Ó2009 National Online Baseball League

Welcome to the National Online Baseball League! We hope this is what you were looking for, but if not, we hope you'll be interested in this league.

The NOBL is a fictional sim league using players' skills to create stats and outcomes of the game. Any correlations with real life players is purely by chance.

THE WORKS

REQUIREMENT: You must have a working email and a reliable internet connection. AIM is not required but it is stringly suggested to have greater workability with other owners.

SIGNING UP: To join the NOBL, you must send an email with the following information to calvery748@tx.rr.com.

TEAM NAME: This needs to have the City/Region/State and the nickname. It must be appropriate and not the same as a current team (i.e. Texas Rangers, Minesota Twins). Team names of disfuctional teams like the Washington Senators are okay.

LOGO and TEAM COLORS: The colors are very simple. Send in two color that your team will wear on their uniforms. Logos are strongly advised but not totally required. It doesn't have to be much as long as it doesn't have the name of a team that is not yours.

YOUR HOME BALLPARK: You must have a ballpark to play at. You get to design the name and chose the capacity in six different levels: Field (first few rows near the infield), Lower Level, Middle Level, Upper Deck, Outfield (anything beyond the outfield wall) and Suites. Prices for each of these levels needs to be there. You can set your own prices, but the higher you go, the less fans that want to come out to games. Also, You need to add the distance to right field foul pole, right center, center, left center and left field foul pole.

MESSAGE BOARD: http://s1.zetaboards.com/NOBL/index/        You need to sign up here. This where everything happens.

IN-SEASON

PLAYERS and ROSTERS: Your roster will consist of 25 players during the regular season, however, in Spring Training, there will be no roster limits. You will be able to fill your roster via Free Agency and the rookie draft. Players have 0-10 ratings in the different catagories:

BOTH POSITION PLAYERS AND PITCHERS

*FIELDING- How well the fielder fields the ball. The lower the rating, the more likely he'll make an error.

*ARM ACCURACY- How well his arm accurately throws the ball.

*ARM POWER- How fast or far the fielder can throw the ball.

POSITION PLAYERS ONLY

*POWER- How hard and far the player can hit the ball.

*CONTACT- How likely the player will hit the ball.

*BUNT- How well he can bunt.

PITCHERS ONLY

*STAMINA- How far the pitcher can pitch into the game.

*HR/9- How many homeruns per nine innings the pitcher will give up. The higher the rating the less HRs he'll give up.

*H/9- How many hits per nine inning the pitcher will give up. The higher the rating the better.

*K/9- How many strike outs the pitcher will have per nine innings. The higher, the better.

*BB/9- How many walks per nine innings the pitcher will give up. The higher the better.

(NOTE: For the next seven catagories, starting pitchers (SP) will have 4-5 and Refief Pitcher (RP) will and 3-5.)

*4-SEAM FB- How well the pitcher will throw his 4-Seam Fastball.

*2-SEAM FB- How well the pitcher will throw his 2-Seam Fastball.

*Change Up- How well the pitcher will throw his Change up.

*Curveball- How well the pitcher will throw his Curveball.

*Slider- How well the pitcher will throw his Slider.

*Knuckleball- How well the pitcher will throw his Knuckleball.

*Sinker- How well the pitcher will throw his Sinker

You can see all the players ratings at

SPRING TRAINING: Spring training will begin after the draft and will last 4-6 weeks. During that time, teams will play 4 games against any opponents they desire.

REGULAR SEASON: The NOBL season will begin the first week after Spring Training. For the first season, we will play 15 series of three games each week.

RULES OF THE GAME: The NOBL rules are exactly the same as the MLB rules. For the exact rules go to http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/official_rules/foreword.jsp. Any questions about rule clarifications can be asked and answered on the NOBL message boards.

STARTING LINEUPS and ROTATION: The basic batting lineup is nine players with the DH batting in place of the pitcher. You will have to send in your starting lineup each week for the three games. Before the start of the season, you will have to send in your starting rotation and your closer.

MINOR LEAGUES: As of the 2009 season, there will be no minor league teams.

TRADING: Teams can trade up until 3 weeks left in the regular season. After the champioship series is done, trading will reopen for the next year.

INJURIES: Baseball is a game and injuries do happen. There will most definitely be one injury per week with the posibility of two. Most of the time they will be one to two week injuries.

REVENUE: Revenue will come in from ticket sale, concessions and merchandise. It will be split up per game 80% to the home team and 20% to the visitors.

PLAYOFFS: Yes we're talking about playoffs. For the 2009 season 4 teams will be in the playoffs. The first round will be best of five and the championship series will be best of seven.

PRESS: Teams can create press releases of anything (as long as it's in good taste) to help generate buzz among the fans and the get them coming to the ballfield.

OFF-SEASON STUFF

RESIGNING PLAYERS: At the end of the year, any players with expiring contracts need to resign. You will get any email with the players that need to be resigned and their wants for their next contract.Some, however, might wish to leave all together. The rest is up to you.

FREE AGENCY: There will be two Free Agency (FA) sessions; one before the draft and one after it. The sessions will be bid-like with the player choosing the best contract (incentives, years, money, overall team). NOTE:The longest contract years available is three. The second session will contain players not signed in the first session.

DRAFT: The NOBL Rookie draft, (which will first take place before the 2010 season) will be five -seven rounds and consist of new players. Placement in the draft order will be based on the previous year's standings.

SPRING TRAINING: In Spring Training you will have the oppertunity to raise your players attributes. Each team will get 100 points that will equal .1 attribute point. Teams can add these points to whoever the wish as long as they do not go over the 100 point limit.

Now all you've got to do is repeat.

CLOSING

If you have a question, please do email calvery748@tx.rr.com. No question is a stupid question. We here at the NOBL would love to have you join us for the fun. Please do note that the commisioner has the final say on everything NOBL related.

- Commisioner Jacob Martella