Post by Flames GM (Beamer) on Jun 15, 2022 9:58:55 GMT -6
Welcome:
Welcome to Slapshot Central Dynasty (SCD). This is a 32 team Fantasy Dynasty Hockey League where each GM will own a team and control the aspects for one NHL franchise.
Amendments to the rulebook from the previous version are in RED.
History:
Managed by Wood (STL), this league began with the “in real life” (IRL) contracts for NHL Rosters and prospect pools as at June 25, 2015. Each team has been molded by the Fantasy GM/ owner by trading, drafting, signing and releasing of players. Effective early 2017, the league began under new coordination.
Expectation:
The SCD expects all owners to use and display integrity, sportsmanship and tact when dealing with other owners (includes life away from SCD). Disrespect, owner collusion, ownership of multiple teams by one GM, etc., will not be tolerated and will result in automatic expulsion and the blocking of your IP address.
Most importantly, STAY ACTIVE in league activities. Any or all of the following are deemed as active by the SCD League Moderators:
• logging into the SCD ProBoards every day or two to check private messages and make postings for team transactions, trade votes, etc...
• being active in the group Discord Chat
• keeping an up to date and non-illegal roster in Fantrax (includes moving icing an active team, moving injured players to IR and making applicable changes to the appropriate thread in Proboards).
A GM's non-activity will be determined by the SCD League Moderators; other GMs are more than welcome to private message the League Moderators with any inactivity that they see. At the discretion of the League Moderators, penalties for GM inactivity will range from any other the below:
• warning message from an LM
• a final warning along with a $5.00M salary cap penalty and or loss of draft pick(s)
• repeat offenders are subject to being removed from league and wait-listed GMs will be given the franchise
If away for family reasoning, illness, vacation, work, etc.…please post a note in the “Away” thread or at minimum contact a League Moderator.
All 32 GMs are expected to use the chat app "Discord". "Chatting" is not required, but every GM is expected to return messages from other GMs in a timely manner. Failure to do so could be deemed as GM inactivity. SCD prides itself in being as realistic as possible; being active in chat or at minimum returning messages to other GMs will ensure that the interactive experience. is fun for all who participate here
The SCD Master spreadsheet has the up-to-date rosters and should mirror a team's roster in Fantrax. Every GM is expected to maintain a thread in "Player Movements" which cover all call-ups and demotions of SCD eligible players, as well any Injured Reserve postings for the current season.
The more info provided the better. Take pride and ownership in your franchise.
NHL and Prospect Roster Limits and Salary Cap/Floor:
• The Salary Cap and Salary Floor will change yearly to match the In Real Life (IRL) NHL Cap and Floor. Each team must stay within this range during the SCD season. During the SCD off-season, teams may go over the previous year’s cap by no more than $5 Million. There is no salary floor in place during the off-season. All teams must be cap compliant by the start of the SCD season or team penalties will come into effect as determined by SCD League Moderators. 2022/23 cap ceiling is at $82.5M and the floor is at $61.2M.
• Active NHL rosters are limited to 25 players and must have a minimum of 15 players who are active on IRL NHLers. (includes one NHL active goalie). Injured players who are on the real-life IR list can be moved to the IR list and that will allow for up to 31 NHL roster players. (I.e. there are 5 IR spots available on your rosters as well as 1 Long-Term IR (LTIR)).
• Each owner is responsible to keep their NHL roster up to date. League Moderators monitor teams from time to time. Should roster violations continually occur, discretionary penalties will be applied by the LM (penalties already covered in the inactive GM section above).
Contracts:
NHL Player Contracts (non-SCD Scale - 4+ years of NHL Experience)
• CAP HIT is the dollar value that is used when determining a player’s contract and rounded to TWO decimal places. All IRL 4+ year contracts are indicated in BLACK.
NHL Player Contracts (SCD Scale - 1 to 3 years NHL Experience)
• A rookie scale contract is applied to all players who are in their first 3 NHL seasons in the league. To apply this scale, a player must play in a minimum of 30 IRL NHL games (15 if a goaltender) during his 1st NHL season and for years 2 and 3 a minimum of 15 games (for both skaters and goaltenders). Should the minimum games played not be reached in any of the three seasons, that player stays at the NHL year level played from the prior season.
• The contract value for an SCD scale player is $0.80M for all three seasons. If a player is in the farm for year one of the SCD contract, $0.80M salary is removed (not applied to the Salary Cap). If the player is in the farm for years 2 and 3 of his SCD deal, the $0.80M contract is applied to the Salary Cap.
• Upon completion of the 3-year SCD contract, the player is deemed a Restricted Free Agent (RFA) and can either have his available IRL contract accepted by the GM (up until the posted RFA deadline in September) or he can be immediately released to Unrestricted Free Agency (UFA)
Franchise Tag:
• A player who is a pending RFA or UFA can be “franchise tagged” by a GM in order to retain his services.
• A player with a franchise tag applied to them CAN be dealt, but the PHYSICAL FRANCHISE TAG ITSELF CANNOT be traded to another team.
e.g.
ALLOWED: Flames Franchise tag Michael Ferland for $1.00M, and then trade the player to Carolina.
NOT ALLOWED: Flames trade Unused Franchise Tag to Carolina .
• A player can be tagged up to two times at either a 1 year or 2-year term. A tab in the SCD Master tracks the history of players who have been Franchise Tagged.
• A team has only one active tag at a time.
• To determine the contract value for these Franchise tagged players, the League Moderator will use the Fantrax.com site base on the prior season's category rankings. Should a player being tagged for the upcoming season(s) have 0 games player in his previous season, an average of the player ranking for the past 3 seasons will be used and/or League Moderator input applied to any decision in order to determine a fair Tag Value for the tagged player.
• The player rater will then use the following scale for contract values:
o Ranked 1-25 --> $ 10.00M Annual salary
o Ranked 26-50 --> $8.00M Annual salary
o Ranked 51-75 --> $6.00M Annual salary
o Ranked 76-100 --> $4.00M Annual salary
o Ranked 101-200 --> $2.00M Annual salary
o Ranked 201-300--> $1.00M Annual salary
o Ranked 301+ --> $0.50M Annual salary
Farm Team/Prospects:
• Each owner is allowed to have up to 50 prospects on the Farm Team/prospect list without penalty.
• A $0.80M overage fee will be applied to the Team’s Salary cap for each player over that 50 player maximum. The only contracts that will be permitted to the farm team will be Year 2 and 3 SCD Scale contracts.
• No NHLer with a non-SCD Scale contract can be rostered in the farm team (i.e. if a player on your roster has an NHL experience of 4 years or more, they CANNOT be demoted (even if they are IRL).
Fantrax Match-ups:
• A Head-to-Head match-up in www.fantrax.com will pit teams against each other throughout the season (21 weeks). A total of 16 teams (8 per conference) will make playoffs.
The Playoff format is Top 3 per division, plus 2 Wild Card positions based on the record in the conference (mimicking IRL NHL).
Barring unique circumstances (i.e COVID), all match-ups are 7 days long,. The SCD Finals are 1-2 weeks depending on when the SCD Finals start and the IRL regular season ends).
• Categories are as follows:
o Skaters: G, A, +/-, PIM, SOG, PPP, SHP, Hit, Blk, FOW, TOI
o Goalies: W, GAA, SV, SV%, SHO
• Each team’s roster will have the following Starting Line-up positions available:
o 4 Centers
o 4 Left Wingers
o 4 Right Wingers
o 6 Defensemen
o 1 Goalie
o 6 Bench
o 5 Injured Reserve + 1 LTIR spot
To break ties team ties:
Regular Season standings: WIN% fewest loses is the 1st determinant, followed by head to head record, and then finally divisional record.
Playoffs: Head-to-Head record will be the 1st determinant, followed by Regular Season WIN%, then LOWEST Goals Against Average (GAA), and if still tied MOST team penalty minutes.
SCD has all 32 teams in one league on Fantrax. Due to this number of teams, Fantrax charges a yearly fee; it’s greatly appreciated if GMs in SCD contribute between $3 to $5 US to help cover the cost.
Up to FIVE (5) NON-INJURY related call-up/demotions are allowed per head to head match-up. i.e. A player who is placed on IR, a call-up to fill that player roster spot does not count as a "call-up" transaction (same goes when a player is moved off IR, and a player needs to be demoted to clear space. A call-up up of a rookie player and a resulting demotion of a SCD contract player (year 1-3 NHL player) would constitute as a "Call-up/demotion transaction. Any and all Transactions must be made in the Team's Call-up/Demotion Thread, Failure to do so would result in the automatic loss for the franchise in that given matchup.
Entry Draft:
• The Draft occurs during the summer off-season (usually a month or so after the IRL Draft occurs). The 2022 IRL Entry Draft begins July 7th. The SCD Entry Draft date is currently pegged for July 15th beginning at 12:00pm EST.
• SCD mimics IRL NHL Draft methodology for draft positions for teams and will adapt to any changes the IRL league makes. A Draft Lottery for the 1st Round for clubs that did not qualify for the past season's Playoffs - or the clubs that acquired the first-round picks of the non-playoff clubs will be entered into the lottery. SCD will mimic the results as per odds used in the IRL Draft Lottery. eg. IRL Ottawa Senators draft pick (owned by Colorado Avalanche after trade) had the best odds of winning the 1st Overall selection. In SCD, those draft odds were assigned to the 32nd positioned team, the Minnesota Wild. As the IRL draft selection commenced, the IRL results were applied to all 16 SCD non-playoff teams. The SCD Wild team ended up with the 4th overall selection (as per the IRL Senators (now Avalanche) pick).
• Rounds 2 through 4 will follow the format of 32nd overall picking 1st in each round through to Cup winner picking last in each round (barring trades of those picks of course).
• The time allowed to make a pick:
o Round 1: 24 hours allowed per pick for a GM to make a selection
o Rounds 2 through 4: 12 hours to make a selection
• GMs are encouraged to be wise with their time and keep the draft moving along in a timely fashion
• Should a GM not make their pick during the allowed time, a player is “auto-drafted” based on the next player drafted as per the IRL NHL Entry Draft (this is done in case the current GM is removed and a new GM coming in isn't punished)
• Only players who were drafted in the IRL NHL Entry Draft are eligible to be selected in the SCD Draft.
• All players who are draft eligible and not selected in the SCD Entry Draft become free agents and can be claimed via waivers by any GM when waiver claims are active.
Player Extensions and Free Agency:
• Players (both RFA and UFA) can have IRL contracts accepted and applied in order to retain the player. Deadlines to accept these free agents will be posted each year by the League Moderators, but generally, UFA extensions are allowed until the day before IRL Free Agency begins. Any declined extension will release the player to UFA status immediately.
IRL Player for extensions/Franchise Tag for UFA players - 11:59am EST on July 13th. (IRL UFA starts 12:00pm July 13th)
IRL Player for extensions/Franchise Tag for RFA players - 11:59pm EST on December 1st.
Any outstanding FAs without a new contract at the time of the deadline, become an Unrestricted Free Agent in SCD.
• Free Agents are awarded to the highest bidder who remains within the team’s off-season Salary Cap (IRL cap plus $5.00M).
• The highest bid must stand for a 24 hour period
• The minimum contract length is 1 year and a maximum contract term is 5 years
• The minimum bid is $0.40M
• The minimum bid increment is $0.10M
• Each GM is expected to put the amount of available team cap remaining in their bids on any player
e.g. Los Angeles Kings bid on C Derek Grant - 1 year 2.25M (Kings remaining cap = 4.25M)
• Players who are free agents can be retained by their former team (the team that they are on as of roster freeze from the prior season). The GM has the option to apply a Home Town Discount (calculator for this option is found in the pullout menu of the ProBoards Site). The SCD LM will apply this discount once the "former" team wins the player in free agency.
o 1 year - 5%
o 2-3 years – 10%
o 4-5 years – 15%
o 6 or more years – 20%
• Term and Dollars can change – make use to the SCD Free Agency Calculation found in the Pull Out Menu on the ProBoards Site
• Once a player hits SCD Free Agency, that player is no longer eligible to receive an IRL contract extension
• All Players who fall under the SCD Scale contract scenario (Year 1 to 3 NHL players and prospects), must go through "entry" waivers and that player will be awarded to the team with the highest priority after 48 hours of the original post. Only players who are no longer draft eligible can be signed and clear waivers (i.e. no signings of players who are still draft eligible in future seasons).
• Off-Season free agent signees cannot be signed and then traded to another team until the start of the first week of the NHL season
Waiving/Releasing players and prospects and Amnesty drop:
• All release players will go on the waiver wire for a 48 hour period from the original player release post (unless they are a NEW GM Amnesty drop...that player is an automatic free agent).
• The team releasing the player will be responsible to half the salary for the remainder of the term of the contract (except for New GM Amnesty, players going to Europe and IRL contract players retirement – see below).
o New GM Amnesty: when a new GM joins SCD, they are allowed one (1) time player amnesty to remove a bad contract. If the player's salary is below or equal to $20.0M a year, there is no salary retained. If the player’s contract is over $20M per season, that GM is responsible for half (50%) of the portion that is over $20.0M for the duration of the contract. E.g. Dany Heatley has two years remaining at $32.0M per season, that GM would owe $6.0M for the remaining two years after amnestying him. Amnesty clauses are NOT tradable.
o If a player leaves the NHL and joins a KHL or other professional European League, that player can be released for with no penalty (IRL or SCD signed contract).
o If a player retires, no penalty is applied to a contract that is an IRL contract. If there is retained salary on a player who retires with an IRL contract, that team retaining the salary is still responsible for the full amount and term retained. If the deal is an SCD signed deal, the team is responsible for half to the contract salary and the remaining term of the deal.
• If the player is claimed by another team, half of the salary and remaining term stays with the waiving team, and the other portion of salary and term is the responsibility of the team claiming the player.
• Any prospect or SCD Scale player being waived/released will not have a salary penalty applied (a player under this category will be on waivers for 48 hours).
Waiver Wire:
• When a player is waived, all 31 other teams can put in a claim
• A waiver priority tab can be found in the SCD Master spreadsheet.
• The team with the highest priority will win the claim of a player, upon which that team will then be moved to the lowest priority after the transaction has completed.
Trading:
• All Players, Prospects and Draft Picks can be traded (Cap space CANNOT be traded)
• Retaining Salary on players is allowed; the trading team may only retain up to 25% of a player’s salary for a maximum of 2 years and the trading teams can only cover up to $2.00M during any time period.
Example: Jaromir Jagr has a cap hit of $5.00M, only $1.25M can be covered by the team trading the player away. The other $3.75M would be covered by the team receiving the player. The trading team can then only retain another $0.75M in any more trades where retained salary occurs between that trading partner.
• Post a Team Trade Block Thread to identify assets you wish to move or acquire
• Use PMs, Discord and or forms of correspondence to negotiate and complete a deal
• Ensure the following is stated in a trade when posted in the Trade Thread:
o The teams involved in the trade
o The full player name(s), position(s) and salary (include both dollar value and term)
o If a draft pick is involved, identify the original owner of pick, as well as the draft year
o State the reason why the trade was made and of what benefit it is to your franchise
• ALL GMs in the SCD are encouraged to vote (pass or veto) on any trade (i.e. there is no TAB (Trade Approval Board))
o A trade must pass by four (4) favorable votes
o If there are four (4) vetoes, the deal is officially dead
o All voting GMs should include a brief justification as to why you approve/veto a trade
• The trading period is set by League Moderators and is frozen at certain points during the calendar year (e.g. Trade Deadline prior to SCD Playoffs)
Coaches:
A side game to Slapshot; separate budget of $8.00M is allocated for all coaches in any current season. A GM can hire and fire an actual Head Coach. The coach must be or have been a professional coach in real life and also must be alive. A coach must first be fired before another is attempted to be hired. Minimum contract is 800K, and the maximum is $8.00M. Minimum term is 1 year and the maximum term is 5 years. In order to sign a coach, the contract offer must stand for 24 hours and have the longest term and salary. Coaches cannot be traded.
Captains:
Another side game, a GM can nominate three skaters on their team to wear the letters for their franchise. As per IRL rules, goalies are not allowed to don a letter so that rule will apply here as well.
SCD Off-Season:
• Commences once the SCD Finals are complete - please refer to the Off-Season schedule posting in Proboards for exact dates.
• Input for the betterment of the league from all GMs is welcomed; please message a League Moderator directly or post feedback in the Suggestion thread in the ProBoards site at any time.
• What occurs during the off-season:
o Free agency, trading and player waiving, promotion and demotions are frozen
o Player years played and SCD contract status is reviewed and updated
o Team’s Franchise Tags are reviews and updated as necessary
o RFA and UFA are identified on each team’s roster
o IRL contract extensions are reviewed throughout the year. Any remaining unaccepted IRL extensions not picked-up by a player’s GM by 11:59 pm EST June 30th will see that player hit the SCD Unrestricted Free Agent market.
o IRL Player for extensions/Franchise Tag for UFA players
o SCD Free Agency period – UFA signing for players listed in the SCD Master as Goalie, Center or Defensemen - After Entry Draft has concluded (Dates TBD)
o SCD Free Agency period – UFA signing for players listed in the SCD Master as Left Wing or Right Wing (C, G and D can still be signed too) (Dates TBD)
SCD Roles:
o A 12-month calendar for the upcoming season is posted for all GMs reference (e.g. when the draft is, when free agency begins, etc...)
League Manager (LM), FANTRAX Mods (FM) and SCD Forum Moderator Roles:
To facilitate any successful Fantasy League, a few volunteer roles need to be filled:
• League Moderator roles (4 Positions):
o Mike (SEA), Jesse (LA), Will (CAR) and Beamer (CGY)
o Oversee that fair play, integrity, and enforcement of rules and sportsmanship is adhered to by all participants (all)
o Be available as a resource for all questions, concerns and feedback from participants (all)
o Review, maintain and amend the SCD Rulebook as needed (Beamer)
o Ensure that Fantrax head to head matchups are balanced and set for each conference for the season (Mike)
o Update SCD Master with all teams transactions in a timely manner (Beamer)
o Coordinate the off-season calendar of events for drafting, free agency, etc... (Beamer)
o Coordinate the Off-Season Entry Draft (Mike)
o Post ads and seek assistance from all League participants when recruiting new GMs is required (Mike, Jesse, Will)
o Ensure all teams Fantrax rosters are legal, lineups are set and coordinate delegate Fantrax Mods (Jesse)
• Conference Moderator roles (2 Positions in total – Jesse and Will (1 per Conference)):
o Provide input to League Manager meetings (e.g. Rulebook amendment feedback, etc.…)
o Ensure the GMs in their conference of play are setting rosters correctly
o Ensure that the GMs in their conference of play are posting the transaction threads in the ProBoards threads
o Help with any questions posed to them by participant GMs
• ProBoards Forum Moderator (1 position):
o This role oversees the function and technical support of the ProBoards site
o Display changes, backdrop etc. can be done by contacting this moderator
o Wood (STL) is the SCD Forum Moderator
• Discord Moderator (1 position):
o This role is the lead GM who monitors the SCD Group Chat activity and topics
o Will (CAR) is the Discord Moderator
Welcome to Slapshot Central Dynasty (SCD). This is a 32 team Fantasy Dynasty Hockey League where each GM will own a team and control the aspects for one NHL franchise.
Amendments to the rulebook from the previous version are in RED.
History:
Managed by Wood (STL), this league began with the “in real life” (IRL) contracts for NHL Rosters and prospect pools as at June 25, 2015. Each team has been molded by the Fantasy GM/ owner by trading, drafting, signing and releasing of players. Effective early 2017, the league began under new coordination.
Expectation:
The SCD expects all owners to use and display integrity, sportsmanship and tact when dealing with other owners (includes life away from SCD). Disrespect, owner collusion, ownership of multiple teams by one GM, etc., will not be tolerated and will result in automatic expulsion and the blocking of your IP address.
Most importantly, STAY ACTIVE in league activities. Any or all of the following are deemed as active by the SCD League Moderators:
• logging into the SCD ProBoards every day or two to check private messages and make postings for team transactions, trade votes, etc...
• being active in the group Discord Chat
• keeping an up to date and non-illegal roster in Fantrax (includes moving icing an active team, moving injured players to IR and making applicable changes to the appropriate thread in Proboards).
A GM's non-activity will be determined by the SCD League Moderators; other GMs are more than welcome to private message the League Moderators with any inactivity that they see. At the discretion of the League Moderators, penalties for GM inactivity will range from any other the below:
• warning message from an LM
• a final warning along with a $5.00M salary cap penalty and or loss of draft pick(s)
• repeat offenders are subject to being removed from league and wait-listed GMs will be given the franchise
If away for family reasoning, illness, vacation, work, etc.…please post a note in the “Away” thread or at minimum contact a League Moderator.
All 32 GMs are expected to use the chat app "Discord". "Chatting" is not required, but every GM is expected to return messages from other GMs in a timely manner. Failure to do so could be deemed as GM inactivity. SCD prides itself in being as realistic as possible; being active in chat or at minimum returning messages to other GMs will ensure that the interactive experience. is fun for all who participate here
The SCD Master spreadsheet has the up-to-date rosters and should mirror a team's roster in Fantrax. Every GM is expected to maintain a thread in "Player Movements" which cover all call-ups and demotions of SCD eligible players, as well any Injured Reserve postings for the current season.
The more info provided the better. Take pride and ownership in your franchise.
NHL and Prospect Roster Limits and Salary Cap/Floor:
• The Salary Cap and Salary Floor will change yearly to match the In Real Life (IRL) NHL Cap and Floor. Each team must stay within this range during the SCD season. During the SCD off-season, teams may go over the previous year’s cap by no more than $5 Million. There is no salary floor in place during the off-season. All teams must be cap compliant by the start of the SCD season or team penalties will come into effect as determined by SCD League Moderators. 2022/23 cap ceiling is at $82.5M and the floor is at $61.2M.
• Active NHL rosters are limited to 25 players and must have a minimum of 15 players who are active on IRL NHLers. (includes one NHL active goalie). Injured players who are on the real-life IR list can be moved to the IR list and that will allow for up to 31 NHL roster players. (I.e. there are 5 IR spots available on your rosters as well as 1 Long-Term IR (LTIR)).
• Each owner is responsible to keep their NHL roster up to date. League Moderators monitor teams from time to time. Should roster violations continually occur, discretionary penalties will be applied by the LM (penalties already covered in the inactive GM section above).
Contracts:
NHL Player Contracts (non-SCD Scale - 4+ years of NHL Experience)
• CAP HIT is the dollar value that is used when determining a player’s contract and rounded to TWO decimal places. All IRL 4+ year contracts are indicated in BLACK.
NHL Player Contracts (SCD Scale - 1 to 3 years NHL Experience)
• A rookie scale contract is applied to all players who are in their first 3 NHL seasons in the league. To apply this scale, a player must play in a minimum of 30 IRL NHL games (15 if a goaltender) during his 1st NHL season and for years 2 and 3 a minimum of 15 games (for both skaters and goaltenders). Should the minimum games played not be reached in any of the three seasons, that player stays at the NHL year level played from the prior season.
• The contract value for an SCD scale player is $0.80M for all three seasons. If a player is in the farm for year one of the SCD contract, $0.80M salary is removed (not applied to the Salary Cap). If the player is in the farm for years 2 and 3 of his SCD deal, the $0.80M contract is applied to the Salary Cap.
• Upon completion of the 3-year SCD contract, the player is deemed a Restricted Free Agent (RFA) and can either have his available IRL contract accepted by the GM (up until the posted RFA deadline in September) or he can be immediately released to Unrestricted Free Agency (UFA)
Franchise Tag:
• A player who is a pending RFA or UFA can be “franchise tagged” by a GM in order to retain his services.
• A player with a franchise tag applied to them CAN be dealt, but the PHYSICAL FRANCHISE TAG ITSELF CANNOT be traded to another team.
e.g.
ALLOWED: Flames Franchise tag Michael Ferland for $1.00M, and then trade the player to Carolina.
NOT ALLOWED: Flames trade Unused Franchise Tag to Carolina .
• A player can be tagged up to two times at either a 1 year or 2-year term. A tab in the SCD Master tracks the history of players who have been Franchise Tagged.
• A team has only one active tag at a time.
• To determine the contract value for these Franchise tagged players, the League Moderator will use the Fantrax.com site base on the prior season's category rankings. Should a player being tagged for the upcoming season(s) have 0 games player in his previous season, an average of the player ranking for the past 3 seasons will be used and/or League Moderator input applied to any decision in order to determine a fair Tag Value for the tagged player.
• The player rater will then use the following scale for contract values:
o Ranked 1-25 --> $ 10.00M Annual salary
o Ranked 26-50 --> $8.00M Annual salary
o Ranked 51-75 --> $6.00M Annual salary
o Ranked 76-100 --> $4.00M Annual salary
o Ranked 101-200 --> $2.00M Annual salary
o Ranked 201-300--> $1.00M Annual salary
o Ranked 301+ --> $0.50M Annual salary
Farm Team/Prospects:
• Each owner is allowed to have up to 50 prospects on the Farm Team/prospect list without penalty.
• A $0.80M overage fee will be applied to the Team’s Salary cap for each player over that 50 player maximum. The only contracts that will be permitted to the farm team will be Year 2 and 3 SCD Scale contracts.
• No NHLer with a non-SCD Scale contract can be rostered in the farm team (i.e. if a player on your roster has an NHL experience of 4 years or more, they CANNOT be demoted (even if they are IRL).
Fantrax Match-ups:
• A Head-to-Head match-up in www.fantrax.com will pit teams against each other throughout the season (21 weeks). A total of 16 teams (8 per conference) will make playoffs.
The Playoff format is Top 3 per division, plus 2 Wild Card positions based on the record in the conference (mimicking IRL NHL).
Barring unique circumstances (i.e COVID), all match-ups are 7 days long,. The SCD Finals are 1-2 weeks depending on when the SCD Finals start and the IRL regular season ends).
• Categories are as follows:
o Skaters: G, A, +/-, PIM, SOG, PPP, SHP, Hit, Blk, FOW, TOI
o Goalies: W, GAA, SV, SV%, SHO
• Each team’s roster will have the following Starting Line-up positions available:
o 4 Centers
o 4 Left Wingers
o 4 Right Wingers
o 6 Defensemen
o 1 Goalie
o 6 Bench
o 5 Injured Reserve + 1 LTIR spot
To break ties team ties:
Regular Season standings: WIN% fewest loses is the 1st determinant, followed by head to head record, and then finally divisional record.
Playoffs: Head-to-Head record will be the 1st determinant, followed by Regular Season WIN%, then LOWEST Goals Against Average (GAA), and if still tied MOST team penalty minutes.
SCD has all 32 teams in one league on Fantrax. Due to this number of teams, Fantrax charges a yearly fee; it’s greatly appreciated if GMs in SCD contribute between $3 to $5 US to help cover the cost.
Up to FIVE (5) NON-INJURY related call-up/demotions are allowed per head to head match-up. i.e. A player who is placed on IR, a call-up to fill that player roster spot does not count as a "call-up" transaction (same goes when a player is moved off IR, and a player needs to be demoted to clear space. A call-up up of a rookie player and a resulting demotion of a SCD contract player (year 1-3 NHL player) would constitute as a "Call-up/demotion transaction. Any and all Transactions must be made in the Team's Call-up/Demotion Thread, Failure to do so would result in the automatic loss for the franchise in that given matchup.
Entry Draft:
• The Draft occurs during the summer off-season (usually a month or so after the IRL Draft occurs). The 2022 IRL Entry Draft begins July 7th. The SCD Entry Draft date is currently pegged for July 15th beginning at 12:00pm EST.
• SCD mimics IRL NHL Draft methodology for draft positions for teams and will adapt to any changes the IRL league makes. A Draft Lottery for the 1st Round for clubs that did not qualify for the past season's Playoffs - or the clubs that acquired the first-round picks of the non-playoff clubs will be entered into the lottery. SCD will mimic the results as per odds used in the IRL Draft Lottery. eg. IRL Ottawa Senators draft pick (owned by Colorado Avalanche after trade) had the best odds of winning the 1st Overall selection. In SCD, those draft odds were assigned to the 32nd positioned team, the Minnesota Wild. As the IRL draft selection commenced, the IRL results were applied to all 16 SCD non-playoff teams. The SCD Wild team ended up with the 4th overall selection (as per the IRL Senators (now Avalanche) pick).
• Rounds 2 through 4 will follow the format of 32nd overall picking 1st in each round through to Cup winner picking last in each round (barring trades of those picks of course).
• The time allowed to make a pick:
o Round 1: 24 hours allowed per pick for a GM to make a selection
o Rounds 2 through 4: 12 hours to make a selection
• GMs are encouraged to be wise with their time and keep the draft moving along in a timely fashion
• Should a GM not make their pick during the allowed time, a player is “auto-drafted” based on the next player drafted as per the IRL NHL Entry Draft (this is done in case the current GM is removed and a new GM coming in isn't punished)
• Only players who were drafted in the IRL NHL Entry Draft are eligible to be selected in the SCD Draft.
• All players who are draft eligible and not selected in the SCD Entry Draft become free agents and can be claimed via waivers by any GM when waiver claims are active.
Player Extensions and Free Agency:
• Players (both RFA and UFA) can have IRL contracts accepted and applied in order to retain the player. Deadlines to accept these free agents will be posted each year by the League Moderators, but generally, UFA extensions are allowed until the day before IRL Free Agency begins. Any declined extension will release the player to UFA status immediately.
IRL Player for extensions/Franchise Tag for UFA players - 11:59am EST on July 13th. (IRL UFA starts 12:00pm July 13th)
IRL Player for extensions/Franchise Tag for RFA players - 11:59pm EST on December 1st.
Any outstanding FAs without a new contract at the time of the deadline, become an Unrestricted Free Agent in SCD.
• Free Agents are awarded to the highest bidder who remains within the team’s off-season Salary Cap (IRL cap plus $5.00M).
• The highest bid must stand for a 24 hour period
• The minimum contract length is 1 year and a maximum contract term is 5 years
• The minimum bid is $0.40M
• The minimum bid increment is $0.10M
• Each GM is expected to put the amount of available team cap remaining in their bids on any player
e.g. Los Angeles Kings bid on C Derek Grant - 1 year 2.25M (Kings remaining cap = 4.25M)
• Players who are free agents can be retained by their former team (the team that they are on as of roster freeze from the prior season). The GM has the option to apply a Home Town Discount (calculator for this option is found in the pullout menu of the ProBoards Site). The SCD LM will apply this discount once the "former" team wins the player in free agency.
o 1 year - 5%
o 2-3 years – 10%
o 4-5 years – 15%
o 6 or more years – 20%
• Term and Dollars can change – make use to the SCD Free Agency Calculation found in the Pull Out Menu on the ProBoards Site
• Once a player hits SCD Free Agency, that player is no longer eligible to receive an IRL contract extension
• All Players who fall under the SCD Scale contract scenario (Year 1 to 3 NHL players and prospects), must go through "entry" waivers and that player will be awarded to the team with the highest priority after 48 hours of the original post. Only players who are no longer draft eligible can be signed and clear waivers (i.e. no signings of players who are still draft eligible in future seasons).
• Off-Season free agent signees cannot be signed and then traded to another team until the start of the first week of the NHL season
Waiving/Releasing players and prospects and Amnesty drop:
• All release players will go on the waiver wire for a 48 hour period from the original player release post (unless they are a NEW GM Amnesty drop...that player is an automatic free agent).
• The team releasing the player will be responsible to half the salary for the remainder of the term of the contract (except for New GM Amnesty, players going to Europe and IRL contract players retirement – see below).
o New GM Amnesty: when a new GM joins SCD, they are allowed one (1) time player amnesty to remove a bad contract. If the player's salary is below or equal to $20.0M a year, there is no salary retained. If the player’s contract is over $20M per season, that GM is responsible for half (50%) of the portion that is over $20.0M for the duration of the contract. E.g. Dany Heatley has two years remaining at $32.0M per season, that GM would owe $6.0M for the remaining two years after amnestying him. Amnesty clauses are NOT tradable.
o If a player leaves the NHL and joins a KHL or other professional European League, that player can be released for with no penalty (IRL or SCD signed contract).
o If a player retires, no penalty is applied to a contract that is an IRL contract. If there is retained salary on a player who retires with an IRL contract, that team retaining the salary is still responsible for the full amount and term retained. If the deal is an SCD signed deal, the team is responsible for half to the contract salary and the remaining term of the deal.
• If the player is claimed by another team, half of the salary and remaining term stays with the waiving team, and the other portion of salary and term is the responsibility of the team claiming the player.
• Any prospect or SCD Scale player being waived/released will not have a salary penalty applied (a player under this category will be on waivers for 48 hours).
Waiver Wire:
• When a player is waived, all 31 other teams can put in a claim
• A waiver priority tab can be found in the SCD Master spreadsheet.
• The team with the highest priority will win the claim of a player, upon which that team will then be moved to the lowest priority after the transaction has completed.
Trading:
• All Players, Prospects and Draft Picks can be traded (Cap space CANNOT be traded)
• Retaining Salary on players is allowed; the trading team may only retain up to 25% of a player’s salary for a maximum of 2 years and the trading teams can only cover up to $2.00M during any time period.
Example: Jaromir Jagr has a cap hit of $5.00M, only $1.25M can be covered by the team trading the player away. The other $3.75M would be covered by the team receiving the player. The trading team can then only retain another $0.75M in any more trades where retained salary occurs between that trading partner.
• Post a Team Trade Block Thread to identify assets you wish to move or acquire
• Use PMs, Discord and or forms of correspondence to negotiate and complete a deal
• Ensure the following is stated in a trade when posted in the Trade Thread:
o The teams involved in the trade
o The full player name(s), position(s) and salary (include both dollar value and term)
o If a draft pick is involved, identify the original owner of pick, as well as the draft year
o State the reason why the trade was made and of what benefit it is to your franchise
• ALL GMs in the SCD are encouraged to vote (pass or veto) on any trade (i.e. there is no TAB (Trade Approval Board))
o A trade must pass by four (4) favorable votes
o If there are four (4) vetoes, the deal is officially dead
o All voting GMs should include a brief justification as to why you approve/veto a trade
• The trading period is set by League Moderators and is frozen at certain points during the calendar year (e.g. Trade Deadline prior to SCD Playoffs)
Coaches:
A side game to Slapshot; separate budget of $8.00M is allocated for all coaches in any current season. A GM can hire and fire an actual Head Coach. The coach must be or have been a professional coach in real life and also must be alive. A coach must first be fired before another is attempted to be hired. Minimum contract is 800K, and the maximum is $8.00M. Minimum term is 1 year and the maximum term is 5 years. In order to sign a coach, the contract offer must stand for 24 hours and have the longest term and salary. Coaches cannot be traded.
Captains:
Another side game, a GM can nominate three skaters on their team to wear the letters for their franchise. As per IRL rules, goalies are not allowed to don a letter so that rule will apply here as well.
SCD Off-Season:
• Commences once the SCD Finals are complete - please refer to the Off-Season schedule posting in Proboards for exact dates.
• Input for the betterment of the league from all GMs is welcomed; please message a League Moderator directly or post feedback in the Suggestion thread in the ProBoards site at any time.
• What occurs during the off-season:
o Free agency, trading and player waiving, promotion and demotions are frozen
o Player years played and SCD contract status is reviewed and updated
o Team’s Franchise Tags are reviews and updated as necessary
o RFA and UFA are identified on each team’s roster
o IRL contract extensions are reviewed throughout the year. Any remaining unaccepted IRL extensions not picked-up by a player’s GM by 11:59 pm EST June 30th will see that player hit the SCD Unrestricted Free Agent market.
o IRL Player for extensions/Franchise Tag for UFA players
o SCD Free Agency period – UFA signing for players listed in the SCD Master as Goalie, Center or Defensemen - After Entry Draft has concluded (Dates TBD)
o SCD Free Agency period – UFA signing for players listed in the SCD Master as Left Wing or Right Wing (C, G and D can still be signed too) (Dates TBD)
SCD Roles:
o A 12-month calendar for the upcoming season is posted for all GMs reference (e.g. when the draft is, when free agency begins, etc...)
League Manager (LM), FANTRAX Mods (FM) and SCD Forum Moderator Roles:
To facilitate any successful Fantasy League, a few volunteer roles need to be filled:
• League Moderator roles (4 Positions):
o Mike (SEA), Jesse (LA), Will (CAR) and Beamer (CGY)
o Oversee that fair play, integrity, and enforcement of rules and sportsmanship is adhered to by all participants (all)
o Be available as a resource for all questions, concerns and feedback from participants (all)
o Review, maintain and amend the SCD Rulebook as needed (Beamer)
o Ensure that Fantrax head to head matchups are balanced and set for each conference for the season (Mike)
o Update SCD Master with all teams transactions in a timely manner (Beamer)
o Coordinate the off-season calendar of events for drafting, free agency, etc... (Beamer)
o Coordinate the Off-Season Entry Draft (Mike)
o Post ads and seek assistance from all League participants when recruiting new GMs is required (Mike, Jesse, Will)
o Ensure all teams Fantrax rosters are legal, lineups are set and coordinate delegate Fantrax Mods (Jesse)
• Conference Moderator roles (2 Positions in total – Jesse and Will (1 per Conference)):
o Provide input to League Manager meetings (e.g. Rulebook amendment feedback, etc.…)
o Ensure the GMs in their conference of play are setting rosters correctly
o Ensure that the GMs in their conference of play are posting the transaction threads in the ProBoards threads
o Help with any questions posed to them by participant GMs
• ProBoards Forum Moderator (1 position):
o This role oversees the function and technical support of the ProBoards site
o Display changes, backdrop etc. can be done by contacting this moderator
o Wood (STL) is the SCD Forum Moderator
• Discord Moderator (1 position):
o This role is the lead GM who monitors the SCD Group Chat activity and topics
o Will (CAR) is the Discord Moderator