Week 3 Review

This past week, Jon Kison asked:

Is there a certain amount of time a player must be on your roster before he is considered keeper eligible?

The answer is:

There is no set number of days or games a player has to exceed while on your roster to be considered keeper eligible. A player could be signed on the last day of the season and as long as they meet the contract/salary guidelines for being keeper eligible, they can be kept.

That is why transactions are $5 a piece during the final two months of the season, to discourage owners from hoarding players that would otherwise be eligible for next season's D-League or NBA draft.

And as a reminder:

On the "league home" tab of the homepage there is a "calendar" option which lists the daily roster deadlines for each day of the season. By definition, the roster deadline is a half hour before the tip off of the first game of the day.

I mention this because Jason sent me a message on Saturday, November 15th at 5:58pm CST requesting to have Marcus Camby, Baron Davis, Andrei Kirilenko, and Drew Gooden inserted into his lineup. I did not see this message until Sunday and eventually told Jason I could retroactively start Kirilenko and Gooden but not Camby and Davis since the Clippers/Warriors game started at 12:30pm PST on Saturday. By the time Jason submitted his request, that Clippers/Warriors game was probably already finished, which is an honest mistake since most west coast games don't start until 9pm CST.

So for future reference, if you have any post deadline roster changes that need to be made, I will activate/reserve the players involved:

a) As long as the game of the players being activated or reserved hasn't started yet.

b) I will not sub in players who have yet to play, for players in your starting lineup that had a game but did not play due to injury.

c) I will not execute any retroactive add/drops for owners after the deadline has passed.

Since we as owners are allowed to set our lineups nearly a week in advance, I'm anticipating this shouldn't be a common occurrence, but in the rare instance such a request is submitted to the commissioner, these are the guidelines I will and have been basing my decisions on.

Keep up the excellent work and until next week, this is your commissioner signing off.

P.S. I was hoping Matt Kroening would take me up on my suggestion of changing his team name from Failing Farmers to Farming the Fallopian Tubes, but he settled on Farming for Fattys. While I'm glad he decided on the name change, I'm not very confident that he made the right decision. What we can all agree on is how disgusting his new team logo is, unless you're into that kind of thing, then it's probably somewhat arousing.