League Rules

Once the season gets going, it's a pretty standard Yahoo league, but we do have some things that make our league unique.

Additional Rules: See "Rules" page on Yahoo

Entry: $50

Payout: 60%, 30%, 10%

League Format: 14 teams, weekly head-to-head (Monday through Sunday), 11 categories

Transactions: Weekly. Can be made at any time, but are only applied on Mondays.

Transaction Fees: None

Categories: Runs, HR, RBI, AVG, OPS, SB, Wins, ERA, Saves, WHIP, K:BB Ratio

Starting Positions: 1 catcher, 2 corner infielders, 2 middle infielders, 3 outfielders, 1 utility, 5 starting pitchers, 1 relief pitcher, 1 pitcher.

Reserves: 3 bench spots, up to 3 disabled list positions.

Rookie Roster: 5 (more information below)

Playoffs: Top 6 teams make the playoffs; Top 2 teams earn a first-round bye; Championship Game is two weeks long

Keeper Rules:
Each team is permitted to keep eight players from year-to-year

"Rookie" Rules:
Rookies are players who qualify as minor leaguers (less than 150 at-bats, less than 50 IP)
Each team is permitted to have a "minor league roster" of five rookies
Rookies may only be drafted or traded for; they cannot be added any other way
Rookies who are property of a team, may not be added to another team via the Yahoo player list
At the end of the season, eligible rookies (less than 150 ABs/50 IP) may remain on the team's rookie roster, or they can be dropped. Ineligible rookies (more than 150 ABs/50 IP) will not count against a team's eight-man Keeper Roster, however, they must be activated and placed on that team's major league roster.
When an owner activates a rookie, he will not count against the eight-man Keeper Roster until the following season's draft. For example, if a rookie is activated in May 2009, he will not count against the eight-man keeper roster until the draft of 2011.

Draft Rules:
The draft order for each round is determined by a combination of regular season and playoff results.
1st Pick - 14th place team in previous regular season
2nd Pick - 13th place team in previous regular season
3rd Pick - 12th place team in previous regular season
4th Pick - 11th place team in previous regular season
5th Pick - 10th place team in previous regular season
6th Pick - 9th place team in previous regular season
7th Pick - 8th place team in previous regular season
8th Pick - 7th place team in previous regular season
9th Pick - 6th place team in previous year's playoffs
10th Pick - 5th place team in previous year's playoffs
11th Pick - 4th place team in previous year's playoffs
12th Pick - 3rd place team in previous year's playoffs
13th Pick - 2nd place team in previous year's playoffs
14th Pick - Previous year's league champion

For new teams who participate in a dispersal draft, they will be inserted into the vacated draft positions on an S-curve based on the dispersal draft order (1,2,3,4,4,3,2,1,etc.)

The dispersal draft order will be drawn at random.

League Administration

I've putting this forum together so that everyone will have a resource for off-season BNS activity. I will post owner contact info, the rosters, the trades, the rookies, the draft order, etc. Anything that league owners may need as they prepare for the upcoming season. Later, I will post everyone's keepers here, too.

Eventually, I'll put a league archive on this page.

Because our Yahoo league site will go away at some point during the offseason, this site will also serve as a message board for any offseason trade discussion.