There are just too many damn teams in Major League Baseball. Let's go back to the days when there were only 8 teams in each league. In this theme, we'll keep just 16 of the current MLB teams (8 AL, 8 NL) and have a 5-round dispersal draft for the allocation of players from the other teams.

League Name: Contraction GM Challenge
Salary Cap: $90M

Description: Once 16 owners sign up, we will have a lottery to determine a draft order for team selection. Each owner will select one team from the 2016 season (8 AL and 8 NL teams must be selected).

Once the 16 teams are selected, there will be a 5-round player dispersal draft, where the draft order for each round is based on inverse regular-season record. A total of 80 players will be chosen. The draft is untimed but not unlimited time, so please do not abuse this! Only players from the 14 teams not selected are eligible to be taken. AL teams can take NL players and vice-versa. So your 25-man roster will consist of 20 players from your selected team and 5 players from the dispersal draft.


Other Details
DH: AL Only
CAP: 90 mil
WW: No
AAA: No
Trades: Only picks and/or drafted players before season
Clones: No
SLL: 40 min to make the playoffs
Ballpark: The ballpark that your team called home
Team Name: Use actual team name or obvious variation
Division Alignment: 4 x 4 (8 AL, 8 NL) Based on East/West as much as possible. Balanced schedule, interleague play.

Multi-team players: Only one occurrence of a player can happen in the league, so for players with multiple teams, only the combined-season "player card" will be eligible and the team that he played for last during the season will get ownership of that player. For example, 2016 Aroldis Chapman is on the Chicago Cubs, not the New York Yankees. Conversely, 2016 Adam Warren is on the Yankees, not the Cubs, so if the Cubs get chosen but the Yankees don't, then Warren is draft-eligible but Chapman isn't.

Sign up below:

1) donaldjtrump
2) verynice
3) steve9955
4) mikepot53565
5) cialdella12
6) cstrohmier

2016 STANDINGS

*Tiebreakers will be drawn by random.org once all the teams are selected; order will be flipped for every round. Coin flip will be called by the owner of the first of the two tied teams to be selected; in the case of 3 teams, the numbers 1, 2, and 3 will be assigned to the owners according to the order in which they picked their teams, and the order for the next round will have the first of the 3 teams from the previous round pick last of those 3 and the other 2 move up a spot.

You may draft players only from teams listed in big bold red!

Minnesota 59-103
Cincinnati 68-94
San Diego 68-94
Tampa Bay 68-94
Atlanta 68-93
Arizona 69-93
Oakland 69-93
Philadelphia 71-91
Milwaukee 73-89
Los Angeles Angels 74-88
Colorado 75-87
Chicago White Sox 78-84
Pittsburgh 78-83
Miami 79-82
Kansas City 81-81
Houston 84-78
New York Yankees 84-78
St. Louis 86-76
Seattle 86-76
Detroit 86-75
New York Mets 87-75
San Francisco 87-75
Baltimore 89-73
Toronto 89-73
Los Angeles Dodgers 91-71
Boston 93-69
Cleveland 94-67
Texas 95-67
Washington 95-67
Chicago Cubs 103-58

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Thank you all. Just 10 to go.

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Sorry, Steve. I tried.