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Rules: Autodraft, $80 million dollar salary cap-DH, graduated drop, waivers, no restrictions on stadiums or trades.

After you select your team and after waivers run, a felow division member will identify one player on your roster who will be removed from your roster and replaced with a player of their choice. The replacement players must play the same primary position and must be at least 50% of the salary of the players removed from your roster. For pitchers, a starter who only needs three days rest must be replaced with another pitcher who needs only 3 days rest. The players who are removed from your team are ineligible for the league and cannot be used by any owner/manager.

The new player must be used for at their average plate appearances (position players) or innings pitched (pitchers)and must be kept on the roster until that criteria is met. Once that criteria is met, the player may be dropped if desired. We will be on the honor system to ensure the assigned player is used consistent with these requirements. By joining the league, you are agreeing to this criteria.

Divisions will be based on state lotto numbers high to low-east will be teams 1,4, 7 and 10 Central: 2,5,8, 11 West: 3,6, 9, 12

After waivers have run, we will hold our elimination/new player assignment on the message boards. For purposes of identifying a player to eliminate and a replacement player, teams 1 and 10 will be paired-that means team 1 will identify the player who will be eliminated and the replacement player for the roster of team 10. Then, team 2 will review the roster of team 11. Then, team 3 will identify a player to eliminate from team 12 and add a player etc etc until team 12 returns the favor for team 3 by removing a player and adding a replacement. Remember, the replacement player must play the same primary position as the player being eliminated. The replacement player must be at least 50% of the salary of the player being eliminated. So, you cannot replace Johnny Bench with Glenn Borgmann but you can replace him with John Stearns or Gene Tenace.

Each team will lose one player on their roster after the autodraft/waivers and will be assigned a player from a fellow owner.

The Commish reserves the right to make issue rule clarifications should it be necessary due to unforseen scenarios. The ruling will be in the best interest of competitive spirit of the league.

It's hoped this league will result in some intersting drafting strategies as we attempt to antiipcate players who might be the target of an envious divison mate.

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With news of the Father's Day sale from TSN, here's an opportunity to join a league with a twist. Join in on the fun as you scheme to remove a player from a divisional competitors roster and replace him with the player of your choice. See what happens when your division mate thinks they will have Keith Hernandez and they end up having to use Mike Epstein instead.

Suppose a team has autodrafted 6 strating pitchers with salaries of 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 mil. Then a 0.75 mil replacement starting pitcher is selected to replace the 1 mil starting pitcher. Does the owner need to start the 0.75 mil starter? Or does the replacement pitcher need to replace one of the top 4 salaried starters?

For relievers, we have little control how much they are used. I suppose that there is nothing that can be done here other than leave the replacement reliever on the staff til he hits half his average number of innings pitched. but if HAL chooses not to use the replacement reliever, that is just the breaks. Is that right?

nother question. How is primary position determined? Is it by where they actually played most, or their best defensive rank? Can Bench be replaced by Mike Ivie?

>>Suppose a team has autodrafted 6 strating pitchers with salaries of 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 mil. Then a 0.75 mil replacement starting pitcher is selected to replace the 1 mil starting pitcher. Does the owner need to >>start the 0.75 mil starter?

Franky-the replacement starter must pitch at least the average number of his innings-either as a starter or a reliever. Since it's somewhat challenging to control innings pitched for a reliever, he would most likely have to be used as a starter. So, let's say I determine that instead of Wayne Twitchell who you drafted, you get Pete Broberg. Pete would need to pitch 154.2 innings. After that, it's your call as to keeping him on the roster.

>>Or does the replacement pitcher need to replace one of the top 4 salaried starters?

In your example, you would have a 6, 5, 4, 3, and 2 million dollar pitchers plus Pete Broberg. You would need to solve the problem of how to get Pete 154 innings on the bump.


>>For relievers, we have little control how much they are used. I suppose that there is nothing that can be done here other than leave the replacement reliever on the staff til he hits half his average number of innings pitched. but if HAL chooses not to use the replacement reliever, >>that is just the breaks. Is that right?

For relievers, the spirit of fair play will need to be followed. The owner must make a good faith effort to get the reliever used.

As I've looked into the strategy of this, I think assigning someone a starter or position player is the way to go to create maximum mayhem. If the league owners agree, we could exclude relievers from being replaceable. Let me know what you think.

nother question. How is primary position determined? Is it by where they actually played most, or their best defensive rank? Can Bench be replaced by Mike Ivie?

The position is determined by the first position listed for each player. So,in your example, Mike Ivie is a first baseman and would need to replace another first baseman. He could not be used to replace Johnny Bench.

Now, if you received Mike Ivie, you can play him whereever you like as his owner. Your job is to get him enough plate appearances to his meet his average. In Mike's case, that is 431.

Hope this helps-if you'd like an Excel file detailing the PA's and Innings pitched for each player, let me know. Hope to see you in the league soon.

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Even with the 5 pack sale, we can now measure posts to this group in terms of days between any activity on the board. Thanks to those who have signed up-there is still room for you if you are reading this message.