Post by Moscow Red Army on Oct 9, 2023 18:12:52 GMT -5
Hello!
The NHL will begin its regular season tomorrow, Tuesday Oct 10th. Accordingly, it's time to get those Opening Rosters set.
1) Opening Rosters are due Tues Oct 10th at 5:29pmET/2:29pmPT. That's 1 minute before puck-drop on the Predators/Lightning game. Between now and then, you are welcome to officially submit a roster on the boards in your team's section, or send one to me in a direct message, or at the very least have your roster set over on FanTrax. Even if you do either of the first 2 options, please also set your FanTrax roster to match. Whatever it is at that time of the deadline will be considered binding. Any transactions done past that deadline will count against your transaction limit.
2) Speaking of which, Match #1 will allow two additional transaction per owner (5 total). We're starting this season on a double-week (Oct 10-Oct 21), as running from just Oct 10-14 didn't leave a fair amount of games played. That being said, it's still a pretty long stretch to start things off, so I think an extra couple transaction are fair to help everyone navigate things.
3) On that same note, remember that IR Replacements cannot be made FOR your Opening Roster. You can choose to have IR eligible players simply start on your MINOR roster, or if you really want to place a player on IR, they may start on your MAJOR roster, and you can use your first transaction(s) of the Match to place them on IR and select a replacement. This can be done at any point after your Opening Roster has been submitted, and you don't have to wait until 5:29pmET/2:29pmPT to do this. Just note that transactions will start to cost past your submission.
4) Remember that Promotion/Demotion does not cost a transaction for goalies anymore. It costs 1 transaction to claim a Free Agent IR goalie replacement, but otherwise which goalies you have on your MAJOR and which you have on your MINOR are totally up to you. Because of this, on the spreadsheet I will be setting every team's goaltending according to a default. It will NOT be reflective of who is actually on your FanTrax roster. It is up to managers individually to handle their goaltending from here on out. Accordingly, corresponding posts don't need to be made on the boards to track this stuff anymore either (again, outside of IR situations).
5) Reminder that Minimum Goalie Starts are at 3 per match still. If you have less than 3 total goalie starts in a Match, you automatically forfeit the goaltending rate stats (GAA and SV%).
7) One rule that is often overlooked is that each team is supposed to have a minimum number of each position on their MAJOR roster. Now, this only really comes up with blueliners, where sometimes people forget and only have 5 defensemen dressed to sneak an extra forward into the line-up. This is a real pain to enforce, especially if I'm a few days late on processing/noticing the move. I was considering automating this, actually setting a Minimum Active number of 6 for defensemen over on FanTrax. What this means is that if someone attempts to set their lines and leaves even 1 D slot empty, a warning will pop-up that their roster is illegal. Note that this warning came even if there are 6 defensemen on your MAJOR roster (i.e. on the bench), but not in the Active slot. I could see this getting really frustrating to deal with on a daily basis, so am going to go ahead WITHOUT it right now. But please, but try and be mindful of this throughout the year, otherwise I may have to resort to automating it.
Good luck, and good hockey, everyone!
The NHL will begin its regular season tomorrow, Tuesday Oct 10th. Accordingly, it's time to get those Opening Rosters set.
1) Opening Rosters are due Tues Oct 10th at 5:29pmET/2:29pmPT. That's 1 minute before puck-drop on the Predators/Lightning game. Between now and then, you are welcome to officially submit a roster on the boards in your team's section, or send one to me in a direct message, or at the very least have your roster set over on FanTrax. Even if you do either of the first 2 options, please also set your FanTrax roster to match. Whatever it is at that time of the deadline will be considered binding. Any transactions done past that deadline will count against your transaction limit.
2) Speaking of which, Match #1 will allow two additional transaction per owner (5 total). We're starting this season on a double-week (Oct 10-Oct 21), as running from just Oct 10-14 didn't leave a fair amount of games played. That being said, it's still a pretty long stretch to start things off, so I think an extra couple transaction are fair to help everyone navigate things.
3) On that same note, remember that IR Replacements cannot be made FOR your Opening Roster. You can choose to have IR eligible players simply start on your MINOR roster, or if you really want to place a player on IR, they may start on your MAJOR roster, and you can use your first transaction(s) of the Match to place them on IR and select a replacement. This can be done at any point after your Opening Roster has been submitted, and you don't have to wait until 5:29pmET/2:29pmPT to do this. Just note that transactions will start to cost past your submission.
4) Remember that Promotion/Demotion does not cost a transaction for goalies anymore. It costs 1 transaction to claim a Free Agent IR goalie replacement, but otherwise which goalies you have on your MAJOR and which you have on your MINOR are totally up to you. Because of this, on the spreadsheet I will be setting every team's goaltending according to a default. It will NOT be reflective of who is actually on your FanTrax roster. It is up to managers individually to handle their goaltending from here on out. Accordingly, corresponding posts don't need to be made on the boards to track this stuff anymore either (again, outside of IR situations).
5) Reminder that Minimum Goalie Starts are at 3 per match still. If you have less than 3 total goalie starts in a Match, you automatically forfeit the goaltending rate stats (GAA and SV%).
7) One rule that is often overlooked is that each team is supposed to have a minimum number of each position on their MAJOR roster. Now, this only really comes up with blueliners, where sometimes people forget and only have 5 defensemen dressed to sneak an extra forward into the line-up. This is a real pain to enforce, especially if I'm a few days late on processing/noticing the move. I was considering automating this, actually setting a Minimum Active number of 6 for defensemen over on FanTrax. What this means is that if someone attempts to set their lines and leaves even 1 D slot empty, a warning will pop-up that their roster is illegal. Note that this warning came even if there are 6 defensemen on your MAJOR roster (i.e. on the bench), but not in the Active slot. I could see this getting really frustrating to deal with on a daily basis, so am going to go ahead WITHOUT it right now. But please, but try and be mindful of this throughout the year, otherwise I may have to resort to automating it.
Good luck, and good hockey, everyone!