Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2012 12:34:35 GMT -5
League Rules:
1.) 50 Man MiLB roster:
(You cannot go over 50 for your minor league system).
2.) 25 Man MLB Roster:
(C,1B,2B,SS,3B,3 OF,Util,5SP,5RP,P,5 Bench) (Minimum of 20 players on a team).
a. Each team will start with 15 players from the original franchise they choose. The rest of the roster will be filled out by drafting players from the teams not chosen and players left off of original rosters.
b. Once you have selected your original franchise, place your initial 15 keepers in the "MLB Keepers" thread. Title your post "your team Keepers"
3.) Prospect Standards:
under 150ab/80ip
4.) League Stat Cats:
7X7 Head to Head league most Cats win. The stats will be R, TB, RBI, HR, SB, AVG, OPS. - ERA, WHIP, W, K, HLD, Saves, QS.
5.) Contracts:
A. Every team must have contracts for their roster, each player gets a contract just like in real life. The most years a player can have is 4. The max of total years is 75 and you cannot go over that number. Any team that is over the limit will have a penalty of 5M per year that they are over the limit and must get back under immediately. The penalties will last for one season.
B. Any prospect doesnt have a salary until he is called up by your team on here.
C. Every team must sign their players to a contract, or in other words, a year length in which they hold the rights to them.
D. You cannot sign a player for longer than 4 years. You may distribute up to 75 years among your roster. All minor league players who have been called up in the DKDL at any time must be signed to a contract. Other Minor Leaguers do not until they reach the Majors in this league. Because of this, it is advised you stay under the 75 year cap by a year or two.
E. When the last year of a player's contract ends, he becomes a un-restricted free agent. This means every team is open to bidding on this player.
F. You can have 2 players (per year) that you can sign to an extenstion so they dont have to become a free agent and you can't lose them but it can only be 2 players, meaning if a player comes down to its last year of its contract you can choose to sign him to an extenstion but you can only do it for 2 players a year. Whatever salary you have the player for is the salary you extend him for.
G. Teams will be allowed to name one player as a restricted free agent. That player can be bid on like all other free agents, but once bidding is done on that player, the original owner can match the highest bid and retain the player or choose to turn the player over to the highest bidder.
H. All remaining players become unrestricted free agents. The league then follows the Free Agent Auction process.
I. Once a year has come off a players contract, the full amount of the contract years still stay on your total. 3/4 years is still a 4 year contract, because it was still signed as a 4 year contract and so on.
6.) Playoff Seeding and Rules:
A. There will be eight playoff teams.
B. A team can reach the postseason through winning their division or winning the one of two wild cards in each league.
C. Ties in division and wild card races will be decided though the head to head record between the tied teams. If that is the same, the team with the better record in the respective league will advance. If that is the same(and the teams are in the same division), the team with the better divisional record will advance. If that is the same, the team with more total categories will advance.
D. In the regular season, if there is a tie, it will go down as a tie. However, in the playoffs, a tie will be broken by the head to head record between those teams during the year. If that is a tie as well, the higher seed will win the matchup and the losing team will be given a 500K compensation to be added to their cap.(forever)
E. When the postseason begins, the eight remaining teams will be seeded from best to worst (based on record). The eight seed will play the one seed, and so on. The playoffs will last four weeks.
F. All MLB free agent signings will end at 8:00pm Eastern the Sunday before the playoffs begin.
G. Any MLB player dropped after the above deadline can not be added to any team for the duration of the current season and playoffs.
H. If a playoff team suffers an injury to a player (the player must be on the DL), they are allowed 1 free agent signing per injury during the playoffs. However, all in-season rules ( salary, contract years, options, etc) along with rule (G) still apply. Please note, the injury must occur during the playoff time frame and the team must still be active in the playoffs.
I. Playoff teams are allowed to call-up / demote any current signed / salaried roster players just like the regular season. All in-season rules apply.
J. Prospects can still be added/dropped for all teams during the playoffs. However, teams are not allowed to add a prospect during the playoffs and then promote them.
7.) Trading:
All trades must be made on ESPN as well!!
A. Two teams agree on a deal in a private manor. One team then posts the deal as a new thread in the "Trades" section of the message board. The title of the thread will be: Team A/Team B (fill in the teams accordingly). Example Rays/Mets
B. Next, the other team in the deal must accept the deal as a reply to the thread within 24 hours of the deals posting. If the deal is not accepted within the time frame, the deal will be deleted from the board. However, the two teams can repost the deal and accept it accordingly whenever they please.
C. If a deal is posted without the other teams acceptance, and it comes to my attention,the violating team will be asked to speak in front of me. If found guilty of posting fake deals, or any other violation, the opposer will be axed from the league immediately.
D. After the deal is accepted, I will approve it. It will be moved to the "Completed Trades" section and locked from comments. No comments may be made on a trade by another team.
a. The first time a comment is made on a trade (if it is clear the rule was not understood) no penalty will be enforced.
b. If it is clear the rule was understood but there was a first offense anyway, or if there is a repeated offense, a 500K penalty will be enforced on the teams cap. If the problem continues, the League will decide whether or not to dismiss the owner. There is no minimum of offenses for dismissal.
E. Once the deal is in the completed trades section, it is a complete and final deal. The trade will be processed on ESPN by me, and the refection of the deal will soon be seen on there and the league website.
a. Once a trade is accepted by both teams, both teams MUST update their proboards roster within 24 hours.
F. There will be no trade committee, as I feel that in a dynasty league each owners value of a player is different. Owners need to run their team the way they want. Some will want to rebuild, some will want to trade prospects to win now. I do not want to run this league like a dictator. If I feel there is collusion going on, or someone is just tanking on purpose, I will handle the situation at that point.mIf a trade is so bad that it really catches my attention or the attention of other owners, it can be vetoed.
a. Owners who are found to be cheating will be axed from the league immediately.
G. When you trade for a player, you trade for his contract. You may not make a trade that sends you over the cap. Deals that are posted in the trades section will be vetoed if they do this.
8.) Free Agency:
A. To bid on a player, post the players name as the thread title. For example, Joe Nathan. Post this thread in the "Free Agent Auction" board. Inside the thread, post the players name, position, new team, and proposed salary. The base price for the bid is $300,000. If you want to challenge a bid post in the thread of the player. For example if you want to challenge Joe Nathan's bid then post a higher dollar amount per year in the thread.
B. The team who proposes the higher salary within their cap will win the player. If you go over on a bid, say you have 5M in cap space and bid 7M, your 7M bid is erased and you are locked out from bidding on that player, even if you would drop someone to make room. Changing bids is also against the rules and will result in you being locked out from bidding on that player. You can sign a player if it takes you over your years but you have to immediately drop a player right after you win the free agent.
a. When bidding on a player, you are only posting salary. You will assign the number of years after you win the FA.
C. Deleting bids is also against the rules, and will result in you being fined. If you delete a bid, you get fined the amount of the next highest bid for the rest of the year. If the bid is 15M and then you up it to 15.3M, then you delete your bid, you would get fined 15M. This fine will count against your cap till the end of next season.
D. Once a bid sits unchallenged for 48 hours, the team will be awarded the player.
E. During the regular season, you can sign most free agents for their base salary, which will be their current MLB salary. Simply post the players name - (new team) as the thread title in the "In-Season Signings" board. These free agents will not be challenged and are first come first serve.
F. A player that is out of options will be a free agent at seasons end. The players old team can’t bid on him. Once a player is sent to a new team via free agency his options are reset to 3. For more on this refer to "Minor Leagues".
G. All players won during the FA bidding period have to remain under contract with your team (unless traded) til spring training starts. All players won with a contract of over $5M have to remain under contract with your team (unless traded) till June 30th. *NOTE* Players signed after the FA bidding period is over do not apply to this rule.
H. The minimum for a bid is $300,000 more than the previous bid.
I. Threads will be locked every night at 11:59 PM ET. And opened 8:00 AM ET.
J. Once a FA is signed, owners will have 48 hours to assign him years, add him to their proboard team roster with salary / contract years, and add his contract years & salary to their team totals. Failure to do this will result in losing the player and a $5M fine 1st offense, 10M 2nd .. etc. Prospects to be added to MiLB roster are included in this rule too, added to MiLB roster, and MiLB player total adjusted.
K. A team has 48 Hrs to decide if they want to sign their "RFA" at the new salary or allow the team with the highest bid to sign him.
9.) Releasing Players:
A. When a player is released from another team, he becomes a free agent and is open to all teams and the first team that signs him on the Proboard site will get him.
B. The team has to sign them to their current COTS salary. For example if we are in the 2011 season then you sign them to their 2011 salary. If we are in the 2012 season then you sign them to their 2012 salary, etc.
C. Once a player is released, owners will have 8 hrs to subtract him from their proboard roster and subtract his contract years and salary from their team totals. Failure to do this will result in a $5M fine 1st offense, 10M 2nd .. etc. Prospects are included in this rule too, subtracted from MiLB roster and MiLB player totals adjusted.
D. Once a player is released, the releasing team can not pick up that same player for 30 calendar days.
10.) Minor Leagues:
A. Every team in the league will have a minor league system. It will contain a maximum of 50 players, and a minimum of one player.
B. A player in your minor league system does not have to be paid a salary until he loses his prospect eligibility(150ab/80ip) OR is called up in the DKDL OR if he is currently a player in the Major Leagues who you have sent down. A player in your minor league system who has reached your Major Leagues does not have to be paid even if he is up in the Major Leagues as long as you have never called him up or he has never been called up on another team in the league.
C. You may trade minor leaguers between teams. When a player is traded from one farm system to you, the player goes directly to your farm system. If the trade sends a Major Leaguer to your team and you wish to send him to the minors, you must demote him in the demotions thread. He will lose an option if you do this. He will also still have to be paid.
D. Every prospect and MLB player starts out with 3 options. A trip up to the Majors and back down to the Minors counts as 1 option. Once a player has been sent down to the minors. You must put his name like this on you team: Chris Carpenter (2/3). The (2/3) shows that he has 2 options left.
11.) DKDL Annual Minor League Draft:
A. Every year, the league will host a First Year Player Draft, 2 weeks after the real MLB draft in June. It will consist of 10 rounds. It will not be a snake format. The worst team gets the 1st pick in each round. The World Series winner will get the last pick, while the runner up will get the second to last pick. The rest of the draft order will be determined by season record. You may trade draft picks in this draft.
a. The initial prospect draft will be based on final MLB regular season standings. The initial draft this summer, will be based on current DKDL standings.
B. You can only draft players that were drafted in the MLB draft.
C. You will have 8 hours to pick, if you haven't picked by then your pick will be skipped. If your pick is skipped, you may make your pick at anytime.
D. You may sign/release prospects freely during this time as long as they are not related to the draft. Once our draft ends the undrafted players become normal prospects and you have to wait for them to sign before you can pick them up.
E. Draft order between teams with the same record will be determined by their H2H match-up record form the previous year. If that is a tie then it will be determined by their division record from the previous year. If that is a tie then it will be determined by their league record from the previous year. If that is a tie then it will be determined by their season record from 2 years ago.
F. Supplemental Draft Pick Rule (Only applies during the first two rounds)
If for example I chose as the 4th pick overall this year:
Pick 4- Rays choose Player A
Player A fails to sign in August and chooses to go to college instead of into the majors. You receive an equal supplemental draft pick in 2011 that is 1 pick less then the pick you used. Example: I would receive the 5th overall pick in 2011 along with my other first round choice. Supplemental draft picks are not protected. So, next year if you select someone with that 5th overall pick and they don't sign then you do not receive a supplemental draft pick the next year.
12.) International Free Agency:
A. To bid on a player, post the players name as the thread title. For example, Jorge Soler. Post this thread in the "Free Agent Auction" board. Inside the thread, post the players name, position, country, and team. The base price for the bid is $500,000.
B. We will have an open bid on them year round, but however much you bid, you have to pay the player that salary when they get called up.
C. For example, let’s say I win the bidding for Jorge Soler at $5.5 million. Then, I put him in my farm system and put his salary right after his name. However that salary doesn’t count against my cap until I call him up. So when I do call him up, instead of doing 2 years for $300,000. I do 2 years for $5.5 million.
D. Every team has a $20M budget for the whole year. There is no carry over with money. If you win a player with the max bid and then drop them there will be a penalty of $5M for the rest of that season.
E. You can only start the bidding on somebody that has signed with a current MLB team.
F. Once a bid sits unchallenged for 48 hours, the team will be awarded the player.
G. If you want to challange a bid post in the thread of the player. For example if you want to challenge Jorge Soler's bid then post a higher dollar amount per year in the thread
H. If you go over on a bid, say you have 5M left in your budget and bid 7M, your 7M bid is erased and you are locked out from bidding on that player, even if you would drop someone to make room. Changing bids is also against the rules and will result in you being locked out from bidding on that player.
I. The minimum for a bid is $300,000 more than the previous bid.
J. Even though $20M is the max salary, teams can also include a signing bonus to improve their offer. The signing bonus comes from your salary cap space, and will be a direct hit to your cap for an entire year. You can only place a signing bonus on a max IFA player (one that gets 20M in salary).
13.) Salaries:
A. Every player on your major league roster and some players on your minor league roster will be given a salary.
B. A player sent to your minor leagues, a player you have ever sent to the minor leagues, or a player who you have traded for that has ever been sent to the minor leagues, is paid a salary even though he is in your farm system.
C. Every player on your payroll will be paid their actual MLB salary from the previous year. So for the first season of the league, we will pay our players their 2011 salary. The salaries will be found through Cots: www.baseballprospectus.com/compensation/cots/
D. The base salary of the league is $300,000. If you cannot find a players salary on Cots, that is his salary. If the player is a player of high quality and his salary isn't listed, we will use ESPN as our backup. The League will determine if the player is of high quality or not.
E. Each team will have a salary cap. The cap for the first season of the league will be 120 million dollars. You may not go over this cap.
F. If you are over the cap during the season you will have 48 hours to get under the cap. If you do not get under the cap in this time, then you will forfeit that weeks game. This is not welcoming the problem, but it allows a team with a little room to work. Also you can not trade with a team that is over the cap unless they are shedding payroll.
G. You may trade money from your cap to other teams.
a. During a trade please make a note the amount of money and for how many years. Ex. Rays trade BJ Upton and 5M cap for 2012.
14.) Disabled List:
A. There will be three DLs in this league. The 15 Day DL, the 30 Day DL, and the 60 Day DL. You may only have 4 players on the DL total.
B. To place a player on the DL, he must be on the DL in Major League Baseball as well. However, you do not have to place him on the same one. You can place a player on the 60 when he is only on the 15 in MLB.
C. When a player is on the DL, you still have to pay his salary. However, he will not take up a roster spot.
D. When you place a player on the DL, he has to stay there for the number of days specified. Days, not games, is what the DL is judged in. This includes the All-Star Break and offseason days.
E. To place a player on the DL, click on "DL" on the message board. Then select the type of DL you want. Next, post a new thread titled "Player-Pos.-Your Team." Inside, post the players name, postion, and injury type (if known).
15.) Amendments:
A. When you think you have a great idea message me and I'll post it on the Amendments sub-board in the "Future League Set-Up" board. The rest of the league will vote on it.
B. To get an Amendment put up you have to think it through and it has to be knowledgeable or I won't post it.
C. To get an amendment passed the league will vote on it. I'll set up a poll in the amendments sub-board. With 2 options, The new idea or the old idea. The new idea has to get 12 votes(75% of the league) or it will not be enforced.
D. If the new idea is not passed the first time then we can try again 1 more times. If it still hasn't been passed then the idea becomes null/void for the rest of the year.
16.) Releasing Players Penalty:
A. Any contract over 5 million, if the player is released, you have to pay 1/4 of that salary for every year on the contract offered. This must be noted on your Proboards roster and your salary cap adjusted accordingly immediately.
B. Now if someone picks that player up for the same contract you dropped him for, the 1/4 salary owed will not be paid anymore by you.
17.) Waivers:
A. Teams have to pass players through revocable waivers to trade them after the trade deadline.
B. There will be a 48 hour period in where teams can place claims on players. If a claim isn't placed the player becomes unclaimed and can be traded to anyone.
C. Claimed players can be kept, traded or handed over to the claiming team (who would then pay the player's salary). Teams will have a 72 hour window to work out a deal. If nothing is posted then the player automatically goes back to his original team. If a player is pulled back from waivers he can't be included in a trade for the rest of the waiver period.
D. If only one team claims a player, he can only be dealt to that team. If more than one team claims a player, he can only be traded to the team in his league with the worse record.
E. Prospects are automatically passed through waivers and can be traded freely after the deadline. However the prospects that are traded can't be called up till after the season concludes.
F. In any trade involving MLB players, at least half of the total amount of MLB players involved has to be either unclaimed or claimed by one of the trading teams. For example in a deal involving Votto+Bruce ||FOR|| Wright+Reyes, at least 2 of them have to have been unclaimed or claimed by the trading teams. So the Reds would have to have claimed Wright and Reyes, or the Mets would have had to claim Bruce and Votto, or the Mets claimed one of Votto and Bruce while the Reds claimed one of Wright or Reyes.
18.) Roster Minimum
A. All teams are required to keep a full roster of starting players (20) for every contest. This is a salaried / contracted player for each position in his starting line-up. Bench players are optional. Continued failure of incomplete rosters could result in forfeit of the weeks matchup. Although it is not preferred, for now, a player on the "DL" may be left in the starting roster to fill a position.
1.) 50 Man MiLB roster:
(You cannot go over 50 for your minor league system).
2.) 25 Man MLB Roster:
(C,1B,2B,SS,3B,3 OF,Util,5SP,5RP,P,5 Bench) (Minimum of 20 players on a team).
a. Each team will start with 15 players from the original franchise they choose. The rest of the roster will be filled out by drafting players from the teams not chosen and players left off of original rosters.
b. Once you have selected your original franchise, place your initial 15 keepers in the "MLB Keepers" thread. Title your post "your team Keepers"
3.) Prospect Standards:
under 150ab/80ip
4.) League Stat Cats:
7X7 Head to Head league most Cats win. The stats will be R, TB, RBI, HR, SB, AVG, OPS. - ERA, WHIP, W, K, HLD, Saves, QS.
5.) Contracts:
A. Every team must have contracts for their roster, each player gets a contract just like in real life. The most years a player can have is 4. The max of total years is 75 and you cannot go over that number. Any team that is over the limit will have a penalty of 5M per year that they are over the limit and must get back under immediately. The penalties will last for one season.
B. Any prospect doesnt have a salary until he is called up by your team on here.
C. Every team must sign their players to a contract, or in other words, a year length in which they hold the rights to them.
D. You cannot sign a player for longer than 4 years. You may distribute up to 75 years among your roster. All minor league players who have been called up in the DKDL at any time must be signed to a contract. Other Minor Leaguers do not until they reach the Majors in this league. Because of this, it is advised you stay under the 75 year cap by a year or two.
E. When the last year of a player's contract ends, he becomes a un-restricted free agent. This means every team is open to bidding on this player.
F. You can have 2 players (per year) that you can sign to an extenstion so they dont have to become a free agent and you can't lose them but it can only be 2 players, meaning if a player comes down to its last year of its contract you can choose to sign him to an extenstion but you can only do it for 2 players a year. Whatever salary you have the player for is the salary you extend him for.
G. Teams will be allowed to name one player as a restricted free agent. That player can be bid on like all other free agents, but once bidding is done on that player, the original owner can match the highest bid and retain the player or choose to turn the player over to the highest bidder.
H. All remaining players become unrestricted free agents. The league then follows the Free Agent Auction process.
I. Once a year has come off a players contract, the full amount of the contract years still stay on your total. 3/4 years is still a 4 year contract, because it was still signed as a 4 year contract and so on.
6.) Playoff Seeding and Rules:
A. There will be eight playoff teams.
B. A team can reach the postseason through winning their division or winning the one of two wild cards in each league.
C. Ties in division and wild card races will be decided though the head to head record between the tied teams. If that is the same, the team with the better record in the respective league will advance. If that is the same(and the teams are in the same division), the team with the better divisional record will advance. If that is the same, the team with more total categories will advance.
D. In the regular season, if there is a tie, it will go down as a tie. However, in the playoffs, a tie will be broken by the head to head record between those teams during the year. If that is a tie as well, the higher seed will win the matchup and the losing team will be given a 500K compensation to be added to their cap.(forever)
E. When the postseason begins, the eight remaining teams will be seeded from best to worst (based on record). The eight seed will play the one seed, and so on. The playoffs will last four weeks.
F. All MLB free agent signings will end at 8:00pm Eastern the Sunday before the playoffs begin.
G. Any MLB player dropped after the above deadline can not be added to any team for the duration of the current season and playoffs.
H. If a playoff team suffers an injury to a player (the player must be on the DL), they are allowed 1 free agent signing per injury during the playoffs. However, all in-season rules ( salary, contract years, options, etc) along with rule (G) still apply. Please note, the injury must occur during the playoff time frame and the team must still be active in the playoffs.
I. Playoff teams are allowed to call-up / demote any current signed / salaried roster players just like the regular season. All in-season rules apply.
J. Prospects can still be added/dropped for all teams during the playoffs. However, teams are not allowed to add a prospect during the playoffs and then promote them.
7.) Trading:
All trades must be made on ESPN as well!!
A. Two teams agree on a deal in a private manor. One team then posts the deal as a new thread in the "Trades" section of the message board. The title of the thread will be: Team A/Team B (fill in the teams accordingly). Example Rays/Mets
B. Next, the other team in the deal must accept the deal as a reply to the thread within 24 hours of the deals posting. If the deal is not accepted within the time frame, the deal will be deleted from the board. However, the two teams can repost the deal and accept it accordingly whenever they please.
C. If a deal is posted without the other teams acceptance, and it comes to my attention,the violating team will be asked to speak in front of me. If found guilty of posting fake deals, or any other violation, the opposer will be axed from the league immediately.
D. After the deal is accepted, I will approve it. It will be moved to the "Completed Trades" section and locked from comments. No comments may be made on a trade by another team.
a. The first time a comment is made on a trade (if it is clear the rule was not understood) no penalty will be enforced.
b. If it is clear the rule was understood but there was a first offense anyway, or if there is a repeated offense, a 500K penalty will be enforced on the teams cap. If the problem continues, the League will decide whether or not to dismiss the owner. There is no minimum of offenses for dismissal.
E. Once the deal is in the completed trades section, it is a complete and final deal. The trade will be processed on ESPN by me, and the refection of the deal will soon be seen on there and the league website.
a. Once a trade is accepted by both teams, both teams MUST update their proboards roster within 24 hours.
F. There will be no trade committee, as I feel that in a dynasty league each owners value of a player is different. Owners need to run their team the way they want. Some will want to rebuild, some will want to trade prospects to win now. I do not want to run this league like a dictator. If I feel there is collusion going on, or someone is just tanking on purpose, I will handle the situation at that point.mIf a trade is so bad that it really catches my attention or the attention of other owners, it can be vetoed.
a. Owners who are found to be cheating will be axed from the league immediately.
G. When you trade for a player, you trade for his contract. You may not make a trade that sends you over the cap. Deals that are posted in the trades section will be vetoed if they do this.
8.) Free Agency:
A. To bid on a player, post the players name as the thread title. For example, Joe Nathan. Post this thread in the "Free Agent Auction" board. Inside the thread, post the players name, position, new team, and proposed salary. The base price for the bid is $300,000. If you want to challenge a bid post in the thread of the player. For example if you want to challenge Joe Nathan's bid then post a higher dollar amount per year in the thread.
B. The team who proposes the higher salary within their cap will win the player. If you go over on a bid, say you have 5M in cap space and bid 7M, your 7M bid is erased and you are locked out from bidding on that player, even if you would drop someone to make room. Changing bids is also against the rules and will result in you being locked out from bidding on that player. You can sign a player if it takes you over your years but you have to immediately drop a player right after you win the free agent.
a. When bidding on a player, you are only posting salary. You will assign the number of years after you win the FA.
C. Deleting bids is also against the rules, and will result in you being fined. If you delete a bid, you get fined the amount of the next highest bid for the rest of the year. If the bid is 15M and then you up it to 15.3M, then you delete your bid, you would get fined 15M. This fine will count against your cap till the end of next season.
D. Once a bid sits unchallenged for 48 hours, the team will be awarded the player.
E. During the regular season, you can sign most free agents for their base salary, which will be their current MLB salary. Simply post the players name - (new team) as the thread title in the "In-Season Signings" board. These free agents will not be challenged and are first come first serve.
F. A player that is out of options will be a free agent at seasons end. The players old team can’t bid on him. Once a player is sent to a new team via free agency his options are reset to 3. For more on this refer to "Minor Leagues".
G. All players won during the FA bidding period have to remain under contract with your team (unless traded) til spring training starts. All players won with a contract of over $5M have to remain under contract with your team (unless traded) till June 30th. *NOTE* Players signed after the FA bidding period is over do not apply to this rule.
H. The minimum for a bid is $300,000 more than the previous bid.
I. Threads will be locked every night at 11:59 PM ET. And opened 8:00 AM ET.
J. Once a FA is signed, owners will have 48 hours to assign him years, add him to their proboard team roster with salary / contract years, and add his contract years & salary to their team totals. Failure to do this will result in losing the player and a $5M fine 1st offense, 10M 2nd .. etc. Prospects to be added to MiLB roster are included in this rule too, added to MiLB roster, and MiLB player total adjusted.
K. A team has 48 Hrs to decide if they want to sign their "RFA" at the new salary or allow the team with the highest bid to sign him.
9.) Releasing Players:
A. When a player is released from another team, he becomes a free agent and is open to all teams and the first team that signs him on the Proboard site will get him.
B. The team has to sign them to their current COTS salary. For example if we are in the 2011 season then you sign them to their 2011 salary. If we are in the 2012 season then you sign them to their 2012 salary, etc.
C. Once a player is released, owners will have 8 hrs to subtract him from their proboard roster and subtract his contract years and salary from their team totals. Failure to do this will result in a $5M fine 1st offense, 10M 2nd .. etc. Prospects are included in this rule too, subtracted from MiLB roster and MiLB player totals adjusted.
D. Once a player is released, the releasing team can not pick up that same player for 30 calendar days.
10.) Minor Leagues:
A. Every team in the league will have a minor league system. It will contain a maximum of 50 players, and a minimum of one player.
B. A player in your minor league system does not have to be paid a salary until he loses his prospect eligibility(150ab/80ip) OR is called up in the DKDL OR if he is currently a player in the Major Leagues who you have sent down. A player in your minor league system who has reached your Major Leagues does not have to be paid even if he is up in the Major Leagues as long as you have never called him up or he has never been called up on another team in the league.
C. You may trade minor leaguers between teams. When a player is traded from one farm system to you, the player goes directly to your farm system. If the trade sends a Major Leaguer to your team and you wish to send him to the minors, you must demote him in the demotions thread. He will lose an option if you do this. He will also still have to be paid.
D. Every prospect and MLB player starts out with 3 options. A trip up to the Majors and back down to the Minors counts as 1 option. Once a player has been sent down to the minors. You must put his name like this on you team: Chris Carpenter (2/3). The (2/3) shows that he has 2 options left.
11.) DKDL Annual Minor League Draft:
A. Every year, the league will host a First Year Player Draft, 2 weeks after the real MLB draft in June. It will consist of 10 rounds. It will not be a snake format. The worst team gets the 1st pick in each round. The World Series winner will get the last pick, while the runner up will get the second to last pick. The rest of the draft order will be determined by season record. You may trade draft picks in this draft.
a. The initial prospect draft will be based on final MLB regular season standings. The initial draft this summer, will be based on current DKDL standings.
B. You can only draft players that were drafted in the MLB draft.
C. You will have 8 hours to pick, if you haven't picked by then your pick will be skipped. If your pick is skipped, you may make your pick at anytime.
D. You may sign/release prospects freely during this time as long as they are not related to the draft. Once our draft ends the undrafted players become normal prospects and you have to wait for them to sign before you can pick them up.
E. Draft order between teams with the same record will be determined by their H2H match-up record form the previous year. If that is a tie then it will be determined by their division record from the previous year. If that is a tie then it will be determined by their league record from the previous year. If that is a tie then it will be determined by their season record from 2 years ago.
F. Supplemental Draft Pick Rule (Only applies during the first two rounds)
If for example I chose as the 4th pick overall this year:
Pick 4- Rays choose Player A
Player A fails to sign in August and chooses to go to college instead of into the majors. You receive an equal supplemental draft pick in 2011 that is 1 pick less then the pick you used. Example: I would receive the 5th overall pick in 2011 along with my other first round choice. Supplemental draft picks are not protected. So, next year if you select someone with that 5th overall pick and they don't sign then you do not receive a supplemental draft pick the next year.
12.) International Free Agency:
A. To bid on a player, post the players name as the thread title. For example, Jorge Soler. Post this thread in the "Free Agent Auction" board. Inside the thread, post the players name, position, country, and team. The base price for the bid is $500,000.
B. We will have an open bid on them year round, but however much you bid, you have to pay the player that salary when they get called up.
C. For example, let’s say I win the bidding for Jorge Soler at $5.5 million. Then, I put him in my farm system and put his salary right after his name. However that salary doesn’t count against my cap until I call him up. So when I do call him up, instead of doing 2 years for $300,000. I do 2 years for $5.5 million.
D. Every team has a $20M budget for the whole year. There is no carry over with money. If you win a player with the max bid and then drop them there will be a penalty of $5M for the rest of that season.
E. You can only start the bidding on somebody that has signed with a current MLB team.
F. Once a bid sits unchallenged for 48 hours, the team will be awarded the player.
G. If you want to challange a bid post in the thread of the player. For example if you want to challenge Jorge Soler's bid then post a higher dollar amount per year in the thread
H. If you go over on a bid, say you have 5M left in your budget and bid 7M, your 7M bid is erased and you are locked out from bidding on that player, even if you would drop someone to make room. Changing bids is also against the rules and will result in you being locked out from bidding on that player.
I. The minimum for a bid is $300,000 more than the previous bid.
J. Even though $20M is the max salary, teams can also include a signing bonus to improve their offer. The signing bonus comes from your salary cap space, and will be a direct hit to your cap for an entire year. You can only place a signing bonus on a max IFA player (one that gets 20M in salary).
13.) Salaries:
A. Every player on your major league roster and some players on your minor league roster will be given a salary.
B. A player sent to your minor leagues, a player you have ever sent to the minor leagues, or a player who you have traded for that has ever been sent to the minor leagues, is paid a salary even though he is in your farm system.
C. Every player on your payroll will be paid their actual MLB salary from the previous year. So for the first season of the league, we will pay our players their 2011 salary. The salaries will be found through Cots: www.baseballprospectus.com/compensation/cots/
D. The base salary of the league is $300,000. If you cannot find a players salary on Cots, that is his salary. If the player is a player of high quality and his salary isn't listed, we will use ESPN as our backup. The League will determine if the player is of high quality or not.
E. Each team will have a salary cap. The cap for the first season of the league will be 120 million dollars. You may not go over this cap.
F. If you are over the cap during the season you will have 48 hours to get under the cap. If you do not get under the cap in this time, then you will forfeit that weeks game. This is not welcoming the problem, but it allows a team with a little room to work. Also you can not trade with a team that is over the cap unless they are shedding payroll.
G. You may trade money from your cap to other teams.
a. During a trade please make a note the amount of money and for how many years. Ex. Rays trade BJ Upton and 5M cap for 2012.
14.) Disabled List:
A. There will be three DLs in this league. The 15 Day DL, the 30 Day DL, and the 60 Day DL. You may only have 4 players on the DL total.
B. To place a player on the DL, he must be on the DL in Major League Baseball as well. However, you do not have to place him on the same one. You can place a player on the 60 when he is only on the 15 in MLB.
C. When a player is on the DL, you still have to pay his salary. However, he will not take up a roster spot.
D. When you place a player on the DL, he has to stay there for the number of days specified. Days, not games, is what the DL is judged in. This includes the All-Star Break and offseason days.
E. To place a player on the DL, click on "DL" on the message board. Then select the type of DL you want. Next, post a new thread titled "Player-Pos.-Your Team." Inside, post the players name, postion, and injury type (if known).
15.) Amendments:
A. When you think you have a great idea message me and I'll post it on the Amendments sub-board in the "Future League Set-Up" board. The rest of the league will vote on it.
B. To get an Amendment put up you have to think it through and it has to be knowledgeable or I won't post it.
C. To get an amendment passed the league will vote on it. I'll set up a poll in the amendments sub-board. With 2 options, The new idea or the old idea. The new idea has to get 12 votes(75% of the league) or it will not be enforced.
D. If the new idea is not passed the first time then we can try again 1 more times. If it still hasn't been passed then the idea becomes null/void for the rest of the year.
16.) Releasing Players Penalty:
A. Any contract over 5 million, if the player is released, you have to pay 1/4 of that salary for every year on the contract offered. This must be noted on your Proboards roster and your salary cap adjusted accordingly immediately.
B. Now if someone picks that player up for the same contract you dropped him for, the 1/4 salary owed will not be paid anymore by you.
17.) Waivers:
A. Teams have to pass players through revocable waivers to trade them after the trade deadline.
B. There will be a 48 hour period in where teams can place claims on players. If a claim isn't placed the player becomes unclaimed and can be traded to anyone.
C. Claimed players can be kept, traded or handed over to the claiming team (who would then pay the player's salary). Teams will have a 72 hour window to work out a deal. If nothing is posted then the player automatically goes back to his original team. If a player is pulled back from waivers he can't be included in a trade for the rest of the waiver period.
D. If only one team claims a player, he can only be dealt to that team. If more than one team claims a player, he can only be traded to the team in his league with the worse record.
E. Prospects are automatically passed through waivers and can be traded freely after the deadline. However the prospects that are traded can't be called up till after the season concludes.
F. In any trade involving MLB players, at least half of the total amount of MLB players involved has to be either unclaimed or claimed by one of the trading teams. For example in a deal involving Votto+Bruce ||FOR|| Wright+Reyes, at least 2 of them have to have been unclaimed or claimed by the trading teams. So the Reds would have to have claimed Wright and Reyes, or the Mets would have had to claim Bruce and Votto, or the Mets claimed one of Votto and Bruce while the Reds claimed one of Wright or Reyes.
18.) Roster Minimum
A. All teams are required to keep a full roster of starting players (20) for every contest. This is a salaried / contracted player for each position in his starting line-up. Bench players are optional. Continued failure of incomplete rosters could result in forfeit of the weeks matchup. Although it is not preferred, for now, a player on the "DL" may be left in the starting roster to fill a position.