** Spreadsheet layout of rules are here **
- Developmental player acquistion begins August 15th each year. It is optional, meaning you can choose to abstain, or simply not choose during your slotted time. There are no grace periods, if you do not choose a player during the time limit you lose your right to pick a player.
- Acquisition order is based on league standings as of the order that comes out on the morning of August 15th each year.
- Acquisition period is for 10 days starting on 8/15 at 7am. The team in the 10th spot has 24 hours to post their acquistion. Each team is slotted a 24 hr period consecutively starting 8/15. Once the team ahead of you chooses, you may post your acquisition immediately after and you have up until your team's deadline as determined by the league standings to post if you choose so.
- Once you acquire a developmental player, your team has the rights to that player from point of acquisition running through the following year up until the following year's draft. At which time you have to put him on your roster to retain his rights. To roster him you can designate your last spot in the draft and pick him up then. He does not have to take up a top 5 keeper spot. However, at this point he does have to be available on yahoo so that you can choose him to fill the spot. Prior to this time his spot could be reserved on the developmental player list, whether yahoo had made him available or not. You have to declare that you are going to roster him prior to the draft using the same deadline as the top 5 keepers.
- No other team can touch this developmental player during the time you own the rights to him. Your team can trade developmental players as part of a deal, or dev player for dev player. So you may wind up with the rights to multiple players, but their protected time frame remains the same. Also you have one developmental slot a year. As of this time, no trading of future rights is allowed.
- We are adding no extra roster spots. You can pick these players up and drop them at will filling any bench spot you have open or replacing a current rostered player. However, you are limited by yahoo for picking them up again for 2 days or whatever the current waiver time is. No other teams can touch these players while they are protected by your team, even if you drop them from a current roster spot during their protected time.
- Developmental player eligibility: Any minor league or mlb player which can be verified through yahoo.com, milb.com, or mlb.com, baseballreference.com with NO MLB EXPERIENCE prior to August 15th of that year. No college players allowed.
- A list of these player will be maintained in the commissioner's note on the yahoo league page each year and on the NOLA FBA Blog.
