CBSSportsline transaction settings help

[B-Fly]

Does anyone know whether and how one can set up a league on CBSSportsline to allow the following combination of settings:

1) Weekly FAAB
2) Ability to move an injured player to the DL and then add a replacement through FAAB without dropping a player
3) Ability to submit multiple bids to replace the player being moved to the DL (e.g., Howard to DL, for vacant UT slot, bid Utley $4, D.Brown $3)

Thanks. This is a deep NL only league where we've historically not maintained a bench, but allowed an unlimited number of players to be stashed on the DL or in the Minors (if that's, in fact, their actual MLB status). We're hoping to maintain the ability to do this without saddling the commissioner with the need to handle any transactions manually.

[revo]

Weekly FAAB -- Commish Tools/Tools/Set Transaction Policies ---> check off the day you want FAAB to run (and it usually runs at 1-2am the next morning)
Injured player to the DL ---> when an owner wants to add a player, the owner will select 'Move player to DL' in the dropdown
Multiple bids -- have the owner tie the moves to the same end transaction (i.e. Howard to the DL). Once the first transaction goes through that actually places Howard on the DL, the other transaction requests with that same end move will be denied.


The commish should have very little to do here except if the owner screws it up.

[bryanbutler]

Does anyone know whether and how one can set up a league on CBSSportsline to allow the following combination of settings:

1) Weekly FAAB
2) Ability to move an injured player to the DL and then add a replacement through FAAB without dropping a player
3) Ability to submit multiple bids to replace the player being moved to the DL (e.g., Howard to DL, for vacant UT slot, bid Utley $4, D.Brown $3)

Thanks. This is a deep NL only league where we've historically not maintained a bench, but allowed an unlimited number of players to be stashed on the DL or in the Minors (if that's, in fact, their actual MLB status). We're hoping to maintain the ability to do this without saddling the commissioner with the need to handle any transactions manually.

(1) is easy - it's just in the league setups.

(2) is pretty straightforward, you just make the roster move before the FAAB deadline and leave an open slot in your roster. it will complain that you have an illegal roster, but ignore that. then make your FAAB bid, with no linked roster move. if the player you get qualifies at that position i think it adds them automatically in the open roster slot (but you may have to add them manually - can't remember for sure on that one).

(3) you can also do this. in your transaction, you'd first bid utley, and mark howard as moving to the DL from his U slot as linked to it. then do the same with D.Brown. the CBS system will bid on utley first, since he's the higher priced. if you get utley, it won't allow the brown transaction to go through, since it can no longer move howard to the DL since he's already been moved. if you don't get utley, it will process the brown bid in the normal way.

now, (3) isn't quite like full-blown contingent bidding, because of the way CBS processes bids - it *always* processes bids in order of dollar amount. so, for instance, you could not do (3) if you wanted to first bid on D.Brown at $3, and then if you didn't get him, bid $4 on utley.

the way they do tie-breakers can be confusing too, and it's the only time that the order in which players in your own list matters (if you have equal amounts bid on them) - read their FAQ though, it's pretty explanatory.

ETA: some of this (including revo's response) does depend on how your commish has the settings for the league. for instance, they may have moves restricted, and they may have all FAAB go through the commissioner.

[Weapon1]

I don't do CBS for baseball, only basketball, but the below is how it works for that as well.

Weekly FAAB -- Commish Tools/Tools/Set Transaction Policies ---> check off the day you want FAAB to run (and it usually runs at 1-2am the next morning)
Injured player to the DL ---> when an owner wants to add a player, the owner will select 'Move player to DL' in the dropdown
Multiple bids -- have the owner tie the moves to the same end transaction (i.e. Howard to the DL). Once the first transaction goes through that actually places Howard on the DL, the other transaction requests with that same end move will be denied.


The commish should have very little to do here except if the owner screws it up.

[B-Fly]

Great. Thanks, guys!

[OaklandA's]

What revo said is correct, but just to clarify one thing - Owners should not do Method #2 before the FAAB. All Adds should be tied to a corresponding Drop or "Move to DL". If an owner moves the player to the DL before the FAAB, and then submit bids on two players to replace him, the owner could end up with both. It is much better to make both Adds tied to the same "Move to DL" transaction; that way, the owner can only acquire a maximum of one player.

[bryanbutler]

What revo said is correct, but just to clarify one thing - Owners should not do Method #2 before the FAAB. All Adds should be tied to a corresponding Drop or "Move to DL". If an owner moves the player to the DL before the FAAB, and then submit bids on two players to replace him, the owner could end up with both. It is much better to make both Adds tied to the same "Move to DL" transaction; that way, the owner can only acquire a maximum of one player.

right in principle, but the question didn't specify whether there were multiple bids. if you're only putting in a single bid on a player it doesn't matter which way you do it. probably good to keep in that practice anyway though, in case you *do* have multiple bids .

[revo]

What revo said is correct, but just to clarify one thing - Owners should not do Method #2 before the FAAB. All Adds should be tied to a corresponding Drop or "Move to DL". If an owner moves the player to the DL before the FAAB, and then submit bids on two players to replace him, the owner could end up with both. It is much better to make both Adds tied to the same "Move to DL" transaction; that way, the owner can only acquire a maximum of one player.

Yeah, this was implying that the 'Move to DL' is in the dropdown to make the add, because the only other way to move a player to your DL is by placing him there on your team page.

[B-Fly]

Another question for those who know: How will CBS handle an illegal roster move? For example, I have B.McCann at C and he goes to the DL. I submit a transaction to move McCann to the DL and add J.Mayberry for $2. There's no spot on my active roster for J.Mayberry and the move would leave me without anyone to slot in McCann's catcher spot. What happens? Will CBS notify the owner that it's an illegal move as soon as he hits enter. Or will it process the move and leave the owner with an illegal roster? And if so, will the owner get no stats for Mayberry and no stats for the vacant C slot unless and until he picks up a catcher the following week? Will the owner get no stats at all because he has an illegal roster? Or will he get Mayberry's stats even though he shouldn't? How would the league Commissioner need to handle something like this? Thanks!

[revo]

Another question for those who know: How will CBS handle an illegal roster move? For example, I have B.McCann at C and he goes to the DL. I submit a transaction to move McCann to the DL and add J.Mayberry for $2. There's no spot on my active roster for J.Mayberry and the move would leave me without anyone to slot in McCann's catcher spot. What happens? Will CBS notify the owner that it's an illegal move as soon as he hits enter. Or will it process the move and leave the owner with an illegal roster? And if so, will the owner get no stats for Mayberry and no stats for the vacant C slot unless and until he picks up a catcher the following week? Will the owner get no stats at all because he has an illegal roster? Or will he get Mayberry's stats even though he shouldn't? How would the league Commissioner need to handle something like this? Thanks!

CBS looks at the setting for overall roster spots, so the move may be able to go through. In other words, if your active roster is made up of 20 players, you have a 5 man bench and allow up to 5 DL slots, the site will allow each team to have 30 players, even if a particular move creates an "illegal" lineup for that owner.

The site will not alert the owner it is an illegal move, because it thinks it isn't.

If the move does go through and the owner has an illegal roster because of it, the commish would need to back the move out. There is a checkbox in the Front Office that says "Illegal rosters score zero points in the standings" but that is a commish option.