JohnnyU
Footballguy
Just completed the 3rd year of our league. We have an owner who is leaving the league after finishing as the World Series Runner-up. We are looking for an owner who will be very active in the league and is in it for the long term. There are plenty of decent free agents on the WW, but especially plenty of minor league players not on rosters if you know your stuff. This league will probably require you to have some knowledge of minor league players to be competitive long term IMO, but we do have a couple of owners who don't pay as much attention to the minors and are competitive. Like I said, that is my opinon.
This league is a 12 team dynasty league, mixed, no salaries, no draft, 5x5 H2H (which means a win in a category counts as one win. A loss in a category counts as one loss. Example, if you win a week 7-3, then lose the next week 6-5, your overall record is 13-8). We start 13 position players and 9 pitchers (3 must be SP). We start C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, MI, CI, OF, DH, SP and RP. We have weekly lineups. We have 34 man rosters, but non-playoff teams from the year before can carry 36 man rosters in-season and 38 off-season.
You can sign anyone in the world at any time.
In-season we have a waiver system, where if a player is dropped, he is on waivers for 24 hours and can be claimed by another team. Once you claim a player off waivers you would go to end of the line of the waiver priority. If a player isn't on waivers he can be claimed anytime. We use first-come-first-serve on add/drops in the off-season. There is no DL for this league. We expanded the rosters by 4 last year and done away the DL because it was too hard to manage (differences when CBS allowed a player to go on the dl and when MLB said that player was on the DL, so we just expanded the rosters instead).
I have worked very hard in determining the right roster size for the league, which allows for frequent waiver wire activity and at the same time gives owners flexibility to win now and build for the future with minor league players. Again, you can sign anyone in the world at anytime, which means if a player isn't in the CBS player database, he can be added to your roster as an unlisted player until the real player becomes available.
I can provide you with email addresses of other league members if you wish to ask someone besides myself about the league. We have a very active league, and the waiver wire activity is unreal. There is also a good amount of trading in our league. We have an awesome league
The cost for this league is $100 + hosting site fees (split 12 ways). Last year's fee was $110.83. This is the amount if you pay by check. If you pay by PalPal, the amount is $114.45 to cover fees I incurr (2.9% + .30 cents). This is probably the best method for payment right now so we can move forward with other league business without delay. However, if you choose to pay by check we will understand.
I will list the open team along with our league Constitution. We will accept applicants for this open team, then the league will make a decision on a new owner. If interested, send me a private message containing your email address. I can also send you a word document with all the other rosters. It's too hard to format the rosters in this forum. Please read the Constitution completely before asking questions about the league. After you've read the constitution I will answer any questions you have.
Payouts are at the end of the Constitution.
We want to fill this opening quickly, because we are set to run our off-season manual waivers after 6:00 p.m. CT Friday if possible. In order to do that, the new owner must be paid in full and have a list of players sent to me before Friday. If that's too soon we will postpone our off-season waivers for a week, in order to give the new owner time to see who he wants to add/drop.
Roster for open team:
Rodriguez, Ivan C DET
Helton, Todd 1B COL
Kent, Jeff 2B LA
Jones, Chipper 3B ATL
Rollins, Jimmy SS PHI
Tejada, Miguel SS BAL
Kendrick, Howie 2B ANA
Alou, Moises RF NYM
Damon, Johnny CF NYY
Sheffield, Gary RF DET
Soriano, Alfonso LF CHC
Thome, Jim DH CHW
Saltalamacchia, Jarrod C TEX
Glavine, Tom SP NYM
Hill, Rich SP CHC
Martinez, Pedro SP NYM
Morales, Franklin SP COL
Mussina, Mike SP NYY
Schilling, Curt SP BOS
Zambrano, Carlos SP CHC
Jones, Todd RP DET
Rivera, Mariano RP NYY
Giambi, Jason 1B NYY
Balentien, Wladimir OF SEA
Gomez, Carlos OF NYM
Quentin, Carlos RF ARI
Wells, Vernon CF TOR
Lind, Adam LF TOR
Guthrie, Jeremy RP BAL
Hurley, Eric SP TEX
Johnson, Randy SP ARI
Maddux, Greg SP SD
Patterson, John SP WAS
Sheets, Ben SP MIL
League Constitution
It will be a 34 Player Franchise League (Keep all) $100 league + hosting site fee (split 12 ways).
We will use CBS SPORTSLINE as the hosting site. This site was chosen because they do a better job with providing minor league players in their player database and they allow entry of unlisted players.
League Format, Starting Lineup Requirements, and Scoring Categories
It will be 5x5 (R, RBI, HR, AVG, SB) (W, ERA, WHIP, SO, SV) standard Head to Head Scoring, 2 Divisions, 13 positional players 1 of each (catcher, first, second, third, shortstop, corner infielder, middle infielder. 4 outfielders and 2 utility spots) and 9 pitchers. You cannot start a minor leaguer in your active lineup unless he is scheduled to start by CBS (see next 7 days schedule for pitchers), or by CNNSI.COM Probables for pitchers. The only time you can start a position player who is in the minors is if CBS says a player will be called up in the next scoring period in the Player News. Any other player in your active lineup must be on a major league roster. That would seriously challange the integrity of the league, where a team could put 9 minor league pitchers in his starting lineup and 10 on the bench. That was NEVER the intention of this league.
If a player is sent down after the Monday lineup deadline, and he's in your starting lineup, he isn't illegal until the following week.
Each week you must start 3 SP who are scheduled to start (not just designated as a SP). If for some reason that player doesn't start, he must have been scheduled to start by CBS (see next 7 days schedule), or by CNNSI.COM Probables.
Failure to meet this requirement will cause you to lose all pitching categories for that week 5-0.
You may start a player who is on the DL. The reason for this is so teams don't have to sacrifice their future by dropping players they would rather keep in order to pickup someone for their starting lineup.
We will scramble the divisions every 2 years. All teams will be ranked according to their regular season finish. The odd ranked teams will go into one division, and the even ranked teams will go to the other division.
Position Eligibility
Determined by the hosting site. If the hosting site allows us to determine the number of games a player must play at a position to be eligibile at that position, it will be 10 games during the current season or 20 games the previous season. For pitchers I can't set the 10/20 game rule as it uses 5 games at SP or 10 games at RP (either this season or last).
Note that a player's primary position (the position where our site lists him) will always take priority over your league's eligibility rules.
Rule changes
are only allowed in the off-season, unless league integrity is at stake (determined by the commish). It takes a majority vote of 7 owners to change rules, unless league integrity is threatened, then the commish has the power to make rule changes.
Schedule
To be determined (weekly lineups)
A team can finish the week with a record between 10-0 and 0-10. Regular season ties will not be broken. Teams will finish the season based on winning percentage.
Playoffs
6 Teams make the playoffs. Two division winners and 4 wildcard teams. The wildcard teams are the 4 teams with the best record after the division winners. The two division winners get a first round bye and the 4 wildcard teams are seeded, and the #1 wildcard seed plays the #4 wildcard seed, and the #2 wildcard seed plays the #3 wildcard seed. In the simifinals, the #1 seeded Division Winner gets the worst remaining seeded wildcard team. The #2 seeded Division Winner gets the best remaining wildcard seed. Then the winners play for the world series.
The first round (quarterfinals) will consist of a one week head to head game between the wildcard teams. The quarterfinal winners will then play the division winners in the semifinals in a one week head to head game. The world series will be a two week head to head matchup between the winners from the semifinals, where the Stats from any two week game will be combined.
We will allow lineup changes between playoff rounds, and during 2 week World Series.
At the end of the regular season all rosters are frozen
until after our world series. In other words, the 34 man
rosters that all teams had at the end the regular season will be their rosters that they start the OFF-SEASON with. One exception, the teams that were allowed to carry 36 man rosters because they didn't make the playoffs in the previous season or current seaosn, will have 36 until they are able to expand to 38 with our one time off-seaosn waivers. Teams that had a 36 man roster during the current season and made the playoffs, must cut back to 34 before the playoffs start.
Teams still competing in the playoffs will be allowed to use drop/adds to the extent they have any newly DL'd players. Since the rosters will be frozen, if a playoff team has a player go on the DL during the playoffs, post a message at the site requesting a player to replace the DL'd player, and I will make the addition to your roster. As proof of a player going on the DL, we will only require that either CBS or MLB.com say a player was put on the DL.
If a player added to the DL during the playoffs comes off the DL, you must drop a player that was added to your roster after the playoffs started. This protects playoff teams from having to drop a player added during the playoffs when a player comes off the DL that was on the DL before the playoffs started.
At the end of the playoffs all add/drops done during the playoffs will be reversed to what the rosters were at the end of the regular season. This would allow playoff teams to have the flexibility to deal with injuries, yet ensure that they do not gain a long-term advantage vis-a-vis the other teams.
Tie Breakers
In the remote event there is a tie at the end of the regular season, we will use Head to Head, then Power Rank, then Division Record as the end of season tiebreakers to determine playoff seeding. The reason this change was proposed, was because it didn't make sense for a team in a weaker division to get the higher seed because that team was able to accumulate a better record within his division. Also, it doesn't make sense to use Division record as the first tiebreaker when the 4 wildcard teams are the 4 best teams after the division champs, without regard to divisions. This change does not affect the Wildcard and Semi-Finals Tiebreaker, where the higher seeded team advances.
Wildcard Round Playoff Tie Breaker
In the event of a tie in the wildcard playoff round, the higher seeded team will earn the win and advance.
Semifinal Round Playoff Tie Breaker
In the event of a tie in the semifinal playoff round, the higher seeded team (i.e. the division winner) will earn the win and advance.
World Series Tie Breaker
None, if teams are still tied after the two week World Series, the World Series prize mony is split 50/50.
Free Agents/Waiver Wire / Off-season Rosters
After the last game of the regular season the rosters are fozen for the playoffs except for replacing a player that CBS or MLB says has been placed on the DL after the playoffs start. That will be allowed. As far as waivers, the initial waivers will be in reverse order of standings. Waivers will run on a nightly basis, and if a player is dropped, he will be on waivers for 1 day.
After the season I will process the one-time off-season UNLISTED and REGULAR waivers as one waiver process MANUALLY. I will ask that each owner send me all their requests (both unlisted and listed) on a particular day and the commish and co-commish will send their's to each other the day before.
Non-playoff teams will be allowed to carry 38 players during the off-season, and 36 for the next season. The cut down date to get from 38 players to 36 players will the start of the 1st game of the season.
Waivers Overview
In order to provide an equal opportunity for all owners to add players to their roster that are new to the free agent pool, a Waiver process can be implemented. Owners' requests to add players on waivers to their roster are not executed immediately, but are put in a pending status for 24 hours. This allows multiple teams to request the same players. Again, if possible, waivers will run nightly.
When a transaction is made during the Waiver Process, the team's rank is set to last and everyone else's rank moves up one (check the League Home, Rules page to see if your league's waiver ranks are reset every week.) All transactions during the waiver process are effective for the next scoring period.
Conditions for Waivers
MLB players are placed on waivers under the following circumstances:
A player is released during a waiver process: A player released during a waiver process is on waivers until the next waiver process. Example: An owner requests Player A on waivers and drops Player B. This request is pended until the waiver process runs. During the waiver process, the owner is awarded Player A, and Player B is released from the roster and placed on waivers until the next waiver process.
A player is released during a free agent acquisition: Requests for players not on waivers are executed immediately. However, the player dropped in a non-waivers transaction is placed on waivers for 24 hours. He will remain on waivers until the waiver run after 24 hours from being put on waivers.
Waiver Rank
During a waiver process, pending transactions are processed in an order determined by each team's waiver rank. The team with the highest waiver rank will get its first requested player. If that team's highest pending transaction can't be executed because another team has the requested player, the transaction gets deleted and the team's next transaction, if one exists, is then executed. When a team gets a requested player, the team's waiver rank is dropped to the end and every other team moves up one and the process is continued. If a team doesn't have any pending transactions because all players requested were taken by other teams, or the owner simply didn't request any players, the team's turn is skipped but the waiver rank is not dropped. If a team has the highest waiver rank after Monday night and doesn't request any players for Tuesday night's waiver process, that team will still have the highest rank for the next process. The waiver rank resets for each scoring period based upon reverse order of standings.
Waivers Period
The waivers period is the length of time a player is on waivers before a claim will be processed and the player will be added to a roster. Check the League Home, Rules page to see how long dropped players remain on waivers in your league (1, 2 or 3 days). Our league will be 1 day.
Making a Waivers Claim
If you want to drop a player and pick up a player off of waivers follow these steps:
Lets say you have a player that you want to drop (player A) and several players that you would like to add (players B and C), depending on their availability when your turn comes up. If player B is not available you would like to pick up player C. In order to accomplish this you would submit two Add/Drop requests:
Drop player A, Add player B, and
Drop player A, Add player C.
Lets say your turn comes up and player B has already been picked up off waivers by another team. A request cannot be executed if either the add or drop player is not available. Requests will be skipped until the first valid roster move is found. In this case, your second request would be executed and you would get player C (provided he is not also already picked up off waivers).
The same is true in the reverse. If you dropped player A and added player B, then during your next round of waiver selections it will skip over the second waiver request involving Player A and go down your list to see if you have any other waiver requests.
Any waivers request that would cause your roster to exceed the maximum players allowed will be skipped.
Note: Free agents are available on a first-come, first-served basis; they can be picked up at any time. If a player is dropped from a roster and he clears the waiver process without being picked up, he then becomes a free agent, and can be picked up at any time, without having to go through a waivers process.
There will be no transaction fees. The free agent queue will be set up in standard worst to first fashion. You are allowed to pickup any player, whether listed in the hosting site database or not, as long as the hosting site allows me to enter unlisted players.
Waiver Request for players that were previously added as unlisted players, but are not retained in the CBS database after being dropped.
Sometimes when an unlisted player is dropped, he isn't retained in the database. So if an unlisted player is dropped, he is on waivers for a day, just as if he was a listed player. If you want that player, you need to send me an email asking for waivers on that player. However, if you have any waiver request processed on listed players the same night that the unlisted player comes off waivers, the waiver request awarded from CBS will take precedence, and bump you to then end of the line, before your request for the unlisted player is evaluated. I would have to award the waiver request of the unlisted player manuall based upon the current waiver priority.
Obviously if a player was added previously as an unlisted player, but is now listed in the database, you must use the site waiver system to request that player, not email me the waiver request. You cannot prioritize the waiver request for the unlisted player ahead of someone listed, and both come off waivers at the same time. I don't need that extra work trying to figure out the priority, plus I don't want to know your other waiver requests. So to make my job easier, when you want to add a player dropped who is unlisted, to ensure he has top priority, don't make any listed player request at CBS that are due to come off waivers at the same time as the unlisted player.
Start the waivers afer the 1st game of the new season
has started so the first-come-first-serve is still active
until the start of the first game so teams can make last
minute adjustmeents.
Adding Unlisted Players
As you guys know, we are allowed to add unlisted players. As stated at the beginning of this league, when the unlisted player becomes available in the player database, it is YOUR responsibility to add the player to your roster and drop the unlisted player. If someone adds a player that is listed or not, if that player is already on someone else's roster, the team adding the already rostered player will receive 0 pts for that player if he is on the active roster for the current week games. He will not be penalized with a goose egg for the week, because it is just as much responsibility of the owner who owns the player in question, to add the "real" player from the database and drop the unlisted player, as it is for the owner who added the player already on a different roster.
Trading
Veto of trades
There will be a 3 member committee where there has to be a 2/3 consensus to call a vote when any owner files a complaint asking for a vote on a trade. If a member of the committee is involved in the trade, another owner will take his place on the committee for that trade. If a vote is called, the parties involved in the trade do not have a vote. The remaining members of the league will vote on the trade and it will take 7 votes to veto a trade.
Anyone who unreasonably dumps players or participates in a manner the disrupts the integrity of the league or violates a basic standard of conduct can be removed with the consent of 8 owners.
The Trading Deadline will be SEVEN DAYS after the MLB trading deadline, until 11:59 p.m. ET on that day.
Trades are allowed in the off-season as long as the hosting site allows it.
Replacing an Owner
Any team that finished the prior season with a better record than the team being replaced must leave 3 players unprotected. Only a non-playoff team gets to pick from the unprotected list when it's owner is being replaced. A team leaving players unprotected can only lose 1 player.
Payouts
Payouts
+1200 (12 teams x $100)
-300 (wildcard teams = 4 x 75 = 300)
-300 (division winners = 2 x 150 = 300)
-200 (world series loser)
-400 (world series winner)
= $0 remaining
This league is a 12 team dynasty league, mixed, no salaries, no draft, 5x5 H2H (which means a win in a category counts as one win. A loss in a category counts as one loss. Example, if you win a week 7-3, then lose the next week 6-5, your overall record is 13-8). We start 13 position players and 9 pitchers (3 must be SP). We start C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, MI, CI, OF, DH, SP and RP. We have weekly lineups. We have 34 man rosters, but non-playoff teams from the year before can carry 36 man rosters in-season and 38 off-season.
You can sign anyone in the world at any time.
In-season we have a waiver system, where if a player is dropped, he is on waivers for 24 hours and can be claimed by another team. Once you claim a player off waivers you would go to end of the line of the waiver priority. If a player isn't on waivers he can be claimed anytime. We use first-come-first-serve on add/drops in the off-season. There is no DL for this league. We expanded the rosters by 4 last year and done away the DL because it was too hard to manage (differences when CBS allowed a player to go on the dl and when MLB said that player was on the DL, so we just expanded the rosters instead).
I have worked very hard in determining the right roster size for the league, which allows for frequent waiver wire activity and at the same time gives owners flexibility to win now and build for the future with minor league players. Again, you can sign anyone in the world at anytime, which means if a player isn't in the CBS player database, he can be added to your roster as an unlisted player until the real player becomes available.
I can provide you with email addresses of other league members if you wish to ask someone besides myself about the league. We have a very active league, and the waiver wire activity is unreal. There is also a good amount of trading in our league. We have an awesome league
The cost for this league is $100 + hosting site fees (split 12 ways). Last year's fee was $110.83. This is the amount if you pay by check. If you pay by PalPal, the amount is $114.45 to cover fees I incurr (2.9% + .30 cents). This is probably the best method for payment right now so we can move forward with other league business without delay. However, if you choose to pay by check we will understand.
I will list the open team along with our league Constitution. We will accept applicants for this open team, then the league will make a decision on a new owner. If interested, send me a private message containing your email address. I can also send you a word document with all the other rosters. It's too hard to format the rosters in this forum. Please read the Constitution completely before asking questions about the league. After you've read the constitution I will answer any questions you have.
Payouts are at the end of the Constitution.
We want to fill this opening quickly, because we are set to run our off-season manual waivers after 6:00 p.m. CT Friday if possible. In order to do that, the new owner must be paid in full and have a list of players sent to me before Friday. If that's too soon we will postpone our off-season waivers for a week, in order to give the new owner time to see who he wants to add/drop.
Roster for open team:
Rodriguez, Ivan C DET
Helton, Todd 1B COL
Kent, Jeff 2B LA
Jones, Chipper 3B ATL
Rollins, Jimmy SS PHI
Tejada, Miguel SS BAL
Kendrick, Howie 2B ANA
Alou, Moises RF NYM
Damon, Johnny CF NYY
Sheffield, Gary RF DET
Soriano, Alfonso LF CHC
Thome, Jim DH CHW
Saltalamacchia, Jarrod C TEX
Glavine, Tom SP NYM
Hill, Rich SP CHC
Martinez, Pedro SP NYM
Morales, Franklin SP COL
Mussina, Mike SP NYY
Schilling, Curt SP BOS
Zambrano, Carlos SP CHC
Jones, Todd RP DET
Rivera, Mariano RP NYY
Giambi, Jason 1B NYY
Balentien, Wladimir OF SEA
Gomez, Carlos OF NYM
Quentin, Carlos RF ARI
Wells, Vernon CF TOR
Lind, Adam LF TOR
Guthrie, Jeremy RP BAL
Hurley, Eric SP TEX
Johnson, Randy SP ARI
Maddux, Greg SP SD
Patterson, John SP WAS
Sheets, Ben SP MIL
League Constitution
It will be a 34 Player Franchise League (Keep all) $100 league + hosting site fee (split 12 ways).
We will use CBS SPORTSLINE as the hosting site. This site was chosen because they do a better job with providing minor league players in their player database and they allow entry of unlisted players.
League Format, Starting Lineup Requirements, and Scoring Categories
It will be 5x5 (R, RBI, HR, AVG, SB) (W, ERA, WHIP, SO, SV) standard Head to Head Scoring, 2 Divisions, 13 positional players 1 of each (catcher, first, second, third, shortstop, corner infielder, middle infielder. 4 outfielders and 2 utility spots) and 9 pitchers. You cannot start a minor leaguer in your active lineup unless he is scheduled to start by CBS (see next 7 days schedule for pitchers), or by CNNSI.COM Probables for pitchers. The only time you can start a position player who is in the minors is if CBS says a player will be called up in the next scoring period in the Player News. Any other player in your active lineup must be on a major league roster. That would seriously challange the integrity of the league, where a team could put 9 minor league pitchers in his starting lineup and 10 on the bench. That was NEVER the intention of this league.
If a player is sent down after the Monday lineup deadline, and he's in your starting lineup, he isn't illegal until the following week.
Each week you must start 3 SP who are scheduled to start (not just designated as a SP). If for some reason that player doesn't start, he must have been scheduled to start by CBS (see next 7 days schedule), or by CNNSI.COM Probables.
Failure to meet this requirement will cause you to lose all pitching categories for that week 5-0.
You may start a player who is on the DL. The reason for this is so teams don't have to sacrifice their future by dropping players they would rather keep in order to pickup someone for their starting lineup.
We will scramble the divisions every 2 years. All teams will be ranked according to their regular season finish. The odd ranked teams will go into one division, and the even ranked teams will go to the other division.
Position Eligibility
Determined by the hosting site. If the hosting site allows us to determine the number of games a player must play at a position to be eligibile at that position, it will be 10 games during the current season or 20 games the previous season. For pitchers I can't set the 10/20 game rule as it uses 5 games at SP or 10 games at RP (either this season or last).
Note that a player's primary position (the position where our site lists him) will always take priority over your league's eligibility rules.
Rule changes
are only allowed in the off-season, unless league integrity is at stake (determined by the commish). It takes a majority vote of 7 owners to change rules, unless league integrity is threatened, then the commish has the power to make rule changes.
Schedule
To be determined (weekly lineups)
A team can finish the week with a record between 10-0 and 0-10. Regular season ties will not be broken. Teams will finish the season based on winning percentage.
Playoffs
6 Teams make the playoffs. Two division winners and 4 wildcard teams. The wildcard teams are the 4 teams with the best record after the division winners. The two division winners get a first round bye and the 4 wildcard teams are seeded, and the #1 wildcard seed plays the #4 wildcard seed, and the #2 wildcard seed plays the #3 wildcard seed. In the simifinals, the #1 seeded Division Winner gets the worst remaining seeded wildcard team. The #2 seeded Division Winner gets the best remaining wildcard seed. Then the winners play for the world series.
The first round (quarterfinals) will consist of a one week head to head game between the wildcard teams. The quarterfinal winners will then play the division winners in the semifinals in a one week head to head game. The world series will be a two week head to head matchup between the winners from the semifinals, where the Stats from any two week game will be combined.
We will allow lineup changes between playoff rounds, and during 2 week World Series.
At the end of the regular season all rosters are frozen
until after our world series. In other words, the 34 man
rosters that all teams had at the end the regular season will be their rosters that they start the OFF-SEASON with. One exception, the teams that were allowed to carry 36 man rosters because they didn't make the playoffs in the previous season or current seaosn, will have 36 until they are able to expand to 38 with our one time off-seaosn waivers. Teams that had a 36 man roster during the current season and made the playoffs, must cut back to 34 before the playoffs start.
Teams still competing in the playoffs will be allowed to use drop/adds to the extent they have any newly DL'd players. Since the rosters will be frozen, if a playoff team has a player go on the DL during the playoffs, post a message at the site requesting a player to replace the DL'd player, and I will make the addition to your roster. As proof of a player going on the DL, we will only require that either CBS or MLB.com say a player was put on the DL.
If a player added to the DL during the playoffs comes off the DL, you must drop a player that was added to your roster after the playoffs started. This protects playoff teams from having to drop a player added during the playoffs when a player comes off the DL that was on the DL before the playoffs started.
At the end of the playoffs all add/drops done during the playoffs will be reversed to what the rosters were at the end of the regular season. This would allow playoff teams to have the flexibility to deal with injuries, yet ensure that they do not gain a long-term advantage vis-a-vis the other teams.
Tie Breakers
In the remote event there is a tie at the end of the regular season, we will use Head to Head, then Power Rank, then Division Record as the end of season tiebreakers to determine playoff seeding. The reason this change was proposed, was because it didn't make sense for a team in a weaker division to get the higher seed because that team was able to accumulate a better record within his division. Also, it doesn't make sense to use Division record as the first tiebreaker when the 4 wildcard teams are the 4 best teams after the division champs, without regard to divisions. This change does not affect the Wildcard and Semi-Finals Tiebreaker, where the higher seeded team advances.
Wildcard Round Playoff Tie Breaker
In the event of a tie in the wildcard playoff round, the higher seeded team will earn the win and advance.
Semifinal Round Playoff Tie Breaker
In the event of a tie in the semifinal playoff round, the higher seeded team (i.e. the division winner) will earn the win and advance.
World Series Tie Breaker
None, if teams are still tied after the two week World Series, the World Series prize mony is split 50/50.
Free Agents/Waiver Wire / Off-season Rosters
After the last game of the regular season the rosters are fozen for the playoffs except for replacing a player that CBS or MLB says has been placed on the DL after the playoffs start. That will be allowed. As far as waivers, the initial waivers will be in reverse order of standings. Waivers will run on a nightly basis, and if a player is dropped, he will be on waivers for 1 day.
After the season I will process the one-time off-season UNLISTED and REGULAR waivers as one waiver process MANUALLY. I will ask that each owner send me all their requests (both unlisted and listed) on a particular day and the commish and co-commish will send their's to each other the day before.
Non-playoff teams will be allowed to carry 38 players during the off-season, and 36 for the next season. The cut down date to get from 38 players to 36 players will the start of the 1st game of the season.
Waivers Overview
In order to provide an equal opportunity for all owners to add players to their roster that are new to the free agent pool, a Waiver process can be implemented. Owners' requests to add players on waivers to their roster are not executed immediately, but are put in a pending status for 24 hours. This allows multiple teams to request the same players. Again, if possible, waivers will run nightly.
When a transaction is made during the Waiver Process, the team's rank is set to last and everyone else's rank moves up one (check the League Home, Rules page to see if your league's waiver ranks are reset every week.) All transactions during the waiver process are effective for the next scoring period.
Conditions for Waivers
MLB players are placed on waivers under the following circumstances:
A player is released during a waiver process: A player released during a waiver process is on waivers until the next waiver process. Example: An owner requests Player A on waivers and drops Player B. This request is pended until the waiver process runs. During the waiver process, the owner is awarded Player A, and Player B is released from the roster and placed on waivers until the next waiver process.
A player is released during a free agent acquisition: Requests for players not on waivers are executed immediately. However, the player dropped in a non-waivers transaction is placed on waivers for 24 hours. He will remain on waivers until the waiver run after 24 hours from being put on waivers.
Waiver Rank
During a waiver process, pending transactions are processed in an order determined by each team's waiver rank. The team with the highest waiver rank will get its first requested player. If that team's highest pending transaction can't be executed because another team has the requested player, the transaction gets deleted and the team's next transaction, if one exists, is then executed. When a team gets a requested player, the team's waiver rank is dropped to the end and every other team moves up one and the process is continued. If a team doesn't have any pending transactions because all players requested were taken by other teams, or the owner simply didn't request any players, the team's turn is skipped but the waiver rank is not dropped. If a team has the highest waiver rank after Monday night and doesn't request any players for Tuesday night's waiver process, that team will still have the highest rank for the next process. The waiver rank resets for each scoring period based upon reverse order of standings.
Waivers Period
The waivers period is the length of time a player is on waivers before a claim will be processed and the player will be added to a roster. Check the League Home, Rules page to see how long dropped players remain on waivers in your league (1, 2 or 3 days). Our league will be 1 day.
Making a Waivers Claim
If you want to drop a player and pick up a player off of waivers follow these steps:
Lets say you have a player that you want to drop (player A) and several players that you would like to add (players B and C), depending on their availability when your turn comes up. If player B is not available you would like to pick up player C. In order to accomplish this you would submit two Add/Drop requests:
Drop player A, Add player B, and
Drop player A, Add player C.
Lets say your turn comes up and player B has already been picked up off waivers by another team. A request cannot be executed if either the add or drop player is not available. Requests will be skipped until the first valid roster move is found. In this case, your second request would be executed and you would get player C (provided he is not also already picked up off waivers).
The same is true in the reverse. If you dropped player A and added player B, then during your next round of waiver selections it will skip over the second waiver request involving Player A and go down your list to see if you have any other waiver requests.
Any waivers request that would cause your roster to exceed the maximum players allowed will be skipped.
Note: Free agents are available on a first-come, first-served basis; they can be picked up at any time. If a player is dropped from a roster and he clears the waiver process without being picked up, he then becomes a free agent, and can be picked up at any time, without having to go through a waivers process.
There will be no transaction fees. The free agent queue will be set up in standard worst to first fashion. You are allowed to pickup any player, whether listed in the hosting site database or not, as long as the hosting site allows me to enter unlisted players.
Waiver Request for players that were previously added as unlisted players, but are not retained in the CBS database after being dropped.
Sometimes when an unlisted player is dropped, he isn't retained in the database. So if an unlisted player is dropped, he is on waivers for a day, just as if he was a listed player. If you want that player, you need to send me an email asking for waivers on that player. However, if you have any waiver request processed on listed players the same night that the unlisted player comes off waivers, the waiver request awarded from CBS will take precedence, and bump you to then end of the line, before your request for the unlisted player is evaluated. I would have to award the waiver request of the unlisted player manuall based upon the current waiver priority.
Obviously if a player was added previously as an unlisted player, but is now listed in the database, you must use the site waiver system to request that player, not email me the waiver request. You cannot prioritize the waiver request for the unlisted player ahead of someone listed, and both come off waivers at the same time. I don't need that extra work trying to figure out the priority, plus I don't want to know your other waiver requests. So to make my job easier, when you want to add a player dropped who is unlisted, to ensure he has top priority, don't make any listed player request at CBS that are due to come off waivers at the same time as the unlisted player.
Start the waivers afer the 1st game of the new season
has started so the first-come-first-serve is still active
until the start of the first game so teams can make last
minute adjustmeents.
Adding Unlisted Players
As you guys know, we are allowed to add unlisted players. As stated at the beginning of this league, when the unlisted player becomes available in the player database, it is YOUR responsibility to add the player to your roster and drop the unlisted player. If someone adds a player that is listed or not, if that player is already on someone else's roster, the team adding the already rostered player will receive 0 pts for that player if he is on the active roster for the current week games. He will not be penalized with a goose egg for the week, because it is just as much responsibility of the owner who owns the player in question, to add the "real" player from the database and drop the unlisted player, as it is for the owner who added the player already on a different roster.
Trading
Veto of trades
There will be a 3 member committee where there has to be a 2/3 consensus to call a vote when any owner files a complaint asking for a vote on a trade. If a member of the committee is involved in the trade, another owner will take his place on the committee for that trade. If a vote is called, the parties involved in the trade do not have a vote. The remaining members of the league will vote on the trade and it will take 7 votes to veto a trade.
Anyone who unreasonably dumps players or participates in a manner the disrupts the integrity of the league or violates a basic standard of conduct can be removed with the consent of 8 owners.
The Trading Deadline will be SEVEN DAYS after the MLB trading deadline, until 11:59 p.m. ET on that day.
Trades are allowed in the off-season as long as the hosting site allows it.
Replacing an Owner
Any team that finished the prior season with a better record than the team being replaced must leave 3 players unprotected. Only a non-playoff team gets to pick from the unprotected list when it's owner is being replaced. A team leaving players unprotected can only lose 1 player.
Payouts
Payouts
+1200 (12 teams x $100)
-300 (wildcard teams = 4 x 75 = 300)
-300 (division winners = 2 x 150 = 300)
-200 (world series loser)
-400 (world series winner)
= $0 remaining
