ORIGINAL RULES. We will have an initial draft of players from 1941-45....you take a player and you own him for his entire career.You can keep any and all of your roster to play Season 2, if they are still active, which will be seasons 1946-1950. We will draft all the new players after Season 1.....so you keep who you want, and fill out your roster with players active from 1946-1950 during a pre-season 2 draft....and so on and so on. So as an example, say you draft TED WILLIAMS....maybe you use his 1941 season for SEASON 1....you keep him for SEASON 2 and use his 1949 season....you keep him for SEASON 3 and use his 1954 season...SEASON 4 comes around and you use his 1957 season....his last season is 1960 so he retires before SEASON 5, opening a roster spot on your squad.Unlimited keepers and cuts, manage your team as you see fit.......We will have these seasons to play, one at a time:
SEASON 1- 1941-1945
SEASON 2- 1946-1950
SEASON 3- 1951-1955
SEASON 4- 1956-1960
SEASON 5- 1961-1965
SEASON 6- 1966-1970
SEASON 7- 1971-1975
SEASON 8- 1976-1980
SEASON 9- 1981-1985
SEASON 10- 1986-1990
SEASON 11-1991-1995
SEASON 12- 1996-2000
SEASON 13- 2002-2005
SEASON 14-2006-2010
SEASON 15- 2011-2015
SEASON 16- 2016-2020
SEASON 17- ??
OTHER RULES- 16 TEAMS/OWNERS, NO WW, YES AAA- average to help with fatigue, especially first couple seasons, 125 MILLION CAP, TRADES ARE OK. NO CLONES.NO DH UNTIL SEASON 7 (prior to season 7 we will vote on whether to have DH in AL only or both leagues..... ONCE WE HAVE 16 OWNERS, WE WILL HAVE A RANDOM DRAFT FOR ACTIVE BALLPARKS. A list of available Ballparks will be posted....WHEN MLB EXPANDS, WE WILL ALSO EXPAND TO A MAXIMUM OF 24 TEAMS. PRIOR TO EACH EXPANSION WE WILL HAVE A VOTE ON THE EXPANSION RULES. THE INITIAL DRAFT WILL BE SERPENTINE (1-16; 16-1), SUBSEQUENT DRAFTS WILL BE IN THE INVERSE ORDER OF FINISH, WORST TO FIRST BY RECORD ( 50 WIN MINIMUM BY GAME 150 TO AVOID A TOTAL TANK JOB)....some interesting strategies will be in play every off-season draft, you can bet on that...and with only 16 clubs, as RL baseball expands, our team salaries will increase. Also, let's shoot for realistic team names, please( city and mascot)......
AS A PRECAUTION AGAINST TANKING in subsequent drafts there will be a random lottery for the first 4 positions in the first round only, with the team with the worst record having 4 chances for the #1 pick, the team with the second worst record having 3 chances for the #1 pick, the team with the third worst record having 2 chances for the #1 pick and the team with the 4th worst record having 1 chance for the #1 pick. If a team fails to meet the 50 win requirement by game 150, they will automatically draft no higher than 3rd, regardless of the results of the lottery.
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