THE MANCHISE FANTASY FOOTBALL LEAGUE
OFFICIAL LEAGUE BYLAWS
I. LEAGUE STRUCTURE
A. The Manchise Fantasy Football League (MFFL) will be comprised of 14 teams in a two division structure.
B. The league will use a head-to-head scoring format with a 13-week regular season and a 3-week playoff (ending in week 16 of the NFL season). It is the individual owners’ responsibility to review and understand the scoring rules and format found on the league website.
C. Winners will be determined by a playoff including the six teams which finish the 13-game regular season with the best record.
II. GOVERNING BODY
A. The MFFL has a governing body of three Commissioners, all of which have equal authority.
B. The league will be governed as a democracy. While the commissioners will have the ability to facilitate changes on the league website, owners will have the opportunity to bring forward issues and concerns, as well as bring items to a vote.
C. To call a vote on any item, a league owner may request one via the league message board. To initiate a vote, the request must be seconded by another owner. At that time, all owners will be required to post a reply to the request to indicate they are active. All matters will be determined by a majority vote. As the league contains 14 teams, a majority of 8 votes will be required to make any changes to rules/bylaws.
c1. If it is determined that any league owner is inactive, they will not be considered as a part of the vote.
c2. Owners will be considered inactive if they are unable to respond to the initial message regarding a vote within 5 business days.
D. The league bylaws, as well as any league rules contained within the website, may only be changed during the offseason. As such, no rule changes should impact the strategy or results of a given season already underway.
III. ANNUAL MFFL DRAFT
A. Team rosters will be filled by an auction draft to be held on a date determined by the league owners via a vote. For details on calling a vote, please refer to section II, subsection C.
B. Each team will be given an auction budget of $200 to spend on players to fill their roster. Each player must be purchased for a minimum of $1 with all bids being dollar denominated (players cannot be purchased for $1.50). Each team will be required to fill each spot on their roster during the draft. Unused draft budget will not be carried over or used for anything else throughout the season.
C. Following the inaugural draft, teams will be given the option to keep a selected number of players for the following season. All players kept will reduce the draft auction budget for the respective team in the following season. For details regarding keepers, please refer to section V.
IV. ROSTER SIZE AND STARTING LINEUP
A. Each team roster will consist of the following positions in a Starting Lineup:
1 Quarterback (QB)
2 Running Backs (RB)
1 Flex (RB/WR)
2 Wide Receivers (WR)
1 Tight End (TE)
1 Defense/Special Teams (D/ST)
1 Kicker (K)
TOTAL: 9 starters
B. In addition to the starting lineup, each team roster will include 7 bench spots (BE) which can be comprised of players from any position. This brings the total roster size to 16 players.
C. Each team will be allowed one roster spot for players on the Injured Reserve List (IR). To be eligible for the IR, a player must be on the IR (any time frame) in the NFL. Players listed as Day-to-Day (DTD) will not be eligible to add to the IR.
D. The league will use the position eligibility as designated by ESPN. As per ESPN’s rules webpage, position eligibility is determined as follows:
Before each season begins the system receives an updated report that details every NFL player with their listed position heading into the new season. This includes rookies as well as veterans. The listed positions are fixed and will not change for the duration of the season. Note: Even in customizable leagues, the league manager cannot change the listed position of any player in the game.
E. Starting lineups must be submitted every week. Players will lock at their individual game start times. As such, it is the owners’ responsibility to ensure they have a player in the lineup prior to their individual game time. Starting lineups may be set for every future week of the season at any given time. If a lineup is not submitted, the previous week’s lineup is automatically used.
V. KEEPING PLAYERS
A. Each season, all teams will be allowed to select 4 players to remain on their respective rosters as “keepers.” However, teams are not required to keep any players.
B. Players selected as keepers will reduce the draft auction budget of their respective teams the following year based on their keeper price.
C. Keeper price is determined by using the player’s original draft price. Beginning in the 2012 season, keepers will be assessed an inflation premium for each year after their second keeper season. This will be calculated by taking the original draft price plus a 25% inflation increase for each year. As such, players kept for a second year will incur a 25% increase in keeper price over their keeper price in year 1 (i.e. you can draft a player, keep that player in year one for the draft price, and then keep them a second year for the the draft price plus 25%). Players kept for a third year will incur a 25% increase in keeper price over their keeper price in year 2.
c1. Players which are drafted and later dropped during the season can be kept, but at the original draft price. As such, no player drafted in the annual draft will be kept for less than $1.
c2. Keeper prices will be rounded to the nearest dollar amount (i.e. a keeper price of $1.49 will be rounded to $1, while a keeper price of $1.51 will be rounded to $2).
D. Players which are undrafted may also be kept. If a player does not have an original draft value, a keeper price of $1 will be used in year 1. The above guidelines for determining keeper price (subsection C) will apply in all subsequent seasons.
E. Keepers must be selected according to the league deadline as per the website.
F. Players may only be kept for a maximum of 3 consecutive years. If a player is not kept for any year, their keeper status will start over. Keeper status is only affected by annual drafts (i.e. if a player is kept for one season, but dropped during the year and picked up by another team, they will only have two years of keeper eligibility left as they were kept consecutive years).
VI. TRADING PLAYERS
A. During the course of the season, owners may trade any mix of players, FAAB budget dollars (current and future), and/or future draft auction budget dollars.
a1. Future draft auction budget dollars may only be traded for seasons in which both parties have already paid in advance.
a2. Prior to the keeper selection deadline, all players, FAAB budget dollars and future draft auction budget dollars may be traded. However, after the keeper selection deadline, only players selected as keepers, future FAAB budget dollars and future draft auction budget dollars may be traded.
B. The trade agreement must be a mutual agreement between the owners involved. Trades must be submitted via the website to be considered official. (NOTE: Trades involving FAAB budget or future auction budget must indicate as such in the notes section of the trade. In addition, a message must be submitted via the league website indicating such as soon as the trade agreement is accepted. Any trade which does not follow these guidelines will be reversed by the league commissioners.)
C. All trades are subject to a 1-day league review period. A trade will be vetoed if so voted by 6 league owners.
D. Trading begins immediately after the conclusion of the annual draft and continues up to the trade deadline. During the season, trades can be made on any day of the week; however, if any player involved in the trade has locked, the trade will not go into effect until the following day.
d1. The trade deadline is December 21 at 11 am Central Time. The deadline may be changed by league vote prior to the beginning of each season.
d2. Following the trade deadline, no trades of any kind will be allowed until 12 am Central Time on January 1 of the year following the conclusion of the playoffs.
VII. FREE AGENCY AND WAIVERS
A. All players which are undrafted will be placed on waivers. A player may be claimed from waivers by submitting a FAAB bid.
B. The minimum bid for waivers is $1. Players are awarded to the team with the highest bid.
C. Waivers process each day at NOON CENTRAL TIME (1:00 PM EASTERN TIME).
D. In the event two teams place identical bids, the player will be awarded to the team that is currently lower in the standings at that time.
E. When making multiple waiver claims, a team must prioritize the claims. The claim with the highest priority will be processed first. As such, if a team submits a bid on two players while another team submits a bid on the lower priority player, the other team will be awarded the lower priority player (waiver claims are processed one at a time – after your highest priority claim is processed, all other high priority claims are processed, followed by lower priority claims).
F. Following the end of the season, all un-owned players will become free agents. At that time, FAAB budgets will not be used to make claims. Players can be added to rosters immediately at no cost.
VIII. WINNING THE LEAGUE
A. The league winners will be determined by a playoff. Following week 13 of the NFL season, the top two teams from each division and the next four best teams as determined by regular season record (six in total) will begin a 3-week playoff.
B. The top two teams in each division will receive a first round bye while the remaining four teams will be seeded by record. Matchups will last one week with the winner advancing and the loser moving to the consolation bracket.
C. The MFFL Championship will be held during week 16 of the NFL season (so as to avoid teams winning or losing due to players being benched in the NFL). The winner will be crowned champion and receive 1st place. The loser will receive 2nd place and the winner of the consolation bracket will receive 3rd place.
IX. FRANCHISE FEE & WINNINGS
A. Each owner will be expected to pay an entry fee of twenty dollars ($20) per year. The entry fee for the first three years is required upon joining the league, meaning each owner must pay sixty dollars ($60) up front to join. NOTE: League fees were increased from $10 to $20 beginning with the 2012 season as per league vote on August 30, 2011.
B. At the end of each season, owners will be given the option to extend their “contract” at the price of $20.
b1. If an owner does not wish to extend their contract at that time, they can do so later, but with an additional $5 required for each year they delay (i.e. if an owner decides after the second year that he would like to extend the contract to play past the third year, he/she can do so at the cost of $25 per additional year)
b2. All additional fees (the extra $5) will be applied to league purchases (a draft board or food/drinks for the draft the following year).
C. At the completion of each season, all league fees will be distributed to the winners of the league. The winnings are awarded as follows:
$20 x 14 Owners = $280
Champion
$200
2nd Place
$60
3rd Place
$20
Total: $280
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The Manchie Fantasy Baseball League Bylaws
THE MANCHISE FANTASY BASEBALL LEAGUE
OFFICIAL LEAGUE BYLAWS
I. LEAGUE STRUCTURE
A. The Manchise Fantasy Baseball League (MFBL) will be comprised of 10 teams in a one conference structure.
B. The league will use a rotisserie scoring format with no playoffs. It is the individual owners’ responsibility to review and understand the scoring rules and format found on the league website.
C. Winners will be determined by the highest score at the end of the MLB regular season.
II. GOVERNING BODY
A. The MFBL has a governing body of three Commissioners, all of which have equal authority.
B. The league will be governed as a democracy. While the commissioners will have the ability to facilitate changes on the league website, owners will have the opportunity to bring forward issues and concerns, as well as bring items to a vote.
C. To call a vote on any item, a league owner may request one via the league message board. To initiate a vote, the request must be seconded by another owner. At that time, all owners will be required to post a reply to the request to indicate they are active. All matters will be determined by a majority vote. As the league contains ten teams, a majority of six votes will be required to make any changes to rules/bylaws.
c1. If it is determined that any league owner is inactive, they will not be considered as a part of the vote.
c2. Owners will be considered inactive if they are unable to respond to the initial message regarding a vote within 5 business days.
D. The league bylaws, as well as any league rules contained within the website, may only be changed during the offseason. As such, no rule changes should impact the strategy or results of a given season already underway.
III. ANNUAL MFBL DRAFT
A. Team rosters will be filled by an auction draft to be held on a date determined by the league owners via a vote. For details on calling a vote, please refer to section II, subsection C.
B. Each team will be given an auction budget of $260 to spend on players to fill their roster. Each player must be purchased for a minimum of $1 with all bids being dollar denominated (players cannot be purchased for $1.50). Each team will be required to fill each spot on their roster during the draft. Unused draft budget will not be carried over or used for anything else throughout the season.
C. Following the inaugural draft, teams will be given the option to keep a selected number of players for the following season. All players kept will reduce the draft auction budget for the respective team in the following season. For details regarding keepers, please refer to section V.
D. In addition the standard auction draft to be held annually, a one-round minor league draft will be held prior to the beginning of each season.
d1. The minor league draft order will be determined by final standings of the preceding year. The 4th place team will have the 1st pick, the 5th place team will have the 2nd pick, etc. Following the 10th place team (the 7th pick), the 3rd place team will have the 8th pick, the 2nd place team will have the 9th pick, and the 1st place team will have the 10th and final pick.
d2. The player universe will be pulled from the top 50 prospects as per MLB.com.
d3. Players drafted in the minor league draft will not count towards a team’s roster limits. The draft is designed to give teams the rights to own a player, but not the obligation. The rights are only good until the minor league draft the following season. As such, a player drafted in a minor league draft may be kept following a season, but must be on the team’s roster and selected as a keeper. In such cases, the player will be considered undrafted and may be kept for $1. For further details on keeper pricing, please see section V, subsection F.
IV. ROSTER SIZE AND STARTING LINEUP
A. Each team roster will consist of the following positions in a Starting Lineup:
1 Catcher (C)
1 First Basemen (1B)
1 Second Basemen (2B)
1 Third Basemen (3B)
1 Shortstop (SS)
1 Middle Infielder (2B/SS)
1 Corner Infielder (1B/3B)
5 Outfielders (OF)
1 Utility Player (any position)
9 Pitchers (can be any mix of starting and relief pitchers)
TOTAL: 22 starters
B. In addition to the starting lineup, each team roster will include 3 bench spots (BE) which can be comprised of players from any position. This brings the total roster size to 25 players.
C. Each team will be allowed one roster spot for players on the Disabled List (DL). To be eligible for the DL, a player must be on the DL (any time frame) in the MLB. Players listed as Day-to-Day (DTD) will not be eligible to add to the DL.
D. To be eligible at a given position, a player must have played 20 games in the prior season at the given position or participate at a position for a minimum of 10 days in the current season.
E. Starting lineups must be submitted every day. Players will lock at their individual game start times. As such, it is the owners’ responsibility to ensure they have a player in the lineup prior to their individual game time. Starting lineups may be set for every future day of the season at any given time. If a lineup is not submitted, the previous day’s lineup is automatically used.
V. KEEPING PLAYERS
A. Each season, all teams will be allowed to select 3 players to remain on their respective rosters as “keepers.” However, teams are not required to keep any players.
B. Players can only be selected as keepers if their original draft price was less than $30.
C. Players selected as keepers will reduce the draft auction budget of their respective teams the following year based on their keeper price.
D. Keeper price is determined by using the player’s original draft price, plus a 25% inflation increase for each year. As such, players kept for a second year will incur a 25% increase in keeper price over their keeper price in year 1. Players kept for a third year will incur a 25% increase in keeper price over their keeper price in year 2.
d1. Players which are drafted and later dropped during the season can be kept, but at the original draft price. As such, no player drafted in the annual draft will be kept for less than $1.
d2. Keeper prices will be rounded to the nearest dollar amount (i.e. a keeper price of $1.49 will be rounded to $1, while a keeper price of $1.51 will be rounded to $2).
E. Players can only be kept for 3 seasons. However, if a player is dropped after any given season, they may be kept again for up to three contiguous seasons by any team, including the team which originally dropped the player.
F. Players which are undrafted may also be kept. If a player does not have an original draft value, a keeper price of $1 will be used in year 1. The above guidelines for determining keeper price (subsection E) will apply in all subsequent seasons.
G. Keepers must be selected according to the league deadline as per the website.
VI. TRADING PLAYERS
A. During the course of the season, owners may trade any mix of players, FAAB budget dollars (current and future), future draft auction budget dollars and/or minor league draft picks.
a1. Future draft auction budget dollars and minor league draft picks may only be traded for seasons in which both parties have already paid in advance.
a2. Prior to the keeper selection deadline, all players, FAAB budget dollars, future draft auction budget dollars and minor league draft picks may be traded. However, after the keeper selection deadline, only players selected as keepers, future FAAB budget dollars, future draft auction budget dollars and minor league draft picks may be traded.
B. The trade agreement must be a mutual agreement between the owners involved. Trades must be submitted via the website to be considered official. (NOTE: Trades involving FAAB budget, future auction budget or future minor league draft picks must indicate as such in the notes section of the trade. In addition, a message must be submitted via the league website indicating such as soon as the trade agreement is accepted. Any trade which does not follow these guidelines will be reversed by the league commissioners.)
C. All trades are subject to a 1-day league review period. A trade will be vetoed if so voted by 4 league owners.
D. Trading begins immediately after the conclusion of the annual draft and continues throughout the season. During the season, trades can be made on any day of the week; however, if any player involved in the trade has locked, the trade will not go into effect until the following day.
VII. FREE AGENCY AND WAIVERS
A. All players which are undrafted will be placed on waivers. A player may be claimed from waivers by submitting a FAAB bid.
B. The minimum bid for waivers is $1. Players are awarded to the team with the highest bid.
C. Waivers process each day at NOON CENTRAL TIME (1:00 PM EASTERN TIME).
D. In the event two teams place identical bids, the player will be awarded to the team that is currently lower in the standings at that time.
E. When making multiple waiver claims, a team must prioritize the claims. The claim with the highest priority will be processed first. As such, if a team submits a bid on two players while another team submits a bid on the lower priority player, the other team will be awarded the lower priority player (waiver claims are processed one at a time – after your highest priority claim is processed, all other high priority claims are processed, followed by lower priority claims).
F. Following the end of the season, all players will become free agents. At that time, FAAB budgets will not be used to make claims. Players can be added to rosters immediately at no cost.
VIII. WINNING THE LEAGUE
A. The league winners will be determined by point totals in the rotisserie scoring categories. The highest point total will receive 1st place, second highest 2nd place, etc.
B. Scoring will end with the final regular season game of the MLB season.
C. In the event of a tie in final standings, the team owner with a last name higher in the alphabet will receive the higher ranking in even years (2012, 2014, etc.) and the team owner with a last name lower in the alphabet will receive the higher ranking in odd years (2011, 2013, etc.).
IX. FRANCHISE FEE & WINNINGS
A. Each owner will be expected to pay an entry fee of twenty dollars ($20) per year. The entry fee for the first three years is required upon joining the league meaning each owner must pay sixty dollars ($60) up front to join.
B. At the end of each season, owners will be given the option to extend their “contract” at the price of $20.
b1. If an owner does not wish to extend their contract at that time, they can do so later, but with an additional $5 required for each year they delay (i.e. if an owner decides after the second year that he would like to extend the contract to play past the third year, he/she can do so at the cost of $25 per additional year)
b2. All additional fees (the extra $5) will be applied to league purchases (a draft board or food/drinks for the draft the following year).
C. At the completion of each season, all league fees will be distributed to the winners of the league. The winnings are awarded as follows:
$20 x 10 Owners = $200
Champion $125
2nd Place $55
3rd Place $20
Total: $200
OFFICIAL LEAGUE BYLAWS
I. LEAGUE STRUCTURE
A. The Manchise Fantasy Baseball League (MFBL) will be comprised of 10 teams in a one conference structure.
B. The league will use a rotisserie scoring format with no playoffs. It is the individual owners’ responsibility to review and understand the scoring rules and format found on the league website.
C. Winners will be determined by the highest score at the end of the MLB regular season.
II. GOVERNING BODY
A. The MFBL has a governing body of three Commissioners, all of which have equal authority.
B. The league will be governed as a democracy. While the commissioners will have the ability to facilitate changes on the league website, owners will have the opportunity to bring forward issues and concerns, as well as bring items to a vote.
C. To call a vote on any item, a league owner may request one via the league message board. To initiate a vote, the request must be seconded by another owner. At that time, all owners will be required to post a reply to the request to indicate they are active. All matters will be determined by a majority vote. As the league contains ten teams, a majority of six votes will be required to make any changes to rules/bylaws.
c1. If it is determined that any league owner is inactive, they will not be considered as a part of the vote.
c2. Owners will be considered inactive if they are unable to respond to the initial message regarding a vote within 5 business days.
D. The league bylaws, as well as any league rules contained within the website, may only be changed during the offseason. As such, no rule changes should impact the strategy or results of a given season already underway.
III. ANNUAL MFBL DRAFT
A. Team rosters will be filled by an auction draft to be held on a date determined by the league owners via a vote. For details on calling a vote, please refer to section II, subsection C.
B. Each team will be given an auction budget of $260 to spend on players to fill their roster. Each player must be purchased for a minimum of $1 with all bids being dollar denominated (players cannot be purchased for $1.50). Each team will be required to fill each spot on their roster during the draft. Unused draft budget will not be carried over or used for anything else throughout the season.
C. Following the inaugural draft, teams will be given the option to keep a selected number of players for the following season. All players kept will reduce the draft auction budget for the respective team in the following season. For details regarding keepers, please refer to section V.
D. In addition the standard auction draft to be held annually, a one-round minor league draft will be held prior to the beginning of each season.
d1. The minor league draft order will be determined by final standings of the preceding year. The 4th place team will have the 1st pick, the 5th place team will have the 2nd pick, etc. Following the 10th place team (the 7th pick), the 3rd place team will have the 8th pick, the 2nd place team will have the 9th pick, and the 1st place team will have the 10th and final pick.
d2. The player universe will be pulled from the top 50 prospects as per MLB.com.
d3. Players drafted in the minor league draft will not count towards a team’s roster limits. The draft is designed to give teams the rights to own a player, but not the obligation. The rights are only good until the minor league draft the following season. As such, a player drafted in a minor league draft may be kept following a season, but must be on the team’s roster and selected as a keeper. In such cases, the player will be considered undrafted and may be kept for $1. For further details on keeper pricing, please see section V, subsection F.
IV. ROSTER SIZE AND STARTING LINEUP
A. Each team roster will consist of the following positions in a Starting Lineup:
1 Catcher (C)
1 First Basemen (1B)
1 Second Basemen (2B)
1 Third Basemen (3B)
1 Shortstop (SS)
1 Middle Infielder (2B/SS)
1 Corner Infielder (1B/3B)
5 Outfielders (OF)
1 Utility Player (any position)
9 Pitchers (can be any mix of starting and relief pitchers)
TOTAL: 22 starters
B. In addition to the starting lineup, each team roster will include 3 bench spots (BE) which can be comprised of players from any position. This brings the total roster size to 25 players.
C. Each team will be allowed one roster spot for players on the Disabled List (DL). To be eligible for the DL, a player must be on the DL (any time frame) in the MLB. Players listed as Day-to-Day (DTD) will not be eligible to add to the DL.
D. To be eligible at a given position, a player must have played 20 games in the prior season at the given position or participate at a position for a minimum of 10 days in the current season.
E. Starting lineups must be submitted every day. Players will lock at their individual game start times. As such, it is the owners’ responsibility to ensure they have a player in the lineup prior to their individual game time. Starting lineups may be set for every future day of the season at any given time. If a lineup is not submitted, the previous day’s lineup is automatically used.
V. KEEPING PLAYERS
A. Each season, all teams will be allowed to select 3 players to remain on their respective rosters as “keepers.” However, teams are not required to keep any players.
B. Players can only be selected as keepers if their original draft price was less than $30.
C. Players selected as keepers will reduce the draft auction budget of their respective teams the following year based on their keeper price.
D. Keeper price is determined by using the player’s original draft price, plus a 25% inflation increase for each year. As such, players kept for a second year will incur a 25% increase in keeper price over their keeper price in year 1. Players kept for a third year will incur a 25% increase in keeper price over their keeper price in year 2.
d1. Players which are drafted and later dropped during the season can be kept, but at the original draft price. As such, no player drafted in the annual draft will be kept for less than $1.
d2. Keeper prices will be rounded to the nearest dollar amount (i.e. a keeper price of $1.49 will be rounded to $1, while a keeper price of $1.51 will be rounded to $2).
E. Players can only be kept for 3 seasons. However, if a player is dropped after any given season, they may be kept again for up to three contiguous seasons by any team, including the team which originally dropped the player.
F. Players which are undrafted may also be kept. If a player does not have an original draft value, a keeper price of $1 will be used in year 1. The above guidelines for determining keeper price (subsection E) will apply in all subsequent seasons.
G. Keepers must be selected according to the league deadline as per the website.
VI. TRADING PLAYERS
A. During the course of the season, owners may trade any mix of players, FAAB budget dollars (current and future), future draft auction budget dollars and/or minor league draft picks.
a1. Future draft auction budget dollars and minor league draft picks may only be traded for seasons in which both parties have already paid in advance.
a2. Prior to the keeper selection deadline, all players, FAAB budget dollars, future draft auction budget dollars and minor league draft picks may be traded. However, after the keeper selection deadline, only players selected as keepers, future FAAB budget dollars, future draft auction budget dollars and minor league draft picks may be traded.
B. The trade agreement must be a mutual agreement between the owners involved. Trades must be submitted via the website to be considered official. (NOTE: Trades involving FAAB budget, future auction budget or future minor league draft picks must indicate as such in the notes section of the trade. In addition, a message must be submitted via the league website indicating such as soon as the trade agreement is accepted. Any trade which does not follow these guidelines will be reversed by the league commissioners.)
C. All trades are subject to a 1-day league review period. A trade will be vetoed if so voted by 4 league owners.
D. Trading begins immediately after the conclusion of the annual draft and continues throughout the season. During the season, trades can be made on any day of the week; however, if any player involved in the trade has locked, the trade will not go into effect until the following day.
VII. FREE AGENCY AND WAIVERS
A. All players which are undrafted will be placed on waivers. A player may be claimed from waivers by submitting a FAAB bid.
B. The minimum bid for waivers is $1. Players are awarded to the team with the highest bid.
C. Waivers process each day at NOON CENTRAL TIME (1:00 PM EASTERN TIME).
D. In the event two teams place identical bids, the player will be awarded to the team that is currently lower in the standings at that time.
E. When making multiple waiver claims, a team must prioritize the claims. The claim with the highest priority will be processed first. As such, if a team submits a bid on two players while another team submits a bid on the lower priority player, the other team will be awarded the lower priority player (waiver claims are processed one at a time – after your highest priority claim is processed, all other high priority claims are processed, followed by lower priority claims).
F. Following the end of the season, all players will become free agents. At that time, FAAB budgets will not be used to make claims. Players can be added to rosters immediately at no cost.
VIII. WINNING THE LEAGUE
A. The league winners will be determined by point totals in the rotisserie scoring categories. The highest point total will receive 1st place, second highest 2nd place, etc.
B. Scoring will end with the final regular season game of the MLB season.
C. In the event of a tie in final standings, the team owner with a last name higher in the alphabet will receive the higher ranking in even years (2012, 2014, etc.) and the team owner with a last name lower in the alphabet will receive the higher ranking in odd years (2011, 2013, etc.).
IX. FRANCHISE FEE & WINNINGS
A. Each owner will be expected to pay an entry fee of twenty dollars ($20) per year. The entry fee for the first three years is required upon joining the league meaning each owner must pay sixty dollars ($60) up front to join.
B. At the end of each season, owners will be given the option to extend their “contract” at the price of $20.
b1. If an owner does not wish to extend their contract at that time, they can do so later, but with an additional $5 required for each year they delay (i.e. if an owner decides after the second year that he would like to extend the contract to play past the third year, he/she can do so at the cost of $25 per additional year)
b2. All additional fees (the extra $5) will be applied to league purchases (a draft board or food/drinks for the draft the following year).
C. At the completion of each season, all league fees will be distributed to the winners of the league. The winnings are awarded as follows:
$20 x 10 Owners = $200
Champion $125
2nd Place $55
3rd Place $20
Total: $200
A Sad Day...
It seems like just yesterday I was standing in the mirror at Hawk Quarters (since renamed) trying on a Large Red #52 Dustin Byfuglien jersey. I was in love, I was ahead of the pack, I was about to buy a jersey that no one had yet, I found a player who I adored that I envisioned becoming a superstar in the years to come. Unfortunately my bank account was empty and I was having visions of my Dad’s reaction when I would tell him that I put it on my credit card. I settled for a jersey t-shirt instead. I didn’t need the official sweater… as long as I could turn on the TV and see Big Buff flying around as a Hawk I was satisfied.
The Future is Now...... Sort of
As for those teammates, well they have been pretty busy getting ready to turn things around. All are enrolled in summer courses and have been working out and playing a lot of basketball together. Not to mention living together. My guess is, by the time basketball season rolls around, the three-some of Roy Marble Jr. (Devyn Marble), Zach McCabe and Melsahn Basabe will be ready to see some new faces.
A Janice Dickinson series
If you have been waiting for a Finals post from us here at The Manchise, I personally apologize for the lack of thoughts. I honestly have not been able to gather myself after the first two roller coaster-like games. But now that the Lakers demolished the Celtics in game three, and the nation had to bear witness to another awful night from two of the Big Four, I'm ready. I'm ready to kick this shit into overdrive.
Since 1985 (when the NBA started using the 2-3-2 format), the team that wins game three after a one to one tie, has won the Larry O'Brien Trophy 100% of the time. 100%! The 2010 Finals looks to be transcending towards that same trend. After letting the series slip 2-1 in favor of the Lakers, the Celtics have one of the biggest mountains to climb. They have given a team that consists of two jolly giants, an assassin, a border line psychopath, a point guard that couldn't beat Billy Hoyle one on one, and a Kardashian's man bitch a healthy handful of confidence; and you don't want to give a Kobe Bryant led team more confidence than they already have.
Here We Go!!!
Well the time has finally come Hawks fans. Tonight our Hawks will have a chance to put their names into hockey immortality. As we all anxiously await the drop of the puck in Game 6 I’d like to leave you with a plethora of reasons why the Hawks will emerge victoriously in tonight’s matchup:
Finally Some Deserved Media Attention...
Dear Chris,
Post Bar Post Game
What to say, what to say… I don’t even know. Niklas Hjalmarsson, you picked the absolute worst time to have your first ever sub-par game as a Blackhawk. I can’t honestly think of anything you’ve ever done wrong until tonight when you assisted on 2 Flyers goals. As for you Duncan Keith, I never thought I’d see you get absolutely burned at a pivotal point in the game. When Niemi got pulled I was having flashbacks to Vancouver when Zach Parise tied it with 20 or so seconds left to play. Unfortunately for me and the rest of the Hawks bandwagon Jeff Carter didn’t have any plans for going to overtime.
Here are my thoughts from Game 4, take them for what they’re worth:
The Manchise Crystal Ball
When I look into my crystal ball I see 5 possible scenarios that could play out tonight. After assessing each one I will leave you with my prediction for Game 4:
If You're Incapable of Performing Your Job, Raise Your Hand: Part Duex!!
Turn on ESPN. Turn it on! When you finally get there I guarantee you'll see one of two things: 1. A story about an umpire by the name of Jim Joyce, pulling out his inner Don Dekinger and blowing an astronomical call. 2. Ken Griffey Jr. saying goodbye to the game of baseball.
As much as I want to write about the man that donned the best baseball swing the MLB has ever seen, I can't. He is being overshadowed by an amazingly horrific story about a kid, with a name so incredibly hard to pronounce (especially if you had a few beers in you during country night), who was robbed of one of the most magical feats in sports.
Armondo Galarraga fell victim to an idiotic call, by another sporting official who was incapable of performing his job to the standard fans expect.
If You're Incapable of Performing Your Job Raise Your Hand!!!
Hawk Talk: Game 3
I’d like to start off by giving some much undeserved attention to Chris Pronger.
Game 2 Tonight!!!
A lot has transpired since I last dropped in so let’s get to it. Absolutely incredible Game 1 on Saturday. Buff-Toews-Kane a combined -9, Pronger posting over 32 minutes of ice time, 11 goals, no Flyer penalties, etc. But no matter how crazy the storyline we are beginning to see one thing remain pretty constant: the Hawks coming out victorious. Brouwer and Kopecky (two guys who were battling for the same spot in the previous 3 series) got the job done along with added contributions from Versteeg, Sharp, and Bolland. The pace of the game was so ridiculous that there wasn’t even time for any of the underlying questions to be answered. Can Pronger stop Buff? I don’t know. Is Toews better than Richards? I don’t know. Is Leighton better than NIemi? I don’t know. Game 1 was such a roller coaster ride that little analysis can be made of what patterns are beginning to set in as we head towards Game 2 tonight.
My advice?
98 Days Until Kickoff
99 Days until Kickoff
Thanks for the wait NHL...
Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals is fast approaching. As the week wears on and the anticipation builds we are beginning to see some storylines appear in this series. Can Buff be stopped? Who has the better defensive core? Who has the better Captain? Should Toews have touched the Campbell Trophy? Should Richards have not touched the Prince of Whales Trophy? Personally I believe the Finals should have started tonight. That way the media would have much less time to jam these thoughts into the players’ minds before they step out on the ice. Game 1 on Wednesday night would have laid the tracks for an unbelievable weekend showcase of the leagues two best teams. Friday night in Chicago, Sunday night in Philly, the buzz would have been tremendous if we had been given a game to lead into the weekend. But I’m not Gary Bettman (or affiliated with the NHL at all) so that thought remains solely my opinion.
Since there is nothing but speculation to talk about at this point let’s take a look at some of these lingering questions.
T Minus 100 Days
Why I love Ozzie Guillen
If any of you have turned on ESPN at all today, you have probably seen some footage of Ozzie Guillen in umpire Joe West's face over two extremely questionable balk calls. You would have seen them taunt each other, all the while pumping their chests out like raging gorillas (West's chest being a little more lumpy than Guillen's). You would have seen Ozzie Guillen at his finest as a coach. And I mean that in all seriousness.
Look, anyone can call out Ozzie as a coach and he usually deserves that criticism. But nobody on this planet can call out Ozzie for not caring about his players. The soul reason he stepped out on the field today was because he heard West say to Buehrle, "I'm going to kick you out of the game'". Ozzie felt that West was embarrassing his player, so he marched out to make sure West knew his feelings.
Sure, knowing it was Joe West probably made it easier for the Oz man to get out there (West has ejected Ozzie three times out of his total 22 ejections). Those two have more bad blood than Castor Troy and Sean Archer in Face Off. But let it be known that no matter who was umping first, and who was pitching, Ozzie would have acted the same way. He is a coach you want in your corner if you are a player, and people in Chicago need to realize that.
Call the recent success of the White Sox under Guillen a fluke, call it luck, call it whatever you want, I don't care. But Ozzie Guillen cares for his players in a day in age where coaches get fired because of their relationships with players. He may not be the most baseball savvy coach, and he may not be the most intricate coach like Joe Maddon, but he is a fighter. He is passionate and quirky. He has a fire that no one coach in the majors can match, and if I had to pick one guy to have in my corner as a player, it would be Ozzie.
The Sun shines brightest in the west
(Picture from NBA.com)
The defending champion Los Angeles Lakers were simply out dueled, out done, and out played in the desert Tuesday night. After obtaining a quick 2-0 lead over the Phoenix Suns at home, Los Angeles has lost that lead as fast as they got it.
The Suns needed a team effort Tuesday night to even the Western Conference Finals at two games a piece. As most NBA fans know, Steve Nash and Amare Stoudemire (as great and electrifying as they are) cannot out play Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol by themselves. So like the old Beatles song, Nash and Stoudemire got "by with a little help from [their] friends" in route to creating a series out of what looked to be a quick blow out.
The Phoenix Suns bench was the only reason the Suns played themselves into a series tie after a 115-106 victory in game four. Even with Kobe Bryant providing his team with a 38-point, 10-assist performance in Arizona, his big game ultimately ended up as a scratch to Channing Frye, Jared Dudley, and Leandro Barbosa's game altering play.
