1) Who Must Be Bid On
A) The FAAB will stay turned on at all times during the season. All players picked up must be bid on. This includes DL and ML Replacement players, free agent players activated from the DL or ML and players traded to the NL from the AL. Each team will start the season with a $500 budget to bid on players for the entire season. When that is gone, you may not pickup any more players. The FAAB will run every night. You are still limited to two moves a week, DL and ML replacement players do not count against the two, but must be bid on. Our week goes from 11 PM Sunday to 10:59 PM the next Sunday.
2) Players Dropped or Traded from the AL
A) A player that has been dropped by a fantasy team or newly added (traded from the AL) to the NL player pool is not eligible for the FAAB run until the next day. If he is dropped or newly added on Tuesday, he would not be available in the FAAB process until it runs Thursday early AM. You may bid on him immediately but the FAAB will not be processed until the next day. The CBS system handles this and will show the date of the FAAB run.
3) Players Activated from the Disabled List or Minors
A) These players must show active in the NL on one of our four Official Sites before the bid ends. When a player shows active in the NL, he may be bid on and the FAAB will run that night. The Official Sites are ESPN = CBS
= MLB = Rototimes The player must be on the exact link that shows previously. Not just on a page somewhere in the site. -- If a player does not show on one of the Official Sites but plays in a game, he shall be considered active for our purposes as of that day.4) Bidding on Replacements for Players Who Do Not Show on DL or ML on CBS
A) If a player on your team shows on one of our Official Websites transaction pages ESPN = CBS
= MLB = Rototimes as going on the DL or being sent to the Minors, but does not show on the CBS Site, you may bid on a replacement player and not put anyone to be DLed. An equal number of bids may be made for every DL / ML player you have. You may not bid on three players when you only have two DL players in hopes of winning two of the three. This would make all of the bids Illegal if you should win all three. If you win your bid, you can then ask the Commish to put your player on the DL.5) Increasing Bids
A) If you want to increase your bid on the same player, that is allowed. The system will use your highest bid.
6) Ties for High Bid
A) If there is a tie for the high bid, the FAAB automatically breaks the tie with the highest Owner on the tiebreaker list winning. The FAAB tiebreaker will be set to the Draft Order at the start of the season. Everytime an Owner wins a bid, he will move to the bottom of the list and everyone else moves up a notch. It will continue this way all season.
7) Penalty for Illegal Bid
A) If an Owner wins a bid on a player that does not show on one of our four Official Sites as being active in the NL, the bid is VOID and the move counts. The Owner loses the money bid and his position in the FAAB tiebreaker order remains as the system has put it after the bid. The Owner may not make a bid on the same player in the next FAAB run. -- If an Owner makes more than his allotted two moves in a week, it will also be considered an illegal move.