League Rules

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League Rules - Season 49 (should be season 04 on new format, skipped season 46 of last format)
Commissioner - Demetri1377
1. League Setup -- 12 teams. 2 divisions, NL with 6 teams and AL with 6 teams. All 12 teams make World Series Playoffs.

2. Schedule -- A 33-game pre-season, 11 games per day for 3 days (first 33 games of regular season). Regular season is. 132 games. Each team plays other teams within their Division 12 games each (6 home and 6 away). Each team plays each team in opposite Division 12 games each, 6 home and 6 away. Each owner may only change one team by 10 am ET day before Regular season starts. Priority is first come first serve.

3. Playoffs -- NL and AL Regular Season Champs and Runners Up receive a bye in first round of playoffs. All playoff matches are best of 7 games with HH-AAA-HH format.
Round 1: Within each Division Number 3 seed hosts number 6 seed. Number 4 seed hosts number 5 seed.

Round 2: within each Division winners of round one face off against Div regular season champ and Div runners up. Div regular season champ hosts round 1 winner with worst record and runner up hosts remaining round one winner.

Round 3: Within each Division, winners of round 2 face off in semi-finals. Worst winning team at best winning team. This is Division Championship Round: National League and American League.

World Series: Winners of round 3 play each other for League Championship Trophy. Team with most regular season wins gets home field advantage. If tied, next tie-breaker is best head to head record. If still tied, the team with best runs scored minus runs given up differential. If still tied, the best power ranking wins home field advantage.

4. Player adds - turned off. Use players in minors to substitute for needed replacements. There will be a 3-round supplemental draft. Also, the add free agents will be turned on prior to game 1 of regular season.

5. Player drops- turned on during pre-season until after game 120 of regular season. This is to allow teams to reduce teams to 25 active max and 10 minors max. During regular season it is to replace injured players.

6. Sims -- Commissioner will sim 6 games per day during Regular Season (9 am, 1 pm, 4 pm, 6 pm, 8 pm, and 10 pm). During the playoffs sims can be as high as 7 per day with the addition of a 9 pm sim.

7. Days Off -- After Game 66 there is a 2 day break. 2 Game days rest for each team. After Game 132, there is a 2-day break to prepare for the playoffs. Between each Round of the playoffs there will be 2 game days off per team. When teams shift home locations during each round there will be a 1 game day off per team for travel. The days rest between starting pitcher starts is 3 days which enables a team's number one pitcher to pitch in games 1,4, and 7.

8. Tiebreakers -- Head to head and then power ranking (if more than two teams involved then just power ranking)

9. Roster size -- 25 active (from 9-10-11-12 pitchers and 16-15-14-13 position players) and up to 15 in the minors.

*10. Rosters Eligibility Requirements --Source of players to be drafted will be : each owner gets 2 MLB teams from 1876 to 2019. Both teams must come from either American League or National League. The teams must be one of 12 worst teams in MLB History. Your placement into the American or National Division will be based on the first team you select in Round One of the draft. If you pick a NL team, then you will be placed in NL Division. If your first team is an AL team, then you will be placed in the AL Division. Once 6 teams are placed in either AL or NL Division, the remaining owners must go into the opposite Division. That is once NL gets 6 teams, then remaining owners must pick AL teams in round one. Round two you must pick team from the opposite league. You should end up with two teams with one from NL and one from AL. Draft order for round one will be picked at random. Draft order of second round will be opposite of round one (except that Commissioner will take last pick since it is by far worst team).
*First season only for draft of two teams to combine. After that only 3- round supplemental draft and free agent pickups.

Rosters Eligibility:
-Position players 90 AB minimum
-SP 90 IP minimum, and
-RP 35 IP minimum

11. Slump Buster and On Fire -- ON (max of 5 days)

12. Endurance Feature -- ON

13. Trades: None.

14. Injuries -- Maximum five games (no injuries allowed during Pre-Season)

15. Starting Rotation -- Four man starting pitcher rotation. During the playoffs each team need only have a 3-person rotation. That is due to a combination of 3 days rest needed between starts, and giving game days off for travel days when teams move from one location to another.

16. Minimum Number of Players:
A. Each team must have minimum of 5 Starting Pitchers on active roster (maximum of 12) and a total of 9 to 12 Pitchers exactly. Max of 6 RP's.
B. Each team must have 13 to 16 Position players on active roster. Must have 1 or 2 C, 1 or 2 1B, 1 or 2 2B, 1 or 2 SS, 1 or 2 3B, and 5 or 6 OF. Can have more than 2 infielders at primary position if they have a secondary position that qualifies. For example, you have 3 1b, and no ss, but one of 1b has secondary position at ss.

17. Park Effects -- Owners choice up until game one is played (Team Name, Park Name and logo stay fixed as they are). Send message to Commissioner to change Park Effects from currently ?no effect?.

18. Mid Season Adjustments -- None.

19. Progression: none.

20. Creation of Rosters: First Round each owner gets one team of players from an AL or NL Team from 1876 thru 2019. Second Round they will draft in reverse order of first round and each owner gets a NL or AL in 1876 thru 2019 from opposite league that they picked in first round. Then each owner needs to manage their rosters to create 25 active players and up to 15 in the minors. Season 2 and beyond, add 3 free agents in 3 round supplemental draft.

21. Order of draft: Order of Round 1 will be by random number generation. Order of Round 2 will be the reverse of Round 1. (exception is that Commissioner gets last pick in both rounds). In season 2 and beyond draft order changed to one-way for both rounds and teams with lowest number of wins in regular season drafting first and team win most wins drafting last.

22. Theme of League: Create two teams from 12 worst teams in MLB history . ( 1 AL and 1 NL team from 1876 to 2019. ) See item 20 for kind of teams to be combined. Keep 25 active and another 15 in minors. No longer valid after season 2.

23. There will be no all-star game.

24. Commissioner will own a team and will manage any team that becomes ownerless.
Commissioner ? Demetri1377.
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League Settings

Year Range of Stats	1876 - 2020
Roster Size (Majors)	25
Roster Size (Minors)	15
Keepers	(40 keepers)
Change Stats Allowed
Free Agency
Drops
No-Drop List
Player Fatigue
Batter Injuries	(5 games max)
Pitcher Injuries	(5 games max)
Use Pitcher's HR Allowed Stats
Allows Max Surprise Bunts
Min Batters Pitcher Must Face	0
Slump Buster	(5 days)
On Fire	Classic
User Sims