Triple Decade Replacement FatDaddy is IN

[YountFan]

We are 18 season in you get to take team with a winning past.

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/80s/team/team_other.html?user_id=177562

You MUST be willing to commit to ELEVEN season, 1 in the 80 (89) and then 10 in the 80's (90-99). You must also be attentive to the rookie drafts and load your team on time!

YF
da new commish

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Here are the rules

1. SEASONS

a) The league will be 29 seasons long, beginning in 1971 and ending in 1989.
b) Seasons 1971-79 will be played in the 1970s league format.
c) Seasons 1980-89 will be played in the 1980s league format.
c) Seasons 1990-99 will be played in the 1990s league format.

2. PLAYER ELIGIBILITY

a) Player eligibility will be based on the seasons on a players card.
b) For a player who has a card in only one format (70s or 80s or 90's), their first season will be the first year on their card and their last season will be the last season on their card.
c) For a player who has cards in both 70s and 80s formats, their first season will be the first year on their 70s card and their last season will be their last season on their 80s card, or 90's.
d) Players whose salary is 0.75 for a format are available every season in the decade for which they are priced at the minimum.
e) If a player is a 0.75 player in one format and not a 0.75 player in the other, they will be available every season for the decade that they have the 0.75 price. Their eligibility in the other decade will span from the beginning or end of decade to the first or last year of eligibility for their 0.75+ card. (See example)

3. DRAFTS

a) The Inception Draft will be a draft of 1971 eligible players only. 0.75 players can be drafted during the Inception draft but can only be kept for one season before becoming free agents again.
b) The Inception Draft will be a snake draft and the order determined randomly (by Pick 3 Lotto results, lowest to highest). It will be a 20-round draft.
c) After each season there will be a Rookie Draft. It will be a draft of players whose first year of eligibility is the upcoming season.
d) The order of the Rookie Draft will be determined by the previous seasons standings/playoffs.
e) The four teams with the worst record will use Pick 3 Lotto numbers to determine the order of the first four picks (lowest to highest) .
f) The next four picks will go to the other teams missing the playoffs, in order of worst record to best.
g) The final four picks will go to the previous season’s playoff teams in this order: semi-final loser with worse record, semi-final loser with better record, final loser and champion.
h) The Rookie Draft will not be a snake draft. Each round will go in the same order, except the first four picks will not be randomized after the first round.
i) The draft will continue until no team wishes to pick any more or there is a consensus to end the draft.
j) Players exclusive to the 80s game whose cards start in the 70s will be eligible for the draft prior to the first year on their card. These players will be considered on a team’s farm team, until they can be used in the 1980 season. (See example).



4. PLAYER OWNERSHIP

a) Players belong to a team as long as they are eligible and they remain on a team’s roster.
b) Between seasons, eligible players’ rights are maintained by the team they finished the season with until the autodraft for the new season.
c) To maintain a player’s rights from one season to the next, the player must be autodrafted at the beginning of the season.
d) There is no maximum or minimum number of players that can be kept from one season to the next.
e) 0.75 priced players are the exception of the above rules. All 0.75 players are eligible every season and available to all teams at the beginning of each season and at any time they are not on a roster.
f) Eligible players not on a team at the end of a season are free agents available to all teams in the next season’s autodraft or any time they are not on a roster.

5. TRANSACTIONS

a) Any trade that is valid in the SOM game is allowed as long as it involves eligible players.
b) Draft picks and future rights to players can be traded.
c) ‘Player-to-be-named-later’ trades are not allowed. The players in a trade must be declared at the time of the trade, though future rights to players can be traded.

6. BALLPARKS

a) Ballparks are owned exclusively – no two teams can have the same ballpark.
b) Ballparks will be drafted as part of the inception draft – any pick can be used to take a ballpark, but one pick must be used for your ballpark before the end of the draft.
c) A team can ‘blow-up” their park once during each decade. That is, a team can declare after a season that they will be giving up their ballpark and then draft from the unused parks in the subsequent rookie draft.
d) Ballparks that exist in both decades can be carried over from one decade to the next.
e) For a team who’s ballpark does not carry over into the 80s, that team must pick a new unused park in the 1980 draft.
f) A team who’s park carries over into the 80s can still choose to discard their 70s park and pick a new park for the 80s.
g) Teams’ ballpark choices under e) or f) will not be considered their “blowup” for either decade.


7. DESIGNATED HITTER

a) Pitchers will hit in seasons 1971 and 72. From 1973 onward a DH will be used.

8. PARTICIPATION

a) Teams participating in the original 80s Decade draft will all have the option of participating in the Double Decade league.
b) Spots not claimed or given up will be given to owners by invitation, not on a first-come, first-serve basis.

9. DIVISIONS

a) Teams will be placed in divisions based on their draft order in the Inception draft: East:1-4-7-10, Central: 2-5-8-11, West: 3-6-9-12.
b) Divisions will remain constant throughout both decades.

[pkwmati]

I would be interested in joining. I do have a few questions that I think I understand but I want to make sure I'm clear on:

- A player is eligible as long as we are within his "range" of years from the 70s game thru the 90s game. Example: Ojeda is carded for 91 & 92 in 90s, but he would still available to be used in 90. He must retire for 93. Is my understanding correct?

- You never maintain rights to a $.75 player year over year. They automatically get thrown back into the player pool available for autodrafting.

- If I'm able to auto-draft an available player, I have his rights through in his final carded year unless I drop him.

- Is there a master farm team list available?

- After 1999, what are the odds of this league starting over again in 1971 with a new inception draft? I think you guys have run through this a couple of times over the years and I don't recall an opening ever coming up. If it did I missed it.

- $80M, 5/10/20, waivers?

[YountFan]

- A player is eligible as long as we are within his "range" of years from the 70s game thru the 90s game. Example: Ojeda is carded for 91 & 92 in 90s, but he would still available to be used in 90. He must retire for 93. Is my understanding correct? [b:d66219f41e][color=red:d66219f41e]Correct[/color:d66219f41e][/b:d66219f41e]

- You never maintain rights to a $.75 player year over year. They automatically get thrown back into the player pool available for autodrafting.[b:d66219f41e][color=red:d66219f41e]Correct[/color:d66219f41e][/b:d66219f41e]

- If I'm able to auto-draft an available player, I have his rights through in his final carded year unless I drop him.[b:d66219f41e][color=red:d66219f41e]Correct[/color:d66219f41e][/b:d66219f41e]

- Is there a master farm team list available?[b:d66219f41e][color=red:d66219f41e]There is no farm.[/color:d66219f41e][/b:d66219f41e]

- After 1999, what are the odds of this league starting over again in 1971 with a new inception draft? I think you guys have run through this a couple of times over the years and I don't recall an opening ever coming up. If it did I missed it. [b:d66219f41e][color=red:d66219f41e]Low with this group because for most of of this is the 2nd or 3rd time through. The 90's will be new for everyone[/color:d66219f41e][/b:d66219f41e]

- $80M, 5/10/20, waivers? [b:d66219f41e][color=red:d66219f41e]Correct[/color:d66219f41e][/b:d66219f41e]

[canauscot]

There is a farm of sorts in that players exclusive to the 90's game but have carded years prior to 90 have been eligible for the draft in the year of their first card, but obviously can't play until 1990. They could be thought of as on the farm.

eg. my players include Bryan Harvey and Andres Galarraga

there is no master list as far as I know

[YountFan]

We need a replacement for Crossingroads who can load his/their by Friday night

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/80s/team/team_other.html?user_id=177562

[fatdaddy054]

Hi guy's

I am looking to load my team today, but have a couple questions after looking at the rules.

1. looking at the roster i concluded that i have the rights to the following players:

B.Saberhagen
D.Martinez
T.Henke
J.Russell
S.Bream
H.Reynolds
Cincinnati #11
P.Bradley
V.Coleman
E.Davis
K.Puckett

is this correct?

2.fill in the remaing roster with 0.75 players?

Thanks for the help and glad to be a part of the TD format.

[YountFan]

New York #47 (Jesse Orosco) is yours

[fatdaddy054]

Loaded :D