Thanks to Tdoak for starting this in the non live forums.

One of my favorite ways to kill time is using the random page feature at www.baseball-reference.com . Let's use this oracle to build us each a team.

$100m cap, but with no WW, and DH in the AL only (sign up for the AL if you want one). Trades are OK, so if your NL team gets a DH maybe you can trade him out. We'll have 30/10 average AAA, but you only get to use them in certain instances.

When you sign up, I'll go to the oracle and come back with the first 12 signs it gives me. [The first owner to sign up can generate a team for me in the same way.] The random page feature is much more advanced than it used to be. The results used to be limited to a player or a team, but now there are all kinds of odd pages like "1939 A.L. team stats" or "Box Score 1928 World Series Game 4". For each sign from the oracle, you'll take two players, and then you can pick any player for your 25th man, but the 25th man is limited to a salary of $6 million or less, so that not everybody gets to take Babe Ruth for their squad.

If the random page is a player, you can use any season from that player, and then you also get to choose any one teammate from his career to also be on your squad. You could get a great player like Walter Johnson, or a scrub like Nigel Wilson, who never had a SIM-eligible season ... in which case you will also draft a 200k player, and then send him down for a AAA player who you'll rename for Nigel. But if you did get Nigel Wilson, you could also choose one of his teammates, and they aren't all bad ... he played with everybody from Manny Ramirez to Trevor Hoffman in his brief career.

If you get a team, like the 1898 Louisville Colonels, then you have to take two players from that team/season.

If you draw a manager page, you can take any two players who played for that manager in a season they played for him. (And obviously, you've got a manager!)

If you draw the box score from 1928, you can take any two players who played in that game, from either team ... but you can't take a player who didn't play that day.

Then there are the odd results, like "1928 A.L. catchers" or "Players who attended U.C.L.A." In those cases, you'd get any two players listed. If it's a "season" page, you have to take players from that season, otherwise you can take them from any season of their careers.

Yes, this is a really random league. You'll certainly use some players you've never used before. But the teammate angle makes it an interesting puzzle ... I've used the theme a couple of times in War of the Themes, and it always produces a competitive team. So, will anybody join me and try their luck?

Cap- 100 Mil, No WW, Yes to trades, DH in Al only, 30/10 aaa average. 40 Games Live required for playoffs, all playoffs must be played live, quickstart

AL.
1. Staindman
2. joshkvt
3. the taint
4. bastanredsox
5. toddleduc
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NL
1. Habsfan1
2. Steveymer
3. aljon1331
4. kwatts
5. braveboy73
6. lloyd1955
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sitemail list: staindman; habsfan1; joshkvt; steveymer; aljon1331; the taint; kwatts; bastanredsox; braveboy73; johnsonak87; toddleduc; lloyd1955; maddawg

Put me down for a team. NL

i'll start generating teams after 5 people sign up

I'm in

I'll play - NL

In-NL please

Habsfans' draw

1. Batting Leaders, Before, During and After Age 20-(http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/leaders_20_bat.shtml)
2. P Bob Steele 1916-1919(three sim eligible seasons)
3. P Steve Parris 1995-2003(all are sim eligible)
4. C/1b/3b John Stearns 1974-1984(most are sim eligible)
5. 1914 New York Giants Roster(choose 2 players)
6. P Juan Marichal 1960-1975 (nice draw)
7. C Shawn Riggans 2006-2009 (one sim eligilbe season)
8. June 5, 2009 Boxscore, Cubs vs Reds (choose 2 players who played that day)
9. P Chris Mabeus 2009(one game played ever*rename aaa for him and pick a teammate)
10. 1995 Milwauke Brewers Batting stats(choose any 2 players who had at least one at bat)
11. 1919 Boston Red Sox
12. IF Chuck Scrivener 1975-1977(two sim eligible seasons)

Count me in dude.

Quote: Originally posted by steveymer on 5/24/2010for players you choose from the boxscores, I assume it has to be that season?

yes

Josh's team

1.P Huyler Westervelt 1894 (one eligible season)
2.P Curt Brown 1983- 1987(no sim eligible seasons)
3.P Homer Bailey 2007-2009(all are eligible)
4. 1918 MLB Batting leaders(nice draw)
5. 1920 St Louis Browns
6. 1974 MLB 1B stats(pick any two 1b from 1974)
7. P Carroll William Sembera 1965-1970(3 sim eligible seasons)
8. 1913 Philadelphia A's Batting stats(pick 2 players who had at least 1 AB)
9. OF Jim Thorpe 1913-1919 (4 eligible full seasons)
10. 2009 Cincinati Reds Pitching stats(guess you'll get alot of Reds)
11. P Joe Jaeger 1920 Cubs(no sim eligible season)
12. 1B/OF Tony Muser 1969, 1971-1978(5 sim eligible seasons)

staindman's draw:

1. 1B Don Mincher 1960-1972

2. OF Jon Nunnally 1995-2000

3. 1973 Major League Baseball Debuts

4. Oct. 19, 1988 World Series Box Score

5. P Rusty Gerhardt 1974

6. C Benny Culp 1942-1944

7. 2009 Toronto Blue Jays Schedule, Box Scores and Splits

8. C J.R. Towles 2007-2010

9. 1B Charlie Bold 1914

10. OF Kal Daniels 1986-1992

11. 1931 Chicago Cubs Roster

12. P Rigo Beltran 1997-2004

teammates can be twisted for players you are assigned like in habs case with chris mabeus..he could twist trevor hoffman to a padre year

Stevey's team

1. P Jeff Holly 1977-1979(two sim eligible seasons)
2. P Jack Kramer 1939-1951 (most are eligible)
3. Of Baby Doll Jacobson (nice draw steve, solid few seasons)
4. 2b/3b Chip Hale 1989-1997(his page is listed as pinch hitter/2b/3b! check out his 1993 season)
5. P Harry Patton 1910(one game wonder, rename aaa for him)
6. 1906 NL Pitching Leaders(draft 2)
7. June 2, 2009 Diamondbacks vs Dodgers (draft 2 of anyone who played that night)
8. Of Ross Moschitto 1965, 1967(i think neither are sim eligible but you should check)
9. 1897 MLB Pitching Stats
10. MIF Snooks Dowd (no sim season, aaa player, im going to love the names in this league)
11. P Mark Gubicza 1984-1997
12. 1905 NY Giants batting

Aljon's team

1. 1974 Boston Red Sox
2. Game 1, 2007 NLDS, Cubs at Diamondbacks
3. 1995 SF Giants Pitching (choose any 2 pitchers)
4. 1905 Chicago Cubs
5. Players by Places of Death, Oklahoma (93 to choose 2 from including 2 hofs)
6. 1998 MLB Pitchers
7. OF Jeffrey Leonard 1977-1990(most are sim eligible)
8. 2004 NY Mets Trades and transactions (pick 2 cannot be twisted http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYM/2004-transactions.shtml)
9. 1983 NY Mets Fielding
10. P Phil Huffman 1979, 1985(though only 79 is sim eligible)
11. P Mark Difelice 2008-2009(only one is sim eligible)
12. 1b Joe Cunningham 1954-1966