Post by Mets/WhiteSoxGM on Sept 23, 2006 19:14:15 GMT -4
This is a synopsis of our league operations and rules and should not be construed as complete.
1. Post ALL roster moves on the Team Transactions thread for your team. This would mean FA signings, waiver moves, waiver pass moves, placing a player on or removing from the injured reserve, promoting a minor to your majors roster, demoting a minor back to your minors roster, etc. Trades are not required to be posted in Team Transactions, but any required concurrent moves to keep your team in compliance due to a trade would be placed in Team Transactions.
2. Update your roster with EVERY move. This INCLUDES updating your cash and roster totals.
Roster changes on CBS Sportsline are completed by the Commissioner when you have properly posted on the home site, including updating your roster and cash totals. Trades, adds, etc. that need concurrent moves for compliance will not be processed until the appropriate moves have been made.
3. If you are leaving permanently, please let us know. If you are going on vacation for more than a week or you are having a computer or other emergency, please post to let us know. In order to keep the league competetive, we will replace owners who appear to have abandoned their team.
4. It helps to know the rules. The League Constitution is there to read and is divided into easily marked sections. Questions are fine, but how about reading the relevant section and then asking if you still need help.
5. Your Minor Leaguers:
Minors who exceed the 150 AB/50 IP requirement during the season, become a major at season's end. A graduating minor (exceeeds the 150 AB/50 IP requirements) may be waived by the end of February with no penalty. Post this in Team Transactions AND Waivers. Years and salary would disappear.
To promote a player on your minors roster to your majors roster, post in Team Transactions that you are promoting Joe Baseball 4 years (prospect). The minor gets a minimum salary of $300,000 which immediately counts against your CAP and he counts toward your majors roster max of 40, and no longer counts against your minors roster max of 60. His years do not count toward your 100 year CAP since he began the year as a minor. Leave the minors name and years on your minors roster, but write PROMOTED after his name. When the season ends, all promoted minors who do not graduate are returned to your minors roster and the salary disappears.
To demote a minor back: Post in (Team Transactions) demoting Joe Baseball 4 yr prospect. The salary will however, remain for the rest of the season. He should now be listed on your roster under demotion penalty. You must have room on your majors and minors for these moves. Remove the PROMOTED after his name on your minors roster and replace it with his $300,000. If he is promoted again, the same $300K that was established before, is used.
To drop/waive a minor: Post in (Team Transactions) AND in Waivers "Waive Joe Baseball 4 yr prospect". This is a no cost move.
To add a minor: Submit the name and pro team whose system he is in (please check our database Minor League Players Claimed by first name to see if a player is already on a team) to the Twins by Private Message by each Sunday nite during the season (offseason has a different timetable). If you are the only one to submit his name you would find him at the bottom of 2007 Minor League Signings. Post the signing in your Team Transactions and update your roster. A newly signed minor gets a 4 year contract. If your prospect appears in his own thread in Minor League Free Agent Bidding/Signings instead, the teams that have submitted him will be shown and they will bid bonus money to acquire him. Bonus money is a one time hit on your CAP. Signing bonuses start at $100,000. Subsequent bids must be $200,000, $300,000, etc. Do not bid odd amounts. If you do not sign a prospect you acquire within 3 days, the player is considered to have been waived.
You may designate a minor as having lost his minor league status if you wish. He must be put on your majors roster if he wasn't already there. His years count immediately. Such a player would not go back to his teams' minors roster at the end of the year even if he has less than 150 career ABs (or 50 IP) because the owner has waived his minors rights. It's not a one year deal. Since such a player would now be on the majors roster with years that now count, a salary, only demoted via waiver pass and no longer considered a minor leaguer. He is no longer counted as one of a teams' premiers, if he had been a premier.
Premiers:
To make one of your minors a premier (add 3 years), just post it in the Team Transactions thread and move the minor up to your premier list. (Limit of 10). A premier cannot become a regular minor. A minor with 3 years remaining must be promoted to be a premier prior to the beginning of a season. Once a season starts and a minor has only 3 years left, he cannot be premiered. A minor with 4 or more years, may be premiered at any time, unless he has just graduated and became a major. Promoting a premier to your majors roster does not open a premier spot. The player counts as a premier until he loses his minor league status.
6. Your Major Leaguers:
You can waiver pass a major leaguer (send him to your minors roster). Post this in Team Transactions and update your rosters. His salary will still count, but his years don't while he is on your minors roster. You get 3 of these per year. Each waiver pass is a team move, meaning if you recall him to your majors, you'll be using another waiver pass to send him back a second time. A major sent to your minors automatically returns to your majors roster when the season ends. A waiver passed major leaguer counts against your minors roster total.
To drop/waive a major: Post in Team Transactions AND in Waivers "Waive Joe Baseball $2,000,000 3 years". Years and salary still count unless he is picked up. Salary will remain for the duration of the contract. The years against your team can be removed for subsequent seasons if the player has been waived by October 31.
To add a major: Start a thread in Major League Free Agent Bidding/Signings with the name of the player and a minimum $300,000 bid. If no one bids higher, after 48 hours, the player is yours. Subsequent bids must be $400,000, $500,000, etc. Do not bid odd amounts. Post the signing in your Team Transactions and update your roster. Years (from one to seven) for majors are set immediately upon signing. Failure to sign a player within the time limits after bidding closes will cause the player to receive a 1 year contract and be waived by the Commish for the high bidder.
Bidding Penalty: If any team places a bid that forces them to go over the $100 Million cap, the owner will not be able to place ANY bids for 48 hours after the commissioner is alerted. The bid that forced the owner to go over the cap will be deleted along with any other bid placed in the following 48 hours.
Trades must be posted and confirmed by all parties. The trade should be listed with salaries and years of all players. If draft choices are included, be sure the pick is specifically noted.
Injured Reserve: A player placed on the injured reserve opens a roster spot. Both his salary and his years still count against your CAPs ($ and Years).
7. Summer draft: A chance to get some long term prospects. Annually held after the real-life amateur draft in June. Only players drafted in real-life may be picked. You may keep the player even if the pro team does not sign the player. The order is determined by the previous year regular season standings.
8. Arbitration: After the baseball season concludes in an even year (2008, 2010, etc.), some eligible players will receive a raise in salary.
9. Contract Extension: One extension per team a year on players that would go into the free agent market. A player can only be extended once by the team. Contract extension will be $2Million for each additional year.
1. Post ALL roster moves on the Team Transactions thread for your team. This would mean FA signings, waiver moves, waiver pass moves, placing a player on or removing from the injured reserve, promoting a minor to your majors roster, demoting a minor back to your minors roster, etc. Trades are not required to be posted in Team Transactions, but any required concurrent moves to keep your team in compliance due to a trade would be placed in Team Transactions.
2. Update your roster with EVERY move. This INCLUDES updating your cash and roster totals.
Roster changes on CBS Sportsline are completed by the Commissioner when you have properly posted on the home site, including updating your roster and cash totals. Trades, adds, etc. that need concurrent moves for compliance will not be processed until the appropriate moves have been made.
3. If you are leaving permanently, please let us know. If you are going on vacation for more than a week or you are having a computer or other emergency, please post to let us know. In order to keep the league competetive, we will replace owners who appear to have abandoned their team.
4. It helps to know the rules. The League Constitution is there to read and is divided into easily marked sections. Questions are fine, but how about reading the relevant section and then asking if you still need help.
5. Your Minor Leaguers:
Minors who exceed the 150 AB/50 IP requirement during the season, become a major at season's end. A graduating minor (exceeeds the 150 AB/50 IP requirements) may be waived by the end of February with no penalty. Post this in Team Transactions AND Waivers. Years and salary would disappear.
To promote a player on your minors roster to your majors roster, post in Team Transactions that you are promoting Joe Baseball 4 years (prospect). The minor gets a minimum salary of $300,000 which immediately counts against your CAP and he counts toward your majors roster max of 40, and no longer counts against your minors roster max of 60. His years do not count toward your 100 year CAP since he began the year as a minor. Leave the minors name and years on your minors roster, but write PROMOTED after his name. When the season ends, all promoted minors who do not graduate are returned to your minors roster and the salary disappears.
To demote a minor back: Post in (Team Transactions) demoting Joe Baseball 4 yr prospect. The salary will however, remain for the rest of the season. He should now be listed on your roster under demotion penalty. You must have room on your majors and minors for these moves. Remove the PROMOTED after his name on your minors roster and replace it with his $300,000. If he is promoted again, the same $300K that was established before, is used.
To drop/waive a minor: Post in (Team Transactions) AND in Waivers "Waive Joe Baseball 4 yr prospect". This is a no cost move.
To add a minor: Submit the name and pro team whose system he is in (please check our database Minor League Players Claimed by first name to see if a player is already on a team) to the Twins by Private Message by each Sunday nite during the season (offseason has a different timetable). If you are the only one to submit his name you would find him at the bottom of 2007 Minor League Signings. Post the signing in your Team Transactions and update your roster. A newly signed minor gets a 4 year contract. If your prospect appears in his own thread in Minor League Free Agent Bidding/Signings instead, the teams that have submitted him will be shown and they will bid bonus money to acquire him. Bonus money is a one time hit on your CAP. Signing bonuses start at $100,000. Subsequent bids must be $200,000, $300,000, etc. Do not bid odd amounts. If you do not sign a prospect you acquire within 3 days, the player is considered to have been waived.
You may designate a minor as having lost his minor league status if you wish. He must be put on your majors roster if he wasn't already there. His years count immediately. Such a player would not go back to his teams' minors roster at the end of the year even if he has less than 150 career ABs (or 50 IP) because the owner has waived his minors rights. It's not a one year deal. Since such a player would now be on the majors roster with years that now count, a salary, only demoted via waiver pass and no longer considered a minor leaguer. He is no longer counted as one of a teams' premiers, if he had been a premier.
Premiers:
To make one of your minors a premier (add 3 years), just post it in the Team Transactions thread and move the minor up to your premier list. (Limit of 10). A premier cannot become a regular minor. A minor with 3 years remaining must be promoted to be a premier prior to the beginning of a season. Once a season starts and a minor has only 3 years left, he cannot be premiered. A minor with 4 or more years, may be premiered at any time, unless he has just graduated and became a major. Promoting a premier to your majors roster does not open a premier spot. The player counts as a premier until he loses his minor league status.
6. Your Major Leaguers:
You can waiver pass a major leaguer (send him to your minors roster). Post this in Team Transactions and update your rosters. His salary will still count, but his years don't while he is on your minors roster. You get 3 of these per year. Each waiver pass is a team move, meaning if you recall him to your majors, you'll be using another waiver pass to send him back a second time. A major sent to your minors automatically returns to your majors roster when the season ends. A waiver passed major leaguer counts against your minors roster total.
To drop/waive a major: Post in Team Transactions AND in Waivers "Waive Joe Baseball $2,000,000 3 years". Years and salary still count unless he is picked up. Salary will remain for the duration of the contract. The years against your team can be removed for subsequent seasons if the player has been waived by October 31.
To add a major: Start a thread in Major League Free Agent Bidding/Signings with the name of the player and a minimum $300,000 bid. If no one bids higher, after 48 hours, the player is yours. Subsequent bids must be $400,000, $500,000, etc. Do not bid odd amounts. Post the signing in your Team Transactions and update your roster. Years (from one to seven) for majors are set immediately upon signing. Failure to sign a player within the time limits after bidding closes will cause the player to receive a 1 year contract and be waived by the Commish for the high bidder.
Bidding Penalty: If any team places a bid that forces them to go over the $100 Million cap, the owner will not be able to place ANY bids for 48 hours after the commissioner is alerted. The bid that forced the owner to go over the cap will be deleted along with any other bid placed in the following 48 hours.
Trades must be posted and confirmed by all parties. The trade should be listed with salaries and years of all players. If draft choices are included, be sure the pick is specifically noted.
Injured Reserve: A player placed on the injured reserve opens a roster spot. Both his salary and his years still count against your CAPs ($ and Years).
7. Summer draft: A chance to get some long term prospects. Annually held after the real-life amateur draft in June. Only players drafted in real-life may be picked. You may keep the player even if the pro team does not sign the player. The order is determined by the previous year regular season standings.
8. Arbitration: After the baseball season concludes in an even year (2008, 2010, etc.), some eligible players will receive a raise in salary.
9. Contract Extension: One extension per team a year on players that would go into the free agent market. A player can only be extended once by the team. Contract extension will be $2Million for each additional year.