2021-2022 Rules Modifications - Discussion

100% on the goalie scoring. I borrowed the goalie scoring from another league that some of us are in and didn't realize the oversight.

Two things:

1. I don't think it's necessary to provide a SV% bracket above .980% as the only way a player could earn them would be to allow a single goal on roughly 50 shots or with a shutout. 

2. Just a reminder that every additional SV% bonus tier/point added, is cumulative for a shut-out which is already bonused.

Make them RFA instead, extending is only 20% markup from 700k

What is our definition of rfa? The only real reference in the rules is for players with expiring ELCs. Would the definition be any player exiting ELC or any U26 player added during the season is subject to offer sheets, and/or contract sets to real NHL contract?

Just a thought. I lot of the guys like higher scoring in terms of fantasy points. One way to keep our scoring model as well as keeping others happy would be to keep all the statistics relative by adding a 10 times multiplier to each one. It would not change anything really other than making the scoring bigger.

One issue that has to be addressed is the lack of positional flexibility in such a large league as it makes little sense to be so restrictive. I'm in a league with a bunch of you where it is:

4 - C
6 - W
2 - F

And Fantrax manages the eligibility for us. I really feel like we over thought it last year with the whole faceoffs taken criteria.

That's definitely better.  Last year we made far too many players centres that weren't really centres, which is really where my complaint comes from.  Purely looking at my roster, Blake Wheeler was made a centre.  Now I know, you know, Blake knows, the Jets knows that he's not a centre.  He's always been a RW.  Yes he took a lot of faceoffs the previous year, but so what?  That doesn't make him a centre.  I know a bunch of other teams had the same issues and it skews the values of wingers to be higher than centres due to positional scarcity.  If we are looking for realism, our settings do the exact opposite of that.

As for known date for player positions, yeah I can see that being an issue for roster building.  I still prefer to let Fantrax handle it and give managers as much flexibility to adapt by offering more F slots.  I mean I think the 3/6/3 alignment should work, but really is there any harm in 4C / 8 F? or 4C / 4W / 4F ? 

You know why Blake Wheeler didn't take so many faceoffs? Because they acquired PLD and let me say it again, HE'S NOT A CENTRE, like I screamed in Discord a million times. He wasn't the only one, but I'm just trying to emphasize the point that our eligibility criteria is flawed. Like you don't need to placate me at all, but if it's not fixed, I'm out. It's hard enough to scout and hand out contracts in this league, I'm not going to ice an inferior roster again because of an easily fixed issue.

No worries. Appreciate the passion!

Credit to HabsGM (Ray) for the great suggestion!

Revert back to Fantrax defaults and allow each manager 3 review requests per year.

I think the review process could then consider the FOT/TOI ratio with a bit of judgement call from the rules committee and myself.

I will also add another F spot in the rosters for greater flexibility. So final look would be 3C/6W/3F.

Hi Everyone,

This is a summary of the proposed changes to the league for next season. Please take a few minutes to review and let me know what you think.

Section 8.3 Waiver Claims

Draft eligible players cannot be acquired via waivers going forward. Only players over the age of 20 ( born before Jan 1st 2001) are eligible for waivers until after the current year's entry draft (after 2021 Entry Draft will be before Jan 1st 2002).



Essentially the language around waiver adds was a little loose in my opinion, so wanted to explicitly state this restriction going forward.



Waiver claims will not be executed during the playoffs.



I know this doesn't exactly follow the NHL, but I think this will help simplify the process going forward.



Players added via waivers will have the following contract rules:

A. If the player is not on an NHL contract and the first contract they sign would be an ELC, they will be added at the league minimum, once they sign their ELC. The length of the contract will be replicated. RFA status will be applied after the contract ends.

B. If the player is on an NHL ELC, they will be added at league minimum for the length of their real ELC contract. These players will have RFA expiration.

C. If the player is currently or has previously been on a standard NHL contract or is no longer eligible for an ELC contract, they will be added at the league minimum, for a max of three years decided upon acquisition.

i. This contract will not be dependent upon NHL signings, so the contract starts once the player is added to a roster.



These three scenarios should be all encompassing for potential waiver claims. Really wanted to reward quality scouting while not allowing for indefinite holds on players.





Note that if a player’s contract is terminated by a team, clearing waivers, then is subsequently claimed in the same season by the terminating team, they will be added at the terminated contract value.

This is to close a bit of a loophole where teams could terminate and reacquire a player for cheaper than the original contract.



6.1 Re-Signing Players

I had thought about putting in contract extension limits, but have decided to leave the current system in place. Recognizing certain team may be built to re-sign most of the roster year to year. This will be monitored however and could be tweaked in the future if negative impacts to the league are observed.



7. Offer-Sheets



This is to make slight adjustments and really clear up this process before we enter the RFA signing phase.

YOU MUST HAVE THE REQUIRED COMPENSATION BEFORE SUBMITTING AN OFFER-SHEET.

The RFA contract can only be higher than the previous contract.

ie. svechnikov contract ends at 9.6M, an offer-sheet would need to be at a minimum 2 1sts, a 2nd, and 3rd or the highest bracket (4 1sts)

Then one week to submit any offer sheets during the RFA signing period, the GM getting an offer-sheet will have 24 hours (instead of 48) to accept the contract or compensation at the end of the period.

Additionally, each team may only submit 1 (one) offer-sheet per offseason.



I am proposing to change the communication component for this to the following:

All RFAs will be in a thread in proboards, offer-sheets will be submitted in the thread. This will allow both the owner and the league to better track these throughout the week.







8.1 & 8.5 Termination Waivers/Buyouts

This was brought up in the original discussion, so wanted to put a summary together.

I think it would be good to simplify the language and termination process.



I proposed the trade deadline as a final termination date, I think this will allow every team to assess their cap and roster space in order to make a decision by then. This would then be frozen until after playoffs conclude. A new Cap hit would be 40% of the terminated contract. For the length of the terminated contract. Minors eligible contracts can be terminated without penalty.



Demotion Waivers



There appeared to be inconsistencies in GMs recording their roster moves in a timely fashion last season so I hope to address this going forward.



All demotion and terminations must be posted to Proboards before executing. If this continues to be not done properly roster move permissions will be removed from the GMs.

Fantrax will be updated to correctly reflect the minors eligible players, to avoid confusion in the future.

Note the time frame the player remains on waivers is from the time of the first post to proboards.

Penalties for not posting prior to match-up period begins:

First offence: Warning

Second offence: Replacement player’s score adjusted to zero for impacted week

Third: Team’s score adjusted to zero for the week.



I know these may seem harsh but it really is not an overly complicated process to follow so I hope I never have to implement this. If there are special circumstances surrounding the GM not posting to proboards, leniency may be applied.



3 & 3.1 Rosters and Position Eligibility

Due to concerns raised over the current roster format and positional eligibility for centers and wingers the following adjustments will be made.

Rosters will be

2-3C

5-6W

2-3F

5-6D

1-2G

0-4BN



This change is to allow teams greater flexibility in roster construction as many players float between winger and center positions throughout their career.



Position Eligibility will now be determined solely by Fantrax.

Each GM will now also receive 3 review requests per year, to challenge a player’s position determined by Fantrax.

The commissioner and the Rules committee will use the FOT/TOI ratio of 0.35 as a gauge along with judgment to determine if a player’s position should be updated.

Rare cases of a player moving from forward to defence and vice versa will also be considered in this review request.



9. Scoring



Suggestion made to apply a multiplier to scoring. All point totals would be multiplied by 10 going forward.

Additionally I believe thunder made this adjustment if not, I will change in Fantrax, but goalie sv% will be updated to include the range from 0.93 to 0.99, award 0.006point(s) for every 0.001SV%



I think this covers the issues that have been highlighted so far this offseason and could come up going forward, but please feel free to add any final commentary/suggestions.



Also if I have missed, misstated, or just completely missed the mark please make your opinion heard now. I do intend to keep to the Aug 3rd deadline for Rule changes.