Welcome to the thirty-third season of Exclusive Ownership!
First, the basics: a variable cap (between 75-100mil, see below) with no AAA, no WW, SimLeague Live next series only, no DH, no clones, no trades, no injuries, fixed alignment (see below), and 24 teams.
Ballparks with differing names are considered the same if it is the same physical structure, such as Pacific Bell and SBC. Thus, if one owner submits Pac Bell and another submits SBC, then PacBell/SBC/AT&T is blacklisted.
After the parks are done, each owner submits a roster to the commish (that’s me). Your roster must be under the initial 75 mil cap. When sitemailing, send everything including the draft recap at the top (to confirm your total salary)*. After all 24 rosters are in, they are processed as follows:
(1) any player claimed by multiple teams is blacklisted
(2) any player claimed by only one owner becomes Exclusive property of that owner, and MUST be on all subsequent rosters. However, an owner may change the season of any player they have claimed, while keeping under the cap. And remember, no clones.
NEW FOR THIS EDITION ONLY: The cap is originally set at 75 mil. BUT you can improve your standing. For every player that you claim in round one ONLY, you receive an extra 1 million. Claim 15, and your cap is 90 mil. Claim only 3, and your cap is 78 mil. Claim all 25, and it's 100mil. After processing, you'll each get a list of players you now own; additionally, all owned and blacklisted players and ballparks will be listed in the Owner's Forum. Then everyone submits a second roster. This continues until everyone has 25 unique players, claimed by no one else anywhere along the way.
Because of the variable caps, alignment will be the highest caps in the NL East, next highest in NL Central and so on to the AL West.
If teams with the same cap land in different divisions, the team with the higher final salary will be placed in the higher cap division.
EXCEPTION: If my team is in a tiebreaker situation, it will be automatically placed in the higher division. This is to account for the fact that I see everyone’s salaries while they are building their teams.
Since I will be playing as well, I will send my roster to the first three people who submit rosters before I open them, to keep things on the square. I’ve already sent my first ballpark selection to Tucker T’s, who will not be playing this season.
* To copy and paste roster: Highlight roster, use CTRL+C, open sitemail, use CTRL+V. It will look messy, but that’s OK.