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Sudsy Lager Baseball Official Rules Version 4.0—2004 Copyright © 1995-2004 Matt Barr and Mark Pontoni. All Rights Reserved. 1. OBJECTIVE 2. LEAGUE COMPOSITION 3. TEAM COMPOSITION 4. THE INITIAL DRAFTS 5. THE REMAINDER DRAFT 6. GAME PLAY 6A. LINEUPS 6B. GAMES WITHIN A SERIES 6C. GAME TIEBREAKERS 6D. SCORING 7. STANDINGS 8. PLAYOFFS, PENNANT AND WORLD SERIES 9. TRADES 10. FREE AGENTS 11. PLAYER RETENTION 11A. THE 'RULE V' DRAFT 11B. SPECIAL INCREMENTATION RULES

1 1. OBJECTIVE

2

3 In Sudsy Lager Baseball, team owners assemble a team of National League

4 baseball players, which plays a schedule of head-to-head games against other

5 teams, and whose players' performance, based on Major League Baseball

6 statistics and described more particularly below, leads to wins or losses in

7 those games. The objective of Sudsy Lager Baseball is to win the Sudsy Lager

8 Baseball Pennant by means described in Section 8 below, and to win a World

9 Series against the Pennant winner from Pale Ale Baseball.

10

11 2. LEAGUE COMPOSITION

12

13 The Sudsy Lager Baseball league shall consist of eight teams in two divisions

14 of four teams each: the Pilsner Division and the Bock Division.

15

16 Sudsy Lager team names should consist of places followed by nicknames.

17

18 3. TEAM COMPOSITION

19

20 Each Sudsy Lager Baseball team consists of 40 players, assembled through

21 drafts, trades, free agent signings, and optional player retention from

22 year to year.

23

24 At the conclusion of the drafts (see Sections 4-5), each Sudsy Lager Baseball

25 team shall consist of 23 position players and 17 pitchers. After the

26 drafts, due to trades, free agents and the like, position requirements

27 disappear.

28

29 Position players' pre-season position eligibility is determined by the rules

30 of Rotisserie League Baseball or a source to be agreed upon by the league

31 prior to the season. In the past, the league had used NLREAL.POS on Sports

32 Forum on Compuserve. Today, FBB on Mocksports.com produces a comparable

33 position eligibility list. Generally, the rule has been that a player is

34 eligible at any position at which he appeared 20 times the previous Major

35 League season; if he didn't appear anywhere 20 times, then the position at

36 which he appeared most often.

37

38 In-season, a player becomes eligible at a new position by appearing there

39 in five Major League games.

40

41 Sudsy Lager Baseball teams must always be able to field a complete lineup

42 of National League players. The league, acting with the consent of a number

43 of owners, may void games in which a team has failed to field a complete

44 lineup, or may take over management of the team if the situation persists.

45

46 4. THE INITIAL DRAFTS

47

48 An online draft shall be held wherein thirteen position players shall be

49 selected by each team. Player retention (see Section 11) may account for

50 some of these selections. Unless the league ever strarts from scratch,

51 there is no minimum or maximum number of players at any position that a

52 team may select, subject to the requirement in Section 3 that a team must

53 always be able to field a complete lineup. If the league redrafts from

54 scratch, positions should be distributed equitably to (a) prevent position

55 hoarding, and (b) ensure every team can field a complete lineup after the

56 initial drafts.

57

58 At the conclusion of the initial position player draft described below, each

59 team must be able to field a complete Sudsy Lager Baseball lineup (see Section

60 6(a) below), considering players chosen at the draft and frozen both in the

61 'H' and 'R' designations (see Section 11 below).

62

63 E.g.: At the conclusion of the initial position player draft, each team

64 must have at least one catcher. A team may accomplish this by drafting a

65 catcher in the initial draft, by having frozen a catcher in the 'H' rounds,

66 OR by having frozen a catcher in the 'R' rounds who is in the

67 Major Leagues. (See requirement below that each player chosen at the

68 initial drafts be on a National League roster.)

69

70 A second, separate online draft shall then be held wherein ten pitchers

71 shall be selected by each team, minus any retained (see Section 11). These

72 two drafts may, of course, be held in the same online session, but are

73 conducted separately.

74

75 Any National League baseball player is eligible to be chosen at the

76 initial drafts. Only players on the 25-man roster of a National League club

77 may be selected in the initial drafts. To that end, a resource such as NL.AVL

78 on Sports Forum on Compuserve or an equivalent master list provided by the

79 service which hosts/scores the league should be used as a draft guide in the

80 initial drafts.

81

82 Draft order for the initial drafts shall be determined with reference

83 to the order of finish in the previous year's standings, as so:

84

85 One Initial Draft: 8th 7th 6th 5th 4th 3rd 2nd 1st

86 Next Initial Draft: 7th 8th 5th 6th 3rd 4th 1st 2nd

87

88 The team which finishes in last (8th) place shall have the option of either

89 choosing first in the hitters draft or the pitchers draft.

90

91 5. THE REMAINDER DRAFT

92

93 The remaining seventeen players -- ten position players and seven

94 pitchers -- shall be chosen in a third, "remainder" draft. Player

95 retention may also account for one or more of the remainder players.

96

97 Any baseball player on the planet earth is eligible to be drafted in the

98 Remainder Draft, except players on the 25-man roster of an American

99 League team.

100

101 In the event a player is drafted at a certain position in the remainder

102 draft, and upon promotion to the National League the player is designated

103 by the rules of Rotisserie Baseball or the agreed-upon position eligibility

104 source as being ineligible for that position, the position eligibility for

105 that player shall be determined by the rules of Rotisserie Baseball or the

106 agreed-upon source, not the position at which the player was drafted.

107

108 Draft order for the remainder draft shall be determined with reference

109 to the order of finish in the previous year's standings, as so:

110

111 Remainder Draft: 4th 2nd 3rd 1st 6th 5th 8th 7th

112

113 6. GAME PLAY

114

115 The Sudsy Lager Baseball season shall consist of a number of three-game

116 series. Each Monday thru Thursday and each Friday thru Sunday teams play

117 three game series' against another team.

118

119 6A. LINEUPS

120

121 Each team shall submit a lineup, which is in effect for an entire three

122 game series. It shall consist of one player at each infield position,

123 three outfielders, a designated hitter (deal with it), and six pitchers.

124

125 Lineups must be posted by the first pitch of the first National League game

126 of the Sudsy Lager Baseball series. If a team fails to post a lineup, the

127 team's last posted lineup shall be in effect. The owners involved in a series

128 may, but are not required to, agree to a lineup extension if in their judgment

129 no harm is done. In exigent circumstances, such as if a series will have a

130 pronounced effect on the pennant race, a lineup may be posted as soon as

131 possible past the deadline by the Commissioner or an owner uninvolved in the

132 series.

133

134 Lineup posting procedure is to be agreed upon prior to the season with

135 reference to the service which may be hosting/scoring the league for that

136 season.

137

138 6B. GAMES WITHIN A SERIES

139

140 One game in each series, which shall roughly be described as "SPEED,"

141 shall be scored as follows:

142

143                total hits (H)

144                plus total runs scored times two (2*R)

145                plus total stolen bases times three (3*SB)

146

147 The team with the greater total wins a game in the series.

148

149 Another game in each series, which shall roughly be described as "POWER,"

150 shall be scored as follows:

151

152                total strikeouts pitched (K)

153                plus total runs batted in times two (2*RBI)

154                plus total home runs times three (3*HR)

155

156 The team with the greater total wins a game in the series.

157

158 One last game in each series, which shall roughly be described as "PITCHING,"

159 shall be scored as follows:

160

161                total innings pitched (IP)

162                plus total opponent's earned runs (opp.ER)

163                plus total wins by starting pitchers times five (5*WBS)

164                plus total wins in relief times two (2*WIR)

165                plus total saves times three (3*SV)

166                plus total opponents' losses time three (3*opp.L)

167

168 The team with the greater total wins a game in the series.

169

170 6C. GAME TIEBREAKERS

171

172 In addition to the regular starting lineup, each team shall designate for

173 each series three pinch hitters (PH). The PH shall be ranked in order 1-3.

174 The PH shall accumulate statistics as regular players, except that they

175 will not count toward a team's total in any game unless there is a tie in

176 either SPEED or POWER. In the event of a tie in either game, each team's

177 first PHs will be compared; if still a tie, the second PHs will be compared;

178 if still a tie, the third PHs will be compared. If the PHs fail to break a

179 tie, the game shall be considered suspended and shall be completed later in

180 the season. Normally, the game will be "re-played" as soon as the next

181 series. While the tied teams are playing three-game series against other

182 opponents, their totals in the tied category during the new series may be

183 compared to determine the winner of the suspended game.

184

185 In the event of a tie in the SPEED game, the PH with the higher total of

186 H + 2*R + 3*SB, by the method described above, shall win the game for his

187 team.

188

189 In the event of a tie in the POWER game, the PH with the higher total of

190 2*RBI + 3*HR, by the method described above, shall win the game for his

191 team.

192

193 The tiebreaker for PITCHING is different, and does not involve the PHs.

194 In the event of a tie in PITCHING, the team with the greater number of

195 wins by starting pitchers (WBS) shall win the game. If still tied, the

196 team having allowed the fewer earned runs (ER) shall win the game. If still

197 tied, the team having scored the greater number of runs (R) shall win the

198 game.

199

200 6D. SCORING

201

202 The league owners shall agree on a method for tallying and recording the

203 results of games during a season. Past a reasonable grace period, results

204 will be final and will not be altered retroactively. Owners are responsible

205 for checking their game scores to ensure scoring is correct.

206

207 7. STANDINGS

208

209 Standings shall be kept in W-L, GB format by the Commissioner or whosoever

210 shall agree to do so.

211

212 The Sudsy Lager Baseball team winning the most games in the season in its

213 division will face the team winning the most games in the season in the other

214 division in a play-off for the Sudsy Lager Baseball Pennant (see Section 8).

215

216 In the event of a tie for a position in the standings other than first, the

217 tie shall be broken as follows:

218

219         1. better head-to-head record between tied teams

220         2. more total points scored (total cumulative SPEED + POWER + PITCH)

221         3. more WBS

222         4. more runs scored

223         5. higher batting average

224

225 In the event of a tie for first place in the division standings at the end

226 of the season, the tied teams play a "phantom" series using statistics for

227 the last series in which the two teams did not face one another. The winner

228 of that series wins the division.

229

230 8. PLAYOFFS, PENNANT AND WORLD SERIES

231

232 Teams that finish first in their divisions following the procedures in Section

233 7 face one another in a best-of-seven play-off for the Sudsy Lager Baseball

234 Pennant.

235

236 Each team submits a lineup for each scheduled day of the play-off by the first

237 pitch of the first National League game of the day. The two lineups are

238 scored for the day as though each game were only one day long. The team

239 winning at least two out of three categories (SPEED, POWER, PITCHING) in a day

240 wins one play-off game. Tiebreakers are the same as in-season (see Section

241 6C). The team which wins four games first wins the Sudsy Lager Baseball

242 Pennant.

243

244 The Sudsy Lager Baseball Pennant winner then faces the Pale Ale Baseball

245 Pennant winner in a best-of-seven World Series, following the same procedures

246 as above to determine the World Series winner.

247

248 9. TRADES

249

250 Trades are allowed and encouraged in Sudsy Lager Baseball, provided each

251 trading team's roster consists of forty players after the trade.

252

253 There are two separate "trade dealines" in Sudsy Lager Baseball. One,

254 occurring around the time of the Major League non-waiver trade deadline, is a

255 date after which no H1-H3, P1-P3 or R players may be traded. For

256 about a month after that, teams may still trade H4-H13 and P4-P10 players.

257 Both deadlines will be denoted on the Official Schedule.

258

259 A trade becomes effective upon both trading team owners messaging the

260 league owners or posting the trade particulars on the Sudsy Lager Baseball

261 message board. The particulars of a trade must be identical for the trade to

262 be effective.

263

264 Only players on a team's 40-man roster may be traded. This excludes among

265 other things supplemental draft picks, Initial, Reserve and "Rule V" (see

266 Section 11A) draft picks, "future considerations" and the like.

267

268 10. FREE AGENTS

269

270 At certain times to be designated and agreed upon in-season, there will be a

271 number of free agent "supplemental" drafts during a season. Normally, these

272 will be scheduled to occur near the beginning of each calendar month of the

273 season.

274

275 At each supplemental draft, which shall be held online if possible, each team

276 has two opportunities to replace a player on their 40-man roster with a free

277 agent. In addition, a team receives an additional draft choice for each member

278 of their forty-man roster who is traded to the American League in-season.

279 Draft order for these picks shall be: before the "two rounds" described above,

280 and in chronological order of when the trade took place.

281

282 In the event players from two or more different teams are traded in the same

283 Major League transaction, the team losing the player drafted earlier at the

284 Initial draft (for frozen players, the earlier draft round) picks before the

285 other(s). In the event of a tie, the team lower in the standings at the time

286 of the trade picks first, considering any tiebreakers (see Section 7).

287

288 For purposes of supplemental draft order ties for first in the standings are

289 treated the same as ties for any other place in the standings.

290

291         FOR EXAMPLE. Scott Rolen, owned by the Maniacs, and Reggie Sanders,

292         owned by the Q's, are each traded to the American League in the same

293         transaction. Rolen's draft round is H3. Sanders' draft round is H12.

294         The Maniacs draft first.

295

296         FOR EXAMPLE. A supplemental draft has been scheduled for the first

297         week of July. Here is the chronolgy of inter-league trades affecting

298         Sudsy Lager Baseball teams:

299

300                 6/10: Atrophy lose one player to the AL

301                 6/19: Q's lose a P5 player to the AL

302                       Rabbits lose an H10 player to the AL, same trade

303                 6/30: River Rats lose one player to the AL

304                 7/3: Club lose an H5 and R3 player to the AL

305                       Atrophy lose a P5 player to the AL, same trade

306                       Atrophy are ahead of Club in the standings on

307                       this date

308

309                 At the time of the draft, the order of the standings,

310                 considering all tiebreakers if necessary, is Q's, Scammers,

311                 Whoopie, Rabbits, Atrophy, River Rats, Club, Batboys.

312

313                 Draft order at the July supplemental draft would

314                 be:

315

316                       (Compensation)   (Round "one")    (Round "two")

317                        1. ATROPHY       8. BATBOYS      16. BATBOYS

318                        2. Q'S           9. CLUB         17. CLUB

319                        3. RABBITS      10. RIVER RATS   18. RIVER RATS

320                        4. RIVER RATS   11. ATROPHY      19. ATROPHY

321                        5. CLUB         12. RABBITS      20. RABBITS

322                        6. ATROPHY      13. WHOOPIE      21. WHOOPIE

323                        7. CLUB         14. Q's          22. Q'S

324                                        15. SCAMMERS     23. SCAMMERS

325

326 Teams may pass their selection -- that is, decline to replace a player.

327

328 Teams which earn a draft pick by virtue of losing a player to the AL MUST

329 replace that player with the corresponding pick, or pass the selection.

330

331 A player cut in order to sign a free agent is immediately himself a free

332 agent and eligible to be claimed by the next selecting team. A player does

333 NOT retain his original draft round (see Section 11) in this event, unless

334 higher than H4 or P4. Instead, it becomes H4 or P4, as with any other player

335 acquired at a free agent draft (see Section 11B below). If higher than H4 or

336 P4, the player retains his draft round.

337

338 11. PLAYER RETENTION

339

340 Each player is designated with the draft round at which he was chosen or

341 frozen the previous year (e.g. H3, H7, P5, R14).

342

343 To retain a player, increment each round number by three. A team may retain

344 a player by giving up their selection in the resulting round.

345

346         FOR EXAMPLE. A player chosen in the fourth round of the Hitters

347         Draft (H4) may be retained by giving up your selection in the first

348         round of the current year's Hitters Draft (H1).

349

350 Players chosen or frozen in rounds 1-3 of the Hitters and Pitchers Drafts

351 are ineligible to be frozen.

352

353 Players retain their draft round numbers regardless of trade to another team.

354 They may however be changed if the player is cut by a team and subsequently

355 signed by another (see 11B below).

356

357 There is no minimum or maximum number of players a team may retain.

358

359 If because of trade or otherwise (see below) a team has two or more players

360 with the same round number, it will be necessary for one or more of such

361 players to have their round numbers incremented by more than three.

362

363         FOR EXAMPLE. A team wishes to freeze two players carrying a round

364         number of H7. One of those players will have to be frozen to the

365         H6 slot, or H5 or earlier, if possible.

366

367 The freezing team is responsible for and empowered to select which round to

368 freeze any player, provided round numbers are incremented by at least three.

369

370 11A. THE 'RULE V' DRAFT

371

372 Prior to the finalization and submission of freeze lists, a 'Rule V' draft is

373 held according the the procedures herein.

374

375 Each team posts a list of 10 players who may not be drafted by other teams.

376

377 Teams then meet online for an up-to-five round draft wherein any player not on

378 the "protected" list described above may be selected by any team. Draft order

379 is reverse order of the previous year's standings.

380

381 If a player is drafted by another team from a team's non-protected roster, the

382 team losing the player may add another player from its non-protected roster to

383 its protected list.

384

385         FOR EXAMPLE. The Q's, which have posted a list of 10 protected players,

386         see Ben Sheets drafted in the Rule V draft by another team. Upon

387         Sheets' selection, the Q's may add another player left off its list to

388         its protected list.

389

390 Once so selected, an unprotected player becomes property of the selecting team

391 in addition to its other protected players, and may not be selected again.

392

393 A team may draft one of its own unprotected players in its turn if it chooses.

394 In that case, it may not add another player from its unprotected roster to its

395 protected list -- it may only do so if it "loses" an unprotected player to

396 another team.

397

398 A team may pass its selection.

399

400 At the conclusion of the draft, teams may include in their frozen roster

401 submission any player from its original list of 10 protected players, any

402 player it drafted in the Rule V draft, and any undrafted player remaining on

403 its non-protected list that was not drafted by another team.

404

405 In the event a team sees one of its players selected by another team in the

406 Rule V draft, and the player is not subsequently included on any frozen

407 roster, within 24 hours the original team may claim the unfrozen player back

408 and freeze that player on its own freeze list.

409

410 Trades are permitted up to the time final frozen rosters are submitted,

411 provided they include players only, per Section 9. Frozen rosters are final

412 24 hours after all are posted, or immediately upon all being posted if no

413 player selected in the Rule V draft was left unfrozen.

414

415 11B. SPECIAL INCREMENTATION RULES

416

417 Any player carrying a round number of R1, R2 or R3 the previous season

418 is automatically incremented to H10 (for hitters) or P7 (for pitchers).

419

420 Any free agent, regardless of previous round number status if any, carries

421 a round number of H4 (for hitters) or P4 (for pitchers) upon being claimed

422 from the free agent pool. When incremented the next season, they will be H1

423 or P1. BUT SEE Section 10 for an exception to this.

1	1. OBJECTIVE
2
3	In Sudsy Lager Baseball, team owners assemble a team of National League
4	baseball players, which plays a schedule of head-to-head games against other
5	teams, and whose players' performance, based on Major League Baseball
6	statistics and described more particularly below, leads to wins or losses in
7	those games. The objective of Sudsy Lager Baseball is to win the Sudsy Lager
8	Baseball Pennant by means described in Section 8 below, and to win a World
9	Series against the Pennant winner from Pale Ale Baseball.
10
11	2. LEAGUE COMPOSITION
12
13	The Sudsy Lager Baseball league shall consist of eight teams in two divisions
14	of four teams each: the Pilsner Division and the Bock Division.
15
16	Sudsy Lager team names should consist of places followed by nicknames.
17
18	3. TEAM COMPOSITION
19
20	Each Sudsy Lager Baseball team consists of 40 players, assembled through
21	drafts, trades, free agent signings, and optional player retention from
22	year to year.
23
24	At the conclusion of the drafts (see Sections 4-5), each Sudsy Lager Baseball
25	team shall consist of 23 position players and 17 pitchers. After the
26	drafts, due to trades, free agents and the like, position requirements
27	disappear.
28
29	Position players' pre-season position eligibility is determined by the rules
30	of Rotisserie League Baseball or a source to be agreed upon by the league
31	prior to the season. In the past, the league had used NLREAL.POS on Sports
32	Forum on Compuserve. Today, FBB on Mocksports.com produces a comparable
33	position eligibility list. Generally, the rule has been that a player is
34	eligible at any position at which he appeared 20 times the previous Major
35	League season; if he didn't appear anywhere 20 times, then the position at
36	which he appeared most often.
37
38	In-season, a player becomes eligible at a new position by appearing there
39	in five Major League games.
40
41	Sudsy Lager Baseball teams must always be able to field a complete lineup
42	of National League players. The league, acting with the consent of a number
43	of owners, may void games in which a team has failed to field a complete
44	lineup, or may take over management of the team if the situation persists.
45
46	4. THE INITIAL DRAFTS
47
48	An online draft shall be held wherein thirteen position players shall be
49	selected by each team. Player retention (see Section 11) may account for
50	some of these selections. Unless the league ever strarts from scratch,
51	there is no minimum or maximum number of players at any position that a
52	team may select, subject to the requirement in Section 3 that a team must
53	always be able to field a complete lineup. If the league redrafts from
54	scratch, positions should be distributed equitably to (a) prevent position
55	hoarding, and (b) ensure every team can field a complete lineup after the
56	initial drafts.
57
58	At the conclusion of the initial position player draft described below, each
59	team must be able to field a complete Sudsy Lager Baseball lineup (see Section
60	6(a) below), considering players chosen at the draft and frozen both in the
61	'H' and 'R' designations (see Section 11 below).
62
63	E.g.: At the conclusion of the initial position player draft, each team
64	must have at least one catcher. A team may accomplish this by drafting a
65	catcher in the initial draft, by having frozen a catcher in the 'H' rounds,
66	OR by having frozen a catcher in the 'R' rounds who is in the
67	Major Leagues. (See requirement below that each player chosen at the
68	initial drafts be on a National League roster.)
69
70	A second, separate online draft shall then be held wherein ten pitchers
71	shall be selected by each team, minus any retained (see Section 11). These
72	two drafts may, of course, be held in the same online session, but are
73	conducted separately.
74
75	Any National League baseball player is eligible to be chosen at the
76	initial drafts. Only players on the 25-man roster of a National League club
77	may be selected in the initial drafts. To that end, a resource such as NL.AVL
78	on Sports Forum on Compuserve or an equivalent master list provided by the
79	service which hosts/scores the league should be used as a draft guide in the
80	initial drafts.
81
82	Draft order for the initial drafts shall be determined with reference
83	to the order of finish in the previous year's standings, as so:
84
85	One Initial Draft: 8th 7th 6th 5th 4th 3rd 2nd 1st
86	Next Initial Draft: 7th 8th 5th 6th 3rd 4th 1st 2nd
87
88	The team which finishes in last (8th) place shall have the option of either
89	choosing first in the hitters draft or the pitchers draft.
90
91	5. THE REMAINDER DRAFT
92
93	The remaining seventeen players -- ten position players and seven
94	pitchers -- shall be chosen in a third, "remainder" draft. Player
95	retention may also account for one or more of the remainder players.
96
97	Any baseball player on the planet earth is eligible to be drafted in the
98	Remainder Draft, except players on the 25-man roster of an American
99	League team.
100
101	In the event a player is drafted at a certain position in the remainder
102	draft, and upon promotion to the National League the player is designated
103	by the rules of Rotisserie Baseball or the agreed-upon position eligibility
104	source as being ineligible for that position, the position eligibility for
105	that player shall be determined by the rules of Rotisserie Baseball or the
106	agreed-upon source, not the position at which the player was drafted.
107
108	Draft order for the remainder draft shall be determined with reference
109	to the order of finish in the previous year's standings, as so:
110
111	Remainder Draft: 4th 2nd 3rd 1st 6th 5th 8th 7th
112
113	6. GAME PLAY
114
115	The Sudsy Lager Baseball season shall consist of a number of three-game
116	series. Each Monday thru Thursday and each Friday thru Sunday teams play
117	three game series' against another team.
118
119	6A. LINEUPS
120
121	Each team shall submit a lineup, which is in effect for an entire three
122	game series. It shall consist of one player at each infield position,
123	three outfielders, a designated hitter (deal with it), and six pitchers.
124
125	Lineups must be posted by the first pitch of the first National League game
126	of the Sudsy Lager Baseball series. If a team fails to post a lineup, the
127	team's last posted lineup shall be in effect. The owners involved in a series
128	may, but are not required to, agree to a lineup extension if in their judgment
129	no harm is done. In exigent circumstances, such as if a series will have a
130	pronounced effect on the pennant race, a lineup may be posted as soon as
131	possible past the deadline by the Commissioner or an owner uninvolved in the
132	series.
133
134	Lineup posting procedure is to be agreed upon prior to the season with
135	reference to the service which may be hosting/scoring the league for that
136	season.
137
138	6B. GAMES WITHIN A SERIES
139
140	One game in each series, which shall roughly be described as "SPEED,"
141	shall be scored as follows:
142
143	total hits (H)
144	plus total runs scored times two (2*R)
145	plus total stolen bases times three (3*SB)
146
147	The team with the greater total wins a game in the series.
148
149	Another game in each series, which shall roughly be described as "POWER,"
150	shall be scored as follows:
151
152	total strikeouts pitched (K)
153	plus total runs batted in times two (2*RBI)
154	plus total home runs times three (3*HR)
155
156	The team with the greater total wins a game in the series.
157
158	One last game in each series, which shall roughly be described as "PITCHING,"
159	shall be scored as follows:
160
161	total innings pitched (IP)
162	plus total opponent's earned runs (opp.ER)
163	plus total wins by starting pitchers times five (5*WBS)
164	plus total wins in relief times two (2*WIR)
165	plus total saves times three (3*SV)
166	plus total opponents' losses time three (3*opp.L)
167
168	The team with the greater total wins a game in the series.
169
170	6C. GAME TIEBREAKERS
171
172	In addition to the regular starting lineup, each team shall designate for
173	each series three pinch hitters (PH). The PH shall be ranked in order 1-3.
174	The PH shall accumulate statistics as regular players, except that they
175	will not count toward a team's total in any game unless there is a tie in
176	either SPEED or POWER. In the event of a tie in either game, each team's
177	first PHs will be compared; if still a tie, the second PHs will be compared;
178	if still a tie, the third PHs will be compared. If the PHs fail to break a
179	tie, the game shall be considered suspended and shall be completed later in
180	the season. Normally, the game will be "re-played" as soon as the next
181	series. While the tied teams are playing three-game series against other
182	opponents, their totals in the tied category during the new series may be
183	compared to determine the winner of the suspended game.
184
185	In the event of a tie in the SPEED game, the PH with the higher total of
186	H + 2R + 3SB, by the method described above, shall win the game for his
187	team.
188
189	In the event of a tie in the POWER game, the PH with the higher total of
190	2RBI + 3HR, by the method described above, shall win the game for his
191	team.
192
193	The tiebreaker for PITCHING is different, and does not involve the PHs.
194	In the event of a tie in PITCHING, the team with the greater number of
195	wins by starting pitchers (WBS) shall win the game. If still tied, the
196	team having allowed the fewer earned runs (ER) shall win the game. If still
197	tied, the team having scored the greater number of runs (R) shall win the
198	game.
199
200	6D. SCORING
201
202	The league owners shall agree on a method for tallying and recording the
203	results of games during a season. Past a reasonable grace period, results
204	will be final and will not be altered retroactively. Owners are responsible
205	for checking their game scores to ensure scoring is correct.
206
207	7. STANDINGS
208
209	Standings shall be kept in W-L, GB format by the Commissioner or whosoever
210	shall agree to do so.
211
212	The Sudsy Lager Baseball team winning the most games in the season in its
213	division will face the team winning the most games in the season in the other
214	division in a play-off for the Sudsy Lager Baseball Pennant (see Section 8).
215
216	In the event of a tie for a position in the standings other than first, the
217	tie shall be broken as follows:
218
219	1. better head-to-head record between tied teams
220	2. more total points scored (total cumulative SPEED + POWER + PITCH)
221	3. more WBS
222	4. more runs scored
223	5. higher batting average
224
225	In the event of a tie for first place in the division standings at the end
226	of the season, the tied teams play a "phantom" series using statistics for
227	the last series in which the two teams did not face one another. The winner
228	of that series wins the division.
229
230	8. PLAYOFFS, PENNANT AND WORLD SERIES
231
232	Teams that finish first in their divisions following the procedures in Section
233	7 face one another in a best-of-seven play-off for the Sudsy Lager Baseball
234	Pennant.
235
236	Each team submits a lineup for each scheduled day of the play-off by the first
237	pitch of the first National League game of the day. The two lineups are
238	scored for the day as though each game were only one day long. The team
239	winning at least two out of three categories (SPEED, POWER, PITCHING) in a day
240	wins one play-off game. Tiebreakers are the same as in-season (see Section
241	6C). The team which wins four games first wins the Sudsy Lager Baseball
242	Pennant.
243
244	The Sudsy Lager Baseball Pennant winner then faces the Pale Ale Baseball
245	Pennant winner in a best-of-seven World Series, following the same procedures
246	as above to determine the World Series winner.
247
248	9. TRADES
249
250	Trades are allowed and encouraged in Sudsy Lager Baseball, provided each
251	trading team's roster consists of forty players after the trade.
252
253	There are two separate "trade dealines" in Sudsy Lager Baseball. One,
254	occurring around the time of the Major League non-waiver trade deadline, is a
255	date after which no H1-H3, P1-P3 or R players may be traded. For
256	about a month after that, teams may still trade H4-H13 and P4-P10 players.
257	Both deadlines will be denoted on the Official Schedule.
258
259	A trade becomes effective upon both trading team owners messaging the
260	league owners or posting the trade particulars on the Sudsy Lager Baseball
261	message board. The particulars of a trade must be identical for the trade to
262	be effective.
263
264	Only players on a team's 40-man roster may be traded. This excludes among
265	other things supplemental draft picks, Initial, Reserve and "Rule V" (see
266	Section 11A) draft picks, "future considerations" and the like.
267
268	10. FREE AGENTS
269
270	At certain times to be designated and agreed upon in-season, there will be a
271	number of free agent "supplemental" drafts during a season. Normally, these
272	will be scheduled to occur near the beginning of each calendar month of the
273	season.
274
275	At each supplemental draft, which shall be held online if possible, each team
276	has two opportunities to replace a player on their 40-man roster with a free
277	agent. In addition, a team receives an additional draft choice for each member
278	of their forty-man roster who is traded to the American League in-season.
279	Draft order for these picks shall be: before the "two rounds" described above,
280	and in chronological order of when the trade took place.
281
282	In the event players from two or more different teams are traded in the same
283	Major League transaction, the team losing the player drafted earlier at the
284	Initial draft (for frozen players, the earlier draft round) picks before the
285	other(s). In the event of a tie, the team lower in the standings at the time
286	of the trade picks first, considering any tiebreakers (see Section 7).
287
288	For purposes of supplemental draft order ties for first in the standings are
289	treated the same as ties for any other place in the standings.
290
291	FOR EXAMPLE. Scott Rolen, owned by the Maniacs, and Reggie Sanders,
292	owned by the Q's, are each traded to the American League in the same
293	transaction. Rolen's draft round is H3. Sanders' draft round is H12.
294	The Maniacs draft first.
295
296	FOR EXAMPLE. A supplemental draft has been scheduled for the first
297	week of July. Here is the chronolgy of inter-league trades affecting
298	Sudsy Lager Baseball teams:
299
300	6/10: Atrophy lose one player to the AL
301	6/19: Q's lose a P5 player to the AL
302	Rabbits lose an H10 player to the AL, same trade
303	6/30: River Rats lose one player to the AL
304	7/3: Club lose an H5 and R3 player to the AL
305	Atrophy lose a P5 player to the AL, same trade
306	Atrophy are ahead of Club in the standings on
307	this date
308
309	At the time of the draft, the order of the standings,
310	considering all tiebreakers if necessary, is Q's, Scammers,
311	Whoopie, Rabbits, Atrophy, River Rats, Club, Batboys.
312
313	Draft order at the July supplemental draft would
314	be:
315
316	(Compensation) (Round "one") (Round "two")
317	1. ATROPHY 8. BATBOYS 16. BATBOYS
318	2. Q'S 9. CLUB 17. CLUB
319	3. RABBITS 10. RIVER RATS 18. RIVER RATS
320	4. RIVER RATS 11. ATROPHY 19. ATROPHY
321	5. CLUB 12. RABBITS 20. RABBITS
322	6. ATROPHY 13. WHOOPIE 21. WHOOPIE
323	7. CLUB 14. Q's 22. Q'S
324	15. SCAMMERS 23. SCAMMERS
325
326	Teams may pass their selection -- that is, decline to replace a player.
327
328	Teams which earn a draft pick by virtue of losing a player to the AL MUST
329	replace that player with the corresponding pick, or pass the selection.
330
331	A player cut in order to sign a free agent is immediately himself a free
332	agent and eligible to be claimed by the next selecting team. A player does
333	NOT retain his original draft round (see Section 11) in this event, unless
334	higher than H4 or P4. Instead, it becomes H4 or P4, as with any other player
335	acquired at a free agent draft (see Section 11B below). If higher than H4 or
336	P4, the player retains his draft round.
337
338	11. PLAYER RETENTION
339
340	Each player is designated with the draft round at which he was chosen or
341	frozen the previous year (e.g. H3, H7, P5, R14).
342
343	To retain a player, increment each round number by three. A team may retain
344	a player by giving up their selection in the resulting round.
345
346	FOR EXAMPLE. A player chosen in the fourth round of the Hitters
347	Draft (H4) may be retained by giving up your selection in the first
348	round of the current year's Hitters Draft (H1).
349
350	Players chosen or frozen in rounds 1-3 of the Hitters and Pitchers Drafts
351	are ineligible to be frozen.
352
353	Players retain their draft round numbers regardless of trade to another team.
354	They may however be changed if the player is cut by a team and subsequently
355	signed by another (see 11B below).
356
357	There is no minimum or maximum number of players a team may retain.
358
359	If because of trade or otherwise (see below) a team has two or more players
360	with the same round number, it will be necessary for one or more of such
361	players to have their round numbers incremented by more than three.
362
363	FOR EXAMPLE. A team wishes to freeze two players carrying a round
364	number of H7. One of those players will have to be frozen to the
365	H6 slot, or H5 or earlier, if possible.
366
367	The freezing team is responsible for and empowered to select which round to
368	freeze any player, provided round numbers are incremented by at least three.
369
370	11A. THE 'RULE V' DRAFT
371
372	Prior to the finalization and submission of freeze lists, a 'Rule V' draft is
373	held according the the procedures herein.
374
375	Each team posts a list of 10 players who may not be drafted by other teams.
376
377	Teams then meet online for an up-to-five round draft wherein any player not on
378	the "protected" list described above may be selected by any team. Draft order
379	is reverse order of the previous year's standings.
380
381	If a player is drafted by another team from a team's non-protected roster, the
382	team losing the player may add another player from its non-protected roster to
383	its protected list.
384
385	FOR EXAMPLE. The Q's, which have posted a list of 10 protected players,
386	see Ben Sheets drafted in the Rule V draft by another team. Upon
387	Sheets' selection, the Q's may add another player left off its list to
388	its protected list.
389
390	Once so selected, an unprotected player becomes property of the selecting team
391	in addition to its other protected players, and may not be selected again.
392
393	A team may draft one of its own unprotected players in its turn if it chooses.
394	In that case, it may not add another player from its unprotected roster to its
395	protected list -- it may only do so if it "loses" an unprotected player to
396	another team.
397
398	A team may pass its selection.
399
400	At the conclusion of the draft, teams may include in their frozen roster
401	submission any player from its original list of 10 protected players, any
402	player it drafted in the Rule V draft, and any undrafted player remaining on
403	its non-protected list that was not drafted by another team.
404
405	In the event a team sees one of its players selected by another team in the
406	Rule V draft, and the player is not subsequently included on any frozen
407	roster, within 24 hours the original team may claim the unfrozen player back
408	and freeze that player on its own freeze list.
409
410	Trades are permitted up to the time final frozen rosters are submitted,
411	provided they include players only, per Section 9. Frozen rosters are final
412	24 hours after all are posted, or immediately upon all being posted if no
413	player selected in the Rule V draft was left unfrozen.
414
415	11B. SPECIAL INCREMENTATION RULES
416
417	Any player carrying a round number of R1, R2 or R3 the previous season
418	is automatically incremented to H10 (for hitters) or P7 (for pitchers).
419
420	Any free agent, regardless of previous round number status if any, carries
421	a round number of H4 (for hitters) or P4 (for pitchers) upon being claimed
422	from the free agent pool. When incremented the next season, they will be H1
423	or P1. BUT SEE Section 10 for an exception to this.