pan6467

Anyone interested in a baseball after season Keeper league?

What we'll do is draft our team after the season ( your choice of real team AND FARM SYSTEM) then we'll bid on the F/A markets, and do some trades.

By the beginning of next season we'll have our rosters set and ready to go.

If we get enough people interested we can talk about donating and getting a true trophy to pass around from season to season.

Now the rules I would suggest (as this will be a majority rules league).

1. Each team starts with equal F/A money.... watch how you spend it because you may need it for trades (I think $150 Million should be a good number). Each F/A signed can be signed to a multi-year contract that will affect those payrolls or a single year contract.... also players on drafted teams may be signed to long term contracts (based on current pay plus a 5-10% increase each year).

Example: if the Cubs drafter chooses to keep Prior, he may sign Prior to a long term deal (his real salary*5%). If in R/L Prior may become a real F/A but our Cubs owner has his rights and therefore in our league he isn't. If our Cubs owner didn't sign him and he becomes a R/L F/A then our Cubs owner must bid on him.

Example: Garciaparra signs with a team in R/L for 5 years and 50 Mill, but in our league he is signed for 1 year and 15 Mill. after next season in our league he is a F/A and can be bid on by anyone.

2. Trades affect your finances. Just like in real baseball if in July you need a Randy Johnson and the guy who has him is out and you want to trade prospects, or whatever, you also have to eat his salary. If you don't have the money to pay him.... no trade.

3. Attendence of the real teams affects your money AFTER each season. How we'll figure the money is Home Attendence * $20 and Away Attendence *$5. (Money not spent the season before carries over.... say you only spend $75 mill the first season, you'll have Attendence revenue + the $75 mill. you didn't spend).

4. To avoid a "Yankees" syndrome, if the team you draft has a real payroll over the $150 million given at the start of the season, you must lower your payroll to match the monies you have. In other words, you'll have to drop some players into F/A. SALARIES OF DRAFTED TEAMS ARE THOSE OF THE "REAL TEAM".

5. We'll have a non-biased commissioner taking the bids on the F/A (as bids will be set with a minimum and then blind), bidding lasts until there is only 1 bidder. The commisioner will post here once a week players that have only 1 bidder left and you'll then have 1 week to bid if you choose to do so, BUT the commish will not post bidding price so you may still be under.

Example: Posted: 1 bidder remaining on Vazquez..... NOT POSTED the bid is $12 mill a season..... you bid $10 mill and have not bid on him yet... you are still out and have 1 bid left on him..... you can try again or give up.

6. Minor league systems are NOT up for trade, however, you may trade for the rights of a player in the minors. Also 10% of your payroll goes to pay for your minor league system.

7. Teams not drafted, all players become F/A

8 Expansion. We'll start out hopefully at 8-10 players..... there is no "in season" expansion, but at the end of a season if a player wishes to join he must meet the buy-in price. He then is able to draft a real team (minus any players taken out by F/A). He then can pick up to 5 players on that team that were taken, BUT he has to pay the team that has them their salary and 5-10% (decided by vote on charter)

9) Contraction. If a player drops out he can "sell" his team to a new non player OR the the team is "a dead team (no trades and dead in the standings)", managed by the Commish until a new player can be found.

10. A charter will be drawn up 1 week prior to draft, via chatroom. There owners will decide on official rules, whether we want a "buy-in price" (which I recommend so that we may have the trophy or at least pay the commish a small salary for taking care of us, a "secretary" who keeps records of players and teams, the system we use (ESPN, Yahoo, etc)


Hopefully, there are some of you interested and we can get this going. If it works we can do it for Football and Basketball also.

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