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Ron Shandler, Fantasy Reconstructed 2/26/26 Chat
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Ron Shandler
8:00
Welcome to the chat. Once again, the focus will be on your fantasy league rules, but I’ll respond to as much other stuff as time allows. It’s all in support of my new book, FANTASY, RECONSTRUCTED: The Innovator’s Playbook for Fantasy Sports. It is available on Bookbaby, Amazon, and a few other spots. If you’d like to be added to our mailing list for future updates, that’s here. The queue is thin at the moment, so I’ll respond to these first few and wait for others to wander in. Come on in, the water’s fine!
DrDave
8:00
We are allowed one free agent (and one waiver pick) a week, reverse order of standings in our AL-only leagues  We only use FAAB for players traded over from the other league ($50 budget).  The quirky thing is you must keep the player you won with FAAB on your freeze roster the following season.  It tempers the bidding somewhat when you know that he will take up that amount of salary on next years freeze roster.  This is a keeper league.  2025 example - Devers is taking up $50 of his teams $260 budget in 2026.
Ron Shandler
8:02
Your rules, taken individually, are quite common, although I haven't often seen them used together as you do. Limiting FAAB to cross-league trades is an interesting twist. So someone blew their entire FAAB on Devers? That makes sense when you can’t control how much interleague trading activity there will be in any given year (and Devers was traded so early last season). In all, the rules seem fair and I imagine they are achieving their intended purpose.
Ron Quillicy
8:02
I am seeing for the first time BABS information on the "PlayerLink" pages. For instance player Riley Greene I see F (Pw,a|inj-) $1.00. I know what the letters represent but don't know why some are in parentheses, why is the symbol "|" in the equation and what does the dollar amount represent?
Ron Shandler
8:04
To write about the BABS ratings, we use a shorthand explained in The BABS Project ebook here: https://www.baseballhq.com/articles/gaming/BABS/babs-home in Part 2, p. 18. Essentially, assets and liabilities are shown inside parentheses, separated by the pipe symbol “|”. The code for playing time appears just before the parentheses, and the player’s risk value (in dollars) is listed immediately after.
8:05
Well. The queue is empty. I'll check back every 5-10 minutes to see if anyone else wanders in. If we're still quiet at 8:30, I'll shut it down.
DrDave
8:11
In our league, since the biggest objection is dump trades, we do not allow trades from draft day until after the first reporting period in May.  You can only trade with another team once with a maximum of 2 for 2.  Trading lasts until the week after the major league trading deadline.  Also, any player traded can not be traded back to his original team for a period of one year unless he has been traded to a third team and the goes  back to his original.  We have tightened the screws on trading without elimination it altogether.  And we have a $430 in season salary cap.  Whew!
Ron Shandler
8:13
I am curious about the prevalence of dump trades in your league. My general philosophy is that we are all adults and let owners act in their best interest... except if there is collusion. Your rules, as stated, are fine, but I wonder if dump trading is more of a symptom and there is a deeper problem. Not trying to be a shrink, but I sense something more is going on here.
DrDave
8:17
There are a few teams that do not like to trade and they feel that the teams that do trade are colluding even though that is not the case.  That is why little by little we have come to what now constitute our trading rules.
Ron Shandler
8:17
Makes sense. Rules are molded to fit the personality of the league. I get it.
DrDave
8:25
Most of the original Rotisserie League members, many of whom I met in the mid-80's when they held a 2 day convention at the Bell view Biltmore in St. Pete during spring training, no longer imbibe in the sport that they created.  I'm 77 and formed my league in 1985 and it is still going.  I'll play Rotisserie baseball until they carry me out on my shield.
Ron Shandler
8:26
You're lucky to have a league that has lasted that long. That longevity offsets any rules quirks others might notice. Love stories like yours.
8:32
DrDave, it's been nice chatting. I'm gonna head out. You can always reach out again using the "mailing list" link at the top of the chat. It's just a contact form, really. Have a great night and good luck this season.
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