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anybody seen a league of 24 teams with 200 mil salary cap. That seems like it would be a nightmare in the auto draft. I am probably guessing that this has never been done or maybe just once???

I participated in one. It was ugly.

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team_other.html?user_id=225209

I know there was at least one or two more afterwards. They happened near the end of ATG4.

The maximum possible salary for a 24-team league is only $177.1 million per team. If you didn't get enough players out of the autodraft and waivers, it would be a l-o-o-o-o-n-g season. I doubt many people would want to sign on.

I am participating in a $200 million league where you are not allowed to have more than 10 hitters with salaries over $3 million or 2 pitchers with salaries over $9 million or one pure reliever with a salary over $4million. There are actually some decent players left over. You might try lowering the hitter limit to $7 million (perhaps with two tiers) and SP limit to $6 million with two tiers and see how that works.

I would recommend something like:

max of 2 hitters over $10 million
max of 3 more hitters over $7.5 million
max of 4 more hitters over $6 million

max of 2 pitchers over $8.5 million
max of 3 more pitchers over $6.5 million
max of 1 pure reliever over $4 million

That will leave your league with enough good players for all to enjoy themselves. It even makes the good but not great starter-relievers valuable guys. And if someone wants to go with the 5-man rotation theory, he can manage it.

thanks for the replies. I thought there wouldn't be enough great players to go around. I was just curious that's all. good suggestions on if I formed a league how it should be done. With the straight auto draft you are toast if you have a bad draft.

Go with 140m, works fine.