Imagine Sports Baseball

CREATING A CUSTOM LEAGUE

Once you have established and named a Custom League (and specified the password, if any), you may choose from the following options for league play (the default choices are the same as a standard league):

Choose Player Pool: Classic or Single Season

If you choose Single Season you must:

Choose All Seasons or a particular season from Deadball (16 select teams from 1902 to 1919) to the most recent included season (the 1920 and 1921 seasons will be added some time during 2020)
If you choose a particular season, you must choose whether to play the league in that particular season and its parks, or in one of the "Classic" eras of play using the "Classic" parks
If you choose multiple or All Seasons, whether to allow multiple versions of players (default is Yes); you may change this setting to No; No, but season of player may be changed; or Yes, but only one season of player is allowed in a team (to choose multiple but not all seasons, click on Select All, then click on each season you want to remove from the player pool)
Whether the Playing Time Limitation system is on or off (default is on) and whether it applies as well to batting "splits" (default is off)
If PTL is on, the applicable percent applied to real-life PA and IP for which the player retains his rated abilities (may be set between 100 and 200%, default is 110%) (for batting splits the default PTL is 150% v R; 200% v L; if the PTL overall % is varied from the default value 110%; the default split values automatically varied in the same relative proportion)

Create Custom Player Pool: yes or no (default is yes) (yes allows you to exclude players from the player pool for your league)

Allow Keepers: yes or no (default is no). If you Allow Keepers,you must set the number allowed from 1 to 28 (this allows team owners to designate players they are drafting to whom they have absolute rights as keepers, which will prevent any other team owner from drafting them)

League Set-Up - we currently offer four choices:

12 teams, with 3 divisions of 4 teams each (division winners and wild-card make playoffs)
12 teams, with 2 divisions of 6 teams each (division winners advance to World Series)
24 teams, with 2 associations of 2 divisions of 6 teams each (division winners advance to playoffs)
24 teams, with 2 associations of 3 divisions of 4 teams each (division winners and wild-card make playoffs)

(24 team leagues are not available for single season leagues prior to 1969)

How should Divisions be Assigned: Random or Commissioner Decides (default is Random)
Can play games Live: yes or no (default is no)
League Pace: 3, 9 or 18 games per day (default is 3)
Salary Cap: $50 million to unlimited (default is $100 million)
Weekly Income: Specify which weeks get income (Weeks 1-7 or any combination) and in what amounts (default is $2 million at the end of each of Weeks 1-6 and $4 million at the end of Week 7)
Salary Refund for Player Released BEFORE season starts: 0%-100% (default is 100%)
Salary Refund for Player Released AFTER season starts: 0%-100% (default is 75%) (these settings do not apply to Single Season leagues in which the PTL system is on, since the refund in such leagues is proportional to the player's usage at the time of his release)
Allow Loans Against Future Income: yes or no. If yes, specify interest rate: 5-50% (default is yes, 15%)
Interest Earned on Cash Balance: yes or no. If yes, specify interest rate: 5-50% (default is yes, 5%)
Designated Hitter: yes, no, or (in 24-team leagues) yes in the American Assn, no in the National Assn (default is yes)
Weather Effects: yes or no (default is yes)
Allow Trades: yes or no. If yes, specify Trade Deficit Limit: 0-100% (default is yes, 90%)
Injury System: player profile (based on player’s real life injury propensity), random, or none (default is player profile)
Era of Play: Standard Era (NL 1920-1992), Dead Ball Era (1903-19), Golden Age (1920-41), Baby Boomers (1946-60), Pitchers Era (1963-68), Turf Time (1969-92), Home Run Derby (NL 1993-2004), Moneyball (2005-12), AL 20xx or NL 20xx (last completed season) (default is Standard Era)
Hold Period (the period following the draft during which no player transactions can be made): default is 24 hour, can be lowered by hourly increments or eliminated entirely
Type of Draft: Automated, Manual with either Straight (1-12, 1-12) or Snake (1-12, 12-1) order and (for manual drafts) timed or untimed (you can set time limit of 1-24 hours before someone’s pick is skipped) (default is automated snake).
Manual Draft Player Pool: All Players, Random Pool (to limit the players available in the league to a specified number of randomly chosen players), Players from [year] to [year] (default is All Players)
Draft Order: Random or Commissioner Decides (default is Random)
Type of Draft: Snake (1-12, 12-1, etc) or Order (1-12, 1-12) (default is Snake)
Require Password to Join: yes or no, and what password is if yes (default is no)

Once the rules are chosen (or you leave the default in place) and you choose your team name and ballpark, click on “Create League” to finalize the set-up. At any time until the draft is final, the Commissioner may cancel the league (and all owners’ team credits are refunded). All open leagues will be listed under “BROWSE CUSTOM LEAGUES”. However, only those owners who have purchased a team and entered the password (if any) may join a league. There is a link enabling those interested in joining to send a sitemail to the league's Commissioner to request the password. Commissioners can also post about the league on the Imagine Sports message boards.

Once the league is full, the Commissioner must initiate the draft before it will begin.

NOTE: All transactions happen in REAL TIME. Once you enter a release of a player or a trade, our system will ask you if you’re sure about that. Please be sure, because there’s no turning back once you click ‘yes’. That change goes into effect for the next game unless that game was already ready to start, in which case it’ll go into effect for the following game.