• League Name: DyNasty Fantasy Baseball
• Duplicate Player Allowance: Not Used
• Scoring System: Head-to-Head Points
• Maximum # of teams: 16
• League Creator Username: jumpingsquare
• Commissioner Team Name: Pottstown IronMen
• League ID: 1aqfkqxkhq7d2mpv

• Your league stats begin accumulating on: Mon Mar 31, 2014
• Your league stats end accumulating on: Sun Sep 14, 2014

Playoffs

• Playoffs will begin in this Scoring Period: 21 (Aug 18/14 - Aug 24/14) and last for 3 periods (rounds).
• Number of teams qualifying for playoffs: 6
• Reseed each playoff round: No

• Player Pool: All teams
• Players traded out of league's player pool continue to accumulate stats: No
• Only include players associated with a MLB team in the player pool: No
• Lock Player Pool: No

Restrictions

• Minimum Total Players: 0
• Maximum Total Players: 25
• Minimum Active Players: 0
• Maximum Active Players: 16
• Maximum Reserve Players: Unlimited
• Maximum Injury Reserve Players: Unlimited
• Maximum Minor League Players: 20
• Prevent any transaction that would cause a roster to become illegal: Always
• Allow suspended players to be moved to Injured Reserve: Yes
• Allow players on a bye week to be moved to Injured Reserve: No
• Injured Reserve players count toward roster limitation rules: No
• Only players on the MLB Injured List may be moved to the Injured Reserve slot: Yes
• Minor League players count toward roster limitation rules: No
• Minor League Eligibility:

Condition	Constraint
Players have a real-life status of Minors, inactive, or free agent	Must meet to be eligible

• Injured Reserve Enforcement type: Lock all transactions
• Number of Lineup Periods until Injured Reserve Enforcement takes effect: 7
• Prorate Min/Max according to period length: No

• If the maximum number of games played has been exceeded for a particular position during any Scoring Period, all players set to that position on the Team Roster screen will no longer accumulate any more stats/points beginning the day after the maximum was met or exceeded, for the remainder of that Scoring Period.

Minor League Eligibility Options

• Minors roster slot eligibility type: Advanced - many options for determining eligibility for Minors roster slots
• Prevent moving players out of Minors slots: Never
• Minors Enforcement type: None
• Number of Lineup Periods until Minors Enforcement takes effect:

Position Eligibility

• Games needed from previous season for a player to qualify at a specific hitting position : 20
• Games needed from current season for a player to qualify at a specific hitting position: 10
• Starts needed from previous season for a player to qualify as a Starting Pitcher : 5
• Starts needed from current season for a player to qualify as a Starting Pitcher : 3
• Relief appearances needed from previous season for a player to qualify as a Relief Pitcher : 8
• Relief appearances needed from current season for a player to qualify as a Relief Pitcher: 5
• Use Fantrax's default position(s) in addition to any position(s) a player qualifies for based on above criteria: Yes
• Note: If a player does not qualify for any positions based on the above selections, he will qualify at the position(s) played most in the previous MLB season. If he did not play at all last season, then the default position(s) will be used.

Team Minimum and Maximum Requirements per Scoring Period

• If a maximum has been met or exceeded: All hitters or pitchers, depending on the scoring category exceeded, will stop accumulating stats for the rest of the scoring period. If the max has not been met or exceeded at the beginning of a day, stats will accumulate throughout that entire day, even if the max is exceeded.<span style="color:#ff0000"> Note that ALL pitchers includes both SP and RP. For example, if a max is exceeded for Relief Appearances, stats will stop accumulating lost for the scoring period for Relief Pitchers (RP) as well as Starting Pitchers (SP).</span>
• If a minimum has not been met by end of scoring period: All hitters or pitchers, depending on the scoring category whose minimum has not been met, will lose their entire stats for the scoring period.
• Prorate Min/Max according to period length: No

Other Scoring Preferences

• Score Flex positions by the players' actual positions: No
• Count 0-0 scores as wins, losses or ties: Yes
• Stat Correction Handling: No Official Scoring changes will affect your league beyond the default stat freeze time. Official corrections will be applied to your league if they come in within 7 days (168 hours) after the end of that game. Any Official Scoring changes which come in after this time will not be reflected in your league stats/scores and standings.

Lineups

• Lineup Change System: Managers enter lineup changes
• Lineup changes are executed: Daily
• Lineups will become locked 0:05 (hours:minutes) before scheduled start-time of game

Trades

• Trade System: Managers propose their own trades
• Trading Period: All Year
• Maximum Trades per Team: Unlimited
• Trade Deadline Date: Sun Aug 17, 2014 11:59 PM EDT
• Trade Voting System: Commissioner
• Allow trading of claim budget: Yes
• Allow trading of salary cap space: No
• Allow trading of draft Picks: Yes
• Number of future years for draft pick trading: 3
• Number of rounds available for draft pick trading: 20

Claims/Drops

• Claim/Drop System: Managers perform their own claims & drops
• Max # of claims per season: Unlimited
• Max # of claims per week: Unlimited
• Use Waiver Wire process: No
• Allow claims/drops before the draft: No
• Can't drop list: Not Used
• Pending claims/drops are viewable by: One's own team
• Failed claims/drops viewable by: One's own team

  Free Agents

• Free Agent Claim System: Bidding
• Free Agent bids are processed on: Sun, Mon, Wed, Fri at 3:00 am EDT

Bidding Settings

• Vickrey/Proxy (ebay-style) Bidding: No
• Bid tie-breaker: Lowest ranked team in the standings wins the bid
• Player claim budget:  $300
• Bid increment: $1.00
• Minimum bid: $0.00
• Show highest pending bids: No
• Show team with highest pending bid: No
• Pending claims/drops are viewable by: One's own team
• Failed claims/drops viewable by: One's own team

• Draft Date: Tue Mar 25, 8:00 PM EDT
• Draft Type: Live Online Standard
• # of rounds: 40
• Draft Date: Tue Mar 25 2014, 8:00PM EDT
• Time limit per pick: 0:01:30 minutes/seconds
• All teams will have the same # of players as the # of rounds when draft ends: No
• Immediately pick for managers not present in draft room: No
• Fill rosters legally when drafting: Yes
• Draft Order creation: Manual - Snake/Serpentine
• Draft Order: Cheating Brew Crew (Go Braun!), Clown Question Bros., The Elllsbury Dough Boys, Who's your Haddy?, Philadelphia Phlartners, Drugged Llamas, Fighting Banana Slugs, Lafayette Hill Haters, Capital City Impalers, Unicorns and Glitter, You Down with OBP?, Pottstown IronMen, You're Flippin' Out, Bad News Bears, Beach Bum, Homerun Mafia
• Undrafted players go to the: Free Agent pool

Tie Breakers

Keeper League

• Keeper league Type: Dynasty

Fees

• League Entry: $50.00
• Free Agent Claim: $0.00
• Drop Player: $0.00
• Activate Player: $0.00
• Reserve Player: $0.00
• Send Player to Injured Reserve: $0.00
• Move Player from Injured Reserve: $0.00
• Move Player from Minors: $0.00
• Send Player to Minors: $0.00
• Change Position of an Active Player: $0.00
• Trade (flat): $0.00
• Trade per Player Received: $0.00
• Trade per Player Sent: $0.00
• Illegal Roster (per period): $0.00

• DyNasty Fantasy Baseball Rules

  I. LEAGUE STRUCTURE

  A. The league will play a H2H points based format where each team will play against one other team each week. Teams will recieve 1 win, 1 loss, or 1 tie for the week.

  B. Weekly play will begin on Mondays and end on Sundays.

  C. The league will be comprised of 16 teams in one large division.

  D. The player pool will be a mixed pool of major and minor leaguers from both the American and the National League.

  E. Each team is expected to have a team name and a logo uploaded to the FanTrax server every season.

  F. Teams may change their name during the offseason, but please refrain from changing mid-season to prevent confusion on team ownership.

  II. ROSTERS - OVERVIEW

  A. Each team will be expected to maintain a roster of 25 players, capable of filling out a starting lineup. This roster will consist of 18 starting players and 7 bench players.

  B. In addition to the 25 player active roster, each owner will have a 15 player minor-league roster, where they will be able to sign players with a real-life status of minor leagues, inactive, or free agent.

  C. Team rosters will be filled during an initial live draft, somewhere near the start the baseball season, determined by the owners of the league to have the highest attendance possible.

  D. A team's starting lineup consists of one slot at each infield position (catcher, first base, second base, third base, and shortstop), three outfielder slots, one utility slot (that any positional player can start in), three starting pitcher slots, and four relief pitcher slots.

  i. An offensive player is eligible to fill a position if he:

  a. Played in 10 or more major- or minor-league games at that position in the current season or 

  b. Played in 20 or more major- or minor-league games at that position in the preceding year.

  ii. A pitcher is eligible to fill a starting pitcher slot if he:

  a. Starts 3 or more major- or minor-league games in the current season or
  
  b. Starts 5 or more major- or minor-league games in the preceding year.

  iii. A pitcher is eligible to fill a relief pitcher slot if he:

  a. Appears 5 times as a reliever in a major- or minor-league game in the current seasons or

  b. Appears 8 times as a reliever in a major- or minor-league game in the preceding year.

  iv. Players can tabulate statistics only in official major league baseball games.

  v. Players are locked into a position spot 5 minutes before their game starts.

  E. The player pool is comprised of all players in all Major League and Minor League baseball organizations, as well as players who in the past have been under contract to play baseball in the Major or Minor Leagues.

  III. THE DRAFT

  A. The Inaugural Draft

  i. The inaugural draft will be a 40 round serpentine draft of players currently in the FanTrax database. Players NOT in the database at the time of the draft are not eligible to be drafted.

  ii. The inaugural draft order will be determined by a random number generator.

  iii. The inaugural draft will be used to build a teams 25 man active roster, as well as their 15 man "fantasy minor league" roster. See V. Rosters - In Season for more information on "fantasy minor leaguers".

  iv. During the inaugural draft, rosters will not have any roster limits. However, post-draft, the active roster will be locked down to 25-man active and 15-man minor league rosters, at which time each owner will be expected to make roster moves to make their team legal again.

  v. When it is an owners turn to select a new player during the draft, they will have 1:30 minutes to make a selection. If no selection is made, a player will be automatically chosen for the team by the draft system.

  v. If an owner is not present at the draft, their pick will be automatically chosen for the team by the draft system..

  B. The Yearly Amateur Draft

  i. The yearly amateur draft will be a 5 round non-serpentine draft.

  ii. The draft will occur via message board approximately 1 week after the end of the MLB June Amateur Draft.

  iii. The drafted amateurs will be recorded and tracked via a seperate Google Drive Document for the league.

  iv. Players in the current Fantrax database cannot be drafted.  The AMA Draft is ONLY for the incoming class of rookies, High School and International players. Players signed via International posting process are ineligible.

  v. Draft order is determined by the reverse order of the previous season's team ranks and will be the same in all rounds.

  vi. Once a player has been added to the FanTrax database, the commissioner will add the player to the minor league roster of the team that drafted him, which will require the team to make an additional roster move to make space for the new addition.

  vii. You may not make any trades during the draft.  Trade discussion is acceptable, however no trades can be processed or acted upon from the time the draft goes live until teams involved in the trade both have full rosters as defined above.

  IV. SCORING

  A. Hitters pitching stats and pitchers hitting stats will never count in any circumstance.

  B. Any "early" games during the first week of the season (ie 2 games played in Australia in 2014) will not count towards season stats.

  C. During a period, a roster may only recieve seven starts from their pitching staff to simulate one game started per day. Any starts tallied after the initial seven will not count towards that scoring periods total.

  D. H2H points based scoring via the following table:

  Scoring System
  Hitting	Points		Pitching	Points
  Single	5.6 Pts.		SP: Inning Pitched	7.4 Pts.
  Double	8.5 Pts.		RP: Relief App.	2 Pts.
  Triple	11.3 Pts.		Hit Against	-2.6 Pts.
  Homerun	15 Pts.		HR Against	-12.3 Pts.
  Walk or HBP	3 Pts.		Strikeout	2 Pts.
  At Bat	-1 Pt.		Walk or HBP	-3 Pts.
  Stolen Base	1.9 Pts.		Save	4 Pts.
  Caught Stealing	-2.8 Pts.		Hold	3 Pts.

  V. ROSTERS - IN SEASON

  A. Starters can be changed daily by each team owner from the players available on their active roster.

  B. A player may be in the minor leagues if they have one of three real life designations:

  i. Minor Leagues: This player is currently on a minor league roster for a major league baseball affiliate.

  ii. Inactive: Players that have a history of playing major league baseball but are not currently active.

  iii. Free Agent: This player is currently not under contract with a team but may in the future.

  C. A "fantasy minor leaguer" may stay in the minor leagues indefinitely, however, once they are promoted to the active roster, they may only be demoted back to the minors if their state returns to one of those previously mentioned real life designations.

  D. Teams have unlimited DL spots.

  E. Players may only be added to the DL if they are officially suspended or listed on the DL by a major league club.

  F. Once a player is deemed healthy and removed from the real life DL, a team has a seven day grace period to remove the player from the DL and reinstate them to their active roster or minor leagues (given that they are eligible). If this does not occur, the team will be locked down from making any transactions until the offense has been fixed.

  VI. ADDING AND DROPPING PLAYERS

  A. All adds/drops are processed by the team owners. If necessary, the commissioner can be called upon to make these changes.

  B. Dropped players automatically becomes free agents.

  C. All teams start each season with a $300 Free Agent Acquisition Budget (FAAB)

  D. Teams place a blind bid on any free agent player with a minimum bid of $0.00. 

  E. Free agent bids are processed on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 3am. The team that bids the highest amount will have that total subtracted from their FAAB total for the season and the player will be added to their team.

  L. In the case of a tie bid, the player will be awarded to the team with lower ranking in the standings.

  M. Transactions can be requested from two week prior to the start of the fantasy baseball season until the last day of the fantasy playoffs.

  VII. TRADES

  A. Trades are allowed at any and all times, except from midnight prior to the start of the playoffs through the end of the fantasy playoffs.

  B. Uneven trades are allowed, although they will be handled as follows: If team A is acquiring 3 players while trading 1 to B, team A must stay below or at the 40-man limit or must also cut 2 additional players of their choosing in accordance with the rules in section V.

  C. Amateur draft picks may be traded as far out as three years in the future (ie: currently midseason 2014, then you can trade '15, '16, '17). 

  D. FAAB dollars may not be traded.

  E. After a trade is confirmed, the commissioner will approve the trade.

  F. While all trades should be approved, the commissioner reserves the right to ask for justification for the trade if he deems it questionable.

  VIII. SCHEDULE & PLAYOFFS

  A. Matchups are divided so that each team will play each other once per season.

  B. The regular season will last 15 scoring periods of one week each.

  C. The season will start on the first Monday of the regular season.

  D. The top eight teams will go to the playoffs each season.

  E. Playoff seeding is determined with the top seed being the team with the best record down through the team with the eighth best record.

  F. Playoff berths and seeding are based on the following criteria and tiebreakers:

  i. Head to Head Record

  ii. Most Points Scored

  iii. Least Points Against

  G. League playoffs are four week longs with the first two rounds lasting one week each and the league championship being a two week matchup.

  IX. OFFSEASON

  A. Between the end of the DyNasty Fantasy Baseball season and the keeper deadline of January 1st, players may be traded or cut. After the keeper deadline and before the start of the regular season, teams may not cut or add any players from free agency.

  B. Owners will retain any and all players on their roster in perpetuity that are kept through the keeper deadline.

  C. On January 1st, the league will be renewed, keeping all players that have not been traded or cut on a teams roster.

  X. LEAGUE FEES & PRIZES

  A. The administration fee for each team is $50.00 per season.

  i. $5.00 goes to FanTrax for paying a portion of the league subscription fee.

  ii. $45.00 enters the prize pool

  iii. You must own the team on the day payouts are made (generally just before arbitration starts) to be eligible for prizes.

  B. There are no fees beyond the inital adminstration fee.

  C. Refunds will only be given in the case that a league is canceled or not filled before the Major League Baseball season starts. Teams that have paid for the upcoming season in this case will be refunded.

  C. Prizes will be paid out in three different ways:

  i. Period Winners: Each of three highest scoring teams through three different periods through the year (the season broken into thirds) will win $50.

  ii. End of Season Champion: Wins $125

  iii. Playoff champions: 1st place wins $300, 2nd place wins $100, and 3rd place wins $45.

  D. Fees will be paid to the commissioner via PayPal or USPS mail prior to the start of the regular season.