5 Year 2 Franchise + 1/2 franchise

Have not seen a lot of theme leagues lately. I love themes that make it difficult to put out the same teams that i normally draft. I have never set up a theme league before, so here it goes.

THEME-5 Year, 2 Franchise + 1/2 franchise 2009 to 2013
-12 team league/100 million/dh/5/10/20
-Draft 1 full franchise at a time (hitting and pitching of one team), serpentine draft
-After drafting 2 complete franchises you can draft one of the remaining 1/2 franchises (Pitching or hitting) to augment your other 2 franchises

-Your first 2 Franchises will be yours for the entire 5 year stretch. Your 1/2 franchises will go back into the drafting pool for the following season. So if you select the Yankees full franchise, Phillies full franchise and Blue Jays hitting in 2009 start year, you will have the Yanks and Phils for 2010 season. A new 1/2 franchise will be drafted based on criteria of:
1. worst record of 8 non-playoff teams, worst record of 2 losing semi teams, finalist and champion drafts last of course. Tie breakers will be fewest scored, most allowed.

-No trades or pickups from the free agent pool unless players are from your designated franchises
-You must use a stadium from one of the franchises you have selected.

I am hoping to emulate the struggle of maintaining a winner, ups and downs of the players, free agent signings (your new 1/2 franchise would be simulate your needs for following/new season) and the short and long term winning perspective.

So if you are interested please sign up. I am aware that this 5 year team commitment will take about a year. However I expect it might be very interesting because of the swing of team talent every year.

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I may be interested, but just a comment or question on the 1/2 team draft in the first year - in what order does that go?
If you go back up the serpentine draft order, the top teams get the advantage. Think that's equitable? Probably would help out the bottom drafters if they had that little bit of "catch-up" advantage. Just a thought or question in that regard.

And I assume the initial franchise draft order is by way of random number order.
Another question would be the regular rosters or the unleashed rosters.

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randomizer will be used.
regular rosters
there might be an advantage to picking at any position really. difficult to balance out really. hoping the edge will be a wash over five seasons. plus the worse u are the higher your 1/2 team pick will be. i think i would prefer the 12/13 pick vs 1 and 24/25...but hopefully we fill and see what works. i am already reviewing franchises but there is certainly all teams with holes, dilemmas and strengths.

Why I do these things, I'll never know ...

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bump

sure, why not

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