Rules And Regulations
Jan 4, 2017 17:34:14 GMT -5
Post by richard nationals on Jan 4, 2017 17:34:14 GMT -5
DIAMOND CUTTERS DYNASTY
1. CONSTITUTION
1.1 Scoring: The league will use Fantrax for its fantasy interface. A forum-based database on freeforums.net will be used for record keeping, including the salaries, transactions, awards, press releases, and minor league systems.
The league scoring will follow: Head to Head, Each Category
There will be 12 total categories:
6 hitting:
AVG
HR
OBP
R
RBI
SB
6 pitching:
ERA
HLD
K
SV
W
WHIP
1.2 Roster Construction: Teams will have 18 active spots (and 12 bench slots) with unlimited DL spots.
Active Slots
Offensive positions:
C:1
1st Base:1
2nd Base:1
3rd Base: 1
SS: 1
OF: 3
Utility: 1
Pitching Positions:
3 SP
2 RP
4 P
The remaining 12 spots will be Bench spots (can be used for veterans or minors). Furthermore, the minor league roster will be listed on the forum-based database as well.
1.3 Eligibility requirements: for minor league prospects are as followed:
Less than 200 AB's or 100 IP (In the Majors). Once a prospect reaches either category, he must be promoted to the franchise's 30 Man active roster the following year.
1.4 Salary Cap: $130M each year - Exceeding the cap will not be allowed what so ever, any trade or free agent signing that would put a team over the salary cap will not be accepted.
Exceeding Roster Limits: Not at any time will a team be allowed to have more than 30 players on their mlb roster that are not on the dl. Any team caught with having more than 30 players on their mlb roster on fantrax will receive no stats from any player on that day or days.
1.5 Disabled List DL: Only a player that is on the DL in real life will be allowed on the DL. Once they come off the DL in real life they must be back on your 30 man roster on Fantrax failure to do so will result in no stats for that day or days it occurs.
1.6 Retirees/ career ending injuries: owners will not be responsible for these player’s contracts anymore, however if the player is 35 or over you are responsible for the full length even if he retires. This is to prevent owners from bidding 5 years just to win a player and get away free with him retiring.
1.7 Playoffs will begin four weeks before the real MLB regular season ends. The 2 division winners and two wildcard teams from each league will make the playoffs. The wildcard will be determined by the highest team in the combined standings that is not a division winner.
The format of the playoffs will be: the division and league championship series will be one week each and the world series will be 1 week. The scoring will use the same categories and the team who wins the most categories moves on. Tie Breaker: highest in the combined standings at the end of our regular season.
During the playoffs teams will have to announce their 30 man roster before the start of each week. If you win your 1st playoff series then you will have to announce your 30 man roster before the start of the next series. It does not have to be the same each week. Once you announce your 30 man roster you cannot make any changes for that week. If you have a player with a mlb contract that you don't want on your 30 man playoff roster then you can put him in the minors. This is the only time you can put a player with a mlb contract in the minors.
1.8 Minor Leagues MiLB: You must have a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 40 minor contract players. All minors will have a salary of 200K.
Minor leaguer add/drops are handled on Fantrax except for updating your roster on the forum site. You can have up to 40 minor contract players as long as you have the cap room. You cannot add players drafted in their current year or signed 20year old or younger international signings. Players drafted in the June draft each year are off-limits until the Amateur Draft (to be held pre-season instead of mid-season). Adds and Drops are free. Be sure that the player has not gone over 100 IP or 200 AB*. If a team is adding players on Fantrax and not updating their forum roster they will lose the privilege of adding players. If they have lost this privilege, then they have to go through the regular free agent process.
* If a player goes over 100IP/200AB during the current year then they are still a minor until the following season
Example: Lucas Harrell SP/RP Had 24 IP in 2010, 18 IP in 2011, and so far this year- 2012 has 69 IP for a total of 111 IP. Since he only had 42 IP until 2012 he is still considered a minor for the rest of this year and will be a PP1 at the start of the 2013 season.
There is now a separate rule that applies to each year’s draft class. So for the 2013 draft class the owners do not have to pick up the player on Fantrax until the beginning of the following season. They have to be included in their minor league rosters (Forum). We did this because Fantrax does not add all players during the current year.
If you have a player who is no longer on a minor league contract on your minor league roster in Fantrax then you will have an illegal roster and will receive no stats for the day or days your roster is illegal. If your team has more than 40 minor league contract players your team will receive no stats for day or days this occurs.
2. Contract Regulations:
2.1 Each franchise has a league-set salary cap of $130M.
2.2 Each franchise will be able to compete for league available performance incentives to be put along with the league-set salary cap on the following season.
Team Incentives:
Make the Playoffs - $5M
Win the World Series - $5M
Incentives do not carry over from year to year.
2.3 Any player who has not yet reached 200 AB or 100 IP in their Major League career is still considered a prospect as mentioned in the league constitution.
2.4 Minor league prospects will have a set contract at $0.2M. Once a prospect hits the 200/100 limit, the prospect's contract will switch over to their allotted PP1-5 year based contracts THE FOLLOWING SEASON. Any prospect under the 200/100 limit will have a contract of $0.2M annually.
2.5 The season after a player reaches 200 major at bats or 100 innings pitched in their Major League career, Prospect Protection kicks into place. Players are eligible for Prospect Protection for 5 years. (Note: Prospect protection only works on players currently on teams under the eligibility rules and minor league prospects brought up to the majors. These rules still apply to these players when traded. They do not apply when the player is dropped or released. Instead the winning free agency contract is used.)
To figure out when a player qualifies for Prospect Protection (PP) do the following:
-look up the MAJOR league career stats on either ESPN or MLB.com
-start with their first Majors IP or AB and add up the totals for each year until you either reach or go over 100 IP or 200 AB's. Once you do, the following season for that player counts as year one of PP, the next as year two, and so on. If a player hasn't reached either limit, then they still receive a minor contract, and PP will kick in for them the year after that player reaches the limit.
EX: CJ Wilson Innings Pitched
2005: 48 Innings
2006: 44.1 Innings
2007: 68.1 Innings
48+44.1+68.1= 160.3 Innings
This means 2008 would be the year that prospect protection begins for Wilson.
2.6 Prospect Protection contract guidelines are as follows:
First Year (1ST) = $0.25M (can release without penalty - must list in Released PP1 Board)
Second Year (2ND) = $0.5M
Third Year (3RD) = $0.75M
Fourth Year (4th) = $2.5M (team opt out option)
Fifth Year (5th)= $5M (team opt out option)
Years four and five will have a team opt out option. This means that if an owner decides he does not want to keep the player then the player can be released without penalty to the owner. The opt out option will be done at the same time as the franchise and restricted tags (January- exact date to be determined).
Owners will post the players name in the Free Agency Thread. If the option is exercised, the owner is agreeing to pay the players contract for the following year.
2.7 After the 5th PP season, the player will become a free agent available to all franchises to sign (unless tagged). The player's new contract will result from the free agency bidding process unless tagged with a Franchise Tag.
2.8 For the salary calculation of all players in their sixth + year of experience, see 3. Free Agency. Players who are not franchise-tagged will be bid on in either restricted free agency or unrestricted free agency processes.
2.9 International Free Agents- International FA's 21 and over will be unrestricted free agents to be bid on any time after the signing is made official. IFA signings at age 20 years old or younger will be available in the following year’s amateur draft. If not drafted in said draft, they then become regular minor leaguer free agents, free to pick up. If the player signs after the draft then they will not be available until the following season's Amateur Draft.
2.10 Franchise/Restricted Tags- Each team will be awarded one franchise tag and one restricted tag each off-season. These tags may be applied to any player with an expired contract. If franchised, the Owner agrees to accept their current real MLB contract. They may not be placed on player’s who have had their option declined (decline, sign is not allowed).
Salary information for any player is on this website: mlbcontracts.blogspot.com/
A restricted tag means that the holding team has the right to match the winning bid and retain the player in Free Agency bidding. (ALL CONTRACT OFFERS ARE BINDING). Restricted tags and franchise tags can be placed in January or early February depending on the startup time frame for that year.
RFA players that are not bid on:
Owners will have the option to accept their real life contract or allow them to become unrestricted free agents. If you accept the player’s real life contract you accept the whole contract. A restricted tag holder is not allowed to bid on their own player.
2.11 Contract Construction: To keep teams from front-loading or back-loading contracts, in any contract submitted, the highest salary year can only be 20% more than the contracts yearly average, and the minimum salary can only be 20% less than the contracts yearly average. If a contract does not meet these guidelines, the bid will not count.
Teams may place a club option on the end of any contract, but will not be counted toward avg. yearly salary, must be 20% higher than average yearly salary in contract. Teams may only place as many option years at the end as the number of guaranteed years (2 or 3 yr contract may place 2 COs, 1yr contract may place only one CO) and the CO additional years must be announced upon the Owner’s announcement of the contract breakdown, no later.
2.12 Forum Roster Guideline
List the MLB players with full contract details including a count of the MLB contracts
List the MiLB players and a count of the number of MiLB players
Include a summary of the cap space, used, waiver penalties and amount of cap space available.
Example summary:
Minors Salary (30): $6.0M
MLB Salaries (25): $92.0M
Total Salaries: $98.0M
Playoff Bonus: $0.0
Waiver Penalties: $2.0M
Total Cap Used: $100.0M
Cap Space: $120.0M
Cap Available: $20.0M
2.12 Forum Transaction Page Guidelines
All owner’s must list their transactions including pre-season Option decisions, tagging of players, winning bids, waiver drops and trades. MiLB roster movements are excluded from the transaction thread. Also, future waiver penalty payoffs must be listed here as well as in your roster page.
3. Free Agency
3.1 Free Agents will be auctioned off, meaning every team has the chance to acquire a free agent. As in an auction, the highest bidder wins. The minimum contract length is 1 year. The maximum is 5 years. The free agency bidding will be open bidding with the highest bidder winning the bid. The bid must hold for 24 hours.
3.2 Bidding Table is used to assign points to determine which bid is highest:
The bidding table must be used as is. Teams are not allowed to split the difference between the numbers that are posted. We purposely stopped the half numbers at 7M.
................1yr...../...2yr....../......3yr....../.....4yr....../.....5yr...
.5M...........1............1.75............2.25..........2.5.............3
1M............2............3.5..............4.5.............5..............6
1.5M.........3...........5.25............6.75...........7.5............9
2M............4............7.................9..............10............12
2.5M.........5............8.75............11.25.........12.5.........15
3M............6............10.5............13.5...........15...........18
3.5M.........7............12.25..........15.75.........17.5..........21
4M............8............14...............18..............20...........24
4.5M.........9............15.75...........20.25.......22.5...........27
5M...........10............17.5...........22.5...........25............30
5.5M........11............19.25.........24.75.........27.5...........33
6M...........12............21..............27.............30.............36
6.5M........13............22.75.........29.25........32.5............39
7M...........14............24.5...........31.5...........35............42
8M...........16............28..............36.............40.............48
9M...........18............31.5...........40.5...........45.............54
10M.........20............35..............45..............50............60
11M.........22............38.5...........49.5............55............66
12M.........24............42..............54..............60............72
13M.........26............45.5...........58.5............65............78
14M.........28............49..............63..............70.............84
15M.........30............52.5...........67.5............75.............90
16M.........32............56..............72..............80..............96
17M.........34............59.5...........76.5............85............102
18M.........36............63..............81..............90.............108
19M.........38............66.5...........85.5............95............114
20M.........40............70..............90.............100............120
21M.........42............73.5...........94.5...........105............126
22M.........44............77..............99.............110............132
23M.........46............80.5...........103.5.........115............138
24M.........48............84..............108...........120............144
25M.........50............87.5...........112.5.........125............150
For major league players the minimum starting contract bid is 1 year 0.5M and the max is 25M at 5 years. If we have multiple teams bid 25M 5 years then we will have a blind bid for a signing bonus with the highest bid winning the bid. The signing bonus is to be paid in the current year (not spread out over the 5 years) and if player is traded the team who originally signed him still has to pay the signing bonus.
3.3 Minor League Free Agents: Minor league players are free add/drops and handled through Fantrax only. The salary for minors is $.2M per year. You do not need to go through the waiver wire process on the Forum. This system is locked in the off-season until the announced date for adds of MiLB. There is a minimum of 20 prospects and a maximum of 40.
3.4 In order for a player to be eligible to be on a team in our league a player must have been drafted and/or have signed a professional contract. Any player that is drafted in the MLB Amateur Draft and signed with a MLB franchise will be available to be drafted in our Amateur Draft. Any player that was signed as an International free agent by a MLB franchise and is 20 years old or younger will also be available to be drafted in our Amateur Draft.
3.5 Club Options: It is the owner’s discretion whether to exercise a player’s club option. At the end of the year. If owners do not exercise the club option, then the player automatically becomes a free agent with no penalty to the former owner.
3.6 The free agent bidding process will be held at a TBD date, likely in February. Before this time, a date will be set as the deadline to exercise options and tag assignments (Franchise or Restricted).
3.7 Amateur Player Draft: Each year in January an Amateur Player Draft will take place (for the preceding year’s MLB Amateur Drafted players and any 20yo or younger IFA signing). The order will be decided by the team standings from the previous year with the worst record picking first. The draft will be continuous in this order, not snake.
International free agent signing from the year prior, who are 20 years old or younger will be a part of this Amateur Draft. We will get as many names as possible and create a list prior to the Amateur Draft.
3.8 Rules for In-Season Free Agency Bidding
The bidding structure will be as follows: Post the name of the player, the team they play for, and his position in both the subject box and the message box.
The message box should contain all information in the subject box plus your bid on the player including the number of points using the bidding table.
Bids start at 1 year for .5M per year but you can start your bid higher if you want. The Maximum Length of a contract is 5 years. Any owner wishing to trump a 1 year bid must beat the last bid by at least 1 point. If the bid is a multiple year deal then you need to trump the previous bid by 2 points.
An owner is declared a winner if he holds the highest bid for 24 hours. If someone makes an illegal bid it will not count and the win will go to the previous team who had the highest bid and held it for 24 hours. We do not have to warn any owners whether their bid is illegal. You are responsible to place legal bids.
Example of a legal bid:
Owner 1 places a bid on player X. 2 years @ 2.5M per year = 8.75 points.
Owner 2 (follows) by placing a bid on Player X. 3 years @ 2.5M per year = 11.25 points.
The second bid is a legal bid because he bid 2 points or more over the previous bid.
Example of an Illegal Bid:
If, instead, Owner 2 had bid this on player X. 2 years @ 3M per year = 10.5 points. This bid would be illegal since it is only 1.75 points more than the previous bid.
A bid will be won once it has been the winning bid for 24 hours. The team with winning bid has 24 hours after the winning bid is official to announce the contract breakdown or it becomes a flat contract. Owners also have 24 hour's to add players to roster or they will be awarded to next highest bidder or go back to free agency if that team does not have cap or roster space.
You can add club option years onto the end of a bid if they do not put you over 5 years and they are 20% higher than the average annual bid. Club Option years are not included in figuring out the points per bid (bidding table). For a one year contract you cannot add more than one club option year. You cannot add on more CO years than the number of guaranteed years.
4. Trade Regulations
4.1 Trades will always be posted under the thread "Pending Trades" on the Form. When a trade is agreed upon by each owner, one must enter a post under the trade topic. The subject line must consist of each team involved.
4.2 Accepted and declined trades will be processed in their appropriate archives.
4.3 In the post, the announcing team must detail: The players that are being traded must have their full name, position, player's full contract, and all cap changes listed. The other team must reply with acceptance and cap space if not noted by the first owner. Example:
The Pittsburgh Pirates and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim have agreed to terms on a trade. This trade is pending league approval.
Pittsburgh Pirates Trade:
SS- Ronny Cedeno 11:$1.85M, 12:$3M club option
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Trade:
2B- Sean Rodriguez 11: .4M
CAP CHANGES
Pittsburgh Pirates
Before: $48.3M
After: $46.85
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
Before: $111.3M
After: $112.75M
NO TRADE WILL BE ALLOWED IN WHICH IT PUTS A TEAM OVER THEIR CAP SPACE
You can, however, go over roster limit, but in trade thread you must put in who you will drop to make the max roster which is 30 MLB players. If you need to drop a guy to make cap room you must do so before posting trade.
4.4 The trade will remain pending for 48 hours. During that time any owner may submit a message to one of the League Administrators stating that they believe the trade is unfair and should be vetoed and a reason why it is not a fair trade. Owners submitting such messages will remain anonymous. If any message requesting a veto vote is submitted, the League Office will decide whether or not the trade warrants a league wide veto vote. If the trade involves a League Administrator, then that Administrator will not be involved in deciding whether the league wide veto vote will be held.
4.5 Veto Vote: When the League Office decides to bring a trade to a league wide veto vote the League Office will send out a message to all owners announcing the vote will take place and the players involved in the trade. Each owner not involved in the trade will receive one vote. The veto vote will last for 48 hours. If more than 50% of the total votes participating vote to veto then the trade is vetoed. There will be no appeals process for league wide vetoed trades, and duplicate trades will be rejected by the league office for the following 3 months.
4.6 If no veto vote messages are submitted to the League Office within 48 hours of the trade being posted, the trade will automatically process and owners will be given permission to trade players on Fantrax and update their rosters on the Forum. Owners must make all necessary adjustments to their salary caps at this time.
4.7 Owners are also required to record the approved trade under their team's transactions thread
4.8 Trades may include draft picks and a % of a player's salary (up to 50%).
You can agree to pay up to 50% of a player’s salary. Both owners involved in the deal will keep track of this on their Forum rosters. If it is for multiple years then the amount needs to be the same for each season. An owner is not "off the hook" if that player is traded again later but still has to continue to pay the amount for the life of that specific deal. The amount each year must be the same so, for example, if a player has a highly variable or escalating cost contract, only 50% of the lowest year can be paid per year.
4.9 Trade Deadline: The trade deadline will be two weeks before the start of the playoffs (Date To Be Announced).
4.10 Trading will resume one month after the World Series.
5. Waiver Wire
5.1 Any player can be placed on waivers by the franchise's owner at any time.
5.2 When waiving a player, please establish a post underneath the waiver wire transaction thread. Please place the following information in your post:
Franchise
Player
Contract Information
Applicable Penalty
5.3 When you place a player on waivers you are responsible for 40% for each year of that players contract. You are not responsible for 40% of club option years as club options are automatically declined upon dropping a player.
RELEASE PLAYERS WISELY
5.4 All teams have an opportunity to claim the listed player off of the waivers within a 7 day period. If a person claims a waived major league player off of the waiver wire, the person making the claim is agreeing to pay 60% of that players existing contract.
5.5 If another team also wishes to claim this player, a bidding war will begin, starting with the 60% of the existing contract as the first bid. After this initial bid, bidding will ensue with a 24-hr standing winning bid. Bidding will be in $0.10M minimum bid increments per year.
5.6 If a player is not claimed by any team then he is placed in free agency and his old contract will no longer be used.
5.7 All waiver penalties should be included in the transaction log and calculated with your salary cap.
5.8 The only way for the original dropping team to reclaim their waived player is to resign him out of the free agency pool to a new contract. That owner is still responsible however for the 40% of the player’s original contract.
5.9 Owners who have remaining salary cap space may pay off future waiver penalty contract years. However, payments must be made in yearly sums. This must be listed in your transaction log and announced on the Future Waiver Payoffs thread for the league, that way the league office is aware of the process. The waiver payoffs must be announced and paid by the end of week 15 of the regular season.
5.10 Players in the minor league salary bracket and 1st year salary bracket (.2M/ .25M) are not eligible for the waiver process. They may be released, but upon release the owner is not responsible for any of their contract. PP1 player drops become unrestricted free agents and MiLB drops become MiLB free agents.
5.11 If a player is placed on waivers after week 15 of the season then the owner is responsible for the whole contract and will not be able to pay off future waiver penalty contract years.
Example: A player has a contract of $4M for 2016 and $4M for 2017.
If you place that player on waivers in the first 15 weeks then you are responsible for 40% of the contract and you can pay off 2016 and 2017 if desired.
If you place that player on waivers after week 15 then you are responsible for 100% of the current year’s contract and cannot pay off 2017.
5.12 Once the playoffs start no players can be added to your roster.
1. CONSTITUTION
1.1 Scoring: The league will use Fantrax for its fantasy interface. A forum-based database on freeforums.net will be used for record keeping, including the salaries, transactions, awards, press releases, and minor league systems.
The league scoring will follow: Head to Head, Each Category
There will be 12 total categories:
6 hitting:
AVG
HR
OBP
R
RBI
SB
6 pitching:
ERA
HLD
K
SV
W
WHIP
1.2 Roster Construction: Teams will have 18 active spots (and 12 bench slots) with unlimited DL spots.
Active Slots
Offensive positions:
C:1
1st Base:1
2nd Base:1
3rd Base: 1
SS: 1
OF: 3
Utility: 1
Pitching Positions:
3 SP
2 RP
4 P
The remaining 12 spots will be Bench spots (can be used for veterans or minors). Furthermore, the minor league roster will be listed on the forum-based database as well.
1.3 Eligibility requirements: for minor league prospects are as followed:
Less than 200 AB's or 100 IP (In the Majors). Once a prospect reaches either category, he must be promoted to the franchise's 30 Man active roster the following year.
1.4 Salary Cap: $130M each year - Exceeding the cap will not be allowed what so ever, any trade or free agent signing that would put a team over the salary cap will not be accepted.
Exceeding Roster Limits: Not at any time will a team be allowed to have more than 30 players on their mlb roster that are not on the dl. Any team caught with having more than 30 players on their mlb roster on fantrax will receive no stats from any player on that day or days.
1.5 Disabled List DL: Only a player that is on the DL in real life will be allowed on the DL. Once they come off the DL in real life they must be back on your 30 man roster on Fantrax failure to do so will result in no stats for that day or days it occurs.
1.6 Retirees/ career ending injuries: owners will not be responsible for these player’s contracts anymore, however if the player is 35 or over you are responsible for the full length even if he retires. This is to prevent owners from bidding 5 years just to win a player and get away free with him retiring.
1.7 Playoffs will begin four weeks before the real MLB regular season ends. The 2 division winners and two wildcard teams from each league will make the playoffs. The wildcard will be determined by the highest team in the combined standings that is not a division winner.
The format of the playoffs will be: the division and league championship series will be one week each and the world series will be 1 week. The scoring will use the same categories and the team who wins the most categories moves on. Tie Breaker: highest in the combined standings at the end of our regular season.
During the playoffs teams will have to announce their 30 man roster before the start of each week. If you win your 1st playoff series then you will have to announce your 30 man roster before the start of the next series. It does not have to be the same each week. Once you announce your 30 man roster you cannot make any changes for that week. If you have a player with a mlb contract that you don't want on your 30 man playoff roster then you can put him in the minors. This is the only time you can put a player with a mlb contract in the minors.
1.8 Minor Leagues MiLB: You must have a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 40 minor contract players. All minors will have a salary of 200K.
Minor leaguer add/drops are handled on Fantrax except for updating your roster on the forum site. You can have up to 40 minor contract players as long as you have the cap room. You cannot add players drafted in their current year or signed 20year old or younger international signings. Players drafted in the June draft each year are off-limits until the Amateur Draft (to be held pre-season instead of mid-season). Adds and Drops are free. Be sure that the player has not gone over 100 IP or 200 AB*. If a team is adding players on Fantrax and not updating their forum roster they will lose the privilege of adding players. If they have lost this privilege, then they have to go through the regular free agent process.
* If a player goes over 100IP/200AB during the current year then they are still a minor until the following season
Example: Lucas Harrell SP/RP Had 24 IP in 2010, 18 IP in 2011, and so far this year- 2012 has 69 IP for a total of 111 IP. Since he only had 42 IP until 2012 he is still considered a minor for the rest of this year and will be a PP1 at the start of the 2013 season.
There is now a separate rule that applies to each year’s draft class. So for the 2013 draft class the owners do not have to pick up the player on Fantrax until the beginning of the following season. They have to be included in their minor league rosters (Forum). We did this because Fantrax does not add all players during the current year.
If you have a player who is no longer on a minor league contract on your minor league roster in Fantrax then you will have an illegal roster and will receive no stats for the day or days your roster is illegal. If your team has more than 40 minor league contract players your team will receive no stats for day or days this occurs.
2. Contract Regulations:
2.1 Each franchise has a league-set salary cap of $130M.
2.2 Each franchise will be able to compete for league available performance incentives to be put along with the league-set salary cap on the following season.
Team Incentives:
Make the Playoffs - $5M
Win the World Series - $5M
Incentives do not carry over from year to year.
2.3 Any player who has not yet reached 200 AB or 100 IP in their Major League career is still considered a prospect as mentioned in the league constitution.
2.4 Minor league prospects will have a set contract at $0.2M. Once a prospect hits the 200/100 limit, the prospect's contract will switch over to their allotted PP1-5 year based contracts THE FOLLOWING SEASON. Any prospect under the 200/100 limit will have a contract of $0.2M annually.
2.5 The season after a player reaches 200 major at bats or 100 innings pitched in their Major League career, Prospect Protection kicks into place. Players are eligible for Prospect Protection for 5 years. (Note: Prospect protection only works on players currently on teams under the eligibility rules and minor league prospects brought up to the majors. These rules still apply to these players when traded. They do not apply when the player is dropped or released. Instead the winning free agency contract is used.)
To figure out when a player qualifies for Prospect Protection (PP) do the following:
-look up the MAJOR league career stats on either ESPN or MLB.com
-start with their first Majors IP or AB and add up the totals for each year until you either reach or go over 100 IP or 200 AB's. Once you do, the following season for that player counts as year one of PP, the next as year two, and so on. If a player hasn't reached either limit, then they still receive a minor contract, and PP will kick in for them the year after that player reaches the limit.
EX: CJ Wilson Innings Pitched
2005: 48 Innings
2006: 44.1 Innings
2007: 68.1 Innings
48+44.1+68.1= 160.3 Innings
This means 2008 would be the year that prospect protection begins for Wilson.
2.6 Prospect Protection contract guidelines are as follows:
First Year (1ST) = $0.25M (can release without penalty - must list in Released PP1 Board)
Second Year (2ND) = $0.5M
Third Year (3RD) = $0.75M
Fourth Year (4th) = $2.5M (team opt out option)
Fifth Year (5th)= $5M (team opt out option)
Years four and five will have a team opt out option. This means that if an owner decides he does not want to keep the player then the player can be released without penalty to the owner. The opt out option will be done at the same time as the franchise and restricted tags (January- exact date to be determined).
Owners will post the players name in the Free Agency Thread. If the option is exercised, the owner is agreeing to pay the players contract for the following year.
2.7 After the 5th PP season, the player will become a free agent available to all franchises to sign (unless tagged). The player's new contract will result from the free agency bidding process unless tagged with a Franchise Tag.
2.8 For the salary calculation of all players in their sixth + year of experience, see 3. Free Agency. Players who are not franchise-tagged will be bid on in either restricted free agency or unrestricted free agency processes.
2.9 International Free Agents- International FA's 21 and over will be unrestricted free agents to be bid on any time after the signing is made official. IFA signings at age 20 years old or younger will be available in the following year’s amateur draft. If not drafted in said draft, they then become regular minor leaguer free agents, free to pick up. If the player signs after the draft then they will not be available until the following season's Amateur Draft.
2.10 Franchise/Restricted Tags- Each team will be awarded one franchise tag and one restricted tag each off-season. These tags may be applied to any player with an expired contract. If franchised, the Owner agrees to accept their current real MLB contract. They may not be placed on player’s who have had their option declined (decline, sign is not allowed).
Salary information for any player is on this website: mlbcontracts.blogspot.com/
A restricted tag means that the holding team has the right to match the winning bid and retain the player in Free Agency bidding. (ALL CONTRACT OFFERS ARE BINDING). Restricted tags and franchise tags can be placed in January or early February depending on the startup time frame for that year.
RFA players that are not bid on:
Owners will have the option to accept their real life contract or allow them to become unrestricted free agents. If you accept the player’s real life contract you accept the whole contract. A restricted tag holder is not allowed to bid on their own player.
2.11 Contract Construction: To keep teams from front-loading or back-loading contracts, in any contract submitted, the highest salary year can only be 20% more than the contracts yearly average, and the minimum salary can only be 20% less than the contracts yearly average. If a contract does not meet these guidelines, the bid will not count.
Teams may place a club option on the end of any contract, but will not be counted toward avg. yearly salary, must be 20% higher than average yearly salary in contract. Teams may only place as many option years at the end as the number of guaranteed years (2 or 3 yr contract may place 2 COs, 1yr contract may place only one CO) and the CO additional years must be announced upon the Owner’s announcement of the contract breakdown, no later.
2.12 Forum Roster Guideline
List the MLB players with full contract details including a count of the MLB contracts
List the MiLB players and a count of the number of MiLB players
Include a summary of the cap space, used, waiver penalties and amount of cap space available.
Example summary:
Minors Salary (30): $6.0M
MLB Salaries (25): $92.0M
Total Salaries: $98.0M
Playoff Bonus: $0.0
Waiver Penalties: $2.0M
Total Cap Used: $100.0M
Cap Space: $120.0M
Cap Available: $20.0M
2.12 Forum Transaction Page Guidelines
All owner’s must list their transactions including pre-season Option decisions, tagging of players, winning bids, waiver drops and trades. MiLB roster movements are excluded from the transaction thread. Also, future waiver penalty payoffs must be listed here as well as in your roster page.
3. Free Agency
3.1 Free Agents will be auctioned off, meaning every team has the chance to acquire a free agent. As in an auction, the highest bidder wins. The minimum contract length is 1 year. The maximum is 5 years. The free agency bidding will be open bidding with the highest bidder winning the bid. The bid must hold for 24 hours.
3.2 Bidding Table is used to assign points to determine which bid is highest:
The bidding table must be used as is. Teams are not allowed to split the difference between the numbers that are posted. We purposely stopped the half numbers at 7M.
................1yr...../...2yr....../......3yr....../.....4yr....../.....5yr...
.5M...........1............1.75............2.25..........2.5.............3
1M............2............3.5..............4.5.............5..............6
1.5M.........3...........5.25............6.75...........7.5............9
2M............4............7.................9..............10............12
2.5M.........5............8.75............11.25.........12.5.........15
3M............6............10.5............13.5...........15...........18
3.5M.........7............12.25..........15.75.........17.5..........21
4M............8............14...............18..............20...........24
4.5M.........9............15.75...........20.25.......22.5...........27
5M...........10............17.5...........22.5...........25............30
5.5M........11............19.25.........24.75.........27.5...........33
6M...........12............21..............27.............30.............36
6.5M........13............22.75.........29.25........32.5............39
7M...........14............24.5...........31.5...........35............42
8M...........16............28..............36.............40.............48
9M...........18............31.5...........40.5...........45.............54
10M.........20............35..............45..............50............60
11M.........22............38.5...........49.5............55............66
12M.........24............42..............54..............60............72
13M.........26............45.5...........58.5............65............78
14M.........28............49..............63..............70.............84
15M.........30............52.5...........67.5............75.............90
16M.........32............56..............72..............80..............96
17M.........34............59.5...........76.5............85............102
18M.........36............63..............81..............90.............108
19M.........38............66.5...........85.5............95............114
20M.........40............70..............90.............100............120
21M.........42............73.5...........94.5...........105............126
22M.........44............77..............99.............110............132
23M.........46............80.5...........103.5.........115............138
24M.........48............84..............108...........120............144
25M.........50............87.5...........112.5.........125............150
For major league players the minimum starting contract bid is 1 year 0.5M and the max is 25M at 5 years. If we have multiple teams bid 25M 5 years then we will have a blind bid for a signing bonus with the highest bid winning the bid. The signing bonus is to be paid in the current year (not spread out over the 5 years) and if player is traded the team who originally signed him still has to pay the signing bonus.
3.3 Minor League Free Agents: Minor league players are free add/drops and handled through Fantrax only. The salary for minors is $.2M per year. You do not need to go through the waiver wire process on the Forum. This system is locked in the off-season until the announced date for adds of MiLB. There is a minimum of 20 prospects and a maximum of 40.
3.4 In order for a player to be eligible to be on a team in our league a player must have been drafted and/or have signed a professional contract. Any player that is drafted in the MLB Amateur Draft and signed with a MLB franchise will be available to be drafted in our Amateur Draft. Any player that was signed as an International free agent by a MLB franchise and is 20 years old or younger will also be available to be drafted in our Amateur Draft.
3.5 Club Options: It is the owner’s discretion whether to exercise a player’s club option. At the end of the year. If owners do not exercise the club option, then the player automatically becomes a free agent with no penalty to the former owner.
3.6 The free agent bidding process will be held at a TBD date, likely in February. Before this time, a date will be set as the deadline to exercise options and tag assignments (Franchise or Restricted).
3.7 Amateur Player Draft: Each year in January an Amateur Player Draft will take place (for the preceding year’s MLB Amateur Drafted players and any 20yo or younger IFA signing). The order will be decided by the team standings from the previous year with the worst record picking first. The draft will be continuous in this order, not snake.
International free agent signing from the year prior, who are 20 years old or younger will be a part of this Amateur Draft. We will get as many names as possible and create a list prior to the Amateur Draft.
3.8 Rules for In-Season Free Agency Bidding
The bidding structure will be as follows: Post the name of the player, the team they play for, and his position in both the subject box and the message box.
The message box should contain all information in the subject box plus your bid on the player including the number of points using the bidding table.
Bids start at 1 year for .5M per year but you can start your bid higher if you want. The Maximum Length of a contract is 5 years. Any owner wishing to trump a 1 year bid must beat the last bid by at least 1 point. If the bid is a multiple year deal then you need to trump the previous bid by 2 points.
An owner is declared a winner if he holds the highest bid for 24 hours. If someone makes an illegal bid it will not count and the win will go to the previous team who had the highest bid and held it for 24 hours. We do not have to warn any owners whether their bid is illegal. You are responsible to place legal bids.
Example of a legal bid:
Owner 1 places a bid on player X. 2 years @ 2.5M per year = 8.75 points.
Owner 2 (follows) by placing a bid on Player X. 3 years @ 2.5M per year = 11.25 points.
The second bid is a legal bid because he bid 2 points or more over the previous bid.
Example of an Illegal Bid:
If, instead, Owner 2 had bid this on player X. 2 years @ 3M per year = 10.5 points. This bid would be illegal since it is only 1.75 points more than the previous bid.
A bid will be won once it has been the winning bid for 24 hours. The team with winning bid has 24 hours after the winning bid is official to announce the contract breakdown or it becomes a flat contract. Owners also have 24 hour's to add players to roster or they will be awarded to next highest bidder or go back to free agency if that team does not have cap or roster space.
You can add club option years onto the end of a bid if they do not put you over 5 years and they are 20% higher than the average annual bid. Club Option years are not included in figuring out the points per bid (bidding table). For a one year contract you cannot add more than one club option year. You cannot add on more CO years than the number of guaranteed years.
4. Trade Regulations
4.1 Trades will always be posted under the thread "Pending Trades" on the Form. When a trade is agreed upon by each owner, one must enter a post under the trade topic. The subject line must consist of each team involved.
4.2 Accepted and declined trades will be processed in their appropriate archives.
4.3 In the post, the announcing team must detail: The players that are being traded must have their full name, position, player's full contract, and all cap changes listed. The other team must reply with acceptance and cap space if not noted by the first owner. Example:
The Pittsburgh Pirates and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim have agreed to terms on a trade. This trade is pending league approval.
Pittsburgh Pirates Trade:
SS- Ronny Cedeno 11:$1.85M, 12:$3M club option
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Trade:
2B- Sean Rodriguez 11: .4M
CAP CHANGES
Pittsburgh Pirates
Before: $48.3M
After: $46.85
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
Before: $111.3M
After: $112.75M
NO TRADE WILL BE ALLOWED IN WHICH IT PUTS A TEAM OVER THEIR CAP SPACE
You can, however, go over roster limit, but in trade thread you must put in who you will drop to make the max roster which is 30 MLB players. If you need to drop a guy to make cap room you must do so before posting trade.
4.4 The trade will remain pending for 48 hours. During that time any owner may submit a message to one of the League Administrators stating that they believe the trade is unfair and should be vetoed and a reason why it is not a fair trade. Owners submitting such messages will remain anonymous. If any message requesting a veto vote is submitted, the League Office will decide whether or not the trade warrants a league wide veto vote. If the trade involves a League Administrator, then that Administrator will not be involved in deciding whether the league wide veto vote will be held.
4.5 Veto Vote: When the League Office decides to bring a trade to a league wide veto vote the League Office will send out a message to all owners announcing the vote will take place and the players involved in the trade. Each owner not involved in the trade will receive one vote. The veto vote will last for 48 hours. If more than 50% of the total votes participating vote to veto then the trade is vetoed. There will be no appeals process for league wide vetoed trades, and duplicate trades will be rejected by the league office for the following 3 months.
4.6 If no veto vote messages are submitted to the League Office within 48 hours of the trade being posted, the trade will automatically process and owners will be given permission to trade players on Fantrax and update their rosters on the Forum. Owners must make all necessary adjustments to their salary caps at this time.
4.7 Owners are also required to record the approved trade under their team's transactions thread
4.8 Trades may include draft picks and a % of a player's salary (up to 50%).
You can agree to pay up to 50% of a player’s salary. Both owners involved in the deal will keep track of this on their Forum rosters. If it is for multiple years then the amount needs to be the same for each season. An owner is not "off the hook" if that player is traded again later but still has to continue to pay the amount for the life of that specific deal. The amount each year must be the same so, for example, if a player has a highly variable or escalating cost contract, only 50% of the lowest year can be paid per year.
4.9 Trade Deadline: The trade deadline will be two weeks before the start of the playoffs (Date To Be Announced).
4.10 Trading will resume one month after the World Series.
5. Waiver Wire
5.1 Any player can be placed on waivers by the franchise's owner at any time.
5.2 When waiving a player, please establish a post underneath the waiver wire transaction thread. Please place the following information in your post:
Franchise
Player
Contract Information
Applicable Penalty
5.3 When you place a player on waivers you are responsible for 40% for each year of that players contract. You are not responsible for 40% of club option years as club options are automatically declined upon dropping a player.
RELEASE PLAYERS WISELY
5.4 All teams have an opportunity to claim the listed player off of the waivers within a 7 day period. If a person claims a waived major league player off of the waiver wire, the person making the claim is agreeing to pay 60% of that players existing contract.
5.5 If another team also wishes to claim this player, a bidding war will begin, starting with the 60% of the existing contract as the first bid. After this initial bid, bidding will ensue with a 24-hr standing winning bid. Bidding will be in $0.10M minimum bid increments per year.
5.6 If a player is not claimed by any team then he is placed in free agency and his old contract will no longer be used.
5.7 All waiver penalties should be included in the transaction log and calculated with your salary cap.
5.8 The only way for the original dropping team to reclaim their waived player is to resign him out of the free agency pool to a new contract. That owner is still responsible however for the 40% of the player’s original contract.
5.9 Owners who have remaining salary cap space may pay off future waiver penalty contract years. However, payments must be made in yearly sums. This must be listed in your transaction log and announced on the Future Waiver Payoffs thread for the league, that way the league office is aware of the process. The waiver payoffs must be announced and paid by the end of week 15 of the regular season.
5.10 Players in the minor league salary bracket and 1st year salary bracket (.2M/ .25M) are not eligible for the waiver process. They may be released, but upon release the owner is not responsible for any of their contract. PP1 player drops become unrestricted free agents and MiLB drops become MiLB free agents.
5.11 If a player is placed on waivers after week 15 of the season then the owner is responsible for the whole contract and will not be able to pay off future waiver penalty contract years.
Example: A player has a contract of $4M for 2016 and $4M for 2017.
If you place that player on waivers in the first 15 weeks then you are responsible for 40% of the contract and you can pay off 2016 and 2017 if desired.
If you place that player on waivers after week 15 then you are responsible for 100% of the current year’s contract and cannot pay off 2017.
5.12 Once the playoffs start no players can be added to your roster.