New Keeper League 1AL/1NL per

After putting some thought into it and talking to a few more veteran guys, I've decided to start up the league that I've been thinking about starting, if there is enough interest.

The rules are not set in stop, and I would welcome input from anyone interested in joining. The hope is for it to be a keeper league that will run into current day, so input on rules and making it so that we all agree on the rules would help in ensuring that it holds everyone's interest. Here is what I have put together so far. If I don't get enough interest, I'll keep writing up my rules and try again in the future. haha

The basis of the league are this: Each owner chooses 2 MLB teams, 1 AL, and 1 NL. That owner will then have the rights too all of the players carded for those teams for the 2007 season. At drafting phase of the preseason, each owner will fill their roster with players from their two chosen MLB teams, and the rest will remain in the Free Agents pool until that owner "Calls them up" by signing them. The league will have a $200M cap, which will probably not come into play, unless there are a lot of send ups and call downs.

Each owner should name their team based on their MLB teams by using the city name of one team, and the team name of the other team. For example, if I choose the Boston Red Sox and the Colorado Rockies, my team would be the Colorado Red Sox, or the Boston Rockies. Each team shall have a unique home field, belonging to one of their 2 selected MLB teams, so the Boston Rockies would play at either Fenway, or Coors Field.

There will be no traditional free agency in this league, all players will be acquired through trades or drafts. For the first season there will be no roster limit, but following the conclusion of our first (2007) season, the roster limit will be 40 (subject to change depending on league vote prior to initial season). Prior to each draft, owners will cut their roster to be below the roster limit, and will have draft picks according to their roster side. For example if the roster limit is 40, and I cut to 32, I'll have 8 draft picks.

Prior to each entry draft, each team will be allowed to select 2 players that are newly carded by their MLB affiliates (who are not already property of another team in our league) to play on their team. All other newly carded players from our affiliates will enter into the draft.

There will be a second 2 round draft that will allow players from UN-affiliated MLB clubs to be entered into our league. This draft is optional, and any teams wishing to enter this draft are to leave their roster at 38 players, so that the two drafted will make for the roster total of 40.

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After putting some thought into it and talking to a few more veteran guys, I've decided to start up the league that I've been thinking about starting, if there is enough interest.

The rules are not set in stop, and I would welcome input from anyone interested in joining. The hope is for it to be a keeper league that will run into current day, so input on rules and making it so that we all agree on the rules would help in ensuring that it holds everyone's interest. Here is what I have put together so far. If I don't get enough interest, I'll keep writing up my rules and try again in the future. haha

The basis of the league are this: Each owner chooses 2 MLB teams, 1 AL, and 1 NL. That owner will then have the rights too all of the players carded for those teams for the 2007 season. At drafting phase of the preseason, each owner will fill their roster with players from their two chosen MLB teams, and the rest will remain in the Free Agents pool until that owner "Calls them up" by signing them. The league will have a $200M cap, which will probably not come into play, unless there are a lot of send ups and call downs.

Each owner should name their team based on their MLB teams by using the city name of one team, and the team name of the other team. For example, if I choose the Boston Red Sox and the Colorado Rockies, my team would be the Colorado Red Sox, or the Boston Rockies.

There will be no traditional free agency in this league, all players will be acquired through trades or drafts. For the first season there will be no roster limit, but following the conclusion of our first (2007) season, the roster limit will be 40 (subject to change depending on league vote prior to initial season). Prior to each draft, owners will cut their roster to be below the roster limit, and will have draft picks according to their roster side. For example if the roster limit is 40, and I cut to 32, I'll have 8 draft picks.

Each draft will consist only of players who were either cut by other teams in our league, or are newly carded players for one of the 24 MLB teams that we have chosen to play with. For example, if no one chooses the Nationals in 2007, we will never see Harper or Strasburg.



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So newly carded players after 2007 are free agents and able to be grabbed by anyone?
I.e. If I had the Cinn Angels I would not necessarily have Trout etc?

So newly carded players after 2007 are free agents and able to be grabbed by anyone?
I.e. If I had the Cinn Angels I would not necessarily have Trout etc?

They will enter the league through the draft, not free agency. But essentially yes, Trout would be available to whoever grabs him in the draft, he wouldn't go to his real life team's affiliate.



*Edited original post to address stadium choise: "Each team shall have a unique home field, belonging to one of their 2 selected MLB teams, so the Boston Rockies/Colorado Red Sox would play at either Fenway, or Coors Field."

After putting some thought into it and talking to a few more veteran guys, I've decided to start up the league that I've been thinking about starting, if there is enough interest.

The rules are not set in stop, and I would welcome input from anyone interested in joining. The hope is for it to be a keeper league that will run into current day, so input on rules and making it so that we all agree on the rules would help in ensuring that it holds everyone's interest. Here is what I have put together so far. If I don't get enough interest, I'll keep writing up my rules and try again in the future. haha

The basis of the league are this: Each owner chooses 2 MLB teams, 1 AL, and 1 NL. That owner will then have the rights too all of the players carded for those teams for the 2007 season. At drafting phase of the preseason, each owner will fill their roster with players from their two chosen MLB teams, and the rest will remain in the Free Agents pool until that owner "Calls them up" by signing them. The league will have a $200M cap, which will probably not come into play, unless there are a lot of send ups and call downs.

Each owner should name their team based on their MLB teams by using the city name of one team, and the team name of the other team. For example, if I choose the Boston Red Sox and the Colorado Rockies, my team would be the Colorado Red Sox, or the Boston Rockies.

There will be no traditional free agency in this league, all players will be acquired through trades or drafts. For the first season there will be no roster limit, but following the conclusion of our first (2007) season, the roster limit will be 40 (subject to change depending on league vote prior to initial season). Prior to each draft, owners will cut their roster to be below the roster limit, and will have draft picks according to their roster side. For example if the roster limit is 40, and I cut to 32, I'll have 8 draft picks.

Each draft will consist only of players who were either cut by other teams in our league, or are newly carded players for one of the 24 MLB teams that we have chosen to play with. For example, if no one chooses the Nationals in 2007, we will never see Harper or Strasburg.



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1/3 of the way there! Looking forward to getting things rolling. Below is a link that lists all 2007 players with the teams they're carded for. Just so those of you interested can start thinking of what MLB teams you'll affiliate with. When we reach 12 owners I'll do a random drawing to select the order and we can get started.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc ... sp=sharing

Let me know if there are any problems with the link, it should show up to anyone who clicks on it though.

Anybody out there?

Just my opinion but you might get more interest if you tweak the rules some. The rules as you have them now (as I understand them) result in the team affiliations meaning nothing for drafts after the '07 season (other than name and ballpark) so maybe allow owners to take a limited number of players from their two teams in each draft. You could limit it by the number of players and/or salaries.

You could also allow a limited number of players from teams not in the league to be selected in each draft, say up to 2 players and/or $7.5 M?