Basic Rules:

Salary Cap - None

AAA - 12/6 Below Average (Any Career Keeper/Team Icon with fewer than 60 IP/ 150 PA may be placed in AAA or on the MLB roster to start the season). Beginning in 2000, we will switch to 6/4 Below Average.

DH – AL only

Trades - Allowed and almost needed. Teams can only trade for eligible players though. Draft picks may be traded 2 years in advance. Players to be named later (future random AAA players) may also be traded.

IR - Unlimited. Restricted to any player without a WIS season, or any CK/TI that did not play for your franchise at all during that season (at owner’s discretion).

WW - No

Keepers - Unlimited. Any players who were assigned to your roster as career keepers, team icons etc. must be kept for the duration of their career.

Draft Order - Will be determined at the transaction deadline (120 games). 40 wins are needed to qualify for a top 3 pick.*** Teams that do not reach 40 wins will be slotted from the 4th spot on by most wins. The rest of the draft (including top 3 picks) is inverse order of record. The first pick in rounds 2-4 belongs to the team with the fewest wins and continues in inverse order.

Divisions – As close to real life as possible

Team Names and Stadiums - Same as real life. If your team changes names or moves parks, then you must do the same.

The basic premise of the league is that you can only have players on your team who played for your team at some point in their career. Here is there 1995 Roster.

Houston Astros

Keepers:
C- Eddie Taubensee (CIN, CLE, HOU)
C- Tony Eusebio ASTROS CK
1B- Jeff Bagwell ASTROS CK
2B- Craig Biggio ASTROS CK
2B- Pat Listach ASTROS TI
3B- Bill Spiers (MIL, NYM, HOU)
3B- Ken Caminiti (SDP, ATL, TEX, HOU)
SS- Ricky Gutierrez (CLE, CHC, NYM, BOS, HOU)
SS- Mark Loretta (MIL, SDP, HOU, BOS, LAD, HOU)
OF- Stan Javier (OAK, LAD, PHI, CAL, SFG, SEA, HOU)
OF- Derek Bell (TOR, SDP, NYM, PIT, HOU)
OF- Chuck Carr (FLA, NYM, MIL, STL, HOU)
OF- Ryan Thompson (NYM, FLA, NYY, CLE, MIL)
OF- Phil Nevin (SDP, DET, TEX, MIN, CHC, CAL, HOU)

P- Greg Swindell (CLE, ARI, MIN, BOS, CIN, HOU)
P- Mike Jackson (CLE, PHI, MIN, CIN, SEA, SFG, CHW, HOU)
P- Randy Johnson (MON, SFG, NYY, HOU)
P- Pete Harnisch (BAL, CIN, MIL, NYM, HOU)
P- Daryl Kile (STL, COL, HOU)
P- Woody Williams (HOU, STL)
P- Shane Reynolds ASTROS TI
P- Mike Hampton (ATL, COL, ARI, NYM, SEA, HOU)
P- Doug Henry (MIL, NYM, SFG, KCR, HOU)
P- Doug Brocail (DET, TEX, HOU)
P- Jim Dougherty ASTROS CK

The Astros are currently leading the NL West by 5 games with 27 games left. They will pick #18 (out of 20) in the 1996 Draft.

Specific League Rules:

Keeper Rules - All players that fall in to the 3 keeper categories below will be forced on their respected franchise. They can not be traded or cut.

CAREER KEEPERS - Any player who has played his entire career for one team (or entire WiS career) will belong to that team. If a player has played for several teams but has only racked up 50 AB or 25 IP in a season for one team he will also belong to the team for which he played the bulk of his career. So if Player A plays four full seasons for the Dodgers, then goes to the Cubs where he only nets 30 ABs and is traded to the Mets where he gets another 30 he will be still be considered a Dodgers Career Keeper.

TEAM ICONS - Any player whose first ten or more eligible WIS seasons are with the same team, and who has had no more than 3 full WIS seasons with other teams (including defunct teams) will be designated a Team Icon and belong to the team whom he played 10 years for.

-Any player who racked up more than 25 IP/50 AB with only one active franchise, regardless of seasons with other active or defunct franchises (ARI, COL, FLA, KCR, MIL, MIN, PHI, SDP, SEA, TOR) will be the property of the active franchise.

- Any Team Icon being may be placed on IR any season he did not play for your franchise.

- Any player who played every game for a defunct team or has fewer than 25 IP/50 AB with a single active team will not be eligible to be drafted by any team.

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*Every other player who does not fall in to one of these rules will be eligible to be drafted by any team he appeared in 1 game for (any team that shows up on his B-R page at the time of the draft).

*Edited 7/12/2015 to add all defunct teams to the Team Icon Definition for clarity.
*Edited 8/1/2015 to remove MON & add PHI to the Defunct Franchises.
*Edited 8/13/2016 to remove TBD & add KCR to the Defunct Franchises.