Rosters, Scoring, Trades, Waiver Wire

Rosters and Roster Management

Rosters consist of 14 active players and 6 bench players, with various designated injury/not-active slots.  Roster positions are noted in the chart below. 
Each team will receive $100 in FAAB at the beginning of the year, which is NOT tradeable. 
Each team may have no more than 4 active goalies on their roster.
Roster sizes can be increased post-draft, however this is only actionable upon unanimous league approval, as roster sizes cannot be easily downsized.
Waiver wire is running a FULL-WAIVER SYSTEM, meaning each team has the same chance to claim a player over the course of a 24-hour period.  Claims are processed every day at/around 4AM EST.  The person who has the highest claim order and/or the highest FAAB bid will win the player.

Trade Deadline

Yahoo only allows a selection of various dates in February or March (mostly in-order to coincide with the NHL regular season trade deadline).  Given the 2024 season lengthening to 20 weeks, the trade deadline will on Week 18, 2/19/2025, will be the enforced trade deadline date.

Roster Chart

Scoring

League scoring is set as follows:

Trades and Trading Rules

***as of January 2025, 2nd round picks are permitted to be traded***

All trades undergo commissioner review.  There is no manager-veto system in place due to complications with both timeliness to push trades through, as well as arbitrary opinion of league managers going up against each other.  We believe that trades are between two parties, with only the commissioners' quorum weighing in only when a trade is believed to go against the spirit of the league and the innate competition.

Any trade that is deemed to be out of the spirit of competition will undergo a commissioner veto with a provided explanation to both parties, as well as the ability to re-make and re-submit the trade. Please note that the goal here is to NOT limit trading via arbitrary decisions (e.g., remove manager autonomy), but to disincentivize tanking and ensure a competitive league year over year.

• Picks in Rounds 1 and Round 2 cannot be traded in normal trades.  Exceptional circumstances noted below:

  • Swapping picks within round 1 or within round 2 is permitted.
    • e.g., a 1st Round Pick Swap based on forecasted draft position.
      
  • Any other commissioner-approved scenario involving picks in these rounds.

   

• Trade moratorium of draft picks for start of regular season:

  • Moratorium lasts from day 1 of the regular season (beginning of scoring) thru the end of Week 3
  • This is to prevent a team from immediately tanking/overpowering due to a "bad draft", or to prevent a team from making lopsided draft pick trades because they want to further improve their team without playing several weeks of the season.
  • This moratorium does NOT apply to any post draft trades from an agreed upon trade prior to or during the draft.
  • This moratorium does NOT apply to player-for-player trades during this period.
    

   

• Trades involving players that are on Yahoo's "Can't Cut List" are *solely up for commissioner review and can be vetoed for any reason, provided or not*, unless part of a pre-draft deal (pending commissioner review)

  • This is to prevent unnecessary trades during thr early weeks of the season in an effort to create an active trade deadline

   

• FAAB cannot be traded.