Rule changes to start in season 23:
1. Chump Draft: (a) Eligible teams to Chump Draft: remaining lower league members after relegation/promotion (b) Eligible rosters to draft from: Any playoff team. (c) Drafting follows draft order (e) each team may only lose one player in the chump draft (f) Eligible players for Chump Draft: any player age 34 and up.
2. Franchise Player Tag: (a) Eligible teams: Upper League Members only (b) Designate one player on roster as franchise (c) Permanent, stays franchise till retirement (d) Franchise Players may not be drafted by the chump draft (e) Franchise players may not be traded
3. Lower League Progression Bonus: (a) Eligible teams: Lower League Members Only (b) Owner may pick ONE rookie from the rookie draft and alter the progression method (c) Owner may change any U or F progression to a C, A, or S progression (d) if the owner has picked no rookies with a U or F progression, owner may substitute the next youngest non-rookie U or F on the roster and change them
Chump Draft tip: If you want to ensure that you get someone in the chump draft, you should ask for multiple players from multiple teams in case your selection was not available. Remember that a team can only lose one player during a chump draft. Even if a prior lower league owner selected a different player than you, but you both picked from the same team, you will not get that selection.
Commish seasons 1-7: bkk
Commish seasons 8-10: CokeMachine
Commish seasons 11 - ??; bkk
Regulus Relegation League Rules
16 Teams: 6 in Minor Division (Division A, Regulus Sub-League) + 10 in Major Division (Division 1)
End of season relegation process:
- Top two teams in minors (Division A, Regulus Sub-League) enter Majors
- Bottom two teams in majors (Division 1) enter Minors
Drafts:
- Drafts held after World Series
- Rookie Draft
- Regulus Sub-League teams only
- Can only draft from 22 year old rookie class
- Worst record first/Best record last
- 2 picks for each team
Chump Draft
- Regulus Sub-League Teams Only
- Draft any one player who will be 37 (last season before retirement) from Free Agents or from Major (Division 1) League Teams
- Option to "pass" and draft no one in Chump Draft
- Supplemental Draft
- Two three-round drafts are held
- Draft order worst to best Regulus Sub-League teams;worst to best major teams
- All free agents eligible
- If owners don't rank, they don't get players.
Players:
- 1950 - Present only
- Rookie class is aged 22
- Forced retirement at 38 years old
- No contracts
- 23 players on your Majors roster - have a minimum of 9 pitchers to ensure sims can run without interruption.
- Players progress after the World Series. Each player's progression style is set randomly by the system when the player is created. Peak is ages 28-32.
- You get to keep your players on your major league (Division 1) roster until they retire, you drop them or you trade them. Players on your Minor roster are released back to the FA pool after the World Series. Exception: If you are in the Regulus Sub-League, neither your Major nor your Minor league rosters are cleared.
Playoffs:
- Top 5 Major (Division 1) league teams
- Wild Card - #4 plays #5
- Round 1 - #1 plays Wild Card Winner; #2 plays #3 - 7 games; winners to World Series
- 2 days rest before each playoff series
- 1 days rest after games 2 and 5 in a 7 game series
- Position Tie Breakers
- Head to Head results from regular season
- Run Differential
- Best team ERA
- Best Team OPS
Special Prize for Minor League Champion
(Minor League Champ is the best record holder from regular season)
This team's owner gets one pick, before anyone else, in the rookie pool next season before the drafts occur.
Between Seasons:
- Relegation
- For Teams in the Division 1 Majors, their minor league roster players are released to the FA pool
- Player Progression
- Player Retirement
- Rookie Class added
- Special Prize Awarded
- Drafts Occur
- New Season Schedule created
- Start Games
Owners:
- Expectation is for courteous and respectful owners
- May remove owners that are inactive after 1 month
- Please alert the commish if you need to be inactive for a stretch of time and I will accommodate
Other Rules:
- 160 game season
- Games within League only (i.e. Major League Teams play only Major League Teams, Regulus Sub-League Teams only play Regulus Sub-League Teams)
- 4 games in each series
- Typically 4 user dimmed games per day. This will be slowed at the beginning of the season to provide owners with more time to adjust their team.
- No all star game
- Trades open from game 1 to game 130
- Drops open from after game 5 to game 130
- FA open from game 1 to game 130
- No spring Training
- If line up is invalid such that a sim cannot be completed, commish will take whatever roster action is necessary to execute the sims without consultation of owner, so please check your rosters
- 5 man rotation
- Injuries are on: max 15 days for pitchers and batters
- Teams may not be edited
- Players season stats may not be edited
- Player positions may not be changed
