Front Office Baseball OOTP 21 Rules
Sim Schedule - Tentatively MWF
Settings
- 1-20 Ratings Scale
- Overall Ratings DISABLED
- Coaches DISABLED
- Scouting ENABLED
- Scouting - Normal
- Injuries - LOW
- Player Fatigue - AVERAGE
- Suspensions DISABLED
- Player Aging Speed: 0.750
- Player Development Speed: 1.000
- Storylines DISABLED
- Waiver Length - 8 days
- DFA Length - 15 days
- Disabled List Length - 7 days
- Right to Refuse Minor League Assignment DISABLED
- Ghost Players in Minors ENABLED
- Rule 5 Draft ENABLED
- DH for American League ENABLED
- DH for National League DISABLED
- $25M cash MAXIMUM
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
- 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:
- No salary in a contract can be more than double than another year in the contract.
- Only one option (player or team is allowed per contract)
- Opt-outs are allowed at any point in the contract and can be followed with a player or team option as well.
- Team options must have at least a 25% buyout.
- Vesting options are not permitted.
- Bonus total must not exceed 25% of the average annual value (AAV) of the contract.
- 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
- Trades are allowed any time before the trade deadline.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
- Draft Pick trading is not allowed.
- Injured players can be traded as long as the acquiring team acknowledges the risk.
- Trades are processed post-sim, so any injury that occurs during the sim will be deleted.
- No more than 5 players per side in a trade.
- No Player-to-be-named-later (PTBNL) trades.
- Teams can only include 50% of the value of the players contracts in CASH in trades.
- Free agents signed from the previous offseason cannot be traded until June 15th.
- No-Trade clauses (NTC’s) will be honored unless the player waives it.
- 10/5 player rights will be honored unless a player waives it.
- 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).
- Recently drafted players cannot be traded until the offseason.
Ticket Prices
- Teams may set their ticket prices to whatever they would like.
Career Ending Injuries
- Players age 30 and below who suffer a career ending injury (CEI) will have it edited to a 12-month injury. Players over the age of 30 who suffer a CEI will not be edited.
Vacations
- If you are unable to export or will be away from the game for a period of time (i.e. vacations, etc.) please post in the #absences channel in Slack.
Best of FOB Interest Rule
- The commissioner has the right to make any change or decision if it is deemed to be in the best interest of the league.