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 dispersion 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 random lottery to determine a draft order for team selection. Each owner will select one team from the 2017 season (8 AL and 8 NL teams must be selected).

Once the 16 teams are selected, there will be a 5-round player dispersion draft, where the draft order for each round is based on inverse regular season record. A total of 80 players will be chosen. 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
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 occurance of a player in the league, so for players with multiple teams, only the full-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, 2017 Justin Verlander is on the Houston Astros, not the Detroit Tigers.

1) steve9955
2) specsman
3) combalt
4) kentol
5) Jesters
6) parking31
7) fabulous
8) verynice
9) arvidjosef
10) redwingscup
11) ybjsports
12) summerfield
13) pick1or2
14) Byrdmann
15) ledfoot
16) The Taint

Sitemail list: steve9955; specsman; combalt; kentol; Jesters; parking31; fabulous; verynice; arvidjosef; redwingscup; ybjsports; summerfield; pick1or2; Byrdmann; ledfoot; The Taint;

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Teams from 2017 - Draft Order

1) San Francisco Giants (64-98) NL
2) Detroit Tigers (64-98) AL
3) Philadelphia Phillies (66-96) NL
4) Chicago White Sox (67-95) AL
5) Cincinnati Reds (68-94) NL
6) New York Mets (70-92) NL
7) San Diego Padres (71-91) NL
8) Atlanta Braves (72-90) NL
9) Pittsburgh Pirates (75-87) NL
10) Oakland A's (75-87) AL
11) Baltimore Orioles (75-87) AL
12) Toronto Blue Jays (76-86) AL
13) Miami Marlins (77-85) NL
14) Texas Rangers (78-84) AL
15) Seattle Mariners (78-84) AL
16) Tampa Bay Rays (80-82) AL
17) Los Angeles Angels (80-82) AL
18) Kansas City Royals (80-82) AL
19) St. Louis Cardinals (83-79) NL
20) Minnesota Twins (85-77) AL
21) Milwaukee Brewers (86-76) NL
22) Colorado Rockies (87-75) NL
23) New York Yankees (91-71) AL
24) Chicago Cubs (92-70) NL
25) Boston Red Sox (93-69) AL
26) Arizona Diamondbacks (93-69) NL
27) Washington Nationals (97-65) NL
28) Houston Astros (101-61) AL
29) Cleveland Indians (102-60) AL
30) Los Angeles Dodgers (104-58) NL

Random Sequence Generator

Here is your sequence:

8 2 13 9 10 1 5 4 6 11 16 12 14 3 15 7

Timestamp: 2017-11-30 07:38:52 UTC

So, here is the draft order for CHOOSING YOUR TEAM -- remember -- 8 AL an 8 NL teams

1) verynice - Cleveland Indians - AL1
2) specsman - Houston Astros - AL2
3) pick1or2 - New York Yankees - AL 3
4) arvidjosef - Texas Rangers - AL 4
5) redwinscup - Washington Nationals - NL1
6) steve9955 - Boston Red Sox - AL 5
7) Jesters - Los Angeles Dodgers - NL 2
8) kentol - Arizona Diamondbacks - NL 3
9) parking31 - Chicago Cubs - NL 4
10) ybjsports - Miami Marlins - NL 5
11) The Taint - Tampa Bay Rays - AL 6
12) summerfield - Summerfield - NL 6
13) Byrdmann - Colorado Rockies - NL 7
14) combalt - Cincinnati Reds - NL 8
15) ledfoot - Los Angeles Angels - AL 7
16) fabulous - Seattle Mariners - AL 8

The draft for the 5 additional players will come in order of worst season record to best season record after we draft teams.

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count me in

What will the draft schedule be? X picks per day? or a so many hour window? Asking for timezone considerations before I sign up.

Posted by combalt on 11/10/2017 2:17:00 PM (view original):
What will the draft schedule be? X picks per day? or a so many hour window? Asking for timezone considerations before I sign up.

It is only 5 rounds, so in the past, I have left it up to people to pick when it is their turn. I will ask players to sitemail the next 2 after they pick and obviously will allow proxies.

It worked well for the years that I ran it in the past... I always found it to be a fun league!

Cool, I'm in.

I'll take a team - this will be interesting. Thanks...

Standard sequential MLB draft? Or that vile venomous snake?

Posted by gyrene on 11/11/2017 12:57:00 AM (view original):
Standard sequential MLB draft? Or that vile venomous snake?

Sequential. Same draft order each round, based on the team you pick after the random order is made.

Loved this league from my live days, count me in.

I'll take a team

Save me a spot

IN STEVE

I'd like to play... been hankering to get into a league featuring 2017 players. Thanks for setting this up.