League Rules

1982 Holding Team League

1. Basic Pitch: This is a non-contract league playing from 1982 through present day. 5 owners in the league, with each person having 1 team in each division (4 total).

When you join the league, you will pick a draft slot: your will receive a 1st round pick in 1 division, a second round pick in another division, a 4th round pick in one division, and a 5th round pick in one division. I will pick 3rd in each division.

You will receive all the imports for your teams (as long as they are not in the league already) with 1 IP or 1 AB, but players with less than 50 AB or 20 IP will be placed on the Holding Team until they have enough to make the Varsity roster. I reserve the right to increase that in a couple of years when more players exist.

2. How are players acquired?

First season USED: 1982

Minimum AB/IP? 1/1 for importing; 50/20 to be on your usable roster.

Duplicate players are permitted in the initial cohort, but not in import cohorts. When imported, a player that is eligible to be placed on multiple teams will be placed solely on the team where he had the most AB or innings pitched that season.

ANY ISSUE ABOUT WHICH TEAM A PLAYER BELONGS ON MUST BE RAISED PRIOR TO THE FIRST GAME, OR THE RIGHT TO APPEAL IS WAIVED. Once a player “suits up” for a game, he belongs to that team.

When necessary, any team that is over roster limits will be trimmed by me. I can trim them by any process I choose, but I cannot leave you with fewer than 9 pitchers, or 11 position players when I am finished (i.e. I cannot cause a forfeit.) Generally, I remove the players with the lowest ratings, even if the players with the lowest rations are Mike Schmidt and Bob Gibson.

3. Updating personnel:

Progressions: Real. Sometimes a player has a gap year during their career. In this instance, the player will go to the retired list, and if/when he plays again, will return to the last team he played for (i.e. had stats for). So, if you want to get him back, if you don’t want him going to the free agent pool, make sure he accumulates IP or AB for your team.

Minimum AB/IP? 1/1 for importing; 50/20 to be on your usable roster.

Stat changing. No/unnecessary

Trades? YES. But no trades, or waivers, after game 140 and before the end of the World Series.

“Anyone can question the fairness of a trade, and forward a review request to the trade review committee. I will select the members of this committee, and majority rules. If for some reason there is a tie (as with an abstention), the Commissioner will break the tie. The Commissioner will oversee the performance of this committee. Requests to have trades reviewed must be made within 1 week or 20 games from the trade, whichever comes first.”


Free agents/waivers? Yes, once games start.

4. League set up, number of games, rotation size, injury length, and roster size:

2 10-team leagues. 162 games. 4-man rotations during 1982, and 5-man rotations after that. 5 days for a player, 8 days for a pitcher. 26/7 rosters (26/33)

5. Playoffs:

The top team in each division makes the playoffs. An LCS and a World Series, both best-of-7, will decide the league champion.

Rules about ties for a playoff spot:

A wild card team never hosts a series against a non-wild card team. [I get that this is irrelevant right now, but if we have expansion, or if the method of playoffs change, I want this here.]

If teams tie for a playoff spot:
⇒ If both teams would be “in”, use head-to-head record as a tiebreaker. Run differential is the 2nd tie-breaker.
⇒ If one is in, the other is out, 1 game playoff (@ head 2 head winner)


MY BASIC EXPECTATIONS OF EACH OWNER:

⇒ Your commitment is season to season. When you join, you will be expected to actively run your team until the end of the season, which is when the regular season ends for non-playoff teams, or when your playoff team is eliminated. If you quit mid-season without my blessing, I will share this information with other commissioners.

⇒ Actively running your team means that you read messages once per day, meet all deadlines, and communicate any difficulties to the commissioner.

⇒ I will provide a minimum of 48 hours between a posting of a deadline, and the deadline. Ignorance of the deadline will not be an excuse for failing to meet the deadline.

⇒ If you will be away, and unable to get your messages, give the commissioner advance notice. Inactivity for ten (10) days, or repeated failure to meet deadlines, may result in your being booted from the league.

⇒ 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.


⇒ Read and be familiar with the rules immediately upon joining: it may affect your desire to be in the league, or your desire to pick a certain team.

Please keep all conversations clean
Please don't be rude to fellow owners
Please be active, if not active for 14 days you may be removed from the league
We all love baseball and that's why we're here. So Just have fun and enjoy!


General rules:

Each offseason, you can switch a SP to RP, or a RP to a SP, but stamina will remain “as is.”. You can change it back the next offseason if you like, but no changes between first pitch and the last out of the World Series.

You can switch a player’s primary and secondary positions if they played 50% or more games THAT season at their secondary position, or at least 25% of their games for their career at their secondary position.

During an offseason, a player can be switched to the position they played most in their career, regardless of the requirements of General Rule #2.

You can switch a DH to his secondary position, as long as he has a fielding percentage.

Each of these changes are to occur during the offseason, unless it's for a player you acquire by trade or waiver, and then, the request must come in immediately (i.e. within 24 hours of acquisition.)

Off season duties:

Real progression after world series.

Imports: You get all the imports from the next season that are not already in the league (1 IP/1 AB minimum). Players with less than 20 IP or 50 AB will stay on the holding team until they qualify.

Make sure that the players on your holding team have fewer than 20 IP or 50 AB. If they have that many, or more, they should be on the varsity roster

Also, check out the players on the holding team to see if any of them, if switched to current year stats, would qualify to be on the varsity roster. If so, alert the commissioner before opening day.

Cuts to a certain roster limit. 26/7 (or 26/33, depending on how you interpret it). Since all players who are cut are eligible for waiver claims, I will have to make the cuts if you don’t.

Turn drops and trades on

Opening Day/Waivers


Elastic Clause: I reserve the right to create new rules as necessary to deal with problems as they arise.

League Settings

Year Range of Stats	1871 - 2025
Roster Size (Majors)	26
Roster Size (Minors)	7
Keepers
Change Stats Allowed
Free Agency	(waivers)
Drops
No-Drop List
Player Fatigue
Batter Injuries	(5 games max)
Pitcher Injuries	(8 games max)
Use Pitcher's HR Allowed Stats
Allows Max Surprise Bunts
Min Batters Pitcher Must Face	1
Slump Buster	(15 days)
On Fire	Uses WAR
User Sims	(every 3 hours)