League Rules

CONDUCT: This is a no drama league. We are here to have fun. If you cheat, are inactive or cause any kind of distraction you will be booted.

No Spring training in this league.

Regular season is 162 games.

ROSTERS: 35 man rosters (26/9) during the offseason; 40 (26/14) allowed during the season.

Keepers: Every team can have up to 35 players signed to multiple year contracts ($$).

Rotation: five-man rotation

Activity: Active owners only, if you don't sign players, set lineups or don't log in for 10 days, you will be removed. If you plan to be away, please inform the commissioner.

Post season: Six teams from each league make the playoffs. Top two seeds in each league will get a bye into the LDS. #1 seed will play the winner of the 4/5 matchup and #2 seed will play winner of the 3/6 matchup. Wild Card Series' will be best of five. LDS, LCS and WS will be best of seven. Division winners will always be seeded higher than wild card teams.

No All Star game. All-Stars will be PC selected after game 80.

Import players: Each team will have players from their next seasons roster imported to their team provided they are already not in league. Imported players must meet the below minimums.

Batters must have at least 150 at bats.
SP must have at least 110 innings pitched.
RP must have at least 30 innings pitched.

Strike adjusted AB/SPIP/RPIP:
1994 105/77/21
1995 133/98/27.

Progression: Basic classic progression, players will progress until age 28,remain the same from 29-32,then start to regress at age 33.

EFFECTIVE prior to 1993 (April 2023): Owners may request real stat changes for the coming season.
TWO PLAYERS maximum per season
MINIMUMS: 400 at bats / 150 innings for starters / 50 innings for relievers

Strike adjusted:
1994 279 at bats/105 innings for starters/35 innings for relievers
1995 356 at bats/133 innings for starters/44 innings for relievers

Advancement of contracts: When advancement of contracts is done, all unsigned players will go into the free agent pool.

Retirement age is 40. Commissioner may make exceptions. In such cases, rank should be above a minimum of 20. Free agent players who are 39 years old and have a rank lower than 20 will also be retired. Players in the pool beyond the real life year they actually played may also be considered for retirement.

FA bidding: Bidding will be done via chat box with a max contract of ten years, no raises or expiring contracts. NO LONGER USED. Bidding has been replaced by a draft as of the 1987-88 offseason.

Originally, we conducted chatbox bidding in this league. This has for the most part been replaced by a draft. However, at times we conduct a poll to see what owners prefer in any given season.

Draft: The first round will be slow with no clock. However, if more than a day passes after their turn begins, owners should not be surprised if we move on to the next team.

The second and third rounds will be run quickly at one scheduled time or on two separate days, 24 hours apart. The draft room will remain open at all times and owners may still pick if their turn comes up outside of the scheduled times.

Once the scheduled time arrives, the commissioner will consult the preranked totals in commissioner tools. Any team not preranked will be skipped. Owners are free to come online during the scheduled time and draft in person if they wish.

If owners feel additional rounds are needed, we can use waivers prior to the season. Players acquired through the draft or waivers do not need to be signed unless an owner plans to keep a player beyond next season's advancement.

Drops will be OFF until the draft completely ends to avoid players being added back to lists after they were dropped.

Prospects: None in this league.

Trades: If players with EXPIRING contracts are traded. The receiving team is allowed to extend the incoming expiring players' contracts up to TWO additional years. Players can only receive this extension once in their career.

Trades will turn off at game 120 and reopen after the World Series.
*changed from "after free agent bidding" to accommodate the traded extension rule. However, the commissioner often forgets to turn them off, lol. In that case, any trades made after game 120 will still be allowed.

Budget: All teams will have a budget of $135 unless a team's budget has been adjusted per the buyout rules below.

Contract Buy-outs: Provided a team has the financial flexibility, an owner may decide to partially or completely buy out a player's contract. If done, the team's budget will be reduced for one year by an amount equal to the buy out. If the contract in question is completely bought out, that player effectively becomes a free agent and is returned to the pool where he can be bid on or signed by any team.

Zero year ($) players may be dropped at any time by messaging the commissioner.*

Extension rule as of 1988.
You may re-sign up to three zero year ($) players each offseason in addition to the ones allowed under the traded extension rule. Please send the commissioner the names of any $ player once the offseason begins and prior to advancement. Include the number of years you would like to extend the player.

*The 1993-94 offseason will be the last time we allow extensions. At that time, owners may extend any zero-year players on their roster for as long as they wish. This change will not affect traded extensions. Those will continue to be allowed so owners can attempt to get something back for the players they will lose.

Beginning with the 1994-95 offseason, owners may select a franchise hitter AND pitcher that their team may keep indefinitely. Specific details to be added later.

Position changes: Each offseason, owners can change up to two players main position. Fielders changes must be either swapped with the secondary position or a position they played at their current league age in real life. Their range factor will go down depending on age and position. Pitchers can change from SP to RP after the age of 30. Their H/9 and W/9 will go down and K/9 will go up, as will their WP. Stamina will be either halved or cut into a third. RP to SP can occur at or before the age of 25. Stamina will generally be doubled, while H/9, W/9 will go up and K/9 will go down. CG will be 1.

New owners: New owners have the option of extending and cutting up to 3 contracts.

More rules will be added if needed.

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