OFFICIAL RULES OF THE DEAD SKIPPERS LEAGUE (DSL)
The RLBA rules as delineated in the following DSL constitution will be binding except where we have amended (revised) them.
To assemble a lineup of 25 National League baseball players whose cumulative statistics through the regular season, compiled and measured by the methods described in these rules, exceed those of all other teams in the League.
The DEAD SKIPPERS League (DSL) is a 12 team rotisserie baseball league using National League (NL) players.
Rosters shall consist of: 5 outfielders (OF), 2 catchers (C), 1 second Baseman (2B), 1 first baseman (1B), 1 third baseman (3B), 1 shortstop (SS), 1 middle infielder (either 2B or SS), one corner man (either 1B or 3B), 2 utility players (either hitter or pitcher), and 10 pitchers.
If one or more teams should be owner-less at the beginning of the Auction, each remaining team will have its player acquisition budget augmented by $2 and its roster (but not its Freeze List) increased by one (1) utility player and one (1) pitcher per owner-less team.
A National League Player Auction is conducted on the first Saturday After the first Monday NL game on or after Opening Day of the baseball season. Each team must acquire 25 players at a total cost not to exceed $28. A team need not spend the maximum. The last place team first opens with a minimum salary bid of $.10 and bidding proceeds around the room at minimum increments of $.10 until only one bidder is left.
The highest bidder acquires the player for that amount and announces the roster position that the player will fill. The process is repeated with successive team owners introducing players to be bid on, until every team has a squad of 25 players and all required positions are filled.
A. Players eligible at more than one position may be shifted during the draft.
B. No team may make a bid for a player it cannot afford.
(a) Example: If a team has 3 positions open and has $.40 left to spend, then he may not bid $.30 on any player.
C. No player may make a bid for a player who qualifies only at a position that the team has already filled.
D. Players who commence the season on an NL team’s disabled list (DL) are eligible to be drafted. If selected, they may be replaced upon completion of the auction draft. The selection order of these replacements is determined by the order in which the teams finished in the previous season. The order of selection is 5th place team, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st.
(PASSED 3-6-96) The replacements stats start accruing the next stat period.
A MINOR LEAGUE PLAYER DRAFT is conducted immediately following the major league auction, in which each DSL team may acquire players who:
(a) are not on any NL/AL team’s roster and
(b) are not in any AL team’s minor league roster and
(c) are not on any AL/NL team’s disabled list
(d) Selection takes place in two or more rounds of a simple draft, not an auction.
(e) The selection order is determined by the order in which the teams finished. The order of selection is 5th place team, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st.
(f) The subsequent salary upon activation of each farm system player drafted is $1.
(g) If a team or teams are added during the off-season, reference Section XIX for details on handling minor leagues picks for these teams.
A player may be assigned to any position at which he appeared in 20 or more games in the preceding Major League season. If a player did not appear in 20 games at a single position, he may be drafted only at the position at which he appeared most frequently in the previous Major League season.
· The 20-games/most games measure is used only to determine the positions at which a player may be drafted. Once the season is under way (but after the auction Day), a player becomes eligible for assignment to any positions at which he appears at least once.
· Any player who did not play in the previous season in the major leagues will have their position eligibility determined by a quick vote of the league membership just before the player auction.
· In any shortened season, player position eligibility is calculated by multiplying percentage of previous season played by 20.
EXAMPLE: If 114 games played out of 162 game season, then 114/162 * 20 means 14 games must be played at a position to be eligible.
The DSL has a fixed fee of $125 covering all player personnel moves. This covers stats, administrative fees, banquet fund, and administrative fees. No money passes directly from team to team. No bets are made on the outcome of any game. All fees except as specifically noted are payable into the prize pool and are subsequently distributed to the top four teams in the final standings.
Any unforeseen expenses will be paid from the prize fund and reduce prize fund by that amount. These expenses must be approved by majority of ownership.
All fees shall be promptly collected by the League Treasurer. This is due on draft day. The prize fund is distributed at the gala post season banquet. The league will allocate $5 per owner from the prize pool to defray food costs at the Post season Gala.
The winner of each of the 10 categories (HR,RBI,BA,SB,R,Wins,Saves,WHIP,ERA,K) win $25.00 for each category won. If there is a tie the category prize is split.
The remaining principal balance is divided among the first four teams in the final standings as follows:
· First place - 50%
· Second place -25%
· Third place - 15%
· Fourth place -10%
The cellar-dwelling last place team will be required to furnish donuts at the next annual draft meeting and be known as Mr Donut.
The prize money will be distributed as follows:
Total collected: $1500 (Based on 12 team league)
Expenses:
Stat & administrative fees $25/team
Banquet fund $ 5/team
$360 (12 Teams)
First Place: $445.00 (50% of $890 after expenses & categories)
Second Place: $223.00 (25% after expenses & categories rounded up to nearest dollar)
Third Place: $133.00 (15% after expenses & categories rounded down to nearest dollar)
Fourth Place: $ 89.00 (10% after expenses & categories)
Total Category prizes $250.00 ($25 /10 categories)
Total collected: $1375 (Based on 11 team league)
Expenses:
Stat & administrative fees $25/team
Banquet fund $ 5/team
$330 (11 Teams)
First Place $398.00 (50% of $795 after expenses & categories rounded to nearest dollar)
Second Place $199 (25% after expenses & categories rounded up to nearest dollar)
Third Place $119 (25% after expenses & categories rounded down to nearest dollar)
Fourth Place $79 (25% after expenses & categories rounded down to nearest dollar)
Total Category prizes $250.00 ($25 /10 categories)
The salary of a player is determined by the time and means of his acquisition and does not change unless the player is waived or becomes a free agent or is signed to a guaranteed long-term contract.
· The salary of a player acquired in the major league draft is his auction or highest bid price.
· The salary of a player called up from the free agent pool during season is $1. A player picked up in September from the free agent pool can’t be kept into the following season. (PASSED 3-6-96)
· The salary of a player activated from a team’s farm system is $1.
· The salary of a player claimed on waivers is $1 or his previous salary, whichever is greater.
· Any player picked up from free agent pool from September to the end of the regular season is considered a zombie who can’t be kept the following season.
· The salary of a FAAB player is his bid price.
The following criteria are used to determine team performance and standings:
· Composite batting average (BA)
· Total home runs (HR)
· Total runs batted in (RBI)
· Total stolen bases (SB)
· Total Runs Scored ( R ) – effective 2007
· Composite earned run average (ERA)
· Total wins (W)
· Total saves (S)
· Composite ratio: (Walks + Hits) / Innings Pitched (WHIP)
· Strikeouts (K) – effective 2007
Teams are ranked first to last in each of the ten categories. The first place team in a category receives points equal to number of teams in the league , the second place team gets one less and so on down to one point for the last place team.
In case of ties in an individual category, the tied teams are assigned points by totaling points for the rankings at issue and divided by the number of teams tied. Standings shall be tabulated weekly. The team with the most points after the National League regular season wins the pennant.
A. If teams tie in total points, standings are determined by comparing the ten individual categories. A point is given to each team for bettering the other. Should one team total more points, that team is declared the winner.
B. Should the points total still be equal, the tie is broken by adding each teams total at bats plus triple the number of innings pitched (AB + 3xIP). The team that scores a higher total by this method is declared the winner.
In the final standings a team that fails to pitch a total of 1000 innings (or prorated total in a shortened season) has WHIP and ERA points reduced to 0 points in these categories. No other team’s totals are affected.
Should the season be shorter than expected for any reason, final standings will be determined based on the actual games played. Critical numbers like the minimum innings pitched requirement and minimum game position eligibility for the following year will be proportional based on actual number of games played compared to the normal expected season. Minimum innings pitched will be rounded to nearest 50 IP in the above event.
The weekly player performance summaries published in the subscribed Stats Service (Rotowire in 2008) constitute the official data base for the DSL. Statistical calculations are performed through the last Monday NL game each week.
All transactions must be posted on Stats Service, emailed or phoned in to the League Secretary. The deadline for reporting transactions is Tuesday at the start time of the first scheduled NL game or 5 PM whichever is earlier. If Tuesday is a recognized Holiday, the deadline will be changed from Tuesday to Wednesday at the start time of the first scheduled NL game or 5 PM whichever is earlier. The week of the All Star break, the transaction deadline is moved from Tuesday to the start time of the first scheduled NL game following the All Star game or 5 PM of the day of the first scheduled NL game whichever is earlier.
Transactions recorded on Auction Draft Day, including trades and call-ups to replace disabled players, are effective the following Tuesday.
Performance stats of a player shall be assigned to a DSL team only when he is on the active roster of that team. Pitchers offensive stats and offensive players pitching stats are not counted.
From the completion of the auction draft until the first game in the NL after the All Star Game, DSL teams are free to make trades of any kind without limit, except as stipulated below, so long as the active rosters of both teams reflect the required position distribution upon completion of the transaction and so long as the anti dumping rules outlined below are followed.
· No trades involving future considerations, cash, or players to be named later are permitted.
· For trades made during All-Star break the trade and new stats become effective at first game after the All-Star break.
· From the end of the All Star break (meaning the first game in the NL after the All Star Game) through August 31, trades may take place only among the first 6 place teams or the bottom 6 place teams. Standing places are based on full Tuesday stats and at the beginning of the transaction deadline until the end of the next transaction deadline the following Tuesday.
· No trades are permitted from September 1 through the end of the season. Trades made from the day after the end of the season until Freeze day prior to the Auction draft are not bound by position distribution requirements or anti-dumping rules.
· No player trades or replacements are permitted during Freeze Week.
· Trades do not affect the salaries or contract status of players.
· Draft pick trading is restricted to the current and immediately following seasons.
ANTI DUMPING:
Players in the last year of a guaranteed contract or playing out their option year, and players with a salary of $2.50 or more are considered “asterisk (*)” players. Such players may only be traded under the following conditions:
· One team may trade asterisk players to another team provided for each asterisk player traded, one is received in the same deal.
· The above notwithstanding, a team may trade one asterisk player to another team without receiving an asterisk player in return, but may only make one such trade in the course of a season.
· Between the end of the season and Roster Freeze Day, asterisk players may be traded without restriction whatsoever.
· Players acquired through the FAAB can’t be considered asterisk players in the season they are acquired regardless of their price.
A team may replace and reserve any player on its 25 man roster who is:
· placed on the disabled list
· released by its NL team
· traded to the AL
· sent down to the minors by his NL team.
· designated for reassignment
· suspended for more than 14 days
To replace such a player, a DSL team must first release him outright or place him on its reserve list. A team reserves a player by notifying the League Secretary. A reserved player is removed from a team’s active list at the end of the stat week and placed on its reserve list. Reserving a player protects a team’s right to that player.
A suspended player or player placed on inactive list (such as bereavement) may not be reserved, released, or replaced, unless the suspension can be proven to be for 15 days or more..
Once a specific action has been taken to remove a player from the active roster (via release or placing him on reserve), a team is then free to select any eligible player from the free agent pool of players not already owned by another DSL team.
Players will be claimed on a first come first served basis from the free agent pool. This rule applies only to the free agent pool players. It does not apply to waiver order pick-up or FAAB players. Players claimed from the free agent pool on or after Sept 1 must be thrown in at the end of the season.
Conditional pickups on players who become “suddenly available” (fall thru FAB, waivers, return to NL after having been in the Free Agent pool, etc.) will be honored similarly to waiver claims - reverse order of standings, one such move per team per week.
Every reserve move for active roster (release or reserve) must be accompanied by a concurrent replacement move. A team may not reserve or release a player without replacing him.
The call-up takes effect at the beginning of the next stat period. Draft Day reserve call ups start to accrue stats the next stat period after draft day.
Any player on the reserve list may be traded.
When a player on the reserve list returns to active NL duty, he must be reinstated to the active roster of his DSL team within two weeks from the next stat period after his activation or be waived.
Failure to notify the League Secretary of any action by the end of the two week activation period shall result in the automatic waiver of the reserved player.
Should an owner fail to take action to activate a long-term player whose two-week activation period has expired, the long-term player will be automatically activated. The player replaced from the active roster will be the lowest salaried player at any position that enables the activation. Should multiple players qualify, the tiebreakers will be decided by first the most recent contract, then second the youngest age.
A player may not be reinstated or waived until he has been activated by his NL team.
When a player is reinstated to the active 25-man DSL roster from a team’s reserve list, the player may replace any active player on the active roster as long as all positional requirements can be met. Upon activation of the reserved player, some other active player must be designated to be waived/reserved/or released.
There is no limit on the number of players a team may have on its reserve list.
XII. FARM SYSTEM
If a farm system player is promoted to the active roster of an NL team at any time during the regular season prior to September 1, his DSL team has two weeks (from beginning of next stat period) after his promotion to activate him (at any position for which he qualifies) or waive him except during freeze week when you must activate him before the draft. The 15 man roster limit and position eligibility rules are in force so a player must be dropped to make room for this player if necessary.
· If a farm system player is activated, the player displaced from the active roster to make room for him must be placed on waivers unless the farm player can be activated into a natural opening such that the replaced player can be reserved.
· Once brought up from its farm system, a player may not be returned to it, although he may be placed on a team’s reserve list in the event he is returned to the NL team’s minor league system.
· A farm system player not brought up to the DSL’s active roster during the season of his initial selection may be kept within the farm system in subsequent seasons.
· At no time during the season may a team have more than five (5) players in its farm system. During the offseason there is no limit on the number of farm system players and draft picks a team may have. By the beginning of the Draft, the number of minor league players and current year’s draft picks may not exceed five (5).
· A farm system player may be traded during authorized trading periods, subject to prevailing rules regarding transactions, as may a team’s selection rights in the minor league draft.
These are the DSL rules governing waivers:
· When a player on a DSL team’s reserve list is activated by his major league team, either he or another designated player may be placed on waivers.
· When a team activates a player from its farm system, except into a natural opening, the player dropped from the active roster must be placed on waivers.
· When a team claims a player on waivers or FAAB they may waive an active player to maintain an active 25 man roster.
· A player not on the active roster of an NL team, who is replaced on his DSL team and not reserved must be released and not waived. If that player subsequently returns to the active roster of an NL team he is placed on waivers for the first week he returns and then placed in the free agent pool if not claimed on waivers.
· The waiver period begins at the transaction deadline after the League Secretary has been notified and lasts one week, at the end of which time the player shall become the property of the lowest ranked team (on day waiver claims are awarded) to have claimed him.
· The deadline for waiver claims is Tuesday at Noon.
· To make room on its roster, the team acquiring the player on waivers must assign the player to a natural opening or waive another player such that all positional requirements are met.
· The team that originally waived the player gets last chance to reclaim his own waived player.
· A team may acquire no more than one player on waivers in a given week.
· A player who clears waivers immediately returns to the free agent pool.
· The salary of a player acquired on waivers shall be $1 or his previous salary, whichever is greater, and the player’s contract year status shall remain unchanged.
· A player with a guaranteed long term contract may not be waived during the season. He may be released and replaced if he retires or is traded to the AL. The only time a long-term player can be released is on freeze day.
· A player may be given his outright release only if he is:
o unconditionally released,
o placed on the “designated for assignment” list
o sent to the minors,
o placed on the disqualified list,
o traded to the AL, or
o placed on the disabled list
If it chooses, a team may expand its roster for the pennant drive by calling up one additional player after 0000 September 1 from the free agent pool, its own reserve list, its own farm system, or the FAAB acquisition system.
· The order of selection for September Roster expansion is determined by the most recent standings, with the last place team having first selection, and so on. During this 24 hour period, September Roster expansion claims take precedence over waiver claims and routine call ups to players who are hurt, traded, demoted, or released by their NL team. This selection order lasts thru 2400 September 1 only, after which time a team forfeits its order in the selection process, though not its right to make a selection. Selection after 0000 September 2, is on a first come, first served basis. Also, after 0000 September 2, waiver claims, and routine call ups to fill natural openings take precedence over September call ups. Note that new players to be kept can only be acquired thru the FAAB system.
· The performance stats of a player called up during September Roster Expansion start to accrue on the at the transaction deadline after the League Secretary has been notified of the player’s selection.
· September roster expansion players from the free agent pool must be thrown in at the end of the season. The salary of a September call up from a team’s reserve list or farm system is the salary established at the time he was previously acquired (on Auction Draft Day, or subsequently from the free agent pool, or via waivers). The salary of a FAABed player is his bid price (which is a minimum of $1 in September).
A player who has been under contract at the same salary during two consecutive seasons and whose service has been uninterrupted (that is, he has not been released, although he may have been traded) must, prior to the freezing of rosters in his third season, be released or signed to a guaranteed long-term contract. If released the player returns the free agent pool and becomes available to the highest bidder at the next auction draft. If signed to a guaranteed long term contract, the player’s salary for each year covered by the new contract shall be the sum of his current salary plus $0.50 for each additional year.
Examples:
PLAYER A is entering 3rd year at a salary of 1.00.
The options are:
1. Release him for inclusion into auction.
2. Sign him for only current season as a guaranteed long term contract player. His salary will be 1.50 (1.00 original salary + .50 for additional year). He will have to be released at the end of that season.
3. Sign him for 2 or more years.
· In determining a player’s status, a “season” is understood to be a full season or any fraction thereof. If a player is activated in September, that constitutes a full season.
· A team may sign a player to only one long-term contract, at the end of which he becomes a free-agent.
· Long-term contracts are entirely transferable, both in rights and obligations; the trade of a player in no way affects his contract status.
· If during the course of a long-term contract, a player is traded from the NL to the AL the contract may be rendered null and void, if the team that loses the player’s services chooses to release the player, it shall be under no further financial obligations.
· In all other cases- specifically including sudden loss of effectiveness- a team must honor the terms of a long-term contract, as follows: A player with such a contract may be released back into the free-agent pool on freeze day (that is not protected on a team’s roster prior to Auction Draft Day)
· Any transaction which creates the possibility of a conflict between multiple long-term contracts and positional requirements is prohibited. This rule is specifically intended to prevent a situation where a team would not be able to activate a long-term player without removing another long-term player from the roster.
Each team must retain from one season to the next, no more than 15 of the players on its 25-man roster. There is no minimum.
The names of players retained must be recorded with the League Secretary by roster freeze day. Specific notice must also be made at that time of any guaranteed long-term contract signings and farm system renewals.
The DSL Roster Freeze Deadline is 10:00 of the first Opening Day scheduled NL game that is not a weekend. This will enable owners to see Major League rosters prior to the selection of their keepers.
The cumulative salaries of players protected prior to Auction Draft Day are deducted from the team’s designated expenditure limit , and balance is available for acquisition of the remaining players needed to complete the designated roster.
The League Secretary should promptly notify all teams in the league of each team’s protected roster, including player salaries, contract status.
Failure to give notice of a guaranteed long-term contract for a player in his option year will result in his being released into the free-agent pool. Failure to renew a farm system player’s minor league contract will result in his becoming available to all other teams in the subsequent minor league draft.
A farm system player whose minor league contract is renewed on Roster Freeze Day and who subsequently makes his major league team’s active roster may, at his DSL owner’s option, be added to the protected list of players on Auction Draft Day (and another player dropped if necessary to meet the 15-player limit) or he may be dropped and made available in the auction draft. He may not be retained in the DSL team’s farm system.
If an owner’s player is sent down to the minors or released, the owner may keep that player on the Freeze Day roster or he may be dropped.
However, a player placed on the disabled list may not be dropped even if he is in the minor leagues on a rehab assignment. A kept player may be reserved after the draft. The player will count towards the 15 man player limit requirement.
Any player on major league roster can not be kept as minor league in our system. The official dropping of the player will not occur until draft day, same as players who make NL. Brett Lawrie is grandfathered and exempt from this rule while in a minor league status. He is only current player affected by this rule.
A Committee of the Whole (COW) consisting of all team owners governs the DSL. The COW may designate as many League officials as from time to time it deems appropriate, although only - the League Secretary and the League Treasurer- ever do any work. The COW also designates annually an Executive Committee composed of three owners in good standing. The Executive Committee has the authority to interpret playing rules and to handle all routine League business. All decisions, rulings, and interpretations by the Executive Committee are subject to veto by the COW. Rule changes, pronouncements, and acts of whimsy are determined by majority vote of the COW. The DSL has three official meetings each year: Auction Draft Day (the first Saturday after Opening Day), the Annual All-Star Game Get-Together, and the Gala Postseason Banquet and Awards Ceremony generally scheduled for the first Tuesday World Series Game.
No “Grandfathering” of rules. New rule changes or amendments only affect the future and cannot be made retroactive.
· “Tough Luck Rule”: Individual owners must police their own stats and player movements. The Secretary is not responsible to make sure that all stats and player movements are correct. Team stat errors will be corrected if promptly notified. The league Secretary will attempt to notify individual owners if one of their players is about to be frozen or waived, however, it is up to the individual owner to monitor his own players. If a player exceeds his two-week limit upon being activated/disabled/released/etc, the player will be waived/frozen according to the rules...Tough Luck!
The League Secretary will create and maintain a set of league rules independent of the RLBA books.
The COW has right of approval over all new league owners.
A three-fourths vote of the COW will be necessary to expel an owner.
Should an owner fail to show up on Draft Day within a reasonable time period, the best available candidate will be selected to perform the draft functions for that team. The team ownership will revert to the league and a new owner will be found to take over that team.
From the end of the Auction until the end of the regular season, a team which loses its owner will be frozen, to minimize the impact on the league for the remainder of the season. No player moves of any kind will be made, exempting those players who must be activated from reserve or called up from the minors from the two-week “activate or waive” clause.
Any money won by such a team will be distributed to the remaining owners.
From the end of the season until the beginning of the Auction, a team which loses its owner will be disbanded, its major and minor league players returned to the free-agent pool, and the rights to any picks forfeited. A new owner awarded the franchise will receive the fabled “$28 and a handshake” and be allotted two (2) minor league picks sandwiched between rounds 1 and 2 of the minor league draft. The new team may make no transactions of any kind prior to the end of the Auction, other than drafting a legal team.
If one or more teams should be owner-less at the beginning of the Auction, each remaining team will have its player acquisition budget augmented by $2 and its roster (but not its Freeze List) increased by one (1) utility player and one (1) pitcher per owner-less team. Those major and minor league players frozen by the owner-less teams will be returned to the free-agent pool and the rights to any picks forfeited.
Should an owner notify the league that he will be unable to attend the Auction due to unavoidable circumstances (eg. car accident, childbirth), the Auction and subsequent activities will proceed without change in rosters or budgets. Substitutes are allowed. The delayed owner will be given until midnight of the day following the Auction to fill out his roster from the remaining players in the Free-Agent pool. He may spend no more than the amount of his available money, but may buy players at any price at or above $0.10, including asterisk players for $2.50 or more. Only players eligible for purchase at the Auction will be eligible for selection by the delayed owner. Should two or more owners be so delayed, their order of selection will be determined by a random drawing at the Auction, then they will select players snake-style (1-2-2-1-1-2-2-1...) until their rosters are complete.
To consecrate the bond of friendship that unites all DSL owners in pursuit of the pennant, to symbolize the eternal verities and values of the Greatest Game for Baseball Fans since Baseball, and to soak the head of the DSL champion with a sticky brown substance before colleagues and friends duly assembled, the Yoo-Hoo Ceremony is hereby ordained as the culminating event of the baseball season. Each year, at the Banquet and Awards Ceremony, the ownerof the championship team shall have a bottle of Yoo-Hoo poured over his head by the preceding year’s pennant winner. The Yoo-Hoo ceremony shall be performed with the dignity and solemnity appropriate to the occasion.
XX. FREE-AGENT ACQUISITION RULE: “FAAB” (MODIFIED March 2002)
All undrafted players who were not on the Opening Day rosters and who appear for the first time after Opening Day may only be acquired via the Free-agentAcquisition Budget (FAAB) System. Players who have same number of at-bats or IP in previous week as their whole season total are eligible for FAB. Players who came up and were sent down (but no stats appear on Tuesday stats sheet) in same week are only eligible for FAB if an owner posts them as eligible by Thursday Noon.
All FAB eligible players must be posted on League Bulletin Board by Thursday noon. Objections must be issued before FAB time if there is a dispute on player eligibility.
Each team shall have a maximum supplementary budget of $10 for the purpose of acquiring new players during the season.
A valid bid will consist of the name of the player being bid on and the amount of the bid. Only one bid may be submitted on each eligible FAAB player per team.
FAAB bids must be submitted to the League Secretary prior to NOON on Friday prior to the weekly transaction deadline. The Secretary’s bid must be delivered to another reliable person by 10 AM of the same day, and shall remain unopened until the NOON deadline.
The minimum bid prior to September shall be $0.10; the maximum bid shall be the amount remaining in a team’s FAAB budget. The sum of multiple bids by a team in a week cannot exceed the balance in its FAAB budget.
The minimum bid for any player who will be acquired during the month of September shall be $1. DSL team owners should use caution early in the season to ensure they have adequate funds of their $10 FAAB allotment for the September call-ups.
The winning bidder will add the FAABed player to his reserve roster and said player will be subject to all other rules of player movement, with one exception: he must spend one (1) week on the acquiring team’s roster, either active or reserve. The sealed bids will be opened at NOON on the day of the FAAB deadline by the League Secretary. All bids will be examined for validity, improper bids rejected, and all bids published. The player is awarded to the team making the highest bid. If more than one team bids the same amount, the player is awarded to the team lowest in the current standings as of previous Tuesday’s full stat period.
The salary of a player signed in this manner is his acquisition bid price. The purpose of the $10 FAAB limit is to limit spending by each team through the year. The player’s contract status is that of a first year player.
A player so acquired must spend at least one week on his DSL team’s roster, but thereafter may be traded, waived, released, etc. like any other player.
If no bid is made for a new player, he goes into the free-agent open pool and can be acquired in the normal manner. FAAB requests must be separated from the regular pick-ups.
In first week of FAAB’s after draft, following players are eligible for posting:
· Not on draft eligible list distributed, unless they are activated from team’s disabled list.
· Players activated by NL team in first week (in accordance with rules above).
XXI. NEW Rules clarifying draft day eligibility and first week FAB Eligibility
League secretary will distribute a full National League roster (preferably from stats service) on day before draft for purpose of defining draft eligible players:
(a)All players drafted next day must be listed on that list or have accrued stats previously in the week in the NL.
(b) Any players on NL disabled list are eligible for draft.
(c)Any player activated by NL team after this list is published will not be eligible for draft unless they accrued stats previously in the week. These players will be eligible for FAB’s in the following Friday.
(d) Any owner can bring up a player for eligibility during the draft and quick voice vote can override this list. This is to avoid obvious mistakes or omissions.