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APBL Rules
Sim Schedule –
Unless otherwise
noted,
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Day sims will occur on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays! After the trade deadline has passed, a fourth sim per week will be added on Saturday's. Exports are due by
8:00am EST on those days and will be simmed in the am on most days. If there
is a change in sim time, I will try to notify everyone ASAP.
It is the owner's responsibility to ensure an export is in by 8am, in case a
sim needs to be run early.
You can check if
a sim has been completed on the top of the main page at
www.actionpackedbaseballleague.com where it lists the date and time of the last league file uploaded. There
will also be a post in the Last Sim Forum announcing when the sim is
complete.
Activity
– First and foremost activity in the league is a must! While there are no
official rules activity will be watched.
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Exports – While there are no official rules on how often one is to export,
it should be done on an as needed basis, if we notice an extreme amount of
time without a team exporting we reserve the right to pay closer attention
and if needed take further action.
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Message Board – Being active on the forums is also a big part of the APBL.
Both checking the board frequently and participating in discussions is
greatly encouraged. While there is no set frequency
on how often should check one, we can check who has checked the message
board in the past 7 days. This will also be used to
measure how often one checks the board. By not
checking the board, you can be missing important news and announcements that
can affect the APBL.
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Message Board Posting – After each sim, the simmer will post a message
announcing the completion of the sim. These posts
are great for discussing what happened during the current sim.
A little note about your teams performance, or a player on your team
is a great way for you to stay active and keep the rest of the league aware
of happenings on your team they may not see on their own. It is also a good
way to alert other teams of player performances of someone who you may be
putting on the trade block. While there is no set
amount one should post, owner participation on the board is will also be
used to measure how active one is in the league.
League Settings –
Below is a rundown of many of the league settings in OOTP 2007/8.
- Major League Games: 162
- Number of Playoff Rounds: 3
Round 1 - Divisional Series
Round 2 - Championship Series
Round 3 - World Series
- Coaches and Scouts: Disabled
- Feeder Leagues: Enabled
2 College Leagues
1 High School League
- Ammy Draft: June 15th (20 Rounds)
- Trade Deadline: July 31
- DFA and Waivers: Enabled
DFA set to 18 days
Waivers set to 9 days
- Option Years: Enabled
- Talent Change Randomness: 50%
- Overall Ratings: Overall
- Player Actual Ratings: 1-10
- Player Potential Ratings: 2-8
- Other Ratings: 1-10
- Show Ratings > Max: No, Cut Off
- Salary Cap: $0
- Cash Cap: $25,000,000.00
- Ghost Players: Enabled
Trades –
Trades are to
be posted on under the Trades Forum in the Transactions section.
- Owners must list each
team with what they are sending right beneath it including players, picks
and cash. You also must list what level the player is at.
Any trades that are missing information may not be processed, as we
do not have time to search through six levels of an organization for
players.
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Draft Picks may only be traded
for the following two drafts. Once a draft is completed, you may now trade for
a pick for the next two drafts.
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A player drafted in the
year of the current draft is ineligible to be traded until the following
season. For example, a player drafted in
2010, may not be traded until 2011.
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Please see the following link on how to post a trade.
If you do not follow this format, you may delay your trade being processed. How to
post a trade
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As far as acquiring traded draft picks, at max you may have:
* 2 first round picks
* 3 second round picks
* 3 third round picks.
Off Season FA
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Offseason free agency will be handled in game. At this time, we will sim the winter meetings in one sim. Afterwards, we will sim 10 days sims until we reach the begining of February. At that time we will sim the first half of February in one sim, then to the begining of Spring Training in the second sim of February which will finish up the Off Season FA.
- Option Years: You may only offer a player an
option year that is no greater than 20% of the LAST guaranteed year
of the contract. Furthermore, the option year cannot be more than
$2,000,000 above the LAST guaranteed year of the contract.
- Contract Bonuses: Starting with opening day 2031, Bonus' are no longer allowed in the APBL. Any contract that includes a
bonus will be void and the player will be put back into free agency. The team that violated the rule, will also no longer be allowed to bid on the player that he gave the contract to.
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Any contract that
does not abide by these rules will be immediately declared void. The
player who agrees to the contract will be immediately released to FA
and will re-enter the FA Market. Furthermore, if the same team wins two
successful bids for the same player with an illegal contract,
that owner will be immediately removed from the league and will be
replaced.
- Signees may not be traded until June 1st of the following season.
- Free Agency signings are not allowed after the last regular season sim. The signing of Free Agents may resume when we reach the winter meetings!
- All contracts are subject to reasonable review.
Contract Extensions -
- You may not offer a player with less then three years Major League Service Time, a contract extension that takes him beyond his arbitration eligible years or into free agency. If you check a players "Contract & Status" page and his Major League Service time is under 3 Years, that means the final year of the contract offered may not excede the first year the player is eligible to become a free agent. So, to put it in simple mans terms, if a player has at least 2 and less then 3 years of service time, he may only be offered a three year contract at that time.
- Once a player has become arbitration eligible or has more then three years of Major League Service Time you may offer a player an extension beyond becoming a free agent. All contracts are subject to reasonable review.
Stadium
Enhancements –
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You may increase the capacity of your stadium, up to a maximum of 60,000
seats. The cost of expansion is $2.5m/1,000 seats plus a $2.5m construction
charge. For example, 5,000 extra seats will cost $15m.
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$250K for each factor of one that moves closer to 100
- $1M
for each factor of one that moves away from 100.
Amateur Draft –
- The draft class will be announced 75 days before the actual draft and will be run using OOTP:OU.
- If a pick is missed by a user without letting the league office know, once the pick is auto'd, it will remain so for the remainder of the draft.
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