The Mixed History Baseball League or MHBL will be simmed using Out of the Park  Baseball 10. The league will use Sandmans Random Debut Database so that players may debut in eras they didn’t play in. The purpose of the leauge will be to see how great players from different eras will do head to head against each other. For example imagine Cy Young pitching to Ted Williams. Roger Clemens pitching to Babe Ruth. These matchups are not necessarily going to happen, but it is possible with this setup.

All sims will be done using modern settings so you get to see what kind of numbers Babe Ruth would put up modern times and you get a true comparison of players through history.

Each season will be simmed using Ronco and Skydogs engine settings so that there will be no deadball era, steroid era etc. Each player will be playing under the same guidelines.

The League will start in 1905. There will be a CPU initial draft of all players to determine what players or on what teams.

We use Out of the Park Baseball 10 to sim. You must own the game to be in the league.

All owners are encouraged to submit a line-up export or a “No Change” email at least once a week. If the commissioner feels your inactivity has been going on for a long period of time, you will be replaced. If something comes up such as vacation or health concerns for you or your family please let me know and we can work around it. As long as you work with me, I will work with you.

You are responsible for keeping your 25 man active roster up to date. This includes keeping your lineup and pitching rotations up to date, and managing your disabled list. Making sure hurt players are placed on the the DL and players who are healthy are put back on the active roster and not left on the DL.

You must be at least 16 to be in the league. Also no nonsense will tolerated. We are all in this fun. Trash talking is ok but personal attacks, profanity, and immature behavior will not be tolerated.

No owner may own more than one team, nor may the owner collude with any owner or group of owners to unjustly enrich any team. Any owner found guilty will be expelled from the league.

Owners are required to respond to all trade inquiries. It is very rude to ignore owners by not responding, so please remember common courtesy.

We do not require that you have AIM but it is strongly encouraged as we will be doing live sims on AIM and many owners like to talk trade on AIM rather than email or private messages on the forums. 

Schedule

Sims will be run Sundays Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8 pm eastern unless otherwise indicated during the regular season.

Offseason and draft schedules will be determined and announced giving owners enough notice.

Exports are due 30 minutes before sim time. For example for 8 pm sim, please have exports in by 7:30 eastern.

Extensions

Extensions are also made by the individual owner in the game. Extensions offers are exported with your team exports.

 During a sim, usually after a day or so, the player will let you know where you stand with your offer. You will be able to view their response when you download the latest sim file.

Extensions can be made at any time of the season.

 You can also offer extensions to players that are not in their final year of their current contract. However, you can only do so if they are willing to talk to you about it.

No draft pick trading

Cash can be included in trades but no cash for players trades. A player from each team must be in every trade.

You can trade recently drafted players

You can not trade recently signed free agents until after July 1^st.

Trades must be posted on the forums and confirmed by each team involved.

Trades will be processed after the sim is run, unless otherwise indicated.

Free Agency will be conducted in game. Teams can submit offers with their exports.

The draft will be done in game. Rounds 1 and 2 will be done on separate nights giving teams enough time to update their draft list and export accordingly. Rounds 3-10 will be simmed together.

Coaching and scouting are turned off

Suspension and injuries are on

Injuries are set to very low

Position Player Fatigue is set to average

All Rating scales are set to 1-10 with stars enabled

Batting Aging Speed is 1.75         

Batter Development Speed .75

Pitching Aging Speed 1.50           

Pitching Development Speed .85

Player Personality Ratings will be used, morale system will not be used

AI Player Evaluation

Ratings Weight 65%

Current Years Stats 25%

Last Years Stats 7%

2 Seasons ago 3%

No DH will be used until it was implemented in MLB

Option Years and Rule 5 Draft are enbaled

Amateur Draft is set to June 15^th

Visiting team recieves 20% of the gate

Entire Revenue is available to teams

There is no revenue sharing, (that can be voted on and changed)

There is no compensation to teams who lose free agents. (that can also be changed)

Expansion will occur as it did in real life

Incomplete minor leauge are allowed

There will be a roster limit of 35 players for each minor league level

There will be minor league free agency

Major league will have an active 25 man roster and 40 man secondary roster.

League will start with 2 leagues each with one division and 8 teams in each. The alignment will change as it did in real life

Division winners and wild card team will advance to the playoffs. Each round will be best of 7