Cooperstown Historical Replay 1967 - Need 2 Topic

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We are recreating MLB history, one season at a time...

Here are the updated league rules that were posted in the most recent league classifieds:
  1. We use the actual divisional alignment that MLB used, each season.
  2. That means 2 playoff teams for the 1967 season
  3. Each owner drafts 1 team from the respective season. Obviously teams are exclusive and no duplicate teams are allowed.
  4. 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. If you do not have 25 players in the database (unlikely in this era, but just in case), you will draft additional $200,000 players from the database (from any WIS 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. If you team is short of PA or IP, even very short. So be it.
  5. In most seasons, most teams have MORE than 25 eligible players, we 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.
  6. 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…
  7. …This is NOT a keeper league. Each season we will redraft from the pool of available teams following a draft lottery. The lottery is much like the NBA lottery; we will draw ping pong balls for the top 3 picks and then the remaining picks will be awarded according to lottery order. Owners whose teams most overachieve in the current season will receive the highest number of ping pong balls for the lottery. “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.)
  8. 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? And obviously there is no benefit - EVER - to tanking. Losing never improves your draft position, and winning never harms it.
6/20/2026 11:10 PM (edited)
dippedncrack
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Returning Owners:
1. jfranco77
2. Beernoser
3. dbrom
4. Trentonjoe
5. dippedncrack
6. dirtbag13
7. Poddy
8. redcped
9. 84Champs
10. Majorxfour
11. loyalcanuck
12. contrarian23
13. tywebb3
14. harrelson
15. midknight
16. jkorn
17. patchanb
18. bagchucker4

New Owners:
1.
2.
3.
7/2/2026 8:45 PM (edited)
dippedncrack
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1967 Lottery Seed Owner 1968 Team RL W RL L RL PCT WIS W WIS L WIS PCT Pct +/- Rank Seasons

———— ———————— —————————— ———— ———— ———— ———— ———— ———— ———— ————


1 jfranco77 Pittsburgh Pirates 80 82 0.494 102 60 0.63 27.5 1 8

2 Beernoser Minnesota Twins 79 83 0.488 94 68 0.58 19 2 5

3 dbrom Oakland Athletics 82 80 0.506 91 71 0.562 11 3 8

4 Trentonjoe Cleveland Indians 86 75 0.534 95 67 0.586 9.8 4 11

5 dippedncrack Atlanta Braves 81 81 0.5 88 74 0.543 8.6 5 11

6 dirtbag13 Chicago White Sox 67 95 0.414 71 91 0.438 6 6 5

7 Poddy New York Mets 73 89 0.451 77 85 0.475 5.5 7 2

8 redcped New York Yankees 83 79 0.512 84 78 0.519 1.2 8 13

9 84Champs Baltimore Orioles 91 71 0.562 92 70 0.568 1.1 9 9

10 Majorxfour San Francisco Giants 88 74 0.543 89 73 0.549 1.1 10 2

11 bmbigdog44 Philadelphia Phillies 76 86 0.469 76 86 0.469 0 11 1

12 loyalcanuck Cincinnati Reds 83 79 0.512 80 82 0.494 -3.6 12 11

13 contrarian23 Detroit Tigers 103 59 0.636 98 64 0.605 -4.9 13 6

14 tywebb3 Los Angeles Dodgers 76 86 0.469 72 90 0.444 -5.3 14 12

15 Harrelson Chicago Cubs 84 78 0.519 76 86 0.469 -9.5 15 3

16 midknight St. Louis Cardinals 97 65 0.599 87 75 0.537 -10.3 16 11

17 jkorn California Angels 67 95 0.414 60 102 0.37 -10.4 17 4

18 mfumar Houston Astros 72 90 0.444 63 99 0.389 -12.5 18 6

19 rmarsh915 Washington Senators 65 96 0.404 55 107 0.34 -15.9 19 11

20 patchanb Boston Red Sox 86 76 0.531 70 92 0.432 -18.6 20 4

6/20/2026 10:59 PM
dippedncrack
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1967 MLB Standings

American League

Team W L Pct. GB Home Road
Boston Red Sox 92 70 .568 — 49?–?32 43?–?38
Detroit Tigers 91 71 .562 1 52?–?29 39?–?42
Minnesota Twins 91 71 .562 1 52?–?29 39?–?42
Chicago White Sox 89 73 .549 3 49?–?33 40?–?40
California Angels 84 77 .522 7½ 53?–?30 31?–?47
Washington Senators 76 85 .472 15½ 40?–?40 36?–?45
Baltimore Orioles 76 85 .472 15½ 35?–?42 41?–?43
Cleveland Indians 75 87 .463 17 36?–?45 39?–?42
New York Yankees 72 90 .444 20 43?–?38 29?–?52
Kansas City Athletics 62 99 .385 29½ 37?–?44 25?–?55

National League
Team W L Pct. GB Home Road
St. Louis Cardinals 101 60 .627 — 49?–?32 52?–?28
San Francisco Giants 91 71 .562 10½ 51?–?31 40?–?40
Chicago Cubs 87 74 .540 14 49?–?34 38?–?40
Cincinnati Reds 87 75 .537 14½ 49?–?32 38?–?43
Philadelphia Phillies 82 80 .506 19½ 45?–?35 37?–?45
Pittsburgh Pirates 81 81 .500 20½ 49?–?32 32?–?49
Atlanta Braves 77 85 .475 24½ 48?–?33 29?–?52
Los Angeles Dodgers 73 89 .451 28½ 42?–?39 31?–?50
Houston Astros 69 93 .426 32½ 46?–?35 23?–?58
New York Mets 61 101 .377 40½ 36?–?42 25?–?59
6/20/2026 11:08 PM
redcped
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Join the fun! This is a great league!
6/23/2026 7:44 PM
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7/12/2026 6:52 PM
dippedncrack
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It's only a 20 team league, and it's super common to launch up the draft board after only one season. Join for 1967, improve upon your team's RL record, and get a high draft pick for 1966!
7/13/2026 4:55 PM
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This is the only league where I actually look at the boxscores of other games. I lived through this era so I like to see what owners are doing with their teams different from real life.
7/16/2026 5:33 PM
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