League Rules

Commish: Alcoholic (Alan)
Vice Commish: CardsSS

Conduct: I?ve been in enough leagues as an owner to see that some of you get to whining and complaining. This is not the place for that. If you have a concern about another owner, a trade or me then you need to state it privately and respectfully or you will be removed.

Rosters:
1. We will start with 2018 stats and players. Minimum import was 25 IP and 50 AB. However any SP with less than 100 IP was increased by the closest integer that raised his stats over 100. For hitters, any player with less than 250 AB was also increased by the closest integer that brought him to or over 250. In the cases where games played exceeds 162 then I edited them down at my own discretion.
2. MLB roster size is 25 and MiLB roster size is 15. You must keep at least 11 pitchers and 9 batters in MLB. If you do not you will be warned and if still no response you may be removed.
3. For players that played on multiple teams, in general I wanted to start him with team he played for most. I definitely could have missed some so let me know if I did before free agent bidding starts or else they?ll stay where they are.
4. We will use classic progression of players. Players will improve until age 28, stay the same until 32 and then decrease starting at age 33.

Budgets:
1. Each team will have a $200 budget. There are no increases in budgets for performance or awards. However, budgets may be decreased permanently or temporarily as a penalty to an owner that is in violation of league rules at the discretion of the commish.

Contracts:
1. You need to sign players to a contract if you want them to play on your team. Any owner found playing a player without a contract risks being penalized either by loss in budget or draft pick...following a warning. You cannot exceed your budget for more than 48 hours or you will be penalized at commish discretion. This may include losing players, losing draft picks, loss of budget space permanently or temporarily.
2. Rookies with a player tag that have not played and not older than 25 years old will not need signed (see more about rookies below).
3. Players under the age of 25 without a tag must be signed regardless of whether they play or not. Otherwise you will lose that player at the end of the season.

Free Agents:
1. Free agents in season 1 are players who were in the league in 2017 but did not meet minimum requirements for import in 2018 but were still on a real life roster. There are a few exception of players I deleted with terrible stats and a few that were moved to rookies to fill out the draft.
2. Future free agents will be generated by obviously released players, guys at end of their contracts and new imports of players that do not meet rookie requirements (see more below).
3. Bidding will take place in the off-season. Owners will submit bids to me via private message. My bids will be sent before other bids are received to a trusted owner or perhaps a vice if I have one for round 1 rebids and round 2 blind bids. Max contract length is 10 years. No max salary. Minimum bid is $1 for 0 years. No incremental salary increases or decreases are allowed.
4. The bid format will be like this: Position Full Name $/Years = Total. Please follow this so I know who you want. There will be 2 rounds of bidding each year. The first round will have a rebidding process where the top 3 total bids (more if there is a tie), will be posted on the homepage and then owners will have 24 hours to rebid. New bids for players already listed on homepage must be higher than previous high bid. The 2nd and 3rd highest bids for a player must be within $25 of highest bid for a chance to rebid. If a player at the end of bidding has more than $25 total contract over next highest bid that player will automatically be won and there will be no rebid. The over $25 auto win rule is only in effect up to 6 hours before free agent bidding in round 1 closes. Rebids in round 1 and all of round 2 will be single blind bids to commish. If there are ties following the rebid process then the owner who bid the highest yearly salary will win. If still tied then the player will sign with the team that has the lower average rank of players at that position. Commish will make no bids in final 4 hours of round 1 bidding period.
5. In the second round of bidding there will be no rebid but the other rules will apply.
Rookie Draft:
1. Imports of rookies will come from real players only. The imports will be a bit different than normal. The pool of players will be imported based on the year in which they either retired or were expected to have stopped playing. Those players will then be imported with their rookie year stats. For import as a rookie the mins are 25 IP for RP, 50 IP for SP, and 100 AB for hitters. SP and hitter stats will be edited by the commish to make rookies similar to real career numbers.
2. Currently, we will have 3 rounds of the rookie draft. This may change depending on availability of players.
3. Rookies under the age of 25 will start with a tag and can be kept on your team in the minors unsigned if not played. I have no plans to start players on rookie deals so they will need signed to their PC requested salary if you want to keep them.
5. Draft order will be determined by reverse standings of previous year. Order will only take into account regular season standings.
6. First year draft order will be determined by reverse order of average rank of players on team prior to free agency or drafting.
7. Rookie draft will be held after day 30 of the season. Sims will pause during draft period.

Sims:
1. Sims will be run automatically every 6 hours. Days off will be granted manually about 6 times per season.

Trades:
1. There is no limit on the number of trades. Cap space cannot be traded.
2. Rookie draft picks can be traded but only for the upcoming draft.
3. Trade deadline is around game 120, but will be announced each year.
4. Questionable trades as noted by commish or other owners will be reviewed by a trade committee.
5. Committee members: Jayslater1223, JimMcCoy, Jons_lover, ssrice123, and commish as tiebreaker. CardsSS will be alternate in case one of the committee members is involved in a contested trade.

Team Details:
1. Owners will be able to edit their park effects at the beginning of season until game 6.

Position Changes:
1. Owners may request position changes in the off-season. The position change can only be to either the secondary position or a position that the player played at least half of his career. This goes for pitchers who went from SP to RP and vice versa in real life. However, in both cases the commish reserves the right to amend the statistics and attributes of that player to fit their typical statistics of that new position and age.

Playoffs:
1. Division winners and one wild card team in each league will make the playoffs. First round of playoffs will be 5-game series
and afterwards they will be 7-game series. There will be 2 days off at end of regular season and 1 game off in between series. There will be one day off after game 4 of a series.

Awards:
1. All-Stars will be selected by PC around mid-season.
2. MVP, ROY, CY Young, and Reliever of the Year will be voted on by the owners. I will send out a league message and ask owners to provide choices from a list.

Tanking:
1. Owners believed to be manipulating their teams to intentionally lose will be warned and then penalized and/or removed if the issue is not remedied. Penalty will be loss of draft pick(s) following warning.

Empty teams/lazy owners:
1. Commish reserves right to amend teams with no owner or absentee owners to allow sims to run and make those teams competitive in the league and attractive to new owners.

League Settings

Year Range of Stats	1900 - 2018
Roster Size (Majors)	25
Roster Size (Minors)	15
Keepers	(40 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	(1unlimited days)
On Fire	Classic
User Sims