╨╧рб▒с>■  йм■   ╖к                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            ье┴G ┐X▒bjbjО┘О┘ [Ўь│ь│нE      ]$2222PВЮФ2╔ ╢ЖЖЬЬЬЬЬЬО Р Р Р Р Р Р $ Їst┤ ЬЬЬЬЬ┤ вЬЬЖвввЬЬЬО 22ЬО вьвО О Ь2T└1hЙ╝h╛22┤юО Contents 1. Objective Page 1 2. Teams Page 1 3. Roster Page 1 4. Auction Draft Day Page 2 5. Position Eligibility Page 3 6. Fees Page 4 7. Player Salaries Page 4 8. Prize Money Page 5 9. Standings Page 5 10. Stats Page 6 11. Trades Page 7 12. The Reserve List Page 9 13. Farm System Page 11 14. Waivers Page 11 15. September Roster Expansion Page 13 16. The Option Year and Guaranteed Long-Term Contracts Page 13 17. Roster Protection Page 15 18. Expansion Page 16 19. Teams That Drop Out Page 17 PREAMBLE We, the People of the Rotisserie League, in order to spin a more perfect Game, drive Justice home, kiss domestic Tranquillity good-bye, promote the general Welfare in Tidewater--where it's been tearing up the International League--and secure the Blessings of Puberty to ourselves and those we've left on Base, do ordain and establish this Constitution for Rotisserie League Baseball, and also finish this run-on sentence. I. OBJECTIVE To assemble a lineup of 23 National League or American League baseball players whose cumulative statistics during the regular season, compiled and measured by the methods described in these rules, exceed those of all other teams in the league. II. TEAMS There are ten teams in a duly constituted Rotisserie League composed of National League players, twelve if composed of American League players. NOTE: If you choose to play with fewer teams, be sure to make necessary adjustments so that you acquire approximately 80% of all available players at your auction draft. You could have a six-team league using American League players, for example, and draft only from the AL East or AL West (or your seven favorite teams, whatever their division). Unless you reduce the available player pool proportionately to reflect a reduced number of teams, you'll never learn to appreciate the value of a good bench. NOTE: Do not mix the two leagues. Bryan Gumbel does, and he's got a job that requires him to get up at 4:30 in the morning, for Jane Pauley's sake! It's unrealistic and silly, it's not the way the big leagues do it, it means you end up using only All-Stars and established regulars, and it's fattening. III. ROSTER A team's active roster consists of the following players: 1. NATIONAL LEAGUE PLAYERS Five outfielders, two catchers, one second baseman, one short- stop, one middle infielder (either second baseman or shortstop), one first baseman, one third baseman, one corner man (either first baseman or third baseman), one utility player (who may play any non-pitching position), and nine pitchers. 2. AMERICAN LEAGUE PLAYERS The same, except that the utility player is replaced by the designated hitter. (See Article V for rules governing position eligibility.) IV. AUCTION DRAFT DAY A Major League Player Auction is conducted on the first weekend after Opening Day of the baseball season. Each team must acquire 23 players at a total cost not to exceed $50. A team need not spend the maximum. The League by general agreement determines the order in which teams may nominate players for acquisition. The team bidding first opens with a minimum salary bid of $.25 for any eligible player, and the bidding proceeds around the room at minimum increments of .25 until only one bidder is left. That team acquires the player for the amount and announces the roster position the player will fill. The process is repeated, with successive team owners introducing players to be bid on, until every team has a squad of 23 players, by requisite position Don't get hung up on the bidding order; its irrelevant. Do allow plenty of time; your first draft will take all day. Players eligible at more than one position may be shifted during the course of the draft. No team may make a bid for a player it cannot afford. For example, a team with .75 left and two openings on its roster is limited to a maximum bid of .50 for one player. No team may bid for a player who qualifies only at a position that the team has already filled . For example, a team that has acquired two catchers, and whose utility or designated hitter slot is occupied, may not enter the bidding for any player who qualifies only at catcher. Players who commence the season on a major league team's disabled-list are eligible to be drafted. If selected, they may be replaced upon completion of the auction draft (see below, Article XII, for details). NOTE: Final 25-man Opening Day rosters for all twelve National League or all fourteen American League teams will be needed on Auction Draft Day. Getting them from the newspapers is a pain, as teams often don't make their final roster moves until the last minute. Even USA Today's rosters, published on Opening Day, have holes. The best way to get the most complete, updated rosters is with membership in the Rotisserie League Baseball Association. (See page 285 for details.) A Minor League Player Draft is conducted immediately following the major league auction, in which each Rotisserie League team may acquire players who: (A) are not on any National/American League team's active roster and (B) still have official rookie status, as defined by major league Baseball. NOTE: The major league rule reads: УA player shall be considered a rookie unless, during a previous season or 'seasons, he has (a) exceeded 130 at-bats or 50 innings pitched in the major leagues; or (b) accumulated more than 45 days on the active roster of a major league club or clubs during the period of a 25-player limit (excluding time in the military service)." Selection takes place in three rounds of a simple draft, not an auction. IV. AUCTION DRAFT DAY (CONT.) In the first season, the selection order shall be determined by drawing paired numbers from a hat (that is, positions 1 and 20, 2 and 19, and so on in a ten-team league). In subsequent years, the selection order is determined by the order in which the teams finished in the previous season. In the National League version, the order of selection is 5th place team, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st. In an American League version, the first team out of the money selects first, proceeding in order to the last place team. Expansion teams will follow the last place team which in turn follows the last team winning money to the first place team. The price and subsequent salary upon activation of a farm-system player drafted is $1.50 for a AAA player, $1.00 for a AK player and $.50 for any player below AA. Salary is based on where that player finished the prior year. See Article XIII for operational rules-governing farm system. NOTE: The order of selection stated above represents a change from previous years, when teams selected in reverse order of the final standings of the preceding season's pennant race. By awarding the first selection to the highest finisher among second-division teams instead of the last place team, we seek to offer an incentive to teams to keep plugging and a disincentive to finish last (i.e., in the past, a last place finish would be "rewarded" with the first farm system draft pick). V. POSITION ELIGIBILITY A player may be assigned to any position at which he appeared in 20 or more games in the preceding season. If a player did not appear in 20 games at a single position, he may be drafted only at the position at which he appeared most frequently. The 20-games most games measures is used only to determine the position(s) at which a player may be drafted. Once the season is under way (but after Auction Draft Day), a player becomes eligible for assignment to any position at which he appears at least once. In American League versions, any player qualifies (except pitchers) as DHs according to these rules. In National League version, players selected for the utility slot may qualify at any position except pitcher. NOTE: The best sources for determining player eligibility are the Sporting News Owners Manual and Baseball Weekly's season ending player .statistics issue. Each lists all of the players, as well as, the number of games they played at different position the year before. Circulating eligibility list by position before Auction Draft Day saves a lot of time. Prepare yourself in January, when the Sporting News Owners Manual is published. Spend a few minutes before your auction to settle eligibility questions and assign eligibility to rookies. When in doubt, use common sense--(Bob William's is excused), it's one of the Seven Pillars of Rotisserie League Wisdom. VI. FEES The Rotisserie League has a schedule of fees covering all player personnel moves. No money passes directly from team to team. No bets are made on the outcome of any game. All fees are payable into the prize pool and are subsequently distributed to the top four (NL) or three or four (AL) teams in the final standings (see below, Articles VIII and IX). 1. BASIC: The cumulative total of salaries paid for acquisition of a 23-man roster on Auction Draft Day may not exceed $50. 2. TRANSACTIONS: $2 per trade (no matter how many players are involved) or player activation (from reserve list or farm system). In a trade, the team that pays the fee is subject to negotiation. 3. CALL-UP FROM FREE AGENT POOL: $4 until the All-star Game, $8 thereafter until season's end. 4. RESERVE: $2 for each player placed on a team's reserve list (see Article XIII). 5. FARM SYSTEM: $2 for each player in a team's farm system (see Article XIII) & see Article IV for the auction prices). 6. ACTIVATION: $2 for each player activated from the reserve list or farm system. 7. WAIVERS: $3 for each player claimed on waivers (see Article XIV). 8. SEPTEMBER ROSTER EXPANSION: $10 (see Article XV). 9. $5 per asterisk trade VII. PLAYER SALARIES The salary of a player is determined by the time and means of his acquisition and does not change unless the player becomes a free agent or is signed to a guaranteed long-term contract (see below, Article XVI). 1. The salary of a player acquired in the major league draft is his auction price. 2. The salary of a player called up from the free agent pool during the season is $3 (regardless of his call-up fee). 3. The salary of a player activated from a teamТs farm system (see article IV). 4. The salary of a player claimed on waivers is $3 unless that player waived is $4 or greater. Then, the salary will be that of his auction price. 5. The salary of a player called up during September Roster Expansion as an extra (24th player) is $5 if he is drawn from the free agent pool (see below, Article XIV). VII. PLAYER SALARIES (CONT.) NOTE: Because you can commit only $50 for salaries on Auction Draft Day, and because you will keep some of your players from one season to the next, salaries are very important, particularly after the first season ends and winter trading begins. Would you trade Jose Canseco for Ellis Burks? Sandy Alderson wouldn't, not even if the Red Sox threw in Fenway Park. But a smart Rotisserie League owner just might make the deal. Jose's salary in Tony's Italian Kitchen League, an officially authorized Rotisserie league using AL players, is a whopping $10, not enough to fix even one speeding ticket but still among the highest in the game. Burks only makes $3, and the $7 difference is enough to buy a Roger Clemens (a trader too) and a Dave Vale to catch him. Maintaining accurate, centralized player-personnel records (i.e., salary and contract status) is the most important task of the League Treasurer, who deserves hosannas from the other owners for all the work he does. VIII. PRIZE MONEY All fees shall be promptly collected and wisely invested by the League Treasurer, who is empowered to subject owners to public humiliation and assess fines as needed to ensure that payments are made to the League in a timely fashion. Fees shall be collected three times during the season. The first will be the day of the Auction. The second, at the All-star Break and last will be at the end of the Season. This will prevent teams from accumulating a large debt by seasons end, so they can pay the fees they owe to the league. Failure to make those timely payments is subject to his team being frozen until such payments are made (agreed to by a majority vote of the owners). The principal shall be divided among the first three or four teams in the final standings as follows: *8 Teams or less: *9 Teams or more: First place ----- 60% First place ------ 50% Second place -- 30% Second place --- 25% Third place ---- 10% Third place ----- 15% Fourth place --- 10% IX. 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* Two Scottsmen, Angus and MacDougal, have grown up in the same village together. They were friends all their lives, married a pair of sisters, and lived just down the street from each other. But now, MacDougal has the cancer, and is lying on his deathbed, surrounded by his friends. He calls, "Angus, come 'ere Angus. I 'ave a request for ye." Angus walks to his friends bedside and kneels down. "Angus, we been friends all our lives, and now I'm dying 'ere. I 'ave one last request fir ye to do." Angus bursts into tears, "Anything MacDougal, anything ye wish. I'll do it." "Well, under me bed is a box containing a bottle of the finest whiskey in all of Scotland. Bottled the year I was born, it was. After I die, and they plant me in the ground, I want you to pour that fine whiskey over me grave so it might soak into me bones and I'll be able to enjoy it for all eternity." Angus is overcome by the beauty and true Scottish spirit of his friends request.
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The other American who had sat and watched, turned to the first American "Superman, you're such a B**tard.!!!!"


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