LEAGUE ANNOUNCEMENTS thread

[Nick]

Failure to meet minimum GP Requirements:

Dallas (Pete) failed to reach 1100 (1055 games) and has won the draft lottery from the #2 position. That pick will be moved back 1 spot, and will be used to select 2nd overall.
Pete also has some outstanding trades to complete involving draft picks.

Vancouver (Kareem) also fell below 1100 (just 1009 games), as such VAN 1st 2014 will be moved back 1 spot - from 4th, to 5th overall.

[kyuss]

For those concerned, penalizing picks does not exclude sanctioning the offending GM.

The two things are obviously not mutually exclusive, are they?

What Nick posted is hardly going to be CC last word on the matter.

[Shep]

Fantrax deadline

The deadline to submit complete and up to date rosters on Fantrax has been set on May 15th.
Dallas, Colorado, St.Louis, Ottawa, Vancouver are teams whose GMs have yet to complete the transition from CBS.

After May 15th sanctions and warnings/possible removal would ensue.

I'm an embarrassment to the league.

[Mike]

http://www.fantrax.com/fantasy/home.go? ... u1hu03n6f3

[kyuss]

The 2014 BBKL Entry Draft will start on June 5th at noon E.T.

Specifics for the draft will be similar to last year and will be reported in the first post of the draft selection thread.

[Chuck Norris]

Effective Immediately; Eric Wellwood (aka LeanMachine) had been hired as GM of the San Jose Sharks. Steve (aka The BBKL Insider) is to be his Senior Advisor effective immediately for a period of one month. As such Eric will require his sign off on any deals until July 2nd, 2014 @ noon EST. Steve is to be an impartial advisor (having no trade talks) until such time mentioned above. Due to the impending 2014 Entry Draft, Eric's trade freeze will be lifted the day of the draft: June 5th, 2014 @ 12:01am.

Please join me in welcoming Eric to the BBKL.

[Nick]

Pittsburgh:

Effective Immediately; Mike (aka Other_Mike) has been hired as GM of the Pittsburgh Penguins. Mike (Aka Mike) is to be his Senior Adviser effective immediately. As such Other_Mike will require Mike's sign off on any deals until August 7th, 2014 @ noon EST. Mike is to be an impartial adviser (having no trade talks) until August 21st, 2014. Other_Mike has a trade freeze until the 28th of July, 2014.

Please join me in welcoming (other) Mike to the BBKL.

Vancouver:

Effective Immediately; Fraser Read (Fraser) has been hired as GM of the Vancouver Canucks. Chuck is to be his Senior Adviser effective immediately. As such Fraser will require Chuck's sign off on any deals until August 7th, 2014 @ noon EST. Chuck to be an impartial adviser (having no trade talks) until August 21st, 2014. Fraser has a trade freeze until the 28th of July, 2014.

Please join me in welcoming Fraser to the BBKL.

In the coming days Fraser and (other)Mike will be granted Fantrax access and provided an up to date googledoc which they are responsible for maintaining.

This completes our new-hires for the summer - let's hope all 30 of us have a long tenure moving forward.

[kyuss]

The 2014 BBKL Waiver Draft is going to start on September 20th.

Link to the dedicated thread: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=11068#p179975

[kyuss]

- Free agency opens on Friday 26th at noon Eastern time
Players still eligible for the next BBKL Entry Draft will be available only until roster submission.
At least 24hrs have to pass between claims by the same GM (any claim coming before 24hrs have passed will be considered void)

- Deadline for Roster Submissions (end of the off-season) is Sunday October 5th at 3 p.m. ET

- Waivers will start on October 6th at noon

[kyuss]

Forwards' positions have been updated accordingly with this FOR list:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc ... _web#gid=9

same threshold as last year, 0.45.


Here the players involved by the update of Fantrax default positions:

Ho-sang --> W
Komarov --> W
Petrell --> W
W.Nylander --> W
A.Lee --> W
Jenner --> W
Kreider --> W
m.hoffman --> W
burish --> C
j,larsson --> C
matthias --> W
z.boychuk --> W
j.nolan --> W
spaling --> W
t.seguin --> W
haula --> C
horcoff --> W
colborne --> W
b.gibbons --> W
lazar --> W
rupp --> W
sheppard --> W
r.boucher --> W
loktionov --> W
o.moller --> W
r.carter --> W
b.nelson --> W
j.lindstrom --> W
lander --> W
rinaldo --> W
hendricks --> W
rakell --> C
j.winchester --> W
Ryan White --> C
Quinton Howden --> W
Sam Bennett --> C
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare -->W
M.A. Cliche --> C
E.Lindholm --> W

Please point out in this thread viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3663&p=188616#p188616 any mistakes or omissions you might notice.

Remember we do not use dual positions, so if there are still some duals left on your Fantrax roster (which is very possible) please report about it in that same thread, thx.

[kyuss]

Implementation of sliding contracts

Starting with this year roster submission we are going to resemble (albeit in a simplified manner) the NHL when it comes to sliding contracts too.


PLAYERS ELIGIBLE FOR SLIDE:
- 18 and 19 years old players (i.e. not turned 20 yet) as of October 1st who have not played 10 NHL games in their career yet.
- players with 0 NHL games that get signed during the season

HOW IT WORKS
GMs can leave those players without a contract on googledoc so that their contracts do not count towards the limit (50).
Whenever a GM decides to put one of those players in the active roster (lineup or bench) he needs to add his contract on googledoc and as a result from that moment onward that player will automatically add to the total number of contracts.
Once a player is given a contract on googledoc he loses his sliding eligibility for the rest of the season.
(googledocs are locked by Mike after each week so we would have records of GMs cheating on that)


Bottom line, if you want the contract of a player to slide, the only thing you need to do is cancelling (or not adding) his contract on googledoc new spreadsheet (coming soon) for roster submission.
Obviously you can only do that for players eligible for contract slide. Those players will be recognizable on your googledoc thx to a new apposite column.
Please note that from roster submission onward, once the player's contract is added on googledoc you can't take it away anymore.

[kyuss]

To update the previous message, the Roster Submission deadline has been moved to Tuesday 7th at midnight Eastern Time.

[kyuss]

Specifics for the first positional update

- FOR list (and GP numbers) will be generated from all NHL games played this season through the end of November

- updates will apply to Monday 8th roster lock

- after November 30th GMs may request data and role revision for a player of theirs within Monday 8th (status might change between nov 30th and dec 8th for players on the bubble. or there may have been omissions in the update)

- eligible for the update will be veterans with at least 20gp and bbkl-rookies (i.e. players who currently still have their bbkl position determined by the outdated nhl.com draft lists) with at least 10 games as of nov 30th (or as of the date a request comes in between nov 30th and dec 8th)

- a second automatic update will occur before the trade deadline in a date yet to be determined

- NO updates will occur between the 2 automatic updates

[kyuss]

The first update of the season has been performed.


Changes

C -> W
Paquette
Couture
Namestnikov
Nestrasil
Vey
O’brien
O.Jokinen
Everberg
Goodrow
Strome
Santorelli
Beagle

W -> C
Burakovsky
Girgensons
S.Gionta
MacKinnon
Sheppard
Lazar
Horcoff
Bellemare
T.Mitchell
B. Smith
A.Lowry
Kuznetsov
Marleau
O’Reilly
Fehr


If one of your players is still wrongly listed (because of an omission of mine or because his FOR status changed after November 30th) you should point that out (not in this thread) before next roster lock.

[Matthew]

Is that Liam O'Brien? He's only played 13 games.

Rookies are eligible after 10 games.

[Mike]

Congrats to our new Dallas GM LUTD. Matt B will be his trade buddy.

Send me a PM and I'll hook you up on FT and google.

[kyuss]

Given what we have been experiencing in this league in the past, the CC have added a new general rule to prevent unfair tanking, something that not only affects the final draft order, but also alter the rest of the standings as a result of disguised matchups:

Blatant tanking on purpose is not allowed. Not even after reaching gp minimums.
This means when a GM is caught blatantly dressing a worse lineup* than the one available, the league can fix the lineup immediately (this to save the integrity of the matchup and not giving up free pts to the opponent, hence screwing our standings as a result) and apply sanctions to the offending GM.
If the 'irregular' lineup is only detected afterwards, along with appplying sanctions, the advantage earned by dressing a bad lineup on purpose will be taken away in the final standings by adding the points of the stats the offending GM lost in the affected matchup.

* the accused GM will have the chance to explain his lineup decisions if he disagrees with the eventual CC intervention, but the CC will obviously have the final word.

As an example, this means Lee last season would have only got sanctions and no advantages in (lowering) his position in the standings by not dressing his goalies once he reached the GP minimum for G.

What he just did last week (scratching Cam Ward) is another example of a situation where this new regulation can be applied.

[Chuck Norris]

Congrats to the newest member of BBKL: Casperx22. He will assuming control over Colorado effective immediately. Chuck Norris (aka. moi) will be his trade advisor.

[Chuck Norris]

Just a quick announcement. The WLT has had a very slight modification. When the CC handed over control of the Avalanche to its new GM it realized that Colorado had been running over the cap most of the year. As such the CC retroactively modified the Avs' lineup to make them compliant. This affects only teams the Avs played and the change in the WLT was negligible (to the effect of 3 wins-ish).

[kyuss]

The BBKL trade deadline has been set for Monday, March 2nd, at 6p.m. ET.

That is 3hrs after the NHL trade deadline, and 1h before the roster lock of our second last week of the regular season.

After the deadline, no BBKL team will be allowed to complete and announce trades before the end of the BBKL playoffs.



The second and final C/W update will be based on a FOR list generated off the NHL stats as of Monday, February 16th (i.e. after Sunday 15th games are completed and taken into account) and will apply to February 23rd roster lock.