Official Rules For Romey Keeper
League 2009-10
The First Draft, The Yearly Schedule/Off-season, Following Drafts, Player Designations
The First draft, closest Friday night before the first full scheduled week of the 2008 NHL season, will consist of 24 rounds. Centers (C) , Forwards (L or R), Defensemen (D), and Goaltenders (G) may be selected in any order, anytime. The draft pick order sequence will be choosing numbers out of a hat to choose a draft order and will go in reverse order from 1-12 and then 12-1. Pick #1 will be Eastern, Pick #2 Western and back and forth until all positions of both Conferences are filled. These will be the permanent slots that all teams occupy and can never change for the rest of history. At the end of the first Draft all teams must have a roster of 24 players.
The Yearly Schedule/Off-season, First Draft-- (all teams 24 man roster, waiver wire open) , start of regular season-- (weeks 1-22), Rosters Freeze every year at end of week 12-- (Thursday at 12pm, no trades, no waivers allowed after this point for the rest of the season), End of Season-- (trades for draft picks/players allowed but waiver wire still closed), Draft (third Friday in August, rosters expand past 24 man roster and waiver wire open immediately upon last pick of draft) Cut down day--( starts on last Friday before the start of the regular season all teams must cut down to 24 man roster and all waived players tossed back into list of available names, emails and all contact information should be updated at this point also, waiver wire is temp. closed for supplemental round) Supplemental round-- (one last round done by phone/email in which the natural order of that years draft goes in order with the option of picking up a player from the tossed list of cut players i.e.: if you finished last the year before you are given the ability to pick first from the list of dropped players) Start of regular season-- (weeks 1-22 waiver wire is opened) lather rinse repeat.
The following Drafts, in the following years will have all picks determined by the finished record the previous year i.e.: who ever finished worst in record is the first pick and second worse is second pick in every round, there are no more reverse orders at this point. Centers (C) , Forwards (L or R), Defensemen (D), and Goaltenders (G) may be selected in any order, anytime. If you finished last the previous year, you automatically will be picking first in every round the up coming years draft and second last same thing etc. The entire draft order will determined this way immediately at the end of the season the prior year with two exceptions, The Stanley Cup Finalists (winner and loser) are automatically picks 12 and 11 in each round regardless of their records, i.e.: wildcard #6 finished regular season 10-12 but goes on in the play-offs to win the Stanley Cup, they are automatically pick 12 in every round. Drafts will consist of 7 rounds only and the players that are being picked can only consist of un-owned players and rookies newly drafted into the NHL. The date of this draft will always be the third Friday in August at 6:00pm there are to be no exceptions made for this time and Date every year.
Player Designations, all player designations are denoted on the NHL website and are constant and we have yet to see one change. A copy of all players printed out off of the NHL website will be provided publicly on all Draft nights so as to erase any confusion that may arise. Again, the list (C, L,R,D and G) on the NHL site is the Bible no exceptions. If the NHL changes it so changes our designation. In the practice year of this league we did not see anyone changed even once so this should happen very rarely.
Regular Season, Lineups, Scoring, Minutes
Regular Season, will have all dates for each week posted clearly on the Schedules page every year. The season will always consist of 22 weeks of head to head competition with each team playing their conference opponents 3 times each and the rest of the schedule is reserved for out of Conference games. All games start on Friday and end on Thursday nights.
Lineups, must always be emailed to the league or called into whoever handles your conference by Thursday of the following week. It can be put in whenever you would like prior to that time but again Thursday at 10:00pm is the cut-off time when the previous weeks lineup will simply be carried over from the week prior. All Lineups must consist of the exact same structure which is as follows: 1 starting Center, 2 starting Forwards, 2 starting Defensemen, 1 Goalie, 1 Goon (cannot be goalies), and 3 Bench Players (cannot be goalies). No position can ever be occupied by a player that is not the right designation or not on that teams roster (obviously) and at no time can a lineup have a blank at any position. Injured players may be inserted into the lineup. If a team submits a lineup that has a mistake in it i.e. wrong name in wrong place etc. the last weeks lineup will be overlaid on top of new weeks in order to correct said mistake.
Ties will be calculated out to the farthest decimal place until someone wins, the only type of tie that can take place is a whole number tie.
Scoring, is by position, here are the types and the restrictions:
Centers; 1 point for assist, 1 point for goal, plus 2 extra for each hat trick. Shootout Goals do not apply. Centers do not score any other way.
Forwards; 1 point for assist, 1 point for goal, plus 2 extra for each hat trick. Shootout Goals do not apply. Forwards do not score any other way.
Defensemen; 2 points for assist, 2 points for goal, plus 2 extra for each hat trick. Shootout Goals do not apply. Defensemen do not score any other way.
Goalie; Must start the game, if not the starter of the game, is ignore completely in everyway. 4 points minus goals against for that game (empty net goals do not apply, shootout goals do not apply), 1 point for team win, -1 point for team loss, 2 points for shutout. Goalies do not score in any other way.
Goon Position; 1 point for every 2 minutes of penalty time with a max of 7 points for any one game points are rounded down and there are no half points. Goons do not score in any other way.
Bench 1,2,3; all normal scoring applies divided by 2 per game. Shootout Goals do not apply. Bench players do not score in any other way.
Minutes, each team starts with a minute cap of 275 allowed by the entire team for the week. Minutes are compiled by the starting Center, 2 Forwards, and 2 Defensemen only. The Goalie, Goon, and 3 bench players do not compile minutes during the week. Once a team reaches 275 minutes, the entire lineup stops scoring. example: Team A has 59 minutes left on Wednesday and the starting 5 use 63 minutes and the whole lineup scores 7 points, everyone who played for Team A on Wednesday would have their respective minutes and scores multiplied by .936 and the team is done for the week.
Play-offs, Waiver Wire, Money, Trades
Play-offs, will be made up of the top two conference winners in the league and the next 4 best teams placed in order from 1-6. The bye-week positions of #1 and #2 are always reserved for conference winners and then positions 3-6 are made up of the next 4 best records regardless of conference. The three head to head weeks of the play-offs will be held weeks 23-25 of the season and will be bracketed in the following way:
Week 23 teams #1,#2 have bye-week, team 3 plays team 6 and team 4 plays team 5.
Week 24 team 1 plays lowest number that is alive and team 2 plays other team left.
Week 25 Stanley Cup week remaining two teams play each other.
Waiver Wire, each team receives 12 transaction each year per team and all unused picks are forfeit from year to year. When open the waiver wire is a FIFO (first in first out) system, simply email or call whoever is in charge of your conference and drop player A and pick up player B. Rosters must always be at 24 players except the time between the draft and the cut down date. making a move during the Supplemental round is considered a waiver wire transaction. Transactions can be traded between teams as part of trades as well. Any player waivered must have played at least one NHL game in his lifetime. We cannot waiver wire the next years draft by picking up "prospects" that have not played yet.
Money, it is 200 a team and 10 dollars a loss per team to belong to this league. Here is how much gets collected: 200 times 12 is 2400 plus 10 dollars times 6 losers every week times 22 weeks is 1320..... 3720 total Minus 180 for draft night. Here is where it goes: Stanley Cup winner is 50% or 1770, Stanley Cup loser 25% or 885, two teams that exit in Final Four round week 24 each get 12.5% or 442.50 for a total of 3720 or 100% of all monies. The monies are short 325.00 dollars due to incurred costs of trophy, this will be spread out 65.00 over 5 years and unfortunately the winners have to pay it sorry boys (and girl) consider it a start up tax. So to recap for the first 5 years the winners get Stanley cup winner 1737.50, looser 868.75, final four exit 434.38. After the fifth year it reverts to the above. All monies that are owed by all owners must be paid by June 1st of the current year or the team is forfeit. Back monies for losses will still be the responsibility of the old owner to pay. (added 06-07-2010)
Trades, other than the off-season and during season restrictions, trades can happen as many times as owners like but teams must always be at 24 players during the season.
Player Verification
It has become very confusing over the years to agree on what position a player is depending on what team he is on and what way each team is using that player. The nhl has a backbone DB that they use at rink side live at each game to determine minutes and position etc. We use that and only that are our guide and nothing else. It should look like this: http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20082009/ES020181.HTM if it does not then it simply means nothing to this league.
Centers become forwards and Forwards become Centers typically whatever they move someone to at the beginning of the season is where they leave him for the rest of the year. Important: It may seem unfair but every year we have 4-6 players at the beginning of the year that are moved by the NHL. There is simply nothing that can be done about this. We will not penalize a current weeks lineup but the players position will be adjusted and the change will stay until they change it (week to week has not happened yet, lets hope it never does).