Post by Marlins GM (Joey) on Nov 5, 2013 16:09:48 GMT -6
Roster Freeze Date: November 15th, 2008 (important for minors)
2024 TAB:
1. Marlins (Joey)
2. Indians (David)
3. Mets (Jim)
4. Angels (Andy)
5. Yankees (Jerry)
6. Orioles (Kenny)
Setup:
The league will consist of 28 franchises. There will be 14 teams in each conference. We will hold a dispersal draft for the 2 franchises (SD and PIT) that were left out of our league. Rosters were originally set as of November 15, 2008. Owners control the major league franchise as well as the minor league rosters of their teams, all future signed draft picks, and any foreign players signed and brought over, with the exceptions of players described in IFA Rule, to be discussed below. After Opening Day 2009, the rosters were no longer tied in any way to actual MLB or MiLB transactions, with the exception of the acquisition of first-time players, whether that be by amateur draft or foreign signing.
Salary Cap: $100,000,000 ($100 Million)
The in-season fantasy setup will be through fantrax.
The league setup is as follows:
6X6 Head-to-Head scoring:
Offensive Categories
Batting Average (BA)
On-Base + Slugging Percentage (OPS)
Runs (R)
Home Runs (HR)
Runs Batted In (RBI)
Stolen Bases (SB)
Pitching Categories
Wins (W)
Holds (HLD)
Saves (SV)
Strikeouts (K)
Earned Run Average (ERA)
Walks + Hits per Innings Pitched (WHIP)
Player Positions
C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, OF, OF, OF, Util, SP, SP, SP, SP, SP, RP, RP, RP, P, P, P, B, B, B, B, B.
When a player comes off of the actual IL, they must be taken off of your IL and then will take up an active roster spot. You will have 2 days to make a move to get a player off the IL before your roster comes illegal.
Roster Rules and Regulations
Active rosters consist of a maximum of 26 players (in-season). You may always have fewer than 26 players on your active roster, but never more. Your active roster must be down to no more than 26 players on Opening Day of each season. We will perform roster checks to ensure teams are in compliance with correct rosters both here and on fantrax.
All transactions during the season must be posted on this message board. This includes all trades, free agent signings, minor league demotions or promotions. In the off-season, different rules apply, and they will be covered below. Each type of roster transaction has its own place on the message board where the proposed transactions are to be posted for approval.
Off-season you can FREELY move guys from MAJOR LEAGUE ROSTER to PAID MINORS and vice versa without using waivers, waiver passes or rookie rule.
The exception being FIRST TIME PROMOTIONS this guys MUST be posted so their ownership and contract can be verified.
Injured List (IL)
Teams will have 3 days to active a guy off IL or their roster will become illegal until they do.
Penalty If Not Taken Off IL -
* Use Waiver Pass to demote automatically by TAB if not posted by GM (or Waive of player left on IL too long if out of waiver passes.)
Roster Transactions:
Trades:
When two teams come to an agreement on a trade, one of the parties will post the trade in the appropriate section of the board. The other party will then need to respond to the original message and also agree to the trade. One of the trade parties will also need to begin a discussion thread in the appropriate section of the board. No trade will be approved until these conditions are met. In the event of a multi-team deal, all parties will need to agree to the trade on the board before approval can begin. The trade will then begin the approval process. The trade will be voted on by the Transaction Approval Board (TAB). All trades will need 3 approval votes to pass. Trades will be voted on in a timely manner by TAB members. It is also expected that all trade discussion among TAB members will be public and subject to scrutiny rather than privately among them. When the necessary votes are acquired, all parties may then update their rosters. Any player traded that is currently on an active roster will have to take up an active roster space on the team acquiring him. You are not allow to trade expired contract in the off-season.
Trade Deadline: August 31st
Demotions/Promotions:
When an owner wants to send a player to his minor league system, he has three possible options for doing so:
1. Waivers – any player except Franchised players can be put on waivers. If they are not claimed within 48 hours, they then enter the minor league system of the original team. That team is still responsible for that player’s salary. If the player is claimed, then the team with the worst current record (if after June 1) or worst record in the previous season (if before June 1 or in the off-season) will win the rights to that player, assume his contract, etc.
2. Rookie Rule – If a player has not acquired 50 IP or 130 ABs (in their entire career), then they may be sent down without being exposed to waivers. The transaction must still be posted, as well as the number of ABs or IP that the player has thus far achieved.
3. Waiver Pass – Each calendar year, every team will be given 5 waiver passes (they do not carry over each year). Waiver passes can be used on any player that an owner does not want to expose to waivers. There is a special section of the board to post waiver passes, and all of these transactions must be posted.
Promotions:
When an owner wants to promote a player, he must post the transaction. That player then takes up a space on the active roster. If the player has not been called up before, he receives a salary of $300,000, which counts against your total salary cap. He will not be assigned a Free Agent year until he passes the Rookie threshold of 50 IP or 130 AB. Once a player crosses 50 IP or 130 AB, they will receive a contract of $300,000 (20XX) <5 years after they pass it, so for example Johnny Bench gets 130 AB in 2008, his contract would be $300,000 (2013)
2011 - 2017 = Expired
2018 = 2023
2019 = 2024
2020 = 2025
2021 = 2026
2022 = 2027
2023 = 2028
Off-Season Moves: Until Opening Day:
You are allowed to move guys from MAJORS to PAID MINORS and vice versa without posting the moves THE EXCEPTION is FIRST TIME PROMOTIONS these must be posted even during off-season to verify ownership and contract terms.
In-Season Moves:
Any moves made on board must also be done on fantrax IN-SEASON. Please post any moves on the board BEFORE you make the moves on fantrax. You do not need to wait for approval to make the moves on fantrax but if you make an invalid move we (TAB) will remove the guy from your major league roster and either demote him to paid minors or drop them from fantrax (if you do not actually own them).
First Year Player Draft
Each year, a week after the MLB signing deadline, we will hold our First Year Player Draft.
* The draft will consist of 3 rounds. You may only draft players who signed a contract after being drafted in real life.
* The draft order will be determined by the records of our league.
* Draft picks can be traded but it is limited to the current years plus next year's draft (our current draft is 2023, so you may trade for 2024 picks as well. You may not trade for 2025)
* Any player not drafted in our draft, will then be returned back to the original teams that they were drafted by in real life
* Round 1 will consist of a 24 hour time limit per pick. Rounds 2 and 3 will consist of a 12 hour time limit per pick.
* After two skipped picks, the TAB will select the "highest drafted" available player for the team who was skipped.
* Draft concludes 24 hours after pick 3.28 is made or skipped. Any skipped picks will go to auto pick rules to finish up the draft.
Dispersal Draft
* This draft will consist of one round of drafting each year. We will hold a draft for the teams remaining players from SD and PIT. The draft order will be determined by the previous season's standings. The clock will be 24 hours.
* The Dispersal Draft is and will remain for only the teams no longer in the league (Padres and Pirates), which would include any MLers or MiLers (including foreign players not yet drafted via DD or not passed the free agent mark. If a IFA signs a Major League Contract he will be draft elg from SD/PIT.
* Please SEARCH the board before you post your pick. If you are unsure if a guy is eligible or has already been drafted please send me (or Jerry or any TAB member really) a PM we will research it and get back to you.
* Draft picks can be traded but it is limited to the current years plus next year's draft (our current draft is 2020, so you may trade for 2021 picks as well. You may not trade for 2022)
* Teams will have ONE WEEK after the final pick is made to make a selection or forfeit it.
Free Agency:
Once a season concludes (one week after the conclusion of the world series), those contracts are deemed expired and thus can not be traded they must either be re-signed or allowed to become free agents. In fact contracts in their final year are not trade-able once the trade deadline comes and goes.
Free Agent Bidding
You may bid on any player. If you have the high bid for 24 hours, then you win that player. ALL BIDS ARE BINDING, so if you bid, you'd better be prepared to pay. Additionally, the winning bid is the highest total value of the contract. The minimum bid for any free agent is 500K per year. All bids must raise the total value of the contract by at least $100,000. Four (4) years is the max years allowed.
CLARIFICATION as of 2-28-2012 You are NOT to bid against yourself. That is, if you are near winning a bid but decide you add more years with less money, that is NOT allowed.
Players who are 35 years old or older will be limited to 2-year only contracts.
Free Agent signees must be on your Opening Day 26-man roster or go through the normal waiver process, and may not be traded before Opening Day.
Correct Format: Years @ Money = Total Value (Example: 3-Yrs @ $500,000 = $1.5 Mil); if not formatted this way it will be deemed INVALID
Additional Free Agent Rules
First, I will cover the new ways to rid your team of an unwanted player, then I will go over the ways in which you can retain a player with an expiring contract.
Non-Tenders
Any player with a contract under $500,000 (i.e. $0 - $499,999) can be released at no penalty. They will go into the Open FA pool.
Buy-Outs
All other players whose contracts have not yet expired can be bought out at the following rates. Please note: you may not buy out a player with more than 4 years remaining on his contract nor a player who was re-signed.
You will be responsible for a portion of their salary for the remainder of its term. The player will enter open FA and the original team will not be able to bid on them. Teams will also need to note on their team pages their bought out contract under the heading "Dead Money". Rates are as follows:
4 years remaining on contract - 75% of annual value
3 years remaining - 75%
2 years remaining - 50%
1 year remaining - 50%
The buy-outs are staggered. If there are ...............
4-yrs remaining on contract the buy-out is 75%, 75%, 50%, 50%
3-yrs remaining on contract the buy-out is 75%, 50%, 50%
2-yrs remaining on contact the buy-out is 50%, 50%
1-yr remaining on contact the buy-out is 50%
Buy-Outs For Re-Signed Players
You may buy-out a re-signed player but you must pay him 50% of remaining contract per year remaining. You also must keep the re-sign tag. The benefit is you get some cap relief.
* 50% Cap Hit
* Re-Sign Tag Remains Until It Expires
Deceased Players:
If you own a player who passes away while under contract for whatever reason you will be allowed to drop them the following off-season for no cap hit.
Retaining Players
Re-Sign Rule (2019-Present)
As your players' contracts expire, you will have a chance to re-sign them. Every off-season, you can re-sign your expiring contracts.
There are limitations:
*You may only have 4 resigned players on your roster at any given time, and these players are not trade-able for 1-Year (NTC) after being re-signed
*You may only re-sign 2 players in any year.
*When you trade a player, their tag transfers to the new team so that team must have an open re-sign spot.
*You may not waive a re-signed player, if you wish to demote them it must be done via Waiver Pass.
*All Re-Signs must be for at least 3 years (but not greater than 4-yr or 5-yrs).
*Buyouts of a Re-Sign comes with the following cap hit cap hit and the re-sign tag remains.
4 years remaining on contract - 75% of annual value
3 years remaining - 75%
2 years remaining - 50%
1 year remaining - 50%
*Players must be FA's, if they have an option year and you decline the option they are not eligible to be re-signed, they go into the FA pool and are free to be bid on.
Only players who have completed their contract can be re-signed. You can not restructure someone’s deal and call it re-signing. When trading a re-sign the tag transfers and the team acquiring must have an open re-sign spot.
To re-sign a player, you must post the player in the player resigns forum for approval.
* Process
We will use the Fantrax rankings to determine the contract amount. A player's "scores" from the past 3 years will be used. We will count the most current year twice and the previous 2, once each to get a total score. Dividing that total by 4 will give an average score. We will us that as a percentage and multiply it by the maximum salary to give the contract amount.
An example:
Select player, then select the Stats TAB and observe the Score column.
SP Chris Archer SP/TB - $300,000 (2018)
Fantrax scores the past 3 years:
2018 - 71
2017 - 88
2016 - 78
Using those to determine the contract would work like this:
We double weight the most current year (2018)
71 x 2 = 142
Next, add the 2 other years to that.
142 + 88 + 78 = 308
Then we divide that by 4 to give an average which is 77. Using that number as a percentage, we multiply that against the $13M max starter contract.
Which gives a contract of $10,010,000. That, we'll round to the closest 100k so it'd be a contract of $10M.
* Player maximums:
$14M for position players
$13M for staring pitchers
$ 9.7M for relief pitchers
* As noted in the example above, all contracts will be rounded to the nearest $100,000.
* Any player who is or turns 35 on or before opening day will be given a 25% discount.
Teams may post their players in the Re-sign section with the contract figured using the above formula or simply post the player's name and Years and the TAB will calculate it for you. Once the contract amount is calculated and approved, teams can then either accept or decline the contract. If accepted, teams will need to choose if they want the contract for 3, 4 or 5 years.
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Re-signing Rule (Current as shown in resign section)
As your players' contracts expire, you will have a chance to re-sign them. Every off-season, you can re-sign your expiring contracts.
There are limitations:
*You may only have 4 resigned players on your roster at any given time, and these players are not tradeable for 1-Year (NTC) after being re-signed.
*When you trade a player, their tag transfers to the new team so that team must have an open re-sign spot.
*All Re-Signs must be for at least 3 years (but not greater than 4-yr or 5-yrs).
*You may buy-out a re-sign for 50% and re-sign tag remains.
*You may buy-out a re-signed player but you must pay him 50% of remaining contract per year remaining. You also must keep the re-sign tag. The benefit is you get some cap relief.
To resign a player, you must make the player an offer in the player resigns forum.
You may offer the player what you want, but there is one thing to remember: Pay cuts ARE allowed. For anybody over the age of 35, a pay raise would require good reason, as would a pay raise for somebody who struggled the previous year.
Players must be FA's, if they have an option year and you decline the option they are not eligible to be re-signed, they go into the FA pool and are free to be bid on.
Only players who have completed their contract can be re-signed. You can not restructure someone’s deal and call it re-signing.
Process
You will submit a contract much like you do trades, you will post the players current salary then the contract you’re offering him.
You get 3 chances to re-sign a guy, after that, he goes into Free Agency.
Listed On Roster:
Player - Salary (NTC) (Rest Of Deal)
Ex:
Joe Blow - $5,000,000 (2014 NTC) (2018) (Re-Sign)
Foreign Player Rule:
The FYPD is only for High School and College kids who sign with their team on signing day. Foreign players WILL NOT be put into the FYPD.
The Dispersal Draft is and will remain for only the teams no longer in the league (Padres and Pirates), which would include any MLers or MiLers (including foreign players + their contract status) not yet drafted via DD or not passed the free agent mark. If a IFA signs a ML Contract he will be draft elg from SD/PIT based on the precedence by Kang.
In regards to foreign players, the only ones who will be Free Agents are those who sign a MAJOR LEAGUE CONTRACT. Meaning this will include those from Japan, Cuba, DR, Venezuela, Korea or any other country if they agree to a major league contract. If they sign a MINOR LEAGUE CONTRACT they will be the property of the team that signed them in real life just as any undrafted FYPD goes to the team that they signed with in real life. If foreign player has not signed by time our free agency begins they will be held out until next year (Major League Deals Only).
IFA/NDFA Ownership Requirement
The ownership of all international free agents (IFA) and non drafted free agents (NDFA), with the exception of those IFA or NDFA that are subjected to free agency will be determined on the date that player makes his professional debut in the minors or majors, whichever comes first. Any IFA or NDFA that has yet to make his professional debut will not be considered owned by any organization and may not be traded nor be part of any transaction.
Upon a player making his professional debut, the ownership of that prospect will be automatically established by the following method:
All IFA and NDFA whose contracts have not been voided by the time they make their professional debuts, will be determined to be owned by the organization whose MLB parent team originally signed the player. Ownership will not be affected by any MLB trades or waivers or releases or any other MLB transactions other than the voiding of the contract.
When an IFA or NDFA has his contract voided, that contract will not be considered in the determination of ownership. Only non-voided contracts will be considered in the determination of ownership. At the time the debut of an IFA or NDFA, the first non-voided contract signed will be looked at in determining ownership.
If an IFA or NDFA should make his professional debut and later have his contract voided somehow, the voiding will have taken place after the establishment of ownership and will not change the ownership determination that was established on the date of that player's professional debut.
This rule will govern all IFA and NDFA contracts signed on and after July 2, 2020 unless this rule is later modified or superseded by another rule change. IFA and NDFA that signed prior to July 2, 2020 will be governed by the current administrative policy which is to award ownership to the original signing team regardless of any contract voiding.
Please note, that any errors made in the determination of eligibility by the TAB or other administrators in any transaction will not change the ownership of the players in question. Voided contracts missed by the TAB or other administrators will be treated in the same manner as any other TAB/Admin mistake with regard to ownership of any player. Corrective action will be taken on a case-by-case basis, especially with regard to unowned players that have been traded.
Trading Cash:
No Trading Cash
First Year Player Draft and Dispersal Draft Order:
Based off last years standings
Position Eligibility:
Games From Prev Year - 20 Games (changed to 10 for 2021 ONLY)
Games From Current Year - 10 Games
Starts Needed From Prev Year for SP - 5
Starts Needed From Current Year For SP - 3
Relief App Needed From Prev Year - 8
Relief App Needed From Current Year - 5
Playoff Seeding And Tie Breaker:
#1 Record Vs #4 Record
#2 Record Vs #3 Record
**Record of Division Winners or Wild Card
Playoff Tie Breaker:
1. Win %
2. H2H Record
All-Star Break:
Will be shorter than normal week.
World Series End Date:
Will go until end of the regular season.