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wis iii champion.... just sayin
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WIS XVI - Format & Signup Thread (4 Viewers)
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Bogart
Footballguy
Probably not worth paying for, but would love to see a league based on "Nine Bo Jacksons". Everyone drafts one player to play all positions on the field. Maybe a different year from the player for each spot. Bonds, Ruth, etc no brainers, but would Biggio be the shark move? Yount? Fisk? How much would you think about defense.
Make it a two round draft and only draft the career of a single pitcher for your staff.
Make it a two round draft and only draft the career of a single pitcher for your staff.
Super Nintendo Chalmers
Footballguy
I'd be in for whatever if there is room.
Doctor Detroit
Please remove your headgear
There he is!'Super Nintendo Chalmers said:
Frostillicus
Footballguy
In
jfranco77
Footballguy
OK, so 25 players from 25 different teams names. So you can have a St. Louis Brown and a Baltimore Oriole.
Should we limit it to a certain time frame, like 1950-2012? It would be a pretty high salary league either way.
Is that what we're doing?
Otherwise I'd love to do the 9 Bo Jacksons league. I've done those before on WIS, they're a lot of fun. Playing a league like that live could be insane though.
Should we limit it to a certain time frame, like 1950-2012? It would be a pretty high salary league either way.
Is that what we're doing?
Otherwise I'd love to do the 9 Bo Jacksons league. I've done those before on WIS, they're a lot of fun. Playing a league like that live could be insane though.
Brady Marino
Footballguy
I like 9 Bo Jacksons or the one player team concept with the timeframe being something like 1920-2000. Rosters would still be pretty stacked.
Doug B
Footballguy
No need for this ... not hard to track franchise continuity.Not a dealbreaker for me, but if people were thinking that the "distinct team names" concept was all that much easier -- I don't think it really is.
Doug B
Footballguy
How many credible teams can really be created this way? Wouldn't the Babe Ruth and Barry Bonds squads crush the Craig Biggios or whatever?
Bogart
Footballguy
I just wonder how many passed balls and infield errors a Bonds or Ruth team would have. Probably wouldn't matter as they score 30 a game, but would be interesting to see. And I vote for franchises, not different team names.
jfranco77
Footballguy
Well, if you do a 2-round draft, then it's Walter Johnson and Biggio against Ruth and Curt Schilling, or whatever. (Obviously Ruth needs to be restricted to hitter only). You have the option of picking either a hitter or a pitcher in round 1, and it's a snake draft, so it's 1 and 48 vs. 24 and 25. Ruth makes a lot of errors at SS and allows a lot of passed balls. My concern is that Rickey Henderson would absolutely destroy a Ruth team if you played it live. You might never throw him out. I've never played one of these teams live.
jfranco77
Footballguy
I'm fine with franchises. I'm a history buff. If everyone else is OK with it too, that's better.
oso diablo
Footballguy
is there time for this? 1st pick in the BTTF2 draft last year was on 2/14.
Doug B
Footballguy
It's OK if the WIS XVI season is going on during the BTTF'13 draft. Pretty sure the Alphabet Soup season was still being played on WIS on 2/14/2012.
Arsenal of Doom
Footballguy
We just need to decide on a format and get the draft going quickly so we don't have the drafts over lapping. It sounds like we are more or less locked on the one player per franchise draft, right?'Doug B said:
Brady Marino
Footballguy
I'm cool with that. What years? And one per franchise or one per team?
Eephus
Footballguy
I'd suggest starting with 1903 (when the sixteen golden era franchises solidified) and ending with 1992 (when MLB expanded from 26 to 28 teams). I have nothing against the post-1993 expansion teams* but I think a bit more scarcity for the post-1961 expansion teams and avoiding the steroid era are both pluses.Franchises makes more sense to me than the name on a shirt.ETA: *except for Jeffrey Loria
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Brady Marino
Footballguy
I second all of those motions.Draft date? Week from Monday?
oso diablo
Footballguy
those are good ideas, making for 26 franchises. Combine the Mariners and the Blue Jays into one, and you get a nice 25.
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Bogart
Footballguy
Or just have one franchise you don't have a player from.
Brady Marino
Footballguy
This.
Eephus
Footballguy
I like this idea. It gives the combined Toronttle franchise 30 seasons worth of players, which is almost identical to the Mets, Astros, Angels and Senangers.
larry_boy_44
Footballguy
'Doug B said:
no reason we can't play and draft at the same time (or draft/play during the season)
larry_boy_44
Footballguy
why even restrict like this?If I feel I can field a better team not picking a Yankee instead of a Blue Jay, why restrict it?Just do 25 players, 1 player per franchise maximum. Obviously you won't have 1 from everyone if there are more than 25.
jfranco77
Footballguy
I'm fine with that. 1903-1992, 26 franchises, you have to pick a player from 25 of them.
Doug B
Footballguy
Second this idea. Not a dealbreaker, but a better concept.
Old Hoss Radbourn
Footballguy
Such savage ignorance was only seen in my day from an Iroquois who refused to trade his land to me for a fine bottle of aged scotch imported from London. I ended up killing that Iroquois with the broken end of a cheap whiskey bottle.Oh, and Silver King and Ed Morris once carried my personal effects off the train at the train station in Altoona. This is who WIS thinks is worthy from that era? Bah.
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Arsenal of Doom
Footballguy
Thirded.'Doug B said:
Brady Marino
Footballguy
Works for me, too. Fourthed.
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oso diablo
Footballguy
i'm in. not sure if i said that already
Super Nintendo Chalmers
Footballguy
I count 22 who have either said I'm in or talked about format1. Eephus
2. JFranco
3. Hoos
4. Chem X
5. Kraft...
6. BM
7. Bogart
8. Dr. D
9. TU
10. RnR
11. SoCal
12. East Coast Bias
13. Mentos
14. Larry Boy
15. Tre
16. Cheeseneed to talk him into it
17. Oso
18. Doug B
19. AoD
20. moops
21. SNC
22. Frosty
23. Greco (my kind of guy)
24. rodg12 (soooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyy)
There are a few other regulars that have not chimed in so I don't think we will have trouble getting 24.
Close enough, I say we start rolling!
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oso diablo
Footballguy
i know in one of these, there was a player salary max of $8 million (or so). will that be the case here, too?
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Doug B
Footballguy
That was in last year's Alphabet Soup draft (WIS XV). Can't remember why that was implemented.EDIT: Here's what jfranco wrote last year about the $10 million pitcher salary limit:
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Brady Marino
Footballguy
No salary maxes, please.
Bogart
Footballguy
This.
Bogart
Footballguy
oso diablo
Footballguy
i am also assuming that a given player can't be picked more than once, right? Like, you couldn't have a Yankee Babe Ruth on one team, and a Red Sox Babe Ruth on another?
Brady Marino
Footballguy
Pretty sure this is correct. Clones generally haven't been welcomed in these draffs.
Bogart
Footballguy
Correct.
Doug B
Footballguy
What was that Gmail addy? "Wisruthroll"?Roll Them Bones?
rodg12
Footballguy
BUMP. Since SNC left me off his update... <_<
