One of the top all-time worlds in HBD, this is one of those places where you don't have to worry about lopsided trades, or teams selling the farm for a quick run, or massive amounts of cash flowing back and forth between teams. If you can win here, you can win anywhere.
MAIN WORLD RULES
- Minimum Win Requirement (MWR): 55/125/195/280 = 55 in any single BL season, 125 in two consecutive seasons, 195 in three consecutive and 280 in four consecutive
- Trade cash limited to up to $1.5M of net trade salary difference
- Maintain minors - financial penalty for minor league teams finishing under .250
- Trades to unload BL salaries must receive BL-quality in return (see trade guidance below)
- City change allowed once every five seasons, including when joining
TRADE GUIDANCE
- Deals that should be APPROVED:
- BL quality (current or future) on both sides of deal (while meeting trade cash provisions)
- Career minor leaguers for career minor leaguers (minor league salaries)
- Deals that should be VETOED:
- BL quality (current or future) for career minor leaguers (usually to dump salary)
- More trade cash than net difference in trade (or over $1.5M world ceiling)
- Lame duck owner deals with questionable value for next owner
- Collusive or team destroyers
PREFERRED OWNER QUALIFICATIONS
- 1500+ HBD ML games played
- .500+ overall record; reached playoffs 35+% of total seasons
- Limited-to-zero heavy tanking years (i.e. 108+ loss seasons)
- 2+ consecutive seasons completed with a current franchise
- Owners that miss the MWR once may return after a season away with a different franchise
- Owners with more than one WIS career login must reveal that to the commish
NL South Team -- Owned by the same guy for a decade worth of seasons, pretty consistently hanging around .500 during that time, with a best of 91 wins in S76, and this season being the worst record with just 72 wins. $128M in salaries this season, it's definitely a "we could contend with some tweaking" type of squad.
AL East Team -- 80 wins this season, same owner since back in S65, the squad peaked in S74 when they won 100 games and took the division. $78M on the books this season, some really good young players, but mostly on the hitting side of things. Pitching could use some help, but you could get there by either signing some arms or trading off some of the pieces in the minors.
AL East Team #2 -- MWR victim, only won 52 games this season with a $35M payroll and will have the number one pick next season. Has been a bit of a revolving door lately, with five owners over the last five seasons, and below .500 every season since way back in S67. A lot of talent in the minors, there are a handful of guys ready to come up and give the ML squad a shot in the arm, plus a bunch of guys still a few seasons away, along with the upcoming #1 pick.
12/1/2025 11:38 PM (edited)