[USML Announce] USML Rules Voting

[JHWinick at aol.com]

Gentlemen:

We have closure on our three issues.  The final voting results are as follows:

1.    Teams will NOT be able to trade their FAAB dollars.  The final vote was 
5-5.  In the absence of a majority in favor of change, we default back to the 
existing rule.
2.    Players traded to the NL will NOT count toward subsequent stats.  The 
final vote was 4-6.
3.    Free agent bidding will be conducted in an "e-bay" like manner in which 
the price of the player will be set at $1 beyond the second highest bid or 
$5, if there is just one bidder.  If two bidders tie, the price will the price 
of the tie and the player will be awarded to the team lower in the standings.

There are two additional proposals that need to be addressed.  They both 
pertain to FAAB credits.  I propose two clarifications to the rules:

1.  FAAB credits will only be awarded to the team that owns the player at the 
time the credit-worthy event takes place.  In other words, when a player has 
been traded to the NL, only the team that owns the player on the date of the 
trade can get the credit.  If the player is traded to another USML team, he can 
not be converted to FAAB dollars.  Since we've agreed to continue to ban the 
trading of FAAB dollars, we should close this loophole.

2.  Players waived or released by an AL team and subsequently rostered by an 
NL team will be eligible for FAAB credit the same as those players that are 
traded directly to an NL team.  There seems to be no good reason to distinguish 
between these two circumstances.  Also, you avoid the administrative headache 
of having to determine how a player (particularly the less important players) 
ended up on an NL roster.

Jeff Winick
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