Bookend Twist XXXVIII has just concluded with Drawdexer and Raul Mondesi taking the title... time to turn the page on another chapter of this magnum opus. Most likely will be the final chapter with a possible epilogue for season 40.
If you like researching teams, this league may be for you... Take any player in the WIS database from 1885-2016 who played for at least 2 seasons or for at least 2 teams (
if a player has MLB stats for 2017 or is on the 40 man roster, he would be ineligible)... then take his first and last teams as listed in
http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/ and twist any player who appears on the 2 rosters.
Your bookend player must be on your team and you can use any season of his. No 200K exemptions... twist only the players that appear on the 2 rosters.
Using Babe Ruth as an example, your player pool would be from the 1914 Red Sox and 1935 Braves, twisted to any season of course. Players are only exclusive for the purpose of making teams and can appear on other team's rosters. Choose any stadium your bookend player called home at any point in his career.
BLACKLIST... the bookend players from the first 38 seasons are blacklisted as bookend players... they can still appear on rosters for this season.
Salary Cap $110M
24 teams
No to AAA, WW, DH, clones, trades or live play
Injuries turned off
Random realignment
Choose any home stadium of your bookend player
When signing up, list your bookend player's first & last teams/seasons