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Registration fee- The League offers cash prizes for the top five places. Entry fees include both the regular season as well as the playoffs. Payouts are based on a full league of 24 teams and if the league is not full will have the payouts adjusted accordingly. The fee provides the prize money at the end of the season. All other costs to maintain and run the league are covered by me as this is one of my passions, not a profit center. Premier League – Registration fee is $65 Payouts:
The dues will be billed through League Safe who also handles all the payouts at the end of the season. Dues for the upcoming 2025-26 season will be due by August 1st. Once you are signed up for the league I will input your email address with League Safe , so watch for those emails regarding payment of dues. The league will not take any new GM's after the draft has been completed.
Rule One - The commissioner makes the rules and has final decision making on everything. At times I will put things to a vote of GM's where I will let the majority rule, but this is not required. This is my league and if you do not like the way I run it or any of the rules you can find another league and if you have paid I will gladly refund your dues. Not trying to be a jerk here, however after 24 plus years doing this, I have given up on trying to keep everyone happy and being democratic about it...enough on that. Draft Order - Draft for the 2025-26 season we will be done is reverse finishing order. If there are unclaimed teams from the previous season they will be removed prior top the draft and we will simply run with a smaller league for the season. New GM's taking over or switching teams from the previous season will take over that draft position. The Drafts- The draft is held on Fantrax which will be used to manage all drafting functions. Time allowed for each pick is TBD right now, but is typically a 1:00 to 1:30 per pick and will allow GM's to pre rank their selections. This serves a dual purpose, due to the fact that if you are not able to attend some of or even all of the draft, you can still participate and get a reasonable draft list. The draft date will be: September 27th 12:00PM Eastern / 9:00AM Pacific Time For those who are auto drafting, unless you were careful to sprinkle in some value players, you will likely have alot of adjustments to make to become compliant. Preparation is critical and you must insure that your draft lists are deep enough to support a seventeen round draft. Watch for any per-season injury rumors, players that may retire or rookies that won't make the cut on their pro team. I strongly suggest that when you are creating your draft selection list, that you utilize the pre-ranking system and rank all players in the league for each position (Forwards, Defensemen & Goalies.) As you can imagine, with everyone interested in the same top players, a 24-team league can easily go through the top 100 forwards players. To be safe you should have half of all forwards, three quarters of all defensemen and three quarters of all goalies ranked on your selection list. The Salary Cap- The salary cap for the 2025-26 season, will increase to $95.5 million per team. Team Player allotment - The maximum number of players you are allowed per position breaks down as follows: 11 forwards, 6 defense and 2 goalies. The Regular Season- Now that you have drafted your team and your rosters are filled, you're ready to mold the team to your own specifications. Of your 19-man roster, you are allowed to dress a maximum of 13 players, leaving the remaining 6 on the bench. Your teams weekly line up must consist of: 8 Forwards,4 Defensemen and 1 Goalies Keeper players - Each team will be allowed to have 2 keepers beginning in the 25-26 season. The keepers must be declared by July 15th after the completion of the season. The maximum term for a keeper is three seasons and that term balance transfers if the player is traded to another team. The drafting season is considered the first year of thier contract. ***Goalies are excluded from being selected as keepers! All Players will have three year contracts beginning at the time they are first acquired by a team. Activating/Benching Players- As the team owner you are able to start or bench players daily and can do so up to one hour before the start of the game. There are no limits on the number of games that a player can be active for per season Player Acquisition & Movement- Trades/Transactions -Players can be added or waived from your roster via the free agent list or trades with other GM's. There is no approval process neccessary to complete a trade, but ask that the trades be structured fairly for both teams. Transactions cannot put you over the cap so bear that in mind whe you are constructing the deal. · Players may be waived from a team’s roster at any point during the season. Once the player is waived a 48 hour hold goes into effect before the player can be acquired by another team. The waiver draft order (reverse of main draft) will be used for the entire season to award first pick of waived players. If a player is not requested during the 48 hour waiver period then they are returned to the free agent pool and may be acquired by any new team. Adding Players - · Player transactions are on a first-come, first-serve basis. · All requests are subject to the limits of the 19-player roster, as well as the salary cap $95.5 Million. · If the requested transaction puts the team over on either the roster or salary cap, the transaction will be rejected. Again the burden of responsibility for keeping your roster under cap and within roster limits is your responsibility. Trading/Acquisition deadline - All rosters will be frozen for the remainder of the season (including playoffs) at the NHL trading deadline. The deadline is March 7that 12:59 PM EST. Playoff format - Ythis is still a work in progress and the addition of divisions will more closely align that of the NHL on who makes the playoffs, The top three teams in each division will automatically make the playoffs and the final two spots will be the wilds cards determined by greatest number of regulation wins, most regulation and overtime wins.. Round one (Quarter finals) Each bracket consists of the top three divisional qualifiers and one of the wild cards. The lower seeded wild card plays against the division winner with the best record while the other wild card plays against the other division winner, and both wild cards are de facto No. 4 seeds. The other two series match the second and third place teams from the divisions. Round two (Semi finals) First-round winners within each bracket play one another to determine the four participants in the Conference Finals Round three (Conference Finals) The last two teams standing after the semi finals will play for the conference title. Round four (SSFHL Cup Championship) The conference winners will compete for the SSFHL Championship. |
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