Horsepicker has submitted a roster with the actual Team USA WBC roster for this season. It technically spans more than 3 seasons, but it fits into the $130M cap, so I am willing to allow it as long as it is okay with everyone. I think it'd be cool to see how the actual Team USA roster would do in a full season simulation

Also, we are now full, but it still seems like we have some interest. I know winnerpeg wants another team, so does everyone want to try to find 3 more spots and make it a standard 24 team league?

I'll get a 2nd team only if:
1 - no one quits
2 - we get at least 1 more joining
3 - I get the 4th/last Dominican one

Posted by giannivanaco on 3/8/2026 2:30:00 PM (view original):
Horsepicker has submitted a roster with the actual Team USA WBC roster for this season. It technically spans more than 3 seasons, but it fits into the $130M cap, so I am willing to allow it as long as it is okay with everyone. I think it'd be cool to see how the actual Team USA roster would do in a full season simulation

Yeah, I'm curious to see how that team will perform.

Posted by giannivanaco on 3/8/2026 2:30:00 PM (view original):
Horsepicker has submitted a roster with the actual Team USA WBC roster for this season. It technically spans more than 3 seasons, but it fits into the $130M cap, so I am willing to allow it as long as it is okay with everyone. I think it'd be cool to see how the actual Team USA roster would do in a full season simulation

Other than almost all the players being of the same 3 seasons, how many players of other how many seasons?
And what are the salaries for each of those exceptions?

Yes 24 teams would be great!

If we get 24 teams, then the 6 USA teams should all be in different divisions.

Nah, the 6 USA teams should all be in the same division to knock each other out! [SARCASM]

I'll submit a request to move to 24 teams. winnerpeg is taking one of those extra 4 with his DR team, so we will have three openings.

Posted by donaldjtrump on 3/8/2026 7:05:00 PM (view original):
If we get 24 teams, then the 6 USA teams should all be in different divisions.

Sounds like a good plan. My other thought was putting 4 US teams in one division in one league, and the 4 DR teams in another division in the separate league. This way there aren't just DR and US teams in the playoffs. Either way, if/when we go to 24 I'll start tinkering with the divisions

Posted by giannivanaco on 3/8/2026 9:06:00 PM (view original):
I'll submit a request to move to 24 teams. winnerpeg is taking one of those extra 4 with his DR team, so we will have three openings.

I moved my DR team out because:

I'll give it to the end of the day today to get 3 other commitments. If not, we'll start tomorrow with 20 teams

Posted by donaldjtrump on 3/8/2026 7:05:00 PM (view original):
If we get 24 teams, then the 6 USA teams should all be in different divisions.

I support this suggestion, if we do get to 24.

2 more American teams would still result in 4 divisions, so we'd simply go from 5 teams per division to 6 teams per division.

If liimited to 20 teams, I'd be fine with:
Suggestion?

NLA:
Dominicans ????
Venezuelans ????
Cubans ????
Mexicans ????
Canadians ????
NLB:
Israelis ????
Japanese ????
Caribbeans ????
Puerto Ricans ????
South Americans ????
ALA:
USA ????
USA ????
USA ????
Dominicans ????
Dominicans ????
ALB:
USA ????
USA ????
USA ????
Venezuelans ????
Venezuelans ????

If it's 24 teams, wouldn't it make more sense to have 6 divisions and 2 wild cards? This way, the Division Series would be like the WBC quarterfinals.

If it's 20 teams, please disregard.