Post by JakesSnakes on Mar 22, 2009 14:32:59 GMT -5
Preamble
We the people, in order to form an enjoyable league; to prove once and for all that we all in fact need to get a life; to secure the blessing of the fantasy gods and not be advanced upon in H2H playoffs; and to establish an endless set of rules to give crafty owners new and innovative loopholes to discover, hereby ordain and establish this league constitution.
I. Object and Purpose
The object of this league will be to assemble 25 players (plus up to 4 players on the DL) regardless of position, whose cumulative statistics, compiled and measured by the methods described in the constitution, are superior to those of all the other league teams.
II. Teams
A. The league will consist of 12 teams for each season.
B. League teams are permitted to have multiple owners. How these owners handle the duties is entirely up to them, and is not the responsibility of the Commissioner.
C. Each team’s name, color scheme, motto, hiring policies, dress code, end of year bonuses, sexual harassment policies, waiver wire practices and corporate philosophies are left to the owners.
D. League Teams shall remain active during the entire season.
III. Major League Rosters
A. Each team roster will consist of up to 29 active major league players (4 DL spots) and 6 minor league players (no DL slots).
B. A team’s active roster will consist of the following positions:
1 Catcher
1 First Baseman
1 Second Baseman
1 Shortstop
1 Third Baseman
3 Outfielders
2 Utility player (any offensive position)
2 Starting Pitchers
2 Relief Pitchers
3 Pitchers (either SP or RP)
C. The remaining players (up to 8) on the active major league roster not included in a given day’s lineup will be considered “on the bench” and will not accumulate any statistics.
D. Each team may place up to two disabled players on its active roster in the designated DL spot and an additional player can be added from the Free Agent pool.
E. Position eligibility will be determined by the league host site. Currently the league will be hosted by Yahoo, which constitutes 5 games started or 10 games played as the bench mark for position eligibility.
IV. Minor League Rosters
A. A team’s supplemental roster consists of 6 minor league players currently playing for any minor league club. These players can be acquired through the minor league draft, free agency, or trades. At no time may this roster exceed 6, including disabled players. Additionally, this roster may not contain any players included on the 25-man major league roster on opening day.
B. When a player is promoted to the major league from a minor league roster, that owner can add him to his active roster (assuming he has been added to Yahoo's player list). These players can be promoted at the manager's discretion or remain on the minor league roster until he is no longer eligible to remain there (e.g., at the beginning of the following season he is now on the major league roster). In order to allow for this move an active player must be waived to allow for the new player's addition. The vacated minor league roster spot may be filled with a minor league free agent.
C. If an owner chooses not to promote a minor league player, even though he was added to the Yahoo player listing, that player shall remain on the free agent list in Yahoo. It is the responsibility of all league owners to not add players to their rosters that are on another owner’s minor league roster.
D. During the same season that a minor league player is promoted, and the owner of said player promoted him to the major league roster, the owner may demote said player if the real MLB clubs chooses to do so. This will carry each season until the owner, or another owner via a trade, drafts the player in the major league draft
E. There is no roster requirement for minor league rosters. All six players may consist of any position desired by the owner.
F. All minor league rosters will be able to be viewed and maintained on the league webpage, which can be found at the URL of boysofsummerdynasty.proboards.com
V. League Settings
A. League teams will accumulate statistics of its active major league roster in the following categories:
Offense – Runs, Home Runs, RBI, Stolen Bases, Batting Average
Pitching – Wins, Saves, Strikeouts, ERA, WHIP
B. League teams play against another team head to head each week, scheduled randomly by Yahoo, and are awarded Wins, Losses, and Ties based on said head to head statistical categories.
C. The 6 League Teams with the highest winning percentage at the end of the season will play in a playoff series. The top two teams will receive a bye week, with #3 vs #6 and #4 vs #5 in the first week. The hosting site will handle any tiebreakers.
D. Waiver order will be determined following the draft and will reflect the reverse order of the draft. For example, the team with the first pick in the major league draft will get the last waiver wire priority. Waiver priority will be adjusted throughout the year as successful claims are made. Any successful waiver wire claims will result in the team’s waiver priority be moved to last.
E. Waiver priority for minor league players will be determined by reversed league standings.
F. Waivers shall last 2 days.
VI. Major League Draft
A. The league shall conduct a draft within on March 29, 2009. Owners that cannot attend the draft on the designated date are permitted to use substitute drafters.
B. In the first season of the league, there will be 25 rounds in the draft. The draft order will be selected randomly by Yahoo for the draft.
C. If a team drops out of the league, a new owner will be found as quickly as possible. The new owner(s) assume ownership of a previously run team, and their full roster, including minor league players.
VII. Minor League Draft
A. The supplemental minor league draft will be conducted after the major league draft, and consist of six rounds.
B. A player must not be on the 25-man active major league team roster on opening day and not in the Yahoo player pool in order to be eligible. For example, if Jason Heyward makes the Braves opening day roster he is not eligible to be drafted. If Kershaw starts the year in Triple-A, or any other minor league level, he is eligible to be drafted. But if he is in the player pool on the day of the draft he is not eligible for the minor league draft either.
C. The draft will be conducted on a message board thread or a live chat (if possible on proboards). Since we will all be at the major league draft and the minor league draft is afterwards, all team owners are expected to pick a minor league player. Each team will have approximately 2 minutes to pick a player. If none is picked then the commissioner will pick a player in descending order from Baseball America's top 300 list.
D. Owners are not required to select players by position. They may select all pitchers, all position players, or a mix. The order of selection for each of the 6 rounds is determined by reverse order of the major league draft.
VIII. Keepers
A. A team owner will retain all 25 players for the following season. If a team has more than 25 players, ie a player is on the DL, that team will not be able to carry over the extra players for the next season. He will have to choose which player to drop from his team when the commissioner assigns players to each team (based on end of season rosters). No player may start the season on the DL, but a player may start the season on the bench and be moved to the DL once the season starts and a player may be added from free agency to fill the roster spot.
B. At the end of the MLB season, league rosters will be frozen. Owners will not be able to drop or add players. However, trades of any players are permissible, and as discussed in the “trades” section.
C. Once Yahoo opens up fantasy baseball each year, the commissioner will assign all players from the end of year rosters within 5 days of filling out the league (ie, once all team owners join the new league).
D. All Minor League players may be retained and kept on the minor league roster each year until they can no longer be classified as minor leaguers or rookies, once a player passes his rookie status, he must be retained to the active roster. According to MLB: “A player shall be considered a rookie unless, during a previous season or seasons, he has (a) exceeded 130 at-bats or 50 innings pitched in the Major Leagues; or (b) accumulated more than 45 days on the active roster of a Major League club or clubs during the period of 25-player limit (excluding time in the military service and time on the disabled list).” Since the commissioner will not be counting the number of days each player spends on a major league team, section (a) will be the only classification used.
IX. Trades
A. Trading players is a valuable part of fantasy Baseball, and it is strongly encouraged.
B. Vetoing a trade shall be a matter of last resort and reserved for instances of Collusion. Owners are encouraged to raise concerns about a trade and inquire further about the motivation behind a trade. Do not veto trades just because it is a “stupid” trade. A veto will consist of a league vote through Yahoo.
C. Collusion between Owners is prohibited. This prohibition is to prevent trades or acts that attempt to fix the League standings, and shall be measured by whether a League Team receives no measurable compensation in exchange for unduly enriching the other League Team.
D. An Owner may not trade a player for cash, future considerations, first born children, wide screen TVs, or draft picks.
E. No owner may cancel a pending agreed upon trade based on a claim of mistake.
F. Off-Season trading is allowed. All players on major league and minor league rosters are eligible to be traded.
H. All off-season trades must be posted on the proboard. If any team wants to veto the trade, they have one week to submit a formal protest of the trade. Once the trade is finalized, the league website will be updated with the roster changes.
X. Discipline
A. Any owner that willfully breaks the rules, as set forth by this league constitution, will be punished by possible removal from the league.
B. Any owner that does not remain active until the end of the season will be subject to removal after the end of the season. Seriously, please do all of the other owners a favor, and remain active during the entire season.
C. Collusion will not be tolerated, and will be dealt with swiftly and harshly.
XI. Governance
A. Governance is performed by one commissioner whose decisions should always be made in the best interest of the League as a whole, regardless of which individual team(s) may disagree or be damaged by the decisions he renders. That point aside, any and all decisions made by the commissioner may be appealed with a 2/3 majority of league owners (one team = one vote). The owners carry the burden of organizing such support and must make their request for reconsideration to the commissioner within one week of the decision in question. The commissioner may, at that point, choose to overturn his previous decision, or stand by the original decision. If the commissioner agrees to overturn, all steps, where necessary, will be made in an expeditious manner to bring the situation to it’s agreed upon position.
B. The commissioner may request assistance from other owners in the running of the League by accepting certain responsibilities within the League structure (i.e., Secretary, Treasurer, Rules Advisory, etc.).
C. The rules and regulations listed here and will undergo change season by season to meet the needs and vision of the league and its members.
Hope you enjoy the league.
We the people, in order to form an enjoyable league; to prove once and for all that we all in fact need to get a life; to secure the blessing of the fantasy gods and not be advanced upon in H2H playoffs; and to establish an endless set of rules to give crafty owners new and innovative loopholes to discover, hereby ordain and establish this league constitution.
I. Object and Purpose
The object of this league will be to assemble 25 players (plus up to 4 players on the DL) regardless of position, whose cumulative statistics, compiled and measured by the methods described in the constitution, are superior to those of all the other league teams.
II. Teams
A. The league will consist of 12 teams for each season.
B. League teams are permitted to have multiple owners. How these owners handle the duties is entirely up to them, and is not the responsibility of the Commissioner.
C. Each team’s name, color scheme, motto, hiring policies, dress code, end of year bonuses, sexual harassment policies, waiver wire practices and corporate philosophies are left to the owners.
D. League Teams shall remain active during the entire season.
III. Major League Rosters
A. Each team roster will consist of up to 29 active major league players (4 DL spots) and 6 minor league players (no DL slots).
B. A team’s active roster will consist of the following positions:
1 Catcher
1 First Baseman
1 Second Baseman
1 Shortstop
1 Third Baseman
3 Outfielders
2 Utility player (any offensive position)
2 Starting Pitchers
2 Relief Pitchers
3 Pitchers (either SP or RP)
C. The remaining players (up to 8) on the active major league roster not included in a given day’s lineup will be considered “on the bench” and will not accumulate any statistics.
D. Each team may place up to two disabled players on its active roster in the designated DL spot and an additional player can be added from the Free Agent pool.
E. Position eligibility will be determined by the league host site. Currently the league will be hosted by Yahoo, which constitutes 5 games started or 10 games played as the bench mark for position eligibility.
IV. Minor League Rosters
A. A team’s supplemental roster consists of 6 minor league players currently playing for any minor league club. These players can be acquired through the minor league draft, free agency, or trades. At no time may this roster exceed 6, including disabled players. Additionally, this roster may not contain any players included on the 25-man major league roster on opening day.
B. When a player is promoted to the major league from a minor league roster, that owner can add him to his active roster (assuming he has been added to Yahoo's player list). These players can be promoted at the manager's discretion or remain on the minor league roster until he is no longer eligible to remain there (e.g., at the beginning of the following season he is now on the major league roster). In order to allow for this move an active player must be waived to allow for the new player's addition. The vacated minor league roster spot may be filled with a minor league free agent.
C. If an owner chooses not to promote a minor league player, even though he was added to the Yahoo player listing, that player shall remain on the free agent list in Yahoo. It is the responsibility of all league owners to not add players to their rosters that are on another owner’s minor league roster.
D. During the same season that a minor league player is promoted, and the owner of said player promoted him to the major league roster, the owner may demote said player if the real MLB clubs chooses to do so. This will carry each season until the owner, or another owner via a trade, drafts the player in the major league draft
E. There is no roster requirement for minor league rosters. All six players may consist of any position desired by the owner.
F. All minor league rosters will be able to be viewed and maintained on the league webpage, which can be found at the URL of boysofsummerdynasty.proboards.com
V. League Settings
A. League teams will accumulate statistics of its active major league roster in the following categories:
Offense – Runs, Home Runs, RBI, Stolen Bases, Batting Average
Pitching – Wins, Saves, Strikeouts, ERA, WHIP
B. League teams play against another team head to head each week, scheduled randomly by Yahoo, and are awarded Wins, Losses, and Ties based on said head to head statistical categories.
C. The 6 League Teams with the highest winning percentage at the end of the season will play in a playoff series. The top two teams will receive a bye week, with #3 vs #6 and #4 vs #5 in the first week. The hosting site will handle any tiebreakers.
D. Waiver order will be determined following the draft and will reflect the reverse order of the draft. For example, the team with the first pick in the major league draft will get the last waiver wire priority. Waiver priority will be adjusted throughout the year as successful claims are made. Any successful waiver wire claims will result in the team’s waiver priority be moved to last.
E. Waiver priority for minor league players will be determined by reversed league standings.
F. Waivers shall last 2 days.
VI. Major League Draft
A. The league shall conduct a draft within on March 29, 2009. Owners that cannot attend the draft on the designated date are permitted to use substitute drafters.
B. In the first season of the league, there will be 25 rounds in the draft. The draft order will be selected randomly by Yahoo for the draft.
C. If a team drops out of the league, a new owner will be found as quickly as possible. The new owner(s) assume ownership of a previously run team, and their full roster, including minor league players.
VII. Minor League Draft
A. The supplemental minor league draft will be conducted after the major league draft, and consist of six rounds.
B. A player must not be on the 25-man active major league team roster on opening day and not in the Yahoo player pool in order to be eligible. For example, if Jason Heyward makes the Braves opening day roster he is not eligible to be drafted. If Kershaw starts the year in Triple-A, or any other minor league level, he is eligible to be drafted. But if he is in the player pool on the day of the draft he is not eligible for the minor league draft either.
C. The draft will be conducted on a message board thread or a live chat (if possible on proboards). Since we will all be at the major league draft and the minor league draft is afterwards, all team owners are expected to pick a minor league player. Each team will have approximately 2 minutes to pick a player. If none is picked then the commissioner will pick a player in descending order from Baseball America's top 300 list.
D. Owners are not required to select players by position. They may select all pitchers, all position players, or a mix. The order of selection for each of the 6 rounds is determined by reverse order of the major league draft.
VIII. Keepers
A. A team owner will retain all 25 players for the following season. If a team has more than 25 players, ie a player is on the DL, that team will not be able to carry over the extra players for the next season. He will have to choose which player to drop from his team when the commissioner assigns players to each team (based on end of season rosters). No player may start the season on the DL, but a player may start the season on the bench and be moved to the DL once the season starts and a player may be added from free agency to fill the roster spot.
B. At the end of the MLB season, league rosters will be frozen. Owners will not be able to drop or add players. However, trades of any players are permissible, and as discussed in the “trades” section.
C. Once Yahoo opens up fantasy baseball each year, the commissioner will assign all players from the end of year rosters within 5 days of filling out the league (ie, once all team owners join the new league).
D. All Minor League players may be retained and kept on the minor league roster each year until they can no longer be classified as minor leaguers or rookies, once a player passes his rookie status, he must be retained to the active roster. According to MLB: “A player shall be considered a rookie unless, during a previous season or seasons, he has (a) exceeded 130 at-bats or 50 innings pitched in the Major Leagues; or (b) accumulated more than 45 days on the active roster of a Major League club or clubs during the period of 25-player limit (excluding time in the military service and time on the disabled list).” Since the commissioner will not be counting the number of days each player spends on a major league team, section (a) will be the only classification used.
IX. Trades
A. Trading players is a valuable part of fantasy Baseball, and it is strongly encouraged.
B. Vetoing a trade shall be a matter of last resort and reserved for instances of Collusion. Owners are encouraged to raise concerns about a trade and inquire further about the motivation behind a trade. Do not veto trades just because it is a “stupid” trade. A veto will consist of a league vote through Yahoo.
C. Collusion between Owners is prohibited. This prohibition is to prevent trades or acts that attempt to fix the League standings, and shall be measured by whether a League Team receives no measurable compensation in exchange for unduly enriching the other League Team.
D. An Owner may not trade a player for cash, future considerations, first born children, wide screen TVs, or draft picks.
E. No owner may cancel a pending agreed upon trade based on a claim of mistake.
F. Off-Season trading is allowed. All players on major league and minor league rosters are eligible to be traded.
H. All off-season trades must be posted on the proboard. If any team wants to veto the trade, they have one week to submit a formal protest of the trade. Once the trade is finalized, the league website will be updated with the roster changes.
X. Discipline
A. Any owner that willfully breaks the rules, as set forth by this league constitution, will be punished by possible removal from the league.
B. Any owner that does not remain active until the end of the season will be subject to removal after the end of the season. Seriously, please do all of the other owners a favor, and remain active during the entire season.
C. Collusion will not be tolerated, and will be dealt with swiftly and harshly.
XI. Governance
A. Governance is performed by one commissioner whose decisions should always be made in the best interest of the League as a whole, regardless of which individual team(s) may disagree or be damaged by the decisions he renders. That point aside, any and all decisions made by the commissioner may be appealed with a 2/3 majority of league owners (one team = one vote). The owners carry the burden of organizing such support and must make their request for reconsideration to the commissioner within one week of the decision in question. The commissioner may, at that point, choose to overturn his previous decision, or stand by the original decision. If the commissioner agrees to overturn, all steps, where necessary, will be made in an expeditious manner to bring the situation to it’s agreed upon position.
B. The commissioner may request assistance from other owners in the running of the League by accepting certain responsibilities within the League structure (i.e., Secretary, Treasurer, Rules Advisory, etc.).
C. The rules and regulations listed here and will undergo change season by season to meet the needs and vision of the league and its members.
Hope you enjoy the league.
