Post by Rockies GM (Alex) on Sept 17, 2017 21:36:33 GMT -5
TRADING
TRADING DETAILS
Trades that are agreed upon by teams must be posted in the "Trade Reviews" board. There is no limit to the amount of teams that can be involved in a trade. However, no trade can include more than ten total players (a draft pick does not count as a player). All teams involved in a trade must confirm the trade with their reasoning for the move before it can be voted upon.
Teams cannot change their mind a trade decision after it has been posted, and both teams have confirmed. Players cannot be traded if they are not officially on a team (i.e., a player in another trade under review). Trade clauses are not allowed. All details of the trade must be able to be fulfilled immediately.
The trade clock starts once both teams have posted a confirmation.
TRADE APPROVAL
All members of the league are allowed to vote on a trade. A trade becomes official if it receives nine approves or has more approves than vetoes after 48 hours. A trade is cancelled if it receives four vetoes before 48 hours are up. All approves or vetoes MUST include reasoning behind them. Owners may not base the reasoning for their vote on anything but the contents of the trade under review.
FANTRAX ROSTERS
When a trade becomes a official, a team can only add their new players to Fantrax as long as all players (including minor leaguers) in the deal are eligible to be traded at the time the trade becomes official. For example, if a trade becomes official at 5:00pm in the afternoon prior to the start times of 7:10pm games for a couple of the players WHILE another player in the deal has already started their game at 3:10pm, none of the players are allowed to be played on that given day. All players must be eligible to be added before any of the players can be added.
TRADE DEADLINE
The regular trade deadline every year is the first Saturday at midnight ET after the MLB Trade Deadline. After the MLB season is over, a window will open where teams may trade players prior to making off-season roster decisions (extensions, arbitration, team options). Any player can be traded who is UNDER contract for the upcoming season. A player set to be a free agent that winter may not be traded. The window will then close, whereafter off-season roster decisions will be made.Trading remains open throughout the rest of the off-season heading into the following season.
Amateur draft picks can be traded up to three days prior to the date of the Amateur Draft.
SALARY TRADING
Teams can cover part of a players salary as part of a trade. Teams can cover up to 75% of a contract for a given year. This must be clearly noted when the trade is posted.
The cash covering a player's contract stays with the team, even if that player is then traded later to another team. For example, if a team covers $5.0m on a player in a trade to another team. The two teams making that trade will always have a positive and negative $5.0m balance respectively regardless of if that player is then traded to another team with more cash coverage.
If a team covers an amount of money on a team option year, that team option becomes a fully guaranteed contract year.
All salaries and coverage will be rounded up to the nearest hundred thousand dollar ($0.1m). Salary coverage will always be rounded down as not to exceed 75% should a round up cause the value to go over.
TRADING BLOCK
All teams should create and update a team trading block. These may be posted in the "Trading Block" board. Use these to post team needs as well as available players.
TRADING DETAILS
Trades that are agreed upon by teams must be posted in the "Trade Reviews" board. There is no limit to the amount of teams that can be involved in a trade. However, no trade can include more than ten total players (a draft pick does not count as a player). All teams involved in a trade must confirm the trade with their reasoning for the move before it can be voted upon.
Teams cannot change their mind a trade decision after it has been posted, and both teams have confirmed. Players cannot be traded if they are not officially on a team (i.e., a player in another trade under review). Trade clauses are not allowed. All details of the trade must be able to be fulfilled immediately.
The trade clock starts once both teams have posted a confirmation.
TRADE APPROVAL
All members of the league are allowed to vote on a trade. A trade becomes official if it receives nine approves or has more approves than vetoes after 48 hours. A trade is cancelled if it receives four vetoes before 48 hours are up. All approves or vetoes MUST include reasoning behind them. Owners may not base the reasoning for their vote on anything but the contents of the trade under review.
FANTRAX ROSTERS
When a trade becomes a official, a team can only add their new players to Fantrax as long as all players (including minor leaguers) in the deal are eligible to be traded at the time the trade becomes official. For example, if a trade becomes official at 5:00pm in the afternoon prior to the start times of 7:10pm games for a couple of the players WHILE another player in the deal has already started their game at 3:10pm, none of the players are allowed to be played on that given day. All players must be eligible to be added before any of the players can be added.
TRADE DEADLINE
The regular trade deadline every year is the first Saturday at midnight ET after the MLB Trade Deadline. After the MLB season is over, a window will open where teams may trade players prior to making off-season roster decisions (extensions, arbitration, team options). Any player can be traded who is UNDER contract for the upcoming season. A player set to be a free agent that winter may not be traded. The window will then close, whereafter off-season roster decisions will be made.Trading remains open throughout the rest of the off-season heading into the following season.
Amateur draft picks can be traded up to three days prior to the date of the Amateur Draft.
SALARY TRADING
Teams can cover part of a players salary as part of a trade. Teams can cover up to 75% of a contract for a given year. This must be clearly noted when the trade is posted.
The cash covering a player's contract stays with the team, even if that player is then traded later to another team. For example, if a team covers $5.0m on a player in a trade to another team. The two teams making that trade will always have a positive and negative $5.0m balance respectively regardless of if that player is then traded to another team with more cash coverage.
If a team covers an amount of money on a team option year, that team option becomes a fully guaranteed contract year.
All salaries and coverage will be rounded up to the nearest hundred thousand dollar ($0.1m). Salary coverage will always be rounded down as not to exceed 75% should a round up cause the value to go over.
TRADING BLOCK
All teams should create and update a team trading block. These may be posted in the "Trading Block" board. Use these to post team needs as well as available players.