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    SUMMARY/CONDENSED RULES
    -24 Teams-- Like the NHL before the rapid expansion of the 90’s.

    FEES/PRIZES
    -$50 yearly fee/team--100% payout. (FINAL FEE TBD AFTER GM POLLING, BUT CURRENTLY $50-60 APPEARS LIKELY.) Payments/payouts done through Fantrax Treasurer. Hybrid Prize Structure with both total Fantasy-Points and H2H Playoffs prizes, including a “wildcard lottery prize” designed so that all teams should have something to play for right up to the end of the season.

    ROSTER SIZE
    -23-player active roster sizes + 16 player farm team = 39-Player Total Roster Size (+4 IR). Keep 38 each year (so basically typical “dynasty”), but instead of relying on the typical “Keeper-Cuts/FA Draft”, we will use a “FA Vote-Off/FA Blind Bidding Periods” ‘free-market-styled’ mechanism to adjust salaries of the most sought-after players. (Sections 10-11 On “Vote-Offs” & “Free Agent Frenzy Periods” spell out a lot of those details, but from a GM’s perspective it is not that complicated of a process: Simply put, the month leading up to the Regular Season will have the FA pool enriched by approx the top 35-most sought-after out-of-contract players. Those players will be available to all GMs in a series of Blind-Bidding periods leading up to the regular season.

    REGULAR SEASON FORMAT
    -Semi-weekly H2H matchups (Sun->Wed & Thurs->Sat). Each lineup period during the regular season works like a “double header”, so each team is playing two games per period, for a total of 4 games a week. Approx. 76-82 game schedule for regular season.

    FREE AGENCY SYSTEM
    -Free Agent Acquisition Bidding. $100 Million FAAB / year. Winning bid becomes the player’s salary for the remainder of the season. Bids are blind and processed twice a week (Sun & Thurs). For year 1 FAAB becomes active following the inaugural draft. For year 2+ the FAAB gets reset just before the "FA Frenzy 'Draft'" period.

    SCORING
    -H2H Points, weighted strongly towards Goals/Points, but with many defensive/corsi-type stats to round things out. A limited amount of unique PP,PK,Enf,Skt line-up spots are available which re-weight points (e.g., a player assigned as PK would receive less fantasy points for Goals/Assists, but receive a boost to defensive stats like blocks, takeaways, hits, etc.).

    PLAYOFFS FORMAT
    -Full 16-team, 4-round playoff format similar to the NHL.
    Playoffs run through approximately the final 6-½ weeks of the season. (approx.~mid-late Feb). 4-round elimination brackets. Each round is a best of 5 series, with 3 lineup periods/games per week ([1]Sun->Tues, [2]Wed->Thurs, [3]Fri->Sat). It works out to approximately 1-⅔ weeks per round,

    OFFSEASON/FREE-AGENCY
    -Basically 4 things happen during the offseason.
    1 AMATEUR DRAFT
    Two rounds, includes NHL draft class for that year. Picks #1,2,3 determined by lottery w similar odds to the NHL.
    2 FA VOTE-OFFS
    GMs may ‘vote-off’ a limited amount of players from other teams into the FA Pool. Each team will lose 1-2 players through the Vote-Off process (exactly 12 teams will lose 2 players, and the other 12 teams will lose only 1 each). You can ‘protect’ your players from the Vote-Off process by offering them CONTRACTS. However, contracts include signing “bonuses”/penalties so GMs will need to decide how to best balance the risk/rewards when locking up their players long-term or leaving them exposed in the FA ‘Vote-Offs’. Vote-Offs are managed on google sheets and is designed to be as simple as possible for GMs, and basically amounts to checking up to 20 boxes from a list of potential UFA players.
    3 FA FRENZY PERIODS
    The FA Frenzy periods are simply a series of FAAB Blind Bidding Periods that span approx 1 month leading up to the start of the season. Bids will be resolved 3 times a week on Sun, Wed, & Fri nights, up to 1 winning bid per team, per period. Minimum bids(“salary demands”) will be generated by the system for each Frenzy FAAB Bidding Period. The minimum bids/salary demands will start rather high at the start of the Frenzy Periods, but each period player salary demands will be lowered and in the week prior to the start of the season minimum salary demands are lifted and all FAs will be willing to sign for as low as the league minimum (1M) for the rest of the season.
    4 CONTRACTS
    Shortly after player projections are updated in Fantrax (approx early Sept) GMs will be presented with updated player “salary demands” for all players not already on an extended contract. These salaries are generated by the system(Fantrax) based on league scoring & settings, and player projections for the upcoming season. GMs have the choice to either 1) drop their player, 2) keep them @100% for 1 yr (but player is exposed to vote-off next year), or 3) pay a premium and sign them to extended contract (player will be protected from vote-offs for duration of contract). A limited amount of extended contracts are allowed each year. Contracts are managed only in the preseason & calculated on google spreadsheets to keep things as simple as possible for GMs.

    SALARY CAP
    -Inaugural Cap will mirror the NHL cap +10% (approx @$76M* in 2016)
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    Default Re: UHL - Ultimate Retro Hockey League - New, Full-on Hardcore Dynasty-Salaries/Contracts/H2H-Points hybrid prizes,, 50$ Fantrax

    Still recruiting! We've decided to include some "Adopt-an-NHL-Team" aspects to the league. AFTER the 'Core Draft' teams will populate approx. the last third of their inaugural roster from undrafted players from the their chosen NHL Team.

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    Default Re: UHL - Ultimate Retro Hockey League - New, Full-on Hardcore Dynasty-Salaries/Contracts/H2H-Points hybrid prizes,, 50$ Fantrax

    UPDATE:

    So far TOR MTL BOS BUF are taken.

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    Default Re: UHL - Ultimate Retro Hockey League - New, Full-on Hardcore Dynasty-Salaries/Contracts/H2H-Points hybrid prizes,, 50$ Fantrax

    Hey how do i sign up just through the above link? Thanks

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    @8 GMs -- TOR MTL BOS CBJ CHI DET BUF BOS taken. @ current recruitment pace I think we'll be looking at starting the slow draft around the same time as the NHL Playoffs start. It will be a fun summer!

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    This guy runs great leagues y'all..

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    Still recruiting! @12 right now (probably 13), so our *estimate* of the draft start is being pushed back to late May/early June. Still *lots* of time for a nice long summer slow-draft, so we are not necessarily rushing into things and focussing on recruiting solid (& patient! ) GMs.

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    A bit of an update now that the NHL regular season has come to a close:


    Are you already looking forward to the 2016-17 NHL season?

    Are you in withdrawal from the 2015-16 fantasy hockey season recently coming to an end?

    Are you the kind of GM that really enjoys the long-term planning involved in dynasty leagues?

    Are you looking for a NEW league with a slow summer draft?


    If you answered yes to any of these (particularly #4!) then check us out! There are still about 10-12 teams left (max 22-24). The commish runs (and still runs!) a couple other H2H-Points formats that are similar, but none that are this big, deep, and loaded with so many features. The rules seem like a lot--(check the link in the first post of the thread for all latest rules & claimed teams)-- but the daily and weekly management is actually not too involved. Let me know if you have any questions--if you are human and clever you can figure out that my email could be typed as peatrc followed by at and then gmail etc.,


    Other things to note:
    -Fees will be due approx 1 week after league fills (22-24 teams). Draft order will be randomized shortly after, then the draft will start a couple days after that.
    -At the current rate of recruitment we are estimating we will start drafting anywhere between June-August.
    -Re: draft-- We will start rounds 1&2 at (max) 24hrs/pick, then rounds 3+ at max 12hrs/pick. From past experience this will take about 3-4 weeks. In the unlikely case that we run out of time, the remaining rounds will be done in a live 3min/pick draft setting on the last weekend before the NHL season starts, with the date/time determined by GM availability.

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    Still recruiting!

    IMPORTANT NOTICE-- Commish (me) will be away until late May in an area without internet, so any interested GMs PLEASE put "RHL RECRUITMENT" in your email so that your inquiry is forwarded to our co-commish who will be happy to hold a spot for you in the meantime! (or alternatively you can leave vancityGM a PM here on dobber)

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    Default Re: UHL - Ultimate Retro Hockey League - New, Full-on Hardcore Dynasty-Salaries/Contracts/H2H-Points hybrid prizes,, 50$ Fantrax

    Pretty interested in this but can anyone here vouch for the Commish since it's a money league?

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    Default Re: UHL - Ultimate Retro Hockey League - New, Full-on Hardcore Dynasty-Salaries/Contracts/H2H-Points hybrid prizes,, 50$ Fantrax

    Quote Originally Posted by Hibby View Post
    Pretty interested in this but can anyone here vouch for the Commish since it's a money league?
    Peatrc has been running money leagues for years on dobber's and has good reviews from pretty much everyone I've read. Money is put into Fantrax Treasurer (like leaguesafe) not given to the commish.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hibby View Post
    Pretty interested in this but can anyone here vouch for the Commish since it's a money league?
    Sorry for the late reply-- was away in the bush for a while-- but I'm back!

    I've run another 3 'dynasty-type' hockey leagues and 1 dynasty-type baseball league over the past 7 years or so. I could temporarily invite you (or any other interested GMs) to one/any of them to check things out (e.g. chat logs, league history ask other GM's questions, etc.). As Vancityguy said, I won't hold any $ personally--everything is paid to fantrax, held with fantrax, and later distributed through Fantrax.

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    First post updated with the new, 'clearer' condensed rules.

    Still 3-4 teams available. Hoping to start our inaugural slow draft by the end of the month/early July.

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    Long rule book - this guy seems to know what hes doing and the guys in chat are friendly

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    2-3 spots still available. Still aiming for an early July draft start.

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