Actually Neil,
We don't have any insurance salesmen. We just have 14 owners that Love these leagues so much, they own Franchises in Both of them. They are Really Competitive Leagues, Very Active, Year Round, with Complete up to date Spreadsheets & are so Heavily into MiLB that there's NO in season limit on them, with a 15 player limit ONLY Enforced @ the Protection Deadline every March. As you can see from our Yearly Itinerarybelow, we are running (79) Drafts just this year alone. Also attatched is one of our Most Important Facets. Our Franchise Tag!!!
BL NCML & BL CONNIE MACK 2m 2020 ITINERARY!!!
HERE'S WHAT WE HAVE GOING ON THIS YEAR!!!
* Monday March 2. ALL Teams MUST BE@ 21 Player Roster Limit. NOTE: Any player with more than 1.1 IP or 4 AB in the Show COUNTS Within this Limit.
* Monday March 2. MUST NOT HAVE MORE THAN 15 MiLB Players. Some teams may need to drop some of their (-R1, NCML or R, Connie Mack 2). NOTE: There is NO In Season Limit on These Players!!!
* Friday March 6. First Round of 15 Round FA Draft Begins, Starting @ Round 22. It WILL Last 15 Rounds, Which WILL GIVE Everyone Their 36 Man Rosters, Heading into the 2020 Season. Rounds 22-36!!!
* Friday March 13. Last Round of the 2020 FA Draft!!!
NOTE: Everyone WILL HAVE about 10 Days to CLEAR THEIR QUES of ANY Player with MORE THAN 1.1 IP or 4 AB in the SHOW!!!
* Saturday March 14 - Wednesday March 18. CONTRACT SIGNING PERIOD!!! Owners MUST HAVE Their Players SIGNED to Their Contracts By March 18. NOTE: If Anyone Needs Help with this, Brad & I WILL BE Available for Guidance! ALSO NOTE: Trading WILL SHUT DOWN During the CONTRACT SIGNING PERIOD!!!
* Wednesday March 18. TRADING REOPENS!!!
* Saturday March 22. FIRST ROUND of MiLB Draft Begins!!! NOTE: ONLY Players with LESS THAN 1.2 IP or 5 AB MAY BE Drafted in this Draft, SO, MAKE SURE Your Ques HOLD Enough of These Types of Players that SS DOESN'T Automatically Draft a MLB Player Instead. In the Case a MLB Player is Drafted by SS, You May Draft the (-R1, NCML or R, Connie Mack 2), of Your Choice By Using the ADD/DROP Line on the Home Page @ ANY TIME AFTER Your Pick Came Up! NOTE: The MLB Player MUST BE DROPPED @ that time!!!
* Tuesday March 24. The 5 Round MiLB Draft WILL END!!! Rounds 37-41.
* Thursday March 26. LINEUPS ARE DUE for the First Scoring Period of the Season, BEFORE the FIRST Pitch That Day!!!
* Wednes day April 8. FIRST of Our 11, 3 Round WAIVER DRAFTS WILL BEGIN!!! NOTE: They WILL ALL START on Wednesday & END on Friday. We WILL DRAFT 1 Round Per Day. Rounds 42-44!!
* April 22, WAIVER DRAFT! ROUNDS 45-47!!!
* May 6, WAIVER DRAFT! ROUNDS 48-50!!!
* May 20, WAIVER DRAFT! ROUNDS 51-53!!!
* June 3, WAIVER DRAFT! ROUNDS 54-56!!!
* June 17, WAIVER DRAFT! ROUNDS 57-59!!!
* July 1, WAIVER DRAFT! ROUNDS 60-62!!!
* July 15, WAIVER DRAFT! ROUNDS 63-65!!!
* July 29, WAIVER DRAFT! ROUNDS 66-68!!!
* August 12, WAIVER DRAFT! ROUNDS 69-71!!!
* August 26. LAST of our 11 Bi Weekly WAIVER DRAFTS / Rounds 72-74!!!
* Wednesday September 2. Our Annual 5 Round AMATEUR DRAFT BEGINS!!! NOTE: BE SURE to CLEAR Your Ques of ANY MLB PLAYERS. ONLY Players with LESS THAN 1.2 IP or 5 AB MAY BE DRAFTED in this DRAFT! Since we are Building Franchises in these Leagues, Rather Than JUST TEAMS, this is our Most Important Draft of the Year!
* ROUNDS 75-79!!!
** NOTE: ONLY the Waiver Drafts WILL BE 1 Round Per Day. ALL Other Drafts WILL BE 2 Rounds Per Day.
More Detailed Information On Our Franchise Player
Franchise Tag
The Basics –
The franchise tag allows a team to extend a player after his contract expires for up to an additional 6 years without any penalty. The seasons under the tagged contract do not count against a team’s limit. That is, if you tag a player that has a 6-yr contract, those 6 seasons do not count against the 50 years a team can allocate. Of course, once you extend the player to a regular contract, the years would again count.
Eligibility –
First, a player must have at least 3 years remaining on his contract to get tagged. Players with only 1 or 2 years remaining on their contract are ineligible to be tagged, and the only way to retain them would be extending them at a penalty.
Players that have been extended at the ‘+5 penalty’ cannot be tagged, and that player will necessarily become free agents when their extension expires.
While you can tag R1 and R2 players, there is not any good reason to do so since they do not require a contract to be retained.
A single player can be tagged a maximum of two times.
Teams cannot take away a tag from a player once it has been applied until the original contract expires. Therefore, you cannot move tags from one player to another when the tagged player has an active contract.
Trading the Tagged Player Away –
If you make a trade where you sent your tagged player to another team, you do not get your tag back until the initial tagged contract of that player expires. In addition, once you get the original tag back, the same eligibility rules apply, where you can only apply the contract to a player with at least a regular (non-penalty) 3-yr contract. For instance, if you trade a tagged player who has a contract ending in 2020, you get the tag back after the ’20 season and cannot apply the tag to any player who has a contract expiring in ’21 or ’22.
Trading For A Tagged Player –
When you complete a trade for another team’s tagged player, the tag travels with the player, enabling the new team to extend the tagged player without any penalty. The tag, however, returns to the original team once the original contract expires. There is no trading for tags independent of trading for tagged players. Teams cannot move that tag from one player to another. If a team has more than one tagged player on a team, all tags act independently of each other. That is, if your original tag renews while you have another teams tagged player with 2 years remaining on the contract, it does not apply to eligibility rules regarding your team’s tag. Even though you would have a tag on a 2yr contract, you could still tag a player with 3 years remaining.
Executing a Tag –
Simply, when the original tagged contract expires, you can extend that players contract without any penalty. Let’s say you have a player who is originally signed through the 2018 season. Once the 2018 season is completed, that player has zero years remaining and a tag. After the 2018 season, a team is free to extend that player, without penalty, for up to 6 seasons. Prior to the 2018 season, there is no action a team would need to take to retain the tagged player.
New Owners Rule –
If a new owner comes into the league with no player with a franchise tag, due to a tagged player being traded away without another tagged player from another team on the roster, a new tag will be granted. The old tag will still be available for another team on the originally tagged player, but when that tagged contract expires, the tag will cease to exist, given that it has essentially been replaced by the new one. The new tag adheres to all the normal rules and restrictions.
Strategy I: Managing the Tag –
The franchise tag is a very powerful tool, and it requires roster-planning ahead of time to make the best use of it. You can keep an elite player for a longer period while getting the benefit of not counting longer contracts against your cap, or you can use the tag more frequently to continually extend your core players while maintaining more flexibility and less risk. Properly utilizing the tag requires planning on what players you plan to tag in the future to maximize the benefits and avoid making mistakes. If you have a star R3 player you ‘might’ plan to tag in the future, and your current tagged player has 3 years on his contract, you would have to make sure to give the R3 star a full 6-year contract. Giving him 5 years would make him ineligible to be tagged given he would only have 2 years when the current tagged player’s contract expires. Likewise, if you had an R2 that ‘maybe’ you would have interest in tagging, while you plan on tagging your first round FA pick from this season, you couldn’t give your free agent more than a 4-year tagged contract if you still want your R2 player to be eligible for a tag down the road (by giving him a 6 year contract next season when he is an R3). Part of the strategy is planning ahead and part of it is remaining flexible to changing conditions and allocating your overall contracts to help create that flexibility. Whatever you do, making sure the best players are tagged is essential. If you tag a player that drops off in performance, the tag loses a lot of value.
Strategy II: ‘Don’t ever trade your tagged player away without getting one back in return.”
There is some merit in this idea you might have heard from Don. The case for this concept is that tags are very powerful, and no matter what you are getting in return, having no tagged player on your roster means maintaining a weakness moving forward. This idea stresses that you have to make sure you get substantial value in any trade involving your tagged player, and you have to make sure it is really a blockbuster deal to even consider making such a move. Don’t enter trades involving tagged players lightly. If you give up a tagged player for too little, it would be quite difficult to get back similar value in other trades. If your tagged player is an elite player, he is the closest thing you have to an untradeable player.
Strategy III: Teams overvalue tagged players – trade yours and make off like a bandit.
Given the last strategy point is what some folks will tend to hold, they will not only highly value their own tagged player, they will also potential covet your tagged player. This presents an opportunity to command a hefty ransom to trade your tagged player. Keep in mind, not all tags are equal. Some players with tags are younger, some are older. Some tagged players are simply not as good, and some tags are on contracts that expire sooner than others. All these factors play a role in how much a tagged contract is worth in a trade. Given the value many will rightfully place on a tag, teams can get a good return. For rebuilding teams, this could result in a deal to acquire a core of prospects. For contending teams, it might give the edge in the current season to get necessary key pieces for the stretch to go after a title. Tags are valuable, but it would be advisable to keep an open mind about what you can get in return for a tagged player, given specific circumstances.
Author: Brad Matthews
Don L.
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