Administration Meeting Rulings

Matter #1: Los Angeles Dodgers/Oakland Athletic Compensation

Ruling: " Will not be allowed to happen.

Reasoning: Allowing such a compensation to occur could lead to a bad precedence where some GMs may twist this ruling and use this to their advantage down the road.

Matter #2: Handling Team Debts

Ruling: Still under discussion; need more league and administration discussion and suggestions for proper ways to penalize teams who get into future debt after both league revenue sharing and/or stadium loans.

Matter #3: Trading Compensation Draft Picks

Ruling: Trading compensation draft picks is now allowed in this league. Compensation picks can only be traded once the player garnering compensation has been made an offer by a team.

Reasoning: Compensation picks are essentially the same as draft picks, so they can be utilized as such in deals.

Matter #4: Signing Player Released by Team, But Not Officially in File

Ruling: Simply not allowed. Players MUST be free agents IN FILE for teams to bid on them and sign them as free agents, no matter in-season or off-season.

Reasoning: Allowing such to occur to would lead to a competitive disadvantage for teams who do not track releases posted. In addition, this has been the standing in the league in the past (i.e. Carl Crawford) and will be upheld.

Matter #5: Implementing Free Agent Evaluation Tool

Ruling: Starting next off-season, we will begin utilizing the Free Agent evaluation tool used in Outahere and New Age Mogul leagues to determine the best free agent bids. No longer will the highest total value contract determine the winning bids in free agency BEGINNING NEXT OFFSEASON.

Reasoning: This free agent tool has been tested and approved by all three of the admins in this meeting. We believe that this free agent tool will provide a much more realistic way to evaluate which free agent offers are truly the best offers. In addition, this should make free agency more challenging and should reign in some of the insane free agent bidding that happens in the offseason.

As said by FMGM