Post by Tigers GM (Max) on Nov 13, 2018 14:36:36 GMT -6
Hi all-
Here are the rule changes being made for next year. Unless stated, they are all effective immediately:
1. Moving to Fantrax -- This has already been in motion for awhile. The league is already created, invites will be sent out in due time
2. IP minimum = 20; PA minimum = 50 -- The IP minimum was 10 and there was no PA minimum for all years of the league. Fantrax allows us to institute a PA minimum, and the IP minimum needed a boost up anyway. This is to promote teams have rosters and prevent good teams from losing categories cheaply to bad teams.
3. Trade deadline three weeks before end of season (End of Week 18) -- This will help to promote activity towards the end of the season with a hopeful trading frenzy, and also make sure that teams on the cusp need to make a decision on expiring players before the last day of the year. Too many good players were being dumped to contending teams for very little, this hopefully slows that down.
4. Primary Tag Discount down to 10% (effective next FA period) -- In general, the 20% discount is too high for any player. Getting 1/5th off of a deal is a bit much, and cutting the discount in half still gives a good discount to a team while also not making it overpowered (star players were having $5-7M taken off their deals per year, and that radically changes the contract value).
5. No more demoting non-(1)’s to minors -- Simply put, there's no reason for major league players to be in our minor leagues. It was too good of a way to stockpile young talent, which deprives other teams of players who get semi-regular MLB ABs, and overall promotes a "haves vs have nots" mentality.
6. Future year cap of current cap + $40M -- Too many teams (myself included) leverage the fact that it is very simple to go ridiculously over the cap in the future because getting out of it is simple - sell a few draft picks, trade one player, rinse and repeat. To protect owners from getting into awful situations that they then leave and force us to find a new owner to take on a mess, there will be a future cap now. Right now, the current year cap is $110M so for the next year, you may not go over $150M at any time. Remember, year 4-6 arbitration salaries are not counted in the $150M cap, so it is technically possible to end up in deeper debt than $40M
Here are the rule changes being made for next year. Unless stated, they are all effective immediately:
1. Moving to Fantrax -- This has already been in motion for awhile. The league is already created, invites will be sent out in due time
2. IP minimum = 20; PA minimum = 50 -- The IP minimum was 10 and there was no PA minimum for all years of the league. Fantrax allows us to institute a PA minimum, and the IP minimum needed a boost up anyway. This is to promote teams have rosters and prevent good teams from losing categories cheaply to bad teams.
3. Trade deadline three weeks before end of season (End of Week 18) -- This will help to promote activity towards the end of the season with a hopeful trading frenzy, and also make sure that teams on the cusp need to make a decision on expiring players before the last day of the year. Too many good players were being dumped to contending teams for very little, this hopefully slows that down.
4. Primary Tag Discount down to 10% (effective next FA period) -- In general, the 20% discount is too high for any player. Getting 1/5th off of a deal is a bit much, and cutting the discount in half still gives a good discount to a team while also not making it overpowered (star players were having $5-7M taken off their deals per year, and that radically changes the contract value).
5. No more demoting non-(1)’s to minors -- Simply put, there's no reason for major league players to be in our minor leagues. It was too good of a way to stockpile young talent, which deprives other teams of players who get semi-regular MLB ABs, and overall promotes a "haves vs have nots" mentality.
6. Future year cap of current cap + $40M -- Too many teams (myself included) leverage the fact that it is very simple to go ridiculously over the cap in the future because getting out of it is simple - sell a few draft picks, trade one player, rinse and repeat. To protect owners from getting into awful situations that they then leave and force us to find a new owner to take on a mess, there will be a future cap now. Right now, the current year cap is $110M so for the next year, you may not go over $150M at any time. Remember, year 4-6 arbitration salaries are not counted in the $150M cap, so it is technically possible to end up in deeper debt than $40M
