Clas

WAR has a set salary cap maximum for every team. It is a hard cap and it is the same for each team.

Some teams will inherit initial rosters exceeding league cap guidelines. These teams will have players who will have a portion of his salary be exempt.

The number of exempt players as well as what portion of the salary is exempt will depend on how much money needs deferred in order to become cap compliant. Therefore the players and amounts are not pre determined and can vary not only year to year but week to week depending on trades.

Exempt players will be highlighted in red on the spreadsheet.

This exempt status is only for the original team. Should an exempt player be traded his salary will kick in full on the receiving teams payroll. Should an exempt player be released he will be treated like any other player release.
Contract cap penalties apply in full.
Buyout options work the same as a normal buyout and apply in full.

A player may be exempt for as long as it takes the team to become cap compliant.

Teams operating with exempt players MAY NOT BID MLB CONTRACTS FOR FREE AGENTS. However they may bid on prospects with all prospect rules applicable.

Any team no matter cap status may bid on prospects. 

Teams over the cap will be allowed unlimited free drops until cap compliant. Once compliant exempt contracts are voided to regular status.

IE.  Team A has a payroll of $200m ($50m over cap) they can drop players without penalty until at or under $150m. As long as Team A's cap is above league cap, any originally inherited player can be exempt to be cap compliant.

Once under league cap exempt no longer applies.

These are the teams over the initial league cap of $150m

1   Boston Red Sox   $225,949,773
2   Chicago Cubs   $210,359,504
3   New York Yankees   $210,108,810
4   Los Angeles Dodgers   $196,743,984
5   San Francisco Giants   $177,619,862
6   Washington Nationals   $164,612,895
7   St. Louis Cardinals   $162,912,484
8   Houston Astros   $161,197,778
9   New York Mets   $160,596,806
10   Los Angeles Angels   $158,990,862
11   Seattle Mariners   $151,751,718

Post players on the block here

- High Bid must be held for 48 hours on MLB contract bids to be considered final.
- High Bid must be held for 24 hours on PC contract bids to be considered final.

There is no limit on an MLB player contract bid however all bids over $50m must be out bid by at least $1m to be valid.

There is no limit on the amount of open bids a GM can have at one time as long as they have the cap space to accommodate each open bid.

Minimum raise on any bid under $50m is 200k

The highest bid on a PC contract is PC+$10m bonus pool money

There is no limit to the amount of PC bids a GM can have open.

Teams can bid PC regardless of cap situation. (I.E.  Team A is maxed out on cap but can post 20 PC bids if Team A wants at one time)
Teams can bid PC at any time.

- Upon winning the bid your player will be stickied where you will enter in the contract for Mlb bids or minors/majors for PC bids.

- There is no bid limit on the amount of players you can bid on as long as you possess the cap space for each bid if won. (I.E. if Team A has $1m cap space they cannot have 3 bids posted of $500k) You must have the cap space currently for each MLB bid. (No cap space needed for PC bids)

- No team may go over the cap in bidding... you MUST ALREADY have the cap space needed to make your bids. This is in place so teams can not raise prices, when they themselves can not currently afford the player


* As a courtesy to us, if you see an illegal bid please do not respond to it. Please tell a member of the WAR staff and they will fix it.

Basic Requirements
You must be an active member of ProFSL.

Franchise Name
Your franchise name is tied to the actual MLB franchise, using their AAA affiliate.  If the team name changes, or the franchise moves to a different city, your team name must adapt.

Roster Size
Your MLB roster can be no more than 40 active players.  Your minor league roster can be no more than 80.

Original Rosters (2019)
Original rosters reflect players that the franchise has as of April1st, 2019. Any minor league players not inherited or requested will be considered free agents. 

Owners rosters are determined by team rosters as of 7/1/19 actual MLB rosters with all contracts grandfathered as is into WAR.

2019 contracts are listed and the season is scheduled to start 2020.
The offseason will allow for players on expiring 2019 deals to be resigned and retained by that players team.

Players must either be on record as making his MLB debut (example "Joe Smith will be called up on Wednesday to make his first MLB start" he may then be called up immediately to not miss his debut) or have played in at least 1 MLB game to be eligible for active 40 man roster.

Prospects
Teams will have its Top 50 prospects posted and listed on rosters. Because top 50 specs may also occupy 40 man roster spots teams can elect to Max out initial rosters at 90 players by adding any minor league player not on the top 50 list.  Each team can elect to fill it's roster to an initial 90 player Max by adding prospects and teams may elect to swap prospects off the top 50 for specs who are not top 50.

All posts should be made on the transactions page.

League Site
The league will be on the Fantrax scoring system.

Roster Positions
C (1)
CI (2)
MI (2)
OF (3)
UT (1)
SP (5)
RP (6)

It is mandatory to have 20 active players in the lineup. This means 20 players with MLB experience (or making a debut) must be rostered at all times for each position of scoring.

No player may be rostered on the 40 man active roster without Mlb experience (unless making his debut and this must be posted on the transaction page prior to call up with a link to any article by a reporting publication)

Lineups
The lineups can be set daily. The scoring period is weekly. There is no maximum IPs or starts for pitching. There is a minimum of 35 innings pitched per week for % categories.

There are no batting maximums but a minimum of 90 ABs for hitting % categories is enforced.

Regular Season Tiebreakers
If two or more teams in a division are tied for a playoff spot then the order of tiebreakers is determined by:
1) Head to head record
2) Divisional record
3) Fantasy points scored
Two or more teams not in the same division that are tied for a playoff spot use fantasy points scored as the sole tiebreaker. 

League salary cap
Is universal and the same for each team each year regardless of performance.

Playoffs
Follow MLB rules