Post by BrewCrewGuru on Dec 27, 2012 22:12:43 GMT -5
Team rosters shall be comprised of 60 players total. This includes the 26 man active roster and the 34 man reserve roster. This also includes players on the Disabled List. Reserve rosters will include disk and non-disk players. Only players on the DMB projection disk can be used on a team’s active 26 man roster.
The league operates on a 27-week schedule. This way yearly deadlines can be static and not ever-changing depending on when dates fall.
In weeks 24 through 27, teams may expand their active rosters to include up to 30 players. The same rules apply to those players as all others, and those players will accrue service time under the Qualifying Service Time Rule.
In order to participate in the playoffs, a player must have been on a team's roster (active or reserve) by the time Week 23 has been posted. All players acquired after that date will NOT be eligible for any round of the playoffs, even as an injury replacement.
Total salary will be determined by the total salary of a team’s 26 man roster plus any veteran contracts or guaranteed contracts on the reserve roster. Rules determining guaranteed contracts will be covered later.
Teams may be allowed to exceed their cap space by up to $10 million dollars during any point of the season. This was instituted to allow teams to promote or sign players for injury replacements, or help to acquire players mid-season. Even though that was the intent, teams may use that $10MM any way they would like. But, at the end of the season, a weekly average of how far a team was over their cap will be figured, and that number will be subtracted from the following year's available revenue (soft cap). You are borrowing against your future.
Teams may also save money each week by spending less than their salary cap. A portion of this saved money will rollover to the following season. We cannot allow it all to rollover in order to prevent a team from saving an obscene amount of money one year just to double their cap space the next and sign multiple players to guaranteed contracts, and then not be able to pay them the following season and have to trade them or have the committee intervene.
All GMs are required to have the most recent version of the Diamond Mind Baseball software and will be required to set their own line-ups before exporting the Managerial Preference (MP) file and sending it to the appropriate committee member for simulation. The Rules Committee will help all new GMs acquire this program.
All MPs must be received by 10pm EST every Friday during the season by the appointed committee member for simulation. All MPs must be accompanied by an email detailing all roster moves (not lineup changes). That includes signings, waivers, promotions, demotions, disabled list moves, activations, trades, and players added to the roster via draft. This is to ensure that the roster spreadsheet is accurate and up to date at all times.
The season will be simulated one week at a time. Weekly simulations will be from Monday through Sunday.
GMs will be required to send in at least one MP file (or an email stating no changes) EACH calendar month to show participation. No penalties have ever been enforced, but it would be loss of draft pick(s).
The .zip file and roster spreadsheet will be updated every week during the season and be available from the main website.
The league operates on a 27-week schedule. This way yearly deadlines can be static and not ever-changing depending on when dates fall.
In weeks 24 through 27, teams may expand their active rosters to include up to 30 players. The same rules apply to those players as all others, and those players will accrue service time under the Qualifying Service Time Rule.
In order to participate in the playoffs, a player must have been on a team's roster (active or reserve) by the time Week 23 has been posted. All players acquired after that date will NOT be eligible for any round of the playoffs, even as an injury replacement.
Total salary will be determined by the total salary of a team’s 26 man roster plus any veteran contracts or guaranteed contracts on the reserve roster. Rules determining guaranteed contracts will be covered later.
Teams may be allowed to exceed their cap space by up to $10 million dollars during any point of the season. This was instituted to allow teams to promote or sign players for injury replacements, or help to acquire players mid-season. Even though that was the intent, teams may use that $10MM any way they would like. But, at the end of the season, a weekly average of how far a team was over their cap will be figured, and that number will be subtracted from the following year's available revenue (soft cap). You are borrowing against your future.
Teams may also save money each week by spending less than their salary cap. A portion of this saved money will rollover to the following season. We cannot allow it all to rollover in order to prevent a team from saving an obscene amount of money one year just to double their cap space the next and sign multiple players to guaranteed contracts, and then not be able to pay them the following season and have to trade them or have the committee intervene.
All GMs are required to have the most recent version of the Diamond Mind Baseball software and will be required to set their own line-ups before exporting the Managerial Preference (MP) file and sending it to the appropriate committee member for simulation. The Rules Committee will help all new GMs acquire this program.
All MPs must be received by 10pm EST every Friday during the season by the appointed committee member for simulation. All MPs must be accompanied by an email detailing all roster moves (not lineup changes). That includes signings, waivers, promotions, demotions, disabled list moves, activations, trades, and players added to the roster via draft. This is to ensure that the roster spreadsheet is accurate and up to date at all times.
The season will be simulated one week at a time. Weekly simulations will be from Monday through Sunday.
GMs will be required to send in at least one MP file (or an email stating no changes) EACH calendar month to show participation. No penalties have ever been enforced, but it would be loss of draft pick(s).
The .zip file and roster spreadsheet will be updated every week during the season and be available from the main website.
