League Rules

Welcome to the International Professional Baseball League.

The league consists of team from the Americas and the Asian Regions. The player pool consists of players from the Negro League, The Japanese and MLB Leagues. There will be players added to the player pool every pre-season before the next season draft. All entering players will be between 18 and 23.

⚾ TEAM DETAILS -- Please do not modify any team logos. Park and your Park Effects. can be changed before the season starts. Team details will lock at the beginning of the season.

⚾ROSTERS -- Rosters will consist of 26 players on the active roster and 5 players in the minors. You have the option to draft no more than 18 pitchers and 18 position players max, but again totaling 31 rostered players. You must keep at least 11 position players and 5 starting pitches on your active roster all the time. This is do the site will sim games.

⚾KEEPERS -- Each team will get to keep 8 players. These players are yours until you trade them, drop them or they retire. You can message me and change you keepers at the beginning of each season. Once you change a keep, he can no longer return to keeper status.

⚾TRADING -- Trading will be aloud in this league. You will be able to make no more than 5 trades and season and no more than 2 players at any one time.

⚾INJURY& FATIGUE SETTINGS -- Injury and Fatigue will no be used in this league.

⚾WAR FORMULA -- We use the WAR formula is this league to help keep the results in the league much lower than the on-fire numbers.

⚾STARTING PITCHING -- This will be a 5 starter league. If you don't have five stater in your starting line-up at anytime, I will add one for you. 😁

⚾SECONDARY POSITIONS -- You may change any player to their secondary position without penalty. SP moved to RP will have a pitch count reduced to 40 pitches. No RP will be considered for switch from RP to SP unless it happens at the time of stat change.

⚾TWO-WAY PLAYERS -- There is a few two way players. These players will be mailed to each owner before the draft begins. You must take both players. When drafting these players, the second player will be added as your last pick in the draft. You do not have to keep both of your two way players. You may drop either one of them at the beginning of next season after progression and at the time you designate your keepers for the next season, before I clear the roster for the draft.

⚾JAPANESE PLAYERS -- This is IMPORTANT! Some of the Japanese players stat came from the Japanese search. If you are looking for a season to stat change to and you don't see any options, please contact me and I will stat changes them to the next season available. Ohtani and Darvish are just two that will need special handling for a couple of seasons.

⚾We will use a full 162 game schedule. Games will be schedule 4 hours apart. This is to help move the season along at a faster pace.

⚾SCHEDULED OFF DAYS -- Teams will be one day off every twelve days and three days off before the post-season starts. The wild-card game winner gets one day off after the wild-card game, which means other playoffs teams will get a full five days rest before their first games. Playoff teams will be granted a day off after each series, and two days off before the World Series. Teams that win their first round faster than the other series will be given as many extra days off as it takes the other series to finish.

⚾PRE-SEASON DRAFT -- Rosters will be cleared after progress and after each owner designates his keeper for the next season. There will be a 19 round pre-season snake draft as soon a the league fills. The last 5 minor roster players will be added by waivers after game 10. This is so the weaker teams will have a chance to draft players to help their teams.

⚾SUPPLEMENTAL DRAFT AND FREE AGENTCY -- There will two round of waivers after game 10 each season. The draft order will be determined by team standing as set by the site PC. There will be no FA or supplemental draft after the two waiver rounds.

⚾PROGRESSION -- This will be a C progression league. All players will progress until age 29 and start regression at the age of 31. Mandatory retirement ages will be 40. All players upon retirement age then will be reimported into free agency.

⚾STAT CHANGE -- Stat change will be permitted at a limited option. You will be able to stat change any of your 8 keepers each season, one year. This means if the present year is 1920, he can be stat changed to 1921. Because of the difference of years on players, you will need to send me the list of the players you want to stat change to the next season. Stat change will not be available after the season starts.
Entry minimums for stat change are 100AB 70IP SP and 30IP RP.


⚾POST-SEASON -- Six teams will be invited to the play-offs. The Division winners will get first round byes and the next 2 teams with the best records will go into the wild card round. . All rounds are seven games. Division winners, regardless of record will always be seated as home team.

⚾ TIEBREAKERS -- Head-to-head match up will be used where possible, otherwise team with highest Power Ranking wins. In case of more than two teams, Power Ranking will be used. (The only time a tie-breaker is NOT used is if a wild card is tied with a division winner. In that case, the division winner gets the higher seed.) Keep in mind, whenever head-to-head can be used, it will trump Power Ranking. (Example: two teams tie for division, and a third team ties those other two for best record. First, head-to-head is used to determine division winner. Then, head-to-head for the division winner is used to determine #1 seed and home team in all championship games.

⚾NEXT SEASON --The league champ and award winners will be recorded in the user details. Keepers will be set, rosters will be cleared with all players going into the FA pool. There will be a 23 round live draft before each season. This will be like MLB's draft and will not be a snake draft. The will be 2 waiver rounds after game 10 to fill the rosters and the draft order will be determined by the site PC before each round.

New rules will be added as need.

League Settings

Year Range of Stats	1871 - 2024
Roster Size (Majors)	26
Roster Size (Minors)	5
Keepers	(8 keepers)
Change Stats Allowed
Free Agency
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)