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Active 25 Man Rosters (Major Leaguers): All 25 man rosters will have the following limits: 1. Maximum of 8 starting pitchers, minimum of 5, with 5 being active. Each team will be limited to 7 starts per week. This will promote quality over quantity. Any team with more starts than allowed by the rules will be forced to forfeit all points gained from every start beyond the 7th. This will also more closely mimic an actual MLB team schedule. 2. Maximum of 5 relievers, minimum of 3, with 3 being active. (The limits on pitching staffs are intended to more closely resemble an actual Major League staff.) 3. There are no positional maximums. Every position must have a minimum of 1 player, and benches can consist of any combination of position players that the manager desires. 4. Each team will have a 4 man DL. Players on the DL must be listed on the MLB DL. Players on the DL will not count against a team's active roster or against established limits. (i.e. you may have 8 Starting pitchers and up to 3 on the DL.) Pitcher's Max Starts: Each team may only receive 7 starts per week. You are responsible for setting your roster so as to only have 7 starts from your starting pitchers per week, as well as for making sure your opponent only has 7 starts, as well. Any team who violates this rule will have all points gained from the 8th start and up deducted from its total. Upon the 4th violation, you will begin to have your highest points totals deducted. (For example, on your 4th violation, the 8th starts points will count, provided they are lower than one of the previous 7. By starting extra pitchers, you will assure that you are actually losing points.) This is to discourage anyone from taking a chance on breaking the rules. Again, you will be responsible for reporting your opponent if you feel that he has violated the rules, intentionally or accidentally. Minor Leaguers: Any player on a Minor League roster must fit one of the following criteria: 1. He is currently on an actual Minor League roster (with the exception of injury/rehab assignments.) Or... 2. He has fewer than 130 career AB or 50 IP. If a player has fewer than the requisite AB or IP, he can be held on your Minor League roster, even if he is on a 25 man Major League roster. However, once he has surpassed either of those plateaus, he must be on an actual Minor League roster for you to designate him as such, or he must be moved to your active roster or released. The roster is currently set at 8 players maximum, but will expand to 10 on draft day. Keeper Rules: Each team will be allowed to keep up to 1800 points and/or up to 12 Major Leaguers and up to 8 Minor Leaguers. To keep a player on your Minor League roster during the offseason, he must not be over the established limits of 130 career AB or 50 career IP. Rules of Exemption: Players with 3 or fewer years of service (as determined by the year they lost rookie eligibility) will be considered exempt. This means that once a player has lost rookie eligibility (130 AB/50 IP), he will have 3 exemptions from counting against your point total. After his 3rd exemption has expired, his points will begin to count against your keeper points allowed. If an exempt player misses an entire season due to injury (no AB/IP), that injury year does not count against said player. Trades and Transactions: All trades will be immediately processed, but can be reversed if one of the commissioners deem it unfair or not in the best interests of the league. Offseason trades are allowed, as is the trading of draft picks and Salary Cap Points. Offseason free agent pickups are not allowed. Any player added after the MLB regular season ends will be removed from the roster to which he was added.

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One more team definitely open, and maybe even two more. Who want's em?

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Alabama needed THREE blown FG's by a 3-3 team who was starting 2 walkons and a converted TE on the offensive line and a 3rd string OLB who just got moved to the middle 3 weeks ago. They barely survived at home against a team who has lost to UCLA this season. I'd say the voters got it right, and believe me- I hate the Gators.

I can beat that. I'll give you Napoli. On a serious note I have made Pujols available so you should get an offer to me ASAP. I will probably be making a decision in a week or two. PUH-lease. Like you have options. If any moron is going to give you 200 points and a draft pick for Pujols, they've lost their dang minds. Only one team could afford to do that.

One team has been replaced. I know I have one open, and may have another one open in a bit of a surprise.

Man, don't you just hate it when you beated better teams and they're ranked ahead of you in the final polls?

Not a chance. I'm not going to poke fun of you being a Tennessee fan, but I sit here tonight, knowing that there is a less then 2% chance of Tennessee beating Alabama in Tuscaloosa (let me put it this way, I give Mississippi St. a better chance to upset Florida then Tennessee at upsetting Bama) I expect a game similar to the one Tennessee had in Gainesville, but ultimately at around 5 pm Saturday, I am going to be doing one my favorite college football traditions: I will be lighting up a cigar. REPEAT SERIAL VIOLATORS. Put that in your cigar and smoke it.

I'm pretty sure you overestimate how much the rest of the world cares. Haha... you're probably right. OF course, it will dominate Sportscenter and College Football Live, so that's something.

I see that SEC talk is not huge around here (and I understand why), but I'm just gonna throw this out there... When Tennessee beats Bama 20-19 to shock the world, I'm just gonna nod my head and think to myself "told ya."

LSU Freek makes the best sigs on the interwebz.

The SEC is most definitely down this year. That said, the SEC's top two schools are better than every other conference's top two, and I'd go ahead and say that 1-3, the SEC is better than any other conference, and I'd imagine it's not really all that close. Of course, as a Tennessee fan, the last thing I care to do is pound my chest over how good Florida and Alabama are.

Let me give you a snapshot. Since it takes a password to log into either the CBS site or the NSBB forum, I'll just paint a picture for you: 25 man Major League roster, with a limit of 8 SP. 5 must be active at all times, as well as 3 RP being active. You may only have 7 starts per week. Lineups are daily. Maximum 4 DL spots. Up to 10 Minor Leaguers. For a player to be considered a minor leaguer he must have fewer than 130 career AB's or 50 career IP's, or he must actually be on a minor league roster. During the offseason, the second stipulation does not apply. Keeper rules are pretty important right now. Each team can keep up to 8 Minor Leaguers (the new 10 man roster does not take effect until the next draft), and may keep up to 12 Major League players and 1800 points. Here is where it gets complicated to explain, but I will give it a shot. Players with 3 or fewer seasons of service (based on the year they lost rookie eligibility- the numbers above) are exempt. Exempt players do not count against the point cap. Players with 4 or more seasons do count. So, each team may keep 12 total players, so long as their non-exempt players do not exceed the 1800 point limit. (Don't worry, Clint and I keep up with this and post it for every team, so it doesn't require as much thought as it might appear.) To add to the fun, teams can trade points for players or picks. For example, one team traded 1,000 points to another for draft picks and players. So, the receiving team now has 2,800 points that can be kept, while the giving team only has 800. Scoring System: Scoring for Batting Categories 1B - Singles 1 point 2B - Doubles 2 points 3B - Triples 3 points BB - Walks (Batters) 1 point CS - Caught Stealing -.5 points CYC - Hitting for the Cycle 10 points E - Errors -.5 points GDP - Ground Into Double Plays -.5 points HP - Hit by Pitch .5 points HR - Home Runs 4 points KO - Strikeouts (Batter) -.25 points R - Runs 1 point RBI - Runs Batted In 1 point SB - Stolen Bases .5 points SF - Sacrifice Flies .5 points Scoring for Pitching Categories BBI - Walks Issued (Pitchers) -.5 points BS - Blown Saves -2 points CG - Complete Games 5 points ER - Earned Runs -1 point GS - Games Started (Pitcher) 0 points HA - Hits Allowed -.5 points HB - Hit Batsmen -.5 points HD - Holds 1 point INN - Innings 2.25 points IRS - Inherited Runners Scored -.25 points K - Strikeouts (Pitcher) 1 point NH - No-Hitters 10 points PG - Perfect Games 15 points QS - Quality Starts 3 points S - Saves 2 points SO - Shutouts 2.5 points W - Wins 2 points WP - Wild Pitches -.25 points XBHA - Extra Base Hits Allowed -.5 points Hope that helps. I have two teams right now to replace, and neither is very good. One finished 10-13, the other 11-12.

Well, it being a keeper league, you have to take a longer term view than just how they look today. If you were to join, you might take on a team that does not look very good, but with league rules being what they are, it's not terribly difficult to turn things around somewhat quickly. Let me know if you want on the list. Depending on how quickly teams are deemed abandoned, it could be a few day or a couple of weeks before you would be given one. Again, you wil not have to pay until some time around February. If you're interested, just shoot me your email address.

Get back to me with your email, and I will be in touch in the next day or so. Be prepared, though, because if you join, you will most likely take over a team this weekend.

There will always be some turnover that occurs on a yearly basis, and if we only replace 4, I'd consider that a fair offseason. Should we only replace 2, that would be great. I'm fairly certain that one team will be deemed as abandoned this weekend (I've made multiple efforts to contact an unresponsive owner) and I have not heard from 3 others about their intentions for next year. I would just like to find new owners early so that teams who are living up to the expectations we have set are not penalized by those who are not. When you have 2-4 teams not involved at all, it limits what owners can do, and you don't like to have that in a keeper league like this one. So, come join the fun, folks! You do not have to pay until League Fees are due (around February), and joining now gives you time to set up your team for next season, as opposed to inheriting a team that has had all of its roster decisions made for you. Even though it is October, now is the prime time to join.