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This Bud Selig's For You! Fantasy Baseball League
Established 2001 |
| League Overview |
Scoring
The league will use the following traditional rotisserie categories:
Offense: Batting average, Runs, HRs, RBIs, SBs
Pitching: Wins, Saves, Ks, ERA, WHIP
The league format will be head-to-head.
Roster
Each team will have 25 active roster spots, 3 DL spots and 2 minor league spots.
Starting lineups consist of one C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, utility player, 3 OFs, 5 starting pitchers and 4 relief pitchers.
Season
The regular season consists of 22 weeks with teams playing against each other twice during the course of the season.
Playoffs
Playoffs will run from week 23 to week 25.
Top 6 teams in standings make the playoffs.
The winner of the playoffs will be crowned League Champion.
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| Keepers & The Draft |
Keepers
Each team will keep 9 players from the previous season’s team roster.
A team forfeits their draft spot in the round in which each keeper was previously drafted.
Free agent & drafted-after-the-last round keepers are treated as last round draft picks. Keeping more than one free agent/last round-or-later keeper results in forfeiting your last pick, then second-to-last pick and so on.
If a team has keepers with the same draft pick status, then they forfeit that round and the following round and so on for each keeper.
Of the 9 keepers, a team is limited to 3 keepers with 3 or more consecutive years of experience with that team (Note, years experience starts with 2003 season).
The Draft
Each year before the season starts there will be an 18-round live draft followed by an additional 5 round draft via the league message board. Once, the draft is completed there will be a 2 round minor league draft.
Draft order will be determined by the previous regular season league standings (The last place team drafts first...the first place team drafts last). The draft order reverses after each round (The last team to pick in round 1 is the first team to pick in round 2).
In the case of a tie in the standings, head-to-head regular season record will determine the tiebreaker (i.e. – the team with more wins will receive a lower pick in the first round). If that tiebreaker does not break a tie, then a coin toss will determine draft order.
Teams will not be allowed to trade a draft pick(s) for another draft pick(s) unless a player is included in the trade. Teams will not be allowed to draft other teams' minor league players.
The Minor League Draft
In order to be eligible for the minor league draft, the player must be a minor leaguer for a MLB team when drafted to fill that spot (foreign players, unsigned free agents & independent league players don't count).
Teams can only add or drop minor leaguers once per year at the time of the minor league draft, so the minor leaguers remain with your team for the entire season. A team may drop or keep their current minor leaguers (1 or both of them) and re-draft 1 or 2 new minor leaguers. Teams can aquire a minor leaguer via trade; however, if the acquired minor leaguer has played in the Major Leagues at any time prior to the trade then the acquired player cannot be used in the minor league spot and his next year draft position defaults to a 10th round pick.
Once drafted to a minor league spot a player can remain there forever with a team; however, teams that do not activate their minor leaguers who are on big league rosters following the August trade deadline will release those players to the free agent pool. If no one claims the deactivated minor leaguer prior to playoffs, then the team will retain rights to that player for the following years draft.
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| Fees & Prizes |
Entry Fees
Each team will pay a $25 entry fee.
Prizes
The prize breakdown ($300 total) is as follows:
Regular season champion: $60
Making the playoffs (championship bracket): $15/team x 6 teams = $90
Round 2 playoffs (championship bracket): $15/team x 4 teams = $60
League finals (championship bracket): $15/team x 2 teams = $30
Win playoffs (championship bracket) = $60
Consolation bracket winner = League transaction fees
Maximum payout (Regular season & playoff winner): $165
Transaction fees
There is a transaction fee of $0.10 per each dropped player. Transactions do not include trades. The official number of transactions will be determined by the number of moves on the league website. The consolation bracket winner splits the league transaction fees with the league.
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"...there's no crying in baseball" - Jimmy Dugan in A League of Their Own
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