Welcome to the National Redraft League website!! Don't be intimidated by our name. It was a joke that stuck when the original members tried numerous times to assemble a balanced 16 team league. We are in our 11th season as a league. This league doesn't collect dues or give out prize money. It was built, developed and exists purely on the hard work, dedication and love of baseball of its managers. We are a 16 team league that uses the previous season's Diamondmind season disk. We have 2 eight team divisions and use the DH in both divisions. In our previous ten seasons, we had four playoff teams (2 division winners and top two records for the wildcards). This year we have expanded the playoffs to six teams with the division winners getting a first round bye.
The NRL was designed to give all managers a chance to be competitive, an easy basis to rebuild a team quickly and a set of rules that are easy to understand and follow. We have 30 man rosters during the season, then we cut to 20 players and have a 10 round draft during the off-season. We have a 150 at-bat /40 innings minimum in the draft which allows our drafts to be fully stocked each year. We have a 110% maximum usage for players with no minimum usage in place. This formula has been successful as 13 of the 16 franchises have made the playoffs in our history (one team had 5 winning seasons and the other twice won over 90 games but didn't make the playoffs) with seven different franchises have won league titles. We also have had 12 teams improve by 20+ games from one season to the next and 3 teams improve by 40+ games.
The NRL has had a rich history with many great games and memories that continues to grow each year. We currently have no vacancies but if you have a love of baseball and think the National Redraft League is of interest, please e-mail me at seahawks@comcast.net and I will put you on our waiting list.
Thanks,
Earl Sweeney
NRL Commissioner and Co-founder
