League Rules

League Rules:

1.) 50 Man MiLB roster:(You cannot go over 50 for your minor league system, minimum is 25).

2.) 25 Man MLB Roster:(C,1B,2B,SS,3B,3 OF,Util,5SP,5RP,P,5 Bench) (Minimum of 20 players on a team).

3.) Prospect Standards: under 150ab/80ip (30 IP for a pure relief pitcher)

4.) League Stat Cats: 7X7 Head to Head league most Cats win. The stats will be R, TB, RBI, HR, SB, AVG, OPS. - ERA, WHIP, W, K, HLD, Saves, QS.

5.) Contracts:

A. Every team must have contracts for their roster, each player gets a contract just like in real life, The max of total years is 75, you cannot go over that any team that is over that amount of years will have a penalty of 500K a year towards there cap, Also the most years a player can have is 4.

B. Any prospect doesnt have a salary until he is called up by your team on here.

C. Every team must sign their players to a contract, or in other words, a year length in which they hold the rights to them.

D. You cannot sign a player for longer than 4 years. You may distribute up to 75 years among your roster. All minor league players who have been called up in TPDL at any time must be signed to a contract. Other Minor Leaguers do not until they reach the Majors in this league. Because of this, it is advised you stay under the 75 year cap by a year or two.

E. When the last year of a player's contract ends, he becomes a un-restricted free agent. This means every team is open to bidding on this player.

F. You can have 2 players (per year) that you can sign to an extenstion so they dont have to become a free agent and you can't lose them but it can only be 2 players, meaning if a player comes down to its last year of its contract you can choose to sign him to an extenstion but you can only do it for 2 players a year.

G. Teams will be allowed to name one player as a restricted free agent. That player can be bid on like all other free agents, but once bidding is done on that player, the original owner can match the highest bid and retain the player or choose to turn the player over to the highest bidder.

H. All remaining players become unrestricted free agents. The league then follows the Free Agent Auction process.

I. Once a year has come off a players contract, the full amount of the contract years still stay on your total. 3/4 years is still a 4 year contract, because it was still signed as a 4 year contract and so on.

6.) Playoff Seeding:

A. There will be eight playoff teams.

B. A team can reach the postseason through winning their division or winning the one of two wild cards in each league.

C. Ties in division and wild card races will be decided though the head to head record between the tied teams. If that is the same, the team with the better record in the respective league will advance. If that is the same(and the teams are in the same division), the team with the better divisional record will advance. If that is the same, the team with more total categories will advance.

D. In the regular season, if there is a tie, it will go down as a tie. However, in the playoffs, a tie will be broken by the head to head record between those teams during the year. If that is a tie as well, the higher seed will win the matchup and the losing team will be given a 1M compensation to be added to their cap.(forever)


7.) Playoff Rules

A. All MLB free agent signings will end at 5:00pm Eastern the Sunday before the playoffs begin.

B. Any MLB player dropped after the above deadline can not be added to any team for the duration of the current season and playoffs.

C. If a playoff team suffers an injury to a player, they are allowed (1) free agent signing during the playoffs. However, all in-season rules ( salary, contract years, options, etc) along with rule (B) still apply. Please note, the injury must occur during the playoff time frame and the team must still be active in the playoffs.

D. Playoff teams are allowed to call-up / demote any current signed / salaried roster players just like the regular season. All in-season rules apply.

E. Prospects can still be added/dropped for all teams during the playoffs.

8.) Trading: All trades must be made on ESPN as well!!

A. Two teams agree on a deal in a private manor. One team then posts the deal as a new thread in the "Trades" section of the message board. The title of the thread will be: Team A/Team B (fill in the cities accordingly). Example Cubs/Cardinals

B. Next, the other team in the deal must accept the deal as a reply to the thread within 48 hours of the deals posting. If the deal is not accepted within the time frame, the deal will be deleted from the board. However, the two teams can repost the deal and accept it accordingly whenever they please.

C. If a deal is posted without the other teams acceptance, and it comes to my attention,the violating team will be asked to speak in front of me. If found guilty of posting fake deals, or any other violation, the opposer will be axed from the league immediately.

D. After the deal is accepted, I will approve it. It will be moved to the "Completed Trades" section and locked from comments. No comments may be made on a trade by another team.

a. The first time a comment is made on a trade (if it is clear the rule was not understood) no penalty will be enforced.

b. If it is clear the rule was understood but there was a first offense anyway, or if there is a repeated offense, a 500K penalty will be enforced on the teams cap. If the problem continues, the League will decide whether or not to dismiss the owner. There is no minimum of offenses for dismissal.

E. Once the deal is in the completed trades section, it is a complete and final deal. The trade will be processed on ESPN by me, and the refection of the deal will soon be seen on there and the league website.

F. While there is no official trade review system, a trade can be vetoed. Between the time a trade is accepted (not approved, just accepted) and it is moved to the competed trades section protesting owners have a window to protest to me (me only) privately. You may state your case and I will present it to the League. A veto can only be exercised if there is clear effort to cheat or manipulate the league, or if a trade is so lopsided one of the owners is confused or tricked.

a. Owners who are cheating through making lopsided trades will be axed from the league immediately. Once a case is presented by a league member to the League, the league will vote on the violators. The only penalty for this crime is complete dismissal.

G. When you trade for a player, you trade for his contract. You may not make a trade that sends you over the cap. Deals that are posted in the trades section will be vetoed if they do this.


9.) Free Agency:

A. To bid on a player, post the players name as the thread title. For example, Joe Nathan. Post this thread in the "Free Agent Auction" board. Inside the thread, post the players name, position, new team, and proposed salary. The base price for the bid is $300,000. If you want to challenge a bid post in the thread of the player. For example if you want to challenge Joe Nathan's bid then post a higher dollar amount per year in the thread in 100,000 minimum bid increments.

B. The team who proposes the higher salary(per year) within their cap will win the player. If you go over on a bid, say you have 5M in cap space and bid 7M, your 7M bid is erased and you are locked out from bidding on that player, even if you would drop someone to make room. Changing bids is also against the rules and will result in you being locked out from bidding on that player. You can sign a player if it takes you over your years but you have to immediately drop a player right after you win the free agent.

C. Deleting bids is also against the rules, and will result in you being fined. If you delete a bid, you get fined the amount of the next highest bid for the rest of the year. If the bid is 15M and then you up it to 15.3M, then you delete your bid, you would get fined 15M. This fine will count against your cap till the end of next season.

D. Once a bid sits unchallenged for 48 hours, the team will be awarded the player.

E. During the regular season, you can sign most free agents for their base salary, which will be their current MLB salary according to Cots. Simply post the players name - (new team) as the thread title in the "In-Season Signings" board. These free agents will not be challenged and our first come first serve.

F. A player that is out of options will be a free agent at seasons end. The players old team can’t bid on him. Once a player is sent to a new team via free agency his options are reset to 3. For more on this refer to "Minor Leagues".

G. All players won during the FA bidding period with a contract of over $5M have to remain under contract with your team (unless traded) till June 30th. *NOTE* Players signed after the FA bidding period is over do not apply to this rule.

H. The minimum for a bid is $100,000 more than the previous bid.

I. Once a FA is signed, owners will have 24 Hrs to add him to their proboard team roster with salary / contract years, and add his contract years & salary to their team totals. Failure to do this wiil result in losing the player and a $5M fine 1st offense, 10M 2nd .. etc. Prospects to be added to MiLB roster are included in this rule too, added to MiLB roster, and MiLB player total adjusted. This rule has been repealed due to new LM's decision to act like a dictator.

J. A team has 48 Hrs to decide if they want to sign their "RFA" at the new salary or allow the team with the highest bid to sign him.

K. If a team decides to decline on keeping their RFA and hand him over to the other team, they will be awarded FYDP compensation according to the following chart:
$1-5M End of 4th Round
$5.1-10M End of 3rd Round
$10.1-15M End of 2nd Round
$15.1M+ End of 1st Round

10.) Releasing Players:

A. When a player is released from another team, he becomes a free agent and is open to all teams and the first team that signs him on the Proboard site will get him.

B. The team has to sign them to their current salary. For example if we are in the 2014 season then you sign them to their 2014 salary. If we are in the 2015 season then you sign them to their 2015 salary, etc.

C. Once a player is released, owners will have 8 hrs to subtract him from their proboard roster and subtract his contract years and salary from their team totals. Failure to do this will result in a $5M fine 1st offense, 10M 2nd .. etc. Prospects are included in this rule too, subtracted from MiLB roster and MiLB player totals adjusted. This rule has never been enforced, so it's being removed. 

D. Once a player is released, the releasing team can not pick up that same player for 30 calendar days.

11.) Minor Leagues:

A. Every team in the league will have a minor league system. It will contain a maximum of 50 players, and a minimum of 25 players.

B. A player in your minor league system does not have to be paid a salary until he loses his prospect eligibility(150ab/80ip) OR is called up in the TPDL OR if he is currently a player in the Major Leagues who you have sent down. A player in your minor league system who has reached your minor leagues does not have to be paid even if he is up in the Major Leagues as long as you have never called him up or he has never been called up on another team in the league.

C. You may trade minor leaguers between teams. When a player is traded from one farm system to you, the player goes directly to your farm system. If the trade sends a Major Leaguer to your team and you wish to send him to the minors, you must demote him in the demotions thread. He will lose an option if you do this. He will also still have to be paid.

D. Every prospect and MLB player starts out with 3 options. A trip up to the Majors and back down to the Minors counts as 1 option. Once a player has been sent down to the minors, you must put his name like this on you team: Chris Carpenter (2/3). The (2/3) shows that he has 2 options left.

12.) Triple Play Dynasty League Annual Minor League Draft:

A. Every year, the league will host a First Year Player Draft, 2 weeks after the real MLB draft in June. It will consist of 5 rounds. It will not be a snake format. The worst team gets the 1st pick in each round, the next 7 picks will go to the other teams that did not make the playoffs based on record. The remaining 8 picks will go to the playoff teams based on finish/record with the TPDL Champion getting the last pick. You may trade draft picks in this draft.

B. You can only draft players that were drafted in the MLB draft. College players that were not drafted are not eligible to be drafted.

C. You will have 24 hours to pick, if you haven't picked by then your pick will be skipped, and can make your pick at anytime after you are skipped. I would like if people could make their pick within the 24 hour window and it would be great if you could make the picks back-to-back.

D. Adding of prospects will be frozen during the draft, but you can drop prospects at anytime. Once our draft ends the undrafted players become normal prosects and you have to wait for them to sign before you can pick them up.

E. Draft order between teams with the same record will be determined by their H2H match-up record form the previous year. If that is a tie then it will be determined by their division record from the previous year. If that is a tie then it will be determined by their league record from the previous year. If that is a tie then it will be determined by their season record from 2 years ago.

F. Supplemental Draft Pick Rule

If for example I chose as the 4th pick overall this year:

Pick 4- Rays choose Player A

Player A fails to sign in August and chooses to go to college instead of into the majors. Receive an equal supplemental draft pick in the following years draft that is 1 pick less then the pick you used. Example: I would receive the 5th overall pick in the following years draft along with my other first round choice. Supplemental draft picks are not protected. So, next year if you select someone with that 5th overall pick and they don't sign then you do not receive a supplemental draft pick the next year. These supplemental picks only cover the first 2 rounds of the draft.

13.) International Free Agency:

A. To bid on a player, post the players name as the thread title. For example, Yasiel Puig. Post this thread in the "Free Agent Auction" board. Inside the thread, post the players name, position, country, and team(if player has not been officially signed by a MLB franchise then he is invalid until he is signed) The base price for the bid is $500,000.

B. We will have an open bid on them year round. The day after the World Series is the start of the new year, but however much you bid, you have to pay the player that salary when they get called up.

C. For example, Let’s say I win the bidding for Yasiel Puig at $5.5 million. Then I put him in my farm system and put his salary right after his name. However that salary doesn’t count against my cap until I call him up. So when I do call him up, instead of doing 2 years for $300,000. I do 2 years for $5.5 million.

D. Every team has a $20M budget for the whole year. The day after the World Series ends, your money resets to $20M(there is no carry over with money), which makes the max you can bid on a player is $20M. If two teams both bid $20M then the team with the worse record AT THAT MOMENT will get the player. If you win a player with the max bid and then drop them there will be a penalty of $5M for the rest of that season.

E. You can only start the bidding on somebody that has signed with a current MLB team.

F. Once a bid sits unchallenged for 48 hours, the team will be awarded the player.

G. If you want to challange a bid post in the thread of the player. For example if you want to challenge Yasiel Puig's bid then post a higher dollar amount per year in the thread, $100K minimum increase.

H. Won players need to be kept on your roster for 90 days before you release them. If an IFA is won in auction and released. Owner picking up said IFA will need to keep salary of original auction. This is only if the released prospect is added/signed within one year of the end of the original IFA auction. 

I. IFA money will reset January 1st of every year.  You can trade current year IFA money only.

14.) Salaries:

A. Every player on your major league roster and some players on your minor league roster will be given a salary.

B. A player sent to your minor leagues, a player you have ever sent to the minor leagues, or a player who you have traded for that has ever been sent to the minor leagues, is paid a salary even though he is in your farm system.

C. Every player on your payroll will be paid their actual MLB salary from the previous year. So for the first season of the league, we will pay our players their 2013 salary. The salaries will be found through Cots: mlbcontracts.blogspot.com/

D. The base salary of the league is 300,000. If you cannot find a players salary on Cots, that is his salary. If the player is a player of high quality and his salary isn't listed, we will use ESPN as our backup. The League will determine if the player is of high quality or not.

E. Each team will have a salary cap. The cap for the first season of the league will be $125 million dollars. You may not go over this cap.

F. If you are over the cap during the season then you will be forced to forfeit daily stats for each day you are over the cap. You will be granted a 1 week window to be over the cap after the rule is violated before the penalty is enforced. This is not welcoming the problem, but it allows a team with a little room to work. Also you can not trade with a team that is over the cap unless they are shedding payroll.

G. You may trade money from your cap to other teams.

a. You may trade Cash, which is money traded to another team forever. You will never get the money back,

b. When posting a trade, please note how many years the cash is going to the other team for. Also, on your proboards roster page, you must make a not of money traded away and money received in trades.

15.) Disabled List:

A. There will be three DLs in this league. The 15 Day DL, the 30 Day DL, and the 60 Day DL.

B. To place a player on the DL, he must be on the DL in Major League Baseball as well. However, you do not have to place him on the same one. You can place a player on the 60 when he is only on the 15 in MLB.

C. When a player is on the DL, you still have to pay his salary. However, he will not take up a roster spot.

D. When you place a player on the DL, he has to stay there for the number of days specified. Days, not games, is what the DL is judged in. This includes the All-Star Break and offseason days.

E. To place a player on the DL, click on "DL" on the message board. Then select the type of DL you want. Next, post a new thread titled "Player-Pos.-Your City." Inside, post the players name, postion, and injury type (if known).

16.) Amendments:

A. When you think you have a great Idea message me it and I'll post it on the Amendments sub-board in the "Future League Set-Up" board. The rest of the league will vote on it.

B. To get an Amendment put up you have to think it through and it has to knowledgeable or I won't post it.

C. To get an amendment passed the league will vote on it. I'll set up a poll in the amendments sub-board. With 2 options, The new idea or the old idea. The new idea has to get 12 votes(75% of the league) or it will not be enforced.

D. If the new idea is not passed the first time then we can try again 1 more times. If it still hasn't been passed then the idea becomes null/void for the rest of the year.

17.) Releasing Players Penalty:

A. Any contract over 5 million, if the player is released, you have to pay 1/4 of that salary for every year on the contract offered. Also if you release a player you will have to add a line under your new contract thread (like you do for minor league contracts) stating the 1/4 salary owed to this player and this will need to be calculated into your numbers for each year of the contract.

B. Once the player is picked up by another team, you are no longer obligated to pay the 1/4 salary.

18.) Waivers:

A. Teams have to pass players through revocable waivers to trade them after the trade deadline.

B. There will be a 48 hour period in where teams can place claims on players. If a claim isn't placed the player becomes unclaimed and can be traded to anyone.

C. Claimed players can be kept, traded, or handed over to the claiming team (who would then pay the player's salary). Teams will have a 72 hour window to work out a deal. If nothing is posted then the player automatically goes back to his original team. If a player is pulled back form waivers he can't be included in a trade for the rest of the waiver period.

D. If only one team claims a player, he can only be dealt to that team. If more than one team claims a player, he can only be traded to the team in his league with the worst record.

E. Prospects are automatically passed through waivers and can be traded freely after the deadline. However the prospects that are traded can't be called up till after the season concludes.

F. In any trade involving MLB players, at least half of the total amount of MLB players involved has to be either unclaimed or claimed by one of the trading teams. For example in a deal involving Votto+Bruce ||FOR|| Wright+Reyes, at least 2 of them have to have been unclaimed or claimed by the trading teams. So the Reds would have to have claimed Wright and Reyes, or the Mets would have had to claim Bruce and Votto, or the Mets claimed one of Votto and Bruce while the Reds claimed one of Wright or Reyes.

19.) Roster Minimum

A. All teams are required to keep a full roster of starting players (20) for every contest. This is a salaried / contracted player for each position in his starting line-up. Bench players are optional. If not filled, League will sign highest rated FA at that position and assign him to your team. Continued failure of incomplete rosters could result in forfeit of the weeks matchup. Although it is not preferred, for now, a player on the "DL" may be left in the starting roster to fill a position

B. Prospect rosters can not be more than  50 (only time it is allowable is from FYPD until the MLB signing period), minimum is 25 prospects.


20.) Roster Updates

With any move you make, be it a trade, winning bid in FA auction, FA pickup or release during season, prospect pickup or drop during season, you must update your roster within 48 hours of said transaction. Failure to do so will result in a veto of the transaction and players going back to prior status. Continued failure to meet these simple requirements will result in your dismissal from the league.