2022

Standings

Accolades

• League Champion: Ryan Florentine (2)

• Second Place: Tony Pagliaro (2)

• Third Place: Eric Hannmann (2)

• Division Champions: Eric Hannmann (8) and Jason Moragas (1)

• Regular Season Champion: Eric Hannmann (3)

• Points Title: Eric Hannmann (3)

Team Totals

Rule Changes

Passed Proposals

• New Division structure. (Commissioner Implemented)

  • Two divisions of seven teams named for possibly the most iconic American pioneer duo in history: Lewis & Clark.

    • The American & Atlantic divisions in 2021 became the Lewis division and the Frontier & Pioneer divisions in 2021 became the Clark division.

  • Division remain the same year-over-year, except the bottom three teams of both divisions flip for the following season.

  • Top four teams in each division advance to playoffs.

    • Round 1: Division #1 seed vs. Division #4 seed, Division #2 seed vs. Division #3 seed

    • Round 2: Division Championships

    • Round 3: League Championship

• Saves and Holds both increased by +1pt. (7 Yeas / 5 Nays)

• If a manager is locked with an illegal roster, thus breaking the roster mandate, he is docked one move for that week. If he has made all five of his allotted moves that week, he is docked two the following week. (10 Yeas / 1 Nay)

• Postseason tiebreaker was changed to best head-to-head regular season record. (6 Yeas / 4 Nays)

• To further define "renting players," a starting pitcher traded from one team to another must make at least two starts before he can be directly traded back to the original team. (9 Yeas / 3 Nays)

• Teams in contention for first place will have waiver priority over those competing for third, fifth, or seventh place. (11 Yeas / 1 Nay)

Rejected Proposals

• Migrate the PLFB from Yahoo! to Fantrax (7 Nays / 5 Yeas)

• While maintaining the current keeper settings, add a fourth keeper per team with the requirement that at least one must be a pitcher. (9 Nays / 3 Yeas)

• Institute a league buy-in. (5 Nays / 6 Yeas - Needed to be unanimous)

• The top five teams finished with the same record (14-7) - a new league record, eclipsing the 2013 season when Aaron Snyder, Brendan Davis, and Eric Hannmann each finished atop the leader board at 17-4.

• 86 trades were completed in 2022, the lowest total since 2018 when there were 78 (not including the shortened 2020 season).

  • Aaron Snyder led the way with 43 trades, taking part in exactly half of all completed trades. This was the largest share of trades an individual manager was a part of in a single season since Ryan Florentine took part in 12 of the 24 trades (also 50%) in the 2016 season. Not counting the seasons limited with a trade cap (2016-17), 50% is the largest share since Eric Hannmann took part in 55.17% (16 of 29) of trades in 2013.

  • Aaron (43, previously 35 in 2021) and Trent Pickett (8, previously 7 in 2018 and 2019) are the only managers to set career-highs in trades this season.

  • Mike Minor was the most traded player of 2022 (6). Six players tied for second by being traded four times.

• Jason Moragas' week 16 win against John Inguagiato marked the first time any manager recorded 20 career wins against any other single manager.

• On July 27, Jason Moragas became the first manager in league history to have eight pitchers start a game when Yu Darvish, Kevin Gausman, Kyle Gibson, Jon Gray, Andrew Heaney, Cole Irvin, Cristian Javier, and Adam Wainwright all toed the rubber.

• On July 21, Jason Moragas and Eric Miele executed the largest trade in league history when sixteen different players swapped teams. Jason traded Mark Canha, Marco Gonzales, Mitch Keller, Merrill Kelly, Brandon Nimmo, Jorge Polanco, Joey Votto, and Brandon Woodruff to Eric for JT Brubaker, Wilmer Flores, Kevin Gausman, Max Kepler, Sean Manaea, Starling Marte, George Springer, and Alex Wood.

• On April 14, John Inguagiato became the first manager to lock-in an illegal roster when he added Ji-Man Choi to his bench after the Tampa Bay Rays game had already began, consequently facing the newly instituted penalty of losing a move that week.

• Week 1 was the first Opening Week matchup to feature the two top scores of the week (Ryan Florentine: 519; Jason Moragas: 496) playing against one another. It was also the second closest matchup of the week, behind only Michael Eccleston: 433 and Trent Pickett: 416.