Franchise Season Assistance and Suggestions

My brothers, uncles, friends, and I have outlasted quarantine by playing all of the mystery leagues plus one season of all-time greats 9.

Now, we are thinking of doing another All-Time Greats but with a theme (probably Franchise).

Does Stratomatic filter for us the players at our disposal or is it more of an "honor system" in which if I select the Orioles as my franchise, then I promise only to draft players that have at least one card as an Oriole?

Also, what would be the best settings for us? Last time we did 100 million, DH, and 5% .

Also, we have never played with a pitchers hit setting. We have always used a DH.?

Suggestions for us based on your experience?

Thank you for reading.

My brothers, uncles, friends, and I have outlasted quarantine by playing all of the mystery leagues plus one season of all-time greats 9.

Now, we are thinking of doing another All-Time Greats but with a theme (probably Franchise).

Does Stratomatic filter for us the players at our disposal or is it more of an "honor system" in which if I select the Orioles as my franchise, then I promise only to draft players that have at least one card as an Oriole?

Also, what would be the best settings for us? Last time we did 100 million, DH, and 5% .

Also, we have never played with a pitchers hit setting. We have always used a DH.?

Suggestions for us based on your experience?

Thank you for reading.

100m and DH would be good.

Set parameters ahead of time; Who gets a player if carded to more than one franchise? Can any card represent a player or can you only use a player carded to your Franchise? etc

Strat CAN create a Custom Pool for you, but I think for your purposes, just play the ATG9 pool and do the honor system.

A couple of follow up questions:

What is the recommended way on how to handle a player (Larry Walker for example) that played on two different franchises?

What about trades? How would you handle a trade between two managers wanting to trade a player that doesn't belong to the other manager's assigned franchise?

Can Stratomatic pre-filter players if we only want to do the years 1960-present day??

Again, thanks for reading.

A couple of follow up questions:

What is the recommended way on how to handle a player (Larry Walker for example) that played on two different franchises?

What about trades? How would you handle a trade between two managers wanting to trade a player that doesn't belong to the other manager's assigned franchise?

Can Stratomatic pre-filter players if we only want to do the years 1960-present day??

Again, thanks for reading.

Usually it is high $$ card, but depends on what you and others want.

That'd be a NO.

Yes, Strat can create a Custom Subset. On the Free Agent Page of any current league, click Download ATG 9 player list as Excel spreadsheet. Delete every player you DO NOT WANT in your Pool, then email the edited Excel File to Strat
at 365support@strat-o-matic.com.

There is a 1961-present day set that already exists in the custom subset box.

I have played several franchise leagues. They are usually high caps. Here is a typical set of rules (listed in description box of new league).

Select a franchise(s) below. Please name your team so that others know who you have selected. The team rosters used in the drop-down free agent menus are the reference source.

1) Cubs/Marlins/Rockies
2) Giants/Astros
3) Cardinals/Mariners/P. Browning
4) Athletics/Senators-Twins/G. Hecker
5) Braves/Royals/L. Baldwin
6) Indians/Brewers
7) Pirates/Diamondbacks/Padres
8) Phillies/Reds/Blue Jays
9) Browns-Orioles/Angels/Mets
10) White Sox/Rays/R. Barnes
11) Tigers/Expos-Nats/C.Sweeney/E.Seward
12) Dodgers/Rangers

A player must have a card for the franchise(s) you select, but you can use any of their cards. The Farm System Rule applies (this means any card exclusive to the Indians belongs to the Indians alone and like-wise with the other selected franchises). If you drop a player who is not exclusive to your teams, you do not retain rights to him. Trades are allowed if you rightfully own the player being traded. Please use a ballpark from a franchise you selected.

Yankees, Red Sox, and NeL players will be available for waivers and free agency. Players with a card for a selected franchise who also have a card for an unselected franchise who are in the waiver pool or free agent pool are available to all. If a team receives a player from the initial draft who has non-exclusive cards, that player must be released for eligibility in the waiver draft (e.g. if Gossage is received by a team other than the Padres, the card must be released).

Note that the six big pre-1900 cards have been allotted to franchises. Players with cards for a current franchise and a non-current franchise include T.Keefe, H.Jennings, J.McGraw. If the current franchise does not draft them, they will be available in the waiver draft and beyond.

Please draft fairly. If, following the original draft, your team has a player that shouldn't be there and didn't have a good reason to be there (like missing out on a player eligible for your team), then there will be a substantial penalty. For example, if the Twins team gets a $9 million plus SS (there's no SS they could have missed on), they will forfeit players or waiver picks as a penalty.

I have run a couple of franchise leagues with some friends. We did one low cap (60m) and one high cap (125m). We randomly selected a draft order and snake drafted two franchises ( you could have one of the original 16 teams and one of the expansion teams). Especially in the low cap league we needed two franchises to have enough cheap players to fill out the rosters.

In my leagues you could have any player carded to your franchise. We did auto drafts so if you had the Pirates and wanted bonds you would rank him 1 hoping to get him before the Giants did. But you would rank Stargell and Clemente at the botto, of your rankings since nobody else could take him.

The way we did it you could only use the card for your franchise but I have played in other leagues wheee if you had the rights to the player you could take any of his cards. (So in my above example the Pirates franchise could use an SF Bonds).

In our league you technically could trade players as long as both teams had rights to all players in the deal but that was problematic enough that I don’t think we saw any trades in either league (our league would have required the team to drop the card for the other franchise and active the correct franchise card).

And we used the AGt9 set with an honor system and spot checks.

As for DH/no DH and salary levels. It just depends on what you want.
If you want to use the best players so you have Koufax and Kershaw facing off against Ruth and Mantle use a higher salary. If you want to find your bargains try the lower levels.

For a DH league you need one better hitter but not as deep a bench because you aren’t generally using as many pinch hitters or double switches. You also don’t need as deep a bullpen because you are t pinch hitting for the pitchers

For a non DH league you don’t need the stud to get you 4-500 abs but you need more bullpen help and some specialized pinch hitters.

It’s just a matter of preference.