Scoring

STATS
The daily/weekly/monthly player-performance totals are provided by CBS Sportsline and our official data base for the computation of standings in Boys of Summer Fantasy League Baseball.. All managers must have access to the internet to be a successful member of this league.

Total Season will consist of 25 weeks or up to next to last week of season.  This is to keep competition equal. As the regular MLB season comes to an end, teams out of the running for playoffs start using minor leaguers and/or benching starters to save them for next year. Stopping a week short will insure that players draft higher on your teams will still be playing when it counts.

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Rosters
 

2009 Auction Draft

This years Boys of Summer league Auction/draft is tentatively Sunday March 29th @ TBA.

Draft/Auction Order; Order is reverse of previous years standings using regular season tiebreakers rules to define order when teams are tied with same record.

Major League Draft; A MLB player draft is conducted on the weekend designated by the Commissioner, typically on the Friday through Sunday evening in mid to late March.

1. Draft will be based on previous years standings 10-2, last pick will be reserved for the winner of the League Championship series.
   1st pick = 10th place
   2nd pick = 9th place
   3rd pick = 8th place 
   etc...
   9th pick = regular season league Champion (if not winner of the League Championship series)
   10th pick = Winner of the League Championship series
2. The Auction/Live draft will take place using CBS Sportline draft software. Each player should logon at least 10 minutes before draft to insure the they are able to connect to the draft software. In addition there will be a live conference call bridge available during the course of the draft to talk smack and what not.

   • Live draft will have auto clock set at 60 seconds for teams to make picks
   • Any manager not attending can preset there draft preferences and team will be auto drafted.
   • Team's not drafting live run the risk of not being within salary cap. Teams have until 30 minutes until the first game on the first Monday of the regular season.

3. Each team must end the auction/draft with the league requirement for total roster and starting players not to exceed the set salary restriction. A team need not spend the maximum.
4. Teams must declare 12 keepers by March 15 of each year. 
5. The order of the draft is the reverse of the most recent final standings, proceeding from last place to first place in the first round and following the snake draft system for remaining rounds.
6. Players eligible at more than one position may be shifted during the course of the auction.
7. Players who commence the season on a major league team's disabled list are eligible to be drafted. If selected, they may be placed on DL upon completion of the auction.
8. Players salaries will be determined by using the CBS Sportsline Player valuation sheet on home page.
9. Any player with a booked value of $0 dollars on the CBS Sportsline site will be valued at $1 on the teams roster.
    

Minor League Players Draft and roster

• Minor league players may be picked during the auction or draft. If picked up through auction or draft, they may must remain on Major league roster for 30 days from opening day.
• During first week of MLB play their will be a off line waiver draft for minor leaguers. All requested should be submitted to the commish in order of preference. Draft will follow same sequence as major league draft. All submissions and draft results will be posted on line and player will be added to teams by commish.
•  The salary of a player drafted in the minor league draft is $0. When player is converted to active roster it must be assign asset value (Sportsline Values) at that time. If player is listed at $0, roster value will be $1

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TRADES
From the completion of the draft until July 31, teams are free to make trades of any kind without limit, however, at no time can any team have on its active roster more or less players at a particular position than specified under the rules. So long as these strictures are adhered to in the immediate wake of a trade, teams may trade any number of players, at any position, irrespective of the number or position of players being received in trade.

• Between July 31 and the day playoffs start, trades may take place only between teams within 2 standings positions of each other.
• Trades do not affect the salary or contract status of players.
• Each trade is subject to the $0.25 per player received transaction fee.
• Trades may not involve cash, "players to be named later," or "future considerations," the latter including future rotation draft choices.
• At no point may a team have more than 30 players on its active and reserve rosters combined.
• No trades of any kind are permitted during the PLAYOFF/CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES. Once the playoff series has concluded teams may trade until October 31.

Off season Trades;  No Trades between October 31 and December 31. Teams may start trading January 1 up to 7 days before draft.

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MOVEMENT BETWEEN ACTIVE ROSTER AND BENCH (Illegal rosters)
A manager may demote a player from the active roster to the reserve bench, or promote a player in the reverse direction, at any time and for any reason. Illegal Rosters may result in forfeit for week roster is illegal. 

• Promotions to take effect with the subsequent line up deadline one half hour before the first MLB scheduled game on Monday of each week. 
• No player may be demoted without being replaced on the active roster by an eligible player--that is, a player who fulfills position eligibility requirements (which may include shifting another active player into the demoted player's position and the promoted player into the shifted player's position) and who is currently on a major league roster and either is not on a major league disabled list or else is eligible to come off the disabled list during the coming week.
• Exception: If the acquisition of an active player in a trade places the acquiring team's active roster above the positional limit (e.g. , more than two catchers) , a player at that position may be sent down without the need for the recall of another player.

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WAIVERS
Players are placed on waivers (a) when they cannot be accommodated on a team's active or reserve roster, because of space and/or positional limitations; (b) to accommodate a free agent purchase or (c) accommodate the restructure on roster due to trade.

• The waiver period for a released player is to up to first sunday, if the player goes unclaimed while on waivers, he goes into the free agent pool and may be acquired by any team without restriction.
• Waivers processing runs on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. You may put a claim of waivers on any player during any day of week.
• Waiver claims are honored according to the inverse order of the most recent wavier transitions. Example; teams A pick up player on wavier this week, he will be move to the bottom of the wavier list. The team with the longest span of picking up a player on waivers will have the first opportunity at any player on the wavier list.
• If a team claims more than one player on waivers, it will only be given consideration for a second player after all other teams' waiver claims are considered,
• A team may reclaim a player it has waived only if all other teams in the league decline to claim him and he becomes a free agent.
• The fee for acquiring a player on waivers is $0.15, payable by the first week of playoffs.
• Players salaries will be determined by using the CBS Sportsline Player valuation sheet on home page.
• Any player with a booked value of $0 dollars will be valued at $1 on the teams roster.

Waivers player values

• Any player picked up directly from waivers retains their most previous player value.
• Any player clearing waivers and enters to the free agent pool will have their salary reset to current years value, (Example; Bob Jones starts the season on team Buba's roster as a returnee at $12. He is dropped and clears waivers. His current season CBS Sportsline player value is $14. This would be the amount assigned to the new team picking him up from free agents players pool
   

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GUARANTEED LONG-TERM CONTRACTS and OPTION YEAR
A player who has been under contract during two consecutive seasons and whose service has been uninterrupted (that is, he has not been released and then reacquired as a free agent, although he may have been traded or claimed on waivers) must, prior to the freezing of rosters in his third season, be released; signed at the same salary for his option year; or signed to a guaranteed long-term contract.

If released, the player returns to the free agent pool and becomes available to the next draft. If signed at the same salary for an option year, the player must be released back into the free agent pool at the end of that season.

If signed to a guaranteed long-term contract, the player's salary in each year covered by the new contract (which commences with the option year) shall be the sum of his current salary plus $1 for each additional year beyond the option year. In addition, a signing bonus, of $1 shall also be paid.

• In determining a player's status, "season" is understood to be a full season or any fraction thereof. Thus, a player purchased as a free agent in the middle of the 2004 season and subsequently retained at the same salary without being released in 2005 (even though he may have been traded.) enters his option year in 2006 and;
  • must be released
  • or signed at the same salary for an option year
  • or signed to a long-term contract.
• A team may only be allowed 12 players in contract at any one time.
• Long term contract lengths are 2, 3, 4 and 5 years. 
• A team may sign a player to only one long-term contract, at the end of which he becomes a free agent. A recently release player may be redrafted by the same team.
• Option-year and long-term contracts are entirely transferable, both in rights and obligations; the trade of a player in no way affects his contract status.
• In all other cases, specifically including sudden loss of effectiveness--a team must honor the terms of a long-term contract, as follows: A player with such a contract may be released back into the free agent pool (that is, not protected on a team's roster prior to the Draft Day) , but a team that chooses to do so must pay into the prize pool the following;

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ROSTER PROTECTION

Each team may retain, from one season to the next, no more than 12 of the players of their previous season roster.

-The names of players being retained must be recorded with the Commissioner by March 15 of the upcoming season.

• Specific notice of any guaranteed long-term contract signings must be made by March 21st.
• If an owner fails to submit his roster freeze list on time, it will be chosen for them. The previous season top 12 scoring players will automatically be logged as returning players.
• Failure to give notice of a guaranteed long-term contract for a player in his option year will result in his being continued for one season at his prior year's salary and then released into the free agent pool.
• The cumulative salaries of frozen players are deducted from a team's $ expenditure limit in the draft, and the balance is available for the acquisition of the remainder of a team's active roster.
• You may designate Minor leaguer players as keepers under the following conditions;
  • The Minor leaguer will count against your 12 keepers.
  • You may keep a minor leaguer for 2 seasons. If you wish to keep a minor for season 3,  you must sign him to a minimum of a 2 year contract at no less than $5 for the first season. He also must be added to your major league roster.

-The League Secretary should promptly notify all teams in the League of each team's protected roster, including player salaries, contract status, and amount available to spend on Draft Day.

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GOVERNANCE

The Rotisserie League is governed by a Committee of the Whole consisting of all team owners. The Committee of the Whole may designate as many League officials as from time to time it deems appropriate, although only two--the League Secretary and the League Treasurer--ever do any work. Rule changes are determined by a vote of 8 members of the Committee of the Whole. The League has up to 3 official meetings each year: Draft Day, the Midsummer Trade Meeting (at the All-Star break) , and the Postseason Awards Ceremony and Rules Meeting.

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