SIMULATION AND LINES

The simulation will be on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. We will sim 7 EHM days each simulation day. Before each simulation, you may send your instructions to donaldbrashear@gmail.com. Your lines must be zipped.

In playoffs, there will be a sim every day. The sims will be 4 days for games 1-4 and 2 days for games 5-7.

ROSTERS

Hit and Grind and Neutral Zone Trap tactics will only be permitted for a max of 100 seconds and only to be used on the 3rd and 4th lines. Consequences the same as this year, if it happens with more than 20 games left in the season you won't be allowed to use either tactic for the remainder of the season. If there are less than 20 games left when the violation occurs then you will not be allowed to use either tactic for the remainder of the season + playoff.

All General Managers should make sure their roster contains no more then 23 players therefore 2 goalies, 6 defensemen, 12 forwards and 3 extras during the regular season. There is no limit to number of players in rosters during the playoffs and preseason. We encourage you to send farm lines.

If in the course of a simulation you are over/under the amount of players required, the Commissioner will click on CPU lines. If one of your player gets injured, the Commissioner will call up

You are allowed to have up to 3 underagers playing on your farm. You may send them at 2 dates, October 1st and January 1st in the game.

The maximum games a goalie can start in a season is 70. If this rule is violated, your backup will be played during the playoffs.

TRADES

When you make a trade, both General Managers must confirm the trade and post the consistency. The title of the topics must be the name of the two teams.

WAIVERS

When you put a player on waivers, create a new topic in the Waivers section on the message boards. The topic name must be the player name with the team. If you want to claim a player in waiver, make a post in the topic concerning the player you want. During the off-season the Waivers will be done on a first-come, first-serve basis. However, during the regular season this system will be changed to the team lowest in the standings having priority.

SALARY CAP

Their is a $44,000,000 salary cap for each TBL team. Your payroll may not exceed the cap during the off-season. The only exception to this is for callups during pre-season. You have to be under minus your invitations though. If you make an offer to a UFA that will result in a cap violation, your offer will be rescinded. If your team happens to be over the salary cap at any time, you will lose player (s) to free agency, that are around the financial wage of how much you're over the cap. The budget will be set at 44,000,000 so we won't keep the financial aspect of the game.

*Injured players do not count against the cap.


FREE AGENTS

You can always make an offer to your players who are on the last year of their contract. The email must contain the players name, the contract details (Number of years, salary, signing bonus, options etc..) and your team name. The email subject is the player's name. Maximum of 2 No Trade Clauses per team.

To prevent people from just signing anyone to then trade them, or to sign them immediately to a cheaper contract, you are not able to re-sign/trade a player you have acquired through free agency until January 1st game time (once he is the 2nd year of his contract, you may sign/trade him whenever you wish).

You may deal RFA rights and the maximum offer is 8,800,000 (20% of salary cap) with Max Signing Bonus, TO and PO.

Determining the winner: The winner of a UFA bid will be the GM that offered the highest base salary to the player. In the event of a tie, the tiebreaker will be Signing Bonus. If the Signing Bonuses are equal as well it will go to the options. A player option is better than a team option. A team option is better than a two way. Any combination of player option, team option and two way will take the value of the lesser option. Ex. GM A offers Donald Duck 1 million for 3 years with a 1 million signing bonus and a PO + TWC. GM B offers the same contract except it's just a team option. GM B wins the bidding because a team option beats a twc. No Trade Clauses cannot be offered to UFA's.

Contract Offers: All offers will remain being entered through the players file. However, we have come up with some regulations for the offers. When offering a contract to a player, your offer can be no lower than 50% of his previous contract. Also, the offers given to players, cannot exceed 3 years. 3 years is the new maximum contract length in the TBL. In addition to these restrictions, the league minimum salary will be set at 450,000. The maximum contract will remain to be 20% of the salary cap which means that for this season 8.8 million is the maximum. rescinded.

- The title of the email should be your team's name
- 1 offer sheet per team per UFA round


ENTRY DRAFT

The entry draft will be held on the Forums(1st round) and on MSN(2nd/3rd/4th/5th round) at the end of each season. If you are absent, send a list of player you want (if they are already taken, we'll make a Central Scouting Bureau pick for your team). If we don't receive a list, we'll make another Central Scouting Bureau pick for your team. The game decides the lottery.

ADDED TROPHIES

Bobby Orr Trophy: Player with the best +/-.
Wayne Gretzky Award: Player with the most assists.
Sam Pollock Award: GM of the Year
Herb Brooks Award: Team that came out of nowhere and did well
Scott Stevens Trophy: Player with the most hits.

YEARLY CONSISTENCY INCREASES

It is very important for all the GMs to be active so they will be rewarded if they commit. Subjective ratings on 10 will be given out yearly by the Staff.
10- +7con or 3 inches or 3 click changes or 10 experience
9- +6con or 2 inches or 2 click changes or 7 experience
8- +5con or 1 inch or 1 click change or 5 experience
7- +3con or 4 experience
6- Fire warning
5 to 1- You are removed from your duties.
Notice that any player can get the increase.
Captain Meetings won't be a factor in TBL.

ALL STAR GAME

The All-Star Game's MVP gets +3CON.

CALDER CUP

The winning team of the Calder Cup will get +5CON to give to any player.

WORLD JUNIOR CUP OF HOCKEY - WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

The best powerplay team picks a team 1st.
The best penalty killing team picks a team 2nd.
The team with most goals for picks 3rd.
The team with less goals against picks 4th.
If either picked team wins, winner will be given 0’2 feet and 20 pounds to add to anyone on their squad.

RETIRED PLAYERS AND HALL OF FAME

We will not have a retirement system. It will be game wise.
Every year, the league will have a poll with all retired players. The three with the most votes will enter the Hall of Fame.


We aren't no Pommpie or Ari J. Schacter or whoever well-reputated veteran trooper devoting his life into his league, we are Gorley and Garrick providing just another good old competive league with a great atmosphere and a friendly core of folks from 16 to 42 years old.

Thank you for playing The Big League,
Sincerely yours,
The Staff

donaldbrashear@gmail.com