Basic Concept

Each season, using random.org, a basket of player-seasons will be generated. All the rookies from those seasons will be included in the draft pool. The players that get drafted will then progress through their careers until they are either dropped or retire. To keep things manageable, when we generate a basket of seasons, all seasons will end in the same digit. Hypothetically, if we start with season ending in "1", then the next basket of seasons will end in "2", then "3"....etc. That way, as players progress and new rookies are added, all player-seasons will end in the same digit. This will help make roster verification/compliance easier to manage.

Since initially it will be hard to gather enough PA/IP's....we'll start with 1885 since it is the biggest "rookie pool". I realize that in real life these players weren't all rookies, but for our purposes it doesn't matter. This allows all teams the ability to build a "base" of players at the beginning of the league. We'll randomly choose three more seasons that end in 5. After the season is over, we'll randomly choose four seasons that end in 6. Going forward, we'll always at four player-seasons at a time.

After we progress through ten seasons and thus arrive back to player-seasons ending in 5, we'll exclude the previously chosen seasons to avoid repeat players (as some of these players would still be in the league). It would probably take us around 7 calendar years to go through all the available seasons in the WIS database. If we get that far, then we can choose to begin recycling some of the previously used seasons as those players would have long since retired.

We are in the early stages of a fun new league - this will be our 4th season coming up. This is a 16 team league
And are drafting rookies (1st year players) from 1908, 1918, 1988 and 2008.
All current players on each team are in a season ending in an 8
Each team can carry 35 players - 25 on their roster and the other 10 on AAA, not including any IR players you have.
You can cut down your team to 35 after the draft.
So any of the these players can be cut or added to AAA in order to keep your roster at 25.
The AAA players can play during the season - by switching out somebody on your roster.

The team that is available is Cincinnati and includes the following players and is drafting 11th in the next draft that is coming up soon
C- 1888 King Kelly, 2008 Mike Napoli, 1998 Tyler Houston, 1928 Shanty Hogan
1B- 1888 Cap Anson, 1948 Ed Stevens, 1988 Todd Benzinger
2B- 1888 Yank Robinson, 1998 Tony Batista
SS- 1998 Derek Jeter
3B - 1998 Shane Andrews, 1888 Joe Mulvey
OF - 1998 Quinten McCracken, 1958 Harry Anderson, 1888 Curt Welch, 1998 Michael Tucker, 1888 Jim Fogarty, 1918 Grease Neale
SP- 1888 Jim Whitney, 1888 Charlie Getzier, 1918 Frank Miller, 2008 Scott Olsen
RP- 1988 Randy Myers, 1988 Mark Williamson, 1998 Antonio Osuna, 1998 Jose Rosado
AAA- 1958 Bobby Richardson - 2B, 1998 Doug Johns - P

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Thank you for your interest

really a cool concept you draft players then cut your team down to 35, 25 reg 10 AAA
Lets you keep players who have career years in the future or players who are not productive right away
very fun league