League Constitution 2006

The Draft


* You get $260 of fake money to draft 23 players(14 batters, 9 pitchers)

* One guy opens a player, then we go around the table bidding until no one wants to bid any higher. Then the guy with the highest bid gets the player.

* Then the next guy over opens a player, and so on...

* The reserve draft is a serpentine draft with no bidding that occurs after all the rosters have been filled (i.e. the regular auction style draft is done). The order is drawn from a hat and reverses every round. So round 1 is ascending, round two decending, and so on.



Eligibility


* Position players must play 20 games the previous season or 5 games in the current season at a position to be eligible to be played at the position.

* If the player doesn't get 5 games at a position by April 30 he must be moved out of the position to a position he is eligible for.

* For pitchers to be eligible to start they must get 1 start every two weeks.

* If a relief pitcher gets two starts in a row then he must be moved to a starter or put on reserve.



Transactions


1. All transactions must be made on Tuesday by midnight. Do them through the TQStats website.

2. Once you put a new player on your active roster his stats will be counted starting on Tuesday and the old player’s stats will stop on Monday. Thus, our rotisserie week is from Tuesday to Monday.

3. Costs of transactions:

$3 - Free Agent pick-up
FREE - Bring a player up from the reserve roster
$3/team - Trade Fee
FREE - Change player position
FREE - Put player from active to reserve roster.


Stats


1. We have these stats:

Batting
Average, Home Runs, Runs, RBI, Stolen Bases, OPS (On Base Percentage+Slugging Percentage)

Pitching
ERA, Innings Pitched, WHIP, Saves, Wins, Strikeouts-Walks

2. Stats are updated daily.

3. The starting fee is $50. This money goes into the pot and will give you about $40 credit for transactions during the season. The other $ goes toward the TQStats league service of $99.



Free-agent Acquisitions


You now have $100 of fake money to spend on free agents (FAAB - free agent acquisition budget). You get them by a closed bid. Its all done through the TQStats website.



Trades


Trades can be made between two or more teams. The $3 cost to the pot is a per team fee. Any number of players can change hands, but each trade has a two day waiting period where if a majority of owners object to the trade it will be voided.

The trade deadline is July 31 and after that point only teams 1-5 can trade with each other and teams 6-10 can trade with each other.