Round 1 Themes, 2026 Topic

In the 110 M theme, I presume we are using strictly Full or Partial seasons, correct? The one player I want that brought this to mind split the season but had the majority of his time on a different team.
5/7/2026 3:37 PM
That player is fine. Combined seasons are acceptable in all the themes including the 110m - as long as you use the version that matches the selected franchise.
5/7/2026 5:48 PM
I think I’m mostly done. I plan to rework my $70m a little bit, as I think I can make some improvements. It mostly came together with my first plan, but it’s a little offense heavy. I think this was the right overall idea, I just need to swap a few players around to balance better. I’ll update more on how this turned out in the team write ups.

$80m was the most interesting to strategize around. I built more teams with more variance for this theme than I have for any I can recall (at least 11 wholly distinct strategies with several more iterated off of some of those I felt stronger about).

$100m seemed to just click on the first option I looked at. I maybe could’ve done better, but I’m satisfied enough with this team, that I didn’t really feel the need to even build first pass rosters for my 2nd and 3rd options.

$110m was an absolute nightmare for me. This was the only one I really struggled with. I’ll dive more into it in my team building write up, but this one was tough. I also don’t like my team balance, or my options for parks. But, it took me so many tries to even get a compliant team that I am not going to even try to swap things around.

$125m was one of my favorites ever, though it was one of the easiest for me to draft and I spent the least amount of time on it than any WISC team in memory.

$140m, like the $100m, came together on my first pass and I didn’t really have to make any major adjustments. I might have been able to do better, but I feel good enough about this that I don’t feel the need to look deeper.
5/9/2026 7:50 PM
For the 140M theme, it states:
Park: Any stadium any of your players called home

Meaning one of your player's park in the season you are using him? Or in any season of their career?
5/11/2026 3:29 PM
Posted by hebdomad on 5/11/2026 3:29:00 PM (view original):
For the 140M theme, it states:
Park: Any stadium any of your players called home

Meaning one of your player's park in the season you are using him? Or in any season of their career?
The former - one of your player’s parks in the season you are using them.
5/11/2026 4:08 PM
I liked reading Just4me's re-cap, thought I'd chime in along those lines.

70M - I think J4M said there was one cap that caused him to spend what ultimately was the most time on any one roster before. This cap did the same to me. I started with a couple premises and thankfully was able to eliminate seven of the 16 teams rather quickly. I though trying to probe each franchise was silly but found that there were strong rosters that were possible for basically all nine of the remaining teams. After fine-tuning my requirements I was able to get down to two teams but then found myself constantly adjusting them. Having only $70M to spend was obviously a major limitation, but trying to fit all 25 of the five-year blocks became puzzling and time-consuming. But fun.

80M - I settled in on my strategy pretty quickly in this theme and built a team I really like in short order. In fact, I like this team so much I'm sure they're doomed to 90 Losses.

100M - I assumed I was going to have to sift through dozens of potential teams to decide which way to go. My first team was pretty solid. After trying a few more runs at it, turns out that I liked my first team after all, by far, and that other efforts fell apart kind of quickly so first team it is.

110M - For goodness sake. Every silly pitfall that can trip up the aspiring roster builder in a complicated got me in this one, sometimes more than once. Realizing at the last second that I had two teams from the same group, or two teams working in the same column. And then, of course, the matter of the $20M per team minimum proved trickier at times to navigate than I originally thought it would.

125M - This one was fun and I really like the team I came up with. Only now did I realize a flaw in my draft strategy and think I will give this one another shot.

140M - A to Z. Harder than it looks. Spent more time trying to identify the priority positions first and then working with the rest of the alphabet later.

5/11/2026 9:08 PM
Posted by ronthegenius on 5/11/2026 4:08:00 PM (view original):
Posted by hebdomad on 5/11/2026 3:29:00 PM (view original):
For the 140M theme, it states:
Park: Any stadium any of your players called home

Meaning one of your player's park in the season you are using him? Or in any season of their career?
The former - one of your player’s parks in the season you are using them.
I added clarification that's in the season you're using.
5/13/2026 12:53 AM
Question on the 100 mil league
I have tried so many times and now I think I have talked myself that I am doing this wrong, Will this work below
Home Team is 1972

73-Smith-1
72-Home
71- xxxx
70-Brown-2
69-Jones-3
68-Williams -4
67-Garrett-5
66-Red-6
65-Robinson-7
64-Gibson-8
5/13/2026 8:11 AM
Posted by happyhours on 5/13/2026 8:11:00 AM (view original):
Question on the 100 mil league
I have tried so many times and now I think I have talked myself that I am doing this wrong, Will this work below
Home Team is 1972

73-Smith-1
72-Home
71- xxxx
70-Brown-2
69-Jones-3
68-Williams -4
67-Garrett-5
66-Red-6
65-Robinson-7
64-Gibson-8
Yes, that would be a valid roster as long as everyone else other than your 8 twisted players are from your selected 1972 team or are less than 300k.
5/13/2026 9:00 AM
The 70m and 100m are the ones giving me the most trouble trying to find the best options.

The 80m team i entered in an open league and it's disastrous so I started over.

I hadded built a pretty good team for the 110m but then noticed the 20m per era so i had to make some adjustments but still happy with the team I have.

The 125m was ppretty easy and I think the pitching staff will be similar for everyone

As for the 140M I built it at the same time as the 80m version for round 2.
5/15/2026 11:05 AM
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