League Rules

🟦One Shining Moment Rules

🔷 League Objectives
A) A fun competitive league that stresses both the on-field play as much as the recruiting aspect of college baseball.
B) a full league of active owners that create a competitive environment and the highest level of competition while always keeping the priority of respect for one another and the league as fun atmosphere as a requirement. We are here to play hard while enjoying our time.
C) this league will require an owner to spend as much time on the off-field requirements of recruiting as one does with the on field management of their current team?s lineup.

🔷Gameplay
A) Each team plays a 52 game schedule
B) Intra Division games = 36 games (4 series of 3 games)
C) Inter Division games = 16 games (8 series of 2 games)
D) Games will be simmed on two days per week at announced times. Each week, the schedule will be announced including recruiting deadlines. Games will be simmed on Wednesday/Thursday and Saturday/Sunday.
E) Regular season will take approximately 6 weeks to complete.

🔷Conference Tournaments
A) CHANGED PRIOR SEASON 4 — from: Double elimination tournament will follow the regular season. #1 v #4; #2 v #3—>TO: 2 rounds of best 2 of 3. First round = #1/#4 & #2/#3 then winners play in championship.
B) Seeds determined by regular season standings. Any ties broken by PC rankings
C) Better PC ranking gets better conference tournament seed. Better seed is home team games 1 and 3 of each series.

🔷College World Series
A) CHANGED PRIOR TO SEASON 4 — from 6 teams qualify —> TO 8 teams qualify.
B) Regular Season Champions Automatic Qualifier
C) Conference Tournament Champion Automatic Qualifier
D) At Large Teams decided by highest ranked team not a regular season/conference tournament champion.
E) Seeds determined by PC rankings.
F) Regular Season/Conference Tournament must take the seeds #1-#6.
G) At Large teams must be the lowest seeds 4-8 with 4 being the highest ranked PC team down to 8.
H) 2 pods of 4 teams play best 2 of 3 games for 2 rounds.
I) World Series = each pod winner play best 2 of 3.

🔷Rosters
A) all fictional players.
B) ages range from 18-22. Any player that progresses to age 23 will graduate.
C) Major league roster of 40 and minor league roster of 1.
D) Each school may redshirt 1 player per year. The 1 minor league roster spot can only be used for the current redshirt player.
E) All Seniors are 22yo. All Juniors are 21 yo. All Sophomores are 20yo. All Freshmen are 19yo. Redshirted Player is 18yo.
F) Maximum number of players = 40 (Max pitchers = 23; Max position players = 23)

🔷Redshirt Player
A) One player per season.
B) Player can only be redshirted once.
C) Player must be a freshman (19 yo).
D) Player?s age is subtracted to 18yo thereby they will be 19yo when they are a Freshman by eligibility.

🔷Recruiting
The life blood of this game.
A) Weekly deadlines will be announced.
B) Mandatory owners participate as inactive recruiting will negatively affect game play.

Process:
College games are held on Wednesday/Thursday and Saturday/Sunday.
Recruiting deadlines for each week are:
Determined via message each week. Teams must submit their Mid-Week recruiting request.
1st week -2nd week > Mid-Week and Weekend Recruiting Budgets = 50
3rd week - 5th week > Mid-Week and Weekend Recruiting Budgets = 100
6th week ? 8th week > Mid-Week and Weekend Recruiting Budgets = 200
9th week > Mid-Week and Weekend Recruiting Budgets = 150
10th week > Mid-Week and Weekend Recruiting Budgets = 120

Conference Tournament week > Recruiting Budgets = 100
World Series Week = 100
(Recruiting Budget $ DOES NOT carry any unused $ forward.)

Tier System
$10 = Phone Call (all prospects available for phone call.)
- Universities may only call a player one time per recruiting period (each Mid-Week or Weekend).
$30 = In-Home Visit
- Must ?invest? $30 cumulative into a recruit prior to submitting an ?In-Home Visit? wish list.
- Not guaranteed
- Recruit can have a max of 3 in home visits in one week of season.
- Universities may only visit a player one time per recruiting period (each Mid-Week or Weekend) and twice the entire season.
- Begins week 4.
$50 = Campus Visit
- Must ?invest? $50 cumulative into a recruit prior to submitting a ?Campus Visit? request.
- Recruit can take a maximum or 2 campus visits in one week of season.
- Recruit is allowed only 3 visits total and only once per school.
- Begins week 5.
$100 = Offer Scholarship
- Must ?invest? $90 into a recruit prior to submitting an ?Offer Scholarship? wish list.
- Begins week 6.

Recruits- Interest
Each season, the total number of in season recruitable players available during the season will be range between 20-40 total players (finals total announced prior to season beginning). Another 120-160 will be available for the ?College Player Draft?. Grand total of 150+ freshman eligible to join the database each off-season.

The 20-30 recruits available to be recruited during the season may have interest established prior to the recruiting season. For instance, approximately 6 will want to play close to home, 6 will want to play for a national champion contender, 6 will want immediate playing time?..
"Rise and Grind Syndicate" Recruits that are available for in-season recruiting will show their interest and schools they have ?Heavy Interest?; ?Medium Interest?; and ?Low Interest? in.

Some teams/owners are not able to participate in the recruiting. To make this league a little more forgiving for owners who do not give the weekly effort needed to recruit, they will now "draft" one player from a second tier of players in a "supplemental" draft. Keep in mind, the 2nd tier players are NOT rated as high as the recruits. This is simply an avenue to keep all teams competitive and if we have an owner who does drop out, we have a method to keep their team with some talent for the future.

🔷Magic 8 Ball
In the One Shining Moment League, recruits have decision to commit or not. This decision is made via the Magic 8 Ball system that puts YOU in the driver's seat. YOU, the PC player, will make a prediction on an upcoming event. We will, primarily, use baseball games (NCAA, MLB & PC), but we will also use the NFL, NBA, College Football, College Basketball and only God knows what else will come to my mind. Here's an example of how this will work:

Example ? University of Minnesota offers a scholarship to Player X. There is a 50/50 chance the player accepts. Magic 8 Ball is activated. Magic 8 Ball in this game is different than anything you may have seen. In the One Shining Moment League, the PC player submits a prediction in real time. If that prediction is correct, the PC player signs the recruit. If not, the PC player must wait for another opportunity for his University to offer the recruit a scholarship. For instance, on 4/10/21 the Yankees visit the Rays. Which team will win? You can choose: Yankees or Rays.

🔷Draft
A) 10-12 Rounds Slow Draft format. Number of rounds announced prior to draft opening each year.
B) Each successful recruit that commits prior to draft will be one less pick counting from the last round to round 1.
C) Example: University of Michigan signs 2 recruits during the season and there are 10 draft rounds. U of M would not get a 9th or 10th round pick. Keep in mind, these committed recruits WILL be higher ranked than the draft eligible players in the 9th and 10th round so recruiting is more productive than drafting.
D) Draft Order:
-Round 1 ONLY (slow draft): 1st Pick > National Champion; 2nd Pick > World Series Runner Up; 3rd Pick > Final Four Team with best seed; 4th Pick > Final Four Team with worse seed; 5th Pick > World Series Team eliminated in first round with best seed; 6th Pick > World Series Team eliminated in first round with worse seed; 7th pick on > Team with best PC ranking in order.
-Round 2-4 (live draft) > worst team picks first in consecutive order (traditional draft order) based upon last season's won/loss %.
-Round 5-10 (slow draft) > worst team picks first in consecutive order (traditional draft order) based upon last season's won/loss %.
-Slow Draft = 8 hour time limit.

🔷Contracts
None

🔷Position Changes
None

🔷Trades
None

🔷Free Agency
None

🔷Transfer Portal *ELIMINATED SINCE SEASON 2*
Will work like a rule 5 draft during the OFF-SEASON.
A) Each team may save a maximum of 30 players on their major league roster.
B) Any player that is on the minor league roster is eligible to be drafted by another team.
C) Through direct messaging to Commissioner, teams with worst win/loss % may accept a transfer.
D) Transfer draft will be 2 rounds only.

🔷Player Progression
In off-season, all will progress. None will regress.

🔷Awards
A) All Americans will be named via PC (All-Star process).

🔷Summer Ball
A) Each summer, each team may send 4 players to college summer league..
B) 2 Pitchers (1 SP max) and 2 hitters (1 OF max)
C) Summer Ball teams will play a 10 game season.
D) Summer ball teams will also include next season recruits.
E) Number of summer ball rosters will be finalized following universities summer ball submissions.
F) Key part here is these players will PROGRESS during the summer.
G) Rules for submission
1) All must be age 21 or under
2) Career stats must be less than:
HItter = 100 ab's
SP = 50 innings
RP = 20 innings
Current rank of 70 or below

League Settings

Year Range of Stats	1871 - 2020
Roster Size (Majors)	40
Roster Size (Minors)	0
Keepers	(30 keepers)
Change Stats Allowed
Free Agency
Drops
No-Drop List
Player Fatigue
Batter Injuries	(7 games max)
Pitcher Injuries	(14 games max)
Use Pitcher's HR Allowed Stats
Allows Max Surprise Bunts
Min Batters Pitcher Must Face	0
Slump Buster	(1unlimited days)
On Fire	Classic
User Sims