How to make a Man’s League

Well, they got 8 players, so they are going to do the full NL. There was some debate on how to make a 7-player league deep enough to be fun. The consensus seemed to be forming around eliminating a couple of real teams. I proposed what I still think is the best idea: Take the best 25 players in the league, and make them ineligible. It would be simple to define — just use the CBS rankings to ID the top 25.

This is the fastest way to make the league deep, because you know every one of those guys would have been drafted. Plus, it makes it more interesting. Everybody knows David Wright is pretty good. The only question is whether he’s worth $45 or $55. There’s a whole lot of random in that. Much more interesting to make the $20 players into the effective superstars, and push the whole league that much deeper.