Managers,
With almost 1/3 of the league never
experiencing an SPB Phase 2 draft I have been fielding many questions on
the topic, hopefully shedding more light than smoke. Allow me to make some
points regarding the Phase II process and the Rookie Draft as well.
1. I have asked for the Phase 2
protected lists a bit sooner than the norm in order to give the league time to
review the lists and insure that all is in order. So far, all the teams
have submitted a list of protected players. I have given the new team,
East Coast Extreme some additional time to resubmit a protected player
list.
2. Once all of the protected player
lists have been received, an updated season disk will be sent to each of
you. All unprotected players will be indicated on your roster as being
farmed. Please do not change their status until after the draft(s) have
been completed.
3. On this disk, you will also be able
to run the Batter/Pitcher Registers to view all of the free agent rookies who
will be drafted in Phase 1.
4. Several of you have asked
about trades and because we have called for the protected lists earlier than
usual , this may get sticky. I will continue to allow trades that involve
either draft picks or PROTECTED PLAYERS until the completion of the Rookie
Draft. Consider your unprotected players now frozen.
5. If you make a trade of
protected players that involves an uneven number of players, you may not add
additional unprotected players to your roster. Again, consider the
unprotected players as now frozen.
6. Phase 2 will begin immediately upon
the completion of Phase 1. At that time all rosters will be frozen
until the completion of Phase 2. Phase 2 will last just a single round but
with each team getting three (3) player picks with his turn. No newly
added rookie or protected veteran may be drafted from another team. All
unprotected players that are not drafted, will be returned to their respective
teams. No team can loose more than five (5) unprotected
players.
7. Phase 2 will be handled exclusively
by e-mail. There is no time limit here, however one may be instituted if
the draft slows down to much. I certainly would like to see it completed
with a week after the rookie draft.
Let me know if you have additional
questions.
Jim