We've had an owner go missing in SOFRY. We're currently drafting and it appears we need someone to take over. The league and team details are below, please let me know if you're interested.

We have an opening in the Start Off Filling Random Years (SOFRY) League. In this league, you are given a fresh list of 25 random years from 1885-2025 each season and must fit your players in as best you can, then we draft to fill the holes. This leads to some big names being available in each draft because their owner didn't have a year drawn for them they could use. Complete rules are below.

This team has Babe Ruth, Johnny Bench, Lefty Gomez & Ryne Sandberg all for at least one more season. Plus your opportunity to add additional pieces.

Start Off Filling Random Years (SOFRY) Progressive:

24 Team League - 6/4 Format. All players and all seasons are available.

Initial Draft:
Each owner will receive a list of 25 years drawn randomly from 1885-today. A year may appear twice or more in that draw. Upon filling the league we will have a complete 25-round snake draft. You will draft players to fill the years that you've been given. For example, if you want to draft Albert Pujols, you'll need to have a year between 2001-2023 on your list and that's the year of his career that you will use. There are no clones so once a player is drafted he is off the board. When you draft a player, you don't have to assign a year at that time. So let's say you have 2008 and 2009 on your list. You draft Pujols. You don't have to decide until after the draft which year to use for him and which to use for another player. You are only limited by the years drawn for you and the 140M league salary cap. It may be best for you to assign them though, so you can stay under the cap as you keep drafting.

Keepers/Cuts:
After the trade deadline, you'll receive a new list of 25 years for the following season. You will fit your 25 players into those slots as best you can. If you have a player for whom you didn't draw a year, you'll have to cut that player. You must keep all players that can fit onto your roster. Using the Pujols example, let's say you have 2021 on your list (his worst year) and that's the only year you drew of his career. You'll have to carry that season and keep him *unless* you have someone else you can roster for 2021 which leaves no spot for Pujols. You can't cut any players who can be slotted into unused years on your list. Any years you weren't able to fill with the players you have, you can fill in the draft. Keepers are due by season's end so the draft may begin promptly. When turning in your keepers you must assign players to seasons unlike the initial draft. Everyone posting their keepers within 72 hours of being prompted to do so will be entered into a drawing in which the winning owner gets to reset the 40M clock of one of their players.

Subsequent Drafts:
The draft order in each round of the draft will be random. So you could draft 5th in the first round, 17th in the second round and so on. No need to tank as your record has no bearing on your draft position. A complete list of all the teams' keepers will be made available and updated as the draft progresses. So you'll know who you can't draft and everyone else is fair game.

Free Agents:
Some players have very long careers and therefore would almost never fail to have a year of their career drawn. In order to stimulate player movement there will be an individual multi-season player cap of 40M. So, let's say you use 2005 Pujols in Season 1. That's 8.021M (cut off at one decimal, 8.0M.) The second season, you use 2009 (9.5M.) You have now used 17.5M total. Third season, you use 2001 (7.3 brings you to 24.8.) Once that total reaches or exceeds 40M, you will automatically lose him as a free agent after the season that pushes him to the limit and he will be available in the draft. When a player is cut and drafted as a free agent, his 40M clock resets even if he's drafted by his previous team.

Trades:
Trades will only be allowed in-season before the standard 120-game deadline. There will be no offseason trading of players you can't fit in. Those players will be cut and placed in the draft pool. Trades do not have to fit your list of years as each owner has a different list and finding an owner to trade a 1939 player to for a 1939 player in return would be nearly impossible. You can trade a 1985 player for a 1939 and so on. Draft picks may be traded up to two seasons in advance. Trades will not reset a player's 40M individual cap. You must remain under 140M both before and after a trade however, so "cash" can not be included in trades. (Edit for Season 3: It has been voted that trades must be even in terms of players and picks. The same number of players and the same number of picks must go in each direction.)

AAA:
Each team will have two well below average fictitious players for trade balancing only.

IL/DL:
There is no injured list.

140M salary cap/40M player cap
No clones
No DH
Injuries off
Any ballpark is fine
Random alignment each season

These players have their years assigned to them and include the amount used so far (not counting the season about to start:)

1956	Al Smith	1953-1964	16.2
1926	Babe Ruth	1914-1935	35.4
1981	Bill Madlock	1973-1987	36.5
2016	Brandon Phillips	2002-2018	13.6
1922	Cy Williams	1912-1930	31.1
1969	Dean Chance	1961-1971	32.2
1959	Don Mossi	1954-1965	5.8
1903	Ed Siever	1901-1908	11.7
1909	Heinie Zimmerman	1907-1919	0.5
1972	Johnny Bench	1967-1983	35
2010	Jose Reyes	2003-2018	9.4
2023	Justin Turner	2009-2025	16.4
1939	Lefty Gomez	1930-1943	33.5
1997	Mo Vaughn	1991-2003	6.2
1987	Ryne Sandberg	1981-1997	33.6
2024	Tyler Rogers	2019-2025	1.7

These players were just drafted for the seasons listed next to them. You could cut these players and replace them with a player from the same season if a better option is available:

1981 Dwight Evans
1887 Mickey Welch
1973 Bert Blyleven
1973 John Hiller
1979 Danny Darwin

The open seasons are 1932, 1948 (twice) and 1952. You can jump in now and complete this team's draft, or I will do so in the coming days. If you have any questions let me know. This league is pretty much ready to go and will start as soon as you're ready. It's a very unique and challenging concept with a great group of owners.

I will take this team if you don't mind finishing the draft for me.

Great, sitemail sent. If anyone would like to be on the league waitlist please let me know.

We've had an owner go missing during the draft. The draft is complete, other than this team. You can finish the draft as soon as you jump in.

Offseason keepers:

1962	Bob Gibson
2025	Chad Green
2014	Chase Utley
1905	Chick Stahl
1921	Earl Smith (c)
1979	George Brett
1904	Joe McGinnity
1927	Johnny Miljus
1991	Kevin Seitzer
1910	Larry McLean
1974	Lindy McDaniel
1946	Lou Boudreau
1911	Red Dooin
1971	Roberto Clemente
2000	Shawon Dunston

Players drafted thus far:

1923 Al Simmons
1978 Johnny Bench

Years still to fill: 1889, 1892, 1920, 1923 (a second player),, 1978 (a second player), 2011, 2015, 2022.

If you'd like a new challenge, jump in! This league is almost ready to go so once this team is complete we'll be off.