Free Agent Acquisition Budget (FAAB) Rules

In addition to the traditional waiver wire rules, all teams will now have a FAAB or Free Agent Acquisition Budget. 

Read about FAAB on Yahoo.

As we’ve done every year, each manager may add up to three free-agent players per week off of the waiver wire. If two managers both wanted to pick up the same player, then the manager with the higher waiver wire order would get the player. These same rules apply for 2020. 

In addition to the above rules, each team will start the season with $100 FAAB. FAAB works like a silent auction. If a team is willing to bid FAAB dollars to acquire a player, they skip over the waiver wire order and enter the auction. The team with the highest FAAB bid acquires the player.

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2021 Auction Value Translations

2019 is the last year in which draft picks can be traded. In 2021 (2020 exempt as an exhibition season) they cannot be traded because we are switching to an auction. In an auction draft pick rounds don’t have the same value as a snake draft because managers can nominate players in any order.

2019 draft picks trades will have a value translated into auction dollars for 2020. In short, this is the only year in which managers may start the auction with more or less than $260.

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2020 Framework of New Rules

From the Office of the Commissioner

The History of how we got here

Years ago Daniel had the idea to transition our league from a loose band of listless one-foot-in managers into an epic dynasty league — a league with dozen keepers, AAA players held in NA spots, and a $1,000 entry fee. It would mirror Major League Baseball, and only the most dedicated managers would win. 

Rules changed. Keepers grew from one to three, league dues raised steadily, and winning payouts grew alongside. New rules were added to balance out the system as we adjusted to this new reality: No trading of first-round picks, a limit of two draft pick trades per season, and the trade deadline was moved earlier and earlier to keep more managers feeling competitive for later into the season. We marched towards our collective dynasty as one. We would be made up of the best. 

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Note From the Outgoing Commissioner

Managers,

The time has come upon us to transition the league to our new leader.  You all spoke, and after much vetting, I had to go with the only person that elected them self to take us on our next journey.  Yes, that’s right, Misha (Mookie and the Betts) will be our unparalleled leader, officially taking the reigns after our 2019 season.  Little back story into why I believe Misha will be an excellent commissioner for Baldedlli’s.  

Let me take you back to the year 2002 where Misha and I first met.  It was through a mutual friend, who had aspirations to be a pharmacist, but couldn’t get out of his boring, most mundane life to achieve such high levels of success, as a pharmacist.  We’ll call him the pharmacist.  Through the pharmacist, we became roommates our second year of college.  Within the first two weeks of us all living together, it became clear that the aspiring pharmacist was a douche, and that our common interests in foosball, baseball and double dare sealed our alliance.  

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Rules 2019

(these rules expire 9/20/19)

1) Keeper Rule

a. Pick 3 Players from your previous season’s final roster.  

b. 1 of these keepers is a mandatory first round pick

c. The player’s previous year’s draft pick round will represent the round in which you keep the player for this year.  For example, if you choose to pick Player A that was drafted in the 8thround in the previous year, he will be your 8thround pick for the current draft.

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