This is the 3rd iteration of a league originally created by NebHusker, who authorized me taking over. You draft a player from each franchise in the 1969-present configuration (2 players with your 1st pick, playing in their division and stadium). The current league will end on Sept 5 - I will treat non-returners as wait listed through Sept 6. I hope to start within a couple of days once we will up and draft in Sept-early October.

People love this draft in Feb & June! Two changes are cap back to $120m and using a "per pick not per team" draft order pasted below. Will randomize into draft order after we have 24!

RULES:
Franchise Draft 3, 1969-2024
This will be a 24 round draft, drafting from a different franchise each round. Once we get 24 owners, we will randomly assign a first round draft order, and each owner will be randomly assigned a “Double 1st Pick” franchise (franchises listed below). 1st pick can be adjusted if an owner previously played that team with their 1st pick.
We will then conduct a 24 round draft where each day, each owner selects a player from the franchise assigned to them for that day (1969-2024 only). There won't need to be time slots - anytime before midnight EST is fine. However, each day, the player picks from their team for that day. I will try to update the front page and paste that day's team assignments daily.

Owners will ultimately get one pick in each position (1-24) and one pick from each franchise (2 players for 1st round pick).
Players are exclusive WITHIN franchises, but are not exclusive across franchises.
Example – During the Boston round, once Pedro Martinez gets selected, he is off the board for the rest of the Red Sox picks. However, if you are picking from the Mets franchise or the Montreal/ Washington franchise, someone can select a version of Pedro each from those franchises. This means clones ARE allowed, as someone could possibly take 2 or more versions of a player with different franchises. There was a team with several Beltrans in v1.
Obviously, a normal draft won’t work here as each owner gets a #1 pick and each owner gets a #24 pick and everything in between. We will draw a random order for round 1, and then simply slide everyone down one pick every round (1 moves to 2. . . .2 moves to 3. . . .etc, with 24 moving to 1). You can trade picks with someone so long as both players pick in all 24 slots and from all 24 franchises.
The strategy here is interesting. . . .with a $120M cap and with everyone's 1st pick on day 1, you can decide whether to grab an awesome starter or a cheap bench player. To up the strategy factor, we WILL use a DH.
Your ballpark will be based on whatever franchise you get for your #1 double pick, you can take any park that franchise used between 1969 – 2024. Yes, this means if you get the Cubs as your franchise, you will play in Wrigley. If you draw the Dodgers, you are in Dodger Stadium. The nice part is you will know what park you are in before we draft. For that matter, you will also know which other owners/parks will be in your division.
To keep with the spirit of the theme, combined seasons will NOT be allowed, we will use Full or Partial only.
Standard 24 team league
$120M salary cap.
YES to clones, but only from different franchises.
YES to DH.
No WW.
No AAA.
No trades
Full/Partial seasons only (no Combined)
Alignment – See below (Astros & Brewers go back to 1969 roots)
Ballpark – any park used by your franchise (1969-2024 only)
Yes to injuries

Draft Franchises – (Listed by Divisional Alignment)
Orioles (Bal 1969-2024)
Red Sox (Bos 1969-2024)
Tigers (Det 1969-2024)
Yankees (NY 1969-2024)

Indians/Guardians (Cle 1969-2024)
Royals (KC 1969-2024)
Twins (Min 1969-2024)
White Sox (Chi 1969-2024)

Angels (Cal 1969-1996. . . .Ana 1997-2017. . . .LA 2018-2024)
Athletics (Oak 1969-2024)
Brewers/Pilots (Sea 1969. . . .Mil 1970-2024)
Rangers/Senators (Wash 1969-1971. . . .Tex 1972-2024)

Braves (Atl 1969-2024)
Mets (NY 1969-2024)
Nationals/Expos (Mon 1969-2004. . . .Wash 2005-2024)
Phillies (Phi 1969-2024)

Cardinals (StL 1969-2024)
Cubs (Chi 1969-2024)
Pirates (Pit 1969-2024)
Reds (Cin 1969-2024)

Astros (Hou 1969-2024)
Dodgers (LA 1969-2024)
Giants (SF 1969-2024)
Padres (SD 1969-2024)

Sign ups
1 ermocito
2 pick1or2
3 Ribbentrop
4 rmarksduke
5 YOGI256 WL
6 nbl17
7 farleyfustle
8 ff09
9 ybjsports
10 cannotbebeat
11 pmars2001 WL
12 mllama54
13 strubrosII
14 ronthegenius
15 jbussey
16 vilefileman
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count me in (question thou there was talk about everyone will pick their 2 franchise picks first then we will go to the normal draft. Is that what we are doing? I am in either way

In your initial post, you say "cap back to $120M", but further down it still says $115M.

I was in 2.0 with the Anaheim Angels in Edison Field
And will Draft again ! ...

Posted by pick1or2 on 8/31/2025 3:21:00 PM (view original):
count me in (question thou there was talk about everyone will pick their 2 franchise picks first then we will go to the normal draft. Is that what we are doing? I am in either way

Day 1 ... everyone makes pick #1, 2 players
Day 2 ... everyone makes pick #2, 1 player
etc

Each day, we are all making pick # but one player from each team goes.

I will ask people to format their picks in a certain way to reduce confusion, such as

Pick 5 ... Royals...Amos Otis

Posted by nbl17 on 8/31/2025 8:00:00 PM (view original):
In your initial post, you say "cap back to $120M", but further down it still says $115M.

Thank you for catching that!
It is now fixed, $120m in both places.

I would like to return. I love the new draft system. Very fair.

I would like to join the madness.

I'll return for another season! I love the idea of having the full 24 hours to make a pick rather than trying to hit the 30 minute window.

I'll join

im back

I'm back

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