Amigo League Quick Facts:

The Amigo League is a draft league based on the most recent past season.  Our rules/structure attempts to produce realistic results, but not at the expense of fun.  We are not trying to recreate the past season exactly, but we are baseball purists at heart who want to see as realistic results as possible.  We do not believe in limiting playing times for part-time players, but we do have statistic-minimums for players.  We like all the the what-if scenarios that can be played out with part-time players.  What if the guy who was on pace for 50 homeruns was able to play a full season?  He most likely wouldn't have hit that many in real-life, and, probably won't in our league either, but we think it's fun to see what he can do, not limit him.

League Type: Centralized, keeper league.  Games are simmed on the commissioner's computer one series at a time.  You are allowed to keep as many players on your roster from the previous year as you like, but must end up with 29 after the draft.

League Dues: None

Season Length: 162 game, unbalanced schedule.

Salary Cap: NO!

Roster/player eligibility: 29 players total, 25 active.  You can carry any combo of batters and pitchers you wish as long as you have at least four starting pitchers and one player rated at each defensive position as long as they meet league minimums.  League minimums for batters are 150 ABs, pitchers 30 games or 50 innings pitched.  Also, starting pitchers who start less than 5 games can only start twice as many games as they started in real-life.

Owner/GM Requirements: 

• Love of baseball
• Love of computer baseball, or the excitement of learning more about it.
• Desire to build a competitive team.  We all aren't going to be successful at this, all we ask is you want to try.
• Ability/time to participate in email "smack talk" at least once or twice a week.  Check in and let us know you are out there.  No silent owners, please.
• Ability to send in manager profiles once and a while.  We realize you have a life to live and can't necessarily send one in every series, but  at least when you have injuries is nice.  Some of our owners do it every series, it's up to you.
• Ability to participate in a live draft once a year.  In person or online is fine.  We consider this the best time of year and we make it a special event each time.
• Good sense of humor.  We like to critique draft picks, trades, game results, lineup choices, etc., so thick skin is helpful.  Don't worry, we are nice guys, really :)
• You do not need to own a copy of the game.
• Access to Microsoft Excel is recommended since the manager profile is in that format.