Features for Dedicated Players. Play Like the Pros Tailor your scoring and create your own categories so fantasy values sync up with real life player values. Franchises, Not Teams Manage rosters for the long haul with sophisticated keeper policies, player contracts, and future draft pick trading. Half the fun in these drafts is the ability to mock your friends' picks and talk trash.
There are two formats to most roster selection processes: an auction or a pure draft. The order is then usually reversed in the even number rounds, so that the team that has the top pick also has the last pick of the second round. The draft continues until every team has all their active and reserve roster spots filled. The other selection process is an auction, where teams are allocated a salary cap to chose their players.
Most of the ratings you will find online or in magazines are based on this formula. A list of projected dollar values based on your league's format can be found here. Using the auction format allows for a myriad of variations that can get quite complicated -- and add flavor to your league. You can use the prices paid for your players in the auction as a reference point for keeping players for the next season, for example these leagues are called 'Keeper' leagues.
Before the season gets under way, you will also need to determine a process for conducting transactions. First, you will need to determine a deadline for making roster moves most leagues have weekly deadlines, but with the Internet many have daily transactions. Second, your league needs to determine the process by which teams can pick up undrafted players free agents.
Among the common ways to determine priority for selecting free agents is reverse order of standings, a free agent budget and first-come, first-served. The free agent budget seems to be gaining as the favorite of most leagues because the one person in your league watching ESPN all day doesn't always get the first free agent.
The teams at the top have a shot to get the one free agent they need to win. Once you've defined the setup of your league and drafted players, you are ready to roll. Two words of advice as you move forward. First, make sure there is a method to keep everyone interested all season long.
A system where teams can keep players for next year keeps the last-place teams interested as they try to improve their teams for next season. A prize for a second-half winner or a penalty for the team that finishes last is another option. When teams that fall out of the race lose interest and don't replace their injured players, it often makes it too easy for the top teams to hold their lead.
This is the problem that plagues many free contests and leagues where random people meet online. When half the league isn't participating come August, the league isn't as much fun.
Keeping everyone active and interested makes it more fun for everyone. Most of important of all, it's best to keep it as simple as possible. Though you will have some members in your league who want to use a Bill James-formula as a category or an obscure statistic, keeping the league rules and setup simple will make it more fun and keep everyone active.
Resist temptation to add more rules and categories. Remember fantasy baseball isn't the real thing. It's more fun. Share This Article. Peter Schoenke peterschoenke. Peter Schoenke is the president and co-founder of RotoWire.
How to Play Fantasy Baseball Fantasy baseball has many different formats, rules and styles. If you create multiple teams, each team must be in a different League. Limit of 5 entries per person for the duration of the Challenge. If you are not a Registered User of the CBSI website as defined below , you will be prompted to register on the website prior to signing up for the Challenge. There is no cost associated with registering on the CBSI website.
As previously noted, we will provide a list of available Leagues for you to choose from after you sign up. By registering and signing up to the Contest, all participants agree to comply with these Official Rules. Eligibility The Challenge is open to persons who are: a Registered Users; b legal residents of the United States c twenty-one 21 years of age or older, at the date of registration in the Challenge.
There is no fee or charge for you to become a Registered User. All Leagues are subject to the complete applicable Official Rules. Void where prohibited by law. Immediate family member is defined as a parent, sibling or any person residing in the same household as an employee of the Challenge Entities.
Draft Live Draft Instructions You will acquire players for your team within a League through a draft. Leagues can draft players via one of two ways: a " Live Draft " or an " Automated Draft. Each manager, in draft order, has ninety 90 seconds to select an available MLB player for his or her team. This kind of draft is exciting but extremely fast-paced and recommended for experienced owners. See 'Live Draft Instructions' section below. If you are a beginner or are unable to schedule a block of two 2 to four 4 hours for a live draft, you may prefer to participate in an Automated Draft League.
At your convenience, you may simply arrange players, using the " Rank Lists " provided by CBSI, in the order that you'd like those players selected for your team. The Automated Draft is then processed using your lists. The highest-ranked player on your lists who is available, and fits the roster needs of your team, will be selected for you during each round of the automated draft.
See 'Automated Draft Instructions' section below. More information can be found in the Scoring section below. Please note, if you choose an AL-only or NL-only League and one of your players is traded out of the League you're using, that player is put in an "out of League" status.
The player will continue to accumulate statistics for your team. However, once you drop that player, he will be removed from your League and will not show up on free agent reports. If you choose to trade that player within your League, he will still accumulate stats for the team he is traded to.
The person who creates a Private League sets a password and other managers use that password to join the league. However, please keep in mind that the creator of a League will not have the ability to control any other League functions. If you already know all of the managers in your League and want complete control of your League's rules, you should also check out the CBSI website Baseball Commissioner product, our powerful and fully-customizable stats service.
If you create or join a Public League, you will have no control over who joins the League. Be sure to read the description of the League you want to join to make sure it is suitable for you. All Leagues are required to have ten 10 managers. Opening day of the MLB regular season is set for April 1, It is recommended that you, prior to your draft, organize the Rank List according to your own player preferences. However, you are welcome to leave the Rank List in the order our experts have provided.
During the live draft the CBSI website will use your Rank List as a backup in case your time limit expires before you make a pick explained below.
On draft day, there will be a " Draft Room " button available on your League home page. This link may also available in the Draft Central page of your League.
This link will allow entry into the draft room. The order of the draft will be randomly generated between midnight and AM ET either the day of, or the day before the draft, or for same day drafts once your League aggregates and no later than five 5 minutes prior to the draft date and time. If your League has the mandatory ten 10 managers as of approximately forty-eight 48 hours prior to your scheduled draft date, the League will aggregate and generate a draft order. If not, your League will receive an e-mail explaining that you must have ten 10 managers as of five 5 minutes prior to your draft date and time.
Within approximately twelve 12 to twenty-four 24 hours of your scheduled draft time, your League will be moved into the same day draft option to help fill the league prior to the draft time. If your League does not have ten 10 team managers as of five 5 minutes prior to the draft date and time, your League will be disbanded, and each manager will have to join or create another League. When it is your turn to pick, you will have ninety 90 seconds to draft a player.
If the ninety 90 seconds pass and you have not manually selected a player, the player ranked highest in your Draft Queue will be automatically drafted. If the Draft Queue is empty, a pick will then be made from your Rank List. The draft order will " snake " at the end of each round, meaning that the team with the last pick in the current round will have the first pick in the next round.
Waiver priority immediately after the draft will be the reverse order of the first round of the draft. So, Team 10 will have the highest waiver priority and Team 1 the lowest waiver priority.
You'll find more help with the live draft in the Help Center, links to the Help Center may be found inside your League pages after signup. These players are NOT eligible to start at 1B until they reach the required five 5 games played at that position during this year's MLB season.
Until they reach that eligibility, they can only be used at the U " Utility " position within your League. As in the Live Draft, you are not required to make changes to our rank lists; if you choose not to, our default lists, which reflect the rankings of our Fantasy experts, will be used. However, if you decide to organize the lists yourself, you will have up to twenty-four 24 hours prior to your draft day to do so.
When there are twenty- four 24 hours left until your draft day, the Rank Lists will be closed and considered ready for the draft. On the morning of the scheduled draft day, your League's draft order will be randomly generated and an Automated Draft will be conducted. Players will automatically be drafted for you using your personalized Rank Lists. If a personalized Rank List hasn't been created, players will automatically be drafted for you using the CBSI website default rankings.
An e-mail will be sent to each manager after the draft has been completed. Please refer to the table below for the full breakdown of the rounds of the draft.
You'll see that the order staggers each round of the draft team 1 has the first pick in round 1; team 4 has the first pick in round 2, etc. So, team 10 will have the highest waiver priority and team 1 the lowest waiver priority.
Each League will have a total of ten 10 teams. Each Head-to-Head style League will be randomly divided into two 2 divisions of five 5 teams each. There are no divisions in Roto Leagues. Rosters in both styles of Leagues will be subject to certain restrictions. Team's active lineup may be changed weekly. In Roto Leagues, each team may have up to twenty-nine 29 players in their roster, but no more than twenty-three 23 in the active lineup each week. Any player not in the active lineup may be put in reserve status, as long as the total number of players on the roster doesn't exceed twenty-nine All teams in Rotisserie Leagues must have a minimum of five 5 pitchers in the active lineup.
This is the only minimum roster requirement. There are, however, maximums imposed for active rosters each week, as specified in the table below. All teams will have an additional two 2 Injured " IL " roster positions that they will be able to utilize through the course of the Challenge.
CBSI is not responsible for lack of notification from any such third party not communicating such change. Once a player is officially removed from the IL by the applicable MLB team and CBSI has been notified of such change, and the change is reflected within the product, that player must be removed from the IL spot on your roster the next time you make a lineup change.
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