League Rules

RULES FOR All-Time Favorites League

League Structure
American League Replay Plus is divided into 2 five team divisions. You choose your team, pick 4 seasons of your favorite team. 1 first place, 1 second place, 1 third place and one fourth place or lower. You get to pick two additional players. These players are 1 pitcher and 1 position player of your choice that has played for your franchise for a minimum of five season.

Schedule
I use Pennant Chase to create the schedule. There will be 162 games and each series will be 3 games. Owner sims will be activated for this league. All games will be 6 hours apart.

Playoffs
The winner of each division will receive first round byes. The next top two teams in each division will play a best of 7 series for the right to play each division pennant winners. The teams with the best record will host each series. Pennant winners will always be the home team in LCS games. If there is a tie then the team that ranks the highest in the Power Rankings will host the series. There will be a 3 day rest before each series and one day off between home and home travel during all series.

If there is a tie for first place in the division the winner will be determined by team differential.

Imports
You may import any year that proceeds the entry years.

The Teams
The teams rosters will consist of a 25 man active roster and a 25 man minor roster.

All teams will be cut to 25 before the start of the season. You can place up to 15 players in the minor leagues. There will be no FA's or any drafts in this league. Your imports will come from any of the proceeding season of the years you chose the first season.
Player stat entry levels minimum are AB 75, SP 40 IP and RP 20 IP. Any SP that is imported into the league with less than 40 IP will be changed to a RP. A RP can become a starter only if his position changes during his stat change. I set these levels so there is an opportunity to keep younger players with these stats, so an owner can develop them. I will double for players that need it to progress.

Duplicate Players
Duplicate players on the same team are not allowed. It is your choice which one you want to keep, the other must be dropped.

Progression
C progression with the option of yearly stat change will be run in this league. Players will progress until age 29 and start regression at the age of 33. Retirement age will be age 40. A player can player longer if baseball-reference has them playing longer.

Changing Teams
A owner much keep his team 4 season before he can drop them and pick another team. New owners have the choice to keep the team that he inherits or may choose to complete drop the team and pick a new team of his choice.

Progression

This league uses C and real life progression. After progression, you will have the option to keep the C progression or use real life procession. Teams have complete control of the players. So keep them, cut them or trade them.

Trades
Trade players as you wish but if it is clear a team is having a fire sale I will invoke the "best interest of the game" clause and nullify the trade. Hopefully I will never have to use it.

The trading deadline will be at the end of the regular season and will be lifted after the final game of the post season.

Starting Rotation
All teams are required to have 5 starting pitchers in their rotation.

Player position Changes
You may change any position player to their secondary position. You have the option to change any 2 pitchers from SP to RP. There will be no option to change RP to SP.

The Designated Hitter
All teams will use the Designated Hitter rule.

Slump Busters/Injuries/Fatigue
Slump Busters will be limited to 10 games. Injuries will be limited to 5 games for both pitchers and position players. The fatigue option will not be used in this league.

Active Owners
Any owner who will not be able to sign in at least once in a two week period must communicate this with the commissioner. Any owner who fails to sign in at least once in two weeks, and fails to communicate this with the commissioner will be removed from the league.

Other rule changes as need.

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