CONSTITUTION

Trades

Rookie Draft

Ballparks

Game Plans

To Export a Manager Profile

Game Playing Procedures

Playoffs

Player Limitations - Regular season

Penalties for Player Overuse and Tardiness

Amendments to Constitution

Updated 3/02/2023

League Set up

1.  20 teams.
2.  Two Leagues, Four Divisions. 
3.  162 game season, 3 game series, April to September.

Rosters

1.  40 man rosters
2.  Rosters retained year-to-year.
3.  Players cut from rosters will be placed in next year's draft.
4.  You can have 2 seperate 26 man active rosters per month, one
    for home games and one for road games.  Home roster and road 
    roster may be different but both are fixed at 26 for the whole month.
5.  Full rosters beginning 1st full series in September.

Trades

1.  Players and/or draft picks may be traded.   Only draft picks for the
    current year can be traded until November 15.   Draft picks for the following year are not
    available until November 15.
2.  Any trades made during the season will go into effect the following
    month.
3.  Deadline - During the season only, the 28th of each month.
4.  In order to be eligible for the playoffs, a player must be traded prior to the September block.  
    A player must be on the teams roster for at least one month.   
5.  Starting August 28 no trades are allowed until after the postseason concludes or November 15 whichever comes first.
    

Rookie/Free Agent Draft 

1.  Draft will consist of 10 rounds
2.  All players not already protected on team's 40-man roster and 
    on season disk are eligible.  
3.  Team with worst overall record drafts first, best is last.  
4.  The draft will be conducted in January.  It will be held live in the
    league chat room.  Those who cannot attend must send in a list with 
    players ranked in order of preference.  Commissioner will then select
    first available player on list when that manager's pick comes up.
5.  Trading is allowed during the draft.
6.  NEW - Managers who want to continue to select players after the draft has ended must
    send a list to commissioner and then the draft wil continue 48 hours after the draft 
    has ended until all selections from the lists have been made using the same order 
    as the regular draft.  Managers who want to select more than 3 players after the draft
    will need to make a main roster cut for each player over 3.  
7   After the draft completes picks can still be made but will be on a first come first serve
    basis and will require a main roster cut for each player selected. Commissioner will close 
    the player pool around the middle of February before spring training games start. 

Ballparks

1.  Each team will play in different ballparks.
2.  Can change ballpark from year to year but can only choose from 
    available parks.

Game Plans

1.  Play-by-email or face-to-face.
2.  Set up a rotation for the whole year and send a copy to league
    commissioner.  Pitchers must have at least 3 days rest between starts.
3.  Two sets of 25 man rosters are allowed.  One roster for home games
    and one for away games.  Both rosters are fixed for the whole month.
4.  Email a copy of your manager profile for away games for the upcoming 
    month to the     commissioner by the 1st of the month.  After commissioner
    receives all profiles from all teams, he will send a new database that
    contains all updated profiles to the league.  You will then install and use this
    database to play games.
5.  You will only play your home games.


To Export a Manager Profile

1.  Make sure your roster only has 26 active players.
    Farm your 14 inactive players before exporting
    your profile.
2.  On the main menu, select TRANSFER, then EXPORT STATISTICS,
    select your team, then click NEXT.  On GAME ACCOUNTS screen
    choose DESELECT ALL and click NEXT.  On TRANSACTIONS screen
    choose DESELECT ALL and click FINISH.  On the SAVE AS screen, 
    save the file as your team name and month.  Ex:  DEVAPR
3.  Attach the file to an email and send to commissioner.
4.  Profiles must be sent to commissioner by the first of the month         
    

   

Game Playing Procedures

1.  ALL games must be played and stat file sent to the
    commissioner by the 25th of each month.   All unplayed
    games will be auto played by the commissioner on the
    26th.
2.  Install the proper database that contains updated manager
    profiles for all teams.  
3.  Look at the rotation of the team you are playing
    and write down the 3 pitchers you will be facing.

4.  Choose GAME and then SCHEDULED.   Click the day on the
    calendar and a list of games for that day appear. 
5.  Choose the game that you want to play and then click
    the PLAY button.  Then choose PLAY SELECTED GAME ONLY.
    Make sure that that is the only option you choose.  
6.  The SCHEDULED GAME OPTIONS pops up.  Click on the MANAGERS
    tab.  Set the home team to ALL HUMAN and the away team to
    ALL COMPUTER except STARTING LINEUPS should be human.
7.  Select the starting pitchers for both teams.
8.  Choose FILE and load the saved lineup for the
    away team.  Set your lineup and start the game.
9.  After the game is over UPDATE the STATISTICS and UPDATE
     the BOXSCORES.
10.  When you're finished playing games for the month do the
    following.  
    a.  On the main menu choose TRANSFER, then EXPORT STATISTICS.
    b.  The MANAGER PROFILE screen comes up.  Choose SELECT ALL and
        click NEXT.  (You need to send profiles with stats)
    c.  The GAME ACCOUNTS screen comes up.  Choose NEW GAMES then click
        NEXT.  This will only send stats from the "New games" you just played
        and not all the stats.  The statistician only needs stats from new
        games.
    d.  The TRANSACTIONS screen comes up.  Choose DESELECT ALL and click
        FINISH.  No need to send transactions.  Commisioner already has them.
    e.  The SAVE AS screens pops up.  Label the file with your team name and
        choose where you want to save file.  
    f.  Send the file via email to the commissioner    
11.  Commissioner will accumulate the statistics and send everyone an
    updated stat file before the 1st of the month.


The computer manager tends to pinch hit even when you
set up the tendencies to LEAST.  If you don't want a player to
be pinch hit for, you can go to MgrProfile, select Depth, select
lineup, select Bat, arrow to the player and hit enter.  Choose
NO for "Can be removed for pinch hitter" vs Right, Left or Both.

If you don't want the computer manager using your bench players
during road games, we found out this feature is a must.

Playoffs

1.  All playoff games should be played head-to-head if possible or managers can
    send profiles to each other and play home games or they can chose to have a 
    third party play the games for them.  There is a 2 week limit that the 
    series must be played in or commisioner will SIM the series. 

    There will now be 8 playoff teams. The 4 division winners plus 4 
    wild card teams. The wild card teams are the 2 teams with the best record
    that are not division winners.  Ties will be decided by a one game 
    playoff.  The Division winner with the best overall record plays the 
    wild card team with the worst record.  The other division winner plays
    the remaining wild card team.  This is a best of 5 series with the 
    division winner having home field advantage in Round 1.  
    
    Round 1 Matchups:  Best of 5 series 
    
    Series 1:  Gehrig Division winner with best record vs Gehrig Wild card team with worst record
    Series 2:  Remaining Gehrig division winner vs remaining Gehrig wild card team
    Series 3:  Dimaggio Division winner with best record vs Dimaggio Wild card team with worst record
    Series 4:  Remaining Dimaggio division winner vs remaining Dimaggio wild card team
       
    Round 2 Matchups:  Best of 7 series

    Gehrig League
    Winner of Series 1 vs Winner of Series 2
    
    Dimaggio League
    Winner of Series 3 vs Winner of Series 4
    
    World Series:  Best of 7 series
    
    Winner of Gehrig League vs Winner of Dimaggio League
    
2.  Home field advantage.  In the event both division winners meet in the best of 7, 
    the team with the best record has home field advantage.  If both wild card advance
    the wild card team with the best record will have home field advantage.
  
    If a Division winner and wild card team advance, the division winner will have 
    home field advantage regardless of record.  
    
    In the event of even records, the team with the best record in games played against 
    each other during the regular season will have home field advantage.  If that is 
    even then a coin flip by the commish will decide.
    
3.  In best of 5 series, team with home field advantage is home in games 1,2,5.  In best of
    7 series, team with home field advantage is home in games 1,2,6,7.
    
4.  Days off best of 5 series are after games 2 and 4.
    Days off best of 7 series are after games 2 and 5.
    
5.  Playoff parties will decide how they want to play the series: 
    face-to-face, email, or neutral third party.
    
6.  World Series - same as playoff except home field advantage alternates
    year to year from league to league.   The Gehrig winner has
    home field advantage in odd years and Dimaggio in even years..
    

Please note below for penalties for playoff teams

Player Limitations - Regular Season

1.  All games are played in accordance with the DMB rules, and instructions
    provided by the visiting manager.
2.  No injuries.
3.  Designated hitter.
4.  All batters and any pitcher used in relief are limited to 110% (batters) of 125% (pitchers) of their actual playing
    time.  (total plate appearances for hitters, batters faced for pitchers).
5.  Starting pitchers are limited to actual games started.  If starters are used
    strictly as starters, there is no limitation on batters faced.  Any starter
    can be used in relief, even if they did not relieve in real life.  If any
    pitcher is used in relief (even for just one batter faced), he will then be
    considered a reliever and will be limited to restrictions laid out in rule 8 below.

    NOTE:  If a pitcher is used in relief on the road and you dont have him set up
    to be used in relief AND you only plan on using this pitcher as a starter only,
    you are not limited to rule #8 below but to actual starts with unlimited BF. 
6.  Batters that have at least 500 PA are considered every day players.  These players
    have no restrictions vs LH or RH pitchers.  They are only limited to 110% of
    their actual playing time.  All other batters will be considered part-time players.
7.  All part-time batters are limited to 200% vs LH or RH (This is to prevent a platoon
    player from batting against the platoon when he has very few PA from that side)
    eg. player has ~ 60 PA and batted .667 against LHP going
    2-3).  These players will also be limited to 110% of their actual playing time.
8.  Regular season limits for relief pitchers and swingmen:

Pitchers used ONLY as relievers are limited to 125% of Batters Faced. 

EX: Neftali Feliz appeared in 64 games and faced 252 batters. He would be limited in MBL to 315 total batters faced.  (252 x 1.25 = 315)

Swingmen (pitcher who can start and relief) are limited to their actual games started with unlimited BF if ONLY used as a starter.  If used in any games in relief then he will be limited to actual games started AND 125% of batters faced.
If swingman is used only as a reliever, then he is limited to 125% of batters faced.  NOTE:  any time a pitcher is used in relief (accept for scenario in RED listed in #5 above) then he will be limited to 125% of batters faced.

EX: Kyle McClellan has 17 starts and 607 Batters Faced. He would be limited as follows:

If used as a starter only, he would be limited to 17 starts with unlimited batters faced.  If only used as a reliever, he would be limited to 759 batters faced.
If used as a starter and a reliever, he would be limited to 17 starts and also be limited to 759 batters faced.

    NOTE:  If a pitcher is used in relief on the road and you dont have him set up
    to be used in relief AND you only plan on using this pitcher as a starter only,
    you are not limited to the above rule but to actual starts with unlimited BF.
9.  Any player violating any of the eligibility rules (4, 5, 6, 7 or 8) must immediately
    be farmed and can no longer play the rest of the regular season 
10. Players can play any position, since DMB compensates for out of position
    players....lots of errors.

11. NEW! The free agent pool will be open starting the May block of season.  Any players not selected in the
January draft and players that are cut to reach the 40 man limit in April will be available.  If you need
extra ABs or innings/starts, you can select players from the free agent pool but at the price of cutting
players from your current roster.  The players you select from the draft pool are only 'rentals' and go
back into the pool at season end.  The players you cut will be PERMANENT cuts and will stay in draft pool. 
  Multiple rent-a-players can be selected but a cut from your original 40 man roster must be made for each
player selected.  All cut players now become rent-a-players and will be available.  If you cut a player,
you can select him again in later months but this player is now a rent-a-player and will be added back
to free agent pool at season end.

Usage for rent-a-players is same as normal players.  If you go over on usage, you will be penalized. 
If you select a player that has previous usage from earlier in season and was cut, that usage carries
over to your team.   EX:  Teutons use Player A for 50% of players overall PA and then cut him.  Warriors
select Player A and now can only use him for his remaining usage.  If he goes over, Warriors will be
penalized per normal procedure.

Rental players can not be traded

All player requests must be made to the commissioner by the 29th of the month.   Commissioner will
send out a waiver order on same day that the player generating database is ready, usually the 26th of
each month. Waiver order will be determined by win/loss record and team having lowest win total will
be first and team with highest win total last.   Ties will be solved by a coin toss or by random choice.
 

Penalties for Player overuse and Tardiness.

1.  Each reliever BF over 125% or batter PA over 110% counts as 1 demerit (overall usage).
    Each reliever BF or batter PA over 200% vs Left or 200% vs Right counts as 1 demerit.
    Overall usage will be checked first.  Then righty and lefty usage will be checked.
2.  Any start over counts as 20 demerits.  Each team could get 25 demerits with no
    penalty.
3.  The penalty for starting a pitcher on less than 3 days rest is the same as the
    penalty for going over the limit in games started (currently 20 demerits).   
   
    26-50 demerits would cost 1 roster spot next season
    51-75 demerits would cost 2
    76-100 demerits would cost 3
    101+ demerits would cost 4
   
    Formulas for calculating demerits
    For batters (overall), its round down (DMB PA - REAL PA * 1.1)
    For pitchers (overall), it's round down (DMB BF - REAL BF * 1.1)
    For batters and pitchers VS LHP, its round down (DMB PA/BF VS LHP - REAL PA/BF VS LHP * 2)
    For batters and pitchers VS RHP, its round down (DMB PA/BF VS RHP - REAL PA/BF VS RHP * 2)

4. Any starting pitcher with 26+ demerits or batter/reliever with 15+ demerits would be disqualified from the current seasons playoffs
   
5. NEW! For each instance of unexcused tardiness (late with profile or monthly stat file) one demerit will be assessed
and be added to demerits accumulated for player overuse


  Amendments to the Constitution

  1.  A proposition passes when 2/3 are for it.
  2.  All members can make proposals.