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Triple Play Baseball Constitution
Fantasy Baseball Site Providers: Fantrax & Proboards
Links:
Fantrax site: www.fantrax.com/fantasy/league/rtvq3vy7j8sb3ecc/home
tripleplaybaseball.proboards.com/
Number of Teams: 30
Team Names: Your team name must be a current MLB team name and cannot be the same as another team.
Scoring: Head to Head, weekly. Lineups set Daily
League Administration
Administrators: Cardinals (Andrew), Dodgers (Kris)
TPB Execs: Cardinals (Andrew), White Sox (Tyler), Red Sox (Steven), Twins (Jason)
Master List: Official Roster Thread: Astros (Cody)
Draft Pick List: Reds (Chris)
Trade Review Council: Boston (Kirby), White Sox (Tyler), Brewers (Dan), Cardinals (Andrew), Rockies (Brandon), Rangers (Josh)
Transaction Processing: Astros (Cody)
First Year Player Draft Reds (Chris)
Positional Eligibility
Player position eligibility is based on two criteria that must be met. Once the following conditions are met, the player's position eligibility will be modified to reflect this.
•Games Played Last Season - A player must have played in a minimum of 20 games in a position to be eligible for that position. The exception is rookies, they will be eligible for the position in which they begin the season. Starting Pitchers must have started 5 games the previous season. Relievers must have come in in relief 8 times.
•Games Played in the Current Season - Once a player has played 10 games in a position during the regular season they will have that position added to their eligibility. This means that they will become eligible for the new position beginning on the eleventh game in that position. These games do not need to be contiguous. Players will become eligible for the Starting Pitcher spot after 3 starts. Relievers will become eligible for the Relief Pitcher spot after 5 relief appearances.
Activity
TPB Dynasty League is a very active league. It is expected that all managers maintain a certain level of activity. Out of respect to the league and all of its members it is best to make a small post letting the league know of your absence and generically why (eg. vacation, work, illness or any other reason). If no post is made with a reason given and it’s noticed that you’ve been absent from Proboards or Fantrax for a noticeable amount of time the League Administrators will attempt to contact you. If multiple attempts fail in contacting you an immediate decision will be made to replace you as a manager.
1. Scoring Categories
Hitting (Runs, HR, RBI, K, SB, AVG, OBP, and SLG%) with the minimum AB limit is 75 at bats
Pitching (K, QS, W, L, SV, HD, ERA, and WHIP) with the minimum IP limit will be 25 innings pitched.
2. Rosters & Salary
2.1) The major league roster (Fantrax) is composed of 40 total slots. 20 starting slots (C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, OF, OF, OF, UTIL, SP, SP, SP, RP, RP, RP, RP, P, P, P, P,), 20 BN slots, and 5 DL slots. Note: Empty roster slots (excluding DL) are charged $500K toward your total allotted TPB salary cap.
2.2) Your minor league players can be placed onto three different rosters. A 60 player roster consisting of any players in the minor leagues, a 20 player Rookie Roster consisting of players draft eligible in the TPB Amateur draft (drafted, UDFA from that year, or otherwise obtained) and a 10 player International roster for IFA's in Rookie ball or low A ball.
2.3) The minimum amount of TPB Cap salary any team may have control of is $110M and the maximum amount of TPB CAP salary any team may have control of is $180M
Note: From December 1st. each year, no claims or trades will be allowed by any team that does not have their salaries updated to include those known for the upcoming season. Reference
3. Non-International Free Agents
3.1) All FA players must be currently signed by a MLB franchise (Major League or MiLB contract) or have been so in the past to be claimed or bid on.
3.2) Players eligible for the TPB Amateur Draft scheduled for the first Sunday in November may not have a claim or bid placed on them.
3.3) Those with less than 130 career major league AB’s or 50 career major league IP must be claimed without submitting a bid.
3.4) The minimum TPB Cap bid for players is $500k and may be increased by 500k to $1M, but every bid after the initial $1M must be in $1M increments. The bidding will continue until a period of 24 hours has passed without a bid being placed on that player.
3.5) All $1M TPB contracts will count against your cap, even if they are on your MILB roster. Reference
3.6) If you bid on a free agent and your bid exceeds the amount you have in cap space, you must conditionally drop a player that allows you to make a proper bid and have enough cap space (See 4.3) to own that player.
3.7) A maximum of two claims on players with less than 130 career AB or 50 career IP can be made between 12:00AM EST & 11:59PM EST per day. (eg.You could make two claims at 11:58 & 11:59PM EST and two more claims at 12:01 & 12:02AM EST the following day and be well within the rules.) Bidding on players are not included in this restriction of 2 per day
3.8) If you own a player who is a MLB free agent and the player doesn't sign with a team, the player will continue on with the contract he had the previous year. If the player remains without a MLB contract for a full season, he becomes a minimum salary player until he signs a new contract.
3.9) All Free Agents dropped during the TPB playoffs (see 4.6) will be open for TPB Free Agency starting 1 week (the Monday after the conclusion of the playoffs) after the TPB season ends.
3.10) During TPB Free Agency, an owner who dropped a player in the free agent pool may bid on that player, however, if the owner who initially released the player wins the player in free agency, the player will be rostered at either the original drop amount or the bid amount, whichever is higher.
3.11) Former MLB players that sign overseas are considered as signing a minor-league contract and may be carried at 500k. If they re-sign with an MLB club, their new MLB contract will override the 500k salary.
3.11A) While former MLB players who sign overseas or in Independent ball may continue to be carried on a TPB teams roster, such a player may not be added as a free agent / waiver claim until re-signing with an MLB organization.
3.12) All Undrafted Free Agents for that current draft year can be claimed (no bid) at the conclusion of the Rule 4 Draft.
3.13) If you claim or win a bid on a player on Proboards. And you do not add the player to your Fantrax roster within 168 hours (1 week), that player is deemed to be a free agent and available to the rest of the league again.
4. Releasing a Player
4.1) When releasing a player you must post the release in this thread. tripleplaybaseball.proboards.com/board/16/releasing-players
When releasing a player you must post the player's first and last name in the Title and Body of the post.
4.2) You may release any player that you owned all season at the end of that season without occurring any penalty. If you release a player during the season you will incur a penalty (see 4.3) until the off-season at which time it will be removed from the record. However, any player acquired during the season must be dropped prior to the end of that season with penalty applied until the off-season. Failure to drop such player prior to the season's end will result in the penalty being applied for the remainder of the off-season and entire next season.
4.3) **When releasing a player with a salary or TPB contract of $1M a $500k penalty (base minimum) will apply, a $2M salary, contract or more will incur a 50% penalty rounded down to the whole Million. For example a $2M and $3M (50% of $3M = $1.5M rounded to $1M) salary will incur $1M penalty, and a $4M and $5M (50% of $5M = $2.5M rounded to $2M) salary will incur a $2M penalty and so on. Once the real MLB Regular Season schedule is completed the 50% penalty will disappear and you are no longer responsible for any of that player's salary**reference**.
4.4) If a player is known to be retiring prior to the end of the regular season the same rules apply for release and penalty as noted in section 4.2 and 4.3.
4.5) If a manager releases a player, the player becomes a free agent. If the player in question is not bid on or claimed within one week of becoming a free agent, the last owner of the player can bid or claim that player. The claiming manager would still be responsible for the 50% penalty when the player was originally released until the end of the Regular Season. If Manager (B) bids on and wins the player and then releases the player within a week. The Manager who owned the player before Manager (B) can bid on the now free agent because the non-ownership timeline of one week was broken and the week waiting period only now would exist for Manager (B).
tripleplaybaseball.proboards.com/thread/16637/re-acquiring-released-free-agents
4.6) At the start of the TPB playoffs, players above the limits will not be able to be bid on until TPB Free Agency Period begins. All players under the limits, may be claimed or for IFA within a year of their signing date may be bid on.
5. TPB Amateur Draft
5.1) The TPB Amateur Draft is an annual 10 round draft that commences the first Sunday of November.
5.2a) Each team receives 10 picks following the completion of the previous year's season (i.e. 2015 picks will be available after the completion of the 2014 TPB season).
b) Owners can make more than 13 picks (the size of the Rookie Roster) but they must have the available roster spot BEFORE making their selection. The first 13 selections by any team will go on their Rookie Roster and any further picks must be applied to the MILB or MLB roster.
5.3) Draft picks for the current year's draft can be traded at any time prior to or during the draft. Draft picks for the following years draft can be traded at the earliest once the TPB season ends. Once there are two sets of draft picks floating around (after the end of the previous TPB season but before the end of the current year's FYP draft), please be very specific about which year when posting trades.
5.4) The only players eligible to be drafted in the TPB Amateur Draft are:
a) Players who were drafted and signed with a MLB team from the same year's real MLB Rule 4 Draft.
b) Domestic Undrafted Free Agents who signed with a MLB team after the MLB Rule 4 draft of the same year.
5.5) Prior to the TPB Amateur Draft or any time during the draft any manager may opt out of participating in the draft. They must also post or send a message to an Administrator that they will not be participating in drafting. From that point forward in the draft any pick that goes on the clock from a non-participating manager will be auto-picked as soon as possible. The auto-pick will be the earliest drafted and signed player from that years MLB Rule 4 draft, but not yet selected in the TPB draft.
5.6a) Each Manager is given an exclusive 24 hour window to make their draft selection. The 24 hour window starts immediately following the previous pick or expiration of the previous pick’s 24 hour window.
b) If a Manager exceeds their 24 hour window at any stage of the draft, their future windows will expire immediately and they will be auto-picked the next highest available player according to the order of players drafted in real life. A Manager can avoid the auto-pick by request but their request MUST be prior to the auto-pick. They will then be permitted on an additional 24 hours, but the next team in line can select when ready. If at the end of 48 hrs a pick hasn't been made the auto-pick will be made.
c) If a team has consecutive picks (2 or more), they will only have one 24 hour window to make those picks before their exclusive window expires.
6. Disabled List
6.1) The maximum number of DL slots you can have on your roster is 5 at all times.
6.2) Only players that were on an actual MLB DL (7D, 15D, or 60D,) at the end of the season may be held in a DL slot during the off-season and may be carried over to the next season.
6.3) If a player is a Free Agent in real life, but has an injury that is easily verifiable and would likely result in him being on the DL if he were on a MLB roster, he may be slotted in the DL.
7. Trading
7.1) Every trade in TPB must be posted in the “Reviewed Trades” Board. tripleplaybaseball.proboards.com/board/22/reviewed-trades
7.2) $TPB Cap may be traded but no team can have <$110M or >$170M at anytime.
7.3) Trades resulting in a team exceeding their $TPB Cap limit will not be processed.
7.4) Trades resulting in a team(s) exceeding the number of available roster spots will not be processed until situation is rectified.
7.5) Trades involving teams in the playoffs will process at the conclusion of their playoff run.
7.6) The trade must initially be posted by one of the managers involved, detailing the overall trade and and his/her rationale for wanting to do the trade. Any players or prospects who have a salary for the current or future years must be detailed in the trade.
7.7) The other manager(s) involved in the trade must ensure the trade is accurate and accept or confirm the trade as it is posted.
7.8) When submitting your trade it is best to give the totality of your thoughts on the trade in the description. It will give the TRC a clearer snap shot of why the trade is happening.
7.9a) The trade will then go through the process of being approved, or scrutinized and vetoed by the Trade Review Council. The trade must receive 3 votes of approval or 3 votes of veto.
b) The first TRC member to vote on a trade MUST
c) Check salaries of both teams to ensure cap works
d) Check roster numbers to ensure both teams have space for all acquired players
e) Check draft picks to ensure the proper teams own them.
The first two can easily be checked by the first page of the official roster doc: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1v38lTS2GzGnLyjHxk3KAQMRqQ80-9A6QA_E34Xo1Lng/edit#gid=556361042
The last can be check by the official draft pick page (posting with the official roster link): docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XsOIzzMHxEQ4q9itlQDvk8Ni20PXNUUuSjGY9KF4nCw/edit#gid=0
7.10) You must wait to process the trade on your Proboards team page or your Fantrax page until the TRC has voted 3 approvals.
8. Promotions & Demotions
8.1) You must post every promotion (including internal MiLB IFA Roster moves) and demotion here: tripleplaybaseball.proboards.com/board/4/call-send
8.2) A player who is demoted from a TPB manager’s MLB team to the 60 man farm will incur an option. A player can have 3 options (per owner), after the 3rd option the player will go to waivers and if claimed you have 48 hours to reclaim them and move them back to your MLB roster.
8.3) When you promote or demote a player(s), the player’s name, MLB team name or abbreviation should be in the title and the body of the post. In the body of the post you must post what team you control and what roster the player is being promoted or demoted to. You must also note if an option is being used in the move. You must then record the option number beside the player on your team roster page.
8.4) All players must be cleared from the Rookie Roster by the end of the all-star break.
*8.5a) Any player who has equalled or exceeded 130 AB or 50 IP of play in their MLB career must be on your 40 man roster. During the off-season the rule does not apply, but your organization must be in compliance prior to the commencement of the upcoming season.
*b) If a player on an MILB roster with more than 130 AB or 50 IP in CAREER totals is on an MLB roster in real life, he can be bid on under the normal free agent bidding rules by ANY TPB team.
*c) From the minute of the bid, the team holding the player on their MILB roster has 72 hours to promote that player to their MLB roster. If the 72 hour period expires, the bid becomes valid and the standard free agent bidding process commences (ie: 24 hour window opens). *Reference*
9. International Free Agents
9.1) All International players must be signed to a professional contract (property) of a MLB franchise to be added to a TPB roster. If signed for less then a year they must be added by winning bid only ,regardless of whether they were previously owned on TPB.
(9.2) There are two types of bidding currency, IFA dollars and TPB Cap. Most of these players will fall under IFA dollars and are amateur players (Signed on or after January 15th) subjected to the MLB Bonus Pool system. The others are "professional" players and will be subject to TPB Cap. Where there is doubt as to which type of player and currency to be used a ruling will be made by either, Andrew, Tyler, Jason, Steven.
9.3) The bidding process is as follows, the first bidder must include a link to a reputable source confirming that the player has agreed to terms. International player TPB Cap bidding will follow the same requirements as MLB players with more then 130 career AB's or 50 IP's. IFA dollars bidding can be done in minimum increments of $100K
9.4) Any unowned international player who was originally signed as an amateur ($IFA eligible) and has been signed for more then 1 year may be claimed and is not subjected to the bidding process even if previously won in a bid.
9.5) At no time can you have more active bids than the amount of $IFA you have available. Failure to comply may result in disqualifying winning bids.
9.6) IFA dollars can be traded in increments as small as $100K.
9.7) Any IFA who is released and had a winning bid of $2M or greater where TPB money was used, prior to the implementation of the IFA bonus pool, must be re-bid on using TPB Cap dollars. If a International player was bid and won for <$2M then a bid is not required.
9.8) Any International player reaching A+ or higher must be removed from the IFA roster by the beginning of the following season.
9.9) At the end of the TPB season a new pool of IFA dollars will be issued to each team. The amount of money given to each team is based on the previous year TPB winning percentage order. The team with the worst winning percentage in TPB gets the most IFA money and the team with the best winning percentage gets the least amount.
9.10) IFA Bonus Pool Money based on WPCT
30) $10M
29) $9.8M
28) $9.6M
27) $9.4M
26) $9.2M
25) $9M
24) $8.8M
23) $8.6M
22) $8.4M
21) $8.2M
20) $8.0M
19) $7.8M
18) $7.6M
17) $7.4M
16) $7.2M
15) $7.0M
14) $6.8M
13) $6.6M
12) $6.4M
11)$6.2M
10) $6.0M
9) $5.8M
8) $5.6M
7) $5.4M
6) $5.2M
5) $5.0M
4) $4.8M
3) $4.6M
2) $4.4M
1) $4.2M
9.11) $IFA may carryover from year to year.
10. Playoffs
10.1) The playoffs will start week 20 consisting of the 6 top teams (3 division winners & 3 WC) from each of the AL & NL. The first round will be one week. Reference
10.2) Week 1 of the playoffs will have seeds 1 & 2 receive a bye, while seeds3-6 match-up, 3 vs 6 and 4 vs 5.
10.3) Week 2 of the playoffs will have the 1 & 2 seeds match-up against the winners of 3 vs 6 and 4 vs 5 match-ups.
10.4) Week 2 winners advance on to the ALCS & NLCS each lasting two weeks.
10.5) ALCS & NLCS winners match-up for a two week League Championship Series.
11. Poaching & Demotions
11.1) A poach bid is a monetary bid of a player on another team. The criteria that need to be met in order for a poach bid to be legitimate is:
a) The player must currently be on a Major League Roster in real life
b) The player must currently be listed on a Minor League Roster of the TPB Team on Fantrax.
c) The player or pitcher must have eclipsed the career 130 AB or 50 IP thresholds.
11.2) A Private Message must be sent on Proboards to the Manager who owns the player. The message must advise the Manager that you are putting a poach bid in on his player.
11.3) The Manager with the player being poached has 72 hours to promote, trade or release the player who is being poached.
11.4) The poach bid post must be placed in this thread. tripleplaybaseball.proboards.com/board/3/bidding-on-players It must be specified that the is a poach bid.
11.5) All other league Managers have 72 hours window from the time of the poach bid posting to place the highest bid.
11.6) At the end of the 72 hour period if the player has been promoted, traded or released, the poach bid is invalid. If the player has not been promoted, traded or released, the person with the highest bid at the end of the 72 hour period wins the player.
11.7) It will not be permitted to place a poach bid on a player from a team without a Manager, or a team who the League Executives are actively trying to replace.
Tie breaker is determined by the highest seeded, best Regular Season TPB record.
Salary Audit
A salary audit of every team in TPB must be done every spring, starting at the conclusion of the Amateur Draft. Six individual managers will be responsible for auditing one Division's teams for the league. It's crucial in checking every player's base salary against what Cot's (http://www.baseballprospectus.com/compensation/cots/) has listed or Baseball-reference.com as a back up to Cot's for the player's salaries. Each auditing manager must also make sure the combined team salaries do not exceed the manager's salary cap. At the end of the audit a PM must be sent to the League Administrators (Cardinals, White Sox, Red Sox, Twins, ) explaining any discrepancies. Once an auditing manager has completed their division and submitted their findings they can post that, that particular division is complete.
Old Links
NL League Link: games.espn.go.com/flb/leagueoffice?leagueId=4659&seasonId=2015
AL League Link: games.espn.go.com/flb/leagueoffice?leagueId=29275&seasonId=2015
Playoff League Link:
Fantasy Baseball Site Providers: Fantrax & Proboards
Links:
Fantrax site: www.fantrax.com/fantasy/league/rtvq3vy7j8sb3ecc/home
tripleplaybaseball.proboards.com/
Number of Teams: 30
Team Names: Your team name must be a current MLB team name and cannot be the same as another team.
Scoring: Head to Head, weekly. Lineups set Daily
League Administration
Administrators: Cardinals (Andrew), Dodgers (Kris)
TPB Execs: Cardinals (Andrew), White Sox (Tyler), Red Sox (Steven), Twins (Jason)
Master List: Official Roster Thread: Astros (Cody)
Draft Pick List: Reds (Chris)
Trade Review Council: Boston (Kirby), White Sox (Tyler), Brewers (Dan), Cardinals (Andrew), Rockies (Brandon), Rangers (Josh)
Transaction Processing: Astros (Cody)
First Year Player Draft Reds (Chris)
Positional Eligibility
Player position eligibility is based on two criteria that must be met. Once the following conditions are met, the player's position eligibility will be modified to reflect this.
•Games Played Last Season - A player must have played in a minimum of 20 games in a position to be eligible for that position. The exception is rookies, they will be eligible for the position in which they begin the season. Starting Pitchers must have started 5 games the previous season. Relievers must have come in in relief 8 times.
•Games Played in the Current Season - Once a player has played 10 games in a position during the regular season they will have that position added to their eligibility. This means that they will become eligible for the new position beginning on the eleventh game in that position. These games do not need to be contiguous. Players will become eligible for the Starting Pitcher spot after 3 starts. Relievers will become eligible for the Relief Pitcher spot after 5 relief appearances.
Activity
TPB Dynasty League is a very active league. It is expected that all managers maintain a certain level of activity. Out of respect to the league and all of its members it is best to make a small post letting the league know of your absence and generically why (eg. vacation, work, illness or any other reason). If no post is made with a reason given and it’s noticed that you’ve been absent from Proboards or Fantrax for a noticeable amount of time the League Administrators will attempt to contact you. If multiple attempts fail in contacting you an immediate decision will be made to replace you as a manager.
1. Scoring Categories
Hitting (Runs, HR, RBI, K, SB, AVG, OBP, and SLG%) with the minimum AB limit is 75 at bats
Pitching (K, QS, W, L, SV, HD, ERA, and WHIP) with the minimum IP limit will be 25 innings pitched.
2. Rosters & Salary
2.1) The major league roster (Fantrax) is composed of 40 total slots. 20 starting slots (C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, OF, OF, OF, UTIL, SP, SP, SP, RP, RP, RP, RP, P, P, P, P,), 20 BN slots, and 5 DL slots. Note: Empty roster slots (excluding DL) are charged $500K toward your total allotted TPB salary cap.
2.2) Your minor league players can be placed onto three different rosters. A 60 player roster consisting of any players in the minor leagues, a 20 player Rookie Roster consisting of players draft eligible in the TPB Amateur draft (drafted, UDFA from that year, or otherwise obtained) and a 10 player International roster for IFA's in Rookie ball or low A ball.
2.3) The minimum amount of TPB Cap salary any team may have control of is $110M and the maximum amount of TPB CAP salary any team may have control of is $180M
Note: From December 1st. each year, no claims or trades will be allowed by any team that does not have their salaries updated to include those known for the upcoming season. Reference
3. Non-International Free Agents
3.1) All FA players must be currently signed by a MLB franchise (Major League or MiLB contract) or have been so in the past to be claimed or bid on.
3.2) Players eligible for the TPB Amateur Draft scheduled for the first Sunday in November may not have a claim or bid placed on them.
3.3) Those with less than 130 career major league AB’s or 50 career major league IP must be claimed without submitting a bid.
3.4) The minimum TPB Cap bid for players is $500k and may be increased by 500k to $1M, but every bid after the initial $1M must be in $1M increments. The bidding will continue until a period of 24 hours has passed without a bid being placed on that player.
3.5) All $1M TPB contracts will count against your cap, even if they are on your MILB roster. Reference
3.6) If you bid on a free agent and your bid exceeds the amount you have in cap space, you must conditionally drop a player that allows you to make a proper bid and have enough cap space (See 4.3) to own that player.
3.7) A maximum of two claims on players with less than 130 career AB or 50 career IP can be made between 12:00AM EST & 11:59PM EST per day. (eg.You could make two claims at 11:58 & 11:59PM EST and two more claims at 12:01 & 12:02AM EST the following day and be well within the rules.) Bidding on players are not included in this restriction of 2 per day
3.8) If you own a player who is a MLB free agent and the player doesn't sign with a team, the player will continue on with the contract he had the previous year. If the player remains without a MLB contract for a full season, he becomes a minimum salary player until he signs a new contract.
3.9) All Free Agents dropped during the TPB playoffs (see 4.6) will be open for TPB Free Agency starting 1 week (the Monday after the conclusion of the playoffs) after the TPB season ends.
3.10) During TPB Free Agency, an owner who dropped a player in the free agent pool may bid on that player, however, if the owner who initially released the player wins the player in free agency, the player will be rostered at either the original drop amount or the bid amount, whichever is higher.
3.11) Former MLB players that sign overseas are considered as signing a minor-league contract and may be carried at 500k. If they re-sign with an MLB club, their new MLB contract will override the 500k salary.
3.11A) While former MLB players who sign overseas or in Independent ball may continue to be carried on a TPB teams roster, such a player may not be added as a free agent / waiver claim until re-signing with an MLB organization.
3.12) All Undrafted Free Agents for that current draft year can be claimed (no bid) at the conclusion of the Rule 4 Draft.
3.13) If you claim or win a bid on a player on Proboards. And you do not add the player to your Fantrax roster within 168 hours (1 week), that player is deemed to be a free agent and available to the rest of the league again.
4. Releasing a Player
4.1) When releasing a player you must post the release in this thread. tripleplaybaseball.proboards.com/board/16/releasing-players
When releasing a player you must post the player's first and last name in the Title and Body of the post.
4.2) You may release any player that you owned all season at the end of that season without occurring any penalty. If you release a player during the season you will incur a penalty (see 4.3) until the off-season at which time it will be removed from the record. However, any player acquired during the season must be dropped prior to the end of that season with penalty applied until the off-season. Failure to drop such player prior to the season's end will result in the penalty being applied for the remainder of the off-season and entire next season.
4.3) **When releasing a player with a salary or TPB contract of $1M a $500k penalty (base minimum) will apply, a $2M salary, contract or more will incur a 50% penalty rounded down to the whole Million. For example a $2M and $3M (50% of $3M = $1.5M rounded to $1M) salary will incur $1M penalty, and a $4M and $5M (50% of $5M = $2.5M rounded to $2M) salary will incur a $2M penalty and so on. Once the real MLB Regular Season schedule is completed the 50% penalty will disappear and you are no longer responsible for any of that player's salary**reference**.
4.4) If a player is known to be retiring prior to the end of the regular season the same rules apply for release and penalty as noted in section 4.2 and 4.3.
4.5) If a manager releases a player, the player becomes a free agent. If the player in question is not bid on or claimed within one week of becoming a free agent, the last owner of the player can bid or claim that player. The claiming manager would still be responsible for the 50% penalty when the player was originally released until the end of the Regular Season. If Manager (B) bids on and wins the player and then releases the player within a week. The Manager who owned the player before Manager (B) can bid on the now free agent because the non-ownership timeline of one week was broken and the week waiting period only now would exist for Manager (B).
tripleplaybaseball.proboards.com/thread/16637/re-acquiring-released-free-agents
4.6) At the start of the TPB playoffs, players above the limits will not be able to be bid on until TPB Free Agency Period begins. All players under the limits, may be claimed or for IFA within a year of their signing date may be bid on.
5. TPB Amateur Draft
5.1) The TPB Amateur Draft is an annual 10 round draft that commences the first Sunday of November.
5.2a) Each team receives 10 picks following the completion of the previous year's season (i.e. 2015 picks will be available after the completion of the 2014 TPB season).
b) Owners can make more than 13 picks (the size of the Rookie Roster) but they must have the available roster spot BEFORE making their selection. The first 13 selections by any team will go on their Rookie Roster and any further picks must be applied to the MILB or MLB roster.
5.3) Draft picks for the current year's draft can be traded at any time prior to or during the draft. Draft picks for the following years draft can be traded at the earliest once the TPB season ends. Once there are two sets of draft picks floating around (after the end of the previous TPB season but before the end of the current year's FYP draft), please be very specific about which year when posting trades.
5.4) The only players eligible to be drafted in the TPB Amateur Draft are:
a) Players who were drafted and signed with a MLB team from the same year's real MLB Rule 4 Draft.
b) Domestic Undrafted Free Agents who signed with a MLB team after the MLB Rule 4 draft of the same year.
5.5) Prior to the TPB Amateur Draft or any time during the draft any manager may opt out of participating in the draft. They must also post or send a message to an Administrator that they will not be participating in drafting. From that point forward in the draft any pick that goes on the clock from a non-participating manager will be auto-picked as soon as possible. The auto-pick will be the earliest drafted and signed player from that years MLB Rule 4 draft, but not yet selected in the TPB draft.
5.6a) Each Manager is given an exclusive 24 hour window to make their draft selection. The 24 hour window starts immediately following the previous pick or expiration of the previous pick’s 24 hour window.
b) If a Manager exceeds their 24 hour window at any stage of the draft, their future windows will expire immediately and they will be auto-picked the next highest available player according to the order of players drafted in real life. A Manager can avoid the auto-pick by request but their request MUST be prior to the auto-pick. They will then be permitted on an additional 24 hours, but the next team in line can select when ready. If at the end of 48 hrs a pick hasn't been made the auto-pick will be made.
c) If a team has consecutive picks (2 or more), they will only have one 24 hour window to make those picks before their exclusive window expires.
6. Disabled List
6.1) The maximum number of DL slots you can have on your roster is 5 at all times.
6.2) Only players that were on an actual MLB DL (7D, 15D, or 60D,) at the end of the season may be held in a DL slot during the off-season and may be carried over to the next season.
6.3) If a player is a Free Agent in real life, but has an injury that is easily verifiable and would likely result in him being on the DL if he were on a MLB roster, he may be slotted in the DL.
7. Trading
7.1) Every trade in TPB must be posted in the “Reviewed Trades” Board. tripleplaybaseball.proboards.com/board/22/reviewed-trades
7.2) $TPB Cap may be traded but no team can have <$110M or >$170M at anytime.
7.3) Trades resulting in a team exceeding their $TPB Cap limit will not be processed.
7.4) Trades resulting in a team(s) exceeding the number of available roster spots will not be processed until situation is rectified.
7.5) Trades involving teams in the playoffs will process at the conclusion of their playoff run.
7.6) The trade must initially be posted by one of the managers involved, detailing the overall trade and and his/her rationale for wanting to do the trade. Any players or prospects who have a salary for the current or future years must be detailed in the trade.
7.7) The other manager(s) involved in the trade must ensure the trade is accurate and accept or confirm the trade as it is posted.
7.8) When submitting your trade it is best to give the totality of your thoughts on the trade in the description. It will give the TRC a clearer snap shot of why the trade is happening.
7.9a) The trade will then go through the process of being approved, or scrutinized and vetoed by the Trade Review Council. The trade must receive 3 votes of approval or 3 votes of veto.
b) The first TRC member to vote on a trade MUST
c) Check salaries of both teams to ensure cap works
d) Check roster numbers to ensure both teams have space for all acquired players
e) Check draft picks to ensure the proper teams own them.
The first two can easily be checked by the first page of the official roster doc: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1v38lTS2GzGnLyjHxk3KAQMRqQ80-9A6QA_E34Xo1Lng/edit#gid=556361042
The last can be check by the official draft pick page (posting with the official roster link): docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XsOIzzMHxEQ4q9itlQDvk8Ni20PXNUUuSjGY9KF4nCw/edit#gid=0
7.10) You must wait to process the trade on your Proboards team page or your Fantrax page until the TRC has voted 3 approvals.
8. Promotions & Demotions
8.1) You must post every promotion (including internal MiLB IFA Roster moves) and demotion here: tripleplaybaseball.proboards.com/board/4/call-send
8.2) A player who is demoted from a TPB manager’s MLB team to the 60 man farm will incur an option. A player can have 3 options (per owner), after the 3rd option the player will go to waivers and if claimed you have 48 hours to reclaim them and move them back to your MLB roster.
8.3) When you promote or demote a player(s), the player’s name, MLB team name or abbreviation should be in the title and the body of the post. In the body of the post you must post what team you control and what roster the player is being promoted or demoted to. You must also note if an option is being used in the move. You must then record the option number beside the player on your team roster page.
8.4) All players must be cleared from the Rookie Roster by the end of the all-star break.
*8.5a) Any player who has equalled or exceeded 130 AB or 50 IP of play in their MLB career must be on your 40 man roster. During the off-season the rule does not apply, but your organization must be in compliance prior to the commencement of the upcoming season.
*b) If a player on an MILB roster with more than 130 AB or 50 IP in CAREER totals is on an MLB roster in real life, he can be bid on under the normal free agent bidding rules by ANY TPB team.
*c) From the minute of the bid, the team holding the player on their MILB roster has 72 hours to promote that player to their MLB roster. If the 72 hour period expires, the bid becomes valid and the standard free agent bidding process commences (ie: 24 hour window opens). *Reference*
9. International Free Agents
9.1) All International players must be signed to a professional contract (property) of a MLB franchise to be added to a TPB roster. If signed for less then a year they must be added by winning bid only ,regardless of whether they were previously owned on TPB.
(9.2) There are two types of bidding currency, IFA dollars and TPB Cap. Most of these players will fall under IFA dollars and are amateur players (Signed on or after January 15th) subjected to the MLB Bonus Pool system. The others are "professional" players and will be subject to TPB Cap. Where there is doubt as to which type of player and currency to be used a ruling will be made by either, Andrew, Tyler, Jason, Steven.
9.3) The bidding process is as follows, the first bidder must include a link to a reputable source confirming that the player has agreed to terms. International player TPB Cap bidding will follow the same requirements as MLB players with more then 130 career AB's or 50 IP's. IFA dollars bidding can be done in minimum increments of $100K
9.4) Any unowned international player who was originally signed as an amateur ($IFA eligible) and has been signed for more then 1 year may be claimed and is not subjected to the bidding process even if previously won in a bid.
9.5) At no time can you have more active bids than the amount of $IFA you have available. Failure to comply may result in disqualifying winning bids.
9.6) IFA dollars can be traded in increments as small as $100K.
9.7) Any IFA who is released and had a winning bid of $2M or greater where TPB money was used, prior to the implementation of the IFA bonus pool, must be re-bid on using TPB Cap dollars. If a International player was bid and won for <$2M then a bid is not required.
9.8) Any International player reaching A+ or higher must be removed from the IFA roster by the beginning of the following season.
9.9) At the end of the TPB season a new pool of IFA dollars will be issued to each team. The amount of money given to each team is based on the previous year TPB winning percentage order. The team with the worst winning percentage in TPB gets the most IFA money and the team with the best winning percentage gets the least amount.
9.10) IFA Bonus Pool Money based on WPCT
30) $10M
29) $9.8M
28) $9.6M
27) $9.4M
26) $9.2M
25) $9M
24) $8.8M
23) $8.6M
22) $8.4M
21) $8.2M
20) $8.0M
19) $7.8M
18) $7.6M
17) $7.4M
16) $7.2M
15) $7.0M
14) $6.8M
13) $6.6M
12) $6.4M
11)$6.2M
10) $6.0M
9) $5.8M
8) $5.6M
7) $5.4M
6) $5.2M
5) $5.0M
4) $4.8M
3) $4.6M
2) $4.4M
1) $4.2M
9.11) $IFA may carryover from year to year.
10. Playoffs
10.1) The playoffs will start week 20 consisting of the 6 top teams (3 division winners & 3 WC) from each of the AL & NL. The first round will be one week. Reference
10.2) Week 1 of the playoffs will have seeds 1 & 2 receive a bye, while seeds3-6 match-up, 3 vs 6 and 4 vs 5.
10.3) Week 2 of the playoffs will have the 1 & 2 seeds match-up against the winners of 3 vs 6 and 4 vs 5 match-ups.
10.4) Week 2 winners advance on to the ALCS & NLCS each lasting two weeks.
10.5) ALCS & NLCS winners match-up for a two week League Championship Series.
11. Poaching & Demotions
11.1) A poach bid is a monetary bid of a player on another team. The criteria that need to be met in order for a poach bid to be legitimate is:
a) The player must currently be on a Major League Roster in real life
b) The player must currently be listed on a Minor League Roster of the TPB Team on Fantrax.
c) The player or pitcher must have eclipsed the career 130 AB or 50 IP thresholds.
11.2) A Private Message must be sent on Proboards to the Manager who owns the player. The message must advise the Manager that you are putting a poach bid in on his player.
11.3) The Manager with the player being poached has 72 hours to promote, trade or release the player who is being poached.
11.4) The poach bid post must be placed in this thread. tripleplaybaseball.proboards.com/board/3/bidding-on-players It must be specified that the is a poach bid.
11.5) All other league Managers have 72 hours window from the time of the poach bid posting to place the highest bid.
11.6) At the end of the 72 hour period if the player has been promoted, traded or released, the poach bid is invalid. If the player has not been promoted, traded or released, the person with the highest bid at the end of the 72 hour period wins the player.
11.7) It will not be permitted to place a poach bid on a player from a team without a Manager, or a team who the League Executives are actively trying to replace.
Tie breaker is determined by the highest seeded, best Regular Season TPB record.
Salary Audit
A salary audit of every team in TPB must be done every spring, starting at the conclusion of the Amateur Draft. Six individual managers will be responsible for auditing one Division's teams for the league. It's crucial in checking every player's base salary against what Cot's (http://www.baseballprospectus.com/compensation/cots/) has listed or Baseball-reference.com as a back up to Cot's for the player's salaries. Each auditing manager must also make sure the combined team salaries do not exceed the manager's salary cap. At the end of the audit a PM must be sent to the League Administrators (Cardinals, White Sox, Red Sox, Twins, ) explaining any discrepancies. Once an auditing manager has completed their division and submitted their findings they can post that, that particular division is complete.
Old Links
NL League Link: games.espn.go.com/flb/leagueoffice?leagueId=4659&seasonId=2015
AL League Link: games.espn.go.com/flb/leagueoffice?leagueId=29275&seasonId=2015
Playoff League Link: