The ReWrite History League that's about to enter the 1970 season is expanding from 12 to 16 teams. We need those four new expansion teams. The current open teams are the Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, California Angels, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Royals, Oakland Athletics, San Diego Padres, San Francisco Giants, & Washington Senators (Rangers). It's a few years early but if you think you can make it work with the Toronto Blue Jays you're welcome to do so, but your Rookie Drafts might be pretty barren for a few years before they come into existence.

The rules are as follows:
We are using the Alternate WIS format C (162 games, 12 teams, 6 NL, 6 AL) (This will be changing to Alternate WIS format B for 1970 - Two divisions of 4 teams in each league, no interleague play)
No Cap
No DH (We will be voting on allowing DH for the 1970 season, and all four new expansion teams will get to vote on this)
6/6 below average AAA
No injuries
Transaction Deadline Game 120

Draft order: Draft Order will be a straight worst to first records by season's end record. If it's obvious that a team is tanking on purpose (playing players out of position, starting exhausted pitchers when rested pitchers are available, etc. then the commissioner reserves the right to impose a draft position penalty on that team. This action will only take place in extreme situations and I will consult with other managers to discuss an appropriate penalty.

Draft format:
1) In the first 4 rounds of the drafts, players who played for more than one team may only be drafted by teams they played for at least one game in their career. This is to be decided by their franchises in baseball-reference.com regardless of their WiS seasons. So someone like P Lefty Gomez will be available to both the Yankees and Senators even though he only has WiS seasons for the Yankees (He played in one game for the Senators in 1943)

2) Exclusives (players who only played for one team their entire career (Walter Johnson, Lou Gehrig, etc.)) will be assigned to either the First or Second Round using the following method.
a) All players with an Average WiS Salary of at least $3.5million and at least 5 WiS Seasons OR an average WiS Salary of at least $3.0million and at least 10 WiS seasons will be Round 1 Exclusives.
b) Anyone who does not fall into either of those two categories will be a Round 2 Exclusive and then open to all teams starting in Round 3.

So, for example, Lou Gehrig is a Round 1 Exclusive. If the Yankees don't take him in the first round he is available to all teams starting with the first pick of the Second Round. If you have multiple rookies that are in the same round you need to have multiple picks in that round or risk losing the players to another team starting with the next round. You make pick a player before their voted round if you wanted to. (For example, if you have two players as Round 2 Exclusives, but only have one Second Round Pick, you can pick one player with your First Round Pick and the next with your Second Round Pick.)

3) Any exclusive with only 1 WiS season (no matter what his salary is that one season) or less than $5 million in total WIS salary will be a Round 2 Exclusive. After that they will be open to all teams.

4) Any player who only played for defunct teams (currently ATL, BAL, CAL, CHC, CHW, CLE, KCR, OAK, SDP, SFG, WSA) can be drafted by any team during any round.

5) Any player who was undrafted from previous seasons or cut before this draft is available to all teams during any round.

6) Franchises own the rights to their picks even if they are unneeded. You may trade those picks if you can find a taker, or if you make a mid draft trade and need a pick that is upcoming in a future round that you didn't need before, you will get that pick (you don't have to wait until the end of the draft to make up the pick)

7) Any supplemental picks that are awarded by the commissioner for draft mistakes made by the commissioner or any other reason are not tradable. You either have to use the pick or lose it. **This rule does not apply to thee Comp Pick that new owners get if their franchise does not have a First Round Pick because of trades made by previous owners. It only applies to supplemental picks that were awarded by the commissioner.

Other Rules
- Once drafted players can be traded to any team without restrictions.
- Traded picks are allowed to be dealt in the current draft + 2 seasons ahead. For example, if we're in the 1920 draft, only picks up to the 1922 draft will be allowed.
- In order to help recruiting of new owners to the league, if an open team does not have a First Round Pick in the upcoming draft due to a trade from a previous owner the new owner will receive a Comp Draft Pick at the end of the First Round in the Draft.

8) Draft Order Tiebreakers will be the lower expected win % gets the better pick

example:
Team A has 70 wins and .442 XWP
Team B has 70 wins and .469 XWP

Team A picks before Team B

In the rare event that two teams are tied in Expected Win Percentage as well (It happened in 1940) the team that had the better pick in the previous season will have the better pick in the upcoming draft.

For example, the Boston Bees and Brooklyn Dodgers ended the 1940 season with exactly the same record of 59-103 and they both ended with exactly 721 Runs Scored and 906 Runs against giving them exactly the same Expected Percentage. Since the Bees were 58-104 in 1939 and the Dodgers were 82-80 in 1939 the Bees had the better pick in the 1941 Rookie Draft.

Expansion Draft
The are four new teams and 12 existing teams. Each existing team will protect 14 players to start forming the initial expansion draft pool. The four new teams will be assigned a random draft order for the snake style draft.

Each existing team protects 14 players. There are then three rounds of drafting by the four new teams,, in which each existing team loses just one player.
Each existing team protects 1 more players. There are then three rounds of drafting by the four new teams, in which each existing team loses just one player.
Each existing team protects 1 more players. There are then three rounds of drafting by the four new teams, in which each existing team loses just one player.
Each existing team protects 1 more player. There are then three rounds of drafting by the four new teams, in which each existing team loses just one player.

At the end of the expansion draft each existing team will have lost four players and each expansion team will have drafted 12 players.

Once the Expansion Draft is completed all teams will update their Keeper/Cut list and the 1970 Rookie Draft will begin.

1970 Rookie Draft
The four new expansion teams will draft at the end of the First Round, and the Beginning of each other round. This draft order will be in reverse order of the expansion draft.