Basic Concept
Each season, using random.org, a basket of player-seasons will be generated. All the rookies from those seasons will be included in the draft pool. The players that get drafted will then progress through their careers until they are either dropped or retire. To keep things manageable, when we generate a basket of seasons, all seasons will end in the same digit. Hypothetically, if we start with season ending in "1", then the next basket of seasons will end in "2", then "3"....etc. That way, as players progress and new rookies are added, all player-seasons will end in the same digit. This will help make roster verification/compliance easier to manage.
Since initially it will be hard to gather enough PA/IP's....we'll start with 1885 since it is the biggest "rookie pool". I realize that in real life these players weren't all rookies, but for our purposes it doesn't matter. This allows all teams the ability to build a "base" of players at the beginning of the league. We'll randomly choose three more seasons that end in 5. After the season is over, we'll randomly choose four seasons that end in 6. Going forward, we'll always at four player-seasons at a time.
After we progress through ten seasons and thus arrive back to player-seasons ending in 5, we'll exclude the previously chosen seasons to avoid repeat players (as some of these players would still be in the league). It would probably take us around 7 calendar years to go through all the available seasons in the WIS database. If we get that far, then we can choose to begin recycling some of the previously used seasons as those players would have long since retired.
League Rules
- League Format - Preferably 16 teams but would go with 12 if that is what it takes to get going. We will have interleague play and a balanced schedule.
- Salary Cap - $255M
- Ballparks - Will be drafted in initial draft. All parks are available and will be exclusive. Ballparks can only be changed in the seasons ending in 5.
- Draft Method - Forums draft, draft order is determined at random and will be snake style. Exact format for future drafts TBD.
- League Alignment - Random alignment in seasons ending in 5 and then will remain the same for until reach another season ending in 5.
- Roster Rules: DH-yes, Injuries-yes, WW-no, Trades-yes (vetoes set to 50% of how many teams are in the league), transaction deadline-yes.
- AAA Settings: AAA will be allowed IF we vote by a 60% majority to allow it. If allowed, we'll use real life players who will then be placed in AAA to start the season. These players will be chosen from the leftovers from the player draft pool. Each team will be allowed up to 10 players.
*********Initial Player-Seasons: 1885, 1945, 1965, 1995***************
List Randomizer
There were 13 items in your list. Here they are in random order:
- 1945
- 1965
- 1995
- 1935
- 1975
- 1955
- 1925
- 2015
- 1985
- 1915
- 1905
- 1895
- 2005
A little bit about me.....I started playing WIS in 2002 under the name of neabaseball. I have been in and ran numerous progressive leagues. A few years ago, I pretty well gave WIS up due to time constraints, frustration in the lack of improvements to WIS, lack of home computer access (running drafts from your phone is impossible), and burnout. I changed my username due to lost access to my original email address. Anyway, I hope that at least 11 of you decide to join and 15 of you would be even better!
8/20/2020 10:51 AM (edited)