League Rules

Welcome to the Deuces Wild Baseball League.

⚾ Basic Pitch: Starting with the 1994 season, you will draft two teams, 1 National Team and 1 American Team to build your roster. You will receive both teams imports at the beginning of each new season. 🥎One bonus. You may keep the 1994 season for your player, or you can stat change him to 1993. This can only be done in our first season.

⚾ROSTERS: Roster will consist of a 26 man active roster and a 14 man minor roster, the same as the MLB Rosters. All the players on your roster are yours until you drop them, trade them or they retire at age 40. This will be a non-contract league. All players for the first season will be imported or stat change with 75AB and 25IP, this will include any duplicate players. This is for the first season only. Starting in season 2 minimum imports stats will be 100AB and 30IP, this will include any stat changes you might want to make and no duplicate players will be permitted. Any question on duplicate players, starting in season 2 and beyond will be determined by the team he played the most games for during the import season. Roster maximum will be 23 Position players and 17 Pitchers. This should give each owner enough selection to keep need reserves and future starting players.

🥎DUPLICATE PLAYER RULE: As stated previously, duplicate players will be permitted in our first season of imports. Starting in season two, the player with the most games played for either team, will get the players. Any question on roster placement during imports must be questioned before our first pitch. After first pitch, no appeal on team placement will be permitted.

⚾TWO WAY PLAYER RULE: There will be no two way players in this league. If a player is imported and has played Pitcher and Position player, the owner must decide which position he want that player to play.

⚾SECONDARY POSITION CHANGES: At the beginning of each season, to include the our first season, you will be able to changes any position player to their secondary position without dwar loss. This will also in include any SP to RP. His pitch count will be reduce to 40 pitches. You may change a RP to a SP if the season you want to change him to, he has actually made starts. Pitch count will be set at 90 pitches. Any position play can be move to a DH. If you decide to do this, he will only be permitted to DH.

⚾TEAM DETAILS: Since the league will be composed of each team using two teams to build it roster, each owner will be asked to follow the this outline for naming your city and franchise name. You team name and logo will be from the National League Team name and you city will be from the American League Team Name. So if you draft Cincinnati and New York, your team details will be the New York Reds. At your request, I can build you a logo for your franchise.

⚾LEAGUE SCHEDULE: We will use a 162 game schedule. I am going to add 1 day off for every 6 game for travel, this is similar to the MLB Schedule.

⚾PITCHING ROTATION: We will us a 5 man pitching rotation, beginning with our first season.

⚾FATIGUE AND INJURIES: Fatigue will not be use. Injuries will be set at 5 games for position players and 10 games for all pitchers.

⚾TRADES: Unlimited trading will be allowed in this league. There will be a maximum of 3 players from any one team involved in any trade. Please keep your trading fair. Don't make me be the bad guy and have to unwind and trades.

⚾STAT CHANGE: Starting in season two, you will be permitted to stat 2 players per season. If you don't use both of your stat changes options, you will lose them. No banking of stat changes. This is to try and keep the league from getting way out of hand.
You will need to send me a massage with your two stat changes.

⚾FREE AGENTS: Free agents will be available through waivers. There will be no slow draft or supplemental drafts in this league or waivers for season 1. The drafting of two team should give you plenty of options for season 1.
Waivers will open after game one and the waiver draft will be determined by the computed. Starting in season 2, I will add a few rookies to the FA pool to try and keep it fresh. I will actually use these players rookies season for these players. They will come from the teams that are not used in this league.

⚾PROGRESSION AND WAR: This league will us unpredictable progression. Players will progress to age 29 and begin to regress at the age of 33. I chose these number as I feel it is closer to real life stats. We will be using the WAR format.

⚾PLAY-OFFS: Division winners will receive a bye into the League Divisional Championship Series. The to 4 teams with the next best records, regardless of their division will be placed in the wild card series. Any ties occurring for play-off position in the wild card series will be determined by head-to-head and then by team differential. Any tie for division winners will be determined by a 1 game play
-off with the team with the best head-to-head and then differential will be awarded awarded home team for that game.

🥎OFF-SEASON IN A NUT SHELL:
👉Unpredictable progression after League Championship Series. Plateau range will be 29-33.
👉Imports from the next season that are not already in the league with the league minimums of 100AB and 30IP. These minimums will also be for any stat changes requested.
👉Be sure drops and trades are turned on
👉Retire free agents when they reach the age of 35
👉Roster cuts to 26 players on the active roster and 14 in your minors

🥎OWNERS RESPONSIBLIES:
👉If your going to be away for an extended time, please contact me.
👉Every owner is expected to field a team (9 pitchers and 11 fielders) every game. Failure to do so, making the sims not run, results in a forfeit. I really hate to enforce this rule.
👉Please stay active.

🥎ELASTIC CLAUSE: I reserve the right to create and enforce any new rules that are necessary to deal with any problems as they arise.

League Settings

Year Range of Stats	1993 - 1994
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
Pitcher Injuries
Use Pitcher's HR Allowed Stats
Allows Max Surprise Bunts
Min Batters Pitcher Must Face	1
Slump Buster	(1unlimited days)
On Fire	Uses WAR
User Sims	(every 4 hours)