League Rules

Rules: What If Baseball League

Rosters
Rosters will be set to 25 major and 6 minor. Each season your rosters must have those numbers. If you are over those limits you must drop players. Any player you drop goes to the Free Agent pool. Anyone can grab players that have been drop to the pool.

This is a keepers league. The only way to lose players is by trade or dropping players to meet the minimums.
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Retirement
All Players will retire at 40.
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Sims
Sims will be 10 game a day. Monday to Sunday.
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Games
We will play 154 games a season.
After 1960 we will play 162 games
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Expansion
From 1962 and foward we will have Expansion Teams
Last place teams will have the option to take on a expansion team for there 2nd team
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Divisions
1960 we will have a East and West Division
Top teams in each Division will make the playoffs
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Injuries
Injuries will be set to 50 games for hitters and pitchers.
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Trades/ FA
Please try to make the trades fair ones.
Trades will be set to 50.
You will have till game 120 to finalize all trades.
You will have till game 120 as well for adding a free agent to your team.
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Playoffs
There will be a playoff for the top 2 teams in each league.
A 7 game series will be played. Home field goes to the teams with the most wins. If there is a tie it will be most runs scored.

Tie Breakers
All tie breakers will be decided by Runs Scored for Home field.

3-way Ties
Team with most runs will have off and the other 2 teams will play.
Winner will face the rested team.
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World Series
There will be a 7 game series played to see who is the best.
Home field goes to the team with the most wins. If there is a tie it will be most runs scored.
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Rookies
Split Season
When I import teams i do it alphabetically by City. If your rookies played on 2 teams (Ex; Cleveland and St. Louis)
hes going to Cleveland
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Imports
Hitting 125 at bats
Pitching 35 innings pitched
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Pitching
In the Early Years there were no Relievers so we will start with all Starters and progress from there.
5 Man Rotation
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Awards
MVP
CY YOUNG
Triple Crown
Batting Champion
HR Champion
Stolen Bases
Strikeouts
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Changing stats
Each season you will be able to change all your players stats to the next year.
Please use the baseball reference link to see your players stats. Sometimes regular progression might be better for players then other players and sometimes the next years stats are better then the progression. But that?s on the owners to make their decision.
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Progression/ Regression
That will be set to 28 progression and 29 regression.

League Settings

Year Range of Stats	1913 - 1913
Roster Size (Majors)	25
Roster Size (Minors)	5
Keepers	(30 keepers)
Change Stats Allowed	(not allowed while under contract)
Free Agency
Drops
No-Drop List
Player Fatigue
Batter Injuries	(30 games max)
Pitcher Injuries	(30 games max)
Use Pitcher's HR Allowed Stats
Allows Max Surprise Bunts
Min Batters Pitcher Must Face	3
Slump Buster	(5 days)
On Fire	Classic
User Sims