League Rules

Revised: 9/19/25
Commissioner: qunellk


LEAGUE SUMMARY

The favorite teams of 2010 make up the league. The rest of the players will make up the free agent pool. This is a contract league with budgets and FA Bidding.

Games: 162

Rosters: 26/14 (40 keepers allowed)
Each owner is responsible for fielding a team on opening day that meets the minimum requirements. By the end of free agency you MUST have 9 pitchers and 11 hitters (including 2 catchers) on your roster, or your team will cause sims not to run. At any point during the season, if you don't have the minimum number of players, 1st offense>warning, 2nd offense>forfeiture the game, 3rd offense>boot from league.

Budgets: $200

Rotation: 5 man

No prospects, tagged players, or spring training in this league

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OWNER CONDUCT

- Please keep all conversations clean
- Please don't be rude to fellow owners
- Treat others as you would like to be treated. Unless you like to treat yourself poorly.
- Please be active, if not active for 14 days you may be removed from the league. Please notify the commissioner if you are going to be gone for extended periods.
- We all love baseball and that's why we're here. So Just have fun and enjoy!

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PLAYER AVAILABILITY

Free Agent Bidding via Chat Box


Bidding Details:
* List the player(s) you are bidding on like so: OF Joe DiMaggio $8/10 = $80
* BIDS MUST HAVE A MINIMUM CONTRACT VALUE OF $20
* Maximum years: 10
* Bids, once made, cannot be revoked.
* Free agency will last a minimum of 48 hours. After that, bids on players will end 24 hours after the last valid bid is made on any player.
* The highest total dollar amount wins a player. To outbid someone, you must offer more total dollars. If two bids have the same amount of total dollars offered, the one who bid it first wins the player.
*Each owner is responsible for knowing how many contracts and how much money he has left in his budget. Consequently, each owner is then responsible for not bidding more than he has or signing more than 40 contracts. Anyone who bids more money than exists in his available budget or over signs the # of contracts will have ALL of his bids vacated, he will win ZERO free agents and those players will stay in the free agent pool for waiver claims.
* If free agency runs into a lengthy process, and there are only a couple of players still receiving bids, the Commissioner's office reserves the right to invite those bidders to submit one sealed bid on the player(s) involved to resolve the process in a more efficient manner.

Free Agency
Waiver Claims runs after each regular season game beginning with game 1. Waiver order is based on roster strength at the time - weakest to strongest.

Imports
Your next season’s players will be imported on your roster as long as they are not already in league.
Import Minimums: 35 IP, 100 AB

Trades
There is no limit to the trades that owners can make each season. Trading is turned on after Imports. Trade Deadline is after Game 140. Games will be paused at that time for approximately 24 hours for any last minute transactions.

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PLAYER DEVELOPMENT

Classic Progression
All players on rosters and in free agents progress up to age 28 and then begin to regress at 32.

Contracts
Players can be originally signed to a maximum contract of 10 years. When the contract expires, the player can be extended one time on a limited extension (see below). However, teams acquiring a player under contract can extend the contract up to 5 years. Owners must contact the commissioner’s office regarding any extensions. In the case of an extension resulting from a trade, the owner will have a 3 day window to request the extension. Requests after that time will not be granted.

Limited Extensions
* Players must be on a roster for at least 5 seasons before they can be considered for a contract extension.
* Only 1 player per team per offseason can be submitted for a contract extension.
* Players can be extended up to 5 additional seasons.
* A player can only be extended once in his career as a result of an offseason extension NOTE: He may still be extended as a result of a trade.
* Players will be tagged as extended in order to stay in accordance with the 1 time limitation.

Owners must contact the commissioner’s office with their extension request

Real Stat Switch
Owners can choose 3 players to have their stats switched from their progressed stats to their actual MLB stats of the current season. 100 AB / 75 SIP / 40 RIP will be the minimums for stat changes. Owners must contact the commissioner’s office prior to the first pitch of the season regarding stat change requests.

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POST SEASON
1 day rest will be granted prior to the Wildcard Series. 3 days rest before all other series. 1 day rest after game 2 in Round 2. 1 day rest after game 2 and 5 in LCS and World Series.

Division and Wild Card ties at the end of the regular season will be settled by a 1 game tie breaker. Home team will be determined by head-to-head matchup. Secondly, best run differential will be used.

Wild Card - Best of 3 series Team with best season record would be home team for all 3 games
Winner of Wild Card plays division winner with 2nd best season record in best of 5 series (2-2-1 format)
Winner of 2nd round series best of 5 will play division winner in best of 7 series (2-3-2 format) for the LCS crown.
Winners of the LCS will meet for the World Series with the same format.


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SEASON PREP SCHEDULE

Award Championship Trophy and Ring
Clear Compiled Stats
Clear Game Results
Complete Progressions for All Teams
Complete Progressions for All Free Agents
Update Other Seasons Available stats (5 season view)
Import AL East Rookies
Import AL West Rookies
Import NL East Rookies
Import NL West Rookies
Reset Player Ranks
Turn On Trades and Drops
Requests for Stat Change (3 players max)
Request Contract Extension (see NEW rule and restrictions)
Sign Contracts
Advance Contracts
Turn Off Drops
Free Agent Bidding
Turn On Free Agent Waivers and Drops

League Settings

Year Range of Stats	2002 - 2002
Roster Size (Majors)	26
Roster Size (Minors)	14
Keepers	(40 keepers)
Change Stats Allowed
Free Agency	(waivers)
Drops
No-Drop List
Player Fatigue
Batter Injuries	(8 games max)
Pitcher Injuries	(15 games max)
Use Pitcher's HR Allowed Stats
Allows Max Surprise Bunts
Min Batters Pitcher Must Face	1
Slump Buster	(2unlimited days)
On Fire	Classic
User Sims	(every 4 hours)