Expansion Draft & Protection Rules

[mstreeter06]

Expansion Draft & Protection Rules

• Expansion Draft will consist of 15 rounds that consist of 4 picks each by the 4 expansion teams which gives each expansion team a total of 60 players after the draft
• Each current team can protect 20 players from being available in the draft; lists can be modified until the due date of the end of the 2016 playoffs; submit lists in team-specific thread or via email to myself, I'll update each team's top post with protected players as they come in
• No current team can lose more than ONE player per round AND every existing team loses one player per round
• All players drafted in 2015 and 2016 amateur drafts are auto protected, UNLESS they have ML service time (they would need to be part of the 20 protected list with ML service time)
• All players aged 20 and under on January 1st 2017 are auto-protected as long as they have 10 or fewer AFBL ABs (they would need to be part of the 20 protect list with ML service time)

This will be simple for everyone to understand and help avoid any confusion in terms of protection lists & the actual expansion draft.

[mstreeter06]

2016 Offseason Gameplan

• Finish 2016 Playoffs
• Announce 2016 Season Awards and Postseason MVP
• Sim game to 1/1/2017
• Relocate Arizona to New Mexico and California to Maryland; realign AFBL into 4 5-team divisions (FL West, FL East, PL North, PL South)
• Protection Lists from current 16 teams are due around this time
• Expansion Draft on 1/5/2017 (game date); draft will be held on the Forum or in Statslab
• Free Agent Draft on 1/15/2017 (game date) for 4 Expansion Teams; 5 rounds with expansion teams picking 4 times per round in reverse serpentine order as the Expansion Draft.
• Sim to Spring Training and resume normal sim schedule to begin 2017 with 20 teams with interleague play enabled for this single season.

[mstreeter06]

Some advice if you weren't aware of this function in the game is that you can set filters on your roster. This is useful for this to just set a filter to show all players at least 21 years old.