1. When you sign up, select your franchise, choose two players to protect and three players to steal from the team selected prior to yours.
2. When making your selection you cannot select the same franchise as the one prior to yours and you must declare your protected players and free agent steals immediately. In fairness to all, those 5 named players need to occur upon franchise announcement and CANNOT be changed once the next team has been announced.
3. The first team in the league will select from the last team selected. The last team selected cannot be the same as the first team.
4. Each owner will then build their team using only player seasons with their selected franchise, no twisting, and the three selected free agents from their franchise, no twisting. You must roster your 2 protected players and the 3 free agents you selected. You cannot roster the 3 free agents you lost.

• $120M cap, standard 24-team format
• ALL Seasons Available
• YES: DH
• NO: WW, AAA, Trades, Clones, Injuries
• Live play limited to next series
• Stadium = Any, does not have to be your team's home park.
• Alignment = Order of sign-ups
• Franchise = all iterations of a team as per Baseball-Reference
• Limit 2 of each franchise
• An owner can have two teams in the league but must wait until after 12 have been selected to pick another

1. redwingscup - White Sox / Indians ($140M, All, Y)
2. ozomatli - Cubs / Phillies ($140M, All, Y)
3. Chisock - Astros / Twins ($110M, 1969-2015, N)
4. ozomatli - Yankees / Cardinals ** ($120M, 1930-1968, N)
5. ozomatli - Phillies / Cardinals *** ($140M, All, Y)
6. charliembg - Athletics / Yankees ($120M, 1935-1984, Y)
7. redwingscup - Giants / A's ** - ($120M, 1943-1992, Y)
8. ybjsports - Pirates / A's - ($120M, All, Y) MLB119593

1. 111 - ybjsports - Pirates / A's - Season 8
2. 104 - ozomatli - Cubs / Phillies - Season 2
3. 103 - ybjsports - Pirates / White Sox - Season 1

1. 1157 - schwarze - Giants / Cardinals - Season 8
2. 1155 - ozomatli - Phillies / Yankees - Season 8
3. 1149 - schwarze - Red Sox / Giants - Season 5

1. 587 - pmwksw - Athletics / Mariners - Season 3
2. 610 - ozomatli - Dodgers / Cardinals - Season 3
3. 611 - alston - Braves / Cubs - Season 3

TEAMS (Protected Players), ((Stolen Free Agents))

Off the board - Dodgers

NL East
1 Pirates - (Babe Adams, Honus Wagner), ((Nick Maddox, Zane Smith, Jesse Tannehill)) - ybjsports
2 Cubs - (Jake Arrieta, Mordecai Brown), ((Pete Alexander, Rogers Hornsby, Ed Reulbach)) - redwingscup
3 Indians - (Nap Lajoie, Tris Speaker), ((Bill Bernhard, Addie Joss, Andrew Miller)) - Jtpsops
4 Red Sox - (Pedro Martinez, Ted Williams), ((Wade Boggs, Roger Clemens, Dutch Leonard)) - strubros

NL Central
5 Dodgers - (Zack Greinke, Clayton Kershaw), ((Babe Herman, Jackie Robinson, Dazzy Vance)) - fatboydad54
6 A's - (Chief Bender, Rickey Henderson), ((Frank Baker, Dennis Eckersley, Jimmie Foxx)) - shysters3
7 Giants - (Tim Keefe, Christy Mathewson), ((Barry Bonds, Willie Mays, Willie McCovey)) - pmwksw
8 Dodgers - (Zack Greinke, Clayton Kershaw), ((Kevin Brown, Sandy Koufax, Don Sutton)) - cdhaynes00

NL West
9 Cardinals - (Rogers Hornsby, Stan Musial), ((Bob Gibson, Joe Torre, John Tudor)) - charliembg
10 Yankees - (Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth), ((Jack Chesbro, Russ Ford, Snuffy Stirnweiss)) - yanks250125
11 Phillies - (Billy Hamilton, Sam Thompson), ((Pete Alexander, Chuck Klein, Mike Schmidt)) - ozomatli
12 Mets - (Doc Gooden, Tom Seaver), ((Pedro Martinez, John Olerud, Jose Reyes)) - Tyler1151

TEAMS (Protected Players), ((Stolen Free Agents))

Off the board - Pirates, Cubs, Indians, Dodgers, Cardinals, Giants, Phillies, White Sox, Yankees, Red Sox

AL East
1 Cardinals - (Bob Gibson, Stan Musial), ((Rogers Hornsby, Johnny Mize, Ted Simmons)) - alston
2 Giants - (Carl Hubbell, Juan Marichal), ((Barry Bonds, Tim Keefe, Christy Mathewson)) - schwarze
3 Red Sox - (Wade Boggs, Pedro Martinez), ((Carlton Fisk, Derek Lowe, Tris Speaker)) - elduro25
4 White Sox - (Ed Walsh, Doc White), ((Cisco Carlos, Ed Cicotte, Frank Smith)) - ejstockman

AL Central
5 Phillies - (Billy Hamilton, Sam Thompson), ((Richie Ashburn, Ed Delahanty, George McQuillan)) - ozomatli
6 White Sox - (Eddie Collins, Ed Walsh), ((Ed Cicotte, Joe Jackson, Frank Smith)) - Jtpsops
7 Yankees - (Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth), ((Ron Guidry, Mickey Mantle, Mariano Rivera)) - dcmatcheck
8 Cubs - (Jake Arrieta, Mordecai Brown), ((Pete Alexander, Stan Hack, Greg Maddux)) - cleonjones

AL West
9 Reds - (Joe Morgan, Pete Rose), ((Hal Chase, Noodles Hahn, Frank Robinson)) - farleyfustle
10 Twins - (Walter Johnson, Joe Mauer), ((Rod Carew, Dean Chance, Ed Delahanty)) - charliembg
11 Indians - (Joe Jackson, Tris Speaker), ((Bill Bernhard, Nap Lajoie, Luis Tiant)) - Chisock
12 A's - (Frank Baker, Vida Blue), ((Chief Bender, Bill Bernhard, Eddie Collins)) - alston

Posted by Jtpsops on 8/1/2017 3:10:00 PM (view original):
Do these leagues often hit a snag in team selection when a franchise is up that no one wants to steal from?

Posted by strubros on 8/1/2017 7:29:00 PM (view original):
RedSox for me...protect T.Williams and Pedro ....Steal Joss, Bernhard and A.Miller