CUTTING PLAYERS

Before arbitration, bidding, and drafting, it may be auspicious to cut players that you can eventually pick up cheaper in free-agency. This also allows for a wider opportunity for an addition in the draft. Remember, don’t redraft somebody you cut, but instead, bid on them in free-agency at a cheaper price (5th Stage).

STADIUM CHANGES

This must be done before arbitration, bidding, and drafting.

1 point of changes= $100,000 (Stadium effect)

1,000 seats added to the stadiums capacity = $100,000

STADIUM DIMENSIONS

Dimensions of a ballpark are selected by the owner. Every stadium has Ball-Park Effects which can approve or decrease the effectiveness of hitters or pitchers. Each stadium effect is represented by four categories. Each category is of a range from one to twenty or zero to one hundred percent with the higher the number being more advantageous for the batter.

Single Lefty 1-20

Single Righty 1-20

Home run Lefty 1-20

Home run Righty 1-20

SPECIAL PLAYERS

Every team receives one player, a Special Card Player, from one of the special seasons 1930, 1941, 1950, 1961, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1975, and 1978 and one player, All-Time Great Player, from 1901- to the present.

At this phase, a franchise may change their special player. The order of picking special players coincides with the past record of the owner who is changing their player. The worst picks first, if there is a tie. In expansion years, the expansion team picks and selects first.

Before this stage can be conducted, all players must be either signed or cut. Once done, all players under arbitration are reviewed on their past performance. Each then are adjusted, appropriately, upwards or downwards on the pay scale. A players salary will not exceed or decrease more than 20% of their total salary. A team can either sign the player to the new salary or release the player to free-agency.

This stage deals with only the players allocated as arbitration. All players signed to multi-year deals are excluded. Any player under arbitration may be bid upon. A team may only bid as much as they have extra in revenue minus 25%.. ONLY EXTRA! The bid may be matched, if matched then the bid becomes the new player’s salary.

If not matched, the player goes to the bidding team. The bidding player may then be signed to a multi-year deal in Stage 5. The team that lost the player to bidding is then compensated by the team acquiring the player by receiving twenty-five percent of the new salary.

This stage deals with the drafting of the new season of players and Special Selections. Draftees are given salaries determined by the salary ($)number.

SPECIAL SELECTIONS

Players from the special years of 1930, 1941, 1950, 1961, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1975, & 1978 are available for +25% of their salary ($). The highest bidder wins the bid, then, the player must accept or reject the bid. Only one bid is allowed.

DRAFT

The draft is set up in a sequential fashion, by which, each team picks one player every round until no one picks anymore. Beforehand, each owner writes down a player for every round. Because the draft is done beforehand, an owner may in the parenthesis, pick an alternative if his player has been picked. Every round is done simultaneously, but if a tie, the team with the worst record picks.

PROSPECTS

A prospect is a player that has played less than five years of M.L.B. service. A prospect cannot be bid upon and is protected, unless the prospect is brought up and used during the season. The salary is then pro-rated.

Extensions and multi-year deals are initiated at this stage. Teams that have exceeded their revenue must cut players at this interval.

FREE-AGENCY

The highest bidder wins the bid. Only one bid is allowed.

THE SEASON

The season is divided into four, forty game, quarters. If a team, in a division, finishes three or less games back, a best of three game series is played between playoff bound teams. If there are more than two teams, the teams with the worst record play first. The odd team gets a bye.

Eighty regular season games will be played using National League rules (no designated hitter) and the other half, or eighty games, using American League (designated hitter) rules.

At the last quarter of the season, prospects are allowed to be brought up for no expense. The rosters are expanded to thirty players to allow this. Also this period of the last quarter is the opportunity to sign minor league players that are doing well in M.L.B.

At the end of the season, your franchise can only keep twenty-five players and five prospects. All minor league players become free-agents if not signed at the last quarter stage or at any other stage. It is not desirable to have a filled up roster. To acquire player or players in the draft or free-agency, one of the thirty slots must be opened. You cannot possess more than thirty players.