League Rules

Schedule
-154 game regular season; user sims every 5 hours
-All star break (day 100) granted 4 days rest
-Trade Deadline (Day 130)
-Playoffs - Homefield Advantage based on record
-World Series
-Retirements
-Progressions
-Free Agency

Postseason: East and West division winners

Tie Breakers
-One game playoff
-Home team is team with better head to head record
-If teams have tie head to head, then run differential
-If run differential tied, then team with more runs scored

Budget
-Each team has a $300 salary cap.

Team Management
-Every team will have a 39-man roster 24 majors 15 in the minors
-If a team is over on players on opening day they will be given a couple days to correct. If it's not taken care of the Commish office will correct it however I see fit.
-4-man pitching rotation
-Position changes will be granted on a case-by-case basis & must make sense. Swapping primary and secondary positions can be done with no change to defensive stats. Position changes can only happen during the off-season. New primary position cannot be IF or UT. You may change a player's position before the start of a year if they changed positions in real life in that year without choosing that year's real statistics. Example: in 2003, Craig Biggio changed from 2b to CF in real life. The Astros may change Biggio from 2b to CF before the 2003 league season without switching to his real 2003 stats.

Free Agency
-One round of free agency with bids after the rookie draft. In the beginning of the season adds will be by waiver through league day 25. After that it's free for all.
-12 year max contracts, no raises, with extensions.
-Contracts may be extended at will.
-30 players max under contract

Contract Buy-Outs
-Teams may "buy out" remaining years of as many contracts as they want. Teams will pay 1/2 of the total contract value when the player is cut. The total value can be paid out over as many years (1-10) as the owner wants, but must be the same amount every year. The buy-out will happen when the new league year starts, saving teams the value of one year. The player will fall into the free agent pool and be available during normal free agency.

Trades
-Trades are unlimited until the deadline - day 130.
-Picks can be traded up to 2 years in advance
-Manual trading of picks is on - you may include picks in trades without messaging me.
-I do not envision a trade committee unless it gets out of hand

Progression
-Players progress till 28 and decline at 32
-Players retire at age 40 if not signed to contract

Draft & Imports
-Real-life rookies will be imported & made available for the draft.
-Negro league players will be imported
-Players must have 35 IP for a reliever, 75 innings for a starter, and 150 AB to be eligible for import.
-The draft will be one round in the early years; it may expand to two rounds in future years.

Prospect Tags
-You may tag players by hitting manage tags on your team page.
-These players will remain on your roster through their age 24 season (tag will be removed during their age-24 season), or have appeared in a game.

Real Stats Year
-You may choose to change a player's real stats to that season's statistics. For instance, before beginning the 1991 season, you may choose to change a player's real stats to his 1991 stats, or you can leave them as-is. You can do this for as many players as you want and you do not have to change the stats if you don't want to. Progressions will take place on whichever real stats the player has when progressions are run. Players must have either 35 innings pitched for a reliever, 85 innings for a starter, or 200 at-bats in the season to which you want to switch.

Doubling Stats
-After the all-star break deadline for changing stats, stats will be doubled for batters with fewer than 300 at-bats and starters with fewer than 150 innings.

Aging Players
-Players will automatically be retired at age 41 l, even if under contract, unless they actually played that year, like Julio Franco.

Tanking or Violating rules
-Please no tanking. Do not put good players in the minors unless they are injured. You may of course keep prospects in the minors until you are ready to sign them.

Awards
-Cy Young
-MVP
-Rookie of the Year
-Gold Glove
-Silver Slugger

League Settings

Year Range of Stats	1901 - 1901
Roster Size (Majors)	24
Roster Size (Minors)	15
Keepers	(30 keepers)
Change Stats Allowed
Free Agency
Drops
No-Drop List
Player Fatigue
Batter Injuries	(13 games max)
Pitcher Injuries	(12 games max)
Use Pitcher's HR Allowed Stats
Allows Max Surprise Bunts
Min Batters Pitcher Must Face	0
Slump Buster	(2unlimited days)
On Fire	Uses WAR
User Sims