NEW: The 2025 players will be available to be drafted for the first time!!!
NEED JUST ONE MORE TO POST THE DRAFT TODAY
Here it is, Season 23 of ejstockman's twist on DEAL, Draft Every Play/Exclusive Season (DEP23)
Once again this will be a snake style draft involving 24 owners. The draft will take place in the baseball theme leagues forum.
--Each team will draft a full 25 man team plus a stadium. ALL PLAYER SEASONS DRAFTED ARE EXCLUSIVE--meaning, Babe Ruth '23 can only be drafted once and is exclusive for his/her owner. But that still leaves Babe '27 and all the other Babe seasons out there for the taking until someone takes another, different exclusive season. Then that season is off the board as well. Once you draft a player season, you are committed to that season and once a season is picked, whether partial or full, it's off the table.
You cannot have any clones on your team. Once you pick a Babe season, that is the only time you can use Babe.
- NOTE: The Ohtani Exception - For any season where Shohei Ohtani is both a pitcher and a hitter, he can be drafted as both. The pitcher and the hitter will each require a separate pick, so you will need to declare if the pick is for a hitter or a pitcher. But the hitter and the pitcher from the same season will not be considered to be a clone, so both will be allowed on the same team.
-- $255 million cap.
-- We will do one round of drafting per day. Each round will (including Round 1) be ON the clock meaning you can be skipped if you miss your draft slot time. Each owner gets a half hour draft slot from 9 am to 8:30 pm EDT. If you miss your slot, you can be skipped, and make up the pick later in the draft. You can be skipped even when the drafting starts the next day, so be aware.
-- For this draft, we will do 17 rounds (days) of one pick per owner, then three days of two picks per owner, and then one day of three picks per owner--so the draft should take 21 days. That gives each owner picks for 25 players plus an exclusive stadium.
-- We WILL be using a DH. There will be NO waiver wire or minor leaguers. During the draft, trades will be allowed, both of unused draft picks and/or actual players who have been drafted. Once the draft is complete though, there will be no trading.
-- The entire WIS baseball database is open. Players from 1885-2025 available for drafting.
Draft order and divisions will be randomly generated once the sign up list is full.
I plan to post the draft order in the Theme League forum on this Thursday evening October 2 and start OFF THE CLOCK drafting (no one can be skipped). We will then pick up Round 1 ON THE CLOCK from wherever we are on Saturday October 4. If you sign up, be ready to make your pick that day because you can be skipped.
Who's in?
10/2/2025 1:34 PM (edited)