League Rules

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LEAGUE RULES.

Welcome to the Owner's Choice Baseball League.

BASIC FORMAT: When you join, choose your franchise. Only teams between 1940 and 2022 are eligible for import. If your going to bring in a new franchise, you get two seasons. First is any year of your choice. Your imports for the follow season and each season after that you will take another year with a winning percentage of .570 or less, keeping your existing roster and dropping any player not wanted to get your roster down to 32 and 10 in the minors. You also have the choice of changing both your seasons or take a different franchise at the beginning of each season. Please take time to review the the rules. If you have questions, please ask. Post your choices in the league chat.

There is no FA or supplemental draft.

ROTATION: 5 man pitching rotation.

ROSTER: Roster size will be 32 players with 10 minors.

PLAYER IMPORTS: Each owner will keep 32 players. Minimum stats are 90 AB for position players, 35 IP for starters and 20 IP for RPs.
Each owner has the choice of importing one year of his teams history with a winning percentage of .560 or lower for your imports.

SLUMP BUSTERS: Will be limited to 10 days.

DUPLICATE PLAYERS: There can be no duplicate players on the same team. There can be no two teams with the same player with the same year in the league during any season.

TRADES: Trades are always open regular season. Each owner will be limited to 10 trades per season.

SEASON: 162 games season, running 6 sims per day. For the first 9 games, I will sim 3 a day.

PLAYOFFS: Top 8 teams will advance to the playoffs. Division winners will receive first round byes.
Highest seeded team will always be the home time. In case of a tie, team DIFF will determine home team.
All playoff series will be 7 games. 2-3-2 format. Division winner, regardless of their records will always be seeded as the home team. In the event both division meet in the finals, the team with the best record will be seed the home team. The tie rule will also be in effects here.

PROGRESSION: Before each season, I will progress each team. You may keep the progression and choose a year to import or you can completely have me delete your roster and take two different years. You may again choose a different franchise that has not been taken.
Players will progress until age 29 and begin to regress at the age of 32. Retirement will be 40.

PLAYER HEALTH - No player injuries or fatigue in this league

SANDBAGGING - Do not attempt to place players outside of their primary or secondary positions, or you will see a high error rate. A non-catcher playing catcher will allow your opponent to steal bases at will. Sandbag at your own risk!

OWNER MUST STAY ACTIVE - The success of the league is dependent on owners being active. Any owner that has not logged-in in 14 days is subject to being booted.

MOST OF ALL -- HAVE FUN AND GOOD LUCK.

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