This draft should be a lot of fun and produce some interesting rosters. All teams will be pretty stacked, but each division will have different dynamics, some will be pitching-heavy and some will be hitting-heavy. Position scarcity will be the most interesting part. . . .you must decide which positions require an early pick and which positions have enough high-end talent to go around. If I had to guess, I would say most teams will end up around $125M in salary, give or take.

Here's how it will work. . . . after we reach 24 entries, each owner will be placed into divisions based on WIS winning %, see below for details. . . .then each group of 4 will be randomly assigned one of the six real life MLB divisions (AL West, East, Central or NL West, East, Central).

Each 4-owner division group will then conduct a snake-style draft of players from 2013-2017 who played in that division. Draft order will be randomly assigned for this player draft. Only one instance of a player is allowed per division. For example in the NL Central someone selects Anthony Rizzo, so now all versions of Rizzo are off the board in that divisional draft. You don't have to declare what version you are using at the time of the draft, you can wait and decide that while building your roster. If a player played in multiple divisions from 2013-2017 he would be eligible to be drafted in each of those divisional drafts (full or partial seasons only, unless a combined season is all in the same division).

Prior to the player draft, a quick 1 round draft will take place to select divisionally correct ballparks (so you will know your park before you select players). Order for this draft will be based on WIS winning percentage, lowest % drafts first. Note: SunTrust in Atlanta is not available for this theme.

Details:
NO Salary Cap
NO to Clones, WW, AAA, and Trades
YES to DH
YES to injuries
**NO Combined Seasons (Full or Partial only). . .** ONE exception: if a player's entire season was played for more than one team in the same division, you can then use that combined season)

Division alignment based on WIS winning % (all entries ranked 1-24, then divisions will be 1,7,13,19. . . .2,8,14,20. . . .etc)

You must roster at least 1 player from each of the 5 seasons (2013-2017)
You must roster at least 1 player from each of the five teams in your division.

Winning % will be determined after all entries are in right before assigning divisions and starting the drafts.

Drafts will be off the clock.

Let me know if you have any questions!!

Owners committed:
1-slainte, .539
2-Nebhusker, .538
3-firesalt, .536
4-simisox, .533
5-Matthew00, .525
6-redcped, .524
7-mpitt76, .523
8-mikemundt, .520
9-dilligafdbp, .517
10-patco_1981, .512.48
11-sjh0825, .512.46
12-shysters3, .507.3
13-parking31, .506.8
14-cholatse, .505
15-moses_k, .500
16-northof49, .498.46
17-pick1or2, .498.45
18-zephyr1949, .491
19-brian1648, .488
20-yatagon, .486
21-reddtrain, .480
22-scottharra, .470
23-ChitownBluz, .444
24-underwig, .409

Sitemail:
nebhusker;reddtrain;parking31;mpitt76;pick1or2;northof49;yatagon;mikemundt;moses_k;underwig;cholatse;simisox;Matthew00;shysters3;redcped;dilligafdbp;ChitownBluz;patco_1981;scottharra;zephyr1949;slainte;sjh0825;firesalt;brian1648

Available Ballparks:

--------AL East--------	-----AL Central-----	---------AL West---------
---- Fenway Park ----	---- Comerica Park ----	---- Minute Maid Park ----
---- Yankee Stadium (III) ----	---- Kauffman Stadium ----	---- Angel Stadium ----
---- Rogers Centre ----	---- Target Field ----	---- Ameriquest Field Arlington ----
---- Tropicana Field (II) ----	---- U.S. Cellular Field ----	---- Safeco Field ----
---- Oriole Park at Camden Yards ----	---- Jacobs Field ----	---- Network Associates Coliseum ----

-----NL East-----	------NL Central------	----NL West----
---- Turner Field ----	---- Wrigley Field ----	---- Chase Field ----
---- Marlins Park ----	---- Great American Ball Park ----	---- Coors Field ----
---- Citi Field ----	---- Miller Park ----	---- Dodger Stadium ----
---- Citizens Bank Park ----	---- PNC Park ----	---- Petco Park ----
---- Nationals Park ----	---- Busch Stadium (II) ----	---- AT&T Park ----

Sounds fun - count me in!

One question though: Why are there only 4 parks allowed per division? I'd think allowing any park that a team called home in those five years would be fairer.

Posted by reddtrain on 12/13/2017 11:26:00 AM (view original):
Sounds fun - count me in!

One question though: Why are there only 4 parks allowed per division? I'd think allowing any park that a team called home in those five years would be fairer.

Welcome reddtrain and great question! I went back and forth on this and what I probably could do is provide a list of eligible parks to be drafted for each division. . . . .what I don't want is for a park like SunTrust in Atlanta to be used as that was just used in 2017, clearly Turner Field is more realistic for this theme.

Now that I look more deeply into it, that appears to be the only exception, all other parks were used for the duration of 13-17 so I will amend rules so we can draft any of the 5 parks for each division, the only blacklisted park will be SunTrust.

great concept - we're in

I'm in

sure COUNT me in

Posted by parking31 on 12/14/2017 4:26:00 PM (view original):
great concept - we're in

Welcome!

Just re-reading the intro, and something is not clear to me:

Players are unique leaguewide? Or players are unique by division?

I'm in!

Posted by reddtrain on 12/17/2017 10:43:00 AM (view original):
Just re-reading the intro, and something is not clear to me:

Players are unique leaguewide? Or players are unique by division?

I like your attention to detail reddtrain. :) Another good question. The player uniqueness is by division. If a player played in multiple divisions during 2013-2017 he would be eligible to be drafted in each of those divisions (full or partial WIS seasons only). I will clarify this in the rules.

Glad you see it as "attention to detail", and not "being a major pain in the derriere"...

Posted by reddtrain on 12/17/2017 9:18:00 PM (view original):
Glad you see it as "attention to detail", and not "being a major pain in the derriere"...

Nope, I like getting all the details ironed out early!

OK I'm in