Nothing here is in effect yet
Rule modifications proposed by managers, collected from the league doc and waiting on a vote.
Add one or two bench spots plus another taxi spot, so rosters can absorb injuries and hold more young players.
6 bench · 4 taxi
7–8 bench · 5 taxi
The exact number of bench spots (one more or two) still needs to be pinned down before it goes to a vote.
Amends Article III
Open a short window during the season to move eligible players in and out of the taxi squad, so an injury doesn't strand a roster spot for the rest of the year.
Taxi assignments lock before the season and stay locked
One limited in-season window to reassign taxi players
Amends Article III
Base draft seeding on each team's maximum possible points (the best game each starter could have locked) instead of the points actually locked in. Deliberately locking bad games late in the year then does nothing for your pick.
Seeding follows total points locked in
Seeding follows max possible points
Filed under "I promise this happened."
Amends Article II
Draft order should come off the regular-season standings alone, with playoff results excluded. As it stands, a team knocked out early has every reason to stop trying.
Final standings, with playoff finishes factored in
Regular-season record only
This one reads more like a clarification than a change. Article II already says "prior regular season." Worth confirming what Sleeper is actually sorting on before we spend a vote on it.
Amends Article II
Bump both scoring milestones from +2 to +2.5, so a 50-point night is worth 5 bonus points instead of 4.
Amends Article V
Six teams make the playoffs instead of eight, so a postseason berth actually has to be earned.
Top 8 overall, no divisions
Top 6 overall
A six-team bracket needs first-round byes for the top two seeds. That should be settled in the same vote, and it ties directly into proposal 07.
Amends Article VIII
Extend the regular season by a week and rebuild the playoff calendar so no round lands on a short week.
Regular season runs into a shortened playoff week
One extra regular-season week, full-length playoff rounds
The trade deadline sits one week before playoffs begin, so it moves with the calendar automatically.
Amends Article VIII and Article VII
Move the annual buy-in from $10 to $50 to put real money behind the season.
$10 per year · $20 per two-year cycle
$50 per year
Two knock-on effects to decide: whether the two-year prepay stays (that's $100 up front), and whether the traded-pick obligation scales with it. At $50 a year, leaving with two future firsts traded away costs $100 on the way out.
Amends Article I
Add a second weekly waiver run so managers can react to injuries and rest days instead of eating a zero.
FAAB clears every Tuesday
Two clearing days per week, at minimum
The doc says "biweekly," which cuts both ways: twice a week or every other week. The stated reason (emergency injury and rest-day pickups) only works as twice a week, so that's how it's written here. Worth confirming with whoever proposed it.
Amends Article VI
Introduce a punishment for finishing last, or for putting up the lowest point total on the season.
No consequence beyond the first pick
A punishment, to be chosen by a separate vote
Two votes, really: whether we do this at all, and then what the punishment is. Also needs a trigger, since worst record and lowest total points aren't always the same team.
New article