2025
Commissioner(s):
League Overview
New Rule Proposals
Schedule
Expansion Draft
Divisions
Protections
Draft Lottery
Draft
Roster
Free Agents
Lineups
Scoring
Trades
Playoffs
Payouts
Appendix A
Appendix B

League Overview

  1. League Type: Head-To-Head
  2. Number of Teams: 12
  3. Number of Divisions: 0
  4. Key Dates:
    5. DescriptionDate
    Division Drawings
    Draft Lottery
    Protections
    Unprotections
    Draft
    Trade Deadline


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New Rule Proposals

  1. This league does not allow for new rule proposals by league owners.
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Schedule

  1. 0 regular season weeks.
  2. All regular season series will be played over the weekend (FRI-SAT-SUN).
  3. See Playoffs section for post-season scheduling.
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Expansion Draft

  1. At least two teams need to drop out from the previous year for there to be an expansion draft - there is no expansion draft this year.
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Divisions

  1. Divisions are set up by randomly drawing a team from each scoring tier as follows:
    1. The top 3 highest scoring teams are placed in each division.
    2. The upper-mid-range scoring teams (4-5-6) are then randomly drawn to determine division.
    3. The lower-mid-range teams (7-8-9) are then randomly drawn to determine division.
    4. Finally, the lowest scoring teams (10-11-12) are then randomly drawn to determine division.
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Protections

  1. Owners will be allowed to protect 0 players from their previous year's roster that are considered 'protectable.' They are protected at the round drafted in the previous year.
  2. Players drafted in the first round of previous year’s draft are not protectable.
  3. Players drafted in the second round of previous year’s draft are not protectable.
  4. All other players drafted outside of the first and second rounds of the prior year's draft are protectable for a maximum of 2 years.
  5. Protections are to be submitted via the Protections page (located under 'My Team'). The functionality of this page will be locked when the protection deadline has passed.
  6. Players protected in a round in which they traded away can be protected, but their protection round gets bumped up a (or multiple) round(s). For example, if Cal Ripken is drafted in the 10th round, but that team has traded its 10th round pick, Ripken can be protected as a 9th round pick in the following year; if the team has traded both it's 10th and 9th round pick, Ripken can be protected in the 8th round; etc.
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Draft Lottery

  1. The league option for draft lotter is turned off.
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Draft

  1. The draft will be 0 rounds long.
  2. The draft is something other than Snake or Straight (possibly an auction type draft), which is currently unsupported by this website.
  3. Players will be limited to one position that will be established on or before the day of the draft. CbsSports Depth Charts will be used as a guideline, but the league commissioner holds the right to determine the player's final position for the season.
    1. If an owner wishes to draft a player (other than SP and RP) at a different position than what is posted on the site, the owner will need to communicate this prior to the draft. Once the draft starts, player positions are locked for the year. Your league commissioner will make a ruling on any discrepancies on the player's position, using the CbsSports as the source: Depth Charts.
    2. A player is either drafted as a pitcher or batter, not both (i.e., Shohei Ohtani) - this must be declared upon drafting the player. If the player is declared a batter, the commissioner will assign the player's most likely position based on projected depth charts. Projected depth charts will also be used to determine that player's future position if kept as a protection the following league year.
  4. Your league commissioner will provide a full list of player position changes, which can be found in the Player Position Changes page (located under 'Draft'). It is useful to print this list out prior to the draft for reference.
  5. Players who strictly DH will be identified at the position they’d most likely play. For example, Jim Thome is a full-time DH, but if he did play the field (as he does in interleague play), he’d play 1B. Therefore, his position would be 1B.
  6. Trades are allowed before the draft. Trades that involve swap of the current year draft picks must be completed before the protection deadline passes. If a trade is agreed upon that involves current year draft pick swaps, please contact your league commissioner directly (either via email or website messaging functionality) so that the trade can be processed manually - the site only allows for trading of next year draft picks, your league commissioner has the capability of processing previous year trades.
  7. We will be using Yahoo's Fantasy Baseball site for the draft this year. The commissioner will set up the draft and communicate the league to you before the draft. Protections will be imported by the commissioner in the round each player was protected. Please ensure that your protected players are imported into the site correctly. Let the commissioner know if there are any discrepancies BEFORE the start of the draft. Once the draft is started, the commissioner has no ability to change player selections, protected players, or even pause the draft...so please review the draft data and familiarize yourself with the site functionality before the draft starts.
  8. Our league site will be the authoritative source for player positions. Yahoo might indicate a different position than what that player is eligible for in our league. If you have questions during the draft about position eligibility for a player, you may visit the Player Position Differences or Player pages or use the chat feature of Yahoo's draft site (although this is not regularly monitored, and may return a slower response).
  9. Once the Yahoo draft is completed, the draft data will be imported to our site by the commissioner. After this import is completed, please check your roster's players and protection status for accuracy. Any discrepancies must be brought to the commissioner's attention before the season starts!
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Rosters

  1. Rosters will consist of 30 players plus 5 IL positions.
  2. League owners can place a player on their IL when that player officially goes on the MLB disabled list. CbsSports will be used as our authoritative source of MLB IL information (a player must be listed as OUT, not day-to-day), but your league commissioner has final say on a player's IL status.
  3. Players on an owner's IL must be activated when they come off of the official MLB disabled list. This is subject to commissioner discretion. Note that lineup changes for current and future series, as well as free agent request functionality, is locked when a team has a player on the IL that is ineligible.
  4. Player position information within our site comes from 40-Man team roster pages of Baseball Reference. This information is visible in the corresponding tab of the player popup within the various pages of our site. Player positions may be changed throughout the year, but are subject to commissioner discretion.
    1. SP and RP can be interchanged anytime throughout the season. Each owner can do this on their own (without any assistance from the league commissioner) within the pitchers grid of your team roster page via the button . Please keep the Scoring Rules in mind when changing SP/RP information and setting your lineups.
    2. Non-pitcher positions cannot be changed. It doesn't matter how many games a player has played at other positions, the position listed in the site is that player's position for the year.
    3. Any player that switches from a pitcher to position player, or vice versa, must be changed by the commissioner. Contact your league commissioner directly for these types of player position changes.
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Free Agents

  1. Any and all free agent requests are due each week before Thursday, 10:00 PM ET. Exact deadline dates and times can be viewed in the Free Agent Deadlines page (located under 'League').
  2. Free agent processing occurs Thursday nights, roughly an hour after the deadline.
  3. Free Agency starts the Thursday before the start of the season (Week 1). The reverse draft order will be used for the first week (i.e., #12, #11, #10, etc.). Worst-to-first (determined based on win-loss, then total points) for weeks thereafter.
  4. All free agent requests must be submitted in the Free Agent Requests (located under 'My Team').
  5. A player can be picked up at a different position than what is listed on the website only if the player has played the most games at the position you want to change to. You can use the Position tab in the player popup on various pages to view player position information. See the Roster section for further details on player position changes.
  6. It is a good idea to request free agent pick-ups in a 'laundry-list' fashion, as such:
    7. PriorityActionPlayerActionAdd Player
    1DRSS - Julio Franco (CLE)ADC - Tony Pena (PIT)
    2DRSS - Julio Franco (CLE)AD1B - Sid Bream (PIT)
    3DRSS - Julio Franco (CLE)ADSP - Rick Rhoden (PIT)
    4DRSS - Julio Franco (CLE)ADSP - Bob Walk (PIT)
    5DRSS - Julio Franco (CLE)ADSP - Ken Tekulve (PIT)
    6DROF - Andre Thornton (CLE)AD1B - Sid Bream (PIT)
    7DROF - Andre Thornton (CLE)ADSP - Rick Rhoden (PIT)
    8DROF - Andre Thornton (CLE)ADSP - Bob Walk (PIT)
    9DROF - Andre Thornton (CLE)ADSP - Ken Tekulve (PIT)
  7. Similarly, open roster spots should be treated as you would players (you must specifically list the open roster spot you are trying to fill):
    8. PriorityActionPlayerActionAdd Player
    1OPOpen Roster Spot (1)ADC - Tony Pena (PIT)
    2OPOpen Roster Spot (1)AD1B - Sid Bream (PIT)
    3OPOpen Roster Spot (1)ADSP - Rick Rhoden (PIT)
    4OPOpen Roster Spot (1)ADSP - Bob Walk (PIT)
    5OPOpen Roster Spot (1)ADSP - Ken Tekulve (PIT)
    6OPOpen Roster Spot (2)AD1B - Sid Bream (PIT)
    7OPOpen Roster Spot (2)ADSP - Rick Rhoden (PIT)
    8OPOpen Roster Spot (2)ADSP - Bob Walk (PIT)
    9OPOpen Roster Spot (2)ADSP - Ken Tekulve (PIT)
  8. You may specify 'unless' conditions of a request to make it dependent on the processing of a previous request (making two requests 'linked'). The unless condition drop-down within the request page contains players in the add portion of previous requests. Therefore, if you have a laundry list of players that you are intending to pick up at different positions that includes players in the same position, but want to ensure you do not get two of the same position, you would use an unless condition to mark your second (or any further requests for the same position) accordingly. In the below example, Eric Plunk will be dropped for Felix Fermin only if Jose Mesa was not successfully awarded in the previous request:
    9. PriorityActionPlayerActionAdd PlayerUnless
    1DR1B - Paul Sorrento (CLE)ADRP - Jose Mesa (CLE)
    2DR1B - Paul Sorrento (CLE)ADRP - Eric Plunk (CLE)
    3DR1B - Paul Sorrento (CLE)ADOF - Kenny Lofton (CLE)
    4DRSS - Felix Fermin (CLE)ADRP - Eric Plunk (CLE)RP - Jose Mesa (CLE)
    5DRSS - Felix Fermin (CLE)ADOF - Kenny Lofton (CLE)
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Lineups

  1. All lineups are to be submitted through Set Lineups page (located under 'My Team').
  2. Regular season series lineups consist of the following positions: C, 1B, 2B, SS, 3B, OF, OF, OF, DH, SP1, SP2, SP3, RP1, RP2, SUB1, SUB2, SUB3.
  3. Players identified in SUB1, SUB2, and SUB3 in starting lineups will only be used if SP1, SP2, or SP3 do not pitch. See the Scoring section below for calculations when this happens.
  4. A tiebreaker player will be used in the case a day of the series results in a tie (check the corresponding checkbox when setting your lineup). This player may not be a SP or RP. If a tiebreaker player is not identified, the player inserted as DH will be used in case of a tie. See the Scoring section for tiebreaker calculations.
  5. Lineups can be submitted weeks in advance, but please be advised that any transaction that conflicts with future lineups will result in the player being removed from the lineup for that series. Therefore, it is a good idea to revisit future lineups before the deadline for accuracy.
  6. For series that DO NOT allow daily lineup changes, lineups need to be submitted before the lock date of the first day of the series (typically noon). Exact dates and times can be viewed in the Set Lineup Deadlines page (located under 'League'). For series that DO allow daily lineup changes, lineups need to be submitted before the lock date of each day of the series (typically noon each day). Note that starting pitchers and starting pitching subs will be locked if they have already pitched during the series.
  7. If a team does not submit a lineup for a series, the previous week's lineup will be used (entered automatically by the website administrator). For series that allow daily lineup changes, the previous day's lineup will be used.
  8. If a lineup is not set for the first week of the season, the highest draft pick at each position will be used to fill out a lineup (DH will be the highest overall pick left after filling positions). The team's tiebreaker player will be the highest draft pick overall.
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Scoring

  1. Below is the breakdown for batters and pitchers point scoring:
    2. Batter Points
    Games (G):0
    At Bats (AB):0
    Hits (Hit):0
    Doubles (DBL):0
    Triples (TPL):0
    Home Runs (HR):0
    Runs (Run):0
    Runs (RBI):0
    Walks (BB):0
    Strike Outs (SO):0
    Stolen Bases (SB):0
    Caught Stealing (CS):0
    Ground Into Double Play (GIDP):0
    Errors (E):0
    Hit By Pitch (HBP):0
    Sacrifice Flies (SF):0
    Sacrifice Hits (SH):0
    		 
    Pitcher Points
    Wins (Won):0
    Losses (Lost):0
    Innings Pitched (IP):0
    Hits (Hit):0
    Runs (Run):0
    Earned Runs (ER):0
    Walks (BB):0
    Strike Outs (SO):0
    Saves (SA):0
    Blown Saves (BS):0
    Holds (HO):0
    Quality Starts (QS):0
    Home Runs (HR):0
    Games (G):0
    Starts (ST):0
    Shut Outs (SHO):0
    Games Finished (GF):0
    Complete Games (C):0
    Hit Batters (HB):0
  2. IP will be rounded up if a pitcher pitches 2/3 of an inning. For example, if Bartolo Colon pitches 7 2/3 innings, he will get credit for 8 points.
  3. IP will be rounded down if a pitcher pitches 1/3 of an inning. For example, if Bartolo Colon pitches 7 1/3 innings, he will get credit for 7 points.
  4. If there is a double-header that falls within the series date range, both games of a double-header will count (therefore double-points for all players involved).
  5. In any regular season series, the points corresponding to the player identified for SP1 will count for FRI, the points corresponding to the player identified for SP2 will count for SAT, and the points corresponding to the player identified for SP3 will count for SUN.
  6. Each team manager does have the capability to designate a pitcher's SP/RP position from their team roster page (as often as weekly if needed), but should be aware that any points from a SP who comes in as a RP and any RP who starts a game will not count. Any SP who doesn't start the game, but comes in as a RP is eligible for first available SUB points, since his appearance is considered a non-start. It is up to the team manager to designate their player accordingly, with help from the league commissioner if needed.
  7. Pitching subs can be identified as SUB1, SUB2, and SUB3 when setting your starting lineup. If you have a pitcher in your starting lineup designated as SP1, SP2, or SP3 that does not pitch, the first identified sub (SUB1) will be inserted. If the sub does not pitch, the second identified sub (SUB2) will be inserted, and so on. This is done so that you aren't penalized if your starting pitcher gets rained out and doesn't start over the series.
  8. If daily score ends in a tie, the tiebreaker player identified in the starting lineup determines who wins the day. If the tiebreaker players identified by each team tie for that day, the entire series is looked at for that player. If the tiebreaker players tie for the series, the series day is considered a tie.
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Trades

  1. A player's protection status does not change upon a trade.
  2. If trading draft picks, an equal number of picks must be swapped between owners. For example, if GERONIMO trades Ivan Rodriguez to the JACKASSES for a 10th round pick, they must also include a draft pick (such as their 30th round pick).
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Playoffs

  1. The playoffs start the weekend after the regular season ends. Based on the league schedule set up by the league commissioner, the following weeks have been designated as playoff weeks:
    2. Playoff WeekWeekDescriptionDaily Lineup Changes
  2. 0 (of the 12) teams make the playoffs.
  3. Playoff seeding is based on division winners first, the next best 3 teams (wild card teams) afterwards based on W/L and total points.
  4. The highest seeded team will play the team with the lowest seed. This type of ordering will continue until all of the teams have matchups.
  5. There is no reseeding after the first round of the playoffs is completed. The highest original seeded team will play the remaining team with the lowest original seed. This type of ordering will continue until the playoffs complete.
  6. The player identified as the tiebreaker player will be used in case of a tie.
  7. Please keep the following in mind when setting your playoff lineup:
    1. 3-day series (typically FRI-SAT-SUN) lineups consist of the following positions: C, 1B, 2B, SS, 3B, OF, OF, OF, UT, SP1, SP2, SP3, RP1, RP2, SUB1, SUB2, SUB3. SUB1 results replace the first SP who didn't pitch during the series, regardless of the series day (i.e., due to rainout or injury). SUB2 results replace the second SP that didn't pitch, and so on.
    2. 5-day series (typically FRI-SAT-SUN-TUE-WED) lineups consist of the following positions: C, 1B, 2B, SS, 3B, OF, OF, OF, UT, SP1, SP2, SP3, SP4, SP5, RP1, RP2, SUB1, SUB2, SUB3, SUB4, SUB5. SUB1 results replace the first SP who didn't pitch during the series, regardless of the series day (i.e., due to rainout or injury). SUB2 results replace the second SP that didn't pitch, and so on.
    3. Starting pitchers are required for any series in which daily lineup changes are allowed. This prevents an owner from removing a SP from their lineup in favor of a sub whose results may already be known.
    4. Starting pitchers that pitch on days marked as 'Pitchers Only' in the league playoff schedule will count toward series day totals (typically MON or THU).
    5. Any starting pitcher that pitches more than once over the span of the series will only get credit for the first game pitched.
    6. Starting pitcher and starting pitching subs that have already pitched will not be editable, no matter what day identified, when daily lineup changes are enabled for the playoff week. Also, once the daily set lineup deadline passes, starting pitchers are not editable, even if they have yet to pitched.
    7. Starting pitcher subs can be modified within each playoff series day that allows for daily lineup changes, but keep in mind that modifications will be copied to each day of the series.
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Payouts

  1. Total purse will be distributed as follows:
    TypeDescriptionAmount
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Appendix A

  1. There is no regular season data to display from the previous season.
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Appendix B

  1. There is no post-season data to display from the previous season.
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