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How does your league want the site to handle line-up changes? A note to leagues thinking of selecting the second to last option, "Owners may set line-ups and drop/add most free agents, but must submit claims to acquire waived players and FAAB for players new to the league." That option was implemented specially for just a couple of leagues. IT WILL NOT WORK if you play "old school rules" (see below), and it requires that FAAB bidding take place just once per week. "Old School Rules" leagues who use FAAB for players new to the league should use the last option "Owners may set line-ups and drop/add free agents to replace DL/demoted players, but must submit claims to acquire waiver wire and FAAB players". SUPER IMPORTANT: IF YOU DON'T USE OLD SCHOOL RULES, THAT LAST OPTION WILL NOT WORK for you. It will force you into Old School rules.
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We have 1 league which won't let owners replace injured players first-come/first-serve, but they still want those owners to be able to place those players on the DL immediately -- days in advance of when they'll be replaced -- even though this creates illegal line-ups. The only way this works is if the owners pick up dummy players to fill out their roster and preserve a legal active line-up. Do you need this option? NOTE: Unless we explicitly told you you must use this, you most definitely need to say "No" here.
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We've had one (1) league request that owner line-up changes be restricted to only placing players at different positions -- no activations or reserves, etc. Do you wish to prevent owners from doing anything other than changing player positions?
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Would you like us to provide a feature so you can track a rotating free agent pick-up priority list for your league? You'll have to keep it current, since you're handling all free agent moves, but everyone in the league will be able to see it.
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Are team owners allowed to make their own moves in the off-season -- even in the pre-season, before the team rosters have been fully loaded?
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Would you like to use our automated Bid Meister for sorting out your league's free agent bids and/or waiver claims?
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Which day or days do team line-up changes take effect? Note that changes can be entered into the system at any time. Here, we're just asking about when the moves actually take effect for the purposes of scoring. Note also that you almost certainly do NOT want to select the "Retro-active to Opening Day" option. Only two or three leagues use this very special option.
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One league has requested that owners NOT be allowed to make line-up change transactions more that one day ahead. Would you like to use this option?
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Would you like the Commissioner to have the ability to make line-up changes (for things like trades or DL movement) which are effective in the middle of your regular transaction cycle? Say "Yes" to this if you have normally have Monday transactions, but you want to allow DL'ed players to be replaced on any day of the week, but only by the commissioner.
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Would you like individual owners to have the ability to make line-up changes to replace injured or demoted players in the middle of your regular transaction cycle? Please note -- this refers to when the transactions take effect. Moves can always be entered at any time. Say "yes" here only if you want moves entered into the system to take effect immediately, rather than at your next transaction deadline.
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Can owners place players on the DL mid-week even if the player hasn't officially been placed on the DL? WARNING: If you select this option, teams will be allowed to place any of their players on their DL at any time -- even those players who are not even injured at all
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Would you like owners to be have the ability to activate players who come off the DL in the middle of a transaction cycle? Please note -- this refers to when the transactions take effect. Moves can always be entered at any time. Say "yes" here only if you want moves entered into the system to take effect immediately, rather than at your next transaction deadline.
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One league has requested that owners be allowed to activate players mid-week if they came off the DL or were brought up from the minors anytime in the prior two weeks (the default is one week). This would allow a team to sit on a player through a complete transaction cycle and still be allowed to bring him up in the middle of that second week. Is this league you?
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Can owners activate players mid-week even if the player hasn't yet come off the DL? WARNING: If you select this option, teams will be allowed to activate any of their DL players at any time -- even those DL players who are out for the season.
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On what day is the deadline for owners to submit line-up changes? In this question we're asking for the last day that owners can make line-up changes in time for them to be effective for the upcoming transaction period. Almost everyone should select "the same day that they take effect". Only leagues which require moves to be in place a day prior to when they take effect will select something else. NOTE: We consider 12:00 Midnight on a given night to be 0:00 AM on the following day, so if your deadline is Midnight Sunday for moves taking effect on Monday, you would still select "the same day they take effect".
The same day they take effect
One day before they take effect
Two days before they take effect
No real deadline -- moves are retroactive (this allows owners to enter moves AFTER THE FACT, and almost no one uses it).
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At what time are owner line-up changes due? (all times EDT)
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Would you like to permit owners to make line-up changes until game time of each individual game (i.e., different deadlines for different MLB teams, based on game-by-game start times)?
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Is it okay for owners to change player positions after games have started -- they can't activate or reserve players after games start, just change their positions.
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How are Free Agents awarded to your teams? Note, you've indicated that the commissioner handles entry of all free agent adds/drops/etc -- we're asking this question so we know how to help you set that up.
A pick-up process administered by the commissioner
A bidding process, using a Free Agent Acquisition Budget, administered by the commissioner
Sometimes via FAAB, sometimes with other processes, administered by the commissioner
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Do your first-come/first-serve free agent drops and adds take effect on a different cycle than your line-up changes? Unless your league permits something like daily line-up changes but weekly free agent pick-ups, you almost certainly want to answer "No"
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On which days do free agent adds and drops become effective?
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Is the deadline for owner first-come/first-serve free agent pick-ups different from the line-up change deadline?
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On which day is the deadline for owners to submit their first-come/first-serve free agent agent drops and adds?
The same day they take effect (check this option if your deadline is midnight the night before)
One day before they take effect (check this option if your deadline is midnight two nights before)
Two days before they take effect (check this option if your deadline is midnight three nights before)
Three days before they take effect (check this option if your deadline is midnight four nights before)
Four days before they take effect (check this option if your deadline is midnight five nights before)
Five days before they take effect (check this option if your deadline is midnight six nights before)
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At what time are owner first-come/first-serve free agent drops and adds due? (all times Eastern)
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When is the first time that owners can add free agents to their teams? (Note that this is a rarely used feature -- almost all leagues should select "First regular transaction period.")
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When is the last time that owners can add free agents to their teams? (This option applies mainly to legacy leagues, in which players carry over on the same team from one year to the next).
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What is the last August/September/October effective transaction date for which free agent pick-ups are allowed?
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Would you like the ability to activate an MLB player before he actually comes off the DL?
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If you use a DL, would you like the ability to place a player on the DL if he's injured but not on the MLB DL?
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One (1) league has requested a special option that prohibits owners from making any DL moves whatsoever on the line-up pages. The commissioner and the commissioner alone can place teams' players on the DL. (If you use the Bid-Meister, owners can still DL players there.) Do you want to use this rule?
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Would you like the ability to activate a player while he's still in the minors (or otherwise not available)?
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A very small number of leagues require that players in the active starting line-up be moved to the reserve roster (as either a reserve, farm or disabled player) before being released or waived (so it takes two transactions to get rid of an active player). Do you use this rule?
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A small number of leagues do not allow owners to release or waive a player who is on the active roster of his major league team -- if you have this player on your team (from the draft or as a pick-up or otherwise), you're stuck with him. Do you use this rule? HINT: Most likely not -- the more usual 'old school' rule is found several questions below this one. This option is extremely restrictive.
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One league has a rule that players on the FARM team can not be released directly -- they must be activated or reserved first, then they can be released/waived. Do you need this rule?
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An even smaller number of leagues do not want owners to ever be allowed to release players on their own - only the commish is allowed to do that. (Note -- this applies to the line-up page -- if you use the Bid-Meister, owners will still be able to release players there.) Do you want to use this option (Note, you almost certainly want to answer "No" here.)?
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"Old School" leagues typically forbid team from replacing their active players unless they had been injured, demoted, released, etc. Active roster players could not be taken out of the active line-up if they were still on an active MLB rosters, no matter how poorly they were performing. (They can be released/waived when being replaced by a waiver claim or to make room for a DL or farm player who is activated or called up.) Does your league use these "Old School" rules?
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Do you need to be able to created a list of players who may not be traded during the season?
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Do you need to be able to create a list of players who may not be released or waived during the season?
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When players get injured in September, their MLB teams will often not bother placing them on the DL. Since they technically remain actively, owners may be prvented from replacing them. Would you like to be able to create a list of players to be considered to be on the DL, even if they are not listed that way by their MLB team?
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A handful of leagues have asked if they can penalize miscreant owners by temporarily freezing some of their players in place (for infractions such as not activating a player from the DL after two weeks). Would you like to have this option?
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One (1, and it almost certainly was not you) league asked that the commissioner only be allowed to submit rosters for teams that are missing some of the active players. Would you like to use this option -- probably not.
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