2020 (in to 2021) ADDITIONAL RULES AND FORMAT

In addition to the abbreviated and alternative scheduling format, here are the other rules/changes for this year and heading in to next year.

TRADES:

Trades will be allowed immediately through the abbreviated regular season. So, you can make trades through August 27 with the playoffs starting the next day August 28. ***However, this year (only) there will not be trades involving draft picks for next year allowed.

PAYOUTS:

With the entry fee changing from $150 to $100 for this year only, the payouts will be as followed:

1st: $700
2nd: $300
Most Regular Season Points: $200


KEEPERS FOR 2021:

To try and be fair to owners that tried to load up on draft picks for this year, for 2021 ONLY, we will increase the number of keepers from two to either four or five. If you only keep four, you will have the opportunity to draft in a supplemental draft with other owners only keeping 4 before the official draft begins thereafter.

For example, lets say everyone keeps five players except seed number 7,10, and 12 the draft will look like this at the beginning:

12
10
7
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12 ***Can start drafting pitching here.
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
1
2
3, etc.



Also, for 2021 ONLY you cannot keep Starting Pitching or Relief Pitching as one of your 4/5 keepers. I feel like if this rule wasn't included, we could have only 10 pitching staffs or so left before the draft even starts. You will also not be able to draft pitching in the supplemental round if there are any teams in that. Once the regular (official) draft starts, you can draft anyone including pitching as normal. (SEE ABOVE)

If there are any questions or concerns, please let me know. I'm trying to come up with the best way to do things until we (hopefully) get back to normal for 2021 season.