Post by Chicago UpDogg on Feb 12, 2023 2:03:44 GMT
LEAGUE FORMAT
-Head to Head
-20 teams -4 divisions of 5 teams.
- 2 Divisions of 10 teams
Playoffs:
-8 teams
Division winners from each division and nextfour six best records go to the playoffs.
-Seeds: D1 vs W4, D2 vs W3,...
-Semi-Finals and Championship matchups are two-week periods instead of the standard one week.
Standings Tiebreakers:
-Head to Head Record
-Division Record
-Conference Record
Playoff Tiebreakers:
-Head to Head Record
-Winning Percentage (regular season and playoffs included)
-Conference Record
DUES AND PAYOUT (These are estimates. Payout can change based on Fantrax Fees & Fees. Check with commissioner for exact payouts.)
-Each team will pay $100 entry/year. This will all go towards payouts and Fantrax league fees. (AH Update 9/26/23)
20 x $100 = $2,000 total pot
$80 Fantrax fee = $1,920 payout pot
2 division winners @ $100 each = $200
4th Place Money Back = $100
Net Pot split 60%-30%-10% ($1,620)
1st - $972
2nd - $486
3rd - $162
4th - $100
ROSTERS AND SCORING
-Positions
C, 1B, 2B, SS, 3B, 3 OF, UTIL, 5 SP, 5 RP
6 Player bench
25 major leaguers
13-20 minor leaguers
After MLB opening day, minors expands to 25. Must be back to max of 20 by following seasons Off-season draft.
Unlimited DL Spots
****Rosters expand to 27 major league roster spots for the playoffs****
-Daily Roster lock
Rosters lock daily 5 minutes before each players game
-6V6 SCORING:
R, HR, RBI, SB, BA, OPS
W, K, ERA, WHIP, QS, HD+SVx2(holds + saves times 2)
- Weekly Minimum innings pitched = 30
- If you fail to reach 30 IP in a given week you will be assessed a three(3) point penalty. Example) if you won a week 9-3, but you failed to reach 30 IP the matchup will be modified to 6-6.
-For two week playoff matchups a minimum of 60 IPs must be reached.
OFF SEASON TRANSACTIONS
Offseason Amateur Draft
- This draft will be as many rounds as needed for teams to select as many minor league players as they so choose (No more than 20 minor league players can be rostered at this time). You need to have open spots (<20) to make picks.
- If you indicate that you are passing on your pick, your draft slot will be locked for the remainder of the draft.
- Draft Order: Reverse order of the previous season’s standings each round.
- Player Pool: Minor league eligible players not signed to a team. Also included--Only foreign players who enter the league under MLBsJuly 2nd Jan 15th International signing rules will be eligible. Any unrestricted foreign player who enters the league will be subject to our major league auction.(Contact commissioner if unclear about this rule).
**The actual MLB rules that we will abide by are as follows:
International free agents are subject to the bonus pool restrictions if they are amateurs. The CBA does not affirmatively define what it means to be an international amateur. Rather, it sets forth exemptions to amateurism:
1) A player who is at least 23 years old and has played professional in a Cuban league for at least five seasons. (This is slightly different from the provision that was controlling during the 2013-14 international free agent signing period that allowed Cubans to sign as a professional free agent if they were at least 23 and had plied their trade for three seasons in a Cuban league.)
2) Similarly, a player who is at least 23 years old and has played as a professional in a league recognized by the MLB Commissioner’s office are also not considered amateurs.
3) A player who has previously signed a contract to play in MLB or the minors is not considered an amateur either.
****The easiest way to tell if the guy is considered an amateur or professional entering the MLB is if he counts against the signing teams bonus pool money, and that is almost always reported when the player signs.
4) If a player has spent parts of two or more seasons in the minor leagues in the U.S. they are eligible to be drafted as a minor leaguer even if they came into MLB as an unrestricted free agent.
Amendment to International Amateur Free Agent Signings:
Prior to 2020, the international signing began on July 2nd. So a player who signed on July 2nd, 2019, was available for our 2020 off-season draft. When MLB delayed the 2020 and 2021 signing periods until the following January, it started bleeding the current signing periods into our off-season drafts. In the 2022 MLB CBA, the signing period was officially moved to Jan 15 - Dec 15. International amateurs signed during that period will be eligible for our following season off-season draft.
FREE AGENT AUCTION
-Procedures and Rules
-Free agents are bid on in a slow auction held on a message board. You will use your teams remaining salary cap money to bid on players. Your bids are the player’s base salary -- A bid must stand for 24 hrs. to win the player.
-Rosters will lock before the auction. There is no trading or dropping of players during the auction. If you have a player that is certain to begin the season on the DL you can petition the commissioners office to have that player placed on your DL.
-Every current bid is considered a won bid, so if you are the current top bid you must assume you will win that bid. This is important with regards to our salary cap and no bid rules.
-Bids may not be deleted. Deleted bids will be re-established and may incur a fine depending on what has happened since the bid was deleted.
-"No bids" are allowed, but only if you have 2 or fewer roster spots that need to be filled. Again, high bids are considered filled roster spots.
-You are allowed to have up to 2 nominations out at one time. You must have at least 1 nomination on the board in order to bid on a player. You can have a high bid on a player without a player nominated, but you can not up bid on a player without a nomination.
-You must finish the auction with 25 active players on your roster.
-Player pool: Any major league player not under AFO contract, Asian and Cuban signees that are unrestricted by the July 2nd International Signing Period rules. International players have to officially sign before our auction begins to be eligible.
-Minimum starting bid: $400,000
-Bid increments: $250,000
------A roster/salary infraction occurring in the auction will start with a warning. Continual non-compliance will result in a 500k cap penalty-------------------------
-Post auction
-Once the auction is complete you will assign a contract length of 1-5 yrs to your newly signed players.
-Rosters unlock and trades and other normal business can continue.
-If you have a player that is certain to begin the season on the DL you can petition the commissioners office to have that player placed on your DL. This will allow you to then fill that players spot on the active roster with someone off of the waiver wire. We use www.rosterresource.com as our resource for verifying this. If the player is not listed on the probable DL on this website than he is not eligible to be placed on your teams DL.
PROMOTION RULE:
In the offseason, any player that no longer qualifies for the minors must be promoted to your major league roster or released.
If you call up a minor leaguer prior to the MLB auction(i.e.. if he is on your roster during the MLB auction) that players MLB contract will begin. You can send him back down to your minor leagues before the season starts, but again, his MLB contract will have begun. Anytime that you first promote a player, you should post in Proboards in the corresponding thread so that the commissioners office can adjust his contract.
MINOR LEAGUE DROPS
In the offseason you may drop up to 4 minor league eligible players with no player release penalty as long as they are not on a major league contract in order to make room for new minor league signings. Additional minor leaguers dropped in the offseason or during the regular season will be owed 50% of their salary ($250K).
TRADES
The same rules apply as during the in season transaction section.
ROSTER NOTES:
In the offseason the next season’s salaries will be applied. It is your job to make sure you are under cap and meet all roster requirements by the beginning of next season. You may trade at any time during the offseason.
IN SEASON TRANSACTIONS:
Free Agents:
Free agents are picked up with a FAAB bidding system that processes every day. Each team starts out with 100 pts to bid with and player's go to the highest bidder. Ties are broken by reverse standing order and 0 point bids are allowed.
-Players won as in season free agents are all assigned 1 yr. contracts at the league minimum of $400,000.
Trades:
Trade deadline:follows the standard site deadline. End of week 18
***You may trade:
-Major and Minor League players
-Draft picks – July Amateur Draft and the Off-season Draft – you may only trade picks from the current and upcoming seasons. Your off-season picks are posted on Fantrax. When you trade picks, you are encouraged to post them on Probards in the corresponding thread. Amateur draft picks are not listed on Fantrax. These trades need to be posted on Proboards so that the commissioners office can keep track of them.
You may not trade:
Salary/money
TRADE APPROVAL SYSTEM
-Due to the different plans teams may have with majors and minors, trades should not be vetoed unless they are extremely unfair or there may be collusion involved. It is meant to prevent cheating or trades that are detrimental to the league NOT trades you just don’t like.
-Trades are approved by a league vote system --- If the league vetoes a trade the 2 managers involved with the trade can appeal the decision by explaining how the trade is beneficial to their team to the commissioner. If both teams can show how they are getting benefit from the deal then a trade will be allowed to go through despite the veto.
- Trade Vote length = 1 day
-Trades will go through immediately (unless a player involved has already stated playing that day). There are no trade vetos because no matter how lopsided a trade looks from the outside, owners have different goals, opinions on players, and reasons for making trades. If there is really something fishy about a trade, send a message to a commissioner. The only reasons a trade would be overturned is if there is obvious collusion or if it is deemed a detriment to the future health of the league.
JULY AMATEUR DRAFT
-2 rounds -Reverse order of the previous year’s standings each round. (Including playoff outcomes)
-Player pool: anyone selected in the actual MLB June amateur draft.
-Players get added to team’s minor league rosters and will be assigned a salary of $500,000 in the offseason following the year they were drafted.
- The draft will take place the week following the end of the draftee signing period
MINOR LEAGUE RULES:
MINOR LEAGUE ELIGIBILITY
In the offseason:
We will have to set our rosters for the upcoming year and will go by the following exp. limits:
Players with 131 AB/50.1 IP or more will be placed on the majors roster
Players with 130 AB/50 IP or less will be placed on a teams minors roster
Any player over these limits will need to be promoted or released before the next off-season draft. Even if they finished the previous season in the minors, have a green flag, green M, or sign a minor league contract in real life. If they are over our limits, they are ineligible to be in your minors. About a week before the season, if a player who is over those limits, has officially been assigned to the minors, he will be allowed to be moved to your minor leagues
During the regular season:
A player may be on a team's Minor league roster if:
1. The player starts the year in any AFO minor league roster and has not been promoted.
2. The player is assigned to a MILB roster (even if they are on a AFO Major Contract) .
3.The player is on an MLB roster, but below the rookie AB/IP limits
MINOR’S SALARY
Minor Leaguers have a salary of $500,000 while in the minors – they will keep this salary from year to year as long as they are not promoted and remain on your minor league roster. Players do not have a contract length in the minors.
MINOR LEAGUER PROMOTION:
-When you promote a minor leaguer they will immediately start year 1 of a 5 year contract.
-You need to post the promotion in the corresponding thread on Proboards
-They will be issued a major league contract with a base salary of $625,000. Their contract terms noted above, so their contract would be as follows:
Year 1: $500,000 - ($625,000 *.8)
Year 2: $562,500 - ($625,000*.9)
Year 3: $625,000 - ($625,000*1.0)
Year 4: $687,500 - ($625,000*1.1)
Year 5: $750,000 - ($625,000*1.2)
SALARIES AND CONTRACTS
SALARY CAP: $90 million dollars – at no time may you exceed the salary cap. Stats will stop counting and you will immediately have to get under cap.
LEAGUE MINIMUM: $400,000
**PLAYER SALARY FORMAT**
Player contracts can be 1-5 yrs. The base salary is the price the player was won at and salary is adjusted based on the base salary price. There is an excel spreadsheet that will calculate the salaries for you but here are how all major league salaries are structured.
1 year contract
Year 1 = 100% of base salary
Example: player A was won for $5,000,000 issued a 1 yr deal.
-year 1 = $5,000,000
2 year contract
Year 1 = 95% of base salary
Year 2 = 105% of base salary
Example: player A was won for $5,000,000 issued a 2 yr deal.
Year 1 = $5,000,000 *.95 = $4,750,000
Year 2 = $5,000,000 *1.05 = $5,250,000
3 year contract
Year 1 = 90% of base salary
Year 2 = 100% of base salary
Year 3 = 110% of base salary
Example: player A was won for $5,000,000 issued a 3 yr deal.
Year 1 = $5,000,000 *.90 = $4,500,000
Year 2 = $5,000,000 *1.0 = $5,000,000
Year 3 = $5,000,000 *1.1 = $5,500,000
4 year contract
Year 1 = 85% of base salary
Year 2 = 95% of base salary
Year 3 = 105% of base salary
Year 4 = 115% of base salary
Example: player A was won for $5,000,000 issued a 4 yr deal.
Year 1 = $5,000,000 *.85 = $4,250,000
Year 2 = $5,000,000 *.95 = $4,750,000
Year 3 = $5,000,000 *1.05 = $5,250,000
Year 4 = $5,000,000 *1.15 = $5,750,000
5 year contract
Year 1 = 80% of base salary
Year 2 = 90% of base salary
Year 3 = 100% of base salary
Year 4 = 110% of base salary
Year 5 = 120% of base salary
Example: player A was won for $5,000,000 issued a 5 yr deal.
Year 1 = $5,000,000 *.80 = $4,000,000
Year 2 = $5,000,000 *.90 = $4,500,000
Year 3 = $5,000,000 *1.0 = $5,000,000
Year 4 = $5,000,000 *1.1 = $5,500,000
Year 5 = $5,000,000 *1.2 = $6,000,000
Dropping players
-If a player is dropped from a roster the team will owe the player 25% of the salary for the current year and 50% of each future year’s salaries, applied to that future season's cap.
-If you drop a player and pick them back up in the same season you will owe the original contract price/length. We do not want people dropping players and picking them up at a reduced rate.
Buyouts
You are allowed to buyout future contract years, and pay the penalties upfront. This must be done in the offseason before the upcoming season's auction. The penalties will then be taken from your upcoming season budget. You must post your desire to buyout future years on proboards.
Player Retirement
If you are able to prove a player has retired you are no longer responsible for the player’s salary (no penalty). If you cannot prove a player retired you are responsible for their salary until they have not played for 2 full seasons. Death will also void a contract.
Suspended and Unsigned Injured Players
A player who receives a suspension, or a player that remains unsigned due to an injury can be placed on a team's DL.This player will count against that teams max DLed players count of 5. A request must be made to the commissioner's office to execute this action.
Roster Player Signs Abroad
If you have a guy rostered that signs a contract in a foreign league, say Japan, you will have to make the decision as to keep him rostered or drop him and incur the full cap penalty.
Rosters Rules Between Auction and Season
After the auction is complete our in season roster rules take effect in terms of overall numbers. This means that once the auction is complete you can have no more than 25 players on your active roster, and you must have between 13-20 minor leaguers rostered. The penalty for falling out of compliance will result in a step up penalty. First offense-100k cap hit ,second-250k, third-500k, fourth-1 million. Every offense after that the penalty will increase by 1 million. Once you are notified of non compliance you have 24 hours to rectify the problem or you will move to the next rung on the penalty ladder. Every day you are illegal will see a new penalty. If you pick up a player off of waivers and do not have a subsequent drop you have until the end of that day to make your roster legal. The next morning a penalty will be assessed.
Forced Major League Roster Promotion and DL Activation
Policy:
To enforce our league rules you will now have 3 days to activate or promote a player if he is activated or promoted by his MLB club. This means that by day 4 the player has to be on your active roster or cut.
****Any minor leaguer that is under the AB/IP limits is not forced to be recalled even if he is on a DOBL major league contract****
Anti Tanking Policy:
-Rebuilding is an acceptable strategy in a dynasty league, tanking and trying to lose weekly matchups is not. Having a poor season is not a reason to ignore your team and the league.
-You are not required to play your ideal lineup, but you will not be allowed to have healthy players on your bench, while having injured players or minor league players in your starting lineup, You will also not be allowed to bench probable SP’s while not meeting the IP requirements.
-If you are in non-compliance of these, the commissioners office will contact you or step in to make the necessary changes to your lineup.
-This is a money league, and everybody plays each team, so tanking or checking out are disrespectful to your league-mates who are competing.
Enforcement:
We have a police force to monitor and enforce our DL and minor league promotion/activation rules. Thank you to those who wear the shield! These rules are also enforced with any team still competing in any part of the postseason. It is each owners responsibility to maintain a legal roster. Someone from the police force may contact you to give you a heads up. Their responsibility, however, is to enforce the rules not help you monitor your roster, so do not expect one. Please notify the authorities if you are going to be off the grid for an extended period. In that case an attempt to reach you will be made if your roster becomes illegal, and an exception can be made. Specific dates you will be off the grid must indicated. If you do not do this no favor will be given.
Penalty:
Every time you fail to abide by this policy you will move down one draft spot in the amateur draft. The penalty will be applied in the current season if the amateur draft has not been started yet. If the amateur draft is complete your penalty will be applied to the following years draft.
-Head to Head
-20 teams -
- 2 Divisions of 10 teams
Playoffs:
-8 teams
Division winners from each division and next
-Seeds: D1 vs W4, D2 vs W3,...
-Semi-Finals and Championship matchups are two-week periods instead of the standard one week.
Standings Tiebreakers:
-Head to Head Record
-Division Record
-Conference Record
Playoff Tiebreakers:
-Head to Head Record
-Winning Percentage (regular season and playoffs included)
-Conference Record
DUES AND PAYOUT (These are estimates. Payout can change based on Fantrax Fees & Fees. Check with commissioner for exact payouts.)
-Each team will pay $100 entry/year. This will all go towards payouts and Fantrax league fees. (AH Update 9/26/23)
20 x $100 = $2,000 total pot
$80 Fantrax fee = $1,920 payout pot
2 division winners @ $100 each = $200
4th Place Money Back = $100
Net Pot split 60%-30%-10% ($1,620)
1st - $972
2nd - $486
3rd - $162
4th - $100
ROSTERS AND SCORING
-Positions
C, 1B, 2B, SS, 3B, 3 OF, UTIL, 5 SP, 5 RP
6 Player bench
25 major leaguers
13-20 minor leaguers
After MLB opening day, minors expands to 25. Must be back to max of 20 by following seasons Off-season draft.
Unlimited DL Spots
****Rosters expand to 27 major league roster spots for the playoffs****
-Daily Roster lock
Rosters lock daily 5 minutes before each players game
-6V6 SCORING:
R, HR, RBI, SB, BA, OPS
W, K, ERA, WHIP, QS, HD+SVx2(holds + saves times 2)
- Weekly Minimum innings pitched = 30
- If you fail to reach 30 IP in a given week you will be assessed a three(3) point penalty. Example) if you won a week 9-3, but you failed to reach 30 IP the matchup will be modified to 6-6.
-For two week playoff matchups a minimum of 60 IPs must be reached.
OFF SEASON TRANSACTIONS
Offseason Amateur Draft
- This draft will be as many rounds as needed for teams to select as many minor league players as they so choose (No more than 20 minor league players can be rostered at this time). You need to have open spots (<20) to make picks.
- If you indicate that you are passing on your pick, your draft slot will be locked for the remainder of the draft.
- Draft Order: Reverse order of the previous season’s standings each round.
- Player Pool: Minor league eligible players not signed to a team. Also included--Only foreign players who enter the league under MLBs
**The actual MLB rules that we will abide by are as follows:
International free agents are subject to the bonus pool restrictions if they are amateurs. The CBA does not affirmatively define what it means to be an international amateur. Rather, it sets forth exemptions to amateurism:
1) A player who is at least 23 years old and has played professional in a Cuban league for at least five seasons. (This is slightly different from the provision that was controlling during the 2013-14 international free agent signing period that allowed Cubans to sign as a professional free agent if they were at least 23 and had plied their trade for three seasons in a Cuban league.)
2) Similarly, a player who is at least 23 years old and has played as a professional in a league recognized by the MLB Commissioner’s office are also not considered amateurs.
3) A player who has previously signed a contract to play in MLB or the minors is not considered an amateur either.
****The easiest way to tell if the guy is considered an amateur or professional entering the MLB is if he counts against the signing teams bonus pool money, and that is almost always reported when the player signs.
4) If a player has spent parts of two or more seasons in the minor leagues in the U.S. they are eligible to be drafted as a minor leaguer even if they came into MLB as an unrestricted free agent.
Amendment to International Amateur Free Agent Signings:
Prior to 2020, the international signing began on July 2nd. So a player who signed on July 2nd, 2019, was available for our 2020 off-season draft. When MLB delayed the 2020 and 2021 signing periods until the following January, it started bleeding the current signing periods into our off-season drafts. In the 2022 MLB CBA, the signing period was officially moved to Jan 15 - Dec 15. International amateurs signed during that period will be eligible for our following season off-season draft.
FREE AGENT AUCTION
-Procedures and Rules
-Free agents are bid on in a slow auction held on a message board. You will use your teams remaining salary cap money to bid on players. Your bids are the player’s base salary -- A bid must stand for 24 hrs. to win the player.
-Rosters will lock before the auction. There is no trading or dropping of players during the auction. If you have a player that is certain to begin the season on the DL you can petition the commissioners office to have that player placed on your DL.
-Every current bid is considered a won bid, so if you are the current top bid you must assume you will win that bid. This is important with regards to our salary cap and no bid rules.
-Bids may not be deleted. Deleted bids will be re-established and may incur a fine depending on what has happened since the bid was deleted.
-"No bids" are allowed, but only if you have 2 or fewer roster spots that need to be filled. Again, high bids are considered filled roster spots.
-You are allowed to have up to 2 nominations out at one time. You must have at least 1 nomination on the board in order to bid on a player. You can have a high bid on a player without a player nominated, but you can not up bid on a player without a nomination.
-You must finish the auction with 25 active players on your roster.
-Player pool: Any major league player not under AFO contract, Asian and Cuban signees that are unrestricted by the July 2nd International Signing Period rules. International players have to officially sign before our auction begins to be eligible.
-Minimum starting bid: $400,000
-Bid increments: $250,000
------A roster/salary infraction occurring in the auction will start with a warning. Continual non-compliance will result in a 500k cap penalty-------------------------
-Post auction
-Once the auction is complete you will assign a contract length of 1-5 yrs to your newly signed players.
-Rosters unlock and trades and other normal business can continue.
-If you have a player that is certain to begin the season on the DL you can petition the commissioners office to have that player placed on your DL. This will allow you to then fill that players spot on the active roster with someone off of the waiver wire. We use www.rosterresource.com as our resource for verifying this. If the player is not listed on the probable DL on this website than he is not eligible to be placed on your teams DL.
PROMOTION RULE:
In the offseason, any player that no longer qualifies for the minors must be promoted to your major league roster or released.
If you call up a minor leaguer prior to the MLB auction(i.e.. if he is on your roster during the MLB auction) that players MLB contract will begin. You can send him back down to your minor leagues before the season starts, but again, his MLB contract will have begun. Anytime that you first promote a player, you should post in Proboards in the corresponding thread so that the commissioners office can adjust his contract.
MINOR LEAGUE DROPS
In the offseason you may drop up to 4 minor league eligible players with no player release penalty as long as they are not on a major league contract in order to make room for new minor league signings. Additional minor leaguers dropped in the offseason or during the regular season will be owed 50% of their salary ($250K).
TRADES
The same rules apply as during the in season transaction section.
ROSTER NOTES:
In the offseason the next season’s salaries will be applied. It is your job to make sure you are under cap and meet all roster requirements by the beginning of next season. You may trade at any time during the offseason.
IN SEASON TRANSACTIONS:
Free Agents:
Free agents are picked up with a FAAB bidding system that processes every day. Each team starts out with 100 pts to bid with and player's go to the highest bidder. Ties are broken by reverse standing order and 0 point bids are allowed.
-Players won as in season free agents are all assigned 1 yr. contracts at the league minimum of $400,000.
Trades:
Trade deadline:
***You may trade:
-Major and Minor League players
-Draft picks – July Amateur Draft and the Off-season Draft – you may only trade picks from the current and upcoming seasons. Your off-season picks are posted on Fantrax. When you trade picks, you are encouraged to post them on Probards in the corresponding thread. Amateur draft picks are not listed on Fantrax. These trades need to be posted on Proboards so that the commissioners office can keep track of them.
You may not trade:
Salary/money
TRADE APPROVAL SYSTEM
-Trades are approved by a league vote system --- If the league vetoes a trade the 2 managers involved with the trade can appeal the decision by explaining how the trade is beneficial to their team to the commissioner. If both teams can show how they are getting benefit from the deal then a trade will be allowed to go through despite the veto.
- Trade Vote length = 1 day
-Trades will go through immediately (unless a player involved has already stated playing that day). There are no trade vetos because no matter how lopsided a trade looks from the outside, owners have different goals, opinions on players, and reasons for making trades. If there is really something fishy about a trade, send a message to a commissioner. The only reasons a trade would be overturned is if there is obvious collusion or if it is deemed a detriment to the future health of the league.
JULY AMATEUR DRAFT
-2 rounds -Reverse order of the previous year’s standings each round. (Including playoff outcomes)
-Player pool: anyone selected in the actual MLB June amateur draft.
-Players get added to team’s minor league rosters and will be assigned a salary of $500,000 in the offseason following the year they were drafted.
- The draft will take place the week following the end of the draftee signing period
MINOR LEAGUE RULES:
MINOR LEAGUE ELIGIBILITY
In the offseason:
We will have to set our rosters for the upcoming year and will go by the following exp. limits:
Players with 131 AB/50.1 IP or more will be placed on the majors roster
Players with 130 AB/50 IP or less will be placed on a teams minors roster
Any player over these limits will need to be promoted or released before the next off-season draft. Even if they finished the previous season in the minors, have a green flag, green M, or sign a minor league contract in real life. If they are over our limits, they are ineligible to be in your minors. About a week before the season, if a player who is over those limits, has officially been assigned to the minors, he will be allowed to be moved to your minor leagues
During the regular season:
A player may be on a team's Minor league roster if:
1. The player starts the year in any AFO minor league roster and has not been promoted.
2. The player is assigned to a MILB roster (even if they are on a AFO Major Contract) .
3.The player is on an MLB roster, but below the rookie AB/IP limits
MINOR’S SALARY
Minor Leaguers have a salary of $500,000 while in the minors – they will keep this salary from year to year as long as they are not promoted and remain on your minor league roster. Players do not have a contract length in the minors.
MINOR LEAGUER PROMOTION:
-When you promote a minor leaguer they will immediately start year 1 of a 5 year contract.
-You need to post the promotion in the corresponding thread on Proboards
-They will be issued a major league contract with a base salary of $625,000. Their contract terms noted above, so their contract would be as follows:
Year 1: $500,000 - ($625,000 *.8)
Year 2: $562,500 - ($625,000*.9)
Year 3: $625,000 - ($625,000*1.0)
Year 4: $687,500 - ($625,000*1.1)
Year 5: $750,000 - ($625,000*1.2)
SALARIES AND CONTRACTS
SALARY CAP: $90 million dollars – at no time may you exceed the salary cap. Stats will stop counting and you will immediately have to get under cap.
LEAGUE MINIMUM: $400,000
**PLAYER SALARY FORMAT**
Player contracts can be 1-5 yrs. The base salary is the price the player was won at and salary is adjusted based on the base salary price. There is an excel spreadsheet that will calculate the salaries for you but here are how all major league salaries are structured.
1 year contract
Year 1 = 100% of base salary
Example: player A was won for $5,000,000 issued a 1 yr deal.
-year 1 = $5,000,000
2 year contract
Year 1 = 95% of base salary
Year 2 = 105% of base salary
Example: player A was won for $5,000,000 issued a 2 yr deal.
Year 1 = $5,000,000 *.95 = $4,750,000
Year 2 = $5,000,000 *1.05 = $5,250,000
3 year contract
Year 1 = 90% of base salary
Year 2 = 100% of base salary
Year 3 = 110% of base salary
Example: player A was won for $5,000,000 issued a 3 yr deal.
Year 1 = $5,000,000 *.90 = $4,500,000
Year 2 = $5,000,000 *1.0 = $5,000,000
Year 3 = $5,000,000 *1.1 = $5,500,000
4 year contract
Year 1 = 85% of base salary
Year 2 = 95% of base salary
Year 3 = 105% of base salary
Year 4 = 115% of base salary
Example: player A was won for $5,000,000 issued a 4 yr deal.
Year 1 = $5,000,000 *.85 = $4,250,000
Year 2 = $5,000,000 *.95 = $4,750,000
Year 3 = $5,000,000 *1.05 = $5,250,000
Year 4 = $5,000,000 *1.15 = $5,750,000
5 year contract
Year 1 = 80% of base salary
Year 2 = 90% of base salary
Year 3 = 100% of base salary
Year 4 = 110% of base salary
Year 5 = 120% of base salary
Example: player A was won for $5,000,000 issued a 5 yr deal.
Year 1 = $5,000,000 *.80 = $4,000,000
Year 2 = $5,000,000 *.90 = $4,500,000
Year 3 = $5,000,000 *1.0 = $5,000,000
Year 4 = $5,000,000 *1.1 = $5,500,000
Year 5 = $5,000,000 *1.2 = $6,000,000
Dropping players
-If a player is dropped from a roster the team will owe the player 25% of the salary for the current year and 50% of each future year’s salaries, applied to that future season's cap.
-If you drop a player and pick them back up in the same season you will owe the original contract price/length. We do not want people dropping players and picking them up at a reduced rate.
Buyouts
You are allowed to buyout future contract years, and pay the penalties upfront. This must be done in the offseason before the upcoming season's auction. The penalties will then be taken from your upcoming season budget. You must post your desire to buyout future years on proboards.
Player Retirement
If you are able to prove a player has retired you are no longer responsible for the player’s salary (no penalty). If you cannot prove a player retired you are responsible for their salary until they have not played for 2 full seasons. Death will also void a contract.
Suspended and Unsigned Injured Players
A player who receives a suspension, or a player that remains unsigned due to an injury can be placed on a team's DL.
Roster Player Signs Abroad
If you have a guy rostered that signs a contract in a foreign league, say Japan, you will have to make the decision as to keep him rostered or drop him and incur the full cap penalty.
Rosters Rules Between Auction and Season
After the auction is complete our in season roster rules take effect in terms of overall numbers. This means that once the auction is complete you can have no more than 25 players on your active roster, and you must have between 13-20 minor leaguers rostered. The penalty for falling out of compliance will result in a step up penalty. First offense-100k cap hit ,second-250k, third-500k, fourth-1 million. Every offense after that the penalty will increase by 1 million. Once you are notified of non compliance you have 24 hours to rectify the problem or you will move to the next rung on the penalty ladder. Every day you are illegal will see a new penalty. If you pick up a player off of waivers and do not have a subsequent drop you have until the end of that day to make your roster legal. The next morning a penalty will be assessed.
Forced Major League Roster Promotion and DL Activation
Policy:
To enforce our league rules you will now have 3 days to activate or promote a player if he is activated or promoted by his MLB club. This means that by day 4 the player has to be on your active roster or cut.
****Any minor leaguer that is under the AB/IP limits is not forced to be recalled even if he is on a DOBL major league contract****
Anti Tanking Policy:
-Rebuilding is an acceptable strategy in a dynasty league, tanking and trying to lose weekly matchups is not. Having a poor season is not a reason to ignore your team and the league.
-You are not required to play your ideal lineup, but you will not be allowed to have healthy players on your bench, while having injured players or minor league players in your starting lineup, You will also not be allowed to bench probable SP’s while not meeting the IP requirements.
-If you are in non-compliance of these, the commissioners office will contact you or step in to make the necessary changes to your lineup.
-This is a money league, and everybody plays each team, so tanking or checking out are disrespectful to your league-mates who are competing.
Enforcement:
We have a police force to monitor and enforce our DL and minor league promotion/activation rules. Thank you to those who wear the shield! These rules are also enforced with any team still competing in any part of the postseason. It is each owners responsibility to maintain a legal roster. Someone from the police force may contact you to give you a heads up. Their responsibility, however, is to enforce the rules not help you monitor your roster, so do not expect one. Please notify the authorities if you are going to be off the grid for an extended period. In that case an attempt to reach you will be made if your roster becomes illegal, and an exception can be made. Specific dates you will be off the grid must indicated. If you do not do this no favor will be given.
Penalty:
Every time you fail to abide by this policy you will move down one draft spot in the amateur draft. The penalty will be applied in the current season if the amateur draft has not been started yet. If the amateur draft is complete your penalty will be applied to the following years draft.