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What happens when a free agent is added to a team?
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One league has a rule whereby players added directly to the bench can't be activated until the transaction period following the one in which they were added -- it's like the option above requiring that players added as actives need to remain active for a week, but in this case it applies to reserves also. Do you need this rule?
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When a player is dropped by a team, can another team pick him up effective the same day that his release is effective, or does the player go into "limbo" for one transaction cycle before he can be picked up? Example: Suppose transactions in your league are effective on Mondays. If you cut a player on Sunday afternoon (effective Monday), can another team add that player Sunday night, effective Monday, or is that player not available to be picked up until Tuesday, effective the following Monday?
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How do you deal with free agents who are in the minor leagues or on the DL?
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One league (1) has asked that DL players be shown on the Free Agent lists, even though they are not eligible to be picked up. Is this you? (hint: almost certainly not.)
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In order to keep the free agent stat reports at a manageable size, we exclude minor leaguers from those listings. A small number of leagues have asked to have minor leaguers on MLB 40-man rosters included on free agent stat reports in addition MLB players. Would you like to use this option?
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Is there a limit to the number of free agents a team may add during any one transaction cycle?
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What is the yearly limit on the number of free agent pick-ups?
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A very, very, small number of leagues -- as in eight (8) -- and almost certainly not your league, players just called up from the minors or recently traded in from the opposite league go immediately to a special pool of free agents, distinct from other free agents and from the waiver wire. Players in this pool (and ONLY players in this pool) are added to teams via FAAB. Do you use this rule? Almost everyone really needs to answer "no" to this.
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Does your special, limited pool of players new to the league for FAAB also include players just activated off the DL
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When players are new to the league, do they become eligible for the FAAB pool immediately, or is there a waiting period? For example, if a player comes into the pool on Sunday morning and your FAAB bids occur on Sunday night, is that player eligible to be bid upon on that first Sunday, or does he have to wait until the next Sunday?
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Do you use a "Free Agent Acquisition Budget" (FAAB) bidding system for adding free agents?
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One (1) league has a special rule whereby they suspend the use of FAAB and switch to free agents awarded by standings order in September. Do you want to do this?
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How do you determine the salary of a player added as a free agent? Note: please do NOT select the 4th option, "His FAAB bid usually, but the default value set..." unless you have a regular period each week in which owners are allowed to add free agents at will, in addition to a FAAB proceedure. Note Also: if you use the "Vickrey" system in your FAAB bids, select the first option here -- you'll set up the Vickrey details later.
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Two leagues (2) which allow $0 bids allow them ONLY when replacing injured or demoted players. Otherwise they have a different minimum. Do you use this rule? (As of 3/30/13, only 2 leagues should say "yes" here.)
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What is the minimum bid when replacing non-injured players with FAAB?
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If a player is not included in your list of pre-defined salaries, is he still an eligible free agent?
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Enter a value for the primary default salary of a free agent
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Enter a value for the default salary of a free agent added after salaries change (All Star Break or 8/1, etc)
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Enter a value for the default salary of a free agent added in September
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Enter a value for the default salary of a free agent hitter
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Enter a value for the default salary of a free agent pitcher
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Enter a value for the default minimum (or max) salary of a free agent added via FAAB
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What is the budget for your free agent bidding system
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What is the minimum bid for a free agent?
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Can bids be fractions of a dollar -- $2.50, for example?
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Can teams with a $0 FAAB balance continue to place bids on players -- in the amount of $0?
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In a trivially small number of leagues, players keep the same contract and salary for the entire season, no matter how many times they get released back into the free agent pool and picked up by another team. This is not like waivers, which is how most league enforce salary retention. It's for players who are cut, sit in the FA pool for a month, and then get picked up by someone else. As far as we know, only 3 or 4 leagues need this rule. Do you use this rule (almost everyone should say "No")?
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Do you want the ability to force specific players onto (or keep them off of) your free agent list, regardless of their actual eligibility status? (You do this on their player profile page).
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