An idea that had it's genesis here:
http://www.whatifsports.com/forums/Posts.aspx?TopicID=479707&TopicsTimeframe=180&TopicsPage=3
has been proposed to existing owners of Mantle, Cooperstown and Moonlight Graham, and we have a core of 19 that are willing to join a league struggling to fill and willing to accept the following private league rules;
Each team will be allowed to keep a maximum of 20 players on the 40 man roster.
Your 20 man roster would be achieved by;
DFA with waivers (minors or majors)
Release (either minors or arb eligible MLers)
Signed MLers not assigned to the 25 man
This set up is similar to many perpetual fantasy leagues where you are allowed only to protect a portion of your team year to year, and the remainder of the team is drafted
each season.
The Rule 5 draft, waiver wire and free agency thus becomes the method to fill out most or all of your remaining 40 man roster (since the DFAd players will have not had cleared waivers and thus be Rule 5 draft eligible)
There will be other specific rules and management tools
-sitemail and world chat reminder to DFA, not release players
-sitemail and world chat reminder to complete Rule 5 draft settings first (including increasing max salary per player from default $327k and max number drafted from default 0) before setting your Rule 5 draft pool order.
-penalties for non-compliance (DFA one extra player for each kept over 20, league expulsion for keeping 25 or more)
Rules around MWR, cash in trade, etc can be voted by league member majority, or possibly incorporation of existing private league rules into the Keeper league rule.
What is needed is the following
More external owners willing to join the core listed below
Existing league with enough owners willing to accept the private league rule above to fill the league successfully.
I figure a combination of 36 owners, combined existing league and core owners below, are required to move forward (to allow for attrition)
Any question, feel free to sitemail me.
Core owners;
deathinahole
indiansrck27
ratfink99
thegrklgnd
bkpeters
felix817
runrunn
njohnson78
tecwrg
wcrebel
Ramonshaw
jkenned
cp49 (November or later)
taz21
cougdawg
rockindock
xarsis
silentpadna
kenter16
10/26/2014 11:05 PM (edited)