Post by Admin on Feb 14, 2017 15:33:38 GMT -5
Index
1. Scoring and Settings
2. Keepers and Carryovers
3. FBKL: AL vs NL Offline Draft
4. MLB Roster Moves
5. Trading
6. Consolation Rotisserie Bracket
7. Farm Team Rules
FBKL: AL vs NL Staff Members
Commissioner - David DiFranco
Assistant to the Commissioner - TBA
Board of Directors - TBA
Draft Manager - TBA
Farm Manager - TBA
Recruiters - OPEN(3 positions)
Roster Compliance Watchdog - Everyone! for this to work we all need to be diligent about not picking up players from the wrong league.
AIM is the preferred messaging tool for FBKL: AL vs NL. If you are unable to use AIM, please use an alternative chat tool to communicate with active GM's. (FB Messenger, PM's via FBKL Homepage, Text)
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1. Scoring and Settings
Number of Franchises = 8 AL only, 8 NL only
Scoring Type = Head to Head
Minimum Innings Pitched per week = 30 IP
Waiver Period = 1 day
Roster = 25 regular spots and 5 DL spots
Lineup = 1 X C/1B/2B/3B/SS/IF - 3 X OF - 1 X UTIL - 2 X SP - 2 X RP - 3 X P
Scoring = R/HR/RBI/SB/OBP and W/SV/K/ERA/WHIP
Pickups per week - 4 (including farm call ups)
Championship Playoffs = Seeds #1-4(from both AL and NL) over 2 weeks
Consolation Roto Bracket = Seeds #5-8(from both AL and NL) battle it out in the final 3 weeks to determine draft order, winner of this bracket gets first overall pick.
Divisions -
Division 1 AL
Stubborn Pinstripes
Team 2
Team 3
Team 4
Division 2 AL
Team 5
Team 6
Team7
Team 8
Dvision 1 NL
Team 1
Team 2
Team 3
Team 4
Division 2 NL
Team 5
Team 6
Team7
Team 8
2. Keepers and Carryovers
By 11:59 PM ET on February 15th, all teams must declare their Keepers and Carryovers for the upcoming season in the Keeper Declarations thread on the league homepage.
After the deadline your roster is protected from cross league trading until the end of the FBKL season.
The breakdown for keepers are as follows:
• 6 Keepers
• **1 Sophomore Carryover** For 1st and 2nd season only this does not apply
• *2 Freshman Carryovers* For 1st season this does not apply
A Keeper can be any player.
A Sophomore Carryover is a player who was kept as a Freshman Carryover the previous season. If a player is traded during his Freshman Carryover season from one FBKL team to another he is still eligible as a Sophomore Carryover for his new team. As well, a Freshman Carryover eligible player who is designated a Keeper may be designated a Sophomore Carryover the following year.
A Freshman Carryover is a player who was brought up via the league’s farm system and has exceeded the farm eligibility limits in the previous season. Additionally, any player who was below the farm eligibility limits when they were added directly to the MLB roster as a free agent or through the MLB draft (i.e. not brought up through the league’s farm system) and is on a roster at year end is Freshman Carryover eligible the following year, regardless of whether they have passed the farm eligibility limits or not. Please note that any international signings from the previous season who was not farm eligible is not then carryover eligible following their rookie year.
3. FBKL MLB and Amateur Drafts
There are two annual drafts held in FBKL – the MLB Draft (beginning March 1) and the Amateur Draft (beginning in either January or February). Both are slow-live format.
Players eligible for the MLB Draft are any players not kept, not currently on farms, and any international players 25 years of age or older (at the start of the draft) who have signed with a MLB team since the last MLB Draft (by the start of the Draft).
Players eligible for the Amateur Draft are those picked in the previous year’s MLB Amateur Draft (and signed) and any international players 24 years of age or younger (at the start of the draft) who have signed with a MLB team since the last Amateur Draft (by the start of the Draft). This draft consists of 2 rounds(inaugural draft will be 17 rounds). Following the conclusion of the Amateur Draft all undrafted players are placed on 1 day waivers allocated based on the Farm waiver order. (Farm waiver order is reset annually immediately following the Amateur draft based on reverse order of the AM draft).
The trading of both types of draft picks is permitted in the off-season trading period and during the two weeks preceding the in-season trade deadline. AM draft picks may be traded all year long.
The Draft Director will post the updated draft order following the in-season trade deadline and will update in the off-season. Everyone is strongly encouraged to review and advise the Draft Director of any errors.
FBKL Drafts are a slow-live format based on the following limits:
8 hour limit if you go on the clock between 8:00 AM to 11:59 PM ET
***Clock will stop at 12:00 AM, restart at 8:00 AM***
If a team “times out” they cannot make-up that selection until the end of the round, if the team times out again on this pick, the pick is forfeited/skipped and the draft will proceed. If a team “times out” they MUST contact the Commish to demonstrate they have returned from their absence.
This is a new process to eliminate Draft day issues, and enhance draft pick trading/keeper trades throughout the draft. I ask that everyone work as a team to keep the draft flowing and moving along smoothly.
When you are "on the clock" it is YOUR job to add the player you want to your roster via the yahoo FA pool. It is then YOUR job to notify the team "on deck" that they are up, or "on the clock". Do this via text message or instant messenger, everyone is required to post their number and IM info prior to the draft.
Although you have an 8 hour window to make your pick it does not mean you are allowed to take the entire 8 hours to decide. However, we all have lives and work alot and have families, so please do not abuse this time. It is good draft manners to leave a list of a minimum 3 players long, ranked in preferred order, with either the Commish or a team not picking before you are due up.
The default draft order in both drafts is based on the following for odd rounds (opposite default draft order for even rounds):
Consolation Roto Winner = 1st Pick
8th Place = 2nd Pick
9th Place = 3rd Pick
10th Place = 4th Pick
11th Place = 5th Pick
12th Place = 6th Pick
13th Place = 7th Pick
14th Place = 8th Pick
15th Place = 9th Pick
16th Place = 10th Pick
6th Place = 11th Pick
5th Place = 12th Pick
4th Place = 13th Pick
3rd Place = 14th Pick
2nd Place = 15th Pick
1st Place = 16th Pick
Once Keepers due date has passed the draft picks will be separated. NL and AL and drafts will run simultaneously but separate.
Supplemental Keeper Draft
Pending new GM approval, this draft will take place NO LATER than February 1st. Giving new GM's proper time to upgrade and ready themselves for the season.
This is the draft we use when bringing on 3 or more new GM's at the same time. Draft order will be randomized 2 weeks prior to the draft. New teams will select AT LEAST 6 keepers, 2 freshman carryovers, 1 sophomore carryover, and 10-15 farm players from the pool of players leftover from the rosters of the GMs that were either terminated, abandoned, or resigned. This draft is in serpentine format, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2, 1 etc.
4. FBKL Roster Moves
Any MLB player released is placed on MLB waivers for 1 day and allocated based on the MLB waiver order. If the player clears waivers they become a free agent.
During the regular and playoff season, teams are permitted to make 4 free agent additions per week (note the league week normally runs from Monday-Sunday). Additions may be any mix of pitchers and hitters and unused additions do not carryover from week to week. Note that call-ups from farm teams DO count as part of the 4 addition limit.
(AMENDED TO REFLECT NO HARM, NO FOUL)
Always check farm rosters before adding free agents on Yahoo who could be farm eligible. Use CTRL - F to search by first or last name.
Any owned farm rostered players who were added to an unowned teams roster and contributes stats to a weekly matchup, will result in the following penalty...
1st Offense:
Team adding owned prospect will lose rights to their 2nd round AM pick.
If team losing rights to 2nd round pick, doesn't own a pick in that round, a farm spot will be forfeited instead. Subsequent drop required.
2nd Offense:
Team adding owned prospect will lose rights to their 1st round AM pick.
Team owning added prospect will receive rights to lost 1st round AM pick.
If team losing rights to 1st round pick doesn't own a pick in that round, 2 farm spots will be forfeited instead.
Subsequent drops required.
These Offenses also apply to any GM caught adding a player from the wrong league.(AL team picking up NL guys).
5. Trading
Trading is allowed from AL to NL when appropriate. You may have a player traded in real life this will give you a chance to move him. All players traded in real life from will still accumulate stats for owner till the end of current season.
All trades are permitted except under the following circumstances:
• Trade period closed from in-season trade deadline to reopening of trade period in off-season (on or around November 1)
• "Players to be Named" and "Future Considerations" are not permitted.
• Any player traded in the period two weeks before the in-season trade deadline may not be traded back to his original team in the offseason to use as a Keeper or Carryover, either from the team they traded the player to or from a proxy team.
• Everyone is entitled to their opinions on trades and we welcome your thoughts and opinions to be heard, whether positive or negative. No trade however, will be be overturned or vetoed unless it jeopardizes the integrity of the league and has an overwhelming amount of disapproval. We all manage our teams differently and have different strategies, so unless there is clear collusion involved, all trades will stand immediately.
***Four weeks before in-season trade deadline - MLB Pick trading period opens***
AM Draft Picks can be dealt year round.
6. Consolation Rotisserie Bracket
Draft Order in both MLB, and AM drafts will be determined by final finish in the Yahoo based consolation tournament. Only teams 9 - 16 are entered into the tournament via Yahoo consolation bracket.
7. Divisions -
The top 2 GM’s from each league from the previous year (based on winning % in the regular season) participate in an annual draft to realign the divisions by taking part in a 3 round non-snaking draft where they select the GM’s in their division for the coming season. Draft order is as follows: 2nd seed (lowest winning % in regular season amongst participating GM’s) picks 1st, followed by 1st seed. Draft will take place between end of season and reopening of trading period.
8. Farm Rules -
Farm Team
Teams are permitted to carry 15 farm players year round. In addition, teams may voluntarily carry 2 additional players from the end of the MLB regular season to the day preceding the MLB regular season. If a reduction is not made back down to 15 by the deadline the Commish and/or Farm Director(Kevin) will use their discretion to bring the team in to compliance. Farm players can be added at any point during the year. To be eligible to be added to the farm a player must meet the following conditions:
• Have less than 250 career at-bats (if hitter) or 15 starts, or 35 appearances.
• Not currently in MLB and must remain in the minors for 14 days after being added. (If a player is promoted to a MLB roster within this time frame the player will be placed on MLB waivers.) In the offseason, you cannot add a player who ended the season on a MLB roster.
NOTE: If a player who ended the season on a MLB roster, gets sent down to the minors, and remains under the farm eligibility limits, they become eligible.
Should a player get demoted, and be on an FBKL/MLB Roster, the player would have to be released, then clear MLB waivers, to regain Farm eligibility.
• Been previously eligible for the Amateur Draft.
****Players eligible for the Amateur Draft are those picked in the previous year’s MLB Amateur Draft (and signed) and any international players 24 years of age or younger (at the start of the draft) who have signed with a MLB team since the last Amateur Draft (by the start of the Draft)****
This draft consists of 2 rounds. Following the conclusion of the Amateur Draft all undrafted players are placed on 1 day waivers allocated based on the Farm waiver order. (Farm waiver order is reset annually immediately following the Amateur draft based on reverse order of the AM draft).
PROMOTIONS/DEMOTIONS
Players may be promoted/demoted from the farm freely once the Yahoo league is opened. Farm movements must be posted in the "Farm Transactions" section of the current season. Before adding a farmed player to your MLB roster, you must post the transaction.
Example: Isotopes promote "Player A" to MLB roster
When sending promoted players back to your farm, demotions must be posted before or directly after the drop from your MLB roster. If no open farm spots exist, a subsequent farm drop is required to demote players back to your farm.
Example: Isotopes demote "Player A" to MLB roster, drop "Player B" to make room
Farm eligibles dropped from the MLB roster, with no corresponding farm move posted the same day as the drop, become MLB free agents.
FARM WAIVERS
Any Farm player released is allocated based on the Farm waiver order.
The waiver order used in this case is the Farm waiver order, the waiver period is 1 day, and all claims should be e-mailed to the Commish and Farm Director (with details of a subsequent farm move to create a spot for the player, if required)
All farm waiver claims should be e-mailed to the Commish and Farm Director (with details of a subsequent farm move to create a spot for the player, if required). Player cannot be re-claimed by the dropping team until they have cleared waivers. If the player clears waivers they become a free agent. In the offseason, a waived Farm player who ended the year on a MLB roster is eligible to be claimed but if the player clears waivers he is not available as a free agent and is next available in the following year's MLB draft.
Players may be demoted back to the farm without having to clear waivers a maximum of 3 times. Once a player's “waiver free” demotions are used up he must clear waivers before returning to the farm. To demote a player in this situation simply drop the player off the MLB roster. If the demoted player clears waivers successfully he is placed back on the farm (a corresponding farm move is required immediately) and his “waiver free” demotions reset to 3. However, if a team claims a waived player the new team must hold him on the MLB roster or demote him through the waiver system in a similar manner – his “waiver free” demotions are not reset for the claiming team. The waiver order used in this case is the Farm waiver order, the waiver period is 1 day, and all claims should be e-mailed to the Commish and Farm Director (with details of a subsequent farm move to create a spot for the player, if required)
TRANSLATION = Prospects have 3 "options" a piece. Once sent back to the farm from your MLB roster 3 separate times, then called up again and out of options, the player is no longer farm eligible.
At the conclusion of the regular season all farm eligible players who are on MLB rosters must be moved to the farm roster within 7 days. If a farm eligible player is not moved by the deadline they will be available to all in the next MLB draft. If a player has no “waiver free” demotions remaining he can still be sent back to the farm but must clear waivers first. If the demoted player clears waivers successfully he is placed back on the farm (a corresponding farm move is required immediately) and his “waiver free” demotions are reset to 3. However, if a team claims a waived player he goes on their farm roster immediately (a corresponding farm move must be made) but his “waiver free” demotions are not reset. The waiver system used in this case is the Farm waivers, the waiver period is 1 day, and all claims should be e-mailed to the Commish and Farm Director (with details of a subsequent farm move to create a spot for the player, if required).
Any farm roster spot that is left empty more then 7 days will be lost for a period of 1 year from the empty date. If the team changes hands to a new GM the number of available spots will automatically be reset to the league max.
TRANSLATION = If you call up a prospect to your MLB roster, please fill your empty spot within 1 week, if you don't use it you lose it!
Each GM is responsible for double-checking any and all farm eligibilities. If a player is found to be over the limits after the fact, that player will immediately be played on Farm waivers without prejudice.
In addition, teams may voluntarily carry 2 additional players on their farm roster, from the end of the MLB regular season to the day preceding the MLB regular season.
League Improvement Period
The League Improvement Period runs in October annually. During this time all league matters for the coming year are finalized. This includes the following items:
• Rule changes
• Nominations for removal(Minimum 3 complaints a year and you are on the hot seat)
• Resignations
Any rule change proposed should be discussed and voted on to benefit the league as a whole.
Grounds for removal from the league include (but are not limited to) participation, competitiveness, and performance.
All items raised will be discussed at the Annual Winter League Improvement Meeting and appropriate actions will be taken.
League Calendar
Nov 1st - Jan 1st New GM Keeper Draft(if necessary)
January 15th - Amateur Draft
February 15th - Deadline for Keeper and Carryover declaration.
March 1 - MLB Draft begins.
April - Beginning of MLB season and official start to FBKL league year.
Two Weeks Before In-Season Trade Deadline - Pick trading period opens.
August 14 (TBD) - In-Season Trade Deadline.
September - MLB season finishes. Standings and default draft order finalized. Farm rosters expand 2 spots.
7 days after MLB season ends - Deadline to move farm eligible players back to farm
October - League Improvement Period. Any and all proposed rule changes, nominations for replacement, and resignations should be made at this time
October 15-31 (TBD) - Annual FBKL Winter Meeting.
October 15-31 - Commish finalizes all outstanding matters for upcoming season.
November - Trade period reopens.
THE COMMISH RESERVES THE RIGHT TO OVERRULE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING REGULATIONS IF THE SITUATION DEEMS NECESSARY.
1. Scoring and Settings
2. Keepers and Carryovers
3. FBKL: AL vs NL Offline Draft
4. MLB Roster Moves
5. Trading
6. Consolation Rotisserie Bracket
7. Farm Team Rules
FBKL: AL vs NL Staff Members
Commissioner - David DiFranco
Assistant to the Commissioner - TBA
Board of Directors - TBA
Draft Manager - TBA
Farm Manager - TBA
Recruiters - OPEN(3 positions)
Roster Compliance Watchdog - Everyone! for this to work we all need to be diligent about not picking up players from the wrong league.
AIM is the preferred messaging tool for FBKL: AL vs NL. If you are unable to use AIM, please use an alternative chat tool to communicate with active GM's. (FB Messenger, PM's via FBKL Homepage, Text)
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1. Scoring and Settings
Number of Franchises = 8 AL only, 8 NL only
Scoring Type = Head to Head
Minimum Innings Pitched per week = 30 IP
Waiver Period = 1 day
Roster = 25 regular spots and 5 DL spots
Lineup = 1 X C/1B/2B/3B/SS/IF - 3 X OF - 1 X UTIL - 2 X SP - 2 X RP - 3 X P
Scoring = R/HR/RBI/SB/OBP and W/SV/K/ERA/WHIP
Pickups per week - 4 (including farm call ups)
Championship Playoffs = Seeds #1-4(from both AL and NL) over 2 weeks
Consolation Roto Bracket = Seeds #5-8(from both AL and NL) battle it out in the final 3 weeks to determine draft order, winner of this bracket gets first overall pick.
Divisions -
Division 1 AL
Stubborn Pinstripes
Team 2
Team 3
Team 4
Division 2 AL
Team 5
Team 6
Team7
Team 8
Dvision 1 NL
Team 1
Team 2
Team 3
Team 4
Division 2 NL
Team 5
Team 6
Team7
Team 8
2. Keepers and Carryovers
By 11:59 PM ET on February 15th, all teams must declare their Keepers and Carryovers for the upcoming season in the Keeper Declarations thread on the league homepage.
After the deadline your roster is protected from cross league trading until the end of the FBKL season.
The breakdown for keepers are as follows:
• 6 Keepers
• **1 Sophomore Carryover** For 1st and 2nd season only this does not apply
• *2 Freshman Carryovers* For 1st season this does not apply
A Keeper can be any player.
A Sophomore Carryover is a player who was kept as a Freshman Carryover the previous season. If a player is traded during his Freshman Carryover season from one FBKL team to another he is still eligible as a Sophomore Carryover for his new team. As well, a Freshman Carryover eligible player who is designated a Keeper may be designated a Sophomore Carryover the following year.
A Freshman Carryover is a player who was brought up via the league’s farm system and has exceeded the farm eligibility limits in the previous season. Additionally, any player who was below the farm eligibility limits when they were added directly to the MLB roster as a free agent or through the MLB draft (i.e. not brought up through the league’s farm system) and is on a roster at year end is Freshman Carryover eligible the following year, regardless of whether they have passed the farm eligibility limits or not. Please note that any international signings from the previous season who was not farm eligible is not then carryover eligible following their rookie year.
3. FBKL MLB and Amateur Drafts
There are two annual drafts held in FBKL – the MLB Draft (beginning March 1) and the Amateur Draft (beginning in either January or February). Both are slow-live format.
Players eligible for the MLB Draft are any players not kept, not currently on farms, and any international players 25 years of age or older (at the start of the draft) who have signed with a MLB team since the last MLB Draft (by the start of the Draft).
Players eligible for the Amateur Draft are those picked in the previous year’s MLB Amateur Draft (and signed) and any international players 24 years of age or younger (at the start of the draft) who have signed with a MLB team since the last Amateur Draft (by the start of the Draft). This draft consists of 2 rounds(inaugural draft will be 17 rounds). Following the conclusion of the Amateur Draft all undrafted players are placed on 1 day waivers allocated based on the Farm waiver order. (Farm waiver order is reset annually immediately following the Amateur draft based on reverse order of the AM draft).
The trading of both types of draft picks is permitted in the off-season trading period and during the two weeks preceding the in-season trade deadline. AM draft picks may be traded all year long.
The Draft Director will post the updated draft order following the in-season trade deadline and will update in the off-season. Everyone is strongly encouraged to review and advise the Draft Director of any errors.
FBKL Drafts are a slow-live format based on the following limits:
8 hour limit if you go on the clock between 8:00 AM to 11:59 PM ET
***Clock will stop at 12:00 AM, restart at 8:00 AM***
If a team “times out” they cannot make-up that selection until the end of the round, if the team times out again on this pick, the pick is forfeited/skipped and the draft will proceed. If a team “times out” they MUST contact the Commish to demonstrate they have returned from their absence.
This is a new process to eliminate Draft day issues, and enhance draft pick trading/keeper trades throughout the draft. I ask that everyone work as a team to keep the draft flowing and moving along smoothly.
When you are "on the clock" it is YOUR job to add the player you want to your roster via the yahoo FA pool. It is then YOUR job to notify the team "on deck" that they are up, or "on the clock". Do this via text message or instant messenger, everyone is required to post their number and IM info prior to the draft.
Although you have an 8 hour window to make your pick it does not mean you are allowed to take the entire 8 hours to decide. However, we all have lives and work alot and have families, so please do not abuse this time. It is good draft manners to leave a list of a minimum 3 players long, ranked in preferred order, with either the Commish or a team not picking before you are due up.
The default draft order in both drafts is based on the following for odd rounds (opposite default draft order for even rounds):
Consolation Roto Winner = 1st Pick
8th Place = 2nd Pick
9th Place = 3rd Pick
10th Place = 4th Pick
11th Place = 5th Pick
12th Place = 6th Pick
13th Place = 7th Pick
14th Place = 8th Pick
15th Place = 9th Pick
16th Place = 10th Pick
6th Place = 11th Pick
5th Place = 12th Pick
4th Place = 13th Pick
3rd Place = 14th Pick
2nd Place = 15th Pick
1st Place = 16th Pick
Once Keepers due date has passed the draft picks will be separated. NL and AL and drafts will run simultaneously but separate.
Supplemental Keeper Draft
Pending new GM approval, this draft will take place NO LATER than February 1st. Giving new GM's proper time to upgrade and ready themselves for the season.
This is the draft we use when bringing on 3 or more new GM's at the same time. Draft order will be randomized 2 weeks prior to the draft. New teams will select AT LEAST 6 keepers, 2 freshman carryovers, 1 sophomore carryover, and 10-15 farm players from the pool of players leftover from the rosters of the GMs that were either terminated, abandoned, or resigned. This draft is in serpentine format, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2, 1 etc.
4. FBKL Roster Moves
Any MLB player released is placed on MLB waivers for 1 day and allocated based on the MLB waiver order. If the player clears waivers they become a free agent.
During the regular and playoff season, teams are permitted to make 4 free agent additions per week (note the league week normally runs from Monday-Sunday). Additions may be any mix of pitchers and hitters and unused additions do not carryover from week to week. Note that call-ups from farm teams DO count as part of the 4 addition limit.
(AMENDED TO REFLECT NO HARM, NO FOUL)
Always check farm rosters before adding free agents on Yahoo who could be farm eligible. Use CTRL - F to search by first or last name.
Any owned farm rostered players who were added to an unowned teams roster and contributes stats to a weekly matchup, will result in the following penalty...
1st Offense:
Team adding owned prospect will lose rights to their 2nd round AM pick.
If team losing rights to 2nd round pick, doesn't own a pick in that round, a farm spot will be forfeited instead. Subsequent drop required.
2nd Offense:
Team adding owned prospect will lose rights to their 1st round AM pick.
Team owning added prospect will receive rights to lost 1st round AM pick.
If team losing rights to 1st round pick doesn't own a pick in that round, 2 farm spots will be forfeited instead.
Subsequent drops required.
These Offenses also apply to any GM caught adding a player from the wrong league.(AL team picking up NL guys).
5. Trading
Trading is allowed from AL to NL when appropriate. You may have a player traded in real life this will give you a chance to move him. All players traded in real life from will still accumulate stats for owner till the end of current season.
All trades are permitted except under the following circumstances:
• Trade period closed from in-season trade deadline to reopening of trade period in off-season (on or around November 1)
• "Players to be Named" and "Future Considerations" are not permitted.
• Any player traded in the period two weeks before the in-season trade deadline may not be traded back to his original team in the offseason to use as a Keeper or Carryover, either from the team they traded the player to or from a proxy team.
• Everyone is entitled to their opinions on trades and we welcome your thoughts and opinions to be heard, whether positive or negative. No trade however, will be be overturned or vetoed unless it jeopardizes the integrity of the league and has an overwhelming amount of disapproval. We all manage our teams differently and have different strategies, so unless there is clear collusion involved, all trades will stand immediately.
***Four weeks before in-season trade deadline - MLB Pick trading period opens***
AM Draft Picks can be dealt year round.
6. Consolation Rotisserie Bracket
Draft Order in both MLB, and AM drafts will be determined by final finish in the Yahoo based consolation tournament. Only teams 9 - 16 are entered into the tournament via Yahoo consolation bracket.
7. Divisions -
The top 2 GM’s from each league from the previous year (based on winning % in the regular season) participate in an annual draft to realign the divisions by taking part in a 3 round non-snaking draft where they select the GM’s in their division for the coming season. Draft order is as follows: 2nd seed (lowest winning % in regular season amongst participating GM’s) picks 1st, followed by 1st seed. Draft will take place between end of season and reopening of trading period.
8. Farm Rules -
Farm Team
Teams are permitted to carry 15 farm players year round. In addition, teams may voluntarily carry 2 additional players from the end of the MLB regular season to the day preceding the MLB regular season. If a reduction is not made back down to 15 by the deadline the Commish and/or Farm Director(Kevin) will use their discretion to bring the team in to compliance. Farm players can be added at any point during the year. To be eligible to be added to the farm a player must meet the following conditions:
• Have less than 250 career at-bats (if hitter) or 15 starts, or 35 appearances.
• Not currently in MLB and must remain in the minors for 14 days after being added. (If a player is promoted to a MLB roster within this time frame the player will be placed on MLB waivers.) In the offseason, you cannot add a player who ended the season on a MLB roster.
NOTE: If a player who ended the season on a MLB roster, gets sent down to the minors, and remains under the farm eligibility limits, they become eligible.
Should a player get demoted, and be on an FBKL/MLB Roster, the player would have to be released, then clear MLB waivers, to regain Farm eligibility.
• Been previously eligible for the Amateur Draft.
****Players eligible for the Amateur Draft are those picked in the previous year’s MLB Amateur Draft (and signed) and any international players 24 years of age or younger (at the start of the draft) who have signed with a MLB team since the last Amateur Draft (by the start of the Draft)****
This draft consists of 2 rounds. Following the conclusion of the Amateur Draft all undrafted players are placed on 1 day waivers allocated based on the Farm waiver order. (Farm waiver order is reset annually immediately following the Amateur draft based on reverse order of the AM draft).
PROMOTIONS/DEMOTIONS
Players may be promoted/demoted from the farm freely once the Yahoo league is opened. Farm movements must be posted in the "Farm Transactions" section of the current season. Before adding a farmed player to your MLB roster, you must post the transaction.
Example: Isotopes promote "Player A" to MLB roster
When sending promoted players back to your farm, demotions must be posted before or directly after the drop from your MLB roster. If no open farm spots exist, a subsequent farm drop is required to demote players back to your farm.
Example: Isotopes demote "Player A" to MLB roster, drop "Player B" to make room
Farm eligibles dropped from the MLB roster, with no corresponding farm move posted the same day as the drop, become MLB free agents.
FARM WAIVERS
Any Farm player released is allocated based on the Farm waiver order.
The waiver order used in this case is the Farm waiver order, the waiver period is 1 day, and all claims should be e-mailed to the Commish and Farm Director (with details of a subsequent farm move to create a spot for the player, if required)
All farm waiver claims should be e-mailed to the Commish and Farm Director (with details of a subsequent farm move to create a spot for the player, if required). Player cannot be re-claimed by the dropping team until they have cleared waivers. If the player clears waivers they become a free agent. In the offseason, a waived Farm player who ended the year on a MLB roster is eligible to be claimed but if the player clears waivers he is not available as a free agent and is next available in the following year's MLB draft.
Players may be demoted back to the farm without having to clear waivers a maximum of 3 times. Once a player's “waiver free” demotions are used up he must clear waivers before returning to the farm. To demote a player in this situation simply drop the player off the MLB roster. If the demoted player clears waivers successfully he is placed back on the farm (a corresponding farm move is required immediately) and his “waiver free” demotions reset to 3. However, if a team claims a waived player the new team must hold him on the MLB roster or demote him through the waiver system in a similar manner – his “waiver free” demotions are not reset for the claiming team. The waiver order used in this case is the Farm waiver order, the waiver period is 1 day, and all claims should be e-mailed to the Commish and Farm Director (with details of a subsequent farm move to create a spot for the player, if required)
TRANSLATION = Prospects have 3 "options" a piece. Once sent back to the farm from your MLB roster 3 separate times, then called up again and out of options, the player is no longer farm eligible.
At the conclusion of the regular season all farm eligible players who are on MLB rosters must be moved to the farm roster within 7 days. If a farm eligible player is not moved by the deadline they will be available to all in the next MLB draft. If a player has no “waiver free” demotions remaining he can still be sent back to the farm but must clear waivers first. If the demoted player clears waivers successfully he is placed back on the farm (a corresponding farm move is required immediately) and his “waiver free” demotions are reset to 3. However, if a team claims a waived player he goes on their farm roster immediately (a corresponding farm move must be made) but his “waiver free” demotions are not reset. The waiver system used in this case is the Farm waivers, the waiver period is 1 day, and all claims should be e-mailed to the Commish and Farm Director (with details of a subsequent farm move to create a spot for the player, if required).
Any farm roster spot that is left empty more then 7 days will be lost for a period of 1 year from the empty date. If the team changes hands to a new GM the number of available spots will automatically be reset to the league max.
TRANSLATION = If you call up a prospect to your MLB roster, please fill your empty spot within 1 week, if you don't use it you lose it!
Each GM is responsible for double-checking any and all farm eligibilities. If a player is found to be over the limits after the fact, that player will immediately be played on Farm waivers without prejudice.
In addition, teams may voluntarily carry 2 additional players on their farm roster, from the end of the MLB regular season to the day preceding the MLB regular season.
League Improvement Period
The League Improvement Period runs in October annually. During this time all league matters for the coming year are finalized. This includes the following items:
• Rule changes
• Nominations for removal(Minimum 3 complaints a year and you are on the hot seat)
• Resignations
Any rule change proposed should be discussed and voted on to benefit the league as a whole.
Grounds for removal from the league include (but are not limited to) participation, competitiveness, and performance.
All items raised will be discussed at the Annual Winter League Improvement Meeting and appropriate actions will be taken.
League Calendar
Nov 1st - Jan 1st New GM Keeper Draft(if necessary)
January 15th - Amateur Draft
February 15th - Deadline for Keeper and Carryover declaration.
March 1 - MLB Draft begins.
April - Beginning of MLB season and official start to FBKL league year.
Two Weeks Before In-Season Trade Deadline - Pick trading period opens.
August 14 (TBD) - In-Season Trade Deadline.
September - MLB season finishes. Standings and default draft order finalized. Farm rosters expand 2 spots.
7 days after MLB season ends - Deadline to move farm eligible players back to farm
October - League Improvement Period. Any and all proposed rule changes, nominations for replacement, and resignations should be made at this time
October 15-31 (TBD) - Annual FBKL Winter Meeting.
October 15-31 - Commish finalizes all outstanding matters for upcoming season.
November - Trade period reopens.
THE COMMISH RESERVES THE RIGHT TO OVERRULE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING REGULATIONS IF THE SITUATION DEEMS NECESSARY.
