Recently, two friends and I (we are all lifelong Yankees fans in our early-mid 30s) participated in a live draft where we each selected non-overlapping all-time Yankee teams. The notable parameters were:
1) Draft a functional 26 man roster including DH, full bench, and full bullpen. Any position player could be used as a DH.
2) Players from the dead ball era were excluded. The original playing time requirements – **as a Yankee** – were: 500G for position players, 150G for relievers, 100G for starters. These were relaxed somewhat in later rounds for convenience.
3) Players only get credit for their time **as a Yankee**. Can’t stress this enough. If you take Boggs, as one guy did, you are not getting 80s Red Sox Boggs. You’re getting the version of Boggs the Yankees did in real life, an older and less effective player. The same applies to any Yankee who spent time in other uniforms. You cannot use Babe Ruth as a pitcher because he wasn’t a pitcher *for the Yankees*.
4) For the purpose of having fun, don’t think too much about quality of play over time. Try to imagine that these players all have similar conditioning and their athletic talent is fairly equal. Normal distinctions between eras – like, “Roy White was better than Bob Meusel because White played in a pitcher’s era” – are fine.
5) We drafted in standard order, 1-2-3-3-2-1 repeating until we had drafted 78 total players. The team’s number on the doc corresponds to their draft pick.
I hope you all enjoy taking a look at our teams! They are in the linked google doc (the second page includes the bullpen and the batting order).
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-0A4rUitJ0eXEBsWA9FkAHsPvlwhGSXqIsVS-FLBDLM/edit?usp=sharing
Edit: clarity & typo