League
Rules 1) Each season you will be required to protect 5 players
from the prior year's roster . This will happen TWO
WEEKS before draft day.
2) All other players are released as free agents and are
eligible to be drafted by the league in the draft.
3) For each consecutive year that you protect a player, that
player earns a "point".
(for example:
every year that AROD is protected, he accrues a point in the
next
year's draft. If you keep him this year, he is worth 1 point on next
year's draft day.He will be worth 2 points on the following draft
day...unless he is released back into the pool before then. If a
player is drafted from the pool he is worth "0" the following year. )
4) When you draft, You may only have SEVEN points total
for your team.
5) When you trade away a player, the points he has amassed
stays with him until he is released into the player pool.
6) In the offseason, a keeper may be only traded for a
keeper. Furthermore, 1 for 1, and 2 for 2, 3 for 3, etc. deals are
the only trades permissable during the off-season.(you can't make 2 for
1 or 3 for 2 keeper trades).
7) If a keeper is
injured in the 2 weeks leading up to the draft, you may select a
new keeper from your team as long as the injured player is set to
open the season on the major league DL and/or is expected to
miss significant time due to a serious injury or surgery.
8) DURING THE REGULAR SEASON, MANAGERS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO TRADE PLAYERS FOR FUTURE DRAFT PICKS (eg. next year's draft).
9) Draft order will be determined by lottery for non-money earning teams (last place gets 8 balls, 11th place gets 7 balls, 10th gets 6 balls.....5th place gets 1 ball) The draft lottery will occur 2 weeks prior to the draft, once all keepers have been declared.
8) DURING THE REGULAR SEASON, MANAGERS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO TRADE PLAYERS FOR FUTURE DRAFT PICKS (eg. next year's draft).
9) Draft order will be determined by lottery for non-money earning teams (last place gets 8 balls, 11th place gets 7 balls, 10th gets 6 balls.....5th place gets 1 ball) The draft lottery will occur 2 weeks prior to the draft, once all keepers have been declared.
10) League fees are
$150 (plus share of Plus league cost). Money breakdown is:
1st - $1000
2nd - $500
3rd - $200
4th - $100
11) 2 minutes per pick during the draft.
12) All trades are still subject to league review on a case by case issue and can be vetoed if 5 managers oppose.
13) No trade of draft picks, players or other tangible fantasy baseball related entities shall have any sort of "injury" or "tradeback" clause . All trades must exist within a paradigm that is shared by MLB . As such, clauses such as "injury" and "tradeback" or any such tomfoolery that would not be seen in MLB is outright banned in Baseball Obsession.
14) Beginning with the 2009 season, in an effort to keep teams from "tanking it", the team that finishes in last place, (currently 12th) will pay an additional $50 additional fee. This fee will be given to the 5th place finisher.
