2022 Startup Draft

Instructions

Check out the rules for how the draft works, including how the players are awarded to teams.  Some quick highlights:

• You must pick at least 29 players to fill the roster minimums:
  • 9 starting hitters
  • 6 bench players
  • 5 starting pitchers
  • 3 spot starters
  • 6 bullpen slots
• You may pick up to the full 45 - Taxi squad players and minor leaguers are optional.
• You have to stay under the salary cap (57 million Benchwarmer Bucks in 2021).
• For purposes of the draft, position players may only fill a position authorized as under their "Primary Position."  You may use them once the season starts, however, in a "Secondary Position."
• PLAYER BIDS
  • Teams can bid an extra amount of cash for a player on top of the player's salary
  • Teams are limited to a total of 5000 (5 million) in cash for auction bidding
  • Bids can only be placed in increments of 250.
  • Your bids count against the total salary you can spend in Phase 1.
• This is the first tiebreaker for resolving contested picks. Team that bids the most cash wins the player award.  Only the team that wins the bid actually has to pay the cash; The amount deducted will only the minimum amount necessary to win the bid.  For example, if one team bids 3000 and one team bids 500, then 750 is the minimum amount required to win the bid, so 750 will be deducted.
• See the full details of the rule
• PLAYER RANKING
  • You'll notice that the final tiebreaker if the same player is picked by multiple teams is "Random Draw"
  • Before a random draw occurs, BWB will check the "Rank" you've given a player
  • "1" = the highest rank; "40" is the lowest rank; An unranked player is shown as "0"
  • Ranking players is optional
  • If you give 2 players the same rank, both will automatically be changed to the lowest of your ranked players, with the higher salary getting the higher rank.
  • In this tiebreaker, the team that gives the player the highest rank gets him.  If multiple teams give the same rank, they advance to the random draw.
  • Typically, about the first 8-14 players are placed via random draw.  Because we start with the players picked most often, you'll want to make sure you give ranks to the players you think other teams will pick.  It might be a waste of your effort to rank your entire draft list -- but it doesn't hurt anything.  Ranking someone #40 will beat out a team who hasn't ranked the same player.
  • Note: if you are participating in a LIVE draft and don't show up for the draft, the league will use your ranks to determine the order of drafting players for you.

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• You pay for the players immediately at their listed salary - with limitations, you get salary rebates of 80% if you cut them before Opening Day (you can start cuts once the full Phase 1-Phase 2 draft process is done).
• Estimate that you'll get 5-25 players in Phase 1 - it depends on how many players you pick that other teams also choose.
• New leagues start with an extra 15 million Benchwarmer Bucks beyond the season's salary cap (That's an increase of 5000 in 2022)
• You may take as much cash as you have left into the season with you.
• All teams get an extra 2 million bucks on Opening Day.
• Note: Salaries are always posted in thousands.  So 48 million = 48000.  A salary of 6000 is 6 million.  A salary of 250 is 250 thousand.  Etc., etc.

Click the link below to begin adding players to your draft list.

As you add players, you will come back to this page to put them in the proper order.

There is some error-checking on this page.  But it's your responsibility to make sure all is correct.

See the bottom of the page for some tips on what to look for in the draft.
 

There is no "final" submit button you need to click - build everything here and you are done.

You may make as many changes as you like until the deadline: 3/31/2019 11:59:59 PM EST (Estimated)

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