Grand Slam Invitational Concept

This is the concept behind the Grand Slam Invitational league.

The idea was to try and create a league structure that makes every member a General Manager and also a Field Manager of thier own fantasy baseball team.

Since Major League Baseball is a very deep and complex structure, this is how the league is run:

1) General Manager: As the GM of your team, you will be required to initially draft players during this first season and assign contracts to the players staying under the financial cap. You will then be in charge of negotiating trades, drafting incoming players, making roster moves to get the best team.

2) Field Manager: You will have 2 rosters on ESPN fantasy baseball web site (MLB and AAA) that will be competitve leagues. The objective is to put out the best lineup on a daily basis to defeat your apponent every week in both leagues. You will earn points based on how your teams do and also on how your players and manger do with weekly and seasonal awards.

Each team will consist of 4 rosters. They are MLB, AAA, AA and A. Each roster is describe below:

1 - Competitve MLB roster using ESPN league structures for scoring. This roster consists of 25 players with 20 active players and 5 bench spots. 2 DL

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2 - Competitive AAA roster using ESPN league structures for scoring. This roster will consist of 25 players with 20 starters and 5 bench spots. 2 DL (same as MLB)

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3) - AA roster: This roster will consist of 30 players and will be listed in ESPN as a league for the quick ability to look and see if any of your players on this roster have been called up to the show and can earn you some points. There will be 16 position players and 14 pitchers. The origional concept is 2 players at each position and 14 pitchers. However, minor league players changed positions too and so the roster will be one at each position and 8 utility players. These players have to be under the league limits of 150 MLB AB's or 50 IP's.

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4) - A roster: This roster consists of 10 players drafted every year from the MLB first year player draft. Players on this roster will have to be promoted to AA or released into free agency to make room for the next season crop of new players.

Here is how the numbers break down:
MLB has 30 teams with 25 man rosters consisting of approximatly 14 position players and 11 pitchers. This equals 420 positions players and 330 pitchers on MLB rosters everyday up until September call ups. A total of 750 (30 * 25) active MLB players daily.

Our competitive leagues (MLB and AAA) consist of:

MLB - 11 pitching spots * 14 teams or 154 pitching spots
AAA - 11 pitching spots * 14 teams or 154 pitching spots
Total - 308 pitching spots leaving 22 available pitchers

MLB - 9 position spots * 14 teams or 126 position spots
AAA - 9 position spots * 14 teams or 126 position spots
Total position spots = 252


MLB - 5 bench spots * 14 teams or 70 bench spots
AAA - 5 bench spots * 14 teams or 70 bench spots
Total - 140 bench spots

Summary was:
MLB 25 * 14 = 350 players
AAA 25 * 14 = 350 players

MLB active players is 750. We are using 700 of those 750 players on our MLB and AAA roster.

Summary
MLB - 25
AAA - 25
AA - 30
A - 10

Each GM has 90 players on thier rosters. They can be moved around any way you want as long as any player that is no longer AA eligible is promoted to AAA or MLB and only players with less than one year of expeirence in MLB are eligible for the A roster.




SO to sum it all up MLB and AAA are competitive leagues and AA and A are our farm system rosters. As General Managers, we accumulate points based on how are MLB and AAA teams do and how our individual players preform during the year. Each franchise has a manager, which can be fired at any time and replace with any manager not currently on a franchise (proboards player universe spreadsheet only). This is really only for if you happen to have the manager who gets voted as manager of the year. Whoever accumulates the most points becomes our GM of the year and I am pretty sure that winning the MLB league does not guarantee you to be GM of the year.

See the league consitution for official details on salaries, contracts, scoring, pitching limits, waiver rules, etc.