GWJ LEAGUE RULES:

I. General League Rules

A. The League
(a) The GWJBL is a fictional Out of the Park Baseball League that begins in 2011.

B. Office of the Commissioner
(a) The League Management reserves the right to modify, alter, or add rules at the discretion of the Commissioner. (b) The Commissioner may (frequently) choose to bring these matters up for debate or vote with team owners, however, such action in no way waives the Commissioner's right to make a unilateral decision in the best interests of the league. (This is to generally simplify and streamline these first years in case there are major game-breaking issues.)

C. Responsibilities as a Owner
(a) All owners are responsible for maintaining their teams at all times and behaving in a way that is beneficial to the league as a whole. (b) Prohibited behaviors/activities include (but are not limited to): cheating of any type, collusion with other owners, simming ahead, abusive behavior / slander against other owners or the league, generally acting like a dick (as determined by a majority of fellow owners/the commissioner), or utilizing unauthorized or confidential information as an advantage. (c) Additionally, owners must always act in the best interests of their team (for example, intentionally "tanking" a season is prohibited). (d) If at any time, league management determines that a particular user has failed to meet the obligations and responsibilities of being an owner, management reserves the right to fine or remove the owner without warning, depending on the nature of the offense.

D. Code of Conduct
Owners shall refrain from conduct unbecoming of a team manager. Flaming, baiting or any actions unbecoming of a team manager (See section C. (a) for more information) shall result in a fine by the commissioner. Just seriously, really, don't be a dick. Actions in violation of the CoC may be penalized. Fines shall be $500,000 for the first and second infractions. The third infraction shall result in a one week suspension from the league, plus a $1,000,000 fine. All subsequent infractions shall result in either the removal of the manager or the forfeiting of draft picks, at the commissioners discretion. The owner will be informed of the decision, but the rest of the league shall not be made aware if an owner is suspended or fined.

E. Sim Schedule
(a) Regular season sims are scheduled for every Monday and Friday, with certain exceptions due to holidays and special league events (such as the All-Star break). (b) Exports are due by 11 pm EST the day of the sim (give or take 30 minutes). (c) The offseason schedule will be posted at the start of the offseason.

II. Player Contracts

A. Free Agents
(a) In the offseason free agent period, free agents may be signed by owners by making offers in OOTP and uploading them via FTP or by sending offers via PM to the commissioner. (b) In season will work exactly the same as offseason.(c) Teams may not sign free agents once the season ends until the free agent filing date has occurred. (d) Total contract bonuses may not exceed the highest annual value of a contract.

B. Re-Signing
(a) Players who will be free agents at the conclusion of the year may be re-signed throughout the season. (b) Offers should be made within the game and uploaded with your export

C. Arbitration
(a) This league uses the arbitration setting within game. (b) To avoid paying arbitration rates, players may be released before the season is turned over.

III. Player Trades

A. General Limitations on Trades
(a) Trades which are deemed significantly unbalanced, in violation of the league rules, or would damage the integrity of the league can be voided at the Commissioner's discretion. (b) Trades cannot be made after the trade deadline unless all players involved with the deal are passed through waivers. (c) Players signed as free agents cannot be dealt until June 1st of the following season.

B. Trading After the Deadline
(a) Teams must request revocable waivers on any players with service time before they are dealt. (b) If unclaimed, players may be dealt to any team. (d) If claimed, players may only be dealt to the team with the winning claim. (e) Minor league players without any major league service time during the current season do not need to be placed through waivers in order to be traded.

C. Trade Guidelines: Trades must be comprised of one or more of the following: Players, Draft Picks, or Cash. One of each must go each way. Teams may not trade more cash than the total value of the contract(s).

IV. Waivers and Designating Players for Assignment ("DFA")

A. Waivers
(a)SC MLB uses the Waiver System created inside of the game. The Waiver period lasts for 8 sim days. Since sims last 7 days, owners are given an opportunity to see who’s on the waiver wire, as well as who might have made a claim on a player that has a revocable claim. If a player is irrevocably claimed off waivers, the player becomes property of the team claiming.

B. Designated for Assignment
The DFA period is set for 21 days. If a player's time on DFA runs out, the player will be placed in the AAA level.

V. The First-Year Player Draft

A. The Amateur Draft
The amateur draft will be held each offseason on a date to be determined.

B. Trades involving Draft Picks
Teams should assume a maximum of ten rounds in each draft when dealing picks. Teams may aquire more than 2 picks in the First and Second round. Third Round and beyond have no limits.

VI. Finances

A. Media Contracts

All GWJL teams have a set national media contract, with each team earning $25M.

B. Teams shall share 25% of all income, to be evenly distrubuted between all teams at the start of each season.

And off we go...good luck everyone and have fun!! I'll try not to pester ya all too much *chuckle*

You da man Prederick!

Oh thank god. I know I have a hard time following web-ternet directions sometimes, so I tried to make them as clear and concise as possible. Again, if anyone has an issue, for god's sake let me know.

No go forth, view your rosters, and scream for joy/rage against fate.

Problem (why me:). I uncompressed the tar.gz and got the GWJLeague.tar(with Winzip). Then uncompressed the tar file with Winzip, then with 7zip. Both got the same result: No folder name of GWJLeagueault was created, but 3 folders ( messages, news and replays) and 13 data files, were unzipped in a folder I made. Well I gather these all up in a folder I created as you suggested, 'GWJLeague.lg'. Now I was going to grab your attached file and put it in a /settings folder. But as mentioned above, only the 3 above mentioned folders were unzipped originally.

So what to do. Make a 'settings' folder and put accountsdata...into it? Or?

You did quote yourself, which seemed to have removed the attachment. Could you send it to me again?

Thanks!

Thanks for the information. I dragged the 'accountsdata_gms.dat' file over to my 'settings' folder I created in GWJLeague.lg folder. What I got was, 'accountsdata_gms (1).dat' . So do I just get rid of the '1' and all is o.k. Or did my drag and drop not do the trick (I couldn't see how to actually download the file. It is 2 KB)?

I just went back in to try my password out to see if I got same error you mentioned. But no, all went smoothly. I clicked around. Went to Spring training etc. and everything ran fine. I'm using Win 7 Home Premium.

Prederick: Btw, if I get that gamesdata confirmation that it's fine, I can go ahead and use FTP without worrying about global settings etc.?

Just to verify, because there's no 'commish' aspect for GM's, there is no way to edit names, correct?

I got the email, but I don't see myself or my team on the list of managers.

Introducing Pittsburgh Fighting Pierogies starting RF Craig Peterson, from San Jacinto CA.
5'-11", 205 lbs (*ding*)
First round draft pick (7th overall). Born on 2/22/1994, which makes him the tender age of 17.

He's not yet legally allowed to purchase tobacco products.

Likes: Girls, malls and gym class
Dislikes: Algebra

My mistake, I sent you an updated file, so you should be in there and ready to rock.

Pretty much. You can export as many times as you want, prior to me simming the in-game time. What's wonderful is that there is a in-game FTP tracker, so when I go to download new files, I can see what the local time was when the file was uploaded, and what date in-game that upload represents. Baltimore, Pittsburgh, your uploads are fine.

Regarding going from the 40-man to the 25-man roster, if you don't do it, the AI should handle it for you. At worst, it means I, the commissioner will force the AI to do it for you. Those of you who have spent some time playing the game should know that while the AI is nice, it does have the occasional tendency to drop the 3B you just signed to a 4-year $35M contract to the bench.

RE: Free Agency, yes, exactly. You can either make the offer yourself, or tell me the offer you'd like to make and it'll get done. As far as the Off-Season free agency period goes, we may try something different for the time frame of when players file and the end of winter meetings to allow for the proper frenzy.

As for the Manager Options, I had to sim from the inaugural draft to the current date (April 1st), and most teams wouldn't have made any moves, leaving the AI-controlled teams to sign whatever remaining talent there was. So I set every user-controlled team to AI roster control in everything except for trades so lineups and pitching staffs would be set, and signings (if any) would be made.

And in an online league, GMs can't be fired by the AI, so even if you finish 1-161, that just means you've got the #1 pick on lock.

Alright, i'm going to set our first sim date, tenuously, to Thursday night at midnight. That first sim will take us up to opening day and 25-man rosters, et al. I'm then going to do another one Friday at midnight, and that'll be our first week of in-game play. That said, i'm only going to do this once everyone's got the league installed, a password set, and is ready to rock without any issues.

I hope everyone gets a really good look at their roster, all of it, from Rookie League through the Majors. Without any stats to speak of, it's not the easiest to get a total idea of the players you want around, I know, looking at my roster, there are already a few dudes who may end up trade bait by July. Moreover, I've got a 16-year old whose intelligence I hope wins out over his laziness career-wise.

Couple things: 1) So it's o.k. to test ftp, as long as I do the one I really want before Thursday?; 2) In, 'Manager Options', I set most of the top control options to myself out of habit. Should I have left them to AI? 3) Midnight ET?;4) Does that game alert you, or you will alert us when it's time to download a simmed period for us so we know to deal with it? And when this happens, we will inport said simmed file and the game will know where to look for the file? Or we need to look for GWJBL.leg (or whatever it's named, don't quite remember it now)?

Thanks

I sent most of this in an email to Prederick, but I'll post some of it here in case anyone else is running into problems. When I load the league, log in, enter my password, I get an error regarding the accountsdata_gms file that was sent in the initial email being incorrect, and that I may need to delete it. I also get an error when trying to upload my team via FTP. I know the two are connected- in OOTP's online league FTP options dialog box you can import an account data file, check that file, but there is also a spot to enter a general manager's key. My key right now is asf7akseg789q34tkHGZ. Does this match what others have for their key? I think that may be the only problem that is keeping me from uploading via FTP. I'd really like to get that working so I don't have to manually email my team and import the league every week.

I didn't make any moves, I just hit the button to make sure everything was working.

I finally got into the game.