Post by Atlanta on Mar 26, 2020 20:25:56 GMT
Welcome to The Four Horsemen!
The Four Horsemen is a 4 sport dynasty salary cap league played on Fantraz.
1. Structure
A. 12 teams divided into 3 divisions (East, Central, and West)
B. Rosters unique to each sport
C. H2H points will be the scoring for every league
D. The league will be formed of a commissioner committee. The positions are as follows.
General/Hockey Commissioner: Atlanta
Football Commissioner: Ohio
Basketball Commissioner: North Carolina
Baseball Commissioner: Washington
E. If extra help is needed out side of these commissioners then co-commissioners will be assigned.
2. Code of Conduct
A. Participation and activity are key to the life of the league. Owners must be committed to remaining active through the whole year. All that is asked of owners is to set your lineups every day in every sport, respond to trade offers, make your draft picks in the allotted time slot (24 hours), and check the Proboards page once a day.
3. Rule Changes
A. All rule changes must be made in the off season or their respective sport
B. Any league owner may propose a new rule
C. For a rule to become final, a vote on the rule must be result in a majority of votes. In the event of a tied vote then the proposal will be vetoed.
D. In rare circumstances, the commissioner committee is allowed to veto a rule change as long as the can prove that the rule will alter the integrity of the league.
4. Contracts
A. This is a dynasty league, meaning each owner will be able to retain the majority of their players from year to year
B. A contract is the value that it takes to own a player for that year
C. A contract's minimum value possible is 0, and there is no maximum. Values must be whole numbers, no fractions. (1, 2, 3, etc.)
D. Each sport will have their own Salary Cap/Contract Cap. For example, baseball will be 68 for the Inaugural season. Meaning, you have 68 contract points to award to each season to players on your active roster. It is a hard cap that will be slightly raised each year. View each sports specific rules for more details.
E. All player contracts will increase by 1 each year regardless of the player, unless the player has not surpassed their rookie limits. For example, if Mike Trout has a contract worth 5 in 2020, it will be 6 in 2021 and 7 in 2022, unless the player is released and awarded a new contract in Free Agency.
F. If a player is traded, his contract is traded with him.
G. You may trade contracts between teams from year to year. For example, Team A trades Team B 2 contracts for one year in exchange for Eric Hosmer
H. Rookies contain a contract of 0 and remain at 0 every year until they exceed the defined rookie limits for each sport, or have been promoted from your Minor League roster. If a rookie is promoted to your active roster, he stays at 0 contracts for that season but would cost 1 contract to re-sign the next season, whether rookie limits have been surpassed or not. For their rookie year, they will hold a value of 0 contracts, whether they are promoted or not. If you want to re-sign the player the next year, they will cost 1 contract, unless they have not reached rookie limits. In that case, they would still be 0 contracts and eligible for your Minor League roster. Example of a rookie tat would be 0 contract eligible in back to back years would be Ben Simmons, if he was never promoted. He never played in a game in 2016 so he would still hold rookie status for 2017
I. Contracts may not be transferred between sports
J. There will be a 1 week period at the beginning of each sport's season to determine which of your players will be re-signed for an increase of 1 contract, or they can be released to Free Agency for no charge to the next year's salary cap
K. A transaction (contract offered, trade, etc.) that would put a team over the cap or over maximum roster size for either the major or minor league roster will be allowed as long as a corresponding move to return the roster to validity is executed within 8 hours of the completion of the move that made the roster invalid. Exception- Off season meetings before resign/release is due, over rostering and over cap transactions are allowed
L. If a corresponding move is not made within the acceptable window:
(i) The free agent will return to free agency one the he commissioner notices it, fixes it, and notifies the league. The previous highest bidder has the opportunity to keep their old bid if they want, but the 24 hour clock restarts on commissioner's discovery.
(ii) The trade will still remain valid, however, the team over rostering or over the cap will not be able to use any player received in the trade in a fantasy matchup until the roster returns to validity.
M. Using 6L to manipulate the system to intentionally over roster or over spend to gain a competitive advantage in a fantasy matchup is not allowed. This, as well as repeat offenders of 6L, will receive contract penalties from the disciplinary committee.
5. Waivers
A. To release a player from any sport you must place him on waivers. Once on waivers, the player will be removed from your active roster and no longer your property. Waivers will last 5 days.
B. When a player is released, the team that releases him will immediately retain half of that player's contract back.
C. You would get nothing back for releasing a 1 contract player. If a team claims that player, they claim him for 1 and the team that releases him gets 1 contract back.
D. All held contracts will be rounded up to the nearest whole contract. Example: a player that costs 3 contracts is released and goes unclaimed. The team that waived him owes 50% of his contract, which is 1 and a half. We will round the half contract up to the nearest whole number, in this case being 2. So releasing the player gained you 1 contract back and you still owe the player 2 contracts for the rest of that season.
E. Any player that is released for 4 contracts or more can be claimed for 2 less contracts than what they were released for. any player released for 3 contract or 2 contracts can be claimed for 1 less contract than what they were released for. The team that waived the player pays the difference.
F. If a player was waived via a Free Release, the person that waived him would owe nothing on a claimed player and would get all the contracts back
Example 1 (Even numbered 4+ contract release)
Philly release Severino at 8 contracts. Boston wins a claim on Severino for 6 contracts. Philly already gets 4 contracts back upon release. After the waiver claim process ( days) Severino then gets put on Boston's roster for 6 contracts. Philly then receives an additional 2 contracts, and still owes Severino 2 contracts for the rest of that season.
Example 2 (Odd numbered 4+ contract release)
Philly releases ARcher at 5 contracts. Boston wins claim for 3 contracts. Philly already gets 2 contracts back upon release. After the waiver claim process (5 days) Archer gets put on Boston's roster for 3 contracts. Philly then receives an additional contract, and still owes Archer 2 contracts for the rest of that season.
Example 3 (3 contract release)
Philly release Iglesias at 3 contracts. Boston wins claim for 2 contracts. Philly already gets 1 contract back upon release. After the waiver claim process (5 days) Iglesias then gets put on Boston's roster for 2 contracts. Philly then receives an additional contracts and still owes Isglesias 1 contract for the rest of that season.
Example 4 (2 contract release)
Philly release Gausman at 2 contracts. Boston wins a claim on Gausman for 1 contract. Philly already gets 1 contract back upon release. After the waiver claim process (5 days) Gausman gets put on Boston's roster for 1 contract. Philly does not retain any other contracts besides the 1 contract he got back upon release of Gausman.
G. If the player goes unclaimed after the 5 days, then the player becomes a free agent and the the team that released him will still owe the player 50% of his contract for that year only. If the released player only cost 1 contract and goes unclaimed, the player will be owed 1 contract still by the team that waived him. The player can now be signed by anyone and at any price
H. The waiver claim order will start out as being inverse order of the previous year's final standings. You will move to last after making a claim.
I. The team that waives a player cannot claim that player on waivers. They must wait for the player to clear waivers, and make a new bid on him.
J. Each waiver post must include the name of the player and their respective contract amount before the transaction can be processed
6. Free Releases
A. For each sport, each season, every team is allowed 2 release of players for no charge to their salary cap. They are called Free Releases.The entire contract will be removed from your salary cap and you will owe them nothing whether they are claimed or not. You must indicate you are using a Free Release on your waiver post for it to be a Free Release.
B. Releasing a rookie with a contract value of 0 in season costs your Major League club 1 contract against your salary cap. Releasing a rookie during the off season (at Re-Signs/Releases) costs nothing.
C. For NFL, NHL, and NBA each season, you are allowed 1 Free Release of a Minor League player. Every other Minor League player that is released during the season will cost 1 contract against your salary cap for that season, unless you accumulate another one via trade.
D. For MLB each season, you are allowed 2 Free Releases of a Minor League player since the number of minors is much greater in baseball. Every other Minor League player that is released during the season will cost you 1 contract against your salary cap for that season, unless you accumulate another one via trade.
7. Free Agency
A. Every year, there will be a date that off season free agency begins
B. Players eligible for free agency are any player in the professional or minor leagues of that sport that are not on a roster in the Four Horsemen.
C. The player pool for free agency will also include all the players that teams never extend contracts to from the previous year
D. To bid on a Free Agent, make a post of the player's name, position, and team with a minimum bid of 1 in the Free Agency thread. If they are a rookie, they would be eligible for a 0 contract bid (rookie contract). Once 24 hours passes with no more bids, the highest bidder receives the player.
E. Teams may nominate a maximum of 2 players to free agency per calendar day for each sport.
F. Teams may offer rookie contracts to current Minor Leaguers that aren't on a roster in this league. A rookie contract is worth 0 and stays at 0 until the player surpasses his rookie eligibility or is promoted. If promoted, the player's contract stays at 0 for the rest of that season and that player will cost 1 the next year but will be ineligible for Minor League rosters the following season whether rookie limits are passed or not.
G. After the Championship is complete, Free Agency freezes until the next season.
H. Teams may add Free Agents after the freeze, provided the bid was posted before the freeze
I. Teams may also bid on Free Agents after the freeze, provided original bid was posted before the freeze and provided it is still a live bid
8. Signing Bonuses
A. The moment any amateur draft is completed in The Four Horsemen, all undrafted players (and International players in MLB) go back into the Free Agency pool. When the season starts for that sport, (our MLB draft takes place in season) rookies that were not drafted by any team in our league may be offered a contract (Minor League or Major League). If a team offers a rookie contract (0), this offer can be beaten by offering the players signing bonuses with his rookie contract. So if someone nominates the next Cuban star baseball player that was not drafted in our Rookie Draft a Minor League contract, that can be beaten by a Minor League contract +1 signing bonus. The signing bonus value will be a one year salary cap hit to the team. Then the player remains on his rookie contract. Any Major League contract will beat a Minor League contract, regardless of the signing bonus. Rookies are the only players eligible for a signing bonus. There is no limit to the size of a signing bonus as long as it does not exceed the salary cap.
B. Any player considered a rookie will immediately lose rookie eligibility in our league if given an actual contract amount instead of a signing bonus amount
9. Re-Signs/Releases
A. The Friday before Free Agency opens back up in each sport, Re-Signs/Releases will be due
B. Re-Signs/Releases is a post that you will make under the Free Agency thread of that sport stating who you will be re-signing and who you will be releasing
C. For every player re-signed, their salary goes up by 1 each season. Any player can be released with you receiving 100% of their salary back.
D. Releasing a rookie costs you 1 contract in season, unless you use a Rookie Release. On your Re-Signs/Releases post, rookies can be released for free
E. A Re-Sign/Release post may be altered due to trades up until the deadline. The post must be finalized by 11:59 PM EST.
F. You will have until 11:59 PM Eastern Time to post your Re-Signs/Releases on the date it is due
G. Saturday and Sunday will be for updating the spreadsheet and preparing for Free Agency. Then on Monday at 12:00 AM Free Agency will officially begin
H. If the post is submitted after 11:59 PM Eastern Time then a 3 contract penalty will be applied to the corresponding sport.
10. Minor Leagues
A. Rookie Limits: MLB - 130 At Bats or 50 Innings Pitched at Major League level, NFL - 8 games played in actual regular season or playoff games, NHL - 30 games played in actual regular season or playoff games, NBA - 30 games played in actual regular season or playoff games
B. Only players that haven't exceeded rookie limits are eligible for the Four Horsemen Minor Leagues
C. Players still considered Rookies may be promoted and demoted freely to and from your Minor League rosters but veterans may not be demoted
D. A player demoted must stay in the Minor Leagues for at least 10 calendar days
E. There is no certain amount of time a player must stay on your active roster if they are promoted
F. A rookie (contract value 0) that is promoted to the active roster continues to have the contract value of 0 until the season is over. To re-sign the player the next season he must receive a contract of 1. Once you promoted the player, whether rookie limits have been reached or not, they are no longer a rookie and cannot ever receive the rookie contract value of 0 again after that current season. Players that have not been promoted from Minor League rosters, and have not surpassed their rookie limits, are eligible for a 0 contract the following season and can stay on your Minor League roster until rookie limits are surpassed
G. All draft orders will be determined by final league standings from the previous season
H. One rookie from each sport that has surpassed the rookie limits is allowed to be tagged for the following year. This allows the rookie to remain on the minor league roster for an extra year and will still not cost the team any contracts. A team may not trade for Rookie Tags and must be posted in the Re-signs/Releases. A player that was tagged may be traded like normal.
11. Drafted Players List
A. Starting with the 2020 MLB season, we will be adding 5 spots to the Minor League roster for MLB ONLY. They will only be for drafted players of the most recent year. You are allowed to trade these players but they must go onto another team's Drafted Players List. These players can be brought up to your Minor League roster. You would just make a post in the Promotions thread. They will still be 0 contracts. They would only cost 1 the following season if they were promoted to your Major League roster or if they surpassed rookie limits. If they are brought up to the Minor League roster at any time they can never be put back onto anyone's Drafted Players List. So if one of these players is traded to a team with no room on the Drafted Players List they can be brought up to the team's Minor League roster. From the time any of these players are drafted up to the next July 1st, they can be released for free at any time
B. Within 1 week of the completion of the MLB Amateur Draft each owner must contact a commissioner to declare which drafted players are going where. If you drafted 5 or less players then there is no issue. If you have more than 5, you have to decide where to assign each. Drafted players can be put on Drafted Players List, promoted to Minor League roster and still hold rookie eligibility, promoted to MLB roster and lose rookie eligibility the following season, traded, or released back to Free Agency for free.
C. After the 2020 MLB Amateur Draft, every July 1st we will have to a make a decision whether or not we are bringing up the players we have on our Drafted Players List up to our Minor League roster, or are releasing for free. A decision, one way or another, must be made by the next July 1st. The purpose of this rule is to make our MLB draft picks more valuable and try to limit the need to pass on a draft pick due to no Minor League room
12. Amateur Drafts
A. Each sport will have an amateur draft each year
B. The amateur drafts will always take place two weeks following the actual draft of their respective sports. Expect for baseball, which will take place roughly 1 week after the draft pick signing deadline
C. Players eligible to be drafted in The Four Horsemen will be any player that has been drafted in their sport's actual draft in that year. There are 2 exceptions to this rule: 1) You may draft real life Undrafted Free Agents in our NBA Draft provided they did in fact make their self draft eligible in the current draft and just were not selected. 2) In MLB, International players signed on or after July 2nd of that year up to the beginning of our draft are also eligible to be drafted in Rookie Drafts
D. Draft picks may be traded
E. All draft orders will be determined by final league standings from the previous season.
F. The 2020 MLB draft will take place at the end of the 2020 season in order to have a final standings. This will take place one week after the championship.
G. Inaugural Amateur Free Agencies:
i. To ensure rookies/prospects are divide up evenly, there will be an inaugural free agency for prospects in all. This free agency will begin at the same time as the Major League free agency.
ii. MLB will have a rookie cap of 75, NFL will be 15, NHL will be 30, and NBA will be 15. These caps do not affect the Major League cap and will not be used after the 2020 seasons.
iii. Same general rules apply to rookie free agency from Rule 7.
iiii. For basketball and hockey: a player's eligibility is based off the beginning of the NBA and NHL seasons due to the league starting for a short season. For example, Ja Morant would not be eligible at the start of the league's free agency if it used his current stats. Instead his stats would look to the beginning of the year so he would have 0 games in the NBA making him eligible for rookie bidding.
v. A team is not required to use all of their rookie cap or to fill their entire Minor League roster through this rookie free agency.
vi. During these free agencies, no prospect is allowed to be posted in the normal free agency until there have been no rookie posts in 48 hours. Once ths time has passed then the remaining designated cap for rookies will be disregarded and the remaining rookies will be thrown into the overall free agency. At this time they can be assigned rookie contracts and signing bonuses that hurt the overall sport cap.
13. Trades
A. To post a trade, find the thread marked Accepted Trades. Create a new thread with the title being the name of the teams involved. Then make a post of what is being traded and to who. All owners involved in the trade must post that they accept the trade
B. Any Major League player, Minor League player, Amateur Draft Pick, Free Release, or contract is eligible to be traded
C. Trades between sports in any way is prohibited
D. Trade review period is 24 hours. Every owner may and should vote on every accepted trade
E. A trade is officially processed when all owners involved in the trade post on the thread that the terms of the trade have been accepted. It takes 6 owners voting approve to approve the trade. It takes 5 owners voting decline to decline the trade. If 24 hours pass where the approve/veto requirements are not met then the trade will be processed
F. There will be a Trade Deadline in each sport. From that deadline until through the completion of the Championship, trading is not allowed. After the Championship, trading immediately opens back up.
G. You may go over the salary cap in the offseason after a trade but you must be under it at the deadline for the Re-Signs/Releases to be posted
H. You may go over the roster limit in the offseason, you just cannot be over after Re-Signs/Releases. You may go over the roster limit allowed in a trade during the season as long as it is posted that you will immediately make a corresponding roster move to correct the issue upon approval
14. DL/IR
A. The Disabled List and Injured Reserve will be used for all sports
B. To be eligible for the DL, a player must 1) be an MLB player who was put on the DL, 2) be an NFL player who is listed as Out and is IR eligible on Fantrax, 3) be an NBA player who is listed as Out and is IR eligible on Fantrax or 4) be an NHL player who is listed as Out and is IR eligible on Fantrax
C. To be eligible for the IR in the Four Horsemen, a player must be out for the season. An official announcement needs to be made by the team he plays for.
D. The minimum time a player must spend on the DL, if moved to the DL, is 10 days in the Four Horsemen, regardless of their health status in real life. Even if the payer is only out for 1 game in NFL, 5 days in NBA, or 7 days in MLB. If the player is dropped and then picked up or traded during his DL stint the mandatory 10 days still applies to whoever adds him. It starts from the original day they were placed on the DL
E. If the player remains on the DL or Out in real life then you may continue to keep the player on the DL past the minimum 10 days
F. Once the player is taken off the DL by their actual teams or no longer Out according to ESPN your next move must be activating that player, dropping that player, or trading them. You can keep the player there until your next trade, add, drop, promotion, demotion, etc. However, if the player is no longer on the DL or Out according to Fantrax but has been moved to the DL in the Four Horsemen you cannot make any roster moved until that player's 10 day minimum has passed
G. If a player is ruled out for the season and is moved to IR in the Four Horsemen then the team who owns that player will receive half of the player's contract back unless the player holds a 1 contract value, in which case the player will still be owed the 1 contract. If the player moved to IR makes more than 1 contract, their remaining contract will be rounded up if it results in a half contract.
H. If a player is confirmed to be out for a period longer than our league year then the player is considered out for the season
I. You must indicate your intention of moving a player to the IR by creating a thread in IR/DL and posting that the player has been ruled out for the year
J. You may add a player on DL or IR to your roster even if you don't have the roster space as long as it is in the post that you will immediately move the plate to the DL or IR upon winning a bid on the player. Same thing goes for a trade.
K. From the time Free Agency starts to the 1st game of the season, you may place a player on the DL only if they have some kind of updated documentation from the team the player plays for that the player will be Out or placed on the DL once the actual season begins. In this instance, the roster move would need to be cleared with the commissioners
L. For MLB and NHL you are allowed 1 DL slot for you Minor League roster. The same principles of the rule 14 A-K apply to this rule as well
M. No player is allowed to come off the season long IR once they have been declared as out for the season, regardless of real life circumstances.
15. Playoffs
A. Winner of each division and 3 Wild Card teams from any division advance to the playoffs (6 team playoffs)
B. Teams will then be seeded by best record.
C. Fantrax playoff rules apply.
16. Death of a Player
A. In the unfortunate case of the death of a player currently owned by any team. The player can be waived from their roster without penalty.
17. Retirement of a Player
A. If player retires before week 1 of the regular season, the player can be waived at no penalty.
B. If player retires after week 1 of the regular season, the player can
be waived per rule 8 of the constitution.
The Four Horsemen is a 4 sport dynasty salary cap league played on Fantraz.
1. Structure
A. 12 teams divided into 3 divisions (East, Central, and West)
B. Rosters unique to each sport
C. H2H points will be the scoring for every league
D. The league will be formed of a commissioner committee. The positions are as follows.
General/Hockey Commissioner: Atlanta
Football Commissioner: Ohio
Basketball Commissioner: North Carolina
Baseball Commissioner: Washington
E. If extra help is needed out side of these commissioners then co-commissioners will be assigned.
2. Code of Conduct
A. Participation and activity are key to the life of the league. Owners must be committed to remaining active through the whole year. All that is asked of owners is to set your lineups every day in every sport, respond to trade offers, make your draft picks in the allotted time slot (24 hours), and check the Proboards page once a day.
3. Rule Changes
A. All rule changes must be made in the off season or their respective sport
B. Any league owner may propose a new rule
C. For a rule to become final, a vote on the rule must be result in a majority of votes. In the event of a tied vote then the proposal will be vetoed.
D. In rare circumstances, the commissioner committee is allowed to veto a rule change as long as the can prove that the rule will alter the integrity of the league.
4. Contracts
A. This is a dynasty league, meaning each owner will be able to retain the majority of their players from year to year
B. A contract is the value that it takes to own a player for that year
C. A contract's minimum value possible is 0, and there is no maximum. Values must be whole numbers, no fractions. (1, 2, 3, etc.)
D. Each sport will have their own Salary Cap/Contract Cap. For example, baseball will be 68 for the Inaugural season. Meaning, you have 68 contract points to award to each season to players on your active roster. It is a hard cap that will be slightly raised each year. View each sports specific rules for more details.
E. All player contracts will increase by 1 each year regardless of the player, unless the player has not surpassed their rookie limits. For example, if Mike Trout has a contract worth 5 in 2020, it will be 6 in 2021 and 7 in 2022, unless the player is released and awarded a new contract in Free Agency.
F. If a player is traded, his contract is traded with him.
G. You may trade contracts between teams from year to year. For example, Team A trades Team B 2 contracts for one year in exchange for Eric Hosmer
H. Rookies contain a contract of 0 and remain at 0 every year until they exceed the defined rookie limits for each sport, or have been promoted from your Minor League roster. If a rookie is promoted to your active roster, he stays at 0 contracts for that season but would cost 1 contract to re-sign the next season, whether rookie limits have been surpassed or not. For their rookie year, they will hold a value of 0 contracts, whether they are promoted or not. If you want to re-sign the player the next year, they will cost 1 contract, unless they have not reached rookie limits. In that case, they would still be 0 contracts and eligible for your Minor League roster. Example of a rookie tat would be 0 contract eligible in back to back years would be Ben Simmons, if he was never promoted. He never played in a game in 2016 so he would still hold rookie status for 2017
I. Contracts may not be transferred between sports
J. There will be a 1 week period at the beginning of each sport's season to determine which of your players will be re-signed for an increase of 1 contract, or they can be released to Free Agency for no charge to the next year's salary cap
K. A transaction (contract offered, trade, etc.) that would put a team over the cap or over maximum roster size for either the major or minor league roster will be allowed as long as a corresponding move to return the roster to validity is executed within 8 hours of the completion of the move that made the roster invalid. Exception- Off season meetings before resign/release is due, over rostering and over cap transactions are allowed
L. If a corresponding move is not made within the acceptable window:
(i) The free agent will return to free agency one the he commissioner notices it, fixes it, and notifies the league. The previous highest bidder has the opportunity to keep their old bid if they want, but the 24 hour clock restarts on commissioner's discovery.
(ii) The trade will still remain valid, however, the team over rostering or over the cap will not be able to use any player received in the trade in a fantasy matchup until the roster returns to validity.
M. Using 6L to manipulate the system to intentionally over roster or over spend to gain a competitive advantage in a fantasy matchup is not allowed. This, as well as repeat offenders of 6L, will receive contract penalties from the disciplinary committee.
5. Waivers
A. To release a player from any sport you must place him on waivers. Once on waivers, the player will be removed from your active roster and no longer your property. Waivers will last 5 days.
B. When a player is released, the team that releases him will immediately retain half of that player's contract back.
C. You would get nothing back for releasing a 1 contract player. If a team claims that player, they claim him for 1 and the team that releases him gets 1 contract back.
D. All held contracts will be rounded up to the nearest whole contract. Example: a player that costs 3 contracts is released and goes unclaimed. The team that waived him owes 50% of his contract, which is 1 and a half. We will round the half contract up to the nearest whole number, in this case being 2. So releasing the player gained you 1 contract back and you still owe the player 2 contracts for the rest of that season.
E. Any player that is released for 4 contracts or more can be claimed for 2 less contracts than what they were released for. any player released for 3 contract or 2 contracts can be claimed for 1 less contract than what they were released for. The team that waived the player pays the difference.
F. If a player was waived via a Free Release, the person that waived him would owe nothing on a claimed player and would get all the contracts back
Example 1 (Even numbered 4+ contract release)
Philly release Severino at 8 contracts. Boston wins a claim on Severino for 6 contracts. Philly already gets 4 contracts back upon release. After the waiver claim process ( days) Severino then gets put on Boston's roster for 6 contracts. Philly then receives an additional 2 contracts, and still owes Severino 2 contracts for the rest of that season.
Example 2 (Odd numbered 4+ contract release)
Philly releases ARcher at 5 contracts. Boston wins claim for 3 contracts. Philly already gets 2 contracts back upon release. After the waiver claim process (5 days) Archer gets put on Boston's roster for 3 contracts. Philly then receives an additional contract, and still owes Archer 2 contracts for the rest of that season.
Example 3 (3 contract release)
Philly release Iglesias at 3 contracts. Boston wins claim for 2 contracts. Philly already gets 1 contract back upon release. After the waiver claim process (5 days) Iglesias then gets put on Boston's roster for 2 contracts. Philly then receives an additional contracts and still owes Isglesias 1 contract for the rest of that season.
Example 4 (2 contract release)
Philly release Gausman at 2 contracts. Boston wins a claim on Gausman for 1 contract. Philly already gets 1 contract back upon release. After the waiver claim process (5 days) Gausman gets put on Boston's roster for 1 contract. Philly does not retain any other contracts besides the 1 contract he got back upon release of Gausman.
G. If the player goes unclaimed after the 5 days, then the player becomes a free agent and the the team that released him will still owe the player 50% of his contract for that year only. If the released player only cost 1 contract and goes unclaimed, the player will be owed 1 contract still by the team that waived him. The player can now be signed by anyone and at any price
H. The waiver claim order will start out as being inverse order of the previous year's final standings. You will move to last after making a claim.
I. The team that waives a player cannot claim that player on waivers. They must wait for the player to clear waivers, and make a new bid on him.
J. Each waiver post must include the name of the player and their respective contract amount before the transaction can be processed
6. Free Releases
A. For each sport, each season, every team is allowed 2 release of players for no charge to their salary cap. They are called Free Releases.The entire contract will be removed from your salary cap and you will owe them nothing whether they are claimed or not. You must indicate you are using a Free Release on your waiver post for it to be a Free Release.
B. Releasing a rookie with a contract value of 0 in season costs your Major League club 1 contract against your salary cap. Releasing a rookie during the off season (at Re-Signs/Releases) costs nothing.
C. For NFL, NHL, and NBA each season, you are allowed 1 Free Release of a Minor League player. Every other Minor League player that is released during the season will cost 1 contract against your salary cap for that season, unless you accumulate another one via trade.
D. For MLB each season, you are allowed 2 Free Releases of a Minor League player since the number of minors is much greater in baseball. Every other Minor League player that is released during the season will cost you 1 contract against your salary cap for that season, unless you accumulate another one via trade.
7. Free Agency
A. Every year, there will be a date that off season free agency begins
B. Players eligible for free agency are any player in the professional or minor leagues of that sport that are not on a roster in the Four Horsemen.
C. The player pool for free agency will also include all the players that teams never extend contracts to from the previous year
D. To bid on a Free Agent, make a post of the player's name, position, and team with a minimum bid of 1 in the Free Agency thread. If they are a rookie, they would be eligible for a 0 contract bid (rookie contract). Once 24 hours passes with no more bids, the highest bidder receives the player.
E. Teams may nominate a maximum of 2 players to free agency per calendar day for each sport.
F. Teams may offer rookie contracts to current Minor Leaguers that aren't on a roster in this league. A rookie contract is worth 0 and stays at 0 until the player surpasses his rookie eligibility or is promoted. If promoted, the player's contract stays at 0 for the rest of that season and that player will cost 1 the next year but will be ineligible for Minor League rosters the following season whether rookie limits are passed or not.
G. After the Championship is complete, Free Agency freezes until the next season.
H. Teams may add Free Agents after the freeze, provided the bid was posted before the freeze
I. Teams may also bid on Free Agents after the freeze, provided original bid was posted before the freeze and provided it is still a live bid
8. Signing Bonuses
A. The moment any amateur draft is completed in The Four Horsemen, all undrafted players (and International players in MLB) go back into the Free Agency pool. When the season starts for that sport, (our MLB draft takes place in season) rookies that were not drafted by any team in our league may be offered a contract (Minor League or Major League). If a team offers a rookie contract (0), this offer can be beaten by offering the players signing bonuses with his rookie contract. So if someone nominates the next Cuban star baseball player that was not drafted in our Rookie Draft a Minor League contract, that can be beaten by a Minor League contract +1 signing bonus. The signing bonus value will be a one year salary cap hit to the team. Then the player remains on his rookie contract. Any Major League contract will beat a Minor League contract, regardless of the signing bonus. Rookies are the only players eligible for a signing bonus. There is no limit to the size of a signing bonus as long as it does not exceed the salary cap.
B. Any player considered a rookie will immediately lose rookie eligibility in our league if given an actual contract amount instead of a signing bonus amount
9. Re-Signs/Releases
A. The Friday before Free Agency opens back up in each sport, Re-Signs/Releases will be due
B. Re-Signs/Releases is a post that you will make under the Free Agency thread of that sport stating who you will be re-signing and who you will be releasing
C. For every player re-signed, their salary goes up by 1 each season. Any player can be released with you receiving 100% of their salary back.
D. Releasing a rookie costs you 1 contract in season, unless you use a Rookie Release. On your Re-Signs/Releases post, rookies can be released for free
E. A Re-Sign/Release post may be altered due to trades up until the deadline. The post must be finalized by 11:59 PM EST.
F. You will have until 11:59 PM Eastern Time to post your Re-Signs/Releases on the date it is due
G. Saturday and Sunday will be for updating the spreadsheet and preparing for Free Agency. Then on Monday at 12:00 AM Free Agency will officially begin
H. If the post is submitted after 11:59 PM Eastern Time then a 3 contract penalty will be applied to the corresponding sport.
10. Minor Leagues
A. Rookie Limits: MLB - 130 At Bats or 50 Innings Pitched at Major League level, NFL - 8 games played in actual regular season or playoff games, NHL - 30 games played in actual regular season or playoff games, NBA - 30 games played in actual regular season or playoff games
B. Only players that haven't exceeded rookie limits are eligible for the Four Horsemen Minor Leagues
C. Players still considered Rookies may be promoted and demoted freely to and from your Minor League rosters but veterans may not be demoted
D. A player demoted must stay in the Minor Leagues for at least 10 calendar days
E. There is no certain amount of time a player must stay on your active roster if they are promoted
F. A rookie (contract value 0) that is promoted to the active roster continues to have the contract value of 0 until the season is over. To re-sign the player the next season he must receive a contract of 1. Once you promoted the player, whether rookie limits have been reached or not, they are no longer a rookie and cannot ever receive the rookie contract value of 0 again after that current season. Players that have not been promoted from Minor League rosters, and have not surpassed their rookie limits, are eligible for a 0 contract the following season and can stay on your Minor League roster until rookie limits are surpassed
G. All draft orders will be determined by final league standings from the previous season
H. One rookie from each sport that has surpassed the rookie limits is allowed to be tagged for the following year. This allows the rookie to remain on the minor league roster for an extra year and will still not cost the team any contracts. A team may not trade for Rookie Tags and must be posted in the Re-signs/Releases. A player that was tagged may be traded like normal.
11. Drafted Players List
A. Starting with the 2020 MLB season, we will be adding 5 spots to the Minor League roster for MLB ONLY. They will only be for drafted players of the most recent year. You are allowed to trade these players but they must go onto another team's Drafted Players List. These players can be brought up to your Minor League roster. You would just make a post in the Promotions thread. They will still be 0 contracts. They would only cost 1 the following season if they were promoted to your Major League roster or if they surpassed rookie limits. If they are brought up to the Minor League roster at any time they can never be put back onto anyone's Drafted Players List. So if one of these players is traded to a team with no room on the Drafted Players List they can be brought up to the team's Minor League roster. From the time any of these players are drafted up to the next July 1st, they can be released for free at any time
B. Within 1 week of the completion of the MLB Amateur Draft each owner must contact a commissioner to declare which drafted players are going where. If you drafted 5 or less players then there is no issue. If you have more than 5, you have to decide where to assign each. Drafted players can be put on Drafted Players List, promoted to Minor League roster and still hold rookie eligibility, promoted to MLB roster and lose rookie eligibility the following season, traded, or released back to Free Agency for free.
C. After the 2020 MLB Amateur Draft, every July 1st we will have to a make a decision whether or not we are bringing up the players we have on our Drafted Players List up to our Minor League roster, or are releasing for free. A decision, one way or another, must be made by the next July 1st. The purpose of this rule is to make our MLB draft picks more valuable and try to limit the need to pass on a draft pick due to no Minor League room
12. Amateur Drafts
A. Each sport will have an amateur draft each year
B. The amateur drafts will always take place two weeks following the actual draft of their respective sports. Expect for baseball, which will take place roughly 1 week after the draft pick signing deadline
C. Players eligible to be drafted in The Four Horsemen will be any player that has been drafted in their sport's actual draft in that year. There are 2 exceptions to this rule: 1) You may draft real life Undrafted Free Agents in our NBA Draft provided they did in fact make their self draft eligible in the current draft and just were not selected. 2) In MLB, International players signed on or after July 2nd of that year up to the beginning of our draft are also eligible to be drafted in Rookie Drafts
D. Draft picks may be traded
E. All draft orders will be determined by final league standings from the previous season.
F. The 2020 MLB draft will take place at the end of the 2020 season in order to have a final standings. This will take place one week after the championship.
G. Inaugural Amateur Free Agencies:
i. To ensure rookies/prospects are divide up evenly, there will be an inaugural free agency for prospects in all. This free agency will begin at the same time as the Major League free agency.
ii. MLB will have a rookie cap of 75, NFL will be 15, NHL will be 30, and NBA will be 15. These caps do not affect the Major League cap and will not be used after the 2020 seasons.
iii. Same general rules apply to rookie free agency from Rule 7.
iiii. For basketball and hockey: a player's eligibility is based off the beginning of the NBA and NHL seasons due to the league starting for a short season. For example, Ja Morant would not be eligible at the start of the league's free agency if it used his current stats. Instead his stats would look to the beginning of the year so he would have 0 games in the NBA making him eligible for rookie bidding.
v. A team is not required to use all of their rookie cap or to fill their entire Minor League roster through this rookie free agency.
vi. During these free agencies, no prospect is allowed to be posted in the normal free agency until there have been no rookie posts in 48 hours. Once ths time has passed then the remaining designated cap for rookies will be disregarded and the remaining rookies will be thrown into the overall free agency. At this time they can be assigned rookie contracts and signing bonuses that hurt the overall sport cap.
13. Trades
A. To post a trade, find the thread marked Accepted Trades. Create a new thread with the title being the name of the teams involved. Then make a post of what is being traded and to who. All owners involved in the trade must post that they accept the trade
B. Any Major League player, Minor League player, Amateur Draft Pick, Free Release, or contract is eligible to be traded
C. Trades between sports in any way is prohibited
D. Trade review period is 24 hours. Every owner may and should vote on every accepted trade
E. A trade is officially processed when all owners involved in the trade post on the thread that the terms of the trade have been accepted. It takes 6 owners voting approve to approve the trade. It takes 5 owners voting decline to decline the trade. If 24 hours pass where the approve/veto requirements are not met then the trade will be processed
F. There will be a Trade Deadline in each sport. From that deadline until through the completion of the Championship, trading is not allowed. After the Championship, trading immediately opens back up.
G. You may go over the salary cap in the offseason after a trade but you must be under it at the deadline for the Re-Signs/Releases to be posted
H. You may go over the roster limit in the offseason, you just cannot be over after Re-Signs/Releases. You may go over the roster limit allowed in a trade during the season as long as it is posted that you will immediately make a corresponding roster move to correct the issue upon approval
14. DL/IR
A. The Disabled List and Injured Reserve will be used for all sports
B. To be eligible for the DL, a player must 1) be an MLB player who was put on the DL, 2) be an NFL player who is listed as Out and is IR eligible on Fantrax, 3) be an NBA player who is listed as Out and is IR eligible on Fantrax or 4) be an NHL player who is listed as Out and is IR eligible on Fantrax
C. To be eligible for the IR in the Four Horsemen, a player must be out for the season. An official announcement needs to be made by the team he plays for.
D. The minimum time a player must spend on the DL, if moved to the DL, is 10 days in the Four Horsemen, regardless of their health status in real life. Even if the payer is only out for 1 game in NFL, 5 days in NBA, or 7 days in MLB. If the player is dropped and then picked up or traded during his DL stint the mandatory 10 days still applies to whoever adds him. It starts from the original day they were placed on the DL
E. If the player remains on the DL or Out in real life then you may continue to keep the player on the DL past the minimum 10 days
F. Once the player is taken off the DL by their actual teams or no longer Out according to ESPN your next move must be activating that player, dropping that player, or trading them. You can keep the player there until your next trade, add, drop, promotion, demotion, etc. However, if the player is no longer on the DL or Out according to Fantrax but has been moved to the DL in the Four Horsemen you cannot make any roster moved until that player's 10 day minimum has passed
G. If a player is ruled out for the season and is moved to IR in the Four Horsemen then the team who owns that player will receive half of the player's contract back unless the player holds a 1 contract value, in which case the player will still be owed the 1 contract. If the player moved to IR makes more than 1 contract, their remaining contract will be rounded up if it results in a half contract.
H. If a player is confirmed to be out for a period longer than our league year then the player is considered out for the season
I. You must indicate your intention of moving a player to the IR by creating a thread in IR/DL and posting that the player has been ruled out for the year
J. You may add a player on DL or IR to your roster even if you don't have the roster space as long as it is in the post that you will immediately move the plate to the DL or IR upon winning a bid on the player. Same thing goes for a trade.
K. From the time Free Agency starts to the 1st game of the season, you may place a player on the DL only if they have some kind of updated documentation from the team the player plays for that the player will be Out or placed on the DL once the actual season begins. In this instance, the roster move would need to be cleared with the commissioners
L. For MLB and NHL you are allowed 1 DL slot for you Minor League roster. The same principles of the rule 14 A-K apply to this rule as well
M. No player is allowed to come off the season long IR once they have been declared as out for the season, regardless of real life circumstances.
15. Playoffs
A. Winner of each division and 3 Wild Card teams from any division advance to the playoffs (6 team playoffs)
B. Teams will then be seeded by best record.
C. Fantrax playoff rules apply.
16. Death of a Player
A. In the unfortunate case of the death of a player currently owned by any team. The player can be waived from their roster without penalty.
17. Retirement of a Player
A. If player retires before week 1 of the regular season, the player can be waived at no penalty.
B. If player retires after week 1 of the regular season, the player can
be waived per rule 8 of the constitution.