1st Year Fantasy Hockey Keeper League (Yahoo H2H)

[CWestie]

Welcome to Playing for Keeps, a Keeper League for enthusiastic and knowledgeable armchair GM”s. The goal for Playing for Keeps is to create a league for active manager’s to build and grow with their team for years to come. I don’t want to see manager’s quitting mid-season or after 3 seasons… Suck it up and rebuild. That’s what being an armchair GM is all about. $50 Buy in must be paid prior to the Draft.


Looking for 9-13 active and enthusiastic Manager's to start a Keeper League with.

- Yahoo H2H Categories (G,A,PPP,SOG,Hits,Blocks,Wins,GAA,SV%,SHO)
- Rosters are 2C, 2LW, 2RW, 4D, 2G, 5Bench, 2IR+
- Up to 9 players can be kept each season.

Let me know if you're interested or have any questions.

[CWestie]

Rules & Regulations

• Every three years, the owners will review the entry fee. Only by majority vote, will the fee be increased. (A vote GREATER than 50% of the owners)
  
• No refunds, obviously
  
• Ideally, everyone will be in this pool for decades, but there will be times when people quit. When this happens, anyone interested in joining the pool will submit bids to me by a deadline. The minimum bid is $75; any access earnings will go to the owner that put the team up for sale.
  
• Every year, prior to the draft, owners can submit proposals for rule adjustments or additions. A vote of greater than 50% would pass the proposal.

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Trading

• Manager’s are able to trade draft picks for the following season's Draft, but each draft pick traded must have a draft pick coming back in return.
  
• "Buddy" trades will not be accepted. If anyone believes that a trade is FAR too lopsided, they may lodge a complaint with me. If that complaint is seconded, a vote will take place. A vote of 75% or greater will be sufficient to nullify the trade. THE COMPLAINT MUST BE LODGED WITHIN 48 HOURS OF THE TRADE. Owners win deals and lose deals – it happens. Sometimes owners lose deals badly. This rule is in place only for extreme situations. It is to prevent two friends from stacking one of the teams and splitting the prize money. It is also to prevent an owner who is planning on quitting the pool at season's end from helping someone out by giving them a "deal".
  
• If an owner quits the pool at the end of the season, their last two trades will be investigated, even though the 48-hour deadline is long over. By a 75% percent vote, if either of the trades are deemed unfair, or that the players involved were "unloaded" at a price too cheap, the team or teams involved will be penalized by losing some, or all of their draft picks. This will be done by a vote of 50%. If a penalized team does not have any draft picks that year; picks for the following year will be used.
  
• *IMPORTANT: Return all phone calls and all emails within 48 hours. Even for offers that seem stupid, at least give owners the courtesy of a two-minute phone call or email. Nobody likes waiting for answers, and it may affect other deals they are considering which are time sensitive. If the offer requires further thought, email the person with a brief note: "I'll think about this for the next ## days and get back to you". If hitting "reply" and typing that sentence is too time consuming, then join a Toronto Star pool where you just have to check boxes once per year.
  
• A final answer can be postponed for up to five days. Including the 48-hour window in which you responded: "let me think about this for the next couple of days". By the sixth day, the owner who proposed the offer may have forgotten what the offer was, exactly. And it's not fair of you to respond six or eight days later and force him to dig up the offer that he made (perhaps the offer was made on a platform that isn't handy for him at the moment of receiving the late response). Respect your fellow owners.

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Keepers

• Manager’s can choose to protect up to 9 players each offseason. Manager’s must submit their keepers by Sept 1. If you wish to protect a player you drafted this season, you must sacrifice a pick one round better than where you selected him. Each year after that, you must give up a pick one round higher still. To protect a player you drafted in the 1st round you must forfeit your 1st round pick. Manager’s can only forfeit up to 2 first round picks for the same player on the same tenure. For example, If you wish to protect C. McDavid who you drafted in the 1st round you would have to forfeit your 1st round pick in the Draft, and you could only protect him 1 more time before you’re forced to release him to the Draft. Or if you wanted to protect B. Point who you drafted in the 3rd round you would have to forfeit your 2nd round pick in the Draft, and if you wanted to protect him again the following year you would have to forfeit your 1st round pick in the Draft. In this scenario you would only be able to protect B. Point for consecutive 3 years.
  
• If you wish to protect a player but you don’t own the necessary draft pick to retain that player the manager could choose to forfeit a pick higher instead or release that player to the Draft. For example if you wish to protect B. Point who you drafted in the 3rd round, but you don’t have a 2nd round pick, you could choose to forfeit a 1st round pick instead or release him to the Draft.

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