MLB Decade of Dominance! Theme league MLB143512 Topic

Who can build the best team from 1 decade of a specific MLB franchise? Let's find out! Anyone's invited to join, but please pay attention to your team and adjust fatigue settings, etc. accordingly throughout the season to keep the league's competitive balance as even as possible.

THEME RULES/NOTES (see post below to claim your team/decade...*please note change from prior seasons that if an owner has 2 teams, they must be at least 20 years apart and only 1 of the teams can be a deadball era team from 1920 and prior years in order to be able to split the divisions and leagues chronologically, and lastly the change that only the WIS generic ballpark can be used now to take away ballpark advantages and make it a level playing field...no pun intended):
1.) Must draft players from only 1 MLB franchise (all Yankees, all Red Sox, etc.) & w/in a specific 10-yr timeframe (i.e.: only Yankees players from 96-05, only Red Sox from 04-13, only Senators/Twins from 1956-1965, etc.). Can NOT draft players outside of 10 years apart & from different franchises to your roster or that ineligible player will be removed & replaced with an eligible player or your team can be removed if unresponsive to sitemails or messages to fix your roster.
2.) No clones.
3.) No waiver wire.
4.) No DH.
5.) No trades.
6.) Award winners are allowed.
7.) $75 million MLB salary cap.
8.) Optional AAA manually drafted "average" pitchers and hitters (between around an estimated $700k-$1.5 million for aaa pitchers salary & around an estimated $1.5-$2.775 million for hitters salary, but these are estimates and may not be exact for what WIS has listed as "average"...2 pitchers, 6 position players, no AAA salary cap) from your same chosen team/decade OR can have WIS randomly assign your "average" AAA pitchers or "above average" AAA hitters (your choice). Manually drafted players not from your same chosen team/decade will be removed & replaced by WIS randomly assigned AAA players if you are not responsive to sitemails or messages to fix them.
9.) Must choose WIS generic stadium with 1.0 ballpark factor so there are no ballpark advantages and everyone has the same ballpark.
10.) There can be the same franchises owned by more than 1 owner (for example, there could be 3 different versions of the NY Yankees chosen).
11.) An owner can own up to 2 teams in the league but must be at least 20 years apart and only 1 deadball era team. Leagues & divisions will be aligned by different eras/decades chronologically as best as possible (i.e.: deadball teams will be in the same division as each other), & owners with 2 teams will have each team put into different leagues.
9/16/2025 1:10 AM (edited)
Teams claimed so far and feel free to copy/paste to add to this as you claim one and draft your roster to enter the league (once it's filled, it's filled, so I won't be able to save spots that could delay it from getting started):

1) lb_bunk80: Cincinnati Reds 1971-80
2) lb_bunk80 (2nd team): San Francisco Giants 2001-2010
9/14/2025 2:19 PM
Good timing, as I logged in to see the PM games. Last season I had pretty good luck with a team that had a personality, the Nasty Boys (+ two closers). This season, I will go back further in time and try some Weaverball, pitching, defense, and the three run homer.
Baltimore Orioles (BALT 67-76)
9/14/2025 2:25 PM
Brooklyn Dodgers - 48-57
9/14/2025 2:41 PM
Teams claimed so far and feel free to copy/paste to add to this as you claim one and draft your roster to enter the league (once it's filled, it's filled, so I won't be able to save spots that could delay it from getting started):

1) lb_bunk80: Cincinnati Reds 1971-80
2) lb_bunk80 (2nd team): San Francisco Giants 2001-2010
3) vaugheyj: Baltimore Orioles 1967-76
4) Dufferman: Brooklyn Dodgers 1948-57
5) WillsRoyals: Philly 2009-2018
6) WillsRoyals (2nd team): Baltimore 1964-1973
9/14/2025 3:12 PM (edited)
Put me down for 2 teams please.

Philly 2009-2018
Baltimore 1964-1973
9/14/2025 3:08 PM
79-88 Astros please
9/14/2025 3:40 PM
Teams claimed so far and feel free to copy/paste to add to this as you claim one and draft your roster to enter the league (once it's filled, it's filled, so I won't be able to save spots that could delay it from getting started):

1) lb_bunk80: Cincinnati Reds 1971-80
2) lb_bunk80 (2nd team): San Francisco Giants 2001-2010
3) vaugheyj: Baltimore Orioles 1967-76
4) Dufferman: Brooklyn Dodgers 1948-57
5) WillsRoyals: Philly 2009-2018
6) WillsRoyals (2nd team): Baltimore 1964-1973
7) DougDoty: Houston Astros 1979-88
8) Slubby23: Arizona Diamondbacks 2002-11
9/14/2025 7:12 PM (edited)
I’ll take the Diamondbacks 02-11.
9/14/2025 5:24 PM
I'm in with the 1962-71 Orioles.
9/14/2025 10:32 PM
Teams claimed so far and feel free to copy/paste to add to this as you claim one and draft your roster to enter the league (once it's filled, it's filled, so I won't be able to save spots that could delay it from getting started):

1) lb_bunk80: Cincinnati Reds 1971-80
2) lb_bunk80 (2nd team): San Francisco Giants 2001-2010
3) vaugheyj: Baltimore Orioles 1967-76
4) Dufferman: Brooklyn Dodgers 1948-57
5) WillsRoyals: Philly 2009-2018
6) WillsRoyals (2nd team): Baltimore 1964-1973
7) DougDoty: Houston Astros 1979-88
8) Slubby23: Arizona Diamondbacks 2002-11
9) slimsenior: Baltimore Orioles 1962-71
10) DCarden34: Seattle Mariners 1995-2004
9/14/2025 11:32 PM (edited)
Seattle Mariners 95-04
9/14/2025 10:54 PM
Hey LB, with there being 3 Orioles teams in the exact time frame I am going to replace my orioles team with a pirates squad likely from the 60s to the early 70s to ensure more variety.
9/15/2025 3:04 AM
And here I was thinking I hadn't seen an Orioles team, try out that franchise :)
9/15/2025 9:52 AM
Posted by WillsRoyals on 9/15/2025 3:04:00 AM (view original):
Hey LB, with there being 3 Orioles teams in the exact time frame I am going to replace my orioles team with a pirates squad likely from the 60s to the early 70s to ensure more variety.
No problem
9/15/2025 2:24 PM
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