Double Decade Double Franchise Rules

[BC Manager]

1) This theme league will consist of 18 seasons, 1971-1979 and 1980-1989.

2) Teams will be made up of players from the actual real-life rosters of two MLB franchises for that year.

3) The inaugural draft will be a 2-round snake draft (order randomized based on Pick 3 lottery – lowest number to highest) in which each owner will draft two 1971 teams.

4) Owners will have rights to all players that played for the two teams they’ve drafted. Where a player played for more than one team during that year, the owners of those teams will compete for these ‘shared’ players. A shared player can be claimed by a team that shares their rights at anytime that they are available starting at the autodraft and anytime they are on the free agent wire.

5) Each season an owner will have rights to two teams. After the season ends each owner will announce which team they will be keeping and which team they will be dropping. An owner can keep one team for as many seasons as they like but will have to drop the other team each season. So, after the season there will be12 keeper teams and at least 12 unclaimed teams.

6) The 12 dropped/unclaimed teams after each season will be drafted to be second teams for the following season. The draft will be based on the season’s standings. The 4 teams with the worst records will have their order in the top 4 drafting spots determined by Pick 3 lottery. The next 4 picks will go to the remaining teams not in the playoffs, in reverse order of finish. The 4 playoff teams will draft in this order: wild card, division winner with worst record, division winner with second best record, team with best record.

The tiebreaker will be run differential

7) From 1977 on (with the addition of the Mariners and Blue Jays) there will be two additional teams that can be picked in the offseason draft (I expect they won’t be picked until we get into the 80s). After this point there will be two unclaimed teams after the draft. The players who’s rights belong solely to these teams will be FA available to anyone from the AD through to the trade deadline. Players who are shared between an unclaimed team and an owned or drafted team will be the sole property of the owned/drafted team.

8) Trades are allowed as long as you are trading a player you have rights to. A team receiving a player can only own that player’s rights for the duration of time his rights would have been owned by the team that traded them. You must declare the terms of the trade (this year only, this year and next, etc.). If you trade a player for the length of time that you have his rights, you are obligated to keep the team he played for the duration of time that he played for that team. So if you have a team that had a player for 5 seasons and you trade that player with no limitations, you must keep that team for 5 seasons. You cannot have two teams for which you have made this type of trade, since one team must be dropped after every season.

9) Your ballpark must be one belonging to one of your two teams that season. Given teams will change, your ballpark can change from season to season.

10) Pitchers will hit 1971-72. DH will be used from 1973 onward.

11) ***Division alignment to be determined.

12) Salary cap will be $80 million.

[BC Manager]

4) A team consisting of the 73 Mets and 73 Royals will have rights to Rusty Staub, Willie Mays, John Milner, Wayne Garrett, George Brett, Amos Otis, Frank White, Lou Piniella, Hal McRae, Rick Reichardt, Jerry May, Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman, Jon Matlack, Ray Sadecki, Craig Swan, Tug McGraw, Steve Busby, Dick Drago, Gene Garber, Paul Splittorff, Steve Mongori (not an exhaustive list).

Reichardt, and Mongori all played for other teams in the 73 so this owner will need to compete with the team owning the White Sox for Reichardt and the team owning the Indians for Mongori. Jerry May played for two teams in 73 as well but they were the Royals and Mets so this owner has his exclusive rights.

5) Owner Matt Strat drafts the Mets and Senators in 1971. In 72, he drops the Sens and drafts the Expos. In 73, he drops the Expos and drafts the Indians. In 74, he drops the Royals and drafts the Royals. In 75, he drops the Tigers but drafts the Tigers again. In 76, he drops the Tigers and drafts the Brewers. In 77 he drops the Mets, keeping the Brewers and drafts the Giants. In 78 he keeps the Brewers, drops the Giants and drafts the Cubs. He keeps the Brewers all the way through 1985 (drafting various other teams) and in 85 he drafts the Blue Jays. In 86 he drops the Brewers, keeps the Blue Jays and drafts the Indians, etc. This can be also outlined as follows:

71- Mets, Senators
72- Mets, Expos
73- Mets, Royals
74- Mets, Tigers
75- Mets, Tigers
76- Mets, Brewers
77- Brewers, Giants
78- Brewers, Cubs
79- Brewers, A’s
80- strike year
81- Brewers, Cubs
82- Brewers, Twins
83- Brewers, Padres
84- Brewers, Cubs
85- Brewers, Blue Jays
86- Blue Jays, Indians
87- Blue Jays, Mets
88- Blue Jays, Brewers
89- Blue Jays, Padres

Note that as is described above in 75 this owner didn’t have the option to keep both the Mets and Tigers, rather they dropped the Tigers but then redrafted them.

7) If Toronto is not claimed for 77 then FA’s available to everyone would include: Alan Ashby, Bob Bailor, Ron Fairly, and Bill Singer. Roy Howell would be the property of the the Rangers as would Steve Hargan, since they both played for Toronto and Texas in 77.

8) It, in 1973, Matt Strat trades Rusty Staub, with no limitations, the team receiving him will have him through 1975. In this case Matt will have to keep the Mets through 75 also.

If Matt trades Frank White in 1973, with no limitations, then he’s committed to the Royals through 1989 and would have to drop the Mets at the end of 73.

Matt could not trade Staub and White both in this fashion as he can’t be committed to keeping both the Mets and Royals – he must drop one at the end of the season and must be able to drop one.

Matt could trade any players he has rights to for the duration of 73, with no restrictions or implications.

9) In 73, Matt must use Shea or Royal Stadium. In 74, he can use Shea or Tiger Stadium…and so on.

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