Post by JetsGM (Jacob) on Sept 27, 2016 20:56:32 GMT -5
Couple of things worth mentioning including a big announcement I think the league will be pleased to hear! Would also like to take the opportunity to thank everyone for helping the draft move along so smoothly. It was a bit of a weird format, but everyone was incredibly active and made it work, ended up being a lot of fun with only a few minor bumps along the way.
1 - Prospect only draft
The league has voted, majority spoken, and I will listen. As I'm sure many of you have already seen, we will have a second draft before the season starts! This is to help clean up some of the remaining quality prospects and avoid the need to create new rules to limit teams in free agency.
A few minor tweaks compared to the dispersal draft:
1 - Only players with less than 10 GP are eligible to be selected.
2 - Instead of a schedule, and since we are only drafting prospects, each team will have 2 hours to pick. If a pick is skipped, the next team can go, and the skipped team(s) can pick at anytime. The clock will freeze from 12AM EST until 10AM EST. Picks can still be made during this time, however the clock will not start counting down until 10AM.
3 - Picks cannot be traded, also to add. Any trade posted with one of these picks involved will be closed and the pick in question forfeited. This is a bonus draft to add more futures to your team. If you want to trade the prospect after you draft him though, no problem
2 - Free agency
As outlined in the offseason schedule. Free agency will open on September 30 at 7 PM EST. With the prospect draft ongoing, any prospect with less than 10 GP will not be eligible to be signed until the draft is completed. Otherwise, all other players are fair game.
Please review the rules here: frozenh2odynasty.proboards.com/thread/23/ufa-bidding-rules and ask any questions if anything is unclear. Bids not following the correct bidding format will be made invalid during the bidding process. The rules will be enforced strictly so please take the time to read and understand them.
I have created a few FA calculators to aid you in calculating bid totals depending on the term you offer. It can be found in our master sheet excel here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tI-5WfCfL71uYS8CxuNWmPc0GLWiegWt0Un-00PIA3A/edit#gid=556019448
3 - Fantrax Migration to Premium League
I've saved the biggest news for last! After a couple of weeks of working with Fantrax, I have managed to have a lifetime Premium Fantrax league I used to co-Commission transferred over to me as Primary Commissioner since the previous Commissioner has gone inactive and both Fantrax and I were unable to reach him.
What this means for us is that we will now be able to take advantage of several key features that were previously unavailable:
- Fully accurate salary tracking within Fantrax (which will facilitate tracking on our roster and Google sheets pages)
- Future trading of draft picks
- Opens possibility to add previously unavailable scoring categories (to be discussed offseason 2017)
- Many more options I have not even begun to explore
Just in the process of building team rosters. Should be done in the next few days, then I will be adding everyone directly by username into the league (no need for me to re-send league invites).
That's pretty much all I have for now. Minor point that I will be updating the schedule for the season. Everyone will play each other once, plus one other team. Final 4 games will be within the division.
If you have any questions about the above or anything at all, feel free to reply below or PM me, will get back to you as quickly as I can.
1 - Prospect only draft
The league has voted, majority spoken, and I will listen. As I'm sure many of you have already seen, we will have a second draft before the season starts! This is to help clean up some of the remaining quality prospects and avoid the need to create new rules to limit teams in free agency.
A few minor tweaks compared to the dispersal draft:
1 - Only players with less than 10 GP are eligible to be selected.
2 - Instead of a schedule, and since we are only drafting prospects, each team will have 2 hours to pick. If a pick is skipped, the next team can go, and the skipped team(s) can pick at anytime. The clock will freeze from 12AM EST until 10AM EST. Picks can still be made during this time, however the clock will not start counting down until 10AM.
3 - Picks cannot be traded, also to add. Any trade posted with one of these picks involved will be closed and the pick in question forfeited. This is a bonus draft to add more futures to your team. If you want to trade the prospect after you draft him though, no problem
2 - Free agency
As outlined in the offseason schedule. Free agency will open on September 30 at 7 PM EST. With the prospect draft ongoing, any prospect with less than 10 GP will not be eligible to be signed until the draft is completed. Otherwise, all other players are fair game.
Please review the rules here: frozenh2odynasty.proboards.com/thread/23/ufa-bidding-rules and ask any questions if anything is unclear. Bids not following the correct bidding format will be made invalid during the bidding process. The rules will be enforced strictly so please take the time to read and understand them.
I have created a few FA calculators to aid you in calculating bid totals depending on the term you offer. It can be found in our master sheet excel here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tI-5WfCfL71uYS8CxuNWmPc0GLWiegWt0Un-00PIA3A/edit#gid=556019448
3 - Fantrax Migration to Premium League
I've saved the biggest news for last! After a couple of weeks of working with Fantrax, I have managed to have a lifetime Premium Fantrax league I used to co-Commission transferred over to me as Primary Commissioner since the previous Commissioner has gone inactive and both Fantrax and I were unable to reach him.
What this means for us is that we will now be able to take advantage of several key features that were previously unavailable:
- Fully accurate salary tracking within Fantrax (which will facilitate tracking on our roster and Google sheets pages)
- Future trading of draft picks
- Opens possibility to add previously unavailable scoring categories (to be discussed offseason 2017)
- Many more options I have not even begun to explore
Just in the process of building team rosters. Should be done in the next few days, then I will be adding everyone directly by username into the league (no need for me to re-send league invites).
That's pretty much all I have for now. Minor point that I will be updating the schedule for the season. Everyone will play each other once, plus one other team. Final 4 games will be within the division.
If you have any questions about the above or anything at all, feel free to reply below or PM me, will get back to you as quickly as I can.