Franchise Draft Theme
This is a simple theme. When you sign up, select which franchise you want to select your roster from. The choices are: Mets, Expos/Nationals, Padres, Pilots/Brewers, Royals, Senators/Rangers. There will 4 owners per franchise and those four owners will hold their own draft to select their players. The first round's draft order will be randomly determined. In order to offset the luck involved with getting the top pick (and often the most expensive player), each successive round will be based on reverse order of cumulative team salary. That means you need to choose which year of the player you are using at the time you draft him. On each pick, you should list the player, the year, his salary and your cumulative team salary so the next round's draft order can easily be determined. (I will not be administering each draft - somebody from your draft group should post the order of the next round once it's determined). Also, once a player is drafted, all seasons of that player are off the board.

This will be a 25-round draft. Ballparks will not be drafted in this version.

Additional Specifics
Salary Cap: None
Seasons: 1961-2019 (Make sure to not draft the old Senators)
AAA: No
WW: No
Clones: No
DH: No
Injuries: Off
CombinedPartial: Can use either.
Ballpark: Must use a ballpark the franchise used during 1961-2019
Alignment: Based on franchise
Trades: No (not during draft or during season)

1. After the draft is over, can we switch the season of our player as long as the switch is to a lower salary?
Yes
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2. Not likely to occur, but who drafts first if two teams have the identical cumulative salary at the start of a round?
Whichever team drafted later in the previous round would draft earlier in the current round.

Owners List
Jtpsops
razorclams
fatguyrd
nordawg

I will ask a non-participant to randomize the round 1 draft order. Once he posts it here, the draft can begin.

When selecting your player, please post the player, the season, his salary and your team's cumulative salary after each pick. At the end of each round, please post the draft order for the next round. Remember to site-mail the next person up to keep things moving.

List Randomizer

There were 4 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

1. razorclams
2. fatguyrd
3. Jtpsops
4. nordawg

IP: 2600:6c40:7c80:38d0:8d58:6d05:3690:c5bd
Timestamp: 2020-06-24 19:46:57 UTC

PLAYERS TAKEN SO FAR -- Completed Draft:
Albers, Matt
Alou, Moises
Bailey, Bob
Barberie, Bret
Barnes, Brian
Barrett, Michael
Boucher, Denis
Boyd, Oil Can
Brookes, Hubie
Burke, Tim
Cabrera, Asdrubal
Cabrera, Orlando
Carrasco, Hector
Carter, Gary
Clippard, Tyler
Corbin, Patrick
Cordero, Chad
Dawson, Andre
DeShields, Delino
Desmond, Ian
Doolittle, Sean
Escobar, Alex
Fassero, Jeff
Fister, Doug
Fletcher, Darrin
Floyd, Cliff
Foli, Tim
Foote, Barry
Francona, Terry
Fryman, Woodie
Galarraga, Andres
Gonzalez, Giordanos
Grissom, Marquis
Guerrero, Vladimir
Gullickson, Bill
Guzman, Cristian
Harper, Bryce
Henley, Bob
Henry, Butch
Hernandez, Livan
Hesketh, Joe
Hudson, Daniel
Hunt, Ron
Johnson, Nick
Jorgensen, Mike
Kendrick, Howie
Lansing, Mike
Lea, Charlie
Lee, Bill
Madson, Ryan
Marshall, Mike
Martinez, Dennis
Martinez, Pedro
McCarver, Tim
Melancon, Mark
Morgan, Nyler
Morse, Michael
Murphy, Daniel
Murray, Dale
Oliver, Al
Papelbon, Jonathan
Patterson, John
Peralta, Joel
Perez, Pascual
Raines, Tim
Ramos, Wilson
Reardon, Jeff
Rendon, Anthony
Renko, Steve
Rivero, Felipe
Roark, Tanner
Rogers, Steve
Rojas, Mel
Rueter, Kirk
Schatzeder, Dan
Scherzer, Max
Schneider, Brian
Shell, Steven
Singleton, Ken
Smith, Bryn
Soriano, Alfonso
Sosa, Elias
Soto, Juan
Span, Denard
Staub, Rusty
Storen, Drew
Strasburg, Stephen
Turner, Trea
Urbina, Ugueth
Vazquez, Javier
Vidro, Jose
Vitiello, Joe
Walker, Larry
Wallach, Tim
Ward, Daryle
Werth, Jayson
Wetteland, John
White, Rondell
Zimmerman, Jordan
Zimmerman, Ryan

My run of draft position futility in these leagues continues.

Jtp at least you move up a spot!

Pitchers are so crucial in these franchise drafts. I bet the top 1-2 pickers win most of these divisions.

You will get #2

Ironically, the top pitchers aren't always the first players selected. In the Astros draft, Mike Scott went #4 (behind Bagwell, Berkman & Wagner)

I just figure which ever way razorclams goes, I will go the other way.

1997 Pedro Martinez $11,323,746

2015 Bryce Harper - 9,025,875

1982 Gary Carter. $6,792,428

ROUND 2 ORDER:
1. NorDawg $6,792,428
2. jtpsops $8,723,541
3. fatguyrd $9,025,875
4. razorclams $11,323,746