The 'Andres Blanco' Theme League

[ArrylT]

[b:47b072f539][u:47b072f539]Andres Blanco Theme League Rules:[/b:47b072f539][/u:47b072f539]

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 IN THE STARTING LINEUP 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:717ef9ded9]Owners & Divisions:

EAST[/b:717ef9ded9]

1 - Frank M - Dolphins
2 - durantjerry - Jacobs
3 - mbalsdon44 - Petco
4 - Aray0113 - Tropicana

[b:717ef9ded9]CENTRAL[/b:717ef9ded9]

1 - beads33 - Dolphins
2 - damienpassalacqua - Jacobs
3 - LMBombers - Petco
4 - Jeep - Tropicana

[b:717ef9ded9]WEST[/b:717ef9ded9]

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

[ArrylT]

[b:2cc2e358d3]Important Reminder:[/b:2cc2e358d3]

Whichever owner volunteers to open the east please make sure of the following ...

$80M / advanced / DH / weighted waivers / 10% drop penalty
Name: Andres Blanco Theme League
Pwd: your choice ;)

[mbalsdon44]

The league is now ready and I will PM everyone the password

Mike

[LMBombers]

Apparently everybody has received the password. :shock:

Please only load when it is time for your division to load.

[mbalsdon44]

Well I didn't exactly receive instructions. Sorry I just assumed everyone knew when they should join the league. Lets say this is a rookie mistake because I have never set anything up like this before. Please don't beat me up for it...

[Terry101]

Reminder. Put Andres Blanco in the 25th spot on your draft list.

[ArrylT]

Sounds good Aray. :)

Thanks for creating the league mbalsdon44 - and don't worry about sending the pwd to everyone - I am sure we can figure out when to join - all we need is the last East owner & Central owners to confirm when they've closed out their respective divisions. :)

[ArrylT]

How many in the East so far? :)