1) Let's have fun, please respect your opponents and the time they have set aside to play their games online.
2) Fatigue is in place - check it out in the rules section (of the software).  Any "bit player" who exceeds his regular season usage will not be eligible for the post season.  An example of this would be a player with 12 AB's in real life and 13 AB's in our league or a pitcher with 5 innings pitched in real life and 5.2 IP in our league.
3) 36 game season - so you need to use the Status tab in the roster screen for your team. The column to watch is the PACE entry. The magic number is 31. If ANY player hits 32, you will IMMEDIATELY incur a 10% usage penalty. This penalty goes to 20% when you hit 42, and so on. Again look at the rules and my fatigue choices within.
4) Roster limits: None for regular season.  25 man (11 pitchers max) for post season eligible teams)
5) Playoffs: Each division winner goes along with the two top wild-card teams from each league.
6) The DIV winners will each get a 1st round bye, and the 1st round will be a best of 3; 2nd round best of 5 and the world series best of 7 . Remember, we are playing a short, 36 game season, and, to facilitate this, I scheduled your 2 home and 2 away vs each opp in ONE 4-game set that you can play as you see fit. In example: 4 games in one evening or 2 and 2. Whatever works! The games should only take about 10-15 minutes +/- 5 or so. So, 4 games would take less than an hour !
7)You will play each team, and DH is NOT in place!
8) email the league your results, and stats will be update on this website..
9) Also, email me your manager files with your lineups and manager tendencies -- just in case someone can't play, we can always sim it.
10) Deadlines:  The goal is to play each series over a 5 day period.  Try to schedule your series early, because things do pop up in real life that might cause you to miss your preset playing time.  If your series is set on deadline day you will not have an opportunity to reschedule.  All games not played by the announced deadline will be "simmed".  If someone is a no-show or has to cancel their opponent has the following options:
  1. Reschedule (provided it isn't deadline day).
  2. Play vs a league appointed sub
  3. Play vs the computer (see below).

Playing vs the Computer option:

  1. You must first e-mail the league and get approval to do this.
  2. You must e-mail the league at the start and e-mail the league at the end of the 4 game series.
  3. You have 60 minutes from the time the e-mail is sent until the end of the series for the results to count.
  4. If time limit has elapsed the league will sim the series.

Post-season fatigue:

  1. The regular season fatigue Pace of 32 will be bumped up to 42 as the initial threshold for fatigue for the post season.

Addendum #1:  All players must set their PREFERENCES to reflect the following:

Addendum #2:  Playoff Tie-breakers (1st place):

Addendum #3:  Playoff Tie-breakers (Wild Card):