League Rules

Welcome to Race for the Ring 2024

This is an MLB type league - same playoffs, season, etc.

Commisioner: Dock12
Vice Commisioners: Cjyacona
Trade Committee: potholes,parris,

Concept:



THIS LEAGUE IS FOR ACTIVE OWNERS ONLY:
If your going to be offline for 1 week let someone know.

Commissioner:
If anyone has any questions or concerns, please feel free to message Dock12 or Cjyacono We will do our best to answer any questions you may have or attempt to resolve any problem that a commissioner would need to fix.

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LEAGUE RULES:

Sims can be done by any member of the league, anytime they see the sim button available.
League Schedule:
1) Season begins! Real-life MLB schedules will be used.
2) All-Star Break (Day 100)
-3 days off will be granted
-International Free Agency
3) Trading deadline, (Day 120)
4) Season end. Season stats will be archived, divisional trophies will be given, awards will be given.
5) Playoffs!
6) Offseason
- World Series Ends and Championship Ring is awarded
- Contracts are advanced and any player unsigned or with an expiring contract goes through the FA system below.
- Player progression occurs
-Position Changes
-Free Agency
-Rookie Draft
- Set Lineups and Minor League System
-Spring Training(29 games)
- Start New Season

Rules For Owning Two Teams:
-You cannot make a trade between the two teams
-The second team you take cannot be in the same division as your first team
-The 2nd team will/may be taken once a new owners joins and requests that team.


Rosters:
- All teams will have a 26 man active roster and a maximum of 19 players in the minor league system.
-League contract max is 10yrs

Player positions/details:
- 1 per off season after start of 2021 season
- You can also choose to just switch first and secondary positions UNLESS it is INF.
- SPs can be switched to RPs, and stamina will be reduced.
-The position change has to be within reason and done during the off season.


New Ownership:
- When a new owner takes over a team, existing contracts will remain.
- New owner can drop 1 contract.

Player Progression:
- Players will reach their prime at 28 years old. Once they reach 32 will start to regress.
- Players retire: when they are over 35 and not picked up by any team.


Budget Rules:
- All teams have $250 of budget

Trading:
- You can trade draft picks for Current year only
- The trading deadline will be Day 120
- You can trade current potential increases
-Trades involving picks or potential must be sent to commish- if it?s not recorded you don?t get it.
-Sketchy trades will be sent to trade committee.
-If you trade for a player with an expiring contract or 1 yr remaining and want to sign him to a longer contract- message commish and I will delete current contract so you can sign him to a longer one.

Awards:
- MVP- potential increase-1
-CY- potential increase-1
-ROY- potential increase- 1
Awards will be listed on homepage



All-Star Break:
- There will be an all-star break after Day 100
- 3 days off will be granted

Free Agency:
During the off season all Free Agents will be available to be signed in phases depending on the talent available- the 1st or more rounds the Free Agents will be listed on homepage and bid on in the draft chat- I will not give the exact time bidding ends to prevent last minute bids- if there is enough talent we will continue this process until talent level is not so high and then go with blind bidding for the remaining players- blind bidding has no rebids unless there is a tie.
Bid format is Pos./Name/$/yrs/Total?Ex. SS Dusty Roads $5/5yrs=$25

International Free Agents
A few created each season and bid on during All Star break- they will be given rookie tags


Player Tags:
- Rookied in the draft will all have tags and will remain on your team until they have appeared in 1 game at the major league level. 1 AB or even 0 IP with 1 H allowed will do the trick, and they will become free agents unless they are signed to a contract.

Draft Length:
- The Draft will go for 3 rounds on a select night voted on by all the owners. (Slow draft, 8 hrs/pick will open a few days before the scheduled draft to get as many picks through as possible.)
- Draft picks are tradable



Determining the Draft Order:
Tie-Breakers for draft positioning if teams have equal record:
1) head to head matchups
2) Record against division

Playoffs:
- The playoffs will be run the same way it is run in the MLB. There will be 2 wildcard teams.
- In the case that 2 teams are tied, head to head record will determine the winner. If that cannot, then it will be by a play in game.

Potential Points:
1 point to change from F to A, another point from A to C and 1 more from C to S
You Receive potential points by:
Winning Division-1
Winning Award-1
Winning World Series-2
Finish in Top 10-1
Finish in Middle 10-2
Finish in Bottom10-3
You lose Potential Points by:
Sandbagging-1 each time
Over Cap-1 each time
Roster Size-1 each time
Unfair trades-1 each time
If you lose and don?t have points to lose:
Players potential will be downgraded starting with
Highest Potential- if all players are F potential starting with highest(rating)- they will become U potential.
Potential Points are tradable.


Rules can/will change to improve league

Good luck and HAVE FUN!

League Settings

Year Range of Stats	2020 - 2020
Roster Size (Majors)	26
Roster Size (Minors)	19
Keepers	(45 keepers)
Change Stats Allowed
Free Agency
Drops
No-Drop List
Player Fatigue
Batter Injuries	(25 games max)
Pitcher Injuries	(25 games max)
Use Pitcher's HR Allowed Stats
Allows Max Surprise Bunts
Min Batters Pitcher Must Face	1
Slump Buster	(25 days)
On Fire	Classic
User Sims