2015-2016 Fantasy Hockey Season - Rules & League Management
Apr 6, 2015 15:11:41 GMT -5
Post by Cliffsnotes on Apr 6, 2015 15:11:41 GMT -5
EDIT FOR OTF:
Keepers Due: Tuesday, September 8th, 8 pm Eastern
Draft time: Wednesday, September 9th, 8 am Eastern
Yep. Already time to look ahead to next year.
This post will be frequently edited to show the current status of the preparations for next year. See the messages below for additional details.
2015-2016 Pre-Season To Do List:
Phase 1 - Find 12 Owners
Phase 2 - Discuss Rules
Phase 3 - Offseason Trades
Phase 4 - Draft
UPDATE (4/8/2015):
ZTEvans has officially joined our league. He is now listed as the team owner of BBHW on ESPN, and has joined punshouse, and has joined our facebook group. Please welcome Zed? to our corner of the internet.
UPDATE (4/8/2015):
Mikey Watson is no longer part of the league. He did a great service to us by taking over an abandoned team and acting as Steward for the season. We wish him well in his future endeavors.
UPDATE (5/15/2015):
Here's the official list of those who have committed to 2015-2016:
1. Hodge (IHOP)
2. BVA (TV4V)
3. Solly (SOLO)
4. OTF2 (OTF)
5. Cliff (JD)
6. Zed? (BBHW) replaces MDW
7. Brad (OVCH)
8. Greg (FREN)
9. MCRT (CHOP)
10. Scott (NELS)
11. Habsy (GALL)
12. mbaker19 (CHLS) replaces Gator (ATOM)
Mike Baker has officially accepted the invitation on ESPN to takeover Atom Dan's team. Atom Dan has sadly been removed as owner from his team. RIP Atom. Mike has changed his team name from The Jacksonville Atoms (ATOM) to The Charlestown Chiefs (CHLS)
ONTO THE RULES DISCUSSIONS!
UPDATE (6/4/2015):
C&B Fantasy Hockey League Rules and Settings 2015-2016
Teams: 12
Scoring: Head to Head (each category, weekly)
Roster: 19
Starters: 13
Bench: 6
IR: 2
Starting Positions: 2 C, 2 LW, 2 RW, 3 D, 2 Util, 2 G
Max Roster Goalies: 4 (note: does not count IR, so you could have 4 active goalies plus 2 IR goalies).
CATEGORIES:
Skater Categories: 9: G, A, +/-, PIM, TOI, SOG, HIT, BLK, STP EDIT: PPP Dropped, STP and TOI added
Goaltender Categories: 4: W, Sv, SO, SV%. (Min 3 GS to qualify for SV%) EDIT: GAA Dropped, Saves added
Divisions: 1 Division of 12 teams
Lineup Changes: Daily
Waiver Period: 1 Day
Transaction Limits: None
Trade Review: 1 Day
Votes to Veto Trade: 5
Trade Deadline: Thursday, March 3, noon Eastern. EDIT: It appears the trade deadline will be on Monday, Feb 29, 2016. Yes, that's correct. Leap Year Day. I can't find this officially, but the CBA states the trade deadline will be 40 days before the end of the season. As such, I've set the fantasy trade deadline to be three days after the NHL trade deadline (ESPN only allows Thursdays).
Keepers per team: 5 (max)
Keeper Deadline: Tuesday, September 8th, 8 pm Eastern
There will be a thread for keepers. (Last year we tried to have The Official Keeper List kept on the ESPN League, find it under “My Team”, then “Keepers”. But nobody listened. )
Keeper Eligibility: Players must be on your roster on the final day of Fantasy Playoffs.
Keeper Positions: 1 C, 1 RW, 1 LW, 1 D, 1 G
Positional Eligibility: Position(s) they played in 2014-15 per ESPN, and if applicable, 2015-16.
Keeper Cost: Prior Season’s Draft Slot +2 rounds (a 2014 10th round draft pick may be kept in 2015 for an 8th round pick)
Keeper Rules:
-Players drafted last year in rounds 1-3 are ineligible to be keepers.
-1st round picks may not be used for keepers.
-Drafted Players maintain their keeper cost for the entire year even if they are waived or traded from a fantasy roster.
-Undrafted Free Agents have a de facto 20th Round value, and will therefore have an 18th round keeper cost the following year.
-You may use other team’s draft picks for your keepers.
-You may keep two or more players with the same keeper cost if you have two or more draft picks in that round.
-You may also use a higher round draft pick for a keeper.
---An owner with 2 players drafted in round 18 last year may keep the players with a 16th and a 15th this year.
Keeper Cost/Value Clarification: A player maintains his keeper value long term, regardless of the draft picks used to keep the player each year. For example, if a player is drafted in 2013 in round 18, he may be kept in 2014 with a 16th round pick. If for some reason that owner is forced to use a 2014 11th round pick to keep that player, his value for 2015 will be a 14th round pick (based on original draft year), not a 9th round pick (based on the prior year's draft pick).
If you have multiple picks in a round, and are keeping one player, we'll assume you want to use the lower (worse) pick for your keeper. However, it is the owner's responsibility to confirm that the commissioners posted correctly.
Regular Season: Probably 22 weeks, if ESPN lines up the schedule properly.
Playoffs: 8 teams, 3 rounds, 1 week per round, (avoiding final week of NHL Regular season is a priority).
Draft Location: Punshouse.com
Draft time: Wednesday, September 9th, 8 am Eastern
Draft Order:
Top 4 picks go to non-playoff teams, in reverse order of regular season record.
Playoff Teams are ordered first by Playoff finish, then by regular season record.
Draft format:
19 round snake draft.
8 hour draft clock. Clock suspended from Midnight to 8 am Eastern (but picks made after midnight are encouraged).
Back to Back Picks are all on the same clock.
An owner may not have more than 19 players on their roster at any time during the draft.
---An owner on the clock with 19 players will immediately have that pick voided.
---These extra picks may be traded prior to being on the clock.
Owners with fewer than 19 players after 19 rounds may select players in a supplemental Round 20.
---Round 20 follows the snake draft. The first pick of Round 20 (if applicable) belongs to the League Champion.
---Round 20 picks count as 20th round picks for Keeper Purposes.
In the case of a mispick (i.e., an owner selects a player who has already been selected), the owner who made the mispick has a floating pick to be made at any time and the next owner is officially on the clock as of the mispick.
In the case of a clock running out, the owner will have a floating pick to make at any time and the next owner is on the clock. If an owner misses three clocks, he will automatically be given the best available player according to ESPN each time his pick comes up for the remainder of the draft, regardless of his team's needs. In other words, show up to check in or leave a list with someone.
Trades:
Players and Draft picks may be traded.
---All other assets, including Keeper Slots, future considerations, or money, cannot be traded. Conditional picks are also not allowed.
---Please post full details of trades (such as draft picks) in the Trade Thread on punshouse and have both parties confirm ASAP.
Entry Fee: $10*
*Payment must be made by Tuesday, October 28. If you have not paid by that date, your weekly score will be set to 0 until you pay.
Prizes:
League Playoff Champ: $80
League Playoff 2nd place: $30
Regular Season Champion: $10
To clarify and explicitly state the rules and timing regarding keepers and the draft:
Keepers are due at 8 pm on Tuesday night prior to the draft on Wednesday morning.
At 8 pm on Tuesday, there is a complete roster and player freeze. No draft picks may be traded. No keepers may be added or changed. All keepers are locked at their designated draft pick, and those picks are forever tied to their respective keepers and may not used to select a different player.
---Any open threads regarding Keepers or Offseason Trades on punshouse will be locked.
---(The roster freeze is so that the commissioners may complete their organization and posting of the draft board. We don't want a moving target in regards to keepers or draft picks changing teams.)
The draft officially begins at 8 am.
---The commissioners may post the Draft Thread and Draft Board sooner than 8 am. Last year, it was posted at 9:48 pm.
---The owner with the first pick may select a player before 8 am if he chooses, but the 8-hour clock will not officially begin until 8 am.
Once the Draft Thread is posted:
---The Trade and Roster freeze has ended.
---Keepers are now officially on your roster, and their respective draft picks are used.
---Keepers officially count towards your roster limit of 19; e.g. most teams will immediately have 5 players on their roster.
---Keepers may be traded immediately at 8 am, just like any other player that has been drafted.
---From the moment that the Draft Thread is posted, until the draft ends, all trades shall be posted (and confirmed) in the draft thread.
Once the draft is posted, it is the responsibility of every owner to review your picks in the draft thread to confirm accuracy. Please notify the commissioners if there are any errors or omissions by the end of the first day of the draft. 16 hours is plenty of time to check your draft picks and keepers.
The draft pick tracker is here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ccEmArLYhsdb_vVbIUTX-MA4Nhb8OH_GRyjxUYrrxgU/edit#gid=2
Any rules not explicitly stated here default to the ESPN Fantasy Hockey League Rules, if applicable.
Edit 3/21/2016: We should explicitly make clear the playoff tiebreaker after the Hodgey-Smoley close call.
Keepers Due: Tuesday, September 8th, 8 pm Eastern
Draft time: Wednesday, September 9th, 8 am Eastern
Yep. Already time to look ahead to next year.
This post will be frequently edited to show the current status of the preparations for next year. See the messages below for additional details.
2015-2016 Pre-Season To Do List:
Phase 3 - Offseason Trades
Phase 4 - Draft
UPDATE (4/8/2015):
ZTEvans has officially joined our league. He is now listed as the team owner of BBHW on ESPN, and has joined punshouse, and has joined our facebook group. Please welcome Zed? to our corner of the internet.
UPDATE (4/8/2015):
Mikey Watson is no longer part of the league. He did a great service to us by taking over an abandoned team and acting as Steward for the season. We wish him well in his future endeavors.
UPDATE (5/15/2015):
Here's the official list of those who have committed to 2015-2016:
1. Hodge (IHOP)
2. BVA (TV4V)
3. Solly (SOLO)
4. OTF2 (OTF)
5. Cliff (JD)
6. Zed? (BBHW) replaces MDW
7. Brad (OVCH)
8. Greg (FREN)
9. MCRT (CHOP)
10. Scott (NELS)
11. Habsy (GALL)
12. mbaker19 (CHLS) replaces Gator (ATOM)
Mike Baker has officially accepted the invitation on ESPN to takeover Atom Dan's team. Atom Dan has sadly been removed as owner from his team. RIP Atom. Mike has changed his team name from The Jacksonville Atoms (ATOM) to The Charlestown Chiefs (CHLS)
ONTO THE RULES DISCUSSIONS!
UPDATE (6/4/2015):
C&B Fantasy Hockey League Rules and Settings 2015-2016
Teams: 12
Scoring: Head to Head (each category, weekly)
Roster: 19
Starters: 13
Bench: 6
IR: 2
Starting Positions: 2 C, 2 LW, 2 RW, 3 D, 2 Util, 2 G
Max Roster Goalies: 4 (note: does not count IR, so you could have 4 active goalies plus 2 IR goalies).
CATEGORIES:
Skater Categories: 9: G, A, +/-, PIM, TOI, SOG, HIT, BLK, STP EDIT: PPP Dropped, STP and TOI added
Goaltender Categories: 4: W, Sv, SO, SV%. (Min 3 GS to qualify for SV%) EDIT: GAA Dropped, Saves added
Divisions: 1 Division of 12 teams
Lineup Changes: Daily
Waiver Period: 1 Day
Transaction Limits: None
Trade Review: 1 Day
Votes to Veto Trade: 5
Trade Deadline: Thursday, March 3, noon Eastern. EDIT: It appears the trade deadline will be on Monday, Feb 29, 2016. Yes, that's correct. Leap Year Day. I can't find this officially, but the CBA states the trade deadline will be 40 days before the end of the season. As such, I've set the fantasy trade deadline to be three days after the NHL trade deadline (ESPN only allows Thursdays).
Keepers per team: 5 (max)
Keeper Deadline: Tuesday, September 8th, 8 pm Eastern
There will be a thread for keepers. (Last year we tried to have The Official Keeper List kept on the ESPN League, find it under “My Team”, then “Keepers”. But nobody listened. )
Keeper Eligibility: Players must be on your roster on the final day of Fantasy Playoffs.
Keeper Positions: 1 C, 1 RW, 1 LW, 1 D, 1 G
Positional Eligibility: Position(s) they played in 2014-15 per ESPN, and if applicable, 2015-16.
Keeper Cost: Prior Season’s Draft Slot +2 rounds (a 2014 10th round draft pick may be kept in 2015 for an 8th round pick)
Keeper Rules:
-Players drafted last year in rounds 1-3 are ineligible to be keepers.
-1st round picks may not be used for keepers.
-Drafted Players maintain their keeper cost for the entire year even if they are waived or traded from a fantasy roster.
-Undrafted Free Agents have a de facto 20th Round value, and will therefore have an 18th round keeper cost the following year.
-You may use other team’s draft picks for your keepers.
-You may keep two or more players with the same keeper cost if you have two or more draft picks in that round.
-You may also use a higher round draft pick for a keeper.
---An owner with 2 players drafted in round 18 last year may keep the players with a 16th and a 15th this year.
Keeper Cost/Value Clarification: A player maintains his keeper value long term, regardless of the draft picks used to keep the player each year. For example, if a player is drafted in 2013 in round 18, he may be kept in 2014 with a 16th round pick. If for some reason that owner is forced to use a 2014 11th round pick to keep that player, his value for 2015 will be a 14th round pick (based on original draft year), not a 9th round pick (based on the prior year's draft pick).
If you have multiple picks in a round, and are keeping one player, we'll assume you want to use the lower (worse) pick for your keeper. However, it is the owner's responsibility to confirm that the commissioners posted correctly.
Regular Season: Probably 22 weeks, if ESPN lines up the schedule properly.
Playoffs: 8 teams, 3 rounds, 1 week per round, (avoiding final week of NHL Regular season is a priority).
Draft Location: Punshouse.com
Draft time: Wednesday, September 9th, 8 am Eastern
Draft Order:
Top 4 picks go to non-playoff teams, in reverse order of regular season record.
Playoff Teams are ordered first by Playoff finish, then by regular season record.
Draft format:
19 round snake draft.
8 hour draft clock. Clock suspended from Midnight to 8 am Eastern (but picks made after midnight are encouraged).
Back to Back Picks are all on the same clock.
An owner may not have more than 19 players on their roster at any time during the draft.
---An owner on the clock with 19 players will immediately have that pick voided.
---These extra picks may be traded prior to being on the clock.
Owners with fewer than 19 players after 19 rounds may select players in a supplemental Round 20.
---Round 20 follows the snake draft. The first pick of Round 20 (if applicable) belongs to the League Champion.
---Round 20 picks count as 20th round picks for Keeper Purposes.
In the case of a mispick (i.e., an owner selects a player who has already been selected), the owner who made the mispick has a floating pick to be made at any time and the next owner is officially on the clock as of the mispick.
In the case of a clock running out, the owner will have a floating pick to make at any time and the next owner is on the clock. If an owner misses three clocks, he will automatically be given the best available player according to ESPN each time his pick comes up for the remainder of the draft, regardless of his team's needs. In other words, show up to check in or leave a list with someone.
Trades:
Players and Draft picks may be traded.
---All other assets, including Keeper Slots, future considerations, or money, cannot be traded. Conditional picks are also not allowed.
---Please post full details of trades (such as draft picks) in the Trade Thread on punshouse and have both parties confirm ASAP.
Entry Fee: $10*
*Payment must be made by Tuesday, October 28. If you have not paid by that date, your weekly score will be set to 0 until you pay.
Prizes:
League Playoff Champ: $80
League Playoff 2nd place: $30
Regular Season Champion: $10
To clarify and explicitly state the rules and timing regarding keepers and the draft:
Keepers are due at 8 pm on Tuesday night prior to the draft on Wednesday morning.
At 8 pm on Tuesday, there is a complete roster and player freeze. No draft picks may be traded. No keepers may be added or changed. All keepers are locked at their designated draft pick, and those picks are forever tied to their respective keepers and may not used to select a different player.
---Any open threads regarding Keepers or Offseason Trades on punshouse will be locked.
---(The roster freeze is so that the commissioners may complete their organization and posting of the draft board. We don't want a moving target in regards to keepers or draft picks changing teams.)
The draft officially begins at 8 am.
---The commissioners may post the Draft Thread and Draft Board sooner than 8 am. Last year, it was posted at 9:48 pm.
---The owner with the first pick may select a player before 8 am if he chooses, but the 8-hour clock will not officially begin until 8 am.
Once the Draft Thread is posted:
---The Trade and Roster freeze has ended.
---Keepers are now officially on your roster, and their respective draft picks are used.
---Keepers officially count towards your roster limit of 19; e.g. most teams will immediately have 5 players on their roster.
---Keepers may be traded immediately at 8 am, just like any other player that has been drafted.
---From the moment that the Draft Thread is posted, until the draft ends, all trades shall be posted (and confirmed) in the draft thread.
Once the draft is posted, it is the responsibility of every owner to review your picks in the draft thread to confirm accuracy. Please notify the commissioners if there are any errors or omissions by the end of the first day of the draft. 16 hours is plenty of time to check your draft picks and keepers.
The draft pick tracker is here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ccEmArLYhsdb_vVbIUTX-MA4Nhb8OH_GRyjxUYrrxgU/edit#gid=2
Any rules not explicitly stated here default to the ESPN Fantasy Hockey League Rules, if applicable.
Edit 3/21/2016: We should explicitly make clear the playoff tiebreaker after the Hodgey-Smoley close call.
