Strat-O-Matic Baseball 365

Season 47 - RULES


This will be the 47th season of the Dual Franchise League. Salary cap will be 145 million, using a DH, 5% player drop and no waivers.
We will be using the same players pool as last season, the custom player set called “ATG9-Post WW2 V13”. All eligible players will be from the 1946 season to present. You may use any ballpark from 1946 to present.

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List of Franchises:
Angels------------Braves
Astros------------Brewers
Athletics------------Cardinals
Blue Jays------------Cubs
Indians------------Diamondbacks
Mariners------------Dodgers
Orioles------------Expos-Nationals
Rangers------------Giants
Rays------------Marlins
Red Sox------------Mets
Royals------------Padres
Tigers------------Phillies
Twins-Senators------------Pirates
White Sox------------Reds
Yankees------------Rockies

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There are currently 30 franchises to pick from; each manager picks 2 franchises via the draft and builds his team from these two franchises. A manager has exclusive rights to players on his 2 franchises. If a player has a card with 2 different teams, the team with his highest salaried card retains his rights
Using Roger Clemens as an example; here are some different scenarios;
------- If both Toronto and Boston get chosen in the draft; Toronto would own his rights because they have the highest salaried card for Clemens. Toronto could use either one of Clemens' cards either the Toronto or Boston card.
-------If Toronto and Boston are both chosen, but Toronto does not have Clemens on their opening day roster, Boston could now pick up Clemens off the waiver wire once the first game is played. Boston could also use either of his cards.
------If Toronto does not get picked and Boston does, Clemens now defaults to Boston, and once again they can use either of his cards.
------Lastly, if both teams get picked and during preseason discussions the manager of Toronto informs Bostons' manager he has no intention of using Clemens, then Boston can pick him off the waiver wire without waiting for the first game to be played ( sort of a gentlemans agreement).

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TRADES
Each manager is allowed to make one trade before or during the season, prior to the start of game 40. However, any player you are trading must be on your 24 man roster in order to make the trade. So, if you agree to a trade while the team draft is still underway; you must wait till the league is created, make sure the player you are trading is on your roster and then make the transaction.
This will allow everyone to follow trades easier and also to prevent managers from making controversial trades by throwing in player" rights" to conduct a trade.

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FREE AGENTS
In season 47, there will be no Free Agents allowed on any roster. Free agents come exclusively from one of the 6 teams not chosen in the draft.
For example, if the Angels are not chosen in the draft, players such as Mike Trout and Ken Tatum would not be eligible to be rostered by any team because their only cards are with the Angels.

Here is the draft order for us to select the draft position desired:

1 - DEDBALL -
2 - PJK -
3 - fearlessleader -
4 - EPF051580 -
5 - TOINE -
6 - FALCON29 -
7 - PACOBOY -
8 - fowldawg -
9 - BDWARD -
10 - jmdziuban2 -
11 - PDIXON0101 -
12 - TREYOMO -

Please confirm we will have to select one team from each league as we did last season. Also, what is the tie breaker to determine draft position? Both fearless and myself had the same record.
Thanks, Ed

Look, I know I’m the catalyst for this draft idiosyncrasy, so maybe I can be the catalyst for it to go away… I’m going to take the first pick and I hope the second guy takes a second pic and the third guy takes the third pick and we quit doing this extra step in the draft. If you agree with me say so, if you disagree say so…Please don’t take this as an opportunity to practice litigation. Thank you.
But I will choose first, and to save time I’m gonna tell you right now I’m taking the St. Louis Cardinals

We are selecting our draft positions and not teams at this point.

but whether or not i MUST take one NL and one AL team affects my choice of draft position. so i'd like to be sure before i take the plunge. PJK

FALCON29 wrote:Here is the draft order for us to select the draft position desired:

1 - DEDBALL -
2 - PJK -
3 - fearlessleader -
4 - EPF051580 -
5 - TOINE -
6 - FALCON29 -
7 - PACOBOY -
8 - fowldawg -
9 - BDWARD -
10 - jmdziuban2 -
11 - PDIXON0101 -
12 - TREYOMO -

Here is the draft order for us to select the draft position desired:

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I have cracked screen can somebody please put me at First pick.

Since you don’t want to know whom I’m choosing I have to ask the city of St. Louis to stay calm

So for the FIRST pick for my choice of Pick’s, I pick to pick First

Thanks for forwarding, I’m getting my screen fixed tomorrow

DED

DEDball wrote:I have cracked screen can somebody please put me at First pick.

Since you don’t want to know whom I’m choosing I have to ask the city of St. Louis to stay calm

So for the FIRST pick for my choice of Pick’s, I pick to pick First

Thanks for forwarding, I’m getting my screen fixed tomorrow

DED

1 - DEDBALL - first pick
2 - PJK -
3 - fearlessleader -
4 - EPF051580 -
5 - TOINE -
6 - FALCON29 -
7 - PACOBOY -
8 - fowldawg -
9 - BDWARD -
10 - jmdziuban2 -
11 - PDIXON0101 -
12 - TREYOMO -

epf051580 wrote:Please confirm we will have to select one team from each league as we did last season. Also, what is the tie breaker to determine draft position? Both fearless and myself had the same record.
Thanks, Ed

The draft of one AL team and one NL team was meant to be a one-season variation just to mix things up. We can revisit it again if everyone wants to, but for Season 47 we'll just go back to basics.

Tie-breaking rules follow the same format that Strat uses: H2H is first, then overall run differential.