League Rules

MLB: GREAT GUMBALL LEAGUE (2015-2021)

Commish: Brenduplantis
VPs: Joshanddez and bbfan20013


I. General Rules:
The commish reserves the right to boot a user for any reason at anytime.
Do not tank or cheat.

II. League Schedule:

No Spring Training

*Regular Season (162 games)

*Rookie Draft (After game 60)
*All Star Game (After game 90~)
*Trade and Extensions Deadline (After game 140~)
*Free agency (ability to sign and drop players in free agency) turned off (After game 150~)

*Playoffs
*World Series
MPORTANT DATES OFFSEASON

After World Series ends...
Awards voted on
Budgets Adjusted
Player position conversions
Fire added
Waivers/Trading turned on
Contracts Signed, due 3 days after World Series
Rosters cleared, Stats archived and cleared, players progressed & retired (40)
Free Agency Bidding Opens
Free Agency Bidding Closes
Start of new season - Rosters & Salary Caps must be set


*Progressions and advancement of contracts (players peak at age 28, regress from 31)
FA bidding & Offseason Requests


III. ROSTERS 45 man rosters,30/15 in regular season. Your team must maintain the roster size at all times.


IV. BUDGET

The base budget per team will be $165.


+$1 .500 record or above
+$2 if team made playoffs
+$3 If loses the WS
+$4 if the team wins the WS

Maximum cap is $220

If a team exceeds their budget, then the team will be hit with the following penalties:

1st Offense: The team loses players, until they get under their budget.

2nd Offense: Same as above and the loss of first 3 draft picks of the team

3rd Offense: Removal of owner from league


FYI FOR NEW OWNERS TO PENNANTCHASE:
For contracts:
If a player is on an expiring contract, then your team will have control of the player for one more year, you will be able to resign him at end of contract



V. DRAFT/PROSPECTS

There will be a fantasy rookie draft every year. 3 round draft. It will be held after Game 60 of every season, just like how the real MLB does it. The order will be based off of previous year's standings. If two teams have same record, then run differential will be used to break the tie. The team with a lower run differential will receive a higher draft pick.

Draftees can be signed to pc contracts


Every year teams will be able to request a prospect

VI. Offseason Requests

Each team will be able to have off season requests as followed after progressions:

SP TO RP Conversion: SP age 30 and over will be eligible to be converted into a RP. Stamina will drop by 60 pitches (so 100 will drop to 40), with upper threshold of 50. and WHIP will decrease 12.5%. Wins, Losses, and Innings Pitched will drop 50%. K/9 will be increased by 1. Two pitcher per offseason may be converted. Lowest Stamina is 20.

RP TO SP Conversion: RP age 25 and under are eligible to be converted into a SP. WHIP will increase 12.5% and Stamina will increase 60 (40 will increase to 100), with a low threshold of 85. Wins, Losses, and IP will increase 50%. K/9 will be decreased by 1. One pitcher per offseason may be converted. If IP is less than 70, stats will automatically double.

Position Changes: 1 per offseason
Positional changes cost $2 fee.

C -> DH
1B-> 3B/DH
2B-> SS/3B/DH
3B -> 1B/SS/2B/DH
SS -> 2B/3B/DH
OF -> DH

If a player switches position to another position, then the secondary position will be set to DH.

Expect RF and FLD to decrease when the changes are made.

Stadium Renovations:

The stadiums may be renovated during every offseason.

1 level change - $4 i.e. No effect to Mild Disadvantage
2 level change - $6
3 level change - $8

The cost is same if the change is done on only one side or both.

VII. Contract Extensions

*Extensions
Sign Players after contract is over or they will enter free agency


VIII. FA Bidding Process

FA Bidding will be held every offseason. The procedure is as followed:

You will bid on list of top FA's using league chat room.
It will be 1-2 rounds at end of each round FA will go to highest contract.
After each round (24hrs), the bid expires and the player is won.

IX. Double Progressions

**Double Progressions has a $3 fee associated with it.

Every offseason, a team may request one player 24 and under for double progression. The player requested will be able to be progressed twice in the same age. Once a player has been double progressed, then the player is ineligible to be double progressed again, and will be given a tag that denotes the player as ineligible. This is a new feature added so that the developmental projects get a boost and/or good players have a chance to be stars for the team.


X. All Star Process and Playoff Format

All-Stars will be selected using the CPU.

Playoff format is as below:

Wild Card Round:

1 day off given
The wild card teams will play a 3 game series to determine the winner. The winners will move on to the divisional rounds, and will be matched up against the number one seed in the respective leagues. 2 days off given

Divisional Round:

The divisional round will be made of 5 games, in a 2-2-1 format, with a team advancing to the next round if won 3 games.
Game 1
Game 2
Day off
Game 3
Game 4 - if necessary
Day off
Game 5 - if necessary

2 days off will be given after the divisional round.

AL/NL Championship Round:

The winners of the Divisional Round will play a 7 game, 2-3-2 format, series, with the team with 4 games won advancing on to the World Series
Game 1
Game 2
Day off
Game 3
Game 4
Game 5 - if necessary
Day off
Game 6 - if necessary
Game 7 - if necessary

2 days off will be given after the championship round.

World Series

The winners of the championship round will face off in a 7 game, 2-3-2 format, series, with the team with 4 games won winning the title.
Game 1
Game 2
Day off
Game 3
Game 4
Day off
Game 5 - if necessary
Game 6 - if necessary
Day off
Game 7 - if necessary

X. Offseason Awards:

There will be few offseason awards:

MVP
Cy Young
Home Run King
Hitting Machine (top Batter)
Thief in the Night (SBs)

The award winners will receive +1 fire point.

XI. Formal Trade Reviewal Process

1. Commish will contact the owners who are involved in a trade deemed unfair and will ask for rationale behind trade.

1.All owners will be allowed a total of 20 trades per season which should be plenty enough. If you somehow miraculously reach that mark then trading will be cut off for the rest of that season.

2.All owners are allowed to trade cash and draft picks. Please use this with careful consideration though. Cash will not be added back to your teams budget and is permanent once processed. Please inform the Commish of any trades so they can be marked on homepage

3. Please if any complaints on trades report them to the commish/vice commish and the trade committee will decide then if it should be reversed or not.( we will review each trade anyway)

4. Cash trades will only be a max of $5

3. Commish and Vice Commishes will then determine whether the trade is fair or unfair. If a vice is involved in a trade being discussed, then the commish will ask for opinions of owners around the league on the trade and will determine if that trade is fair or unfair with the other vice. If both vices are involved, then I will make the sole decision.

If a trade is reversed, then the owner who held the advantage in the trade may be booted if a trade is deemed extremely egregious by the office members.


XI. New Owner Rules

1. Up to 2 contracts may be voided, with no penalty

2. Up to 2 years may be added to any contract, for up to 4 players

League Settings

Year Range of Stats	2014 - 2014
Roster Size (Majors)	30
Roster Size (Minors)	5
Keepers	(35 keepers)
Change Stats Allowed
Free Agency
Drops
No-Drop List
Player Fatigue
Batter Injuries	(15 games max)
Pitcher Injuries	(15 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