Time to bring back one of my all time favorites... running it in a Sim (not live) setting. since live is dead
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.
Sign up in the Theme League Classified Forum.