League Rules

RULES
I'll try to keep it short and simple.

This is a keepers league. There no contracts. You can keep or trade players. Each year your team will acquire rookies. A one round supplemental draft will be held each year for the rookies from expansion teams.
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Conduct
No Politics or Religion - that what "X" is for.
Please keep all conversations clean
Please don't be rude to fellow owners
Please be active, if not active for 14 days you will be removed
We all love baseball that's why we're here
Just have fun and enjoy
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Progression:

Random progression and you can also change your players stats each season

progression-28
regression-32
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DRAFT:
Teams must reduce their Rosters to 30 prior to the Draft. Ranking for the draft will be enabled after the Cuts Deadline.
All Free Agents and Rookie Free Agents are eligible for the draft. Time limit for the 3 round draft is 6 hours for the 1st round and 3 hours for the 2nd and 3rd rounds. If you will be unavailable to pick, please RANK players for the Draft. If you have RANKED, but would prefer to pick "live", let me know either by message or in the Draft Room Chat Box, and your RANK will only be used in the event that your time expires. Auto pick won't be enabled, so if you forget to pre-rank, and your time expires, your pick will be "skipped" and the draft continues. You may at any time after your pick is "skipped" message the Commissioner with a choice and it will be processed manually.
- Tie Breaker for Draft Rank
1. POWER RANK at end of Regular Season (with lowest RANK drafting 1st)
2. Run Differential (with lowest drafting 1st)
3. H2H (team with more losses picking 1st)

- League Champion picks last, runner-up picks next to last.
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Waivers

a. Owners must select a player to drop when submitting claims for waivers unless you have room on your roster- or the 1st player on your roster in alphabetical order will be dropped.
b. Owners who accidentally drop a player should contact a commissioner prior to Free Agency opening (24 hours).
c. If the dropped player is claimed by another team, you may still request that the player be returned prior to the opening games
being played.
d. Once the player in question has played in a game for another team, he is that team's property and any requests to
have him returned will have to be negotiated between the owners - the Commissioners will no longer be involved.

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Rosters

Majors 25
Minors 8
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Sims

User Sim every 4 hours

Simming Games

In order to sim a game you need:
9 pitchers on your major roster
11 batters on your major roster
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Check your rookies yearly. I'd recommend checking Baseballreference.com for lists of your players and if there is a newly eligible player on there for the upcoming season that didn't end up on your roster...maybe he didn't qualify OR he played for multiple teams and was imported onto another roster. Whichever team that player played the most games for should be the team he ends up on. If he was imported to a different team, please notify the commish BEFORE drops begin. Chances are the rookies for that other team were imported first and this would prevent him from being imported to another team. Police your own roster, there are too many players and teams for the commish to keep track of this.
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Minimums requirements for rookies

Batting:AB-125
Pitching:IP-35

If a player slips in under these thresholds, or is upgraded to a season below these thresholds, he should have his stats doubled until his AB's and IP's get to the minimum numbers.

SP IP-85+
RP IP-35+

STAT CHANGE TO CURRENT SEASON:

Owners will have the option to change a players stats to the current season stats each offseason, so long as those players meet the AB and IP threshold. Owners should understand that changing stats will forfeit any progression that player has currently had. Owners should also know that once you change a players stats, you CANNOT reverse it to retain your progression. Any request to change stats to current season should be sent to the Commissioner and he will do them. Remember they must meet minimums of 125 AB's, 85 IP's for SP and 35 IP's for RP. You can see the current season stats for a player by clicking on "See Other Seasons Available".


FIELDING POSITION CHANGE:

Owners may request one position player change per season to their secondary position. If a player is "stat changed", he does not retain his prior position eligibility. This includes Pitchers - SP/RP eligibility could change depending on the season the pitcher is changed to.

PITCHER CONVERSION:

SP to RP: Only is the pitcher in question was a RP for at least 10% of their appearances in the season being used. Owners will only get one SP to RP conversion per season and the Stamina will be set at 40.

RP to SP: Only if the pitcher in question was a SP for at least 1/2 of their appearances in season being used - their Stamina will be set at 80.

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Rotation

1903-79 4man
1980-Present 5man
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Retirement

The age that players will retire is 40.
players will be allowed to complete their season at age 40 then retire.
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Slump Busters

5 Days
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Injuries

Batting 25 Days
Pitching 25 Days
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TRADES: 5 trades per team, 6 players max combined per trade. (NO FIRE SALES) Trades that may be deemed harmful to the competitive balance of the league may be subject to review and, potentially, a league vote.
Trade deadline in day 100.
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Stadium Effect

STADIUM RENOVATIONS: Before the beginning of each year, you can edit either LHB or RHB by "One step". ALL TEAMS (Expansion included) start without any Advantages or Disadvantages. Before 'New Teams' begin their FIRST season, they can choose to change either the LHB or the RHB effect of your park to either a mid-disadvantage or a mid-advantage.
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Post Season

1903-49
The best team from each League will meet in the World Series.
If there is a regular season tie, there will be a 1 game playoff. Home field will be determined by teams runs scored.

1950-Present
The best team from each division will meet. If there is a tie, a 1 game playoff will be played. Home field determined by Head to Head record - 2nd tie breaker is Run Differential.
7 game series
best record gets home field
(if there is a tie Home field determined by Head to Head record - 2nd tie breaker is Run Differential.)
3 days rest granted to all teams
rest granted after games 2 & 5
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World Series

3 days rest granted to all teams
7 game series
rest after games 2&5
home field goes to the team with most wins.

*IF THERE IS A TIE WITH WINS, TIE BREAKERS WILL BE: 1. HEAD/HEAD RECORD 2. RUN DIFFERENTIAL
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All-Star Game

Held after the World Series
3 days rest granted
Managers will be the 2nd place finishers in the League
Home field goes to best record in the League

*In case of a tie, it will be most runs scored
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Links

I have created links to show:

1-league leaders in each league
2-awards with photos for MVP, CY ROY.
3-World Series with photos.
5-4000 Hit club
6-600 HR club
7-400 Win club
8-3000 Strikeout club
9-Hall of Fame
10-All-Star Game
11-Triple Crown
12-Franchise HOF'ers
13-Titles
14-Awards
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Hall of Fame will open in 1936

If a player has the following career totals they will automatically be inducted.
Wins-400
K's-3000
Saves-600
Hits-4000
HR's-600
We will vote on who gets in the HOF
Top 3 players will enter each year
Min. requirement to get in 10 full seasons played
Ballot: A player can be on the ballot for only 5 years before he is permanently removed
Min. votes to get in is 8 votes

HOF Commission
Sal-515
Snowbowl1735
Bfd106b
Tactracer
Grantmoyer
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Expansion:
We will NOT be doing expansion in this League.
We will keep the original 16 teams. If a franchise moves to a different city i will change it.
By not having expansion, we will have a draft from 1961 going foward for all the expansion team rookies.

Example:
1961 LAA, WASH
1962 LAA, WASH, HOU, NYM
1963 TO 1968 LAA, WASH, NYM
1969 LAA, WASH/TEX-73, HOU, NYM, MON, SD, KC, SEA/MIL
1970 TO 1977 CAL,TEX, HOU, NYM, MON, SD, KC, MIL, SEA, TOR

Any questions on this just message me.
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Awards

MVP
BATTING CHAMP
HR CHAMP
TRIPLE CROWN
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Doubles Leader
Triples Leader
Stolen Base Leader
Runs Leader
Hits Leader

CY YOUNG
STRIKEOUT LEADER
ERA LEADER
Saves LEADER
Shutouts Leader
Complete Games Leader
Wins Leader
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Award Voting

We will vote for MVP, CY, ROY

Top 3 players will be selected.
Pick a player for your vote.

League Settings

Year Range of Stats	2011 - 2025
Roster Size (Majors)	26
Roster Size (Minors)	7
Keepers	(33 keepers)
Change Stats Allowed
Free Agency
Drops
No-Drop List
Player Fatigue
Batter Injuries	(15 games max)
Pitcher Injuries	(20 games max)
Use Pitcher's HR Allowed Stats
Allows Max Surprise Bunts
Min Batters Pitcher Must Face	0
Slump Buster	(5 days)
On Fire	Uses WAR
User Sims	(every 4 hours)