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XXXXXXX1929-1948This league is currently running in the 1949-1978 format and took awhile to fill. Getting a jump on filling this version now....
My vision - create a realistic franchise league with 4 and 5 man rotations, real benches, platoons, trades & player movement, managerial and GM decisions, double switches, etc.....all the good stuff about baseball and WIS.- 1929-1948, AVG AAA (6/2), Trades & WW allowed (within theme), NO DH, must use stadium used by your franchise during that timeframe
- $85m cap, let every franchise be competitive. Each owner will begin with $85m, which will be raised to $90m once the season starts. That will open up cap room for WW moves and trading. Also, the WW moves will create quality bench players available for trading and player movement.
- Each owner will draft a minimum
1375 IPs and
5500 PAs. Nobody will be able to come in short on stamina and potentially ruin the league. After the season begins however you can release players to the WW and tip under the requirements. The purpose of making such a move would be to clear cap space to pick up a big player and the PA/IP requirememnts could possibly hamper an owners ability to move freely on the WW, which is a key component to making this league interesting. Ease of roster manipulation while staying realistic is the goal here while the concessions made here after the season begins lets owners to grab that elusive player on the WW that said owner had been waiting on.
- Owners are required to draft a quality bench/pen.
Only 3 players on your roster can be less than $1.5m. Only 2 of those 3 can be less than $1m, and only 1 less than $500. So the cheapest you could go with your last 3 spots is a $200k player, a $500k player and one at $1m.- WW within the theme. Only from your franchise from 1929-1948. Once a player is in the league with your franchise, you can't pick up that player on the WW. ie. if I draft the '30 Tony Lazzeri, I can't swap him for the '33 Lazzeri on the WW (even if I waived him earlier).
-50 game live minimum to reach the playoffs
- Owners must use a 4 or 5 man rotation. No starter can start more than 3 more times than their real life starts. I'm asking owners to please try to keep things realistic. Don't reach the start limit for a pitcher and then throw him into the pen for another 5-10 relief appearances.***NOT IN EFFECT FOR THIS VERSION, TOO MANY PITCHERS WITH ODDLY LOW IP/9***- This will be a 16 team league to coincide with the timeframe; less teams.