Additional Scoresheet Baseball Rules

Late Return of Ranking Sheets or Initial Lineup Cards

If you miss the postmark deadlines given, you may delay your entire league's drafting and play. Thus we ask you to please meet the deadline given on the ranking sheet. We are allowing a couple of days leeway to get in contact with you by phone if you are late. If all else fails, we will draft for you, using the order of the player lists (by at-bats or innings pitched). We hope not to have to implement this policy. After all, we're all in this to add to our baseball enjoyment. We do appreciate it if you try to get your ranking sheet turned in a few days before the deadline indicated - it really helps things run smoothly if we get sheets on time or early!

In addition, trading in this game is very important - as most teams will be left with a hole or two at some position during at least one of the 4 years. Getting in your ranking sheets a little early will help you finish drafting with a week or so left before opening day - giving you time for pre-season trades. Remember, charges for trades and lineup changes were part of your franchise fee - there are NO additional charges. There is no reason not to do lots of trading! (A common strategy for filling a hole is to trade rights to a player for just a single year or two, if necessary. This type of trade is ok with us.)

Lineup Changes and Trades

Each week your team will play 12 games, making for a 144 game season. The week's games are all played on Tuesdays, using the player's performance from the appropriate year. (The first 3 weeks of the season will use stats from 1973, the next 3 weeks use 1974, weeks 7-9 use stats from 1975, and the final 3 weeks are played using stats from 1976.). We must receive any lineup changes by Monday to be able to use them for Tuesday's games. Give the Post Office plenty of time to get lineups here. We suggest you mail in lineups you want used for the upcoming week by Tuesday or Wednesday to make sure they get here by the following Monday. You can also send in your lineups and ranking sheets from our web site, by e-mail, or by fax. If sending lineups by fax or e-mail please send them by Friday so that we have time to enter them and check for errors before playing games Tuesday morning. Once games are played they are final! Lineup changes, especially when the years switch, are very important. If using postal mail give the Post Office plenty of time to get your changes here!

You can make unbalanced trades (for example, 3 players for 2), and you are starting out with a 36 man roster. But you can not list more than 30 players on a lineup card. Any players not listed on a lineup card WILL stay on your team's roster, and will be used before any (AAA) players are called up. Also, your team will not have more than 8 pitchers and 16 position players appear in a single game.

Trading of players is free and is allowed until the 10th week of the season. We will review all trades to avoid unfair collusion between two team owners. We must hear from both of the teams involved in a trade. All you have to do to report a trade is just include a note with your new lineup telling us which team you traded with, and the players involved. (When you make a trade we do need a new lineup from you, with the players you've traded away off of your lineup, and any new players that you want to use on your lineup.)

AL Draft Packet                    NL Draft Packet    
Complete AL packet in PDF          Complete NL packet in PDF 
Introduction - How we draft        Introduction - How we draft
Roster Balancing Procedures        Roster Balancing Procedures 
Playing Limits                     Playing Limits     
AL Player Lists Explanation        NL Player Lists Explanation 
Fielding numbers                   Fielding numbers 
Hitting and Pitching Stats         Hitting and Pitching Stats   
Statistics Used:                   Statistics Used:
  Batting and Base Running                 Batting and Base Running
  Pitching                                 Pitching
  Fielding                                 Fielding
Additional SS Baseball Rules       Additional SS Baseball Rules  
Questions about drafting           Questions about drafting  
AL Ranking Sheet                   NL Ranking Sheet     
AL Winter Baseball Player List     NL Winter Baseball Player List
AL Winter player list in PDF       NL Winter player list in PDF
BL (both league) Winter Baseball Player List
BL Winter player list in PDF
Sample Batting and Bench Lineup Card
Batting and Bench Card Instructions
Sample Pitching Lineup Card
Pitching Card Instructions

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