We're recreating MLB history using the WIS engine. Draft an entire team from 1973 and do your best to improve upon the RL win total. Get rewarded with a higher draft position the following season.While new owners draft after returning owners, it's quite common to shoot far up the draft board after your very first season. join us, won't you? Rules to follow...

1. We use the actual divisional alignment that MLB used, each season.
2. That means 4 playoff teams each season - the four division winners - exactly as MLB did during those years. When MLB expanded its playoffs and realigned its divisions (in 1994) we will do the same.
3. Each owner drafts 1 team from the respective season. Obviously teams are exclusive and no duplicate teams are allowed.
4. Once you have chosen your team, you will go into the draft center and enter your actual players from that season. You can use the “load historical team” feature if you want…this is often the easiest and cleanest way to build your roster, but it’s not infallible. Occasionally players are missed when you load a team that way. If you prefer to draft your players individually, keep in mind that:
   1. For players who were traded or otherwise appeared for multiple teams in a single season, you MUST use the partial-season version of that player. If the player did not get enough PA or IP with your team to warrant a partial-season version then you cannot use him. NO COMBINED VERSIONS OF PLAYERS MAY BE USED.
   2. All players who played for your team in real life, and are in the WIS database, must be on your roster.
   3. Only players who played for your team in real life may be used in games. If you do not have 25 players in the database (unlikely in this era, but just in case), you will draft additional $200,000 players from the database (from any WIS season) to fill out your roster, but these players MUST:
      1. Be manually set to rest at all times
      2. Be manually removed from your player rest, defensive replacement, and PH hierarchies.
   4. In other words, these non-roster players may not be used in games, unless WIS slots them in because of some sort of emergency, and owners should take every possible step to ensure that doesn’t happen.
   5. If you team is short of PA or IP, even very short. So be it.
5. In most seasons, most teams have MORE than 25 eligible players, we use “draft your own” AAA with the following parameters
   1. Each season, the theme rules will be set for a number of AAA players sufficient to allow the team with the largest real-life roster enough slots to incorporate all of their players.
   2. Teams that have more than 25 players in the WIS database will draft these additional players into AAA slots. These players MAY be used in games, and the transaction deadline will be set as late as possible to allow for roster moves throughout the season.
   3. Teams with unfilled AAA slots can either draft your own $200K players to fill the AAA slots, or just let WIS fill those slots with random AAA players, but in either case, those players MAY NOT be used in games. They should remain in AAA the entire season.
   4. Again, the purpose of AAA is to include as many real-life players as possible; no SIM-generated AAA players should ever be used in games in this league.
6. By all means, do your best to win as many games as you can with the players you have! This is important for several reasons, including…
7. …This is NOT a keeper league. Each season we will redraft from the pool of available teams following a draft lottery. The lottery is much like the NBA lottery; we will draw ping pong balls for the top 3 picks and then the remaining picks will be awarded according to lottery order. Owners whose teams most overachieve in the current season will receive the highest number of ping pong balls for the lottery. “Overachievement” will be defined as “greatest relative improvement in winning percentage.” Or for those who prefer a formula: (WIS winning percentage – MLB winning percentage)/MLB winning percentage. So, if you get stuck with a terrible team in year 1, fear not. If you can win a few more games than they did in real life, you’re probably in great shape to draw a better team in season 2. If, because of owner turnover, we have new owners in the league, they will draft last in their first season (we will use random.org to generate the order for new owners if there are more than one in any given season.)
8. There will be real drafting strategy here. Do you pick the best remaining team available when it’s your turn? Or the team with the greatest possibility of improving on their real-life record? And obviously there is no benefit - EVER - to tanking. Losing never improves your draft position, and winning never harms it.
9. Obviously we are not allowing trades or waiver wire here. We use the DH in the AL of course.

Returning Owners:

1. eddiedzen
2. contrarian23
3. dbrom
4. dirtbag13
5. cstrohmier
6. badabing88
7. jfranco77
8. tywebb3
9. jkorn
10. summerfield
11. redcped
12. TruckFump
13. normy17
14. midknight
15. loyalcanuck
16. dipp3dncrack

New Owners:
17.bmbigdog44
18. rmarsh915
19. patchanb
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1973 Lottery Seed	Owner	1974 Team	RL W	RL L	RL PCT	WIS W	WIS L	WIS PCT	Pct +/-	Rank
————	————————	——————————	————	————	————	————	————	————	————	————
1	eddiedzen	Atlanta Braves	88	74	0.543	110	52	0.679	25	1
2	Contrarian23	Chicago White Sox	80	82	0.494	93	69	0.574	16.3	2
3	dbrom	Kansas City Royals	77	85	0.475	89	73	0.549	15.6	3
4	dirtbag13	Baltimore Orioles	91	71	0.562	104	58	0.642	14.3	4
5	cstrohmier	Los Angeles Dodgers	102	60	0.63	113	49	0.698	10.8	5
6	badabing88	California Angels	68	94	0.42	75	87	0.463	10.3	6
7	jfranco77	Cincinnati Reds	98	64	0.605	107	55	0.66	9.2	7
8	tywebb3	Houston Astros	81	81	0.5	88	74	0.543	8.6	8
9	jkorn	Milwaukee Brewers	76	86	0.469	82	80	0.506	7.9	9
10	summerfield	Pittsburgh Pirates	88	74	0.543	94	68	0.58	6.8	10
11	redcped	Oakland Athletics	90	72	0.556	95	67	0.586	5.6	11
12	jfranco77	Detroit Tigers	72	90	0.444	75	87	0.463	4.2	12
13	dirtbag13	Chicago Cubs	66	96	0.407	67	95	0.414	1.5	13
14	wstevens07	Boston Red Sox	84	78	0.519	82	80	0.506	-2.4	14
15	TruckFump	Cleveland Indians	77	85	0.475	75	87	0.463	-2.6	15
16	normy17	Montreal Expos	79	81	0.494	76	86	0.469	-5	16
17	TruckFump	New York Mets	71	91	0.438	66	96	0.407	-7	17
18	midknight	Philadelphia Phillies	80	82	0.494	72	90	0.444	-10	18
19	loyalcanuck	Minnesota Twins	82	80	0.506	72	90	0.444	-12.2	19
20	wmays	San Francisco Giants	72	90	0.444	63	99	0.389	-12.5	20
21	BOB_O	Texas Rangers	84	78	0.519	72	90	0.444	-14.3	21
22	dippedncrack	St. Louis Cardinals	86	75	0.534	74	88	0.457	-14.5	22
23	Contrarian23	San Diego Padres	60	102	0.37	42	120	0.259	-30	23
24	SamSpeedant	New York Yankees	89	73	0.549	58	104	0.358	-34.8	24

If you’ve got a spot, I’ll give this a try.

Count me in. Thanks

Posted by bmbigdog44 on 3/7/2024 8:23:00 AM (view original):
If you’ve got a spot, I’ll give this a try.

Glad to have you. I'll add you to the private forum

Posted by rmarsh915 on 3/7/2024 8:37:00 AM (view original):
Count me in. Thanks

Super

I'd like to try, depending on which teams are available.

Posted by patchanb on 3/12/2024 10:41:00 AM (view original):
I'd like to try, depending on which teams are available.

It’s a draft… you won’t know who’s available until your slot comes up…

Posted by patchanb on 3/12/2024 10:41:00 AM (view original):
I'd like to try, depending on which teams are available.

The new owners will be randomized for the final draft slots. You will not likely get a good team this season, but the key is to pick a team whose RL record you feel you can improve upon, thereby shooting up the draft board next season.

bump

I'd like to try. Thanks!

Posted by patchanb on 3/23/2024 7:44:00 PM (view original):
I'd like to try. Thanks!

you got it - I'll add you to the private forum

Bump