Front Office Baseball OOTP 21 Rules

Sim Schedule - Tentatively MWF

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Amateur Draft

Amateur Draft is 25 rounds, with 35 rounds of players generated and will be held in StatsPlus/Slack. Expect fixed time-slots for your draft picks. The preset draft classes for 2020-2024 in OOTP will be deleted and replaced with OOTP generated draft classes.

Competitive Balance Draft Picks will be assigned after each season like the MLB, between Rounds 1 and 2 or 2 and 3.

Teams that sign a compensation free agent will lose their highest draft pick (Top 10 picks are protected). If a team signs a compensation draft pick after we begin our draft, then the compensation draft picks will be applied to the next years’ draft.

Contract Rules

  1. Players cannot sign more than a one-year extension until they have 4 years of Major League service.

All player contracts, whether free agent or extension, must also abide by the below rules:

  1. No salary in a contract can be more than double than another year in the contract.
  2. Only one option (player or team is allowed per contract)
  1. Opt-outs are allowed at any point in the contract and can be followed with a player or team option as well.
  1. Team options must have at least a 25% buyout.
  2. Vesting options are not permitted.
  3. Bonus total must not exceed 25% of the average annual value (AAV) of the contract.
  4. No option (team or player) can exceed the highest guaranteed value in the contract.

Any contract that circumvents these rules will be deleted, if it is a free agent, the player will be returned to free agency.

 

Player Trades

  1. Trades are allowed any time before the trade deadline.
  2. The trade deadline will be at the end of July or early August each year, depending on where the Monday falls with the sim schedule in the file.
  3. Trades must be posted in #completed-trades within Slack and then one of the GMs must also insert the trade within OOTP and make sure they export it for the next sim.
  1. Please post trades as follows:

Baltimore Sends:

Player 1

Player 2

$3M CASH

Chicago (NL) Sends:

Player 1 (AAA)

Player 2 (AA)

Player 3 (A+)

Player 4 (Rk)

  1. Draft Pick trading is not allowed.
  2. Injured players can be traded as long as the acquiring team acknowledges the risk.
  1. Trades are processed post-sim, so any injury that occurs during the sim will be deleted.
  1. No more than 5 players per side in a trade.
  2. No Player-to-be-named-later (PTBNL) trades.
  3. Teams can only include 50% of the value of the players contracts in CASH in trades.
  4. Free agents signed from the previous offseason cannot be traded until June 15th.
  5. No-Trade clauses (NTC’s) will be honored unless the player waives it.
  6. 10/5 player rights will be honored unless a player waives it.
  7. Players left in a team's DFA will be demoted to the minor leagues if possible, otherwise placed onto the MLB roster in whichever manner the commissioner can (i.e. demote another player).
  8. Recently drafted players cannot be traded until the offseason.

Ticket Prices

Career Ending Injuries

Vacations

Best of FOB Interest Rule