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