Rules Updates: Rosters

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Roster Configurations

Each organization shall consist of:

25‐Man Active Roster

• Consists of the 25 players who will accumulate statistics.
• All 25 players are active and accumulate statistics.
• There may not be fewer than 25 players active.  The Commissioner's office has the power to make promotions to assure roster minimums are met.

The roster will consist of the following positions:

(2) Catchers
(1) First baseman
(1) Second baseman
(1) Shortstop
(1) Third baseman
(1) Corner infielder
(1) Middle infielder
(1) Leftfielder
(1) Centerfielder
(1) Right fielder
(1) Outfielder
(5) Starting pitchers
(6) Relief pitchers
(1) Any batter
(1) Any pitcher

Note:  Having all 25 players accumulate statistics closely simulates MLB as MLB teams use their bench players throughout the games as well.

Each team is limited to 20 promotions to 40 man during a period between 1 week AFTER start of season to 1 week BEFORE start of playoffs.

15 Man Reserve Roster

The 15 man reserve roster is to consist of additional players at any position. Any of the players on the 15 man reserve roster may be placed on the 25-man active roster and vice-versa at any point during the year. Players on the 15 man reserve roster do not accumulate any statistics.

The combination of the 25 man active roster plus the 15 man reserve roster is equivalent to the 40 man MLB roster.


60 Day Injured List

• Any player may be placed on the 60 day Injured List (IL) if they are placed on the IL in Major League Baseball.
• Players placed on the 60-day IL do not count against the 40-man roster.
• Placing players on disabled lists and removing them must be posted on the Transactions forum.
• www.mlb.com will be used as the basis of DL information for players placed on 60-day DL.
• Players will need to be removed from the 60-day DL once they are in real life.

Waivers

Unconditional Release Waivers

If a 40 man roster player is placed on Unconditional Release Waivers, any other organization may choose to claim him. If claimed, the new team will inherit the player’s contract in its entirety. If no team claims him, he will become a free agent and the remainder of the contract will be paid in full by the waiving organization. Other organizations have 48 hours to make a claim.  When placing a claim on multiple players the claim process will move in the order they are listed in the claim one player at a time.  The claims will be processed in chronological order of when the claim was made.

Minor league releases will become free agents immediately.


Irrevocable Outright Waivers

A team that wishes to remove a player from the 40-man roster and place him in the minor league system first needs to place him on irrevocable outright waivers. The team may not pull him back if another team claims the player. Other organizations have 48 hours to make a claim.  If the organization does not specify the type of waivers, this is the default.

Revocable Major League Waivers

Teams may place player up to 7 players onto Revocable Major League Waivers from August 1st to the 31st. If a player isn’t claimed, his club may trade him to any club they would like through noon on August 31.

If the player IS claimed, there are 3 different things that might happen:

1. The two teams have 48 hours to get a trade worked out. If they can’t get a deal done, the

team will have the following options:

2. The player’s team may elect to revoke the claim and keep their player.  If claim is revoked player cannot be passed through revocable waivers again for the remaining of the season.

3. The player’s team may elect to allow the claiming club to take the player (and their remaining contract)

Note

Waivers Priority Order is determined as follows:

• November 11 - April 30 (or the 30th day of the next season): The club with the worst won-loss record in the previous season has priority.  Teams drop to the bottom of the list upon making a claim.
• May 1 – July 31 (31st day of the season – July 31): The club with the worst won-loss record in the current season has priority.
• August 1 through November 10: The club with the worst won-loss record in the current season has priority, but American League clubs have priority for AL players, and National League clubs have priority for NL players.

NOTE- Any player won in a claim may not be traded until 1 month after winning the claim.

Position Eligibility

A batter is eligible at a position if he appeared at that position in 20 games the previous year or 10 games in the current year. A pitcher is eligible as a starting pitcher if he started 5 games the previous year or 3 games in the current year. A pitcher is eligible as a relief pitcher if he made 8 relief appearances in the previous year or 5 relief appearances in the current year.


Schedules

Regular Season

The week will begin on Monday and end on Sunday. Regular season will end with 4 weeks left in the MLB season.


Playoffs

Ten teams will make the playoffs, with five teams in each league. Each division winner will automatically advance to the playoffs and have a bye week. The teams with the next best records in each league (wild card) will play in a one-week playoff with the winner advancing.

Any ties will be broken by points scored.
If a second tie breaker is needed, head to head record will be used.

The team with the best record in each league will be matched up with the wild card team of that respective league. The other two teams will play each other in each league. The winner of each matchup will advance to the League Championship Series and play each other for the pennant.

Each round is single elimination. Each round will last one week.


World Series

The winner of each League Championship Series will advance to the World Series and face each other.  In the event of a tie, the team with the better regular season record is awarded the World Series title.


Scoring

The new scoring system will go into effect on 1/1/2015

Offense
1B        5.6
2B        8.5
3B        11.3
HR        15
AB        -1
BB        3
HBP      3
SB        1.9
CS        -2.8

Pitching
IP          7.4
SV         7
HLD       4
K           2
BB         -3
HBP       -3
H           -2.6
HR         -12.3

Defense
Because of the way Fantrax scores points outfielders are given a small bonus per plate appearance in place of scoring for assists.  This bonus was figured by taking the average number of OF assists per OF plate appearance over the past 6 seasons.

Pitcher
A       .531
E       -7.52
PO     1.109
Catcher
A       1.124
E       -9.75
PO     .086
First Base
A       .677
E       -12.68
PO     .07
Second Base
A       .263
E       -5.94
PO     .316
Third Base
A       .395
E       -3.71
PO     .89
Short Stop
A       .314
E       -2.48
PO     .405
Left Field
E       -19.92
PO     .317
PA     .136
Center Field
E       -16.33
PO     .235
PA     .169
Right Field
E       -18.17
PO     .299
PA     .143
Corner Infield
A       .566
E       -8.195
PO     .12
Middle Infield
A       .289
E       -4.21
PO     .361
Outfield
E        -18.14
PO      .284
PA      .149
Utility
A        .551
E        -7.01
PO      .12
PA      .025

The team with the greatest number of points gets one win and the other gets one loss. In the event the scores are equal, a tie is awarded to both teams. Lineups can be set on a daily basis on the statistics tracking service Fantrax. The daily deadline for changes is set as 5 minutes before the 1st game of the day.