Welcome to FBBKL 2023!

League Updates

Significant Rule Changes

As we continue to evolve and improve FBBKL, we’re introducing three significant rule changes starting this season and into 2025, designed to enhance strategic depth, fairness, and competitiveness:

  • Ban on Trading Acquired Lifetime Keepers and 0-Year Players during Off-Season (Effective in 2025): To encourage thoughtful, long-term planning and ensure competitive balance, off-season trades of Lifetime Keepers and players with 0 years remaining will be prohibited. This aims to enrich the drafting experience by keeping high-value players in the draft pool.
  • Choice Between Cash Prize or Draft Pick for 4th Place: The 4th place team now has the option between a $150 cash prize or the first pick in the next season’s draft, adding incentive for competitive play throughout the season.
  • Retention of Contract Terms for Dropped Keeper Players: Dropped keeper players will retain their original contract terms if picked up by another team, ensuring fairness and preventing manipulation of contract years.

Please note, the upcoming off-season trading period will be the last opportunity for such trades, allowing for a smooth transition under the new system.

Important Dates

  • Sunday, March 3rd @ 9:00 PM: Team Names Lock.
  • Monday, March 4th @ 12:00 PM: Off-Season Trading Opens.
  • Sunday, March 10th @ 9:00 PM: Off-Season Trading Closes.
  • Sunday, March 10th @ 11:59 PM: Keepers Submission Deadline on Yahoo!
  • Monday, March 11th @ 8:30: League Dues Deadline (Venmo: @joseph-bisceglie).
  • Monday, March 18th @ 8:30 PM EST: Live Draft on Yahoo! Site.

The MLB season kicks off with games between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres on March 20th and 21st. These games will count towards our season, so setting your lineups for these dates is crucial.

Task
  Status Date Pending
Finalize Team Owners (12) Done 02/27/24
Send out Doodle to determine draft date Done 02/19/24
Conduct rule voting changes via Slack n/a n/a
Finalize Draft date Done 03/02/24
Finalize rules document for current year and share with the league Done 03/02/24
Send out final roster sheets, with updated contract status Done 03/02/24
Finalize draft order via randomizer or video Done 02/19/24
Open off-season trading period, which ends when keepers are due Done 03/04/24
Transfer Waiver Priority from previous year/change FAAB to $200 Not Done TBD

OFFSEASON-TRADE REFRESHER

  • During the offseason trading period, any player on your team’s roster at the end of last year can be traded. You can find your team’s roster on Yahoo! and in our Roster document.

  • If draft picks are exchanged, an equal number of draft picks must be moved in each trade. You can see which draft picks all teams have on Yahoo!, here.

  • Make sure to check the contract status of the players involved in a trade. You can find each player’s contract status in our Roster Document. “1” indicates that the player can only be kept ONE more time, a “2” indicates a player can be kept TWO more times, etc. – this year and next, a “0” indicates that player must be tagged as a Lifetime Keeper or they cannot be kept.

  • You CAN trade for a Lifetime Keeper or a player with 0 years remaining on their contract, but that player can only be kept as a Lifetime Keeper.

  • When all participating teams involved agree on a trade, an email should be sent to the commissioner and co-commissioners (christopherolivieri@gmail.com, jbisceglie@hotmail.com and stephen.a.lipp@gmail.com), as well as the manager(s) of any teams involved.  The manager(s) who didn’t compose the email need to reply to the email saying they agreed to the trade as listed – or they can send their own email with the trade. In short: we need to hear from everyone involved.

  • If the co-commissioners accept the trade (Most trades are accepted), it will be listed on Slack in the League Announcements channel and the players/draft picks will be updated on Yahoo! to reflect the trade.

  • Please read the League Constitution section VIII for more info about specific situations re trades (ie, the rare instance when a trade isn’t accepted outright)

  • Once Off-Season Trading is closed on Wednesday the 08th, you have until 11:59 to submit your keepers via email to the commissioners AND mark them on Yahoo!