We have an opening in the Start Off Filling Random Years (SOFRY) League. In this league, you are given a fresh list of 25 random years from 1885-2024 each season and must fit your players in as best you can, then we draft to fill the holes. This leads to some big names being available in each draft because their owner didn't have a year drawn for them they could use.

Complete rules are below. We have a fully drafted team that is ready to go.

Start Off Filling Random Years (SOFRY) Progressive:

24 Team League - 6/4 Format. All players and all seasons are available.

Initial Draft:
Each owner will receive a list of 25 years drawn randomly from 1885-today. A year may appear twice or more in that draw. Upon filling the league we will have a complete 25-round snake draft. You will draft players to fill the years that you've been given. For example, if you want to draft Albert Pujols, you'll need to have a year between 2001-2023 on your list and that's the year of his career that you will use. There are no clones so once a player is drafted he is off the board. When you draft a player, you don't have to assign a year at that time. So let's say you have 2008 and 2009 on your list. You draft Pujols. You don't have to decide until after the draft which year to use for him and which to use for another player. You are only limited by the years drawn for you and the 140M league salary cap. It may be best for you to assign them though, so you can stay under the cap as you keep drafting.

Keepers/Cuts:
After the trade deadline, you'll receive a new list of 25 years for the following season. You will fit your 25 players into those slots as best you can. If you have a player for whom you didn't draw a year, you'll have to cut that player. You must keep all players that can fit onto your roster. Using the Pujols example, let's say you have 2021 on your list (his worst year) and that's the only year you drew of his career. You'll have to carry that season and keep him *unless* you have someone else you can roster for 2021 which leaves no spot for Pujols. You can't cut any players who can be slotted into unused years on your list. Any years you weren't able to fill with the players you have, you can fill in the draft. Keepers are due by season's end so the draft may begin promptly. When turning in your keepers you must assign players to seasons unlike the initial draft.

Subsequent Drafts:
The draft order in each round of the draft will be random. So you could draft 5th in the first round, 17th in the second round and so on. No need to tank as your record has no bearing on your draft position. A complete list of all the teams' keepers will be made available and updated as the draft progresses. So you'll know who you can't draft and everyone else is fair game.

Free Agents:
Some players have very long careers and therefore would almost never fail to have a year of their career drawn. In order to stimulate player movement there will be an individual multi-season player cap of 40M. So, let's say you use 2005 Pujols in Season 1. That's 8.021M (cut off at one decimal, 8.0M.) The second season, you use 2009 (9.5M.) You have now used 17.5M total. Third season, you use 2001 (7.3 brings you to 24.8.) Once that total reaches or exceeds 40M, you will automatically lose him as a free agent after the season that pushes him to the limit and he will be available in the draft. When a player is cut and drafted as a free agent, his 40M clock resets even if he's drafted by his previous team.

Trades:
Trades will only be allowed in-season before the standard 120-game deadline. There will be no offseason trading of players you can't fit in. Those players will be cut and placed in the draft pool. Trades do not have to fit your list of years as each owner has a different list and finding an owner to trade a 1939 player to for a 1939 player in return would be nearly impossible. You can trade a 1985 player for a 1939 and so on. Draft picks may be traded up to two seasons in advance. Trades will not reset a player's 40M individual cap. You must remain under 140M both before and after a trade however, so "cash" can not be included in trades. (Edit for Season 3: It has been voted that trades must be even in terms of players and picks. The same number of players and the same number of picks must go in each direction.)

AAA:
Each team will have two well below average fictitious players for trade balancing only.

IL/DL:
There is no injured list.

140M salary cap/40M player cap
No clones
No DH
Injuries off
Any ballpark is fine
Random alignment each season

We had an owner disappear during the draft. I finished drafting for him but he still hasn't returned. So all you have to do is enter the team and take it from there. Below are their current individual salaries *after* the season that is about to begin. You'll notice Lefty Tyler & Stan Musial are over 40M, so you'll lose them after the season. The players with blank salaries were just drafted and will only have their current salary on record.

1892		Billy Gumbert	1890-1893
1896		Hughie Jennings	1891-1918	39.4
1906		Roy A. Thomas	1899-1911	26.1
1911		Mike Donlin	1899-1914	4.3
1915		Lefty Tyler	1910-1921	44.8
1923		Frank Gibson	1913-1927	2.5
1933		Frankie Frisch	1919-1937
1935		Dizzy Dean	1930-1947
1936		Wally Moses	1935-1951	31.7
1937		Dolph Camilli	1933-1945
1938		Jumbo Brown	1925-1941
1948		Stan Musial	1941-1963	42.9
1952		Hank Sauer	1941-1959	12
1955		Bill Henry	1952-1969	5.1
1959		Eddie Yost	1944-1962	12
1963		Sandy Koufax	1955-1966	28.8
1967		Tony Perez	1964-1986
1969		Dick McAuliffe	1960-1975
1974		Rollie Fingers	1968-1985	21.1
1979		Danny Darwin	1978-1998
1985		Bret Saberhagen	1984-2001	27.8
1991		Dennis Eckersley	1975-1998	39.4
1992		Jeff Bagwell	1991-2005	17
2013		Salvador Perez	2011-2023	8.6
2019		Zack Greinke	2004-2023	20.2

The team has been claimed via sitemail. However, if you'd like to be on the league waitlist just let me know!