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The Bill Virdon Retro Fantasy League
Our longest season will start up for the fifth time in mid-October and run until March 2021. It is a lot of fun, a great history lesson, a way to support the field, and get your baseball fix all winter on the website as games run nightly for 22+ weeks. Ask for more info at the field and own your own classic team and set of Hall of Fame players next winter. Draft and coach your team to the pennant and win the annual prize package!!
Rules and Rosters 2020/2021
Rules for the 2020/2021 Season
Commissioner Sillavan will submit seven random dates between the 1st and 31st each week. The American league teams (less the Browns) will each submit a year between 1913 and 1953 each week on one of the seven days (to be assigned). The National league teams (less my team) will submit a month (April to September) each of the seven days. The combination will make a complete date in history and from there we will visit box scores. After 11 weeks the American league teams will switch to picking months and the National league teams will pick the years. The season runs 22 weeks total, seven days a week for a total of 154 games (the original MLB season).
There must be at least 6 teams in action in each league or we will move to the next date in the month. If it is the final day of the month we go back to the first of that same month until we reach a day with at least six teams playing in each league. The two remaining teams if not playing will play each other and start with a 0-0 score. The other matchups start with the final score of their game that day. No date will be repeated, so if we fall on a date already used we will skip to the next day. If a double header was played, only stats from the first game played that day count.
Any runs or RBIs by any of the seven players count for one added run.
Any win by a pitcher counts for five bonus runs.
Federal league games played in 1914 & 1915 will count for players on any of those teams.
Final scores and recaps will be listed on the VRFL Scores & Standings page and will show game scores and bonus runs in separate tallies. There will be some ties remember as in past baseball history. Once a team gets a second tie, they will be listed the next day as a win and a loss to keep standings easier to follow. I will list each day the randomly generated date so owners can verify no mistakes have been made. You can see box scores for every date on Baseball Reference.com.
General Advice:
In year four, we switched to separate drafts for the AL and NL with players in each draft who played primarily in those leagues during their career (with one or two exceptions).
When drafting player groups, you are looking for players who not only have large career totals in wins, RBIs, or runs, but those who supplement certain time periods where your team may be weaker. When picking years, most owners will pick years where their teams had good records to maximize the chance of a good starting score before bonus runs are added. You may also want to pick years where you have the most players in action. You will never know your opponent before the day starts so there is no point in trying to play against a particular team.
The World Series will take place during the 23rd week with all teams submitting parts of a game date except the two teams competing who will be replaced by the Browns and my team if necessary.
Prize to Winner is two league stock caps, two custom made D-Bat wood bats (color and size), and a Championship plaque.
league standings in 2016/2017 league standings in 2017/2018 league standings in 2018/2019
NL AL NL AL NL AL
Dodgers White Sox Giants Yankees Giants Yankees
Cardinals Tigers Cardinals Indians Dodgers Tigers
Pirates Red Sox Cubs Senators Cardinals Browns
Cubs Yankees Pirates Athletics Reds Red Sox
Giants Senators Dodgers Tigers Pirates Senators
Phillies Athletics Reds Red Sox Phillies White Sox
Braves Browns Braves Browns Braves Indians
Reds Indians Phillies White Sox Cubs Athletics
World Series World Series World Series
White Sox defeat Dodgers 4 - 3 Yankees defeat Giants 4 - 2 Giants defeat Yankees 4 - 3
Manager of the Year Manager of the Year Manager of the Year
Shelton (Dodgers) 13-5-4 Burnell (Red Sox) 16-4-2 Shelton (Dodgers) 16-5-1
Executive of the Year Executive of the Year Executive of the Year
Zarechi (Browns) 338 bonus runs Mulbery (Indians) 393 bonus runs R. Smith (Giants) 378 bonus runs
NL MVP Babe Ruth (Cardinals) 157 br Mel Ott (Braves) 127 br Lou Gehrig (Phillies) 157 br
AL MVP Goose Goslin (Yankees) 95 br Lou Gehrig (Athletics) 168 br Babe Ruth (White Sox) 139 br
NL Cy Young Lefty Grove (Reds) 13 wins Earl Whitehill (Reds) 13 wins Carl Hubbell (Pirates) 12 wins
AL Cy Young G. Alexander (Browns) 14 wins Lefty Grove (White Sox) 13 wins G. Alexander (Yankees) 12 wins
league standings in 2019/2020 NL AL
Giants Yankees
Cubs Senators
Braves Browns
Reds Tigers
Cardinals Red Sox
Pirates Athletics
Dodgers Indians
Phillies White Sox
World Series
Yankees defeat Giants 4 - 3
Manager of the Year
Eisenhour (Cardinals) 16-4-2
Executive of the Year
Ginocchio (Braves) 401 bonus runs
NL MVP Rogers Hornsby (Cardinals) 114 br
AL MVP Babe Ruth (Athletics) 127 br
NL Cy Young Burleigh Grimes (Phillies) 9 wins
AL Cy Young Lefty Grove (Tigers) 15 wins
2020/2021 Draft Order
AL 1 White Sox 2 Indians 3 Athletics 4 Red Sox 5 Tigers 6 Browns 7 Senators 8 Yankees
NL 1 Phillies 2 Dodgers 3 Pirates 4 Cardinals 5 Reds 6 Braves 7 Cubs 8 Giants
2020/2021 Owner list
Philadelphia Athletics (The Mortimore/Gebhardt Family)
Cleveland Indians (The Gumersell/Voss Family)
Chicago White Sox (George Romano)
Washington Senators (B. Smith Family)
Boston Red Sox (Bryson Family)
St. Louis Browns (The St. Louis Browns Historical Society)
Detroit Tigers (The Williams Family)
New York Yankees (The Walker Family)
Chicago Cubs (The Sowers Family)
Boston Braves (Rob Ginocchio)
Philadelphia Phillies (The Brayman Family)
Pittsburgh Pirates (Virdon/Elsenratt Family)
Cincinnati Reds (The Wade Family)
St. Louis Cardinals (The Eisenhour Family)
Brooklyn Dodgers (Dale Shelton)
New York Giants (R. Smith Family)
Player Groups 2020/2021
National League
#1 Rogers Hornsby Hack Wilson Johnny Mize Ernie Lombardi Honus Wagner (CARDINALS)
#2 Paul Waner Edd Roush Billy Herman Pee Wee Reese Monte Irvin (DODGERS)
#3 Gabby Hartnett Bill Terry Stan Musial Dave Bancroft Richie Ashburn (CUBS)
#4 Pie Traynor Lloyd Waner Enos Slaughter Ross Youngs Duke Snider (BRAVES)
#5 Frankie Frisch Joe Medwick Zack Wheat Jackie Robinson Ralph Kiner (PIRATES)
#6 Jim Bottomley Rabbit Maranville Arky Vaughan Al Lopez Leo Durocher (REDS)
#7 Kiki Cuyler High Pockets Kelly Max Carey Chick Hafey Red Schoendienst (GIANTS)
#8 Mel Ott Chuck Klein Travis Jackson Freddie Lindstrom Roy Campanella (PHILLIES)
American League
#1 Babe Ruth Earl Combs Ted Williams Lou Boudreau Nellie Fox (WHITE SOX)
#2 Lou Gehrig George Sisler Joe Sewell Harry Hooper Mickey Mantle (TIGERS)
#3 Al Simmons Sam Rice Eddie Collins Yogi Berra Sam Crawford (RED SOX)
#4 Goose Goslin Heinie Manush Bobby Doerr Phil Rizzuto Shoeless Joe Jackson (ATHLETICS)
#5 Jimmie Foxx Tony Lazzeri Hank Greenberg Joe Gordon Larry Doby (BROWNS)
#6 Charlie Gehringer Bill Dickey Luke Appling Bucky Harris Ray Schalk (YANKEES)
#7 Earl Averill Joe Cronin Tris Speaker Rick Ferrell George Kell (SENATORS)
#8 Harry Heilmann Joe DiMaggio Ty Cobb Mickey Cochrane Home Run Baker (INDIANS)
Pitcher Pairs 2020/2021
National League
#1 Burleigh Grimes Paul Derringer (GIANTS)
#2 Bobo Newsom Robin Roberts (PHILLIES)
#3 Grover Alexander Carl Mays (BRAVES)
#4 Dizzy Dean Wilbur Cooper (PIRATES)
#5 Jesse Haines Jack Quinn (DODGERS)
#6 Waite Hoyt Warren Spahn (CUBS)
#7 Dazzy Vance Eppa Rixey (CARDINALS)
#8 Carl Hubbell Freddie Fitzsimmons (REDS)
American League
#1 Lefty Grove Bob Lemon (INDIANS)
#2 Lefty Gomez Early Wynn (TIGERS)
#3 Red Faber Ted Lyons (SENATORS)
#4 Earl Whitehill Hooks Dauss (WHITE SOX)
#5 Bob Feller Hal Newhouser (BROWNS)
#6 Stan Coveleski Mel Harder (RED SOX)
#7 Walter Johnson Herb Pennock (ATHLETICS)
#8 Red Ruffing Sad Sam Jones (YANKEES)
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