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Cumulative team performance is tabulated in four offensive
and four pitching categories: Batting Average, Home Runs, Runs
Batted In, and Stolen Bases represent the offensive half. Wins,
Saves, Earned Run Average, and Hits+Walks per Inning (Ratio)
represent the pitching categories.
In each of the 8 categories, teams are ranked from best to
worst. The highest ranked team in a league of 10 teams will earn
10 points for that ranking. The 2nd best team earns 9 points and
so on. In the event of a tie within a category, the point values
for the tied positions are divided by the number of tied teams.
For instance, the previous example would have each team being
awarded 9.5 points if tied for the best in that category. The
team with the most total points wins the pennant!!
Seasonal prize money is distributed as follows (based on
a minimum 11-team league): 45% for 1st place, 25% for 2nd, 15% for 3rd,
10% for 4th, and the 5th best team earns 05%. Based on a league
of less than 11 teams the prizes are 50%, 25%, 15%, and 10% for
1st through 4th place -- 5th place wins nothing. All fines and
transaction fees accrued between the end of the previous season
and the end of the current season represents 100% of the seasonal prize pool.
If the current season ceases prior to the All-Star break
and does not resume, all collected transaction fees will be
returned.
The Draft
Teams are assembled at a free agent draft auction that takes place on April
5th at 5:30PM, in Lake Zurich -- specific destination to be announced.
Each team is composed of 23 players taken from the active
rosters (includes disabled players) of the National League teams.
Ivicerrie teams shall be composed of five outfielders, two
catchers, one 2nd baseman, one shortstop, one additional middle
infielder, one 1st baseman, one 3rd baseman, one additional
corner infielder, one non-pitching utility player, and nine
pitchers.
Players are acquired at an open auction. Each team may use up to $260 at the auction and must spend at least $230. The order of auctioning is determined as follows: The previous season's winner nominates an eligible player from the free-agent pool for a minimum of $1. The bidding continues openly at minimum increments of $1 and the player is sold to the highest qualified bidder. The process repeats with each successive owner, poker-style around the "table", nominating players until every team has a full squad.
Players eligible at more than one position may be shifted appropriately during the draft.
No team may bid for a player who qualifies only at positions that the team has already filled.
No team may make a bid for a player it cannot afford.
Players are eligible if they are on the Active, or Disabled, or Suspended lists of their National League team.
Each drafting team will be limited to a total of six HOLDS
during the entire draft. A HOLD (time out) may last up to 30 seconds.
Prior to the auction draft, a Farmer draft will transpire in NFL style. The
order of the Farmer draft will begin with the team closest to the previous season's
prize placement (5th place in a 10-team league) selecting a National Minor League
player at no cost and continues downward through the order of the previous season's
standings. After the last place team picks, then the prize-winning teams pick
in order of lowest prize to highest. In a season that includes Ivicerrie expansion,
the expansion team will automatically be slotted into having the 2nd Farmer
pick and all other teams will shift downward one position (per expansion team).
Immediately after the Farmer draft has concluded, each owner will "pick
a number out of a hat" to determine the Waiver Order to begin the season
with (see Waiver rule below). Then the regular auction draft can begin.
FEES PER TEAM
The following transaction fees are in effect:
Dollars Purpose
230-260 Auctioning fund
*20 Post-draft roster addition per player
*10 Reserving a player
0 Reactivating a reserved player
*05 For each traded player
*20 Surcharge for a willy-nilly transaction
*The three teams at the bottom of the standings are permitted to exercise transactions at half-price following noon on the Wednesday of the All-Star break. The qualifications are based on the most recently published weekly report.
Each team will contribute $460 on draft day to cover the auction and future
transactions up to that amount. This is thought to remove the "late" penalties
that occasionally infect some owners. When a team's "account" is down to $50,
the Commissioner will request another $70 to keep the account active. At season's
end, unused funds will be returned.
COMMISSIONER'S/STATISTICIAN'S OBLIGATIONS/FEES
AllStar Stats will provide weekly reports to each owner for a fee based on delivery service. If using normal Internet access for stats, the fee will be $34 per team for the full season. This fee is in addition to the $460 participation money required at the draft. Extra reports (for co-owners) are reasonably priced -- information is available upon request. This service will also provide us with draft-day eligibility rosters.
The Commissioner (currently Paul Adler) is responsible to:
If a hotline is not otherwise made available, the Commissioner fee will become $10 per team to help offset the expense of the voicemail.
POSITION REQUIREMENTS
A player may be designated for any position in which he played a minimum of 20 games, or, failing that, in which he appeared most while in the Majors in the previous season, or any position for which he has already played in the current season.
All transactions must meet positional requirements.
TRANSACTION REPORTING
For acquiring free agents, we have a first come/first serve policy using a voice-mail system that is available 24-hours each day. The system will indicate the date and time called which, in turn, indicates the effective date of the transaction. A transaction is always effective the date following the call, unless placed before noon (Chicago time), in which case it becomes effective the date of the call.
For players previously unaffiliated with the NL we have the following special clause: On the date such players become National Leaguers, each Ivicerrie owner has until midnight of the following date to make a claim for the player. If no claim is called in, the player simply becomes a free agent and is subject to our normal first come-first served policy. If the player is claimed by one or more Ivicerrie teams within the indicated timeframe, the player is automatically awarded to the roster of the Ivicerrie owner highest in the waiver order (where 1 is higher than 10). Waiver order is originally determined on draft day through a random process (see Draft note above). When an Ivicerrie team is awarded a player through the waiver system just described, that team instantly drops to the bottom of the waiver order. The current waiver order will be maintained in the Commissioner News section of the stat service page. When calling in a waiver claim, all owners must describe the complete transaction (drop Mark Grace and add Jason Giambi, for example). All applicable transaction fees apply as usual.
Our trading deadline is midnight between Aug 31st & Sep 1st. Designating
a player to be traded at a time other than the time the trade is called in is
not permitted.
PLAYER SALARIES
The salary of an auctioned player is his auction price. The salary of a retained (from the previous season) farmer who remains on the farm roster is his previous season's salary. The salary of a retained player who opens the season on the active Ivicerrie roster is his previous season's salary plus $5.00. The salary of a player acquired from the free-agent pool during the season is $20 -- regardless of his acquisition date.
Once a player has an Ivicerrie salary in a given season, that salary remains with the player throughout the season -- regardless of which owner claims him, when he is claimed, or which roster spot the player occupies. Normal retention rules or auction rules will adjust the player's salary the following season -- whichever applies.
TRANSACTION INTEGRITY
If the Commissioner deems a transaction to be of questionable integrity, he will elicit a vote from each of the three teams nearest the bottom of the currently published standings who are not directly involved in the transaction. The result of the vote will serve to validate or nullify the transaction. Any owner may use the same approach to challenge any Commissioner ruling.
A minimum of 51% of the Ivicerrie teams must be represented in any other such
events producing league decisions (such as a winter meeting).
PLAYER ELIGIBILITY
A player may be activated from the reserve list only if he is announced as an active member of a National League team. He must be listed as officially ACTIVE at the time the Ivicerrie activation is declared.
A player may be acquired from the free agent pool provided he is on the NL team's 25 man roster or on any of the NL team's disabled lists (15-day, 21-day, ...). ACQUIRE is defined, in this sense, as drafting on draft day, or replacing a dropped or reserved player during the season.
Any player declared suspended for 15 continuous days or
more (regardless of reason) will be eligible for replacement
while serving the suspension, as if he were placed on a disabled
list.
WILLY-NILLY CLAUSE
Each owner has the right to replace up to two players on his roster even though
the player's NL status is Active. These moves can occur at any time during the
season. A willy-nilly surcharge accompanies normal reserving and replacement
fees that apply. After Sept 1st, if the owner chooses to reserve
the player being substituted for, the player will be considered reserved for
the remainder of the season, again regardless of his actual major league status.
Willy-nilly reserving is not otherwise permitted.
MINIMUM INNINGS
We have a minimum requirement of 950 innings pitched per
team by the end of the season. The penalty for violation of this
requirement is that the guilty party will receive 0 points in the
categories of ERA and Ratio. Their place in the standings of
those categories remains the same, however.
NATIONAL LEAGUE ACTIVATION AND THE TWO WEEK CLOCK
Unless reserved in a willy-nilly transaction after Sept 1st, or unless a farmer activated to a NL roster after Sept 1st, when a Reserved Player is activated by his Major League team, a 14-Day clock begins ticking. If 14 consecutive calendar days pass without the Ivicerrie owner's activation of that player and the player remains on the Major League team's active roster, the player becomes available to all owners.
If the owner, during those 14 consecutive days, activates
the reserved player, then the player who was acquired in the
reserved player's roster spot at the time of the reservation,
must be released or "slid" into a natural roster opening.
PLAYER RETENTION
Each of the Ivicerrie teams may retain players from their previous season's roster. Each retained active player must receive a $5 raise to his previous season's salary. Each team must conform to one of two retention limits: (1)retain any three active players (five players beginning in 2003) regardless of salary or, (2)the sum salary (raises included) of retained players must not exceed $50 ($75 beginning in 2003). All salaries of retained players are deducted from the $260 auction limit.
Players selected as farmers and who remain farmers at season's end, are eligible
to be retained as farmers into the next season. Their salary remains $0, the
fee to retain them as a farmer is $5, but that fee is not counted against the
auction fund or the player's salary. A retained farmer, in this situation, simulates
a farmer selection during the farmer portion of the draft. If such a farmer
will make the NL's Opening Day roster, the Ivicerrie owner has the option of
declaring the farmer as active retroactive to Opening Day. Such declaration
must be made at the time retention declarations are due. In this scenario, the
farmer does not occupy an active roster spot during the draft and at the auction's
conclusion, the owner must report which drafted player the farmer is replacing.
There is no activation fee for this move. Alternatively, the Ivicerrie owner
may delcare the farmer as being retained as a Farmer. Again, this declaration
must be made at the time retention declarations are due. If that Farmer happens
to have been active in the NL between Opening Day and draft day, the owner's
14-day clock began the day of that NL activation.
FARMERS
Leading off the draft, each Ivicerrie team will select two offensive, two pitching, and a fifth player (hitter or pitcher) from the NL Minor Leagues at no cost and no impact to the draft auction limit. These players will not occupy an active roster spot. (Retained farmers are included in the total of five.)
See note above under Draft for a description of the Farmer drafting order.
If and when a Farmer is activated by his National League team during that season, the applicable owner has the option to activate the player to the Ivicerrie roster or to simply replace the farmer with another NL Minor leaguer -- offense for offense, pitcher for pitcher, either for wildcard. The owner has 14 consecutive calendar days from the day of the farmer's NL activation to make the transaction, unless the NL activation occurs on or after Sep 1st.
If the owner chooses to activate the farmer, he may replace any player on the Ivicerrie roster -- regardless of the NL status of the player being replaced. This activation will follow all of our normal transaction fees and position qualifications. The owner then has the remaining portion of the 14 days to replace the farmer with another NL Minor leaguer.
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