Beer
Drinkers
Rotisserie
Baseball
League
Constitution
Commissioner: Mark
Grebowsky(2003- ?)
PREAMBLE
We the owners of the Beer Drinkers Rotisserie
Baseball League (BDRBL), in order to promote fair play, do ordain and
establish this constitution.
OBJECT
To assemble a roster of Major League Baseball
Players whose statistics compiled during the course of the season by the
methods described in this constitution exceed those of all other teams in
the League.
INTRODUCTION
Rotisserie Baseball is a simple process that
allows the average baseball fan to own/manage their own team of Major
League Baseball players. The
salaries of these players is substantially less than the amount they are
receiving from their Major League owners. This constitution shall describe
the processes/methods that the BDRBL has established to manage the
movement of the players and the league in general.
ROSTERS
A BDRBL team is made up of three
rosters: the Active Roster, Reserve Roster, and the Minor League
Roster.
Active
Roster
The active roster is similar to a
major league team’s starting lineup.
The major league performance associated with the 25 players on a
rotisserie team’s active roster directly affect how that team fares in the
standings.
Quantity
Position
Comments
10
Pitchers
Any combination of starters
and relievers
2
Catchers
1
First
Base
1
Second
Base
1
Third
Base
1
Shortstop
5
Outfielders
1
Corner
Infielder
First or third
baseman
1
Middle
Infielder
Second baseman or
shortstop
2
Utility
Any non-pitching
position
Reserve
Roster
The reserve roster is similar to
a major league team's bench.
At the beginning of the season, a team's reserve roster contains up
to 10 players. This number
fluctuates over the course of the season due to trading and other roster
moves but never exceeds 10.
The reserve roster contains those major league players that are
available for insertion into the active roster (starting lineup). The major league performance
associated with the players on a rotisserie team’s reserve roster has no
impact on the standings.
Their statistics do not count toward the
standings.
·
Reserve Roster
players have predefined salary of $5.
·
Reserve Roster
players are eligible for promotion to the active
roster.
·
Reserve Roster
players can be traded and waived.
Minor League
Roster
The minor league roster
is similar to a major league team’s farm system. This roster is designed for those
managers that would like to draft players for future seasons. This roster can contain up to 15
players During the minor
league portion of the rotisserie draft, managers choose to place players
on their minor league roster.
·
Minor League players
have salary of $2.
·
Minor League players
can be activated onto their BDRBL team’s active
roster.
·
Minor League players
MUST be activated onto their BDRBL team’s active or reserve
roster within 2 weeks of exceeding their minor league eligibility in the Major
leagues.
·
Minor League players
can be traded or waived.
·
Minor League players
can be returned to the minor leagues provided they were selected in the minor
league draft and still are Rookie eligible as eligibility requirements were
set forth in 1971 with a rookie formally defined as a player with less than
130 at-bats, a pitcher with less than 50 innings pitched.
.
DRAFT
DAY
On a Saturday before Opening Day,
the BDRBL holds their annual draft.
This is without a doubt the most important event of the
season. The success of a
BDRBL team is tightly knit to how well it does on this day. Draft Day is actually three
separate drafts - the Minor League Draft for the acquistion of the Minor League
Roster,the Auction Draft for the acquisition of the initial
active roster, and the Reserve Draft for the acquisition of the reserve
roster.
Minor League
Draft
The first portion of draft day is the Minor League Draft, to fill its Minor League
Roster. This draft is
different, in that, no bidding takes place. The 5 players are simply chosen in
5 separate rounds of selection.
·
Only rookie eligible
players can be drafted in the Minor League Draft.
·
There are no
positional restrictions in the Minor League Draft. A manager is free to
select all pitchers, all hitters, or a combination of the two.
·
The order of
selection is determined by the order in which the teams finished the
previous season. The
5th place team selects first, proceeding in descending order to
the last place team, and is in turn followed by the 4th,
3rd, 2nd, 1st place
team.
·
The draft order reverses each round(snake draft).
·
During an expansion
season, the new manager(s) will select immediately following the
last place team.
Auction
Draft
The second portion of the draft
(dubbed the Auction Draft) is the mechanism by which a manager fills its
active roster (starting line-up).
Each team must acquire 25 players at a total cost not to exceed
$280. The teams do not have
to spend all $280. The day
starts with a given team (random selection) nominating a player for
acquisition. Along with the
player's name, the manager will submit an opening bid. Other interested managers then
continue the bidding until only one bidder is left. That team acquires the nominated
player for that amount and announces the position that the player will
fill. The process is repeated
until every team has a squad of 25 players.
·
All players are
eligible for the active draft regardless of whether or not they played in
Major League Baseball games the previous season.
·
The minimum bid for
a player is $1. The minimum bid increase is $1. All bids are in full
dollars.
·
The bidding order is
irrelevant.
·
Teams are permitted
to shift players around during the course of the draft, as long as the
player is eligible at those positions.
·
Teams are not
permitted to bid on a player they cannot afford. For example, a team with $3 left
and two openings on its roster is limited to a maximum bid of $2 for one
player.
·
No team can bid for
a player who qualifies only at a position that the team has already
filled.
Reserve
Draft
Immediately after the completion
of the Auction Draft in which the teams fill their active roster, a third
draft is held (dubbed the Reserve Draft) to fill its reserve roster.
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> This draft is different, in that,
no bidding takes place. The
10 players are simply chosen in 10 separate rounds of
selection.
·
Anyone is eligible
to be drafted in the Reserve Draft.
·
There are no
positional restrictions in the Reserve Draft. A manager is free to select
all pitchers, all hitters, or a combination of the two.
·
The order of
selection is determined by the order in which the teams finished the
previous season. The
5th place team selects first, proceeding in descending order to
the last place team, and is in turn followed by the 4th,
3rd, 2nd, and 1st place
team.
·
The draft order reverses each round(snake draft).
·
During an expansion
season, the new manager(s) will select immediately following the
last place team.
FEES
1.
Basic: $225 league fee. This covers the
cumulative total of salaries paid for acquisition of a 25 man
roster that may not exceed $280 and the CBS Sports Web Hosting Fee.
2.
Transactions: $0 fee to cover all
trades, activations, de-activations, waiver claims, and free agent claims
over the course of the season.
PLAYER SALARIES
The salary of a player is
determined by the time and means of his acquisition
.
·
The salary of a
player acquired in the Auction Draft is his auction
price.
·
The salary of a
player acquired in the Rotation Draft is $5.
·
The salary of a
player acquired in the Minor League Draft is $2.
·
The salary of a
player claimed as a free agent or on waivers is $3.
Because you can only commit $280
for salaries on Draft Day, and because you will keep some of your players
from one season to the next, salaries are very important, particularly
after the season ends and winter trading begins.
POSITIONAL ELIGIBILITY
A player may be assigned to any
position at which he appeared in 20 or more games the previous
season. If a player did not
appear in 20 games at a single position, he may be drafted only at the
position at which he appeared most frequently. The 20 game measure is used only
to determine the position(s) at which a player may be drafted. Once the season is under
way, a player becomes eligible for assignment to any position at which he
appears in at least 5 games.
The league secretary will assign
an eligible position (based on the player’s previous experience) to those
players that have been protected on roster freeze day but does not have
major league experience.
Those players who are drafted
during the auction draft and do not have Major League experience, will be
eligible at the position they are most likely to play during the upcoming
season – this too will be up to the discretion of the league
secretary.
STANDINGS
The following criteria are used
to determine team performance:
·
On Base Percentage
(OBP)
·
Home Runs
(HR)
·
Runs(R)
·
Runs Batted In
(RBI)
·
Stolen Bases
(SB)
·
Earned Run Average
(ERA)
·
Wins
(W)
·
Saves
(S)
·
Strikeouts
(K)
·
WHIP: base on balls
(BB) + hits (H) / innings pitched (IP)
Teams are ranked from first to
last in each of the ten categories and given points for each place. This example shows the scoring for
a 17 team league The first
place team will receive 17 points, the second place team 16 points, and so
on down to 1 point for the last place team. The team with the most total
points wins the pennant.
A team that fails to pitch a
total of 1150 innings during the course of the season cannot be ranked
ahead of any team that does pitch 1150 innings, in ERA or Ratio. This rule helps to promote a
pitching staff that closely resembles that of a major league team. Otherwise, a rotisserie owner
might be compelled to draft all relievers.
Pitchers' offensive statistics
are not counted, nor are the pitching statistics of the positional player
who is called in to pitch after the game has gotten out of
hand.
Tie-Breakers
·
In cases of ties in
an individual category, the tied teams are assigned points by totaling the
points for the ranking at issue and dividing the total by the number of
teams tied.
·
In cases of ties in
total points, final places in the standings are determined by comparing
the placement of the teams in individual categories. Respective performances are
calculated and a point given to each team for bettering the other. Should one team total more points
than the other, that team is awarded the higher placement in the
standings.
·
Should the total
points still be equal, the tie is broken by adding each team's total
at-bats at season's end, plus triple the number of its innings
pitched. The team that scores
a higher total by this measure wins the tie. A coin toss is then incorporated
should a tie still exist.
STATS
The weekly player-performance
summaries downloaded from CBS Sportsline. constitute the official database
for the computation of standings in the Beer Drinkers Rotisserie Baseball
League (BDRBL).
·
The effective date
of any transaction for purposes of statistical calculation is the Monday
immediately after the deadline (Sunday @ midnight) for reporting
transactions to the league secretary.
·
Transactions
recorded on Draft Day, including trades and call-ups to replace disabled
players, are effective immediately.
Transactions occurring after Draft Day but before the first
statistical report (Week 1) are effective the Monday immediately after the
first statistical report.
·
Performance
statistics of a player shall be assigned to a rotisserie team only when he
is on the active 25-man roster of that team.
·
BDRBL General
Managers that have not fulfilled their financial obligations to the league
will not receive statistical rewards. Statistics will accumulate once
the payment has been received by the league
treasurer.
It is common for a single major
league player to accumulate statistics for several rotisserie teams over
the course of a season.
However, the player can only be active on a single rotisserie team
for any given week.
TRANSACTIONS
The movement of players from
roster to roster, from team to team, and from free-agency to team, are
termed transactions.
ACTIVATIONS
An activation is the movement of
a player from the reserve or minor league roster of a team to the active
roster. A player can only be
activated to the position at which he was drafted or to a position in
which he has appeared in 5 games during the current season or 20 games
the previous season. A player must be on a major league
team’s active roster in order to be activated onto a rotisserie team’s
active roster.
DEACTIVATIONS
A deactivation is the movement of
a player from the active roster of a team to the reserve roster. A player must be activated in the
position left vacant by a deactivation. A position cannot go
unfilled.
TRADES
From the completion of the
rotation draft until midnight on August 1st, teams are free to make trades
of any kind without limit .
However, at no time can any team have on its active roster more
players at a particular position than allowed under the rules of the
Auction Draft. So long as
these rules 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 the players being received in such
trade.
·
At no point may a
team have more than 18 players on its reserve roster and farm team
combined.
·
At no point may a
team have more than 43 players on its active, reserve, and farm team
combined.
·
At no point may a
team have more than 25 players on its active roster.
·
Between August
1st and August 31st, trades may only be made between
teams that are within 3 places of each other in the most recent
standings.
·
The trading of draft
picks is not allowed.
·
Trades consisting of
cash and/or players to be named later are not
allowed.
·
No trades of any
kind may be made between September 1st and October
15th, nor between Roster Freeze Day and the conclusion of the
rotation draft on draft day.
SIGNING FREE
AGENTS
Active major league players not
on any BDRBL roster (active, reserve, or farm team) at the conclusion of
draft day become free agents.
During the course of the season the pool of free agents may also
include minor league players not on any team's reserve roster who are
promoted to an active major league roster and waived players who are not
claimed. Beginning one week
after the first standings report, such free agents may be signed, without
limit, in the following manner:
·
Free Agent claims
are first come first serve.
·
A team can submit a
bid for more than one free agent per week.
·
Free Agents have a
salary of $3.
·
Players signed as
free agents are not eligible for roster protection following the
season.
·
For each free agent
that it signs, a team must at the same time waive a player its active or
reserve roster.
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; and (b) under the rules
governing the winter roster (see WINTER
ROSTER).
·
The waiver period
commences at noon on Monday and extends for one full reporting period
(i.e. one week). At the
conclusion of that week, if the player is unclaimed, he goes
into the free agent pool, and may be acquired by a team only as outlined
above (see SIGNING FREE AGENTS).
·
Waiver claims are
honored according to the inverse order of the standings effective the week
before the close of the waiver period.
·
A team may reclaim a
player that it has waived only if all other teams in the league decline to
claim him.
·
The player’s salary
is $3 or his current salary, whichever is higher.
·
Players picked up on
waivers are not eligible for roster protection following the season.
ROSTER PROTECTION
Each team can protect as few
(0) or as many(25) of the players on its 25-man roster as it wants
from one season to the next.
During an expansion year this maximum limit is reduced to
10.
·
The names of players
being retained must be recorded with the League Secretary by midnight,
the day 2 weeks before draft day.. Players being
protected (other than players who remain on the Minor League Roster and the exception on the following line) have
their salaries increased $5 .
·
The exceptions to the $5 increase in salaries is for Minor Leaguers who have used up their Minor League eligibilty.
These players salaries will go from $2 to $5 to $8 before moving into the $5 salary increase.
·
The cumulative
salaries of players protected prior to Draft Day are deducted from a
team's $280 expenditure limit, and the balance is available for the
acquisition of the remaining players needed to complete the team's 25-man
roster.
·
Players acquired
through Waiver Claims or Free Agency are not eligible for
protection.
·
Protected players
who are placed on the disabled list of a major league team after
roster-freeze day but prior to Draft Day can be released by notifying the
League Secretary.
·
Reserve roster
players that did not play in the Major Leagues the previous season, are no
longer eligible to be carried into the draft on a rotisserie team’s
reserve roster.
·
Players selected
onto the Team’s Minor League Roster the previous season can be carried
into the draft in the following three ways:
·
Minor League Roster
- occupying the selection that he was selected at. The player’s salary will not count
against the teams $280 draft budget.
·
Active Roster -
occupying the position that the player qualifies at. The player will count against the
team’s $280 draft budget. If
the player did not play a game in the major leagues the previous season,
the league secretary will select the player’s positional eligibility.
·
Reserve Roster –
The player’s salary will not
count against the teams $280 draft budget. Only Minor League Players that are
still rookie eligible are eligible to be protected on their rotisserie
team’s reserve roster. The players salary will be increased to the reserve
roster minimum of $5.
PRIZES
To consecrate the bond of
friendship that unites all Rotisserie League owners in their pursuit of
the pennant, to symbolize the eternal verities and values of the Greatest
Game for Baseball Fans Since Baseball, and to soak the head of the BDRBL
champion with a sticky brown substance before colleagues and friends duly
assembled, the Yoo-Hoo Ceremony is hereby ordained as the
culminating event of the baseball season. Each year, at the awards ceremony,
the owner of the championship team shall have a bottle of Yoo-Hoo poured
over his head by the owner who finished lowest in the standings. The Yoo-Hoo Ceremony shall be
performed with the dignity and solemnity appropriate to the
occasion.
All fees shall be promptly
collected and wisely invested by the League Treasurer, who is empowered to
subject owners to public humiliation and assess fines as needed to ensure
that payments are made to the league in a timely fashion.
The
prize money shall be divided as follows:
·
Place
Percentage
1st
45.0%
2nd
25.0%
3rd
15.0%
4th
10.0%
5th
5.0%
WINTER
ROSTER
Effective October 15, each owner
is required to submit to the League Secretary a list of 25 players,
irrespective of position, taken from its combined active and reserve
roster. This group of players
becomes the winter roster.
·
After October 23,
winter rosters may exceed or fall below 25 players through trading
action. Whatever size the
roster, however, any successful claim of a player on waivers must be
accompanied by the placing of another player from the claiming team on
waivers.
MISCELLANEOUS
THE GILBERT RULE
This rule is to vote out a
troublesome owner. Any
discussion regarding the removing of an owner shall not be taken lightly. To remove an owner requires a 75%
vote of owners not in dispute with the owner in question. The league will
run the team until a new owner can be found or is disbanded prior to the
auction.
THE TREX RULE
This rule is to remove an inactive
owner from the league. An owner
will be considered inactive if no moves have been made and response from
owner after 6 weeks. At this point the league will run the team until a new
owner can be found or it will be disbanded prior to the next auction.
TRADE COMMITTEE
This rule is to prevent collusion
between owners to fix the league.
A 3-man committee consisting of the Commissioner and 2 owners appointed to
the committee will approve or reject trades in a timely manner.
AMENDMENTS
The BDRBL restricts rule changes
to once a year at the annual Winter Meeting. At this time any manager in the
league may propose amendments to this constitution.
·
A rule change is
voted on by a show of hands unless one manager requests a vote by secret
ballot. A manager has the
right to abstain from voting on any amendment.
·
The number of votes
required to pass an amendment is 3/4 of the managers present at the
meeting.
MEETINGS
The BDRBL has two required
gatherings per season. The
first is the Winter Meeting which is held in conjunction with the Awards
Ceremony. The primary purpose
of the Winter Meeting is to discuss rule changes, as well as, the upcoming
season. If an owner cannot
attend the Winter Meeting, he should appoint an alternate to voice his
opinion and to cast his vote.
The second required gathering is Draft Day.
EXPANSION
The process of expansion is the
means by which the BDRBL adds additional teams. Expansion comes in the form of a
motion at the annual Winter Meeting - thereby requiring 3/4 vote of those
present to pass.
A committee is formed to handle the
affairs of expansion. Such as
recruiting prospective managers and screening their applications. The committee has the right to
reject any application. The
new managerial prospects submit sealed bids to the committee, with the
highest bid receiving the expansion team.
Once selected, the new manager
has the option of choosing up to five players from the previous seasons'
Winter Waiver List at their salary prior to release. Also available to the new manager
is the right to sign players who are in the free agent pool . He submits a list of up to five
players to the expansion committee, who then assign fair market salaries
to the players. The manager
then has the choice of signing the players as he chooses. No more than five players can be
selected from each of the two sources for a total of ten players
maximum.
The established teams in the
league will be restricted to protecting a maximum of 10 players
instead of the normal 13 on Roster-Freeze Day .
OFFICERS
There are three offices in the
BDRBL: Secretary,
Statistician, and Treasurer.
Treasurer: It is the job
of the treasurer to notify the managers of their bills, as well as,
receiving and depositing their payments. The treasurer will pay all bills
and at seasons end distribute to the top finishers their respective share
of the wealth.
Secretary: The secretary's
primary responsibility is to receive the transactions as reported by the
managers, and to forward the information to the treasurer for billing
purposes, and to the statistician for roster purposes. The secretary is also responsible
for taking notes at all meetings and for disseminating information to the
league.
Statistician: The job of
the statistician is to compute and distribute the weekly reports to the
league.
These three officers form the
Executive Committee.
When there are discrepancies in the interpretation of rules or an
emergency decision must be made, it shall be made by the Executive
Committee.
SELLING A TEAM
Once in awhile, a person buys
into the BDRBL and it wasn't what they expected, or it didn't suit their
needs. When this happens the
league has certain rules and regulations to help that person rid
themselves of their problem, as well as, to protect the integrity of the
league.
The sale of the team is in the
hands of the league, not the selling partner. It is handled much in the same way
as expansion. A committee is
formed to handle the affairs.
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Beer
Drinkers
Rotisserie
Baseball
League
Constitution
Commissioner: Mark
Grebowsky(2003- ?)
PREAMBLE
We the owners of the Beer Drinkers Rotisserie
Baseball League (BDRBL), in order to promote fair play, do ordain and
establish this constitution.
OBJECT
To assemble a roster of Major League Baseball
Players whose statistics compiled during the course of the season by the
methods described in this constitution exceed those of all other teams in
the League.
INTRODUCTION
Rotisserie Baseball is a simple process that
allows the average baseball fan to own/manage their own team of Major
League Baseball players. The
salaries of these players is substantially less than the amount they are
receiving from their Major League owners. This constitution shall describe
the processes/methods that the BDRBL has established to manage the
movement of the players and the league in general.
ROSTERS
A BDRBL team is made up of three
rosters: the Active Roster, Reserve Roster, and the Minor League
Roster.
Active
Roster
The active roster is similar to a
major league team’s starting lineup.
The major league performance associated with the 25 players on a
rotisserie team’s active roster directly affect how that team fares in the
standings.
Quantity |
Position |
Comments |
10 |
Pitchers |
Any combination of starters
and relievers |
2 |
Catchers |
|
1 |
First
Base |
|
1 |
Second
Base |
|
1 |
Third
Base |
|
1 |
Shortstop |
|
5 |
Outfielders |
|
1 |
Corner
Infielder |
First or third
baseman |
1 |
Middle
Infielder |
Second baseman or
shortstop |
2 |
Utility |
Any non-pitching
position |
Reserve
Roster
The reserve roster is similar to
a major league team's bench.
At the beginning of the season, a team's reserve roster contains up
to 10 players. This number
fluctuates over the course of the season due to trading and other roster
moves but never exceeds 10.
The reserve roster contains those major league players that are
available for insertion into the active roster (starting lineup). The major league performance
associated with the players on a rotisserie team’s reserve roster has no
impact on the standings.
Their statistics do not count toward the
standings.
·
Reserve Roster
players have predefined salary of $5.
·
Reserve Roster
players are eligible for promotion to the active
roster.
·
Reserve Roster
players can be traded and waived.
Minor League
Roster
The minor league roster
is similar to a major league team’s farm system. This roster is designed for those
managers that would like to draft players for future seasons. This roster can contain up to 15
players During the minor
league portion of the rotisserie draft, managers choose to place players
on their minor league roster.
·
Minor League players
have salary of $2.
·
Minor League players
can be activated onto their BDRBL team’s active
roster.
·
Minor League players
·
Minor League players
can be traded or waived.
·
Minor League players
can be returned to the minor leagues provided they were selected in the minor
league draft and still are Rookie eligible as eligibility requirements were
set forth in 1971 with a rookie formally defined as a player with less than
130 at-bats, a pitcher with less than 50 innings pitched.
.
DRAFT DAY
On a Saturday before Opening Day,
the BDRBL holds their annual draft.
This is without a doubt the most important event of the
season. The success of a
BDRBL team is tightly knit to how well it does on this day. Draft Day is actually three
separate drafts - the Minor League Draft for the acquistion of the Minor League
Roster,the Auction Draft for the acquisition of the initial
active roster, and the Reserve Draft for the acquisition of the reserve
roster.
Minor League
Draft
The first portion of draft day is the Minor League Draft, to fill its Minor League
Roster. This draft is
different, in that, no bidding takes place. The 5 players are simply chosen in
5 separate rounds of selection.
·
Only rookie eligible
players can be drafted in the Minor League Draft.
·
There are no
positional restrictions in the Minor League Draft. A manager is free to
select all pitchers, all hitters, or a combination of the two.
·
The order of
selection is determined by the order in which the teams finished the
previous season. The
5th place team selects first, proceeding in descending order to
the last place team, and is in turn followed by the 4th,
3rd, 2nd, 1st place
team.
·
The draft order reverses each round(snake draft).
·
During an expansion
season, the new manager(s) will select immediately following the
last place team.
Auction
Draft
The second portion of the draft
(dubbed the Auction Draft) is the mechanism by which a manager fills its
active roster (starting line-up).
Each team must acquire 25 players at a total cost not to exceed
$280. The teams do not have
to spend all $280. The day
starts with a given team (random selection) nominating a player for
acquisition. Along with the
player's name, the manager will submit an opening bid. Other interested managers then
continue the bidding until only one bidder is left. That team acquires the nominated
player for that amount and announces the position that the player will
fill. The process is repeated
until every team has a squad of 25 players.
·
All players are
eligible for the active draft regardless of whether or not they played in
Major League Baseball games the previous season.
·
The minimum bid for
a player is $1. The minimum bid increase is $1. All bids are in full
dollars.
·
The bidding order is
irrelevant.
·
Teams are permitted
to shift players around during the course of the draft, as long as the
player is eligible at those positions.
·
Teams are not
permitted to bid on a player they cannot afford. For example, a team with $3 left
and two openings on its roster is limited to a maximum bid of $2 for one
player.
·
No team can bid for
a player who qualifies only at a position that the team has already
filled.
Reserve
Draft
Immediately after the completion
of the Auction Draft in which the teams fill their active roster, a third
draft is held (dubbed the Reserve Draft) to fill its reserve roster.
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no bidding takes place. The
10 players are simply chosen in 10 separate rounds of
selection.
·
Anyone is eligible
to be drafted in the Reserve Draft.
·
There are no
positional restrictions in the Reserve Draft. A manager is free to select
all pitchers, all hitters, or a combination of the two.
·
The order of
selection is determined by the order in which the teams finished the
previous season. The
5th place team selects first, proceeding in descending order to
the last place team, and is in turn followed by the 4th,
3rd, 2nd, and 1st place
team.
·
The draft order reverses each round(snake draft).
·
During an expansion
season, the new manager(s) will select immediately following the
last place team.
FEES
1.
Basic: $225 league fee. This covers the
cumulative total of salaries paid for acquisition of a 25 man
roster that may not exceed $280 and the CBS Sports Web Hosting Fee.
2.
Transactions: $0 fee to cover all
trades, activations, de-activations, waiver claims, and free agent claims
over the course of the season.
PLAYER SALARIES
The salary of a player is
determined by the time and means of his acquisition
.
·
The salary of a
player acquired in the Auction Draft is his auction
price.
·
The salary of a
player acquired in the Rotation Draft is $5.
·
The salary of a
player acquired in the Minor League Draft is $2.
·
The salary of a
player claimed as a free agent or on waivers is $3.
Because you can only commit $280
for salaries on Draft Day, and because you will keep some of your players
from one season to the next, salaries are very important, particularly
after the season ends and winter trading begins.
POSITIONAL ELIGIBILITY
A player may be assigned to any
position at which he appeared in 20 or more games the previous
season. If a player did not
appear in 20 games at a single position, he may be drafted only at the
position at which he appeared most frequently. The 20 game measure is used only
to determine the position(s) at which a player may be drafted. Once the season is under
way, a player becomes eligible for assignment to any position at which he
appears in at least 5 games.
The league secretary will assign
an eligible position (based on the player’s previous experience) to those
players that have been protected on roster freeze day but does not have
major league experience.
Those players who are drafted
during the auction draft and do not have Major League experience, will be
eligible at the position they are most likely to play during the upcoming
season – this too will be up to the discretion of the league
secretary.
STANDINGS
The following criteria are used
to determine team performance:
·
On Base Percentage
(OBP)
·
Home Runs
(HR)
·
Runs(R)
·
Runs Batted In
(RBI)
·
Stolen Bases
(SB)
·
Earned Run Average
(ERA)
·
Wins
(W)
·
Saves
(S)
·
Strikeouts
(K)
·
WHIP: base on balls
(BB) + hits (H) / innings pitched (IP)
Teams are ranked from first to
last in each of the ten categories and given points for each place. This example shows the scoring for
a 17 team league The first
place team will receive 17 points, the second place team 16 points, and so
on down to 1 point for the last place team. The team with the most total
points wins the pennant.
A team that fails to pitch a
total of 1150 innings during the course of the season cannot be ranked
ahead of any team that does pitch 1150 innings, in ERA or Ratio. This rule helps to promote a
pitching staff that closely resembles that of a major league team. Otherwise, a rotisserie owner
might be compelled to draft all relievers.
Pitchers' offensive statistics
are not counted, nor are the pitching statistics of the positional player
who is called in to pitch after the game has gotten out of
hand.
Tie-Breakers
·
In cases of ties in
an individual category, the tied teams are assigned points by totaling the
points for the ranking at issue and dividing the total by the number of
teams tied.
·
In cases of ties in
total points, final places in the standings are determined by comparing
the placement of the teams in individual categories. Respective performances are
calculated and a point given to each team for bettering the other. Should one team total more points
than the other, that team is awarded the higher placement in the
standings.
·
Should the total
points still be equal, the tie is broken by adding each team's total
at-bats at season's end, plus triple the number of its innings
pitched. The team that scores
a higher total by this measure wins the tie. A coin toss is then incorporated
should a tie still exist.
STATS
The weekly player-performance
summaries downloaded from CBS Sportsline. constitute the official database
for the computation of standings in the Beer Drinkers Rotisserie Baseball
League (BDRBL).
·
The effective date
of any transaction for purposes of statistical calculation is the Monday
immediately after the deadline (Sunday @ midnight) for reporting
transactions to the league secretary.
·
Transactions
recorded on Draft Day, including trades and call-ups to replace disabled
players, are effective immediately.
Transactions occurring after Draft Day but before the first
statistical report (Week 1) are effective the Monday immediately after the
first statistical report.
·
Performance
statistics of a player shall be assigned to a rotisserie team only when he
is on the active 25-man roster of that team.
·
BDRBL General
Managers that have not fulfilled their financial obligations to the league
will not receive statistical rewards. Statistics will accumulate once
the payment has been received by the league
treasurer.
It is common for a single major
league player to accumulate statistics for several rotisserie teams over
the course of a season.
However, the player can only be active on a single rotisserie team
for any given week.
TRANSACTIONS
The movement of players from
roster to roster, from team to team, and from free-agency to team, are
termed transactions.
ACTIVATIONS
An activation is the movement of
a player from the reserve or minor league roster of a team to the active
roster. A player can only be
activated to the position at which he was drafted or to a position in
which he has appeared in 5 games during the current season or 20 games
the previous season. A player must be on a major league
team’s active roster in order to be activated onto a rotisserie team’s
active roster.
DEACTIVATIONS
A deactivation is the movement of
a player from the active roster of a team to the reserve roster. A player must be activated in the
position left vacant by a deactivation. A position cannot go
unfilled.
TRADES
From the completion of the
rotation draft until midnight on August 1st, teams are free to make trades
of any kind without limit .
However, at no time can any team have on its active roster more
players at a particular position than allowed under the rules of the
Auction Draft. So long as
these rules 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 the players being received in such
trade.
·
At no point may a
team have more than 18 players on its reserve roster and farm team
combined.
·
At no point may a
team have more than 43 players on its active, reserve, and farm team
combined.
·
At no point may a
team have more than 25 players on its active roster.
·
Between August
1st and August 31st, trades may only be made between
teams that are within 3 places of each other in the most recent
standings.
·
The trading of draft
picks is not allowed.
·
Trades consisting of
cash and/or players to be named later are not
allowed.
·
No trades of any
kind may be made between September 1st and October
15th, nor between Roster Freeze Day and the conclusion of the
rotation draft on draft day.
SIGNING FREE
AGENTS
Active major league players not
on any BDRBL roster (active, reserve, or farm team) at the conclusion of
draft day become free agents.
During the course of the season the pool of free agents may also
include minor league players not on any team's reserve roster who are
promoted to an active major league roster and waived players who are not
claimed. Beginning one week
after the first standings report, such free agents may be signed, without
limit, in the following manner:
·
Free Agent claims
are first come first serve.
·
A team can submit a
bid for more than one free agent per week.
·
Free Agents have a
salary of $3.
·
Players signed as
free agents are not eligible for roster protection following the
season.
·
For each free agent
that it signs, a team must at the same time waive a player its active or
reserve roster.
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; and (b) under the rules
governing the winter roster (see WINTER
ROSTER).
·
The waiver period
commences at noon on Monday and extends for one full reporting period
(i.e. one week). At the
conclusion of that week, if the player is unclaimed, he goes
into the free agent pool, and may be acquired by a team only as outlined
above (see SIGNING FREE AGENTS).
·
Waiver claims are
honored according to the inverse order of the standings effective the week
before the close of the waiver period.
·
A team may reclaim a
player that it has waived only if all other teams in the league decline to
claim him.
·
The player’s salary
is $3 or his current salary, whichever is higher.
·
Players picked up on
waivers are not eligible for roster protection following the season.
ROSTER PROTECTION
Each team can protect as few
(0) or as many(25) of the players on its 25-man roster as it wants
from one season to the next.
During an expansion year this maximum limit is reduced to
10.
·
The names of players
being retained must be recorded with the League Secretary by midnight,
the day 2 weeks before draft day.. Players being
protected (other than players who remain on the Minor League Roster and the exception on the following line) have
their salaries increased $5 .
·
The exceptions to the $5 increase in salaries is for Minor Leaguers who have used up their Minor League eligibilty.
These players salaries will go from $2 to $5 to $8 before moving into the $5 salary increase.
·
The cumulative
salaries of players protected prior to Draft Day are deducted from a
team's $280 expenditure limit, and the balance is available for the
acquisition of the remaining players needed to complete the team's 25-man
roster.
·
Players acquired
through Waiver Claims or Free Agency are not eligible for
protection.
·
Protected players
who are placed on the disabled list of a major league team after
roster-freeze day but prior to Draft Day can be released by notifying the
League Secretary.
·
Reserve roster
players that did not play in the Major Leagues the previous season, are no
longer eligible to be carried into the draft on a rotisserie team’s
reserve roster.
·
Players selected
onto the Team’s Minor League Roster the previous season can be carried
into the draft in the following three ways:
·
Minor League Roster
- occupying the selection that he was selected at. The player’s salary will not count
against the teams $280 draft budget.
·
Active Roster -
occupying the position that the player qualifies at. The player will count against the
team’s $280 draft budget. If
the player did not play a game in the major leagues the previous season,
the league secretary will select the player’s positional eligibility.
·
Reserve Roster –
The player’s salary will not
count against the teams $280 draft budget. Only Minor League Players that are
still rookie eligible are eligible to be protected on their rotisserie
team’s reserve roster. The players salary will be increased to the reserve
roster minimum of $5.
PRIZES
To consecrate the bond of
friendship that unites all Rotisserie League owners in their pursuit of
the pennant, to symbolize the eternal verities and values of the Greatest
Game for Baseball Fans Since Baseball, and to soak the head of the BDRBL
champion with a sticky brown substance before colleagues and friends duly
assembled, the Yoo-Hoo Ceremony is hereby ordained as the
culminating event of the baseball season. Each year, at the awards ceremony,
the owner of the championship team shall have a bottle of Yoo-Hoo poured
over his head by the owner who finished lowest in the standings. The Yoo-Hoo Ceremony shall be
performed with the dignity and solemnity appropriate to the
occasion.
All fees shall be promptly
collected and wisely invested by the League Treasurer, who is empowered to
subject owners to public humiliation and assess fines as needed to ensure
that payments are made to the league in a timely fashion.
The
prize money shall be divided as follows:
·
Place |
Percentage |
1st |
45.0% |
2nd |
25.0% |
3rd |
15.0% |
4th |
10.0% |
5th |
5.0% |
|
|
WINTER
ROSTER
Effective October 15, each owner
is required to submit to the League Secretary a list of 25 players,
irrespective of position, taken from its combined active and reserve
roster. This group of players
becomes the winter roster.
·
After October 23,
winter rosters may exceed or fall below 25 players through trading
action. Whatever size the
roster, however, any successful claim of a player on waivers must be
accompanied by the placing of another player from the claiming team on
waivers.
MISCELLANEOUS
THE GILBERT RULE
This rule is to vote out a
troublesome owner. Any
discussion regarding the removing of an owner shall not be taken lightly. To remove an owner requires a 75%
vote of owners not in dispute with the owner in question. The league will
run the team until a new owner can be found or is disbanded prior to the
auction.
THE TREX RULE
This rule is to remove an inactive
owner from the league. An owner
will be considered inactive if no moves have been made and response from
owner after 6 weeks. At this point the league will run the team until a new
owner can be found or it will be disbanded prior to the next auction.
TRADE COMMITTEE
This rule is to prevent collusion
between owners to fix the league.
A 3-man committee consisting of the Commissioner and 2 owners appointed to
the committee will approve or reject trades in a timely manner.
AMENDMENTS
The BDRBL restricts rule changes
to once a year at the annual Winter Meeting. At this time any manager in the
league may propose amendments to this constitution.
·
A rule change is
voted on by a show of hands unless one manager requests a vote by secret
ballot. A manager has the
right to abstain from voting on any amendment.
·
The number of votes
required to pass an amendment is 3/4 of the managers present at the
meeting.
MEETINGS
The BDRBL has two required
gatherings per season. The
first is the Winter Meeting which is held in conjunction with the Awards
Ceremony. The primary purpose
of the Winter Meeting is to discuss rule changes, as well as, the upcoming
season. If an owner cannot
attend the Winter Meeting, he should appoint an alternate to voice his
opinion and to cast his vote.
The second required gathering is Draft Day.
EXPANSION
The process of expansion is the
means by which the BDRBL adds additional teams. Expansion comes in the form of a
motion at the annual Winter Meeting - thereby requiring 3/4 vote of those
present to pass.
A committee is formed to handle the
affairs of expansion. Such as
recruiting prospective managers and screening their applications. The committee has the right to
reject any application. The
new managerial prospects submit sealed bids to the committee, with the
highest bid receiving the expansion team.
Once selected, the new manager
has the option of choosing up to five players from the previous seasons'
Winter Waiver List at their salary prior to release. Also available to the new manager
is the right to sign players who are in the free agent pool . He submits a list of up to five
players to the expansion committee, who then assign fair market salaries
to the players. The manager
then has the choice of signing the players as he chooses. No more than five players can be
selected from each of the two sources for a total of ten players
maximum.
The established teams in the
league will be restricted to protecting a maximum of 10 players
instead of the normal 13 on Roster-Freeze Day .
OFFICERS
There are three offices in the
BDRBL: Secretary,
Statistician, and Treasurer.
Treasurer: It is the job
of the treasurer to notify the managers of their bills, as well as,
receiving and depositing their payments. The treasurer will pay all bills
and at seasons end distribute to the top finishers their respective share
of the wealth.
Secretary: The secretary's
primary responsibility is to receive the transactions as reported by the
managers, and to forward the information to the treasurer for billing
purposes, and to the statistician for roster purposes. The secretary is also responsible
for taking notes at all meetings and for disseminating information to the
league.
Statistician: The job of
the statistician is to compute and distribute the weekly reports to the
league.
These three officers form the
Executive Committee.
When there are discrepancies in the interpretation of rules or an
emergency decision must be made, it shall be made by the Executive
Committee.
SELLING A TEAM
Once in awhile, a person buys
into the BDRBL and it wasn't what they expected, or it didn't suit their
needs. When this happens the
league has certain rules and regulations to help that person rid
themselves of their problem, as well as, to protect the integrity of the
league.
The sale of the team is in the hands of the league, not the selling partner. It is handled much in the same way as expansion. A committee is formed to handle the affairs.