With the help of Fantrax.com, we incorporate just about every facet of MLB baseball into our dynasty baseball scoring system, design, and gameplay. We utilize a Points, Head-to-Head, Weekly scoring system that awards for various accomplishments. You will never miss out on gaining an edge on the scoreboard using our universal format. Need more? Here’s a breakdown of our dynasty baseball leagues.
HL Quick Outline
16, 20, or 24 teams per league for startups
Daily rosters | Head-to-Head Points
LIVE and Automated “Slow” Draft via Fantrax.com (extended clock & e-mail notifications if enabled by user)
The draft runs from 10 a.m. to 12 a.m. ET daily. The clock pauses during off-hours; however, draft selections can be made while it is stopped.
All 2nd-year and beyond leagues use a draft order based on the winners of the Draft Consolation bracket and Playoff bracket
30-man active/reserve rosters + 20 Minors Eligible roster slots
Keep 40 players every year
Only players signed to MLB teams will be available in the player pool
HL Prize Pools
16-Team Leagues
Year 1 and Up – $1,400.00
20-Team Leagues
Year 1 and Up – $1,800.00
24-Team Leagues
Year 1 and Up – $2,200.00
HL Payouts
Our payouts enable everyone in the league to recoup some of their investment, even in a lost season. We award payouts to the following:
League Payouts
League Champion: 55% of the total league pot
Runner-Up: 20% of the total league pot
Regular Season Champion: 20% of the total league pot
Third Place Finisher: 5% of the total league pot
HL Dynasty Rosters (Start-up Leagues ONLY)
Each new start-up will draft 50 roster spots.
Rosters NEVER expand.
Zero positional limitations. You decide how many players to keep and draft at each position.
FAAB waivers start from the conclusion of your draft and continue until the end of our Fantasy Regular Season.
HL Scoring
Scoring Grid
HL Draft
Start-up Dynasty Leagues use a serpentine or snake draft for their first year.
Most Non-Playoff teams will have their position determined by their postseason Draft Bracket finish.
Most teams that do not make the playoffs will play in a consolation bracket to determine the Draft Order for the following season. The team with the worst record gets the 1 seed. The following seeds get the next lowest bracket slot. Reseeding will occur each round until a winner is determined. Refer to the Draft Bracket rules section for the league-by-league outline.
The free-agent draft clock is 2 hours per pick. It is on from 10 a.m. ET to midnight ET daily until the draft is completed.
After two (2) consecutive time-out picks, you will be placed on auto-pick
If you miss a Free Agent draft selection, the system will select based on your queue first, then by ADP for the current season.
Once your team hits the DRAFT ROSTER CAP (league cap plus 5 additional off-season slots), your draft is OVER! You will not be given additional draft slots if you trade for additional players and/or picks.
HL Waiver Guidelines
In all leagues, we use a two-part claiming system.
All waived players are eligible for bidding daily using a Free Agent Acquisition Budget (FAAB).
We use a Proxy (eBay-style) Bidding.
When bids are processed, the winning bidder pays the price of the second-highest bid. If there is no other bid, the winning bidder will pay the league minimum bid ($1).
Show the highest pending bids will be turned on.
NOTE: Only the bid will be seen, not the team name of the highest bidder. The tie-breaker of the earliest bid will remain the same.
All waiver claims are processed the next day at 10 AM ET.
After the 10 AM ET waiver run, all remaining players will be available on a First Come, First Served (FCFS) basis until each player's game-time lock. At the start of each player's respective game, players will be waived and available to bid on for the next day's waiver run.
All dropped players will be automatically waived and locked for at least 24 hours, allowing all league members to bid on the player. Dropped players will be included in the following 9 AM ET waiver run after their 24-hour lock.
There is a season-long cap on FCFS claims. Once you have reached this cap, you can no longer claim players via FCFS. The FCFS claims limit begins immediately after the draft ends and ends on the first day of the playoffs.
All undrafted players will go to waivers for 24 hours after your league's yearly draft concludes.
All players will go on waivers at the start of their respective games.
Waivers run daily at 10 am ET.
After the 10 am ET waivers, all players will be available FCFS (first-come, first-served) until the start of their game that day.
Any player whose team does not play on any given day will go to waivers at the start of the last game of that day.
All Free Agent claims will be locked at noon ET on the first Monday of the fantasy postseason.
The commissioner will reverse any Waiver claim made before the noon ET cut-off that the system processes on Tuesday at 9:00 am ET or Wednesday at 9:00 am ET.
Teams can drop players during the Postseason, but cannot make claims.
HL Minors Eligibility Enforcement
After a two-day grace period, the owner's roster will become ILLEGAL, and no points will be accrued until the minor’s violation is corrected. Pending claims, like waiver claims, will be canceled and not processed.
HL Trades
Once the league host (Fantrax) is ready, Trades must be made only through the transaction feature.
Preseason trades may be completed once all teams' rosters are officially ready (Fees paid, cuts made)
Multi-player or lopsided trades may be made. Vacancies can be filled using one of your add/drops.
The owner with a surplus above the league-dictated roster max must drop at least one player to make room.
Future picks can be traded.
HL Tie Breakers
The following tie-breakers are used for H2H Points Leagues: Regular Season Titles, Playoff Spots, and Playoff Seeding.
Most fantasy points for the entire season
Head-to-head record vs. team(s) tied with
The following tie-breakers are used for H2H Points Leagues: Playoff Bracket and Draft Order Bracket.
Higher seed
HL Postseason
Rosters will expand to +5 during the playoffs and remain expanded until the next season starts.
The player pool will be unlocked for the playoffs to start, allowing new players to be added.
PLEASE NOTE: These 2 changes will happen AT THE SAME TIME CLAIMS ARE LOCKED!
All Free Agent claims will be locked at noon ET on the first Monday of the fantasy postseason.
The commissioner will reverse any Waiver claim made before the noon ET cut-off that the system processes on Tuesday at 9:00 am ET or Wednesday at 9:00 am ET.
Teams can drop players during the Postseason, but cannot make claims.
In 16 & 20-team leagues:
The top 8 teams will advance to the Postseason Playoff Bracket
The bottom 8 teams will play in the Draft Consolation Bracket
In 24-team leagues:
The top 12 teams will advance to the Postseason Playoff Bracket
The top 4 teams will secure 1st Round byes
The bottom 8 teams will play in the Draft Consolation Bracket
For 16-team and 20-team leagues, the postseason starts 3 weeks before the fantasy season ends.
NOTE: The fantasy season ends the Sunday before the MLB season ends.
For 24-team leagues, the postseason begins 4 weeks before the fantasy season ends.
The championship matchup lasts two weeks combined, and the quarter- and semi-final contests each last one week.
All playoff and draft brackets become officially locked after completing one week on the bracket.
This one-week period allows for statistical corrections from the previous period.
Draft Bracket Seeding:
1st round:
Bracket 1
2nd seed vs. 1st seed
4th seed vs. 3rd seed
Bracket 2
6th seed vs. 5th seed
8th seed vs. 7th seed
2nd round:
winner (2nd v. 1st) vs. winner (4th v. 3rd)
winner (6th v. 5th) vs. winner (8th v. 7th)
3rd round:
winner (2nd 1st v. 4th 3rd) vs. winner (6th 5th v. 8th 7th)
HL Offseason
The number of cuts for each team is different due to the number of Minor League credits kept on your roster, PLUS any 3+ year tenured players.
A CUT DATE/TIME will be posted in each Slack league chat room after the final payment for your league is full. Failure to make the necessary cuts by the CUT DATE/TIME will result in a LOSS of HALF of your available FAAB per day.
A MAX ROSTER CUT DATE/TIME will be posted in the main Slack Baseball chat room. Failure to get your roster at, or under, the MAX ROSTER LIMIT by the posted DATE/TIME will result in a LOSS of HALF YOUR TEAMS AVAILABLE FAAB per day.
Once players reach 3+ yrs of continuous service, they will also give you credit towards your CUTS.
Rosters will expand to accommodate Minor League Picks yearly, as CUTS will expand to protect your team's growth.
DROPS will only come from your final Regular Season Roster from the previous season.
Your offseason cannot begin until the CUTS and payment have been made.
If the last team pays within 3 weeks of the MLB season, starting CUTS will be 48 hours after the final payment is received, and the draft clock will change from 2 hours to 1 hour per pick.
If there are Orphan Teams from owners who leave the league, Dynasty Orphans (DO) will attempt to find new owners.
If necessary, DO will sell teams via a Dispersal Draft to maintain the league's current number of teams.
The method for determining the draft season draft order:
16-team Leagues:
1st pick - Draft Bracket winner
2nd pick - Draft Bracket loser
3rd pick - Highest seed to lose in draft bracket 2nd round
4th pick - Lowest seed to lose in draft bracket 2nd round
5th pick - Highest seed to lose in draft bracket 1st round
6th pick - 2nd Highest seed to lose in draft bracket 1st round
7th pick - 2nd Lowest seed to lose in draft bracket 1st round
8th pick - Lowest seed to lose in draft bracket 1st round
9th pick - Lowest seed to lose in playoffs 1st round
10th pick - 2nd lowest seed to lose in playoffs 1st round
11th pick - 2nd highest seed to lose in playoffs 1st round
12th pick - Highest seed to lose in playoffs 1st round
13th pick - 3rd place game loser
14th pick - 3rd place game-winner
15th pick - Runner-up
16th pick - Champ
20-team Leagues:
1st pick - Draft Bracket winner
2nd pick - Draft Bracket loser
3rd pick - Highest seed to lose in draft bracket 2nd round
4th pick - Lowest seed to lose in draft bracket 2nd round
5th pick - Highest seed to lose in draft bracket 1st round
6th pick - 2nd Highest seed to lose in draft bracket 1st round
7th pick - 2nd Lowest seed to lose in draft bracket 1st round
8th pick - Lowest seed to lose in draft bracket 1st round
9th pick - Finished 12th in final season standings
10th pick - Finished 11th in final season standings
11th pick - Finished 10th in final season standings
12th pick - Finished 9th in final season standings
13th pick - Lowest seed to lose in playoffs 1st round
14th pick - 2nd lowest seed to lose in playoffs 1st round
15th pick - 2nd highest seed to lose in playoffs 1st round
16th pick - Highest seed to lose in playoffs 1st round
17th pick - 3rd place game loser
18th pick - 3rd place game-winner
19th pick - Runner-up
20th pick - Champ
24-team Leagues:
1st pick - Draft Bracket winner
2nd pick - Draft Bracket loser
3rd pick - Highest seed to lose in draft bracket 2nd round
4th pick - Lowest seed to lose in draft bracket 2nd round
5th pick - Highest seed to lose in draft bracket 1st round
6th pick - 2nd Highest seed to lose in draft bracket 1st round
7th pick - 2nd Lowest seed to lose in draft bracket 1st round
8th pick - Lowest seed to lose in draft bracket 1st round
9th pick - Finished 16th in final season standings
10th pick - Finished 15th in final season standings
11th pick - Finished 14th in final season standings
12th pick - Finished 13th in final season standings
13th pick - Lowest seed to lose in playoffs 1st round
14th pick - 2nd lowest seed to lose in playoffs 1st round
15th pick - 2nd highest seed to lose in playoffs 1st round
16th pick - Highest seed to lose in playoffs 1st round
17th pick - Lowest seed to lose in playoffs 2nd round
18th pick - 2nd lowest seed to lose in playoffs 2nd round
19th pick - 2nd highest seed to lose in playoffs 2nd round
20th pick - Highest seed to lose in playoffs 2nd round
21st pick - 3rd place game loser
22nd pick - 3rd place game-winner
23rd pick - Runner-up
24th pick - Champ