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Because of technical reasons, Saturday's stats probably won't be uploaded before evening (cet).

Sorry for the delay..


*edit: the update has now been completed.

Edited by buree - 10/10/2010, 23:11

MOVES

Riporto le modifiche e come funzioneranno le moves sul sito e (quindi) nella lega tutta.

-Ogni squadra ha 50 moves (potete vedere quante ve ne restano nella pagina del roster!)
-Conta come MOVE SOLO il passaggio da FARM a MAIN ROSTER.
-In caso di aste FA il giocatore aquisito viene messo nel FARM. Se poi volete spostarlo nel main vi costerà ovviamente una MOVE.
-Nel caso di TRADES i giocatori passano da una squadra all'altra mantenendo il proprio status (main roster/farm). Unica eccezione: giocatori nel MAIN roster che finiscono a una squadra che ha il roster completo. In questo caso il giocatore (e se ce ne sono + di uno sarano scelti A CASO dal sistema) sarà messo nel farm (e quindi per portarlo su vi costa una MOVE). Quindi: quando fate trade meglio per voi se fate il giusto spazio nel main roster prima della scadenza!

Mi sembra sia tutto...

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Specifics about how moves work on the new site

- As usual, each team has 50 moves available for the whole season, with a weekly limit of 5 moves per week (10 moves max for each playoff round).
The counter for each team's total number of moves is available on the teams roster pages. The counter for weekly moves should be added soon.

- Only (and all) roster changes that involve the movement of a player from the farm team to the main roster will count as a move.

- When a UFA is signed, he is placed in your farm, unlike what happened till last season. Hence, as in real world, a signing won't necessarily imply a roster move anymore. A move will be added to your team total only if and when you'll bring such player up to the main roster.

- Traded players keep the same placing (main roster/farm) they had with their former team. However, if there is no roster spot available the exceeding players supposed to join the main roster will be reassigned to the farm (without being exposed to waivers). Hence, if in a trade you are acquiring more main-roster players than the ones you're sending away and you still want them to join your main roster straight away (without having to spend a move), you need to make room for them before the trade is processed (24 hrs after being posted).
Please note that if you don't make the needed room while acquiring more than one player from the other team main roster, the system will randomly pick which of those players will be considered as exceeding and, as such, be reassigned to the farm.

Edited by buree - 12/10/2010, 23:06

Notes about games start times

1) please report any mistaken start times you might notice (note that you're not expected to check games start times; please read the following points though)

2) in the rare occurrence of a start time wrongly set later than when the game actually starts, the system would let you move the involved players in and out of your lineup once the game has already started. However, that's obviously not allowed and please keep in mind that our system will keep track of your lineup moves, hence eventual infractions would be probably noticed and properly addressed..

3) if:
a- a start time is wrongly set earlier than when the game actually starts..
b-..you point that out but it's too late for vicram&kachlex to fix it within the game start (they could be unavailable)..
c-..you would want to move a player involved in such game in/out of your lineup but as a result you're not able to do it..

..you'll have to suck it up.
In particular, if you won't be able to compile parts of your lineup because of such occurrence you will simply take the damage; in fact, you are expected to compile your lineup days in advance anyway....

The league commission has determined the trade deadline will be february 21st at 18.00 CET (12 A.M. Eastern Time).


In other news, please note that in the All Star Game week (this one) the minimum for games played by goaltenders goes down from 2 to 1, thanks.

RESOLUTION OVER ILLEGAL TRADES (potential loans)

The LC was eventually able to reach a unanimous decision.

This resolution is a compromise meant to meet the following needs:
- keeping the same rules for everyone during the length of a whole season at least
- applying the rule* on every occurrence and every team
- not setting a precedence supporting the wrong principle that any rule secretly broke in the past can be broken again without harm
- not setting a precedence where the LC can overturn a clearly written rule without unanimity and without the necessity to fix a loophole.
- discouraging future fishy trades
- assuming past infractions were not conscious and malicious

* "Once a team trades a player, it will be forbidden to bring him back along the rest of his contract.
i.e. the player could be brought back to his original team only as a UFA signing (after going through an open bidding)"


This is what has been ruled:

every single trade (past, present and future) found to be against the rule will generate a fine to the teams of the involved GMs, accordingly with the following specifics. All fines will be applied to next year salary cap.

for every past trade, GMs receiving a player already owned by their team during the length of his running contract will be assessed a fine:
0.3M for their first infraction
0.2M for each of their successive infractions
multiple infractions in the same trade will not be cumulated.

GMs who were the trade-partner in such trades will be assessed a fine as well:
0.2M for their first infraction
0.1M for each of their successive infractions
multiple infractions in the same trade will not be cumulated.

no matter the number of infractions committed in the past by a single team, for each team the maximum sum to be substracted from next year available salary cap will be 0.8M.



From now through the rest of the season, these kind of deals will still be allowed but they will bring a 0.5M penalty on next year salary cap of both teams involved. These 0.5 fines, assessed on next conscious infractions, escape the 0.8 limit established for past penalties.

This pertains the trades currently under review as well.
The GMs involved will have the chance to decide whether completing (or not) the deal despite the ensuing fines. Both parties will need to specify in the proper thread they are aware of the fine and re-confirm the deal for it to go through.

No decision has been made yet on how the rule will be run from next offseason onward.


We have yet to investigate past trades..
that same thread is where past illegal trades will be pointed out and related penalties stored.

any reporting on specific past illegal trades will be welcomed and appreciated.
There wil be time till the end of August to find and punish past infractions.
Thanks in advance for your understanding and eventual help.

Due to undergoing tests on the league site, many stats for the past night are currently wrong.

They will be fixed soon.

reminder:

last 24hrs available for trades now underway! (deadline announcement)

"The other intraconference match-ups of the 21st week will be determined as a consequence:
the supposed opponents (as per week #6) of the teams taking part in the preliminary round will face each other. "

21st week match-ups:

EST
Miami-Phila
Ontario-Tampa
NY-Toronto
Halifax-Pitts
OVEST
Denver-Ingersoll
Detroit-California
LA-Dallas
Honolulu-Monterey

bolded are the 2 playoff preliminary rounds.

Honolulu and Halifax have the home advantage (tie breaker for stats and final result) as they finished ahead in the standings.
The winners will advance to the playoffs, starting the next week!

Edited by buree - 28/2/2011, 12:17

With the upcoming NHL trade deadline, this seems worthy of being stressed:

when a player is traded in real life, on our site he gets reassigned to his new NHL team only after he plays his 1st NHL game for his new club; this means in the lineup feature his 1st game after the trade won't be showed as scheduled in your lineup.
To not miss his 1st game with his new team, you need to put him in your lineup for that day even if our site doesn't show he has a game that day.

IMPORTANT: PLAYOFF SCHEDULE ADJUSTMENT

each of our 3 playoffs/playout rounds are supposed to last 2 full weeks, unfortunately this year that won't be possible as somehow we'll find ourselves with only 5 NHL regular season weeks left before the start of our playoffs.

For that reason, the duration of the first 2 playoff/playout rounds has been adjusted as follows:

1st round: monday march 7th -> wednesday march 16th
2nd round: thursday march 17th -> sunday march 27th

the final will remain on 2 full weeks:
monday march 28th -> april 10th

the league website will be set accordingly, thx for your understanding.

Edited by buree - 5/3/2011, 14:51

Riguardo alla presenza o meno di Anderson nella lineup del 13 Marzo 2011, poichè:
- Bure testimonia di averlo visto nella lineup con corrispettiva prova (involontaria) del post da lui fatto il 13 Marzo verso le 23
- Jassie dice di averlo visto nella lineup il mattino del 14 Marzo, come da prova fotografica (qui non allegata ma consultata)
- Sono stati controllati tutti gli accessi alle pagine del sito in quei giorni e verificate le varie testimonianze in tal senso.

Anderson viene ripristinato nella lineup.

Sono in corso altre indagini per verificare le cause dell'errore.

Edited by kachlex - 15/3/2011, 19:14

As a result of investigations, Craig Anderson has been put back in the Beavers lineup for march 13th.

REMINDER:
Teams eliminated from the competition are not permitted anymore to take part in FA biddings nor to access the waiver wire (claiming from/putting on).


waivers rulebook reference:
"Once teams are excluded from the competition (out of playoffs) they lose the right of both 'putting on waivers' and 'claiming off waivers' players whose contracts will expire in the upcoming off-season.
The league also reserves the right to take off the availability of players waived by teams facing elimination (down in the score in the second half of the playoff match-up); such teams can still waive their players, but if the league assesses there is no point doing it (no advantage coming from waiving the player, or no reason to waive him instead of a worse player) and the move could be meant to favour another participant still in the competition, they can be declared unavailable till the end of the season.
Such limitations don’t apply to players under contract for the following season."


FA rulebook reference:
"Durante i Playoff, ogni squadra ha la possibilità di partecipare alle aste per giocatori FA solo finchè resta in corsa (Consolation Playoffs o Stanleit Cup Playoffs); nel momento in cui una squadra viene esclusa dalla competizione perde questa facoltà."

With the end of 2010/2011 season some draft pick conditions have been cleared. Here's the list.
Please contact us if you find something wrong

2011 PICKS

California
Los Angeles Kings 1 round pick 2011
(condition: from Los Angeles Kings if LA's 1st pick 2011 is NOT top 8)
LA 1st not top 8 - TO CALIFORNIA

Ontario Black Hawks 2 round pick 2011
(condition: from Ontario Black Hawks if Kulemin gets more than 45 goals during the 2010/11 season)
Kulemin 30 goals - TO ONTARIO

Los Angeles Kings 2 round pick 2011
(condition: from Los Angeles Kings if LA's 1st pick 2011 is top 8)
LA 1st not top 8 - TO LOS ANGELES

DENVER
Detroit Roadrunners 2 round pick 2011
(condition: from Toronto Ice Blades If Roberto Luongo reaches 35 wins or 500 FantaPoints.)
Luongo +35 wins and +500FP - TO DENVER

MONTEREY
California Royals 3 round pick 2011
(condition: from California If Sanguinetti plays more than 60 games in 2010-11 season)
Sanguinetti no games in 2010-2011 - TO CALIFORNIA

ONTARIO
Philadelphia B. Street Bullies 2 round pick 2011
(condition: from Pittsburgh Frozen Penguins If Havlat scores 67 or more points during the 2010/2011 season)
Havlat 62 points - TO PITTSBURGH

Monterey Shining Clubbers 3 round pick 2011
(condition: from Monterey Shining Clubbers if Lupul plays less than 45 games and Pominville plays more than 60 games during 2010/2011 season)
Lupul played 54 games – TO MONTEREY

Toronto Ice Blades 3 round pick 2011
(condition: from Toronto Ice Blades If Jovanovski scores more than 30 points during 2010/11 regular season)
Jovanovski 14 points – TO TORONTO

2012 PICKS
TORONTO
Denver Avalanche 1 round pick 2012
(condition: from Denver Avalanche If Roberto Luongo reaches 35 wins or 500 FantaPoints(in 2010/2011).)
TO TORONTO