The 1918 Diamond Legends (Career) Progressive League needs one replacement owner-see the post below for statistics on the 1918 hitters and pitchers.

I have been informed that one of our owners in the 1917 league will not return for the 1918 season. He has been an excellent owner.



In the Diamond Legends (or Career) WIS leagues, players use their average career statistics. In this specific league, that will mean using their average career statistics in a progressive from their first year of eligibility starting in 1901 (currently 1918) through their last year of WIS eligibility.
General Managers must be able to deal with a salary cap of $80 million. Owners must use the actual ballpark used by their franchise in 1918.

Annual drafts will be in inverse order of finish except that for the first round only there will be a random weighted lottery among the 4 teams with the worst record (4 chances for the team with the worst record, 3 chance for 2nd worst etc.). The tiebreaker will be run differential (runs scored less runs allowed) with the team with the worst run differential drafting higher.

Add/Drop Round
Starting at 11:00 AM EDT on the day following the conclusion of the annual draft, there will be an add/drop round on a first come, first served basis. During the add/drop round, a player dropped by one owner may be added by another owner if desired.

Players drafted during the current year's annual draft MAY NOT be dropped during the add/drop round. This includes a player drafted and subsequently traded.

Please indicate interest below. Please be sure you are comfortable with and understand the salary cap rules, and also since this is a progressive I request that you not join unless you expect to be able to participate for at least 5 seasons.

Interested owners will be given immediate access to the league's private forum, although I think all the information you may need is posted above or below.

When you decide to take a team, please so indicate and select a team from the list in the opening post.

The team available is the Brooklyn BallBreakers (the name can be changed). The team currently has a record od 71-74 with 17 games left in the 1917 season.

Brooklyn had only 1 player retire after the 1917 season, P Frank Allen.

Following are the batting statistics for Brooklyn's 15 hitters:

FIRST	LAST			Years	Last		Annual									Total	Other
NAME	NAME			Left	Year	Bats	Salary	PA	HR	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	SPD	FLDG	Salary	Positions
Les	Nunamaker	C		4	1921	R	$1,256,102	186	0	0.265	0.333	0.337	0.670	45	C-/B/A-	$5,024,408
Val	Picinich	C		16	1933	R	$1,543,164	280	2	0.258	0.335	0.357	0.692	44	C-/C-/B	$24,690,624
Walter	Schmidt	C		8	1925	R	$1,322,117	245	0	0.254	0.298	0.299	0.597	52	C/C/A+	$10,576,936
Charlie	Grimm	1B		19	1936	R	$3,550,465	657	6	0.291	0.341	0.399	0.740	56	B/B	$67,458,835
Lute	Boone	2B		1	1918	R	$532,631	116	1	0.206	0.277	0.265	0.542	76	C/A	$532,631	3B, SS
Rollie	ZeIder	2B		1	1918	R	$1,606,294	392	1	0.238	0.312	0.287	0.599	73	D/C-	$1,606,294	1B,3B,SS
Frank	Baker	3B		5	1922	L	$5,410,751	686	10	0.307	0.363	0.443	0.806	64	C/A	$27,053,755
Bill	McKechnie	3B		3	1920	S	$1,617,874	322	1	0.250	0.299	0.313	0.612	67	B-/B-	$4,853,622	1B, 2B
Ivy	Olson	SS		6	1923	R	$2,981,474	688	1	0.258	0.295	0.317	0.612	68	D+/C+	$17,888,844	1B,2B,3B
Buck	Weaver	SS		3	1920	S	$3,183,596	603	2	0.272	0.307	0.354	0.661	71	D+/B+	$9,550,788	3B
Carson	Bigbee	OF		9	1926	L	$3,092,137	512	2	0.287	0.344	0.367	0.711	83	C/B	$27,829,233	2B
Ty	Cobb	OF		11	1928	L	$8,193,099	698	6	0.367	0.434	0.513	0.947	85	C-/B	$90,124,089
Walton	Cruise	OF		6	1923	L	$1,637,317	257	3	0.280	0.349	0.391	0.740	71	C/C	$9,823,902
Merlin	Kopp	OF		2	1919	S	$449,548	79	0	0.224	0.325	0.269	0.594	80	C/B	$899,096
Jack	Tobin	OF		10	1927	L	$4,356,372	696	7	0.309	0.365	0.422	0.787	71	D+/D+	$43,563,720

And following are the pitching statistics for Brooklyn's 9 pitchers for the 1918 season :

FIRST	LAST				Last		Annual										Total
NAME	NAME			Years	Year	Throws	Salary	G	GS	IP	W	L	SV	ERA	WHIP	OAV	Salary
Hooks	Dauss	P		9	1926	R	$5,734,327	41	30	260	17	14	3	3.3	1.32	0.266	$51,608,943
Burleigh	Grimes	P		17	1934	R	$4,899,429	32	26	222	14	11	1	3.49	1.36	0.274	$83,290,293
Rankin	Johnson	P		1	1918	R	$653,381	5	4	36	2	2	0	3.04	1.24	0.250	$653,381
Herb	Pennock	P		17	1934	L	$3,787,689	29	20	173	12	8	2	3.56	1.34	0.28	$64,390,713
Jack	Quinn	P		15	1932	R	$4,051,480	34	21	183	12	10	3	3.30	1.30	0.280	$60,772,200
Dick	Rudolph	P		6	1923	R	$7,077,307	36	32	276	17	14	1	2.58	1.14	0.256	$42,463,842
Ernie	Shore	P		3	1920	R	$3,114,467	21	16	132	9	6	1	2.47	1.19	0.245	$9,343,401
Dazzy	Vance	P		18	1935	R	$5,910,667	30	24	208	14	10	1	3.21	1.22	0.250	$106,392,006
Earl	Yingling	P		1	1918	L	$1,079,849	9	6	60	3	4	0	3.16	1.31	0.279	$1,079,849

The team has a good pitching staff, led by Dick Rudolph and Dazzy Vance. The hitters are led by Ty Cobb, who still has 11 seasons left in his career.

Here is a chance to join a unique, competitive and challenging league-not your average progressive league and definitely oriented to experienced, capable managers !!

Brooklyn will be drafting somewhere between 2nd and 10th-there are 9 teams with 71-79 wins with 14 games left. Brooklyn has 73 wins.

This is a 12 team league, only 1 team has more than 83 wins (94 currently) and only 1 team has more than 80 losses (94 currently).

As mentioned above, the salary cap has led to an EXTREMELY well balanced and competitive league-no team has been able to achieve a long term dynasty.

The Brooklyn team has been taken.