Roster

Chicago Cubs:

C-Gabby Hartnett, Eddie Phillips, Johnny Grabowski
1B-Joe Judge, Sam Leslie
2B-Jackie Hayes
3B-Otto Miller, Bill Dreeson
OF-Al Simmons, Babe Herman, Earle Combs, Ben Chapman, Woody Jensen
P-Earl Whitehill, Ed Brandt, Ray Benge, Fred Frankhouse, Joe Heving, Roxie Lawson, Johnny Welch, Frank Watt, Stew Bolen, Lou Koupal

IR- Liz Funk(32), Buzz Boyle(33), Johnny Gill(34), Leo Mangum(33), Earl Caldwell(35), BoomBoom Beck(33), Whit Wyatt(32), Liz Nelson(33)

League rules

1,000 IP minimum
4,000 PA minimum

Draft Formula

The 1932 draft will be based on an adjusted wins formula. The formula is designed to hurt tanking while rewarding those who reach and exceed their expected win total. That said, the formula is not extreme to the point that teams that vastly overachieve will be picking ahead of teams that do not. What it does is hurt those teams that truly tank.

Here is the deal. Each team gets expected wins (EW) based on their salary relative to the league average. EW for a team that is exactly league average is 81 wins. If you have a salary that is lower than league average, you are expected to win fewer games, and if you have higher than league average you are expected to win more.

To derive adjusted wins, you take the average of your actual and expected wins and then +/- the standard deviation from your teams expected wins. SO adjusted wins = (Actual Wins + EW)/2 + or - SD from EW.

Teams will be ranked 1-16 based on their adjusted wins for rounds 1 and 2, and will be ranked 1-16 based on actual wins for rounds 3 - end of draft.

How the draft formula works

final

Team	Avg Salary	Starting Sal	Current Sal	W	EW	SD from EW	SD Mod	Adj Wins	Draft
New York Yankees (eman7400)-	$41,953,956	$41,953,956	$41,953,956	21	47	18.507	18.5069	52.5932	1
New York Giants (swtbc)-	$50,729,342	$50,729,342	$50,729,342	52	57	3.564	3.5635	58.0834	2
Philadelphia Phillies (genemock91)	$60,312,466	$60,312,466	$60,312,466	68	68	0.131	-0.131	67.7764	3
Pittsburgh Pirates (ToysBoys)-	$62,040,917	$72,390,107	$51,691,726	77	70	5.121	-5.1207	68.2584	4
Brooklyn Dodgers (Fabulous)-	$66,567,000	$66,567,000	$66,567,000	77	75	1.522	-1.5222	74.4015	5
St. Louis Cardinals (Thorburen)-	$68,310,948	$73,645,633	$62,976,262	84	77	5.085	-5.0854	75.3188	6
Philadelphia A’s (bullet6464)-	$65,915,442	$68,002,945	$63,827,939	68	74	4.324	4.3238	75.3811	7
Cleveland Indians (spid24)-	$71,164,079	$71,164,079	$71,164,079	83	80	2.11	-2.1098	79.3983	8
St. Louis Browns (Chrisekeedei)-	$71,085,017	$72,547,605	$69,622,428	81	80	0.758	-0.7585	79.7052	9
Chicago Cubs (dh0220)-	$76,851,808	$80,702,293	$73,001,322	81	86	3.826	3.8265	87.5322	10
Boston Red Sox (trentonjoe)-	$82,372,008	$75,958,538	$88,785,478	112	93	13.705	-13.7049	88.6043	11
Chicago White Sox (beauchamp)	$79,780,739	$79,780,739	$79,780,739	80	90	6.862	6.8623	91.7147	12
Boston Braves (bullmoose)-	$84,869,913	$79,409,987	$90,329,839	88	95	5.252	5.2517	96.9651	13
Washington Senators (Frazzman80)-	$88,841,403	$84,525,884	$93,156,921	108	100	5.733	-5.7329	98.2134	14
Detroit Tigers (TxElvis)-	$89,041,709	$84,472,450	$93,610,967	101	100	0.624	-0.6239	99.935	15
Cincinnati Reds (wgasa)-	$92,787,156	$91,164,559	$94,409,753	115	104	7.546	-7.5455	102.119	16
League Average Salary	$72,038,994

Cubs are a decent team with a fairly big future. Especially since they play in the aging NL West against the Pirates, Reds, and Cardinals.

Gabby Hartnet, Babe Herman, and Al Simmons in Wrigley equates to some big offensive numbers.

taken by ljemd