I know I am up. Feel free to skip me. I am trying a couple of player-season switches to see if I can get it to work. The last three picks for me are mostly meaningless anyway.

Posted by schwarze on 8/22/2024 12:57:00 PM (view original):
Sportsman's II or III?

Sportsman's III

Tony Pena
Jerry Royster
Colt Stadium

Last three picks...

Danny Santana
Lorenzo Cain
D.T. Cromer

Juan Padilla

EDIT: On second thought, not going to delay any further. Looking more closely at the last couple of picks, I don't think there's going to be an advantage gained by cheaping out.

So...

Ben Zobrist
Cliff Floyd

I almost took Padilla.

Here is what I have for the 25-year range for each team, sorted by draft order.

98-22 justinlee_24
84-08 06gsp
99-23 discodemo
93-17 schwarze
99-23 barracuda3
64-88 emanes10
97-21 jbohrman
53-77 _JJP_
97-21 toysboys
80-04 tigerrott
68-92 ronthegenius
72-96 mjkrunner
99-23 d_rock97
99-23 MJDSupporter
54-78 jfranco77
96-20 redcped
78-02 duhbigcat
63-87 mildnhazy
67-91 beauchamp
64-88 dvorr80
66-90 doctorcc
76-00 buddhagamer
99-23 gworear
53-77 RebJebb

Number of players drafted per season...
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Year	….	Players
1953		2
1954		3
1955		3
1956		3
1957		3
1958		3
1959		3
1960		3
1961		3
1962		3
1963		4
1964		6
1965		6
1966		7
1967		8
1968		9
1969		9
1970		9
1971		9
1972		10
1973		10
1974		10
1975		10
1976		11
1977		11
1978		10
1979		9
1980		10
1981		10
1982		10
1983		10
1984		11
1985		11
1986		11
1987		11
1988		10
1989		8
1990		8
1991		7
1992		6
1993		6
1994		6
1995		6
1996		7
1997		8
1998		9
1999		14
2000		14
2001		13
2002		13
2003		12
2004		12
2005		11
2006		11
2007		11
2008		11
2009		10
2010		10
2011		10
2012		10
2013		10
2014		10
2015		10
2016		10
2017		10
2018		9
2019		9
2020		9
2021		8
2022		6
2023		5

My salary projections aren't 100% accurate, so I will not post anything definitive on that.

I didn't go through each team and try to figure out whether the partial or the combined season would be taken. I almost always just picked the best version of a player (usually the partial), but I know for a fact that it's likely some are using the lesser-quality combined season to get more PA or IP. For example, I am using the combined seasons for both Charles Johnson and Bobby Bonilla even though their partial seasons are higher quality.

Based on my projections, the average salary is about $144.5 million, but that number is probably low, since I am certainly wrong on some partial/combined seasons.

This chart shows the franchise and number of players taken. It could be off a little, as some combined seasons of players could be listed with either team (i.e., NYM or Bal for '95 Bonilla - I have both options available).

Team	….	Players
Ana		19
Ari		8
Atl		24
Bal		17
Bos		24
ChC		20
ChW		19
Cin		23
Cle		22
Col		13
Det		21
Fla/Mia		12
Hou		23
KCR		20
LAD		23
Mil		22
Min		22
Mon/Was		21
NYM		22
NYY		23
Oak		23
Phi		24
Pit		22
SDP		20
SFG		24
Sea		17
StL		24
TBR		9
Tex		21
Tor		18

With all but a few teams entered, the salary range is $131m to $161m with what looks like a cluster in the high $130s and low $140s. I’ll post division alignment once we check all rosters and they’re final.

gworear, some other owner entered a team in the league and I'm trying to get him out. But in the meantime, you won't be able to enter your team.

I’m in.

Salary/division breakdown:

toysboys $161,117,755 NL E
justinlee_24 $158,627,946 NL E
dvorr80 $156,585,154 NL E
emanes10 $151,632,835 NL E

redcped $151,029,707 NL C
discodemo $150,433,864 NL C
tigerrott $148,841,900 NL C
_JJP_ $146,795,174 NL C

schwarze $146,223,324 NL W
MJDSupporter $145,737,993 NL W
RebJebb $145,708,258 NL W
06gsp $145,459,516 NL W

jbohrman $144,976,567 AL E
d_rock97 $141,481,689 AL E
buddhagamer $140,651,025 AL E
doctorcc $139,696,529 AL E

mjkrunner $139,542,889 AL C
jfranco77 $138,671,722 AL C
gworear $138,439,494 AL C
barracuda3 $137,993,941 AL C

duhbigcat $136,558,894 AL W
beauchamp $135,085,245 AL W
mildnhazy $134,997,812 AL W
ronthegenius $131,555,952 AL W