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[BYU 14]

Interested in doing an 8 team draft league (Will go up to 12 if enough sign up) with the latest computer version of Strat-O-Matic Baseball. You would be drafting from a pool of all players in the Hall of fame, ATG's who will soon be eligible or who won't be voted in for crimes real, or perceived against the game (Shoeless Joe, Bonds, Rose, etc) and the 108 greatest players from the Negro Leagues.

I will play all the games out (You can roll a game in 15 minutes or so on the CPU version) and give summaries. I know the biggest issue in Baseball interactive leagues is the time it takes to draft and I think I have a solution to that.

Each team gets a $100 budget and for each round you submit a list of 10 players. Every field position and 2 pitchers and bid a certain amount from your budget on each player. In the event two teams pick the same player, the highest bid wins.

If you win a player(s) in the bidding draft, that money is deducted from your total account and the next round starts. Since there are over 429 players to choose from and you can win multiple players each round it should go fast.

Players are rated on their 7 best seasons

Example of a bid sheet:
C - Josh Gibson $9
1B - Lou Gehrig $7
2B - Nellie Fox $4
3B - Brooks Robinson $3

and so on. Doing it this way we should fill up teams in 3-4 rounds and can get going. Will play a season of 60 to 70 games depending on the number of teams.

If interested I need your team name and ballpark. The parks available for this league are all vintage parks.

Yankee Stadium
Fenway Park
Comiskey Park
Shibe Park
Baker Bowl
League Park
Sportsman's Park
Griffith Stadium
Sicks Field
Braves Field
Ebbet's Field
Crosley Field
Forbe's Field
Polo Grounds
Colts Stadium
Memorial Coliseum

[DavidCorperial]

I might be interested, but don't have SOM, maybe, instead, you should pick the players that are available to be drafted each round and then do the bidding like that with managers also ordering which player they want more and each manager only able to get 1 of the players from each round of the draft, might work better and be more interesting. So, you might have a round where you place 10 negro league stars and then have the managers choose between those 10 players.

[collegesportsfanms]

I might be interested, but don't have SOM, maybe, instead, you should pick the players that are available to be drafted each round and then do the bidding like that with managers also ordering which player they want more and each manager only able to get 1 of the players from each round of the draft, might work better and be more interesting. So, you might have a round where you place 10 negro league stars and then have the managers choose between those 10 players.

BYU 14, I like this idea, because I can honestly say I wouldn't know who is eligible to be drafted in this game or not either. I think this would work really well.

You could still do this in multiple rounds. For instance, in round 1, you have 10 certain players. Each manager gives a list of 1-10 in order of the player they would want for that particular round. You can still use budget as a tiebreaker. I hope that makes sense.

[BYU 14]

I am open to that type of format, maybe going with more players per round to get through the draft quicker.

Would something like this give you enough info?

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[DavidCorperial]

Maybe have left/right splits on batting numbers and some kind of defensive numbers, but yeah, that would look great.

[BYU 14]

I can add defense, but they don't list statistical splits as they are on the cards.

[DavidCorperial]

Defense alone would work then, and if any players are clearly better against one side or another, you can just mention that.