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[b:bfb30fb22c]Postponing this league until spring when 2009 comes out.[/b:bfb30fb22c]

League Name – 2008 As Real as it Gets
80M setup, but actually a 75M league (Your ‘Cash Available’ for you team MUST ALWAYS remain 5M or more)
DH WILL BE USED
5/10/20
frenzy (because it won’t really matter)
NO trades
NO free agent pool (except players that are your exclusive property)
MUST use the home stadium for your team
NAME YOUR TEAM with the actual team you have (for instance…if you have the Yankees…then name them the New York Yankees)

- There are 30 teams to choose from.
- After 24 teams are chosen, the 24 teams will be sequenced from lowest team salary to highest team salary. This will also set division alignment.
- There will then be a 3 round draft (lowest to highest) of players from the remaining 6 teams that were not chosen. To help the lower salaried teams, the draft will be a little different.
- Round 1 will be just the 6 lowest salaried teams (lowest to highest)
- Round 2 will be just the 12 lowest salaried teams (lowest to highest)
- Round 3 will be just the 18 lowest salaried teams (lowest to highest)
(For example, the manager with the lowest salaried team after 24 are chosen, will have
picks 1, 7 and 19 and the manager with the 18th lowest salaried team will only have
pick 36)
- The 6 highest salaried teams will get NO picks
- This will help the lower salaried teams and make all the rosters auto-draft legal.
- Draft will take place on the ILC boards. Please be courteous of fellow managers and be available to make your pick or give proxies to other managers if you are going to be unavailable. The draft should not take very long. These picks will be very important to the lower salaried teams.
- The players from your chosen team and the 1, 2 or 3 you draft become your exclusive property.
- The remaining players that were not drafted off the 6 remaining teams can no longer be used.
- There will be NO trading, but you can dip into your excess players during the season (with the obvious 5/10/20 penalty and maintaining a ‘Cash Available’ balance of at least 5M).
- Your initial auto-draft 25 man rosters may exceed the 75M, but must drop below the 75M immediately after the auto-draft.
- Roster size is whatever you can fit under the salary cap of 75M and still maintain the 5M ‘Cash Available’ balance. Some teams will have just 24, many will have 28.
- Divisions will also be set by team salary (prior to the 3 round draft). Lowest 6 team salaries to the East, next 6 to the Central, next 6 to the Midwest and highest 6 to the West.

Cincinnati Reds 43.04
Seattle Mariners 47.79
Pittsburg Pirates 52.41
Washington Nationals 52.47
San Fransisco Giants 53.18
Oakland Athletics 53.38
Kansas City Royals 55.14
San Diego Padres 57.56
Detroit Tigers* 58.93
Baltimore Orioles 59.56
Minnesota Twins 63.28
Texas Rangers 63.95
Houston Astros 64.71
Colorado Rockies 64.72
Atlanta Braves 65.63
Philadelphia Phillies 68.01
Cleveland Indians 68.04
St Louis Cardinals 68.66
Toronto Blue Jays 72.51
Chicago White Sox* 73.16
Los Angeles Angels 73.23
Milwaukee Brewers** 73.52 – Sgt Jim
New York Mets 74.30
Arizona Diamondbacks 75.93
Florida Marlins 76.00
Tampa Bay Rays 78.42
New York Yankees 85.92
Chicago Cubs 86.27
Los Angeles Dodgers 89.94
Boston Red Sox 90.70

* - Must draft 1 position player to make roster auto-draft legal
** - Must draft a catcher to make roster auto-draft legal

Welcome everyone. I was the Commish of 4 leagues in ATG (each era) using this format and it seemed to work very well. I realize this could take some time to fill. So if you sign up, please check in regularly, so that when it does fill we can start the draft ASAP. Thanks Jim

League Name – 2008 As Real as it Gets
80M setup, but actually a 75M league (Your ‘Cash Available’ for you team MUST ALWAYS remain 5M or more)
DH WILL BE USED
5/10/20
frenzy (because it won’t really matter)
NO trades
NO free agent pool (except players that are your exclusive property)
MUST use the home stadium for your team
NAME YOUR TEAM with the actual team you have (for instance…if you have the Yankees…then name them the New York Yankees)

- There are 30 teams to choose from.
- After 24 teams are chosen, the 24 teams will be sequenced from lowest team salary to highest team salary. This will also set division alignment.
- There will then be a 3 round draft (lowest to highest) of players from the remaining 6 teams that were not chosen. To help the lower salaried teams, the draft will be a little different.
- Round 1 will be just the 6 lowest salaried teams (lowest to highest)
- Round 2 will be just the 12 lowest salaried teams (lowest to highest)
- Round 3 will be just the 18 lowest salaried teams (lowest to highest)
(For example, the manager with the lowest salaried team after 24 are chosen, will have
picks 1, 7 and 19 and the manager with the 18th lowest salaried team will only have
pick 36)
- The 6 highest salaried teams will get NO picks
- This will help the lower salaried teams and make all the rosters auto-draft legal.
- Draft will take place on the ILC boards. Please be courteous of fellow managers and be available to make your pick or give proxies to other managers if you are going to be unavailable. The draft should not take very long. These picks will be very important to the lower salaried teams.
- The players from your chosen team and the 1, 2 or 3 you draft become your exclusive property.
- The remaining players that were not drafted off the 6 remaining teams can no longer be used.
- There will be NO trading, but you can dip into your excess players during the season (with the obvious 5/10/20 penalty and maintaining a ‘Cash Available’ balance of at least 5M).
- Your initial auto-draft 25 man rosters may exceed the 75M, but must drop below the 75M immediately after the auto-draft.
- Roster size is whatever you can fit under the salary cap of 75M and still maintain the 5M ‘Cash Available’ balance. Some teams will have just 24, many will have 28.
- Divisions will also be set by team salary (prior to the 3 round draft). Lowest 6 team salaries to the East, next 6 to the Central, next 6 to the Midwest and highest 6 to the West.

Cincinnati Reds 43.04
Seattle Mariners 47.79
Pittsburg Pirates 52.41
Washington Nationals 52.47
San Fransisco Giants 53.18
Oakland Athletics 53.38
Kansas City Royals 55.14
San Diego Padres 57.56
Detroit Tigers* 58.93
Baltimore Orioles 59.56
Minnesota Twins 63.28
Texas Rangers 63.95
Houston Astros 64.71--buster j ratt
Colorado Rockies 64.72
Atlanta Braves 65.63
Philadelphia Phillies 68.01
Cleveland Indians 68.04
St Louis Cardinals 68.66
Toronto Blue Jays 72.51
Chicago White Sox* 73.16
Los Angeles Angels 73.23
Milwaukee Brewers** 73.52 – Sgt Jim
New York Mets 74.30
Arizona Diamondbacks 75.93
Florida Marlins 76.00
Tampa Bay Rays 78.42
New York Yankees 85.92
Chicago Cubs 86.27
Los Angeles Dodgers 89.94
Boston Red Sox 90.70

* - Must draft 1 position player to make roster auto-draft legal
** - Must draft a catcher to make roster auto-draft legal


What the heck Played one 2008 season when it came out Finished 81-81 1 game out No Playoffs Only Astro I had was Hawkins who went 15-5 in relief so I'll give it another go Can't do much worse that REAL 2009 Astros!!!!!