2008 Stock RBI Fantasy Draft

[Stock]

Attezz
Babe Ruth
Juan Samuel
Hans Lobert
Ty Cobb
Vince Coleman
Robin Yount
Frank Chance
Paul Konerko
Jake Stahl

Beefmaster
Barry Bonds
Roy Campanella
Rogers Hornsby
Dick Allen
Frank Robinson
Vern Stephens
Dick Stuart
Gus Zernial
Tony Conigliaro

Nacho
Alex Rodriguez
Vladamir Guererro
Joe DiMaggio
Honus Wagner
Andruw Jones
Craig Biggio
Stan Musial
Roger Maris
Eddie Collins

fightonusc
Albert Pujols
Nomar Garciaparra
Jeff Kent
Yogi Berra
George Brett
Lefty O'Doul
Frank Howard
Hack Wilson
Aramis Ramirez

fknmclane
Mickey Mantle
Frank Thomas
David Ortiz
Dean Palmer
Mickey Tettleton
Rocky Colavito
Roberto Alomar
Juan Uribe
Gorman Thomas

Gantry
Ted Williams
Adam Dunn
Eddie Mathews
Reggie Jackson
Jason Giambi
Johnny Mize
Howard Johnson
Rudy York
Delino Deshields

GDavis
Hank Aaron
Jose Canseco
Carlos Delgado
Bob Horner
Cecil Fielder
Jorge Posada
Hank Sauer
Rico Petrocelli
Julio Cruz

Weathermatt
Mark McGwire
Dave Kingman
Juan Gonzalez
Javy Lopez
Jose Valentin
Rob Deer
Tony Batista
Reggie Sanders
Joe Carter

Nomaaa
Manny Ramirez
Gary Sheffield
Miguel Tejada
Brett Boone
Carlton Fisk
Fred McGriff
Dale Murphy
Carl Crawford
Carlos Beltran

Rack
Ralph Kiner
Albert Belle
Chipper Jones
Derek Jeter
Jeff Bagwell
Jimmie Foxx
Ivan Rodriguez
Chuck Klein
Paul Molitor

AlecTrevylan
Lou Gehrig
Willie Mays
Troy Glaus
Johnny Bench
Jimmy Rollins
Jackie Robinson
Ichiro Suzuki
Magglio Ordonez
Ellis Burks

Ryno
Rafael Palmeiro
Mike Schmidt
Ryne Sandberg
Andre Dawson
Cal Ripken Jr
Gary Carter
Eric Davis
Will Clark
Jim Rice

Shooty
Sammy Sosa
Hank Greenberg
Richie Sexson
Matt Williams
Jim Edmonds
Lance Parrish
Tony Womack
Dave Justice
Frank Taveras

Ultimate
Alfonso Soriano
Ernie Banks
Darryl Strawberry
Willie McCovey
Todd Hundley
Willie Stargell
Kevin Mitchell
Duke Snider
Raul Mondesi

BigHath
Jim Thome
Harmon Killebrew
Joe Gordon
Lance Berkman
Greg Vaughn
Jay Buhner
Bobby Bonds
Rafael Furcal
Bill Dickey

Stock
Ken Griffey Jr
Mike Piazza
Larry Walker
Todd Helton
Mo Vaughn
Rickey Henderson
Mel Ott
Joe Morgan
Travis Fryman

[Stock]

Atezz draws the first overall pick.

Drafting order was determined by a random number generator.  16th pick in the first round gets the 1st pick in the second and so on (ie.. After the first round, 1 & 16 will get two picks in a row).  I will do my best to keep a running tab in the first post of this thread.

When the draft is complete, you must have a line-up with a valid player for each position + a DH which can be any player.
There is no need to declare the position when drafting.  When the draft is over you will be asked for 1) your line-up, 2) The position for each player in your line-up, 3) Which hand you would like any switch hitters to bat, and your team colors.  If you make an error (ie.. you draft 6 outfielders), you will be forced to correct your team with the remaining undrafted players.

YOU WILL HAVE 24 HOURS TO MAKE YOUR DRAFT PICK AFTER THE PERSON IN FRONT OF YOU DRAFTS.  Hopefully most drafting will take this long, but wanted to accommodate everyone's busy schedules.  If you think you will not be online in the course of 24 hours, please send me/someone proxy picks or appoints someone to draft in your place.
Please reference the attached spreadsheet when drafting so you will know what their "RBI" stats will be and what position they have played.  Each player is eligible for any position listed in the attached file OR any position they played in at least 150 games in their career.

The league will be comprised of 4 divisions.  The divisions will be named after the first 4 players drafted.  After that, each team needs to pick what division they would like to be in along with their first pick (4 teams total per division).
Each team will play every team in their division 6 times, and every other team 2 times. 
Schedule will be posted after the draft.

Each division winner along with 2 wildcards will advance to the playoffs which will be played out similar to the NFC Championship playoff structure in the NFL.  The first 2 rounds will honor home field advantage to the top seed in all games in a best of 3 series.  The Championship will be a best of 5 series alternating home field advantage with the top seed getting the 1st and 5th game if necessary. All seeds will be determined by overall record, with the 4 division winners are gauranteed seeds 1-4.  Tiebreakers in order will be head-to-head, runs/AB, Batting Average, and Slugging.
Game Play:  Will be the same as last year's league.  I will be playing offense for both teams against weakenned pitching.  All pitchers for all teams will have the same attributes.  Strikeouts, Walks, and Errors are turned off and I will not be stealing any bases.  10 run rule is in full effect.  I will be keeping stats for AB, Hits, doubles, triples, HRs, Batting Average, Slugging, and of course RBIs.

[Attezz]

Babe Herman, biotches!

[WeatherMatt]

Wow, this looks fucking awesome. That's a ton of work you put into this, Stock.

Couple questions:

1) Is this a complete list of 3,000+ AB players, thus the definitive draft board?

2) What are the asterisks for? Looks like it's all active players, is that all it means?

[Attezz]

Wait, I want the Babe (Hermann) who had the second most power and 16 contact.

[Stock]

Wow, this looks fucking awesome. That's a ton of work you put into this, Stock.

Couple questions:

1) Is this a complete list of 3,000+ AB players, thus the definitive draft board?

2) What are the asterisks for? Looks like it's all active players, is that all it means?

1)  I am hoping it is complete.  If there is anyone missing, they need to have 3,000 abs to be eligible.  Please PM me their name ahead of time so I can give you their RBI stats.  Also, they must be modern day enough players (usually if they played most of their career post 1900 you are good) for MLB.com to have OB% numbers for them.

2) Not sure what the astrisks mean.  MLB.com has them by some of the player names.  I think it is supposed to mean they are active players, but there are astrix next to some guys that definitely are not active.  You can just ignore them.

Wait, I want the Babe (Hermann) who had the second most power and 16 contact.

Either you are kidding or you sorted the list wrong.

Babe Herman:  790-power, 16-contact.
Babe Ruth:  995-power, 9-contact.

Please confirm.

[Attezz]

I probably sorted wrong, Babe Ruth it is!

[Stock]

I probably sorted wrong, Babe Ruth it is!

That's cool.  When you said you drafted Babe Herman, I just assumed you were using The Babe's middle name.
Kinda threw me a curve ball.

[BeefMaster]

Barry Bonds

[Big Hath]

If I'm not around when it's my pick, shoot me an email at matt WATT!@gmail.com

[Nacho]

Alex Rodriguez

[Shooty]

Sorry guys...I need someone to take over my team or be partners as I won't be able to committ to this over the next few days.

[Stock]

Sorry guys...I need someone to take over my team or be partners as I won't be able to committ to this over the next few days.

Shooty sent me a ranking formula to make his picks.
I will follow the formula to a tee, if he is not around for his picks.

[Nacho]

What could possibly be going on in Shooty's life that is more important than a fantasy video game draft?

[AlecTrevylan006]

A live fantasy video game draft.

[Stock]

Apparently the State of the Union thread is more important to fightonusc.

[fightonusc]

Albert Pujlos

[Stock]

Excellent.
We have our 4 divisions set.

1.  Ruth
2.  Bonds
3.  ARod
4.  Pujols

With each remaining draft pick in this round, also pick which Division you would like to be in (4 teams per division).

[ultimate7]

That was a twist I wasn' expecting

[Attezz]

To sweeten the deal to be in the Ruth division with me, my team is gonna be focused on speed!