Round 1 Themes, 2022 Topic

All leagues will have:
  1. No Waiver Wire
  2. No AAA
  3. No Trades
  4. Random Division Alignment
  5. Injuries ON
  6. No restrictions on split season players (some past year themes did not allow combined seasons)
  7. No 300k exception (some past year themes allowed you to break theme rules to draft <300k players to fill out your roster)
  8. No team name requirements

3/28/2022 4:11 PM
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70M Q&A
3/28/2022 4:17 PM (edited)
$80M: Spreading the Wealth

The revenue sharing in modern MLB allows cheap and incompetent teams to stay afloat. In that spirit, for this theme we will spread the money around. Each player must have a minimum salary of $1 million, and every player must be from a different franchise.

Seasons: 1920-2021
DH: No
Clones: No
Ballpark: Choose a stadium one of your players played in during the season of his you use.

Use this post if you are not sure about which franchise is which.



3/28/2022 4:25 PM (edited)
$80M Q&A
3/28/2022 4:25 PM (edited)
$100M: Polarization

You must either spend >$60 million on hitting or spend >$60 million on pitching

Seasons: All
DH: No
Clones: No
Ballpark: Any
3/28/2022 4:27 PM (edited)
$100M Q&A
3/28/2022 4:27 PM (edited)
$110M: See You In A New Year

All 25 players must come from a different season. If you make it to Round 2, you will draft another $110M team that uses 25 more unique seasons. So if you make it to Round 2 your combined rosters will consist of players from 50 different seasons.

Seasons: All
DH: No
Clones: No
Ballpark: Choose a stadium one of your players played in during the season of his you use.
3/28/2022 4:36 PM (edited)
$110M Q&A

Q: Do we need to submit Round 2 rosters during Round 1?

A: No

Q: Do the players on the Round 1 and Round 2 roster have to be the same?

A: No, you can use anyone you want as long as you don't use the same season twice.
3/29/2022 6:40 AM (edited)
$120M: Bombs or Bloopers By Decade

Choose exactly two players from each of the following 12 decades:
  • 1900-09
  • 1910-19
  • ...
  • 2010-19
and choose exactly one wild card player from either 1885-1899 or 2020-2021. You must spend at least $1 million per decade, including the wild card.

There are only two ballparks available: Target Field and Yankee Stadium (III). To prevent deadball pitcher stacking, there is a $15 million maximum for pitchers from 1885-1919.

Seasons: All
DH: No
Clones: No
Ballpark: Target Field, Yankee Stadium (III)
4/1/2022 8:24 AM (edited)
$120M Q&A

Q: Is the $15 million maximum for deadball pitchers for individual pitchers or the combined salary of all deadball pitchers?

A: Combined salary of all deadball pitchers.
3/29/2022 6:41 AM (edited)
$140M: Trip Eights and the Big Joker

Choose eight players. You will clone each of those eight players three times. The 25th player on your roster must cost at least $20 million and cannot be a 19th century pitcher.

Seasons: All
DH: Yes
Clones: Yes
Ballpark: All
4/18/2022 5:18 PM (edited)
$140M Q&A

Q: Can the >$20 million player be the same player as one of my eight cloned players?

A: Yes
3/28/2022 5:44 PM (edited)
$110 mil question, do we have to submit our two teams like last year?

$120 mil question, is $15 million the total we can spend on pitching or the highest we can spend on one pitcher?
3/28/2022 7:35 PM
$110 mil question - do the players need to be the same on both rosters or can they contain any players as long as there are 50 different player seasons?
3/28/2022 7:47 PM
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