My teams are ready.

is there a step I am asked to take for roster verification or only when league numbers come out?

In Alaska on a cruise so don’t want to fall out of the loop.

I guess I'm the only one that doesn't know how to go to baseball reference and find players based on their letter of their last name

Posted by WillHaysnoe on 5/20/2026 9:24:00 PM (view original):
My teams are ready.

is there a step I am asked to take for roster verification or only when league numbers come out?

In Alaska on a cruise so don’t want to fall out of the loop.

Not until league numbers come out.

Posted by farleyfustle on 5/20/2026 9:56:00 PM (view original):
I guess I'm the only one that doesn't know how to go to baseball reference and find players based on their letter of their last name

I just used WIS player search. Used the notes at the bottom of the team draft center to keep track of which letters I had and still needed:

“Have: B, G, J, K, L, P, R, S, T
Need: A, C, D, E, F, H, I, M, N, O, P, Q, U, V, W, Y, Z”

and I’d just move a letter up/down everytime I drafted someone or swapped someone for someone else.

I used a similar approach to the 5 year windows for the $70m.

Even though I finished all my teams, all this extra time is allowing me to second guess myself and rip apart all my old ones

Posted by toysboys on 5/22/2026 7:57:00 PM (view original):
Even though I finished all my teams, all this extra time is allowing me to second guess myself and rip apart all my old ones

Some of these I’m just going to settle on, but I did just spend like 90 minutes this morning completely redoing my $80 million pitching staff

Posted by scjensen51 on 5/24/2026 2:44:00 PM (view original):

Posted by toysboys on 5/22/2026 7:57:00 PM (view original):
Even though I finished all my teams, all this extra time is allowing me to second guess myself and rip apart all my old ones

Some of these I’m just going to settle on, but I did just spend like 90 minutes this morning completely redoing my $80 million pitching staff

And now I can’t stop tinkering. Feel like my hitters are set, but almost just for novelty going slightly different ways with 3-4 slots on the pitching staff

On the $80m, I feel like I’m mostly set, but I still have three teams I keep flip-flopping between.

The $100M build is so taxing. I don't know if I'll ever get done.

Posted by DCNats4000 on 5/28/2026 2:42:00 PM (view original):
The $100M build is so taxing. I don't know if I'll ever get done.

100 took me the most amount of time. The one I will ended up with was just one season over from one of the first few rosters that i tried out.

I was scared about 110 from all the talk in the forums, but it went relatively smooth.

I've now completely re-done my 70, 80 and 140 rosters. 125 came together really fast....maybe too fast. I'll take a look at that one next.

I don't really get moving til the league number comes but I have more or less the minimum 2 for June 8

Posted by farleyfustle on 5/31/2026 3:35:00 PM (view original):
I don't really get moving til the league number comes but I have more or less the minimum 2 for June 8

League numbers and assignments should be coming out shortly.

And good luck to you. But I strongly recommend that people get building if they haven’t already done so. These are not easy themes that can be whipped together quickly….at least by idiots like me.

Posted by just4me on 5/9/2026 7:50:00 PM (view original):
I think I’m mostly done. I plan to rework my $70m a little bit, as I think I can make some improvements. It mostly came together with my first plan, but it’s a little offense heavy. I think this was the right overall idea, I just need to swap a few players around to balance better. I’ll update more on how this turned out in the team write ups.

$80m was the most interesting to strategize around. I built more teams with more variance for this theme than I have for any I can recall (at least 11 wholly distinct strategies with several more iterated off of some of those I felt stronger about).

$100m seemed to just click on the first option I looked at. I maybe could’ve done better, but I’m satisfied enough with this team, that I didn’t really feel the need to even build first pass rosters for my 2nd and 3rd options.

$110m was an absolute nightmare for me. This was the only one I really struggled with. I’ll dive more into it in my team building write up, but this one was tough. I also don’t like my team balance, or my options for parks. But, it took me so many tries to even get a compliant team that I am not going to even try to swap things around.

$125m was one of my favorites ever, though it was one of the easiest for me to draft and I spent the least amount of time on it than any WISC team in memory.

$140m, like the $100m, came together on my first pass and I didn’t really have to make any major adjustments. I might have been able to do better, but I feel good enough about this that I don’t feel the need to look deeper.

Ugh… I somehow missed the DH on the $110m…

Again, I would really recommend everyone reread the rules a few times and reread the posts in this forum. Tips, pointers, and common mistakes are all detailed. Yes, I fell prey to the 110 DH rule as well.

All my rosters have now been verified by a non-tourney owner (schwarze) and I’ve created all six A leagues. I’ll start verifying the other commissioner’s teams shortly and redcped is currently sorting everyone into their league assignments.

We’ll be up and running very soon.

Outstanding! Thanks to those of you who put in so much extra time to bring this event together.