Hello,
this is a unique one, with an opening.
A progressive, with season soup rules applied.
SHORT VERSION
On sign-up, take a pre-defined 25 year period. You must draft 1 player from each season to be on your roster. (the Soup part) That player does not need to be a rookie, just a player whom has a WIS season, that particular season. Each player then progress's forward to their next available WIS season, and then fills the appropriate slot on the next season, if you wish to keep them. (the Yahtzee part)
Example, I pick the 1941-1965 team. I need one player from 41, 42, 43, 44, 45 etc on my roster. On the initial draft, I was lucky enough to get the #1 pick and chose Ted Williams. I could slot him in any of his WIS seasons, (41, 42, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60) if I wanted to. Seems like I would want to use him in my 1941 slot, using his 1941 season. The next season, if I wanted to keep him, he would then occupy my 1942 slot with his 1942 season. That also reopens the 1941 slot to be filled by another player. The player that was in the 1942 slot need to progress to his 1943 (or their next WIS available season) season or be traded/waived. Players progress every season, to their next WIS available season. Once they are unused for a season, they are eligible to be reset. Cut/retired players are considered one and the same. Need to sit out a year.
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Not So Basic Rules
Salary cap - Nope
AAA - Nope
IR - Nope;... ie Ted Williams. If you were lucky enough to have him in your 1942 slot, and now it is the next season, you can progress Ted to his 1946 season and take that slot. If that slot is filled with someone else, you need to waive or trade one of them.
DH - Yes
Clones - NOPE
Trades - Yes, players only, no picks, with a massive restriction.
During the season, you cannot break your season soup;
- If you trade a 1987 player, you need to get a 1987 season back. There is no twisting. If you trade for 87 Rickey Henderson, he is 87 Rickey. You can't turn Ricky into 85 Rickey to make Rickey fit. You can trade multiple players in one deal, but the years MUST work out;
- With that being said, in the off season, you could mis-trade years, as in trade 68 Yaz for 88 Rickey. But, during the draft, both teams need to make it right, as in Rickey takes your 88 slot, and someone else fills the '68 slot. The in-season team MUST always have the correct soup years, no double-booking
WW - hell no
Keepers - up to 25 Realistically, up to 24. your last season player should always get replaced (you could finagle a trade im sure). In fact, you must keep at least 15. No more than 10 players can be replaced during the draft. I want to reduce this to 7, but I think we need to see how this plays out first, before going that far. With that being said, it's a progressive, not a find the best 1 year wonders out there, so that's why there is a limit on how many picks you can have.
There is no keeper list per se; your team is your team, and you cut players as you draft.
Draft Order -
- 2nd season and drafts after will be worst to first, each round. Tie breaker will be better exp pct gets the higher pick. Trading of picks is not allowed. Tanking should not be an issue. One season could not have a lot of high end talent, and another could have many hall of famers in need of a restart. All depends on where people slot them initially.
When drafting a player, you must pick him and the year you are slotting him into; ie I pick 1970 Jim Palmer.. To keep up with the Yahtzee theme, you can't decide to move him to another year after you draft him. Make that choice when you draft him, and he progress's from there
When you cut someone, that's the season you should draft a guy for; IE I cut 88 Sam Horn, And draft 88 Tim Belcher.
Stadium/City - Must be one that is available during your time period. No using the Palace, and no using Coors with the 1941-66 team. The years used and location must be referenced in the team name. Nickname part is up to you; As in 72-97 Queens Fartknockers or whatever.
Stadiums are semi exclusive; Two teams can occupy the same real estate. For this purpose, name changes are the same stadium - Kauffman and Royal Stadium are the same. But, Baltimore, Camden Yards and Memorial are different stadiums. After 5 seasons, you can relocate to another unoccupied city/stadium if you wish. We will pick the stadium with your 25th pick, at the same time.
Divisions: 24 team, Six 4-team divisions. Wild Card in each league. Standard WIS format. Random alignment each season. Will shuffle it twice every season, before it begins. Owners with multiple teams get slotted in opposite leagues.
Timeframes. These are set. They don't move. if you pick 1941-1966, that's your time frame from now until this thing of ours ends. They are also preset. You can't modify it. The time frames are exclusive. The players are exclusive. There is enough talent to go around, without building pure monster squads.
1. 1941-1965
2. 1942-1966
3. 1944-1968
4. 1947-1971
5. 1949-1973
6. 1952-1976
7. 1954-1978
8. 1957-1981
9. 1959-1983
10. 1962-1986
11. 1964-1988
12. 1967-1991
13. 1969-1993
14. 1972-1996
15. 1974-1998
16. 1977-2001
17. 1979-2003
18. 1982-2006
19. 1984-2008
20. 1987-2011
21. 1989-2013
22. 1992-2016
23. 1994-2018
24. 1995-2019
10/27/2022 12:26 PM (edited)