League Rules
2021 Flipper League1. Basic Pitch: The 6 owners will pick 12 of the 16 teams that existed in 1901. Your pick in the “2nd round” will be the reverse of your pick in the “1st round”.
The 2 teams you pick will also be your entrants in the 2021 Flipper League.
You get your team’s rosters from 2021 with 30 IP and 75 AB. Season 2, the AB increase to 100. You may not trade players between your teams. This is a boot-able offense.
When the league is full, we will pick teams. When the person before you makes his selection, you will have up to 24 hours to make a pick. We hope you will pick a lot sooner, but know that after 24 hours, I will allow the next person on the list to make their selection: you can still select from the available teams after that.
You can name your team anything the franchise actually used. If you choose the Baltimore Orioles, you can also call them the St Louis Browns or the Milwaukee Brewers (1901). If you choose Cleveland, they can be the Guardians, Indians, Naps, Blues, or Bronchos (Broncos), etc.
2. How are players acquired?
First season USED? 2021, going forwards to 2025, then 1901.
Minimum AB/IP? 75/30 in season 1, and 100/30 thereafter. 100/30 is the minimum to stat change, always.
Are duplicate players allowed? In the first season, yes. Your imports for season 2, and after, go where they had more IP or AB.
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.
3. Updating personnel:
Progressions: type: Unpredictable. Plateau range? 29 - 32. 33 begins depreciation.
Imports and Minimums? 75/30 in season 1, and 100/30 thereafter. 100/30 is the minimum to stat change, always.
Stat changing? Yes, unlimited, as long as the new stats are for 30 IP or 100 AB minimum.
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. The Commissioner will choose 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:
1 12-team league, 154 games, 4-man rotations in year 1, 5-man rotations thereafter, 8/15 for injuries (B/P), 26/9 rosters.
5. Playoffs:
12 teams: 3 4-team divisions. The division champions, and 3 wild cards, make the playoffs. The division champions are seeds 1 - 3, and the wild cards are seeds 4 - 6. Seeds 1 and 2 get byes in the first round.
Round 1, best of 3: 6 @ 3, 5 @ 4. All games in the host city
Round 2: Winner of 3/6 @ 2; winner 4/5 @ 1. Best of 5 (2/3 )
World Series: best of 7.
Rules about ties for a playoff spot:
A wild card team never hosts a series against a non-wild card team.
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)
In addition to a Cy Young and a MVP Award, there will also be a Manager of the Year Award given to the owner with the best combined record. In the event that some owners own more teams than some other owners, it will be the best combined winning percentage.
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.
Off season duties:
Double stats after seasons 1 and 2.
Unpredictable progression after world series. Plateau range: 29 - 32. 33 starts regression.
Imports: You get all the imports from the next season that are not already in the league (30 IP/75 AB in season 2; 30 IP/100 AB after that)
Stat changes: unlimited with minimums for importing: 30 IP, 100 AB (every year)
Cuts to a certain roster limit. 26/9
Waivers will run after game 5: I will trim any roster not in compliance after game 3.
Turn drops and trades on
Opening Day
Elastic Clause: I reserve the right to create new rules as necessary to deal with problems as they arise.
Some leagues use fictional player progression. To learn more about how players progress, check the Player Potential page.
League Settings
| Year Range of Stats | 2022 - 2022 |
| Roster Size (Majors) | 26 |
| Roster Size (Minors) | 9 |
| Keepers | |
| Change Stats Allowed | |
| Free Agency | (waivers) |
| Drops | |
| No-Drop List | |
| Player Fatigue | |
| Batter Injuries | (8 games max) |
| Pitcher Injuries | (15 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) |
