)
18) Chicago WS (79)
19) NY Mets (77)
20) Oakland (74)
21) Colorado (73)
22) Florida (72)
23) PIttsburgh (72)
24) Kansas City (71)
25) San Diego (71)
26) Chicago Cubs (71)
27) Baltimore (69)
28) Seattle (67)
29) Minnesota (63)
30) Houston (56)

Here are your sets:

• 3, 4, 13, 2, 12, 8, 6, 10, 7, 11, 15, 1, 5, 16, 14, 9

Timestamp: 2011-10-31 04:09:33 UTC

So, here is the draft order:

1)  donaldjtrump - Yankees
2)  9ookoloo - Phillies
3)  The_Hodags - Brewers
4)  Jesters - Cardinals
5)  9ookoloo - Red Sox
6)  szczubelek - Tigers
7)  joshkvt - Rangers
8)  stlbombers - Angels
9)  elixerr - Giants
10) harrelson - Dodgers
11) btillis - Reds
12) Steve9955 - Blue Jays
13) achillesred - Braves
14) ConansDad - Rays
15) chris_son - D'Backs
16) 5pointtoss - Royals

Dispersal draft will happen in the inverse order of actual record as listed above.

TEAM DRAFT -- the higher your team finished in the standings, the lower you pick in the dispersal draft:

1) 5pointtoss - Royals
2) btillis - Reds
3) Steve9955 - Blue Jays
4) harrelson - Dodgers
5) stlbombers - Angels
6) elixerr - Giants
7) achillesred - Braves
8) 9ookoloo - Red Sox
9) Jesters - Cardinals
10) ConansDad - Rays
11) chris_son - D'Backs
12) szczubelek - Tigers
13) The_Hodags - Brewers
14) joshkvt - Rangers
15) donaldjtrump - Yankees
16) 9ookoloo - Phillies

Round 1

1) 5pointtoss - Royals - Michael Pineda - Seattle
2) btillis - Reds - Felix Hernandez - Seattle
3) Steve9955 - Blue Jays - Justin Masterson - Cleveland
4) harrelson - Dodgers - Troy Tulowitski - Colorado
5) stlbombers - Angels - Jose Reyes - New York Mets
6) elixerr - Giants - Michael Morse - Washington
7) achillesred - Braves - Carlos Gonzalez - Colorado
8) 9ookoloo - Red Sox - Mat Latos - San Diego
9) Jesters - Cardinals - Gia Gonzalex - Oakland
10) ConansDad - Rays - JJ Hardy - Baltimore
11) chris_son - D'Backs - Paul Konerko - Chicago WS
12) szczubelek - Tigers - Cory Luebke - San Diego
13) The_Hodags - Brewers - Starlin Castro - Chicago Cubs
14) joshkvt - Rangers - Guillermo Moscoso - Oakland
15) donaldjtrump - Yankees - R. A. Dickey - New York Mets
16) 9ookoloo - Phillies - Mike Stanton - Florida

Round 2

1) 5pointtoss - Royals - Tyler Clippard - Washington
2) btillis - Reds - Aramis Ramirez - Chicago Cubs
3) Steve9955 - Blue Jays - Matt Garza - Chicago Cubs
4) harrelson - Dodgers - Brandon McCarthy - Oakland
5) stlbombers - Angels- Matt Wieters - Baltimore
6) elixerr - Giants - Nick Markakis - Baltimore
7) achillesred - Braves - Emelio Bonifacio - Florida
8) 9ookoloo - Red Sox - Javier Vazquet - Florida
9) Jesters - Cardinals - Asdubral Cabrera - Cleveland
10) ConansDad - Rays - Wilson Ramos - Washington
11) chris_son - D'Backs - Anibal Sanchez - Florida
12) szczubelek - Tigers - Neil Walker - Pittsburgh
13) The_Hodags - Brewers - Chase Headly - San Diego
14) joshkvt - Rangers - Todd Helton - Colorado
15) donaldjtrump - Yankees - Gavin Floyd - Chicago WS
16) 9ookoloo - Phillies - Jordan Zimmerman - Washington

Round 3

1) 5pointtoss - Royals - Daniel Murphy - New York Mets
2) btillis - Reds - Andrew McCutchen - Pittsburgh
3) Steve9955 - Blue Jays - Josh Johnson - Florida
4) harrelson - Dodgers - Phillip Humber - Chicago WS
5) stlbombers - Angels - Josh Tomlin - Cleveland
6) elixerr - Giants - Jhouyls Chacin - Colorado
7) achillesred - Braves - Scott Baker - Minnesota
8) 9ookoloo - Red Sox - Adam Jones - Baltimore
9) Jesters - Cardinals - Coco Crisp - Oakland
10) ConansDad - Rays - Lucas Duda - New York Mets
11) chris_son - D'Backs - Sean Marshall - Chicago Cubs
12) szczubelek - Tigers - Ryan Zimmerman - Washington
13) The_Hodags - Brewers - Joel Hanrahan - Pittsburgh
14) joshkvt - Rangers - Rafael Betancourt - Colorado
15) donaldjtrump - Yankees - Chris Sale - Chicago White Sox
16) 9ookoloo - Phillies - Carlos Santana - Cleveland

Round 4

1) 5pointtoss - Royals - Nick Hundly - San Diego
2) btillis - Reds - Mark Buehrle - Chicago White Sox
3) Steve9955 - Blue Jays - Chris Iannetta - Colorado
4) harrelson - Dodgers - Carlos Lee - Houston
5) stlbombers - Angels - Joe Smith - Cleveland
6) elixerr - Giants - Michael Cuddyear - Minnesota
7) achillesred - Braves - Dustin Mosley - San Diego
8) 9ookoloo - Red Sox - Joe Mauer - Minnesota
9) Jesters - Cardinals - Tim Stauffer - San Diego
10) ConansDad - Rays - Paul Maholm - Pittsburgh
11) chris_son - D'Backs - Matt Downs - Houston
12) szczubelek - Tigers - Vinnie Pestano - Cleveland
13) The_Hodags - Brewers - Drew Storen - Washington
14) joshkvt - Rangers - Chris Parmelee - Minnesota
15) donaldjtrump - Yankees - Ryan Doumit - Pittsburgh
16) 9ookoloo - Phillies - Alejandro De Aza - Chicago White Sox

Round 5

1) 5pointtoss - Royals - Jeff Karstens - Pittsburgh
2) btillis - Reds - Alexei Ramirez - Chicago White Sox
3) Steve9955 - Blue Jays - Jason Vargas - Seattle
4) harrelson - Dodgers - Josh Thole - New York Mets
5) stlbombers - Angels - Carlos Quentin - Chicago White Sox
6) elixerr - Giants - Kurt Sazuki - Oakland
7) achillesred - Braves - Jason Bourgois - Houston
8) 9ookoloo - Red Sox - Heath Bell - San Diego
9) Jesters - Cardinals - Glen Perkins - Minnesota
10) ConansDad - Rays - Edward Mujica - Florida
11) chris_son - D'Backs - Jose Veras - Pittsburgh
12) szczubelek - Tigers - Cameron Maybin - San Diego
13) The_Hodags - Brewers -
14) joshkvt - Rangers -
15) donaldjtrump - Yankees -
16) 9ookoloo - Phillies -

I'm in.  Team TBD.  I was under the impression that we don't pick our teams now anyway.  We're randomly assigned an order to pick teams.

Correct.... there will be a random order when there are 16 of us to pick teams.  After they are pick, the draft order for the remaining 5 players will be in inverse order of the final standings...

donaldjtrump, The_Hodags -- still in?

No, the lottery pick concept is the same as the last 2 seasons.

Tiebreakers were random -- didn't put a lot of thought into it 

ill play

I am in