Andres Blanco Theme League** - Full! Alternates welcome!

[ArrylT]

[b:caa088e99d][u:caa088e99d]Andres Blanco Theme League Rules:[/b:caa088e99d][/u:caa088e99d]

1. This will be a normal Autodraft
2. $80M/advanced/DH/weighted waivers/10% drop penalty

Now for the fun! This will be a pitching league. If you love hitting, turn your head, run away and get the heck out of dodge!

1. Nobody can own any Hitter over $3.20M. The penalty for an Hitter over $3.20M will be benching your highest salaried starting pitcher for 3 series (9 games) for every day said hitter remains on your roster.

2. Everyone will play in 1 of 4 stadiums, with no duplicate stadium within a Division. When you sign-up you place yourself in a Division and list your park. These are the 4 stadiums to be used:

Jacobs
Dolphins (Florida NL)
Petco
Tropicana

4. Other than all your hitters being equal to or less than $3.20M, everyone else can play.

5. How you fill out your draft card will be crucial. Some things I can think of are:

a. Do you try and pick the best hitters equal to or under 3.20 Mil
b. Do you try and get the best relievers
c. Do you go for the ace starters

This will be fun to say the least, especially those who love Pitching.

Now, the name of the league is the Andres Blanco Theme League. I'm sure you've been asking yourself why did he name the league that? Has ArrylT lost it? The answer is no, although debatable.

Here's why:

Andres Blanco is the 2nd or 3rd worst hitting middle infielder, after perhaps S. Spiezo and T. Giarranto. However, he can at least play defense. So he gets the honor of naming rights.

---Here's what everyone must do to comply with the theme:

* Everyone, all 12 Owners must put Blanco on their draft card at the 25th and last spot. So someone will get Blanco, won't they? Obviously yes.

* The owner who gets him must keep him and use him [b:caa088e99d]IN THE STARTING LINEUP[/b:caa088e99d] for the entire season, never dropping him.

* The owner who gets him as a reward gets to claim any player not drafted after the AD and before waivers. IOW, that owner essentially has a free #1 waiver pick (followed by normal waivers), as no owners may put a claim on the player the Blanco owner declares. So Blanco actually becomes a reward for the Manager who gets him.

Sound Like Fun? Join up below...everyone is welcomed to join. Active Managers please. Our goal is to be up & running by Friday August 25th with an August 28th start date.

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** - Counterpart to Dewon Brazelton / Tim Redding Theme League(s)

[ArrylT]

[b:c60f1e38a0]Signup:

EAST[/b:c60f1e38a0]

1 - Dolphins
2 - Jacobs
3 - Petco
4 - Tropicana

[b:c60f1e38a0]CENTRAL[/b:c60f1e38a0]

1 - Dolphins
2 - Jacobs
3 - Petco
4 - Tropicana

[b:c60f1e38a0]WEST[/b:c60f1e38a0]

1 - ArrylT - Dolphins
2 - Jacobs
3 - Petco
4 - Tropicana

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Note: The last 2 spots, regardless of division/park are reserved for JeepDriver & Terry101, unless they decline participation.

[LMBombers]

I hate to ask it but you knew it would come up. Is Hank Blalock elligible for this league? He is the only hitter that is exactly 3.2M in salary.

[ArrylT]

Yes.

3.20 and below is ok
3.21 and above is not.

Andres Blanco has 2 range SS/2B fielding so he should be more useful than Tim Redding & Dewon Brazelton. ;)

[LMBombers]

You should change rule #4 & 5A to say 3.2 or lower then. :D

[Jeepdriver]

I wonder why the wording in the rules sounds familiar? :wink:

Signup:

EAST

1 - Dolphins
2 - Jacobs
3 - Petco
4 - Tropicana

CENTRAL

1 - Dolphins
2 - Jacobs
3 - Petco
4 - Jeep - Tropicana

WEST

1 - ArrylT - Dolphins
2 - Jacobs
3 - Petco
4 - Tropicana

[ArrylT]

Signup:

EAST

1 - Dolphins
2 - Jacobs
3 - Petco
4 - Aray0113 - Tropicana

CENTRAL

1 - Dolphins
2 - Jacobs
3 - Petco
4 - Jeep - Tropicana

WEST

1 - ArrylT - Dolphins
2 - Jacobs
3 - Petco
4 - Tropicana

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:oops: :wink: :D

[Terry101]

Signup:

EAST

1 - Dolphins
2 - Jacobs
3 - Petco
4 - Aray0113 - Tropicana

CENTRAL

1 - Dolphins
2 - Jacobs
3 - Petco
4 - Jeep - Tropicana

WEST

1 - ArrylT - Dolphins
2 - Jacobs
3 - Petco
4 - Tropicana - Terry101

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ArryIT, Thanks for holding a spot for me. I'm in with Trop

[LMBombers]

Signup:

EAST

1 - Dolphins
2 - Jacobs
3 - Petco
4 - Aray0113 - Tropicana

CENTRAL

1 - Dolphins
2 - Jacobs
3 - Petco - LMBombers
4 - Jeep - Tropicana

WEST

1 - ArrylT - Dolphins
2 - Jacobs
3 - Petco
4 - Tropicana - Terry101

Everyone has been going for the "hitters" parks. I'll change it up and go for a more pitching friendly park.