Constitution Index
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Section I League Formation
1.1 League Formation
1.2 League Time Zone
1.3 Code of Conduct
1.4 Divisions
1.5 Player definitions
Section II Salary Cap and Arb Scale
2.1 Salary cap
2.2 Calculating the arbitration year for a player
2.3 Arbitration clock
2.4 Salaries for 1st - 3rd year players
2.5 Salaries for 4th - 6th year players
2.6.1 4th - 6th Year Offense Arbitration Calculator
2.6.2 4th - 6th Year Pitching Arbitration Calculator
2.6.3 Arbitration Bandings Guidance (for Admins Calculating the Bandings for the New Season)
2.7 Clarifications
Section III Roster and Scoring
3.1 League Scoring
3.2 Scoring Categories
3.3 World Series Winners
3.4 Division Winners
3.5 Wild Card Winners
3.6.1 Tiebreakers
3.6.2 First Tiebreaker
3.6.3 Second Tiebreaker
3.7 Roster Limits
3.8 Identification of 1st Year Players
3.9 Roster Moves On The Scoring Website
3.10 Starting Lineup
3.11 Hitting and Pitching Minimums
3.12 Hitting and Pitching Maximums
3.13 Final Standings Point Minimum
3.14 Position Eligibility
3.15 Historical Rosters
Section IV Trades and Removal of Guaranteed Contracts
4.1 Trade Block
4.2 Posting an Agreed Trade
4.3 Confirming Acceptance of a Posted Trade
4.4 Trading money/cap
4.5 Trading "players to be named later"
4.6 Trade Approval
4.7 Formation of TTC
4.8 TTC Voting on Agreed Trades
4.9 Trade Deadline
4.10 1st Year Players with 0 MLB Plate Appearances and 0 MLB Batters Faced
4.11.1 Placing Players on Trade Waivers
4.11.2 Claiming Players placed on Trade Waivers
4.11.3 Players claimed from Trade Waivers
4.11.4 Unclaimed Players
4.11.5 Trade Waivers Deadline
4.12 Posting to Request the Removal of a Contact of a Retired Player
4.13 Conditions for Validating Player Retirement
4.14 TTC Voting on Retired Players
4.15 Retirement Request Deadline
4.16 Posting to Request the Removal of a Guaranteed Contract of a Player
4.17 Conditions for Validating Player Retirement
4.18 TTC Voting on Player Signed Overseas
4.19 Player Signed Overseas Request Deadline
4.20 New Owner Eligibility for Competitive Balance Contract Exemption
4.21 Contracts Eligible to be Dropped as part of a Competitive Balance Contract Exemption
4.22 Admin Notification of Teams and Players Eligible for Competitive Balance Contract Exemption
4.23 Dropped Player Added to FA
4.24 Posting to Request a Competitive Balance Contract Exemption
4.25 Admin Approval of a Competitive Balance Contract Exemption
Section V Free Agency
5.1 Free Agent Eligibility
5.2 Free Agency Rounds
5.3.1 Minimum Contract Lengths for Pitchers
5.3.2 Minimum Contract Lengths for Hitters
5.3.3 Minimum Contract Lengths Determined by Admin
5.4 Free Agency Round Commencement
5.5 Free Agency Bid Format
5.6 Free Agency Bids are Final
5.7 Minimum Free Agency Salary Offer
5.8 Minimum Free Agency Bid Salary Increment
5.9.1 Club Options
5.9.2 Club Option Bid Format
5.9.3 Accepting or Declining Club Options
5.9.4 Accepted Club Options
5.9.5 Declined Club Options
5.9.6 Club Options Neither Accepted or Declined by the Start of Free Agency
5.10.1 Hometown Discounts
5.10.2 Hometown Discount Bid Format
5.10.3 Hometown Discount Salary Calculation
5.10.4 Identifying Players Signed with Hometown Discounts
5.10.5 Bettering a Hometown Discount Bid
5.10.6 Hometown Discounts on Option Contracts
5.11.1 Free Agent Initial No-trade Window
5.11.2 Free Agent signed with a Hometown Discount Initial No-trade Window
5.12 Free Agent Bid Prerequisites
5.13.1 Invalid Free Agent Bids
5.13.2 Non-Leading Invalid Bids
5.13.3 Leading Bids Identified As Invalid Whilst The Player Auction Is Still In Progress
5.13.4 Invalid Bids Found To Have Won An Auction (Identified Before The Final Round For Free Agents)
5.13.5 Invalid Bids Found To Have Won An Auction (Identified After The Final Round For Free Agents)
5.14 Winning Bids
Section VI Penalties/Infractions
6.1 Cheating and Collusion
6.2 Exceeding the Salary Cap
6.3 Accumulating Stats with Ineligible Players
6.4 Failure to Maintain Historical Rosters
6.5 Failing to Achieve the Minimum IP and/or AB/PA Requirements
6.6 Failing to Achieve the Final Standings Point Minimum
6.7 Invalid Free Agency Bids
6.8 Editing or Deleting Free Agency Bids
6.9 Inactivity
6.10 Self-Reporting Infractions
Section VII Unprotecting/Protecting 1st - 6th Year Players (including Waivers)
7.1.1 Players Eligible to be Protected
7.1.2 Determining Rights to a Player in their Arbitration Years In Relation to a Real Life Roster Move
7.2.1 4th - 6th Players' Protect Limit
7.2.2 Management of 4th - 6th Players' Protect Limits
7.3 Format for Protecting Players
7.4 TTC Confirmation of Player Protects
7.5 Players Eligible to be Unprotected
7.6 Unprotecting 1st - 6th Players Who Are Not The Property of One of Your Two IRL Teams
7.7 Unprotecting 1st - 6th Players Who Are The Property of One of Your Two IRL Teams
7.8 Format for Unprotecting Players
Section VIII Amateur Draft
8.1 Number of Draft Picks
8.2 Trading of Draft Picks
8.3 Draft Order
8.4 Eligible Players
8.5 Draft Commencement
8.6.1 Draft Pick Window
8.6.2 Draft Pick Window Expiry
8.6.3 Making a Draft Pick after Window Expiry
8.6.4 Multiple Missed Draft Picks
8.7.1 Optional Passing of Draft Picks
8.7.2 Effect of Passing Draft Pick on later rounds
8.7.3 Making a Draft Pick after Passed Pick
8.8.1 Drafting Players from other (IRL) Teams
8.8.2 Drafting Players from your (IRL) Teams
8.9 Draft Completion
8.10 Undrafted Players
1.1 League Formation
1.2 League Time Zone
1.3 Code of Conduct
1.4 Divisions
1.5 Player definitions
Section II Salary Cap and Arb Scale
2.1 Salary cap
2.2 Calculating the arbitration year for a player
2.3 Arbitration clock
2.4 Salaries for 1st - 3rd year players
2.5 Salaries for 4th - 6th year players
2.6.1 4th - 6th Year Offense Arbitration Calculator
2.6.2 4th - 6th Year Pitching Arbitration Calculator
2.6.3 Arbitration Bandings Guidance (for Admins Calculating the Bandings for the New Season)
2.7 Clarifications
Section III Roster and Scoring
3.1 League Scoring
3.2 Scoring Categories
3.3 World Series Winners
3.4 Division Winners
3.5 Wild Card Winners
3.6.1 Tiebreakers
3.6.2 First Tiebreaker
3.6.3 Second Tiebreaker
3.7 Roster Limits
3.8 Identification of 1st Year Players
3.9 Roster Moves On The Scoring Website
3.10 Starting Lineup
3.11 Hitting and Pitching Minimums
3.12 Hitting and Pitching Maximums
3.13 Final Standings Point Minimum
3.14 Position Eligibility
3.15 Historical Rosters
Section IV Trades and Removal of Guaranteed Contracts
4.1 Trade Block
4.2 Posting an Agreed Trade
4.3 Confirming Acceptance of a Posted Trade
4.4 Trading money/cap
4.5 Trading "players to be named later"
4.6 Trade Approval
4.7 Formation of TTC
4.8 TTC Voting on Agreed Trades
4.9 Trade Deadline
4.10 1st Year Players with 0 MLB Plate Appearances and 0 MLB Batters Faced
4.11.1 Placing Players on Trade Waivers
4.11.2 Claiming Players placed on Trade Waivers
4.11.3 Players claimed from Trade Waivers
4.11.4 Unclaimed Players
4.11.5 Trade Waivers Deadline
4.12 Posting to Request the Removal of a Contact of a Retired Player
4.13 Conditions for Validating Player Retirement
4.14 TTC Voting on Retired Players
4.15 Retirement Request Deadline
4.16 Posting to Request the Removal of a Guaranteed Contract of a Player
4.17 Conditions for Validating Player Retirement
4.18 TTC Voting on Player Signed Overseas
4.19 Player Signed Overseas Request Deadline
4.20 New Owner Eligibility for Competitive Balance Contract Exemption
4.21 Contracts Eligible to be Dropped as part of a Competitive Balance Contract Exemption
4.22 Admin Notification of Teams and Players Eligible for Competitive Balance Contract Exemption
4.23 Dropped Player Added to FA
4.24 Posting to Request a Competitive Balance Contract Exemption
4.25 Admin Approval of a Competitive Balance Contract Exemption
Section V Free Agency
5.1 Free Agent Eligibility
5.2 Free Agency Rounds
5.3.1 Minimum Contract Lengths for Pitchers
5.3.2 Minimum Contract Lengths for Hitters
5.3.3 Minimum Contract Lengths Determined by Admin
5.4 Free Agency Round Commencement
5.5 Free Agency Bid Format
5.6 Free Agency Bids are Final
5.7 Minimum Free Agency Salary Offer
5.8 Minimum Free Agency Bid Salary Increment
5.9.1 Club Options
5.9.2 Club Option Bid Format
5.9.3 Accepting or Declining Club Options
5.9.4 Accepted Club Options
5.9.5 Declined Club Options
5.9.6 Club Options Neither Accepted or Declined by the Start of Free Agency
5.10.1 Hometown Discounts
5.10.2 Hometown Discount Bid Format
5.10.3 Hometown Discount Salary Calculation
5.10.4 Identifying Players Signed with Hometown Discounts
5.10.5 Bettering a Hometown Discount Bid
5.10.6 Hometown Discounts on Option Contracts
5.11.1 Free Agent Initial No-trade Window
5.11.2 Free Agent signed with a Hometown Discount Initial No-trade Window
5.12 Free Agent Bid Prerequisites
5.13.1 Invalid Free Agent Bids
5.13.2 Non-Leading Invalid Bids
5.13.3 Leading Bids Identified As Invalid Whilst The Player Auction Is Still In Progress
5.13.4 Invalid Bids Found To Have Won An Auction (Identified Before The Final Round For Free Agents)
5.13.5 Invalid Bids Found To Have Won An Auction (Identified After The Final Round For Free Agents)
5.14 Winning Bids
Section VI Penalties/Infractions
6.1 Cheating and Collusion
6.2 Exceeding the Salary Cap
6.3 Accumulating Stats with Ineligible Players
6.4 Failure to Maintain Historical Rosters
6.5 Failing to Achieve the Minimum IP and/or AB/PA Requirements
6.6 Failing to Achieve the Final Standings Point Minimum
6.7 Invalid Free Agency Bids
6.8 Editing or Deleting Free Agency Bids
6.9 Inactivity
6.10 Self-Reporting Infractions
Section VII Unprotecting/Protecting 1st - 6th Year Players (including Waivers)
7.1.1 Players Eligible to be Protected
7.1.2 Determining Rights to a Player in their Arbitration Years In Relation to a Real Life Roster Move
7.2.1 4th - 6th Players' Protect Limit
7.2.2 Management of 4th - 6th Players' Protect Limits
7.3 Format for Protecting Players
7.4 TTC Confirmation of Player Protects
7.5 Players Eligible to be Unprotected
7.6 Unprotecting 1st - 6th Players Who Are Not The Property of One of Your Two IRL Teams
7.7 Unprotecting 1st - 6th Players Who Are The Property of One of Your Two IRL Teams
7.8 Format for Unprotecting Players
Section VIII Amateur Draft
8.1 Number of Draft Picks
8.2 Trading of Draft Picks
8.3 Draft Order
8.4 Eligible Players
8.5 Draft Commencement
8.6.1 Draft Pick Window
8.6.2 Draft Pick Window Expiry
8.6.3 Making a Draft Pick after Window Expiry
8.6.4 Multiple Missed Draft Picks
8.7.1 Optional Passing of Draft Picks
8.7.2 Effect of Passing Draft Pick on later rounds
8.7.3 Making a Draft Pick after Passed Pick
8.8.1 Drafting Players from other (IRL) Teams
8.8.2 Drafting Players from your (IRL) Teams
8.9 Draft Completion
8.10 Undrafted Players