Had trouble figuring out which year for Boggs. Give him a high PA and he hits lights out. So I opted for 1992 and his .259 avg.

redwingscup, we have too many offense-inflating parks in this league... let's give you one on the other end of the spectrum just to make life more difficult for those (including me) who have a high-PA target to hit for our exclusive player.  You can have Petco.

Gonna saddle rmarsh915 with the 1920-29 Phillies.

Posted by jpccr on 5/11/2015 3:11:00 PM (view original):
I'll hop in with Eddie Collins

aw Christ! Now I am screwed, blued (not Lu sadly) and tattooed. well won't be much problem fitting under the salary cap now. scoring runs, already a problem becomes even more of an issue.

redwingscup can have 1930-39 Boston Braves.

rmarsh915 can play in Busch Stadium (II).

Posted by tridentric on 5/11/2015 9:28:00 PM (view original):

Posted by jpccr on 5/11/2015 3:11:00 PM (view original):
I'll hop in with Eddie Collins

aw Christ! Now I am screwed, blued (not Lu sadly) and tattooed. well won't be much problem fitting under the salary cap now. scoring runs, already a problem becomes even more of an issue.

Sorry tridentric. Couldn't resist fully embracing the spirit of this league.

Let me be the first-? to suggest that after this season, we do a Round 2 with the present ringers blacklisted.

Another fun suggestion would be splitting out the decades by hitters and pitchers and have an owner assign just hitters and another owner assign just pitchers. That would open up the franchise choices as well.

Techmobo can enjoy watching the '51 Mickey Mantle play D/D- OF at $5742 per plate appearance
Odalisgagne is will playing his home games at Oriole Park (IV)
bandits5 can try to cobble something together using the 50-59 Pirates

We are done.

If there is enough interest when the season winds down I will certainly consider another season.  Blacklisting the league 1 exclusives is a good idea, as is splitting the hitters/pitchers.  Another idea is to allow owners to assign any consecutive 10-year period from a franchise, not just those from 0-9.  So, for example, you could assign someone the 1945-54 Pirates rather than just 1940-49 or 1950-59.  Each decade would still be exclusive, so anyone else who wanted to assign the Pirates would have to steer clear of those seasons.

Food for thought.

I have started a thread here for owners to use a resource, or just to whine incessantly about their teams.

contrarian, thanks for giving me the 30-39 Bees/Braves if for no other reason than I was able to roster the 1935 Babe Ruth you used as an exemplar in your posting. Paying tribute to you, man.... he will be rested at home, but will use him when visiting you in CO where he may walk into a HR or two.

Actually, fatboydad gave you that franchise...but I appreciate the compliment all the same!

What about blacklisting the franchise/decade choices?  Since that decision makes up the bulk of the rosters, every subsequent version of this theme will have many of the same teams/players.  The any-10-year idea is fine, but it that idea may simply adjust a few of the common choices by a year or two, and/or may add a few new choices.  With the 24 selections blacklisted, we'd have an entirely new set of players being used.

I like schwarze idea plus I agree with Arlen. Blacklist franchise/decade picks plus the exclusive players.