Monday, March 19, 2018

Setting up "Tournament Two" rules

My next Strat project will be another 64-team NCAA-style tournment of best-of-seven series involving the teams from 1924, 1961 and 2017. I did this in 2014-15 with the 40 Years Tourney, and I'm going to run another one.

Active rosters: In the last one, I used 24-man active rosters. This time, 25. (Caveat: I haven't looked hard enough at the 1924 teams to be sure they all have 25 cards.)

Schedule: All series are best of seven. They will use the standard TV-era format: 2 games at Team A, an off day, three games (as needed) at Team B, an off day, two games (as needed) at Team A. There will be one off day to follow. For purposes of calculating pitcher rest, assume that all seven games were needed. For example, if a team sweeps a series, it has five off days (Game 5, off day, Game 6 Game 7, off day.)

In bracket play, the higher seeded team gets home field. In the first round of the John, Paul and George brackets, the team with the most wins gets home field.

Once to the round of four, home field first goes to the higher seed.  If two evenly seeded teams meet, home field goes to the one with the most wins in their given season, If that is even, home field goes to the team with the better winning percentage in the tournament. If that is even, draw lots.

In the round of four, the winner of the John bracket will face the winner of the Ringo bracket. The winner of the Paul bracket will play the winner of the George bracket.
 
Pitching use rules: Pitchers with an asterisk on the roster may pitch on three days rest, but will be penalized one inning on their weakness factor on short rest. Those pitchers from 162-game seasons with 40 starts and/or 300 innings are exempt from that penalty; pitchers from 154-game seasons are exempt with 38 starts and/or 285 innings.

Severn pitchers are exempt: Burleigh Grimes and Dazzy Vance of the 1924 Robins, Howard Ehmke of the 1924 Red Sox, Herb Pennock of the 1924 Yankees, Sloppy Thurston of the 1024 White Sox, Walter Johnson of the 1924 Senators and Don Cardwell of the 1961 Cubs.

In the round of four, the penalties are lifted for 35 starts/250 innings. There are no penalties for short rest in the championship series, although existing penalities will be enforced.

The "Pascual Perez rule" will be enforced: No pitcher with less than 100 innings pitched may start more than once in a series.

Injuries: Will be enforced. A five-day disabled list will be available. Once on the DL, a player cannot come off in that series.

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