2011-12 Puck Hogs Local 242 Supplemental League Rules and Policies

References:

1. PHL242 leagues in ESPN:
1. McCracken Division: http://games.espn.go.com/fhl/leagueoffice?leagueId=4277
2. Hanrahan Division: http://games.espn.go.com/fhl/leagueoffice?leagueId=4572
3. Wanchuk Division: http://games.espn.go.com/fhl/leagueoffice?leagueId=18097

2. message board: http://phl242.com/smf/
3. League website: http://phl242.com/

League Composition:

1. # Teams: We will have a 41 team league divided between divisions 14-14-13
2. League Type: Our league will have a points based regular season and a head to head (H2H) playoff system. Season schedule/milestones as follows:

§  Regular Season: Oct 6, 2012 – Mar 10, 2012 (Feb 22, 2012: Trade Deadline)

§  Division Quarterfinals: Mar 11 – Mar 17, 2012

§  Division Semi-Finals: Mar 18 – Mar 24, 2012

§  Division Finals: Mar 25 – Mar 31, 2012

§  League Championship: Apr 1 – April 7, 2012

Draft:    Draft order will be set roughly one week prior to draft date. Draft order will have two components:

1. Main bracket finishers will draft in reverse order of final finish
2. Non-main bracket and new managers will randomly seed for top draft slots.

Playoffs:

1. Qualifing for Playoffs
1. The top five teams in each division will qualify for the playoffs
2. The team from the 14 team divisions (McCracken and Hanrahan) will qualify for the one Wild Card spots.

2. Main Bracket Seeding:(Wanchuk=W, McCracken/Hanrahan combined=MH)
1. Round 1:

                                                               i.      W1 vs W4

                                                              ii.      W2 vs W3

                                                            iii.      MH1 thru MH11 + W5 will all seed according to Commish and Jimmy magic.W5 will seed in the middle of the MH pack.  

                                                            iv.      Brackets will not reseed after each round

3. Toilet Bowl Seeding:
1. Teams finishing (#17 – #32) when combining the non-qualifying team’s points will qualify for the Toilet playoffs. This will be a normal bracket seeding #17 against #32 and so on.
2. Brackets are locked and will not reseed after each round.

4. Points Tracking: As we will be a points based league in ESPN for the entire season, we must track playoff brackets manually. We will post the brackets on the PHL242 Message Board. ESPN will continue to track the scoring but we will note each team’s points at the beginning of that playoff week and subtract that beginning total from the week end total to get the true total for that week. We will compare the two teams playing head to head in that playoff round to determine that week’s winner. Example

§  Team 1 begins the first round (totals at the end of regular season) with 20,000 points and ends the first round (totals after last day of playoffs) with 20, 850 points. Team 1’s true Playoff Round 1 total is 850 points

§  Team 8 begins the first round (totals at the end of regular season) with 18,000 points and ends the first round (totals after last day of playoffs) with 18, 800 points. Team 1’s true Playoff Round 1 total is 800 points

§  Team 1 is declared the winner of that bracket by a score of 850 to 800.

§  We will continue the same system for all rounds using the previous rounds’ ending totals as the next round’s beginning totals

§  Note: ESPN will continue to keep track of all scoring; we will just handle this manual handicapping on the message board.

§  Drop/Adds: All drop/add rules will continue to apply during playoffs

§  Trades: Trading deadline will have passed so there will be no trades during playoffs

§  Commish will lock out all drop/add ability for all teams eliminated from playoffs. The only playoff losers allowed to continue drop/adds are those competing for the #3 position during the finals week. This rule is to prevent eliminated teams from affecting contending teams via drop/adds. All teams may drop/add throughout the playoffs subject to their drop/add limit as managed by ESPN.

5. ESPN stat adjustments: ESPN makes stat corrections weekly and these may impact the team the winning team of a playoff series.

§  If the margin of victory is greater than 100 points, the current winner shall be declared permanent and all playoff rules shall be followed.

§  If the margin is less than 100 points, both teams shall be allowed to continue playing in the playoffs subject to normal playoff rules until confirmation of stats on the following week’s cycle,

§  Upon confirmation of stats during ESPN’s next cycle, the winner of the previous round shall be the team competing in the following round just completed.

Team Composition/Scoring Categories/Scoring Points Modifiers/Waivers/Max Games

Please see the specific PHL242 rules in ESPN and ESPN’s generic fantasy hockey rules. Specific amendments follow:

1. I will do a one-time reset of all manager’s drop/add’s to zero on Oct 6, 2011.
2. Teams will have 30 drop/adds for the regular season. These moves are “use/lose” moves for the regular season. Commish will manually do the drop/add reset.
3. During playoffs, each team will have 3 drop/adds per playoff round. These moves will be “use/lose” for every playoff round.  Commish will manually do the drop/add reset.

Draft:  Our league will have a live draft on Sunday October 2, 2011: 1. See the PHL242 league in ESPN for details on live draft participation. Managers may elect to pre-rank players and not participate in the live draft as needed. Times as follows:

1. McCracken Division: 6pm EDT
2. Wanchuck Division: 3pm EDT
3. Hanrahan Division: 12pm EDT

League Entry Fee

1. $75 is this year’s entry fee.
2. Please mail me a check or you may paypal me. If you choose paypal please add $4 for receiving fees. Currency is USD.
3. Please email me for a mailing address if you intend to pay by check:
   
   
   

Prizes

Prize schedule will be as follows. Note all, regular season awards only apply the PHL242 regular season, not the NHL regular season:

All prizes paid by Commish at conclusion of playoffs either by check or by paypal. Winners must contact Commish with preferred payment method

Trophies

All trophies travel COD. Current holder and future holder of the each trophy must make arrangements for transfer. For those trophies that don’t exist yet. Commish and winner will arrange for transportation. Note, commish reserves the right to hold a $200 deposit for shipment of The Bucket to a new/unknown manager.

Division Chiefs:

1. New for 2011-12 are Division Chiefs (DC). The role of DC is to act as commish with full LM powers for each division. DC will confer with Commish for any opinions, league rulings etc. Any player may raise an issue to the Commish if needed.  

Trades:

1. Managers are free to offer and make trades as explained in the ESPN rules.
2. Trade Protests: Anyone who wishes to protest a trade must publicly do so on the message board. All players may comment on the issue and/or begin a poll on the message board. DC will confer with Trade Jury (TJ) as needed. Majority vote by TJ will overturn a trade. Commish will settle any deadlocks of TJ rulings as raised by DC. Not all trades will have action by the TJ, only those deemed questionable by any members.  
3. TJs rule on other divisions only and are as follows:
1. Hanrahan TJ: McV/Glenny.
2. McCracken TJ: Amy/Ken/Jimmy
3. Wanchuck: James/Ralph
4. Trades will proceed according to ESPN’s waiting period if there are no issues.
5. No odd player trades will be allowed (i.e. 2 for 1 or 3 for 2). These types of trades require the odd gaining manager to drop a player to maintain correct roster size. This makes judging fairness of a trade very difficult. Further, experience shows that most of these trade offers are rejected.
6. “Team Need” will not be considered when judging fairness of trades. Fairness will be judged on an absolute basis. Note “Team Need” usually revolves around goaltenders which are a most scarce commodity. As such, goaltender scarcity will factor into trade fairness, but a particular team’s need for goaltending (usually a result of an injury) will not.    

Special Circumstances

1. Player Dumping: This occurs when a manager (usually frustrated) dumps star players or possibly their entire roster to the waiver wire. In the unlikely event this occurs, Commish will freeze the manager and take control of manager’s team. All dumped players will be frozen and not available for pickup. Commish will then add players back to the team they were dumped from and lock out that team from competition for remainder of the season. Manager doing this will forfeit any prizes they were eligible for.
2. Unintentional Roster Moves: There are rare occasions when a manager “clicks the wrong button” when acting on a trade offer or dropping/adding a player. The league gives managers limited flexibility in recalling these errors:
1. Erroneous Trade Approval: If a manager erroneously approves a trade they did not wish to, that manager must send an email to the Commish and the trading partner (manager) within 15 minutes of the error. Commish automatically gets an email from ESPN on agreed trades so can easily compare timing of emails. The 15 minute limit is to prevent managers from acting on buyer’s remorse hours later or an injury/player announcement after execution of the trade date.
3. Hometown Jackass Rule (also known as the CAPSLOCK rule: All Puck Hogs that live within a two hour drive of the officially sanctioned Puckapalooza event are required to attend and drink beer with the fellow Puck Hogs. Failure to do so will result in immediate suspension and removal from the league and forfeiture of all league fees. Note, we don’t enforce this rule but just like to whine about it. Read league motto again “Commitment to stupidity…”