Hi Sam,
I commish two keeper pool and am responsible for tracking transactions (trades/pick ups) and weekly stats in two others. I currently use excel for all this. I\'ve been looking to go online if I can find one that will support my pool format, but have yet to find one that doesn\'t cost a fortune.
In the pools I run, when a trade is agreed upon, both teams send me an email confirming the deal and then I send out a trade notification to all in the pool. Same with any pick ups, I send a league wide email as soon as possible.
A friend who is commish of his league has a website that we can access the latest stats (updated once a week), rules, transactions and message board.
Ideally, I would love to be able to do everything online, but that would mean we have to change some of our rules and I lose some control:S
If you\'re very confident about your hockey knowledge, don\'t allow voting on trades. It opens the door to potential problems. Maybe a guy votes against a deal because it takes him down in the standings. Maybe he calls his other two or three friends and asks them to vote against the trade as well. You could end up with groups of owners who veto all trades THEY don\'t like.
I think there are several pool managers that are free. If you\'re starting a keeper league from scratch, check out some free sites and tailor your rules in order to use the free site. I guess Yahoo is the most popular, but there are many others. Just google \"hockey pool\" and you\'ll get pages of links.