Forgive me if this has been done before, but I haven't seen it. I don't have the time to run a new progressive league (or even join one), but I wanted to throw this suggestion out there.

There are two general types of progressive leagues.

(1) A single-season 24-team league where the talent pool is very thin and you can get teams winning and/or losing 120+ games. It's really hard to replace badly managed teams.

(2) Or a league where you are combining two (or even three) seasons so you have guys from 1910 playing with guys from 1990 or whatever. The talent pool is better but mixing eras sometimes gives odd results. Sosa isn't going to hit 60 HRs facing Mathewson, Walsh, W.Johnson, etc.

I came up with a way to resolve both issues.

Pick a season to start, it doesn't matter (let's use 1920). Then hold a player draft as usual. The difference is this progressive league uses 2 successive years as it's player pool. The owner gets to choose which season to use. So, if you got first pick, you could choose to use 1920 or 1921 Ruth. Nobody else would get Ruth. The following season would use players from 1922-23 and the Ruth owner could choose either 1922 or 1923. Every WIS-season would advance by 2-year increments. If a player played only one of those seasons, you'd have to take that season (way fewer players on IR).

The beauty of this concept is that is opens up the talent pool for 24-team leagues while keeping the stats somewhat consistent. There's more opportunity for bad teams to get better, because the talent pool is better. Of course, you progress through a player's career twice as fast, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Anyway, just wanted to throw this out there in case somebody wants to run with it.

That sounds like a novel idea... but I'll play devil's advocate... I bet the commish that had to set up the available lists for future drafts would not have much fun. I also see a tough time policing rosters... not for player names... but for eligible years...

I know of at least 2 leagues that use that very format...

There are a bunch of leagues that do that. The Beer League (the 1st progressive) does it that way.

I would like to start a "college" progressive league. If I only had the time.

Players start with their 1st WIS season. They can play a maximum of 4 seasons for you and then they "graduate."

You would have the option to redshirt them for one of their first 4 years, so if they were hurt or bad, you could get their 5th season.

For example, Tris Speaker and Grady Sizemore are both pretty bad part-time players in their first year, but after that, they are great for 4 straight years. So they'd be redshirted their first seasons.

Maybe you'd have 30-35 players "on scholarship" and you could pick your best 25 every year. But that might mess up the redshirting idea.

Maybe after graduating for a few years you could get them back into the player pool, or maybe once they're gone, they'd be gone forever.

Maybe you could have "recruiting areas" so each team can only get players from a particular part of the country... I wouldn't want to carve out 16 or 24 of them. Maybe it isn't necessary at all. But maybe the AL recruits from the US and the NL recruits from the rest of the world, or something like that.

I really want to run one with 2009 pitchers and 1901 hitters. The pitchers would regress and the hitters progress.

I figure you could only have 16 teams but I think it would lead to some interesting results.

Quote: Originally Posted By Trentonjoe on 3/05/2010I really want to run one with 2009 pitchers and 1901 hitters. The pitchers would regress and the hitters progress.

I figure you could only have 16 teams but I think it would lead to some interesting results

I'll be checking the classified...I would definitley be interested

I wish I had the time to do that man....maybe this summer.

Would it be possible to set up a league that instead of going from 1950/1951 to 1952/1953 went from 1950/1951 to 1951/1952? (Snail Progressive League) You could get more seasons usage from your players and still have a better talent pool.

There used to be more leagues like that when you had to have 24 teams. Now that you can use 12 and 16 team leagues the need for this has diminished because their are enough players to field a league.