$65M, Big City, Small Payroll
The three biggest cities in the U.S. (based on metropolitan population) are New York, Los Angeles & Chicago. You must draft your entire roster with players who play for Chicago, Los Angeles, Anaheim, New York & Brooklyn. You must spend at least $20 million on players from Chicago teams, $20 million on players from Los Angeles/Anaheim* teams and $20 million on players from New York/Brooklyn teams. You must use a ballpark associated with a team that played in one of those cities as well. (*California Angels are included in the LA/Anaheim category)
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Other Specifics
Seasons: 1901-2016
DH: No
WW: No
AAA: No
Trades: No
Clones: No
Injuries: Turned On
Live: Not allowed
Multi-team players: Use partial or combined
Ballpark: Must use park that a CHI, NY, BRK, LA, ANA, CAL team played in
300K Exception: N/A
Team Name: Anything
Division Alignment: Random
$80M, Noodle Arms & Gopher Balls
Two rules. 1. No offensive player on your roster with catcher eligibility (primary or secondary positions) can have a throwing arm rating better than D-. 2. Every pitcher on your roster must have HR/9 >= 0.75. Do you draft speed or power?
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Other Specifics
Seasons: All
DH: No
WW: No
AAA: No
Trades: No
Clones: No
Injuries: Turned On
Live: Not allowed
Multi-team players: No restrictions (i.e., you can use partial or combined)
Ballpark: Any
300K Exception: N/A
Team Name: Anything
Division Alignment: Random
$100M, Four Letter Words
You will select 4 letters of the alphabet. All players on your roster must have first and last names (official name based on sim search) that start with letters that you drafted. So if you select C, G, M, R, you can roster Greg Maddux, Christy Matthewson, Cupid Childs, Red Rolfe, but not George Herman (Babe) Ruth (since Babe is what comes up in the search). You will have 16 combinations of initials to use. All 25 of your players must meet this criteria (i.e., no 300K exception).
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Other Specifics
Seasons: All
DH: No
WW: No
AAA: No
Trades: No
Clones: No
Injuries: Turned On
Live: Not allowed
Multi-team players: No restrictions (i.e., you can use partial or combined)
Ballpark: Any ballpark
300K Exception: None
Team Name: Use the 4 letters in some kind of acronym.
Division Alignment: Random
$110M, Equally Distributed
Your 25 players must come from different seasons and those seasons must be equally distributed, with N = 2, 3, 4 or 5. For example, you can select your players such that you have one player from every other year (i.e., 1901, 1903, 1905, 1907, … 1947, 1949. Or you could have a player from every third year (i.e., 1943. 1946, 1949, … 2012, 2015). Every fourth year could look this (1885, 1889, 1893, … 1977, 1981). All seasons are eligible as long as you are equally distributed for all 25 players.
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Other Specifics
Seasons: Any
DH: No
WW: No
AAA: No
Trades: No
Clones: No
Injuries: Turned On
Live: Not allowed
Multi-team players: Use partial or combined
Ballpark: Must use park that was in use during one of the seasons you selected.
300K Exception: N/A
Team Name: Include the range of years
Division Alignment: Random
$120M, 12x12 Draft
Owners will be split randomly into two groups of 12. Each of the 24 owners will select one player who played 12-15 seasons (multi-team seasons count each team as a separate season). This player selection order within each group will be determined randomly.
These 24 players will be unique so once a player has been selected, nobody else can select that same player, even if you are in a different group. However, you are allowed to change your pick, up to 24 hours after the last pick was made. (6 hitters and 6 pitchers will be selected within each group). Each person will site-mail me which season of your player you intend on using. Then, there will be an 11-round draft (for each group) where each person within the group will draft each of the other 11 players, selecting an un-drafted season for that player (in other words, a player with exactly 12 seasons will see each season get selected once). So including your nominated player, you will have 12 players on your roster. The other 13 players must be teammates of these 12 players, and you must have at least one teammate per player (which means one player gets to pull two teammates). Nominated players are NOT allowed to be teammates, regardless of drafting group. The draft order in each round is based on the lowest cumulative salary, so you have to weigh taking the best/expensive player available vs. how early in the round do you want to draft. When you draft a multi-team player, please specify which team/version of the player (i.e., 1984 Sutcliffe, Cubs partial. In this case, the Cubs full-version is also off the board, but the Indians full or partial is still available).
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Other Specifics
Seasons: All
DH: No
WW: No
AAA: No
Trades: No
Clones: No
Injuries: Turned On
Live: Not allowed
Multi-team players: No restrictions (i.e., you can use partial or combined)
Ballpark: Any
300K Exception: N/A
Team Name: Include your nominated player in your team name
Division Alignment: Random
$160M, Decreasing Salary Draft
Team rosters will be populated via a 25-round draft (order determined randomly). Players from 1901-2016 are available, although once a player is selected, all versions of that player are off the board. When you make your pick, you must announce which season/version of that player (and post his salary). Each successive player that you take must have a salary smaller than the salary of the player you just selected. Division alignment is based on draft order. A separate ballparks draft will commence after the player draft. The ballpark draft order will be based on lowest team salary. Each team will have a unique ballpark (parks with different names but the same dimensions are considered the same park).
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Other Specifics
Seasons: 1901-2016
DH: No
WW: No
AAA: No
Trades: No
Clones: No
Injuries: Turned On
Live: Not allowed
Multi-team players: You can use partial or combined
Ballpark: You will draft your ballpark, after the player draft.
300K Exception: N/A
Team Name: Anything.
Division Alignment: Based on draft order
10/2/2016 1:38 PM (edited)