League Rules

CONDUCT: trash talk permitted,but be nice and respect other owners.

ACTIVITY: All owners are expected to be active and perform the duties of a owner,dropping players, setting lineups ETC.

ROSTERS: Every team will be allowed a roster of 40 players 25/15 in regular season. (Increased to 25/20 prior to Season 7.)

IMPORTS: Threshold is 90 AB, 75 SP and 25 IP.

CONTRACTS: None. Contracts were abolished after Season 2.

HEALTH: Fatigue and injuries will not be used in this league.

EDITS/DOUBLING OF STATS: All low AB/IP Players will have their stats edited or doubled. AB must be over 100 to progress, IP over 20.

SLUMP BUSTER: Maximum of 10 days

REGULAR SEASON: Regular season will be 162 games

SIMS: User SIMs every 4 hours during Regular Season

POSTSEASON: The top 8 teams will advance into the play-offs. The division winners will be seated #1 and #2. All ties will be determined by team differential, team with the higher differential will get the higher seed. Division ties will be decided by one game play-off. One day off will be granted. Division winners will always be seed home team throughout the play-offs regardless of their record. If division winner enter a series head to head, the team with the best record will be seeded home. The tie rule also applies here.
All play-off series will be seven games series using this format 2-3-2. Three days off will be given between every series with one day off granted between home and home series for travel.

OFF SEASON SCHEDULE:
Postseason
Progressions
Imports: players on your next years roster will be imported to your team as long as they are not in league already.
Drops to 45 players (25/20)
3-round Supplemental Draft
Drops back to 45 players


PROGRESSIONS: Players will progress until the age of 29, stay the same until the age of 31 and start to decline at the age of 32

TRADES: Every team will be allowed 25 trades per season.

TRADE DEADLINE: After Day 120

DRAFT: There is a 3-round Supplemental and the Draft Order is determined by previous season standings. This will be a snake draft.

FREE AGENT: Free agency will open after game 12, it will be based on team power rankings. It will be done on the waiver system. You may list as many as you like, but will only be able to pick up one FA per round. This is so not one owner get in when FA's opens and picks up all the best players available. The draft order usually changes each round depending on the power ranking. Please don't try and sandbag on this. I will be watching.

DUPLICATES: Due to the different years of teams, some players might be on two different teams. However one team can not have a two same players on roster.

PITCHING ROTATION: 5 man pitching rotation

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