No Holds Barred Baseball

[In Pete We Trust]

No Holds Barred Baseball

A new modern league with a twist. We will be starting as soon as we fill up.

No Holds Barred Baseball

We encourage you to talk smack and be active.
This league is not for the thin skinned. If you can’t dish it out and take it then don’t waste anyone’s time and get your feelings hurt. Second guessing trades is highly encouraged. Not a league for snowflakes or the weak after all the fans always second guess management in real life with this being said while it is ok to talk **** about the game there are lines you should respect. It’s ok to talk about how bad of a GM someone is and the bad deals they make after all the fans do this all the time but let’s not talk about anyone’s family, spouse, kids, dogs, cats, pet pigs, race, sexuality or anything like that. This is a baseball league after all. If you can’t take the criticism then you aren’t ready for the big time. I would like to see an active slack community with a lot of baseball talk, wrestling talk, joking around or whatever else is on your mind. If you want a league where the chat is strictly business this probably isn’t the place for you.

Stadiums!
Gm creates stadium names and dimensions. Minimum 250 ft to any part of the park and maximum 600 ft. wall height you choose from 4 ft to 40 ft tall. all stadiums start with 35,000 seats. Renaming stadium and dimensions must be done before the first sim. After we get started a new GM can change the stadium name when they first join.

Stadium improvements.
In the post season you can do stadium improvements for 15 million from your team cash. This can add 1000 seats which will increase market size by 1 Or 15 mil cash to change your stadium dimensions again. This is in the offseason only. You must post in customization channel between end of World Series and first sim of Spring Training only

All things being equal.
Fan interest and loyalty of all teams start at “50%”. Market size of all teams start at 5 and local media revenue all start at the same amount of $41,500,000.00 which is the league average at game start. This should make for an interesting start to the league. What would have been a large market team may need to immediately reduce payroll while what would have been a small market will have some payroll room up front.

Staff member learning seminar
send a staff member to a learning seminar for $250,000 from team cash
Maximum of 1 staff member per year.
You can Change/Customize:
- Manager style, Hitting Coach Focus , Pitching Coach Focus
- +10 Handle players, +10 Handle Veterans, +10 Handle Rookies to all 3 of these categories
This is in the offseason only. You must post in customization channel between end of World Series and first sim of Spring Training only



Minor Leagues
All teams will have a AAA, AA, A+, A and 2 rookie level teams. One rookie league will be a full season and the other a partial season for recently drafted players. Each team will also have a Winter League team at the AA level to help with player development.

Winning at all levels will matter.
If you win MLB World Series you will have 3 million cash added to your team
If you win Winter League championship you will have 2.5 Million cash added to your team
If you win AAA, AA, A Championship you will have 2 million cash added to your team
If you win A- or either Rookie leagues you will have 1 million cash added to your team

There is a fine line between rebuilding and tanking.
Failing to achieve 50 wins will result in your 1st round pick being pushed back 10 draft slots. As a reward for not being one of the bottom feeders with the worst 10 records in the league all teams except the 10 worst will be able to rename one of their draft picks to anything of their choosing and change their hometown. The worst 10 are rewarded with a top 10 draft choice unless they really sucked and failed to get 50 wins.

Sim Schedule
Sim Monday-Weds-Friday. we want quality not quantity. Sims will be 7 days
We may have an occasional live sim on a weekend. Plenty of notice will be given for these special live sim events

Settings
Coaching and scouting system on with low scouting
20-80 ratings
Injuries normal.
Universal DH
10/5 rule turned off. We encourage trades
Draft pick signing off

Work your DFA! I’m not a babysitter
If a players DFA time runs out the player will be released. I will not send messages and hold up the sims to figure out what you want to happen. That is not fair to the other GM’s. Work the file or if you are not able to please send instructions to me prior to the sim.

Other Rules
I don’t think we need any crazy contract or rule 5 rules. OOTP has fixed most of the issues with these things over the years. Maybe just some limits on options and bonuses we will discuss as we fill up.

Also if returning a Rule 5 pick you need to post in completed trades that you are returning and tag the team they are being returned to. Failing to post this will result in a 1 million dollar fine taken from team cash if available or a negative balance if not available. We will discuss rules as members join

Help fund the league
Statsplus hosting costs $32 a quarter. If you want to help out with this cost dm the commish and you can make a donation by paypal. For every $5 donated to league costs you will be allowed to rename one of your draft picks to anything of your choosing and change their hometown.


Let me know if you have any questions, what franchise you would like to start with and what you would like to rebrand them to. Reply on forums or email me at nhbbcommish@yahoo.com

[In Pete We Trust]

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