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.  
Commisioner's Ruling 2010.01:
As per league rule 4, managers must have 7 or less keeper points on draft day. Draft Day is the official start of the Baseball Obsession fantasy season, and managers are free to trade their players (and keepers) after this point as they see fit for their teams.
 
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.  

10) Per Commisioner's Ruling 2010.02:
The payscale proportions that passed with 10 of 12 votes will be used to adjust to a $3000 pot ($250 per 12 teams) since the approved proposal only added up to 2500.

league approved payouts:
1000 = 40% of 2500
500 = 20% of 2500
400 = 16% of 2500
300 = 12% of 2500
200 = 8% of 2500
100 = 4% of 2500

Maintiaining these proportions, the payouts for 2011 and beyond are as follows:

        1st    $1200
        2nd    $600
        3rd    $500
        4th    $350
        5th    $250
        6th    $100
        7th    ($50 from 12th sidebet)
        8th    ($25 from 11th sidebet)
        9th    $0.00
        10th   $0.00
        11th   -$25
        12th   -$50


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 2011 season, in an effort to keep teams from "tanking it", the team that finishes in last place, (currently 12th) will pay a $50 additional fee. This fee will be given to the 7th place finisher.  As per a league-wide vote during the 2010 season, starting in the 2011 season, the team that finishes in 11th place, will pay a $25 fee.  This fee will be given to the the 8th place finisher.




Revision B - 10/06/2010