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ARTICLE X

ROSTER RULES

Section 10.1 Official Team Rosters

Official team roster means any roster(s) that a member team has filed with ENYTB in any given year for purposes of participating in regular season league play and has been certified by ENYTB.

RULE 14 Every ENYTB member team is required to establish an official team roster with the League prior to playing its first official league game each season.

The penalty for noncompliance shall be the forfeiture by the offending team of all games played while in noncompliance, at the discretion of the League’s Player Agent.

To establish an official team roster:

· Add all players to team’s roster on the League website (enytb.com);

· Obtain any necessary documentation of player eligibility e.g., a copy of the player’s birth certificate and/or a signed release;

· Each team shall submit all supporting documentation of player eligibility to its Division Director or the League Player Agent prior to playing its first League game.

· All AABC sanctioned teams shall provide its Division Director or the League Player Agent with an original and three copies of its signed AABC roster form prior to playing its first League game (AABC roster forms are the only regular season rosters that need to be signed by players, parent/guardians and managers). Teams can print official AABC roster forms from the League website (go to team home/registration center/roster/ print roster/click AABC roster/select all/print);

NABF and PONY official roster forms do not need to be signed. Thus, NABF and PONY sanctioned teams need only to add their players to their team’s roster on the League website. The League Player Agent will take care of the rest.

NABF and PONY sanctioned teams that qualify for a NCTS must submit official tournament roster forms at season’s end. The NABF tournament roster forms must be signed. The PONY tournament roster forms must be signed by players in the 18U age class only. Tournament rosters and signed originals of the AABC roster forms should be brought to the draft meeting at the end of the season (see section 10.10).

Section 10.2 Age Limits

RULE 15 All players participating in regular league play and competing for berths to sanctioned NCTS must conform to the age limits for that age division.

Proof of age is required. Only copies of birth certificates or driver’s licenses with pictures and birth dates included will be accepted as proof of age.

Players may not exceed the maximum age limit for the division of play their team is registered for. EXCEPTIONS: PONY allows three 19 year olds on a 18U roster. CABA goes by high school class beginning with age 15 e.g., aged 15 or freshman class.

For all age divisions and affiliations except the NABF High School Division (17U), the age cutoff date is May 1 of the current season. Thus, the player’s age on April 30 determines his baseball age for the current season. For example, a player whose 13th birthday falls on April 30 has a “baseball age” of 13 for the current season while the player whose 13th birthday is one day later, May 1, has a baseball age of 12 for the current season.

The cutoff date for the NABF High School Division (17U) is JAN 1. Any player whose 18th birthday falls on or after JAN 1 of the current calendar year is age eligible to play in the NABF High School Division in the current year.

NOTE: NABF rule 4.09 allows teams playing in a Senior Division league (18U) to be eligible for the High School Division (17U) post-season tournament (World Series) provided the team has at least 12 players on the roster who are 17U. All 18 years olds who played for the team during the season must be removed from the High School Division’s team roster list. These ineligible players remain on the team’s Senior Division roster and hence, remain eligible to be drafted by another team in the Senior Division league for post-season tournament play.

Section 10.3 Roster Limits

ENYTB allows a maximum of 18 players for regular season play for teams aged 18U and younger. Older teams may have a maximum of 25 players.

Each sanctioning body has its own limitations on roster size. When greater than ENYTB's limit, the ENYTB limit shall supercede for regular season play and the sanctioning body limit shall supercede for post-season play.

· AABC allows a maximum of 18 players;

· NABF allows a maximum of 21 players; and,

· PONY allows a maximum of 15 players at 14U and younger, and a maximum of 18 players at 15-16 and above.

Section 10.4 Dual Participation

AABC does not restrict players from playing on multiple teams in the same league during the regular season as long as the teams are registered in different age divisions. In the event a player is registered with more than one AABC team and if more than one of his teams qualifies for AABC tournament play, the player is required to play with the AABC team for which he first participated in AABC league play.

NABF and PONY however, restrict players to appearing on a single roster, regardless of age division. EXCEPTION: NABF allows 17U teams to participate in both 17U and 18U tournaments and 22U teams to participate in both 22U and UNL tournaments.

RULE 16 ENYTB allows teams to participate in two adjacent age divisions for purposes of regular season play.

RULE 17 A player can NOT participate on two or more teams in the same age division.

A player's "primary" team shall hold his league rights in regards to a release. A player may change secondary teams from one-year to the next w/o a release. Usually the team that the player first registers with, as evidenced by a dated registration payment or any other signed and dated document indicating commitment, shall be designated said player’s primary team. In the absence of any such documentation, the player shall be free to designate which owner shall be primary. Once designated, it can not be changed without a release from that club/team.

RULE 18 Player rights of the primary owner shall extend to all affiliations regardless of the individual sanctioning choices of its teams.

Section 10.5 Roster Drops

Players may be removed from an official league roster at any time. Players that did not appear in three or more league game may be released. Players that participated in fewer than three league games shall be deactivated (but not released until after the season ends).

RULE 20 Any player, once included on an official roster form for any sanctioning body and then removed, through deactivation or release, is ineligible in the same season to be added back to the roster of that team or any other team in the same age division.

Section 10.6 Roster Additions

Each sanctioning body has its own deadlines for roster additions.

AABC has a cutoff date of June 15th for all age divisions 14U and below and a cutoff date of July 1 for all older age divisions. This means a player must appear in at least one AABC game for his team prior to June 15 (or July 1, depending on age division).

NABF allows teams to add players until 15 days prior to the NABF tournament for that age division.

PONY has a cutoff date of June 30 for all age divisions.

RULE 21 No player, regardless of sanctioning body, is eligible to play in a sanctioned League game until he appears on a team’s official League roster, all supporting documentation of the player’s eligibility is received by the League’s Player Agent and an amended roster is certified by the League Player Agent.

The League may waive this requirement upon request, providing the request is made before the player makes an appearance in a sanctioned league game and his supporting documentation, including an amended roster(s), is received or arrives postmarked, within 72 hours of said notification. Failure to abide by these rules may result in forfeiture by the offending team of all games the player participated in before conforming to the above requirements, at the discretion of the League Player Agent.

RULE 22 Players may be added to official league rosters for purposes of regular season play only up until the final game of the season.

Section 10.7 Minimum “tournament qualifying” Games By A Player

Each sanctioning body has a minimum requirement for game appearances by players:

· AABC requires each player to have appeared in at least three AABC sanctioned league games in order to be eligible to play in AABC sanctioned tournament play.

· NABF requires each player to have appeared in at least four NABF sanctioned league games to be eligible for NABF sanctioned tournament play.

· PONY requires each player to have appeared in at least half of the team’s games, including a minimum of six games.

Section 10.8 Minimum “tournament qualifying” Games By A Team

To be eligible for sanctioned tournament play:

· AABC requires each team to have played a minimum of six (6) qualified games i.e., League games with other AABC sanctioned teams from the same age division.

· NABF requires each team to have play a minimum of six (6) qualified games i.e., League games with other NABF sanctioned teams from the same age division.

· PONY requires each team to play a minimum of twelve (12) qualified games i.e., League games with other PONY sanctioned teams from the same age division.

In addition to the minimums specified by the League’s national sanctioning groups, the League’s own regular season divisional requirements for tournament qualification can result in a League game minimum for each team that could be greater than that required by the applicable sanctioning body, as provided in section 9.2.

Section 10.9 Player Draft

Each sanctioning body allows teams that have won berths to its sanctioned tournaments to draft players from all other sanctioned teams in their age division that did not win berths. The League conducts a special draft meeting immediately following the conclusion of regular season play for this purpose.

Each sanctioning body imposes a different limitation of the number of draft selections allowed:

· AABC allows a team to draft a maximum of three players;

· NABF allows a maximum of six players; and,

· PONY has no draft limit except at 18U, where drafting is not allowed altogether. Any drafted players must fit under the roster limits described in section 10.3.