Reposting page 1 of this Forum...onto the 70's!
We've completed 2 Seasons of 60's with the Yankees taking season one in an epic 7 game series over the Twins culminating in Yogi Berra hitting a 2 run walk off homer in the 16th! Season two saw another 7 game series with the visiting team taking every game until game 7, where the Reds held off the White Sox 3-2 to take the title.
Below are the guidelines to the league...I’ve always enjoyed the Mystery sets and the Franchise leagues based on the ATG set. So, inspired by the creative leagues I’ve played in from warrenbob, gbrookes and marcpelletier…how about we combine them? A multi year (3 season or more) keeper Franchise league based on the Mystery sets!
There are 24 Franchises from the 70’s that have enough players to field full teams, which I list below.
Franchises with owners:Reds - franky35
Orioles - Rosie2167
Red Sox - FALCON29
Tigers - gfg001
Yankees - Davesodu
White Sox - Ed2014
Rangers (fresh off the bus from DC) - CrustyCrab
Open Franchises:Pirates
Dodgers
Astros
Mets
Giants
Royals
Athletics
Twins
Cardinals
Braves
Expos
Cubs
Brewers
Phillies
Angels
Padres
Indians
To keep with the theme I broke down the players by how many years they played (link to spreadsheet posted in google docs below) for each franchise and wrapped the rules around that as follows.
-Every player on your roster must have at least 1 yr carded to your franchise.
-Core5 = Players that all 5 yrs on their card are for one franchise. These players are assigned to their franchise and cannot be used by any other franchise.
-Core4 = Players that have 4 of the 5 yrs with one franchise. These players cannot be auto drafted by any other franchise but their Core4 franchise, BUT are available to be picked up or traded for by the other franchise they are carded to.
-Total Batters and Total Pitchers are the number of players that have at least 1 carded yr for that franchise
-Core 5+4 $$ is the value of ALL those players
-NEW FOR THIS SEASON!!! - Any players that are free agents (don't have a carded franchise in our league) are available to those franchises that they played with from 1970 - 1979 (maybe 80). So for example if an owner takes the Brewers and the Athletics aren't taken, then Sal Bando, who's 70's card is 5 yrs of A's is available to the Brew Crew since he actually played for them from 77-81. The player list below DOES NOT represent this Free Agency clause...mostly because its a lot of work to look up for every effected player. But once we have our 12 teams it becomes a bit easier. One caveat to this FA clause, if a guy qualifies for your franchise based on the above guidelines, but his season(s) are nowhere close to representing how he played for that franchise then he will not be available. Tommie Agee is a good example, played the last yr of his career for the Cardinals but it was a throw away.
See them here...
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharingNow for the keeper side of the equation. I'd like to mirror real franchises as much as possible so 20 keepers per season. Also I always thought that the revolving door that exists in the Mystery leagues where you drop Yaz or Gibson on their 'worst' years was an unfortunate side effect to the format...so as a motivator to keep those guys, any Core5 or Core4 players dropped cannot be on your roster the next season.
Ok so...
1) Pick any available Franchise
2) Format is DH
3) Pick the 70's Stadium of your franchise
4) Your Core5 and Core4 that you want (you don't have to have them all) should be at the bottom of your autodraft list
5) Minimum 2 season commit, ideally we play 2 seasons in each decade rolling with your chosen franchise the whole way.
6) Salary cap $100
7) Trades are allowed but all players involved must be carded to
or have played for those franchises
Tue Jun 14, 2016 8:16 pm