Quote: Originally posted by jfranco77 on 6/19/2009not sure how relievers would be handled... maybe just all your SPs and your starting 8

Relievers and benchies could be required to be at least A-/A-, or be A+ fielding.

Manager's Dilemma

high cap, say 120 or 140mil... but you have to draft at least 12 hitters with 600pa and they all have to be within 5 points of each other in OPS+ ... or something like that. how do you decide who to play when there's always someone just as good sitting on the bench?

same thing with the pitchers... draft 6 starters with 200+ IP and also draft a deep bullpen (maybe require 4 guys over 100 IP or 400 total IP with a minimum of 60-70 per guy)... how do you decide who starts?

the cap would have to be moderately high since there's a lot of wasted money.

Quote: Originally Posted By truemen on 5/07/2009

Quote: Originally Posted By doubletruck on 5/06/2009
How about a Plane Crash league?

Everyone drafts a $120 million roster, then when your team reaches 70 wins, the team plane crashes and you have to jettison 8 position players and 5 pitchers because they were killed or maimed. They cannot be used again and must be waived and replaced with players from the waiver wire within 24 hours. [The rules could require that the list of the crash victims must include the team leader in HR and in pitching wins.]

As you approach 70 wins, there is no strategy that can save you from the catastrophe, because if you start throwing games, you just lose while (probably) only delaying the inevitable.

Some teams would likely be bad enough to never suffer the plane crash; on the other hand, as others crashed, their teams might start faring better and they might start catching up...

P.S.--Please note the time I posted this. Do I win the award for losing sleep while thinking about theme ideas?

I like this ide

Something like this has been done before, just not that many "deaths".

If I remember right, the other teams in your division each got to "kill" one of your players during the season, with one kill every X games. I remmeber following the forum chat for that league, laughing at the unique "deaths" created for each player.

I've also had random ideas bouncing around:

Super Baseball Simulator 1.000

Based on the classic SNES game, your team's stats must add up to a certain number. For example, the players' AVG must add up to .250 X fielders drafted. So a team with 14 fielders needs an AVG of 3.500, divided however you wish. Repeat for whatever stats catch your fancy in both hitting and pitching... see how tricky you can make drafting the last 2-3 players...

NOTE: You don't have to worry about pitchers' hitting stats for this format.

The Godfather

Draft your team, no limits (cap can be whatever). Another owner will be randomly chosen for you to make one "offer he can't refuse." While you're robbing another team, a third owner can do the same to you. Can you make a team that can only improve no matter what the deals are?

About time for a Michael Jackson (name Michael or named Jackson or child molester) or Farrah Fawcett (Angels) or Ed McMahon (2nd banana on teams) tribute league.

the same old celebrity song....and its 1 2 3 strikes your out....

here's another one...

I Think I'm a Clone Now

No clones allowed... but all your players have to have the same name (Earl Smith and Earl Smith, Brian Giles and Brian Giles, Bernie Williams and Bernie Williams, etc). If there aren't enough of those guys to go around, maybe something where the last name is the same and the first initial is the same (Jack/Josh Wilson, John/Julio Franco, Dennis/Dave Martinez)

Shameless plug from the creator of this thread:

Please check this league out. Test your GM skills by being assigned a random single-season team, and then having to fix the problems on said team with trades and the Waiver Wire. Your team will check in at 60-80M -- the salary cap is 90M, so you'll have room to make WW adds right away to fix the most glaring holes.

Like to see a Caribbean Series theme. with players born in those countries in a league. I would think there would be over a 1000 players in the wis database.

Has anyone tried a western states vs eastern states theme league.

I'd be up for a Birds vs Guns league.

Pick your own NRA players?

In the recently started Champs League, I researched and ALMOST every owner is running with deadball pitchers. How about a Theme League of no pitchers before 1960. $80 mil cap no other restrictions.

I have never started a Theme League (played in alot of them). Would there be any interest in this kind of league? I am sure there is a learning curve in running a league I would have to go through.

I don't know why lesliechow bumped all these threads, but here's a couple of themes I'd like to join (don't have the time/energy to start them myself).

1. An OL-rules theme using only 21st century players

2. An OL-rules theme where every owner has to play in Coors (or some other extreme offense park -- you don't often see those parks used in OLs for strategic reasons, but if we all had to use them it would be fun)

3. Maybe even combine 1 and 2?

I thought I posted this one but I guess not. I'd like to try a name game draft

The draft would be this> every round, you pick a last name. That gives you the right to pick any player with that last name.

So maybe Ruth is still 1, but where do you take Williams? Young? Jackson? Martinez? Simmons?

Ideally it would only be a draft of 18-20 rounds so that you'd have to take at least a couple of common names.

I'm not sure if you'd need a cap or not. Maybe no cap but just lower the # of rounds. Only then I wonder how many names are common enough.

I'd like to see guys like Reggie Jackson, Michael Young, Ted Simmons, and guys like that starting.

Been kicking around this one for a while:

A theme where owners draft 5 single-season real life teams from which to make up their rosters.  It would be a 5 round draft: snake-style for the first 4 rounds, then in the final round the order determined by each owner's 4 teams' combined winning % (i.e., owner with the 4 "worst" teams drafts first in the 5th round, owner with the 4 "best" teams drafts last).

Single-season teams would be exclusive -- e.g., once someone took the 27 Yankees they'd be off the board.  But any owner (even the same one who took the 27 Yankees) could then draft the 26, 28, etc. Yankees if he wanted.  No limit on how many teams you draft from the same franchise.

Once you had your 5 teams, you would draft your roster using exactly 5 players from each of those teams.

Yes to DH (why not, everyone should have have an excess of innings/PA), no salary cap, no WW, no trades, no AAA.

Any feedback/suggestions?  Has something like this been done before, and if so, how did it play out?