We Are Updating/Finetuning Our FAAB Rules
Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2021 1:57 pm
There was a little confusion this weekend when Alex Wood was unofficially added to the Giants' roster on Wednesday and wasn't available in NFBC FAAB on Sunday. There's also been questions about veterans on the DL who weren't available in FAAB to start the season, even though our rules state that DL players should be eligible in FAAB.
So it's time to add clearer language to our rules and explain how this works. Heck, I needed a refresher course with IT today as well.
The current setup has been in place with our SportsHub software since 2018 involving veterans and minor-leaguers and it hasn't changed at all. Basically, we set up the software to more easily have a defined set of circumstances for when a player is added to FAAB. In the past, people would read on Rotowire or Rotoworld that a minor-leaguer or veteran was activated and they felt he should be available in NFBC free agency as soon as they read that. But we needed an official addition by Major League Baseball and our stats provider, which sometimes was 12-24 hours after it was first reported. We quickly updated that rule with minor-leaguers while we were at STATS to say that this minor-leaguer had to play at least one game in the majors before being added to our free agent lists and that solved the problem with new callups.
What we have done for veterans and DL players since the start of the 2018 season is that they are available to be picked up in FAAB once they are officially on an MLB 25 (now 26)-man roster. This again puts us in the same scenario that we were in before with minor-leaguers, but as soon as we officially get the word from MLB and our stat provider that he is officially on an MLB roster then he is eligible to be picked up in FAAB and started on your NFBC team. That has not changed in our programming. Here's a slight addition to our rules to clarify this:
Any player who is not on a team roster within your league and is on a major league roster or once was on an NFBC team in your league is considered a free agent for that league once they are officially on an MLB active roster. Even players on the MLB disabled list are eligible to be picked up during the FAAB bidding process once they are officially on an MLB active roster. The player pool is deemed closed of new free agents each Sunday at 7 AM ET before the FAAB bidding deadline and a player must have played at least 1 MLB game to be added to the pool at that time. Once a minor-leaguer plays his first game in the majors, he remains in every NFBC FAAB pool whether he returns to the minors or not. Once in the majors, he remains in all FAAB pools. Participants should also note that MLB unsigned veteran free agents at the time of Draft Day are eligible to be drafted in all NFBC leagues. However, after Draft Day they can only be added via free agency once they are officially added to an MLB 26-man roster.
In Alex Wood's case, it was reported that he was added to the Giants' roster on Wednesday, April 14th. However, we did not get a designation from MLB or our stat service that he was officially on the MLB roster until Sunday, April 18th. Whether that's how the Giants handled it or how our stat provider handled it, we will look into it. But had he been officially added to the Giants' MLB roster before 7 am ET on Sunday he would have been in our FAAB pool and ready to accumulate stats this week. I was wrong earlier in reporting that he needed one game played first before accumulating stats; our criteria is one major league game played in his career.
Sorry for any confusion, but we dove into the coding today to make sure we had this right. Nothing has been changed in our coding since 2018 on this. Veterans who were not drafted in an NFBC league and haven't played yet in the majors, can be picked up in FAAB once they are officially on an MLB roster and their stats will accumulate immediately once they are added to your team. DL players also can be picked up once they are officially on an MLB roster and their stats will accumulate immediately after they are added to your team as long as they have played in the majors before.
Thanks all and good luck.
So it's time to add clearer language to our rules and explain how this works. Heck, I needed a refresher course with IT today as well.
The current setup has been in place with our SportsHub software since 2018 involving veterans and minor-leaguers and it hasn't changed at all. Basically, we set up the software to more easily have a defined set of circumstances for when a player is added to FAAB. In the past, people would read on Rotowire or Rotoworld that a minor-leaguer or veteran was activated and they felt he should be available in NFBC free agency as soon as they read that. But we needed an official addition by Major League Baseball and our stats provider, which sometimes was 12-24 hours after it was first reported. We quickly updated that rule with minor-leaguers while we were at STATS to say that this minor-leaguer had to play at least one game in the majors before being added to our free agent lists and that solved the problem with new callups.
What we have done for veterans and DL players since the start of the 2018 season is that they are available to be picked up in FAAB once they are officially on an MLB 25 (now 26)-man roster. This again puts us in the same scenario that we were in before with minor-leaguers, but as soon as we officially get the word from MLB and our stat provider that he is officially on an MLB roster then he is eligible to be picked up in FAAB and started on your NFBC team. That has not changed in our programming. Here's a slight addition to our rules to clarify this:
Any player who is not on a team roster within your league and is on a major league roster or once was on an NFBC team in your league is considered a free agent for that league once they are officially on an MLB active roster. Even players on the MLB disabled list are eligible to be picked up during the FAAB bidding process once they are officially on an MLB active roster. The player pool is deemed closed of new free agents each Sunday at 7 AM ET before the FAAB bidding deadline and a player must have played at least 1 MLB game to be added to the pool at that time. Once a minor-leaguer plays his first game in the majors, he remains in every NFBC FAAB pool whether he returns to the minors or not. Once in the majors, he remains in all FAAB pools. Participants should also note that MLB unsigned veteran free agents at the time of Draft Day are eligible to be drafted in all NFBC leagues. However, after Draft Day they can only be added via free agency once they are officially added to an MLB 26-man roster.
In Alex Wood's case, it was reported that he was added to the Giants' roster on Wednesday, April 14th. However, we did not get a designation from MLB or our stat service that he was officially on the MLB roster until Sunday, April 18th. Whether that's how the Giants handled it or how our stat provider handled it, we will look into it. But had he been officially added to the Giants' MLB roster before 7 am ET on Sunday he would have been in our FAAB pool and ready to accumulate stats this week. I was wrong earlier in reporting that he needed one game played first before accumulating stats; our criteria is one major league game played in his career.
Sorry for any confusion, but we dove into the coding today to make sure we had this right. Nothing has been changed in our coding since 2018 on this. Veterans who were not drafted in an NFBC league and haven't played yet in the majors, can be picked up in FAAB once they are officially on an MLB roster and their stats will accumulate immediately once they are added to your team. DL players also can be picked up once they are officially on an MLB roster and their stats will accumulate immediately after they are added to your team as long as they have played in the majors before.
Thanks all and good luck.