We have an opening in the One Franchise at a Time Progressive. In this league, you get a player for the seasons he spent with the team from which you drafted him. For instance, Bryce Harper of the Nationals and Bryce Harper of the Phillies are different players. If you draft him from the Nationals, you get his Washington seasons only. If you drafted him from the Phillies, you'd get those seasons only. Each season, we randomly choose a real-life team, and that is the team we draft from that season. Additionally, every owner has three free agents randomly drawn each season and those players go back into the draft pool. But you can surrender your first-round pick to retain one of them if you want. We use players from 1970 to now. We're about to draft from the Yankees. Complete rules are below!

One Franchise at a Time Progressive (OFTP)

16 Team League - 4/4 Format

We will use all of the seasons from 1970 forward. Seasons before 1970 are eligible to use if the player played in 1970. (Example: If Cincinnati is drawn as a Franchise and you draft Pete Rose you'd start him with his 1st Reds season, 1963).


Roster construction and Player Eligibility:
All the Players that played for the Franchise/s drawn are eligible. It doesn't matter at what point of their career they played for them. They will start with the first season they played for that Franchise. So if the Braves are drawn, a player like Greg Maddux could be drafted for Season 1. He'd start with his first season with the Braves 1993, skipping his Cubs seasons since the Cubs weren't drawn. Maddux would then progress from 1993 to 1994 and so on until he reaches the end of his Braves seasons. Then he must be Cut. In the total scheme of eligibility, each player is a completely different player for each Franchise they played for. Example:Maddux has 4 different versions since he played for 4 different Franchises, the Cubs, Braves, Dodgers and Padres. Each one of those 4 Franchises would have to be drawn for that version of him to be eligible to use.

Free Agency:
Each season 3 players from each roster will be randomly chosen to become Free Agents. They will be included in the draft for the upcoming season and if you draft them they will progress from the season they just finished using. You can draft your own Free Agents back onto your team if they are still available when you pick. If they are not drafted they will be removed from the league. If a player is drawn to become a Free Agent and does not have any seasons remaining of the Franchise he is currently playing for, then he will be a Cut. You can use your 1st round pick in exchange to reclaim 1 of your 3 Free Agents. You must Claim him back before the Draft starts.

Subsequent Drafts:
After Season 1, I will do a random draw each and every season to determine the one new Franchise we will add players from. We won't use any previously drawn Franchises a 2nd time until all other Franchises have been used once. Draft order will be random amongst the teams not making the playoffs and the 4 playoff teams will draft 13-16th based on W/L record. I will draw the new Franchise for the next season before Keepers/Cuts are due. For the Draft, I will only list the Free Agents in a player pool. There won't be a pool listed for players from the newly drawn Franchise. They will only be blacklisted as they are chosen so it will be each owners responsibility to look up which players can be drafted in the Draft Center.

Keepers/Cuts:
There is no limit to Keepers or Cuts and they are due by the end of the season. Once a player reaches the last season they played for a Franchise, they must be Cut. If a player played for more then 1 Franchise and his next Franchise in progression is drawn to use, he still must be Cut as that version of him is considered a new player. If a player played for the same Franchise more than once, meaning they played for a different Franchise in-between stints for the same Franchise, you can jump ahead and use those seasons also. Example:Rickey Henderson played with Oakland three times, playing for the Yankees and Blue Jays in-between his seasons with the A's. If Oakland is being used, you would start with his 1979 Oakland season and after 1984, (his last A's season the 1st time) you can jump ahead to his 1989 Oakland season, (his 1st season the 2nd time he played for them), and continue on from there.

Multiple Versions:
You can use the partial or combined version of a player as long as the version you choose is from the correct Franchise.

Trades:
Must pass the usual 6 vetos during the season. Off-season Trades are allowed without veto process unless 1 owner not involved in the trade opposes. The trade in question will then be voted on and 6 "No" votes will cancel it. You can Trade Draft Picks up to 1 year ahead.

AAA:
2 Below Average fictitious for trade balancing only.

IR/DL:
There is no IR/DL, Players just advance to the next available season.

Clones:
Are allowed. Since each version of a player from a different Franchise is considered a completely different player we will allow Clones.

BallParks:
Any, can change at any time.

No Salary Cap
DH in the AL only
Injuries Off
Alignment will be the same each season

The available team is in the NL and does not use a DH. The seasons you see posted here are the seasons that were just used, so you'd pick up these players with their next available season. And you may make cuts as you see fit. Here's the squad. If you have any questions, let me know!

1. Scott Garrelts 1983 San Francisco Giants SP $479,608 (Lost to Free Agency)
2. Glenn Beckert 1967 Chicago Cubs 2B $4,073,404 (Lost to Free Agency)
3. Manny Mota 1976 Los Angeles Dodgers OF $282,444 (Lost to Free Agency)
4. Joe Nathan 2009 Minnesota Twins RP $2,747,406
5. Lee Smith 1993 New York Yankees RP $1,284,626
6. Paul Konerko 2006 Chicago White Sox 1B $5,173,497
7. Jim Perry 1967 Minnesota Twins RP $2,647,239
8. Omar Vizquel 2005 San Francisco Giants SS $4,906,019
9. Rusty Greer 1998 Texas Rangers OF $5,036,643
10. Darrell Porter 1984 St. Louis Cardinals C $3,175,875
11. Milt Pappas 1972 Chicago Cubs SP $4,923,678
12. Todd Worrell 1989 St. Louis Cardinals RP $1,151,831
13. Rich Aurilia 1996 San Francisco Giants SS $1,356,577
14. Chris Short 1970 Philadelphia Phillies SP $4,184,102
15. Greg Luzinski 1980 Philadelphia Phillies OF $2,354,201
16. Moises Alou 2005 San Francisco Giants OF $3,770,758
17. Bill Madlock 1977 San Francisco Giants 3B $3,699,769
18. Armando Rios 1999 San Francisco Giants OF $1,461,809
19. Frank Linzy 1965 San Francisco Giants RP $2,107,909
20. Amos Otis 1979 Kansas City Royals OF $6,485,167
21. Danny Darwin 1983 Texas Rangers SP $4,522,601
22. Alex Wood 2021 San Francisco Giants SP $3,347,204
23. Mike Schmidt 1982 Philadelphia Phillies 3B $6,066,293
24. Fernando Valenzuela 1987 Los Angeles Dodgers SP $4,951,070
25. Benito Santiago 2001 San Francisco Giants C $3,348,669

This team has been claimed.

We have one more spot to fill and then we can get to the draft. This team plays in the AL so it does have a DH. Again, the seasons shown here are the seasons just used, so you'd use their next season with the team listed with them.

1. Dick Dietz 1967 San Francisco Giants C $913,937 (Lost to Free Agency)
2. Bob Welch 1984 Los Angeles Dodgers SP $3,547,524 (Lost to Free Agency)
3. Santiago Casilla 2010 San Francisco Giants RP $1,618,286 (Lost to Free Agency)
4. Tony Watson 2018 San Francisco Giants RP $2,089,551
5. Pedro Strop 2015 Chicago Cubs RP $2,471,173
6. Floyd Bannister 1980 Seattle Mariners SP $5,323,409
7. Wilson Alvarez 1997 San Francisco Giants SP $5,317,940
8. Sidney Ponson 2003 San Francisco Giants SP $5,187,546
9. Carlos Beltran 2011 San Francisco Giants OF $5,019,282
10. Vince Coleman 1988 St. Louis Cardinals OF $3,782,070
11. A.J. Pierzynski 2012 Chicago White Sox C $3,523,364
12. Franklin Gutierrez 2010 Seattle Mariners OF $5,479,858
13. Ellis Burks 1998 San Francisco Giants OF $3,810,791
14. Erik Bedard 2009 Seattle Mariners SP $2,300,962
15. Eduardo Nunez 2016 San Francisco Giants 3B $3,779,986
16. Drew Smyly 2020 San Francisco Giants SP $2,555,044
17. Anthony Rizzo 2014 Chicago Cubs 1B $5,566,681
18. Rod Carew 1972 Minnesota Twins 2B $5,480,534
19. Mark Grace 1990 Chicago Cubs 1B $4,848,973
20. Ichiro Suzuki 2002 Seattle Mariners OF $6,482,878
21. Ken Holtzman 1968 Chicago Cubs SP $4,327,139
22. Juan Marichal 1960 San Francisco Giants SP $2,674,144
23. Sammy Sosa 1994 Chicago Cubs OF $5,523,346
24. Ozzie Smith 1985 St. Louis Cardinals SS $6,271,200
25. Darrell Evans 1976 San Francisco Giants 1B $1,445,730

This team is taken. If you'd like to be added to the league waitlist, let me know.