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Failure to pay league fees will result in league banning.

 

Article 2 - League makeup

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Section 1 – Schedule

 

As long as there are 10 members of “The League of Leagues,” the regular season will consist of 21 weeks. Each team will play each other team at least twice, with a third game against three teams each season. The same groupings of matchups will always be joined together in a given week, but the actual week in which they are played will rotate each season. The rotation will be moving the schedule forward three weeks from the previous season, with the idea of rotating which team each team plays three times each season. The playoffs will then be played out in Weeks 22, 23 and 24.



Section 2 - Playoffs

 

As long as there are 10 members of “The League of Leagues,” the playoffs will feature the top six teams. The third-place game will decide third place money and the involved teams’ position in the draft-pick selection process. The fifth-place game will have no meaning. Whichever team finished higher in the standings during the regular season will be deemed the fifth-place finisher while the team that finished lower in the standings during the regular season will be deemed the sixth-place finisher.

 

The consolation bracket will be played to determine the position in the draft-pick selection process of the four teams in the bracket. The winner of the consolation bracket will be first in the order, the loser of the consolation bracket championship will be second in the order, the winner of the consolation bracket consolation game will be third in the order, and the final team will be fourth in the order.



Section 3 - Lineups

 

***There is a weekly free-agent moves limit of five, and there is no carry over of moves from week to week. The weekly moves limit will increase to eight for the extended week of the All-Star Break. The weekly moves limit will increase to eight for Week 1 in seasons in which Draft Day is scheduled too close to the beginning of the season that it does not allow for at least one day of free agency prior to moves counting towards a team's weekly moves limit.***

 

As long as there are 10 members of “The League of Leagues,” lineups will be as follows:

 

Catcher

First Base

Second Base

Third Base

Shortstop

Middle Infielder

Corner Infielder

3 Outfielders

2 Utilities

2 Starting Pitchers

2 Relief Pitchers

4 Pitchers

6 Bench

4 Disabled List

4 Not Active



Section 4 - Statistical categories

 

As long as there are 10 members of “The League of Leagues,” the statistic categories in use will be as follows:

 

Offense

Runs

Home runs

RBI

Stolen bases

Batting average

On base percentage

Slugging percentage

 

Pitching

Wins

Saves

Strikeouts

ERA

WHIP

K/9

Quality starts

 

***Weekly minimum for innings pitched is 35 innings. Failure to reach the innings limit will result in forfeiting all pitching stat categories for the week.***

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***Weekly minimum for at bats is 200 at bats. Failure to reach the at bats limit will result in forfeiting all offensive stat categories for the week (THIS WILL BE ADDED TO "THE LEAGUE OF LEAGUES" IF/WHEN YAHOO ADDS IT AS A CUSTOMIZABLE LEAGUE SETTING).***

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Section 5 – Locking eliminated teams

 

When a team is officially eliminated, that team will be locked and will no longer be permitted to make any roster moves. This will prohibit mangers from acquiring as many possible keeper options at the end of the season. Your keeper options should be limited to what your roster was during the season, not just a bunch of adds at the end of the season.

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Section 6 – Trade deadline

 

“The League of Leagues'” trade deadline will be the Thursday of Week 16, meaning there will be five full weeks to play during the fantasy regular season following the trade deadline.



Article 3 - Offseason

 

Section 1 – Offseason timeline

 

The offseason will officially begin on February 1 of each year. The first order of business each offseason will be picking draft order, outlined in Article 3, Section 3 of “The League of Leagues” Constitution. Once that is completed, teams will be allowed to trade players and draft picks up to and through Draft Day. The only offseason trade deadline will be a keeper trade deadline. Once keepers are selected, outlined in Article 3, Section 2 of “The League of Leagues” Constitution, players who are not kept are no longer trade eligible. Draft picks and players who are kept can be traded up to and through Draft Day.

 

Section 2 – Keepers

 

Keepers will be selected the week of Draft Day. The rules and guidelines for selecting keepers and the keeper system are as follows:

 

Every team can keep a maximum of eight players. You can obviously keep five, six or zero if that’s what you want to do. Whoever you keep will be assigned the draft pick he was chosen with this year in next year’s draft. If a player is kept for multiple years, his draft-pick value increases every year.

 

If I keep a player who I drafted in the sixth round, he will be a sixth-round pick next year and I lose that pick in the draft. If I keep him again the following year, he’ll be a fifth-round pick and I will lose that pick in the draft. The only exception to who you can keep is that you cannot keep first- or second-round picks. Also, if you want to keep two players who were drafted in the same round (say you made a trade, or picked someone up that someone else dropped or a drafted player and a free-agent player’s draft rounds overlap) you can keep both if you want, but you will be penalized — one player moves up a round. For example, if you want to keep two eighth-round picks, one becomes a seventh-round pick. The only exception to this rule is you cannot keep two third-round picks because that would make one move up to a second rounder, which you cannot keep. Once a player’s keeper value is increased due to this rule, he continues to move up throughout the draft in subsequent seasons as per the standard keeper rules.

 

Free-agent acquisitions are assigned in the 10-14 round range based on their rank at the end of the season. Tenth rounders will be players that rank between 1 and 100. Players that ranked in the 101-300 range will be 11th rounders, 301-500 will be 12th rounders, 501-1000 will be 13th rounders and anyone ranked less than 1000 will be 14th rounders.

 

Players who are added or dropped on September 1 or later cannot be kept.

 

Players cannot be kept with draft picks acquired from another team via trade.

 

If a player is drafted, dropped and added by another team, that player will not retain his draft-day keeper value, will be judged as a free agent and assigned a draft round between 10-14. The only team that would retain that player’s draft round is the one that drafted him. A drafted players keeper value will only be adjusted if said player was drafted lower than the free-agent range of 10-14.

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If a player is drafted, dropped, added by another team, and then traded back to the team that originally drafted him, the player will be judged as a free agent if applicable and inherit the keeper designation he inherited when he was added by the new team. If free-agent rules don’t apply to the player in question, his keeper value will remain his Draft Day value.

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The only players that maintain their keeper value regardless of what happens to them throughout the course of a season are players that are established keepers. Players that enter the season as keepers will always maintain their keeper value until they are no longer kept. 

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If a keeper-designated player is injured between the keeper deadline date and Draft Day, that player's owner will have the option to change their keeper choice if they so choose. This decision must be made at least a day before Draft Day. 

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Section 3 - Selecting draft order

 

League members will be allowed to choose where they pick in the draft. The draft order selection process will be decided by how teams finish in the postseason. The consolation bracket will be played to determine the position in the draft-pick selection process of the four teams in the bracket. The winner of the consolation bracket will be fifth in the order, the loser of the consolation bracket championship will be sixth in the order, the winner of the consolation bracket consolation game will be seventh in the order, and the final team will be eighth in the order. The six teams that make the playoffs will then be slotted into the draft pick selection order based on their final finish. Fifth — the winner of the fifth-place game — will pick first, sixth will pick second, third will pick third, fourth will pick fourth, second will pick ninth, and the champion with pick 10th. 

 

Section 4 – Trading draft picks

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Teams are allowed to trade draft picks at any time, in season and during the offseason. You can only trade draft picks for the upcoming draft and any trade involving draft picks must have an even amount of picks exchanged.

 

Article 4 – Trading

 

All league members will be expected to act in the best interest of their franchise. All trades will be allowed with the exception of situations in which a trade may be questionable to the entire league. In such situations, I, the commissioner, will speak to each league member to get their opinion on the trade. This won’t be a vote, but just a way to get different perspectives so that I may come to a final decision that is agreeable with the rest of the league on whether or not to allow a trade. I will continue to enforce the rule that no trade is final until I press submit. I will avoid vetoing trades at all costs because it’s not something I want to do, but team managers should not assume I will put through a trade automatically unless it’s clearly a good deal and both managers have a viable reason for doing a trade. If a manger makes a trade that involves an injured player, that is not an excuse for me to veto an approved trade. It is up to each individual to do the proper research on all players involved in a trade before making a deal.

 

Section 5 – Rules Changes

 

Rule changes will be discussed and voted on during each offseason. As Commissioner, I will abstain from all votes. This will require six of nine votes from the league for any proposed rule changes to go into effect. Keep track of any changes you’d like to see over the course of the season so we can address them in the following offseason. 

 

Article 5 – Integrity of “The League”

 

Section 1 – Penalties

 

Penalties will be assessed in the event that one or more league members are found to be colluding and/or breaking league rules. It will be in the discretion of I, the commissioner, to evaluate every trade, roster move and lineup decision as to whether or not it violates the integrity of “The League.” If a league rule is broken, or teams are found to be colluding, the involved teams could lose draft pick(s) in the following season’s draft, lose keeper slots, and/or be banned from "The League." The final penalty will be decided upon and administered by the commissioner.

 

Section 2 – Remaining active

 

Owners will be banned and lose their teams if they fail to sufficiently check their teams. This will hold true for the entire season, regardless of your place in the standings. Hopefully the consolation bracket changes will keep owners interested because every team will have something to play for at the end of the season. I will put together a plan for what “sufficiently” checking your team means because I understand people are busy and mistakes are made. But blatant negligence will not be tolerated. It affects the playoff chase and the integrity of “The League of Leagues.”