League Rules

AAA League:
GM's and Teams are directly correlated to GM's & MLB Teams in the league "MLB 2012 - You Wanted the Best!".
AAA Sims 3 series per day, MLB 2 series per day.
Coordinated Schedule available for review at any time under AAA "more" tab.

Glossary
1) TBD = to be determined
2) MLB/AAA/Majors/Minors - MLB and AAA refer to the 2 leagues being run in coordination with one another. Majors and Minors refers to the break down within those leagues. MLB has a majors and minors, AAA has its own majors and minors.
4) Tags - the little plus sign next to a players name to signify something of significance.
5) Thresholds - 200 AB's, 85 IP's for SP's, 50 IP's for RP's.
6) AAA All Star break = Game 100

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DOUBLE PROGRESSION

AAA will have a double progression feature, for select players who qualify.

All players who are on a AAA roster at the end of a season will be progressed in AAA (i.e., standard offseason progression). No players on the AAA MLB Promotion Team at the end of the season will be progressed in AAA since they will be progressed in MLB.

The extra AAA progression will take place at the AAA All Star break. This progression will only be available to AAA players who meet all of the following criteria:

1. They must be in AAA at the AAA All Star break
2. Their simulated stats in AAA as of the AAA All Star break must meet or exceed the Thresholds (see point #5 in the glossary)
3. Their real stats must not be better than the following Boost CAP stats: AVG (.280), SLG % (.500) or WHIP (1.25 for SPs, 1.10 for RPs)
4. They must not be older than 24. (CAP was formerly 28)


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Promotions/Demotions (tracked in "more" tab of both MLB and AAA)

* Promotions/demotions are not restricted for playoffs, to account for 40 man rosters and September call-ups.
* Teams are required to have max. 65 person rosters between MLB and AAA, with no more than 40 in either league. "Shells" are not counted as a player.
* Players with AAA in front of last name should not be promoted or played under any circumstance. These are the shells of the player who is playing in other league. This is done to maintain accuracy and integrity of player contracts, and compiled stats year over year to name a few.
* AAA players promoted to MLB will be moved to the minors on your team with MLB tag.
*Best Practice - do not promote/demote players from majors/minors unless you are confident you understand the policies and procedures.
*At the end of Spring Training, Each GM can make one "mass" list of promotions/demotions before season begins.
*During Season, Promotions/Demotions will be processed each evening to attempt to have players moves be as timely as possible. There is no guarantee on when it will be processed, and do not send requests that aren't ready to be processed (i.e please process callup for johnson after todays games. In those cases he will simply get promoted but it may or may not be at the timing you requested).
*Dropping players can be done by GM, picking up FA's is done by emailing the League office who you want to pick up. It is done this way for the one reason of making sure we can keep players synced with proper teams in both leagues (MLB and AAA).
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Payroll & Contracts:
Since contracts do not transfer when you import players, we will handle this issue as follows.
*do not sign AAA contracts! there will be no need if my foresight is accurate, and will only confuse your "contracts page". Right now, your contracts page will show only injury tags and promoted to majors tags making for an efficient way for you as GM to manage both.
*Players who have 200+ sim MLB AB's, 85+ MLB IP's for SP's, or 50+ MLB IP's for RP's for year just ended, will require a MLB contract in order to not be cut when rosters get cleared. Rookies (age 23 and under) get a rookie contract, anyone else can be signed in MLB at the terms of pennant chase contracts (1-10 yrs, 1M+ with raises or not, etc). Notify the league office if you identify players requiring rookie contracts. Keep in mind, MLB playoff stats are included in calculating if players have played over thresholds.
Demotions - Players contracts will stay intact in MLB based on their player frame not being deleted in MLB when they are imported to AAA. (I.E when a player is demoted to AAA, he is imported to AAA but he is also left in MLB with simple adjustment that he is rendered useless in pro's by changing his hits or innings value to 1).

Any behavior deemed at my discretion and league council, to violate these rules will be handly swiftly, abruptly and without recourse. I'm not sure how one might do this, but I can't see into the future so I put this just in case. :)
Team AAA budgets are currently set at 200M just in case they are needed.
Players retire at age 35, email commish or Vice if you would like to request an exception.
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ROOKIE DRAFT- The amateur draft will take place on the day after game 42 in the AAA League. Players will be prospects to stock the AAA system (I.e hitters avg .120-.200 avg?s).Teams will need to rank their draftees list (top right of my team page), to ensure that they may get the players they want if they choose to automate their picks. Picks may be traded, but no more than 1 year in advance of the current season, in essence you have 6 picks to trade at any given time if you own all your picks. All trades involving picks will need to be emailed to the league office and will be pending approval, but posted to the homepage. There will be 3 rounds in the draft as a default, but case by case we may choose to add or remove rounds to balance to talent pool. To enter a live draft, click on the ?draftroom? link in red bar to top right of page.
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1) AAA Achievement Awards
WS - MLB 3M CAP (5M)
Best Regular Season Record - MLB 1M CAP (2M)
League titles - MLB 2M CAP (3M)
Div. Champs - MLB 1M CAP (2M)

2) MLB GM GOALS (Rewards in AAA, see MLB Rules Section 6 for more details)
a) Goal #5 - AAA Performance - teams that boost AAA wins by 5 or more from previous seasons performance receive 3 boosts of 30/20/10 cap adjusted boosts, plus 2M in MLB CAP. The player boosts must be 3 separate stats, 3 separate players.

GM discretion over player - 30% of CAP Factor boost for 1 player
GM discretion over player - 20% of CAP Factor boost for 1 player
GM discretion over player - 10% of CAP Factor boost for 1 player

CAP Stats for discretion of boost
AVG - .280
AB's - 650 (Games edited improving EN)
OBP - .375 (via BB's stat)
HR's - 27
SB's - 30 (thus improving Spd)
SO's - 50
FLD % - 1.000
RF - 7.5
FIRE - 20

Pitchers
ERA - 2.50
WHIP - 1.25 for SP's, 1.10 for RP's (via hits)
SO's/9 - 10.0
BB's/9 - 1.0
Stamina - 115 for SP's, 50 for RP's
FIRE - 20

I.E .240 hitter with avg boost of 30% would become .252 hitter. A .170 hitter with 30% boost becomes a .203 hitter.

b) Goal #6 - AAA GM PATH - teams that choose to maintain a AAA GM from trade deadline until Game 42 of following season will receive an international prospect in the 4th round of rookie draft from separate pool of international players.



3) All Stars & Awards ? Each All Star starter will receive 2 FIRE points, reserves 1 FIRE point.
4) Cy Young & MVP ? will receive 3 FIRE pts.

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X. PLAYOFFS

1. The playoffs are made up of 4 teams from each league. There will be 1 day simulated rest between regular season and playoffs.
2. Division winners having home-field over wildcards regardless of records. Home-field thereafter is determined by better record.

3. Each league has three division winners and one wild card. Thus 1 plays 4, 2 plays 3 in overall record, regardless of division winner or wildcard. (again tie-breaker being a 1 game playoff as voted by GM's/then head to head record).
4. Format will be 2-2-1 for 1st round, 2-3-2 for all rounds thereafter

5. Format
-Wild Card , 5 game series (2-2-1 format).
Game one, 8 AM
Game two, 11 AM
?day off? granted after game 2.
Game three, 2 PM
Game four, 5 PM
?day off? granted after game 4.
Game five, 8 PM

-No ?day off? granted in between Wild Card/Divisional round and Divisional Round/League Championship round.

-PLCS and ILCS, 7 game series (2-3-2 format), day one.
Game one, 8 AM
Game two, 11 AM
?day off? granted after game 2.
Game three 2 PM
Game four 5 PM

-PLCS and ILCS, 7 game series (2-3-2 format), day two.
Game five, 8 AM
?day off? granted after game 5.
Game six, noon
Game seven, 4 PM

-Two ?days off? granted in between League Championship round and World Series.

-WORLD SERIES, 7 game series (2-3-2 format), day one.
Game one, 8 AM
Game two, noon
?day off? granted after game 2.
Game three, 4 PM
Game four, 8 PM

-WORLD SERIES, 7 game series (2-3-2 format), day two.
Game five, 9 AM
?day off? granted after game 5.
Game six, Noon
Game seven, 3 PM

6. In the the World Series, the Champion from each league would play each with the best regular season record having home field advantage over the worse regular season record in a winner take all 7 game series (2-3-2) format.
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Miscellaneous
Sp to rp conversions - same as MLB.
Stadium renovations - 1m per side changed.

Commissioner - Cardac00
Vice-Commissioner - Storytelling
Vice-Commissioner - Keefers

League Settings

Year Range of Stats	2017 - 2017
Roster Size (Majors)	25
Roster Size (Minors)	30
Keepers	(40 keepers)
Change Stats Allowed
Free Agency
Drops
No-Drop List
Player Fatigue
Batter Injuries	(50 games max)
Pitcher Injuries	(50 games max)
Use Pitcher's HR Allowed Stats
Allows Max Surprise Bunts
Min Batters Pitcher Must Face	0
Slump Buster
On Fire	Classic
User Sims