Reminder about frozen rosters

[joeizzo]

Last year, as always, there were some issues with frozen rosters because owners did not take the time check position eligibility requirements so in some cases froze a player at an ineligible position. It will be the responsibility of each individual owner  to check that any player frozen is eligible for the position where he is placed - 20 games played there last year, or if he didn't play as many as 20 at any one position he is eligible at the position where he played the most. Sometimes OnRoto has this wrong - this year for example Yordan Alvarez is listed as eligible at both OF and DH but he played 74 games at DH and only 10 in the OF so under our rules is DH eligible only, and Khris Davis is listed as OF eligible even though he played only 4 games there last year. The same applies to minor leaguers - in order to be eligible to be frozen as a minor leaguer the player must have fewer than 130 AB or 50 IP in his major league career, not just the previous season. Any of this can be checked by simply looking towards the right hand side of the roster page or by clicking on the player's name on the OnRoto roster and all the necessary statistics come up.


In summary, it is the owners  responsibility, not the responsibility of other owners, the LA, or the auctioneer to put their players in positions where they are eligible. And, each owner needs to compare what OnRoto says about position eligibility with our rules BEFORE posting frozen rosters because in some cases there are differences.

Thanks for your help in this busy time for all of our league admins and auctioneers.  

Thanks,

Joe

[waters96]

The other problem we had was owners not posting their lists by the deadline, which made auction prep difficult and gave those owners the advantage of seeing what everybody else had done. Will there be a penalty if that happens this year?

[waters96]

Also, when will our minor league drafts take place?

[joeizzo]

Probably too late to institute a new rule with penalties but we can take that under advisement for next year.

Minor league drafts could be any time after a league's auction has happened but most likely after all the auctions have concluded.

Joe

[geoflin]

I checked all the league threads. Last year we submitted lists for the minor league drafts between April 10 and April 13, depending on the league and the LA. This gave us all a chance to settle in with our teams as the regular season began, make necessary moves due to IL's and players sent to the minors, and to go over 25 (now 26) man rosters in order to establish eligibility for the minor league draft. If we stick to the same schedule this year those dates are about 2 to 2 1/2 weeks after the regular season begins.

[Crosley]

Mar 6, 2020 17:12:18 GMT waters96 said:

The other problem we had was owners not posting their lists by the deadline, which made auction prep difficult and gave those owners the advantage of seeing what everybody else had done. Will there be a penalty if that happens this year?

Alex and I were the worst offenders on this point last year. We're shooting to be among the earliest this time around, so maybe we can reduce the problem to almost no problem at all.