As a theme to get owners to use more unique players instead of the usual suspects, I stumbled upon the idea of a league where each owner uses players from a randomly-selected birth year.

We're in the playoffs for our first set of seasons (1929-52), and we need a few more owners for our next season (1953-1976). You'll have $100M to spend on your roster, which gives almost everyone a fighting chance to make the playoffs. Our first season has been full of unexpected results and stars: Reggie Smith as an MVP blowing away Mantle, Mays, etc., and Pat Jarvis as a Cy Young winner over Koufax et al..

Eventually we hope to use all of the birth years between 1857-2000 over six seasons, and then run a Tournament of Champions for the final four teams from each season.

We have 13 owners who have signed up to return and I will post the draw for their random seasons below. Come and join us!

EDIT: I forgot to add the rules so here is the full wrap:
DH in both leagues.
No WW or trades, you can only play with your the players you draft for your given birth year.
You must choose a manager who was born in your given year, and choose a home park from one of the seasons that he managed. If nobody born in that year was ever a manager, then you can choose any player on your roster as your manager, and take the ballpark they played in the season you've drafted for them.

Owners:

I asked contrarian23 to draw a random birth year for me and he drew 1962, so I will plug myself into the following random sequence wherever that falls. This was the random sequence by which I will assign teams - only the years assigned to returning owners are shown, but the rest are set up by this draw:

Here is your sequence:

1975 Contrarian23
1960 Rattlers
1958 Bixman51
1974_JJP_
1964 Holleybard
1962 *tdoak*
1969 Vilefileman
1953 Mensu1954
1968 Zephyr1949
1976 Bbondsmvp
1955 whalers10
1963 Bill_James47
1961 2chair
1954 thunder1008
1973 strubrosII
1959 joerat1
1967 eman7400
1972.DJTaylor
1970 oldtimer59
1966 razorclams
1971 greggo72
1956 trumbull

(others hidden)

Timestamp: 2025-07-12 23:33:11 UTC

I'm in.

in

I’ll return

What is the baseball-reference link again for finding birth year?

Posted by zephyr1949 on 7/13/2025 12:47:00 PM (view original):
What is the baseball-reference link again for finding birth year?

In your case 1968 would be

https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/1968-births.shtml

Welcome aboard thunder1008, and welcome back strubrosII and joerat1.

Your assigned seasons are 1954, 1973, and 1959, respectively. Updated above.

That puts us up to 16 owners.

mensu1954 reminded me that I forgot to include the home park rules on my opening post, so I have amended it there. You need to name a manager, and use a home park from one of your manager's seasons.

I'll try this I'm in

I’ll join

I'LL PLAY

I feel lucky

Wow four more years! Here they are:

eman7400: 1967
DJTaylor: 1972
oldtimer59: 1970
razorclams: 1966

Bumping us up. There are four seasons left on offer, and exclusive use of players like Rickey Henderson and Pedro Martinez. You've heard of all these guys, help us bring them out of hibernation and see what they can do in a $100M league.