We are getting ready for Cooperstown Historical Replay 1992. Looks like we will need 5 new owners. Sign up here or send me a sm.

League Rules

OK, if you’ve come this far, then hopefully you’re comfortable with the premise that if you join this league there will be seasons where your team is just going to suck, and there will not be much that you can do about it. Hey, someone’s going to end up managing the 1916 Athletics.
Here’s how we we’re going to do this:

1. The league will start with the 1901 MLB season and progress forward one season at a time. I do have a plan to incorporate the 19^th century at some point, but right now there are a few too many logistical challenges with that era.
2. In season 1, once we have 16 owners, we will have a draft of the 16 MLB teams from 1901. Randomized draft order usingwww.random.org.
3. For the 1901 season, we will use Alternate WIS Format B, which entails:
   1. 162 games
   2. 16 teams divided into 2 leagues and a total of 4 divisions
   3. 4 playoff teams (the 4 division winners; there is no wildcard in this format)
   4. No interleague play
   5. All teams must use their actual ballpark
   6. All teams should be entered with the exact name they used during the actual season, with no other information included in the name (such as year, your initials, etc)
4. This is different from the way MLB was organized in 1901, but it will allow us to have 4 postseason teams rather than 2…and will lead to some real drafting strategy as discussed below.
5. The 8 NL teams will be in NL, aligned geographically (4 easternmost teams in the NL East, etc.) The 8 AL teams will be in the AL, also aligned geographically.
6. Subsequent seasons will use different formats, to reflect the way baseball changed over the years. These are summarized in the next post, with additional notes to explain things like how we’re dealing with the Federal League in 1914-15.
7. Once you have chosen your team, you will go into the draft center and enter your actual players from that season. You can use the “load historical team” feature if you want…this is often the easiest and cleanest way to build your roster, but it’s not infallible. Occasionally players are missed when you load a team that way. If you prefer to draft your players individually, keep in mind that:
   1. For players who were traded or otherwise appeared for multiple teams in a single season, you MUST use the partial-season version of that player. If the player did not get enough PA or IP with your team to warrant a partial-season version then you cannot use him. NO COMBINED VERSIONS OF PLAYERS MAY BE USED.
   2. All players who played for your team in real life, and are in the WIS database, must be on your roster.
   3. Only players who played for your team in real life may be used in games. This is important, because many teams, especially from the early years, do not have 25 players in the database. In such cases, you will draft additional $200,000 players from the database (from any 19^th century season) to fill out your roster, but these players MUST:
      1. Be manually set to rest at all times
      2. Be manually removed from your player rest, defensive replacement, and PH hierarchies.
   4. In other words, these non-roster players may not be used in games, unless WIS slots them in because of some sort of emergency, and owners should take every possible step to ensure that doesn’t happen.
   5. It is quite likely that some teams will be short of PA or IP, perhaps even very short. So be it.
   6. EDIT: there are no $200K pitchers from the 19th century. You can roster any $200K pitcher from the database, under the same rules as above.
8. For seasons in which any of the teams in the league had more than 25 eligible players, we will use “draft your own” AAA with the following parameters
   1. Each season, the theme rules will be set for a number of AAA players sufficient to allow the team with the largest real-life roster enough slots to incorporate all of their players.
   2. Teams that have more than 25 players in the WIS database will draft these additional players into AAA slots. These players MAY be used in games, and the transaction deadline will be set as late as possible to allow for roster moves throughout the season.
   3. Teams with unfilled AAA slots can either draft your own $200K players to fill the AAA slots, or just let WIS fill those slots with random AAA players, but in either case, those players MAY NOT be used in games. They should remain in AAA the entire season.
   4. Again, the purpose of AAA is to include as many real-life players as possible; no SIM-generated AAA players should ever be used in games in this league.
9. By all means, do your best to win as many games as you can with the players you have! This is important for several reasons, including…
10. …This is NOT a keeper league. Each season we will redraft from the pool of available teams. However, unlike with season 1, these drafts will not be random. Instead, owners whose teams most overachieve in the current season will receive the highest draft picks for the next season. “Overachievement” will be defined as “greatest relative improvement in winning percentage.” Or for those who prefer a formula: (WIS winning percentage – MLB winning percentage)/MLB winning percentage. So, if you get stuck with a terrible team in year 1, fear not. If you can win a few more games than they did in real life, you’re probably in great shape to draw a better team in season 2. If, because of owner turnover, we have new owners in the league, they will draft last in their first season (we will use random.org to generate the order for new owners if there are more than one in any given season.)
11. There will be real drafting strategy here. Do you pick the best remaining team available when it’s your turn? Or the team with the greatest possibility of improving on their real-life record? Or, since we’re using 4-team divisions, you may prefer to take a team with less talent, but a better divisional draw.
12. Obviously we are not allowing trades or waiver wire here. We will use the DH in the AL starting in 1973….but that’s something like 15 calendar years in the future and who knows how many of us, or WIS, will be around at that point, so if you rabidly hate the DH, please don’t let that dissuade you from joining.

1992 Lottery Seed	Owner	1991 Team	RL W	RL L	RL PCT	WIS W	WIS L	WIS PCT	Pct +/-	Rank	1991 Draft Pick	Rank Improvement
————	————————	——————————	————	————	————	————	————	————	————	————	————	————
1	eddiedzen	Cincinnati Reds	74	88	0.457	90	72	0.556	21.7	1	7	6
2	kstober	St. Louis Cardinals	84	78	0.519	98	64	0.605	16.6	2	17	15
3	jkorn	Montreal Expos	71	90	0.441	82	80	0.506	14.7	3	16	13
4	redcped	California Angels	81	81	0.5	90	72	0.556	11.2	4	14	10
5	tywebb3	Texas Rangers	85	77	0.525	94	68	0.58	10.5	5	11	6
6	Chisock	Toronto Blue Jays	91	71	0.562	100	62	0.617	9.8	6	3	-3
7	jpeterso	Houston Astros	65	97	0.401	71	91	0.438	9.2	7	22	15
8	dippedncrack	Cleveland Indians	57	105	0.352	62	100	0.383	8.8	8	25	17
9	contrarian23	New York Mets	77	84	0.478	84	78	0.519	8.6	9	9	0
10	ff09	Chicago White Sox	87	75	0.537	91	71	0.562	4.7	10	1	-9
11	Cicero	San Diego Padres	84	78	0.519	88	74	0.543	4.6	11	15	4
12	odalisgagne	Boston Red Sox	84	78	0.519	88	74	0.543	4.6	12	10	-2
13	mfumar	Baltimore Orioles	67	95	0.414	70	92	0.432	4.3	13	13	0
14	MrSafety61	Milwaukee Brewers	83	79	0.512	84	78	0.519	1.4	14	8	-6
15	MrSafety61	Philadelphia Phillies	78	84	0.481	77	85	0.475	-1.2	15	24	9
16	NebHusker	Minnesota Twins	95	67	0.586	92	70	0.568	-3.1	16	4	-12
17	jfranco77	Pittsburgh Pirates	98	64	0.605	94	68	0.58	-4.1	17	2	-15
18	loyalcanuck	Detroit Tigers	84	78	0.519	79	83	0.488	-6	18	18	0
19	jlvjr11	Seattle Mariners	83	79	0.512	78	84	0.481	-6.1	19	12	-7
20	cstrohmier	Los Angeles Dodgers	93	69	0.574	86	76	0.531	-7.5	20	5	-15
21	specsman	Oakland Athletics	84	78	0.519	76	86	0.469	-9.6	21	21	0
22	ceez	New York Yankees	71	91	0.438	62	100	0.383	-12.6	22	26	4
23	dippedncrack	Chicago Cubs	77	83	0.481	68	94	0.42	-12.7	23	19	-4
24	lenbo1212	Kansas City Royals	82	80	0.506	68	94	0.42	-17	24	23	-1
25	ceez	San Francisco Giants	75	87	0.463	60	102	0.37	-20.1	25	20	-5
26	matt121888	Atlanta Braves	94	68	0.58	74	88	0.457	-21.2	26	6	-20

Returning Owners:
1. eddiedzen
2. kstober
3. redcped
4. tywebb3
5. Chisock
6. jpeterso
7. dippedncrack
8. contrarian23
9. ff09
10. odalisgagne
11. mfumar
12. MrSafety61
13. jfranco77
14. loyalcanuck
15. cstrohmier
17. Cicero
18. lenbo1212
19. jkorn
20. specsman
21. NebHusker


New Owners:
1. mensu1954
2. peekay
3. tigerfan2010
4. brianjw
5. fire13

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This is an incredibly fun league. Competition is intense all season long as even the owners with bad teams are trying to improve on their actual winning percentage. Bad teams actually have an advantage in this regard as a 50 win team that improves by 5 games gets a better drafting position for next season than a 100 win team that improves by 8 games.

Stats are incredibly realistic - with the occasional surprise thrown in. And don't think for a second that only the real life playoff teams have a chance in this league...in this league's 12 seasons the RL world series winner has NEVER won the title. Our WS have been won by teams like the 80 and 82 Expos, 84 Astros (!!!), 87 Pirates (!!!!).

This league will really test your managerial skills and rewards owners who can manage a full roster and get the most out of every IP and PA you have.

It's taught me more about managing fatigue than any other league. And you get to see a ton of player-seasons that never get used anywhere else.

I'd like to give thia a try please.

Posted by mensu1954 on 6/22/2019 5:36:00 PM (view original):
I'd like to give thia a try please.

Great to have you - you’ll enjoy it.

If you still need someone I would like to give this a try, but I'm not going to lie, I still have some questions about how it all works.

For starters, was that original post about beginning with 1901 like 10 years ago, and now we are playing the 1992 season?

Posted by tigerfan2010 on 6/23/2019 10:32:00 PM (view original):
For starters, was that original post about beginning with 1901 like 10 years ago, and now we are playing the 1992 season?

Those rules were copied from a previous iteration, I believe. This group kicked off at 1980.

Gotcha, well I'm in if you guys will have me. Sounds fun!

Posted by tigerfan2010 on 6/23/2019 11:45:00 PM (view original):
Gotcha, well I'm in if you guys will have me. Sounds fun!

Welcome aboard!

Down to 2 slots (known) though we still need to hear from 3 current owners.