The BCBL will restart with a new league file in January of 2010 with the following teams:
The MLB players from 1980 will be put into an inagural draft. All team markets and fans will be equalized. All draft classes into the future will be pulled from each seasons real life draft. It will NOT be a Re-Cal league. That means that players will be drafted with talent based on their career stats and from there will progress via the OOTP 10 engine. SO future players (like Roger Clemens or Jose Canseco could end up having dramatically different careers.
The Inagural Draft will start at some point in January of 2010. Each manager will be given a time slot(s ) for each day and the draft will be conducted via forum style draft. New lists can be turned in each day. The first 5 rounds will be one pick per day, and the next 20 rounds will be 2 picks per day. That means the entire draft will be 15 days long. Each manager will know the exact time slot that all 25 picks will be due, so they can turn in a list a few days at a time, only one day at a time, OR make each pick "live" via the forum right before their pick is due. Any team that does not make a pick via list or live draft will be skipped and a CPU pick will be choosen AT the end of the round.
Future expansion drafts will occur the years in which they occured historically. The AL will use the DH, the NL managers will vote on it before the draft starts. Any divisional re-alignments will occur and the wild card will be introduced on in the years in which they did historically.
More news to come in the next week. Signups will begin on the forum (HERE) for those who already are a part of the BCBL. Starting December 19th... the remaining teams will then be offered to any non-current BCBL members. IF you are already signed up and have access to the forum, you can pick your team here. If not, you have to wait until December 19, 2009.