DRAFT and FREE AGENCY

DRAFT ORDER: DETERMINED BY RANDOM DIE ROLL

1. Kevin Lively
2. Kevin Friend of Muff
3. Billy Mills
4. Jeff Barton
5. Jeff Cowgill
6. Jeff Blakley
7. Andy Hunsaker
8. Brendan Cain
9. Joe Hunsaker
10. Brandt Fundak
11. Frank Raynor
12. and yes, John Klump

Bid

Everyone is randomly assigned a draft number, draft picks go in same numerical order every draft round. However, this is merely for the purpose of determining orders during the season, as well as order in later rounds.

Everyone is assigned 20 points.

Every pick can be challenged, and bid on from the point pool, by any other player. Highest bid wins the wrestler. If a player has points left over after draft, they are added to his regular season point total.

TRADES can be made just like other Fantasy sports.

There is no "IR" per se, but each player will have three wrestlers and one 'reserve' or 'bench' wrestler.

(OLD IR RULE, NO LONGER VALID BUT NOT DELETED IN CASE WE DECIDE TO REINSTITUTE IT: you can put one wrestler on the IR if he is injured legitimately throughout the course of the season, although you are forbidden from drafting an injured wrestler. Throughout the course of the season, to put a wrestler on IR, they have to have missed at least two weeks of programming due to a legitimate injury. When a wrestler returns from IR, there is a three-day grace period for players to adjust their rosters accordingly, and they will not receive points for their IR wrestler's first appearance back. If the roster has not been made legal by the end of those three days, the returning IR wrestler will become a free agent. Declarations can be made in advance as to who will be dropped if an IR wrestler returns, but it is ill-advised due to the possibility of lengthy injury absences spanning massive changes in the wrestling landscape - the guy you claim you will drop a month ahead of time may be a valuable guy to have by the time your IR dude returns.)

SEASON LENGTH:

Begin at RAW on 4/7/2003 and will end at next Summerslam, most points wins. It's a shorter season than last year, so no one gets tired.

NEW ARRIVALS: (first draft)
Say if Randy Savage joins the NwO sometime in the future, it will be dealt with as follows: The player with the LOWEST SCORE will have first crack at picking him up, and should he pass, the 11th place player will have the next opportunity to pick him up. Should there be two people tied for last place, the tiebreaker will be reverse draft order - if Matt and Klump are tied for last, Matt would get first crack. The maximum is 3 starting wrestlers and one reserve wrestler, so Matt would have to drop a current member of his team to make room for Savage.

IF YOU PICK UP A NEW ARRIVAL, YOU WILL NOT HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE DIBS ON ANOTHER NEW ARRIVAL UNTIL AT LEAST TWO WEEKS (TWO RAWS AND TWO SMACKDOWNS) HAVE PASSED. This is to allow time for the standings to adjust appropriately after the roster change. Anyone New Arrivals that show up on these 2 RAWs and 2 Smackdowns will not be available to you until they have cleared waivers. This means that if you pick up Hardcore Holly after he shows up on RAW, you will not be able to pick up anyone that might show up on the next 2 RAWs and Smackdowns, even if your two-week ban ends right after the RAW in which Taka Michinoku shows up. That RAW would still be a part of your two-week ban, and therefore verboten.

However, if you pass on a new arrival and are still in last place by the time the next new arrival shows up, you will still have dibs on him.

When a New Arrival shows up, you have two days in which to put in a claim for that wrestler, or else he becomes a free agent, and then all those bastards at the top can pick him up free of charge if their claim arrives first.

SO, let's say Matt takes Randy Savage after he shows up on RAW. If then, on Smackdown, Lanny Poffo shows up, JOHN (considering he's still tied for last place) would then have first crack at him, because even though Matt may still be in last place, the two weeks have not passed. If John takes Lanny Poffo, and then on the next RAW, Red Rooster, Terry Funk and Bastion Booger show up and there's been no change in the standings, the 10th place player would get first crack at them (say he chooses Rooster), and then the 9th place player would get to pick between Booger and Funk, and so on. If there IS a change in the standings (and provided the last place player is not just John alone again, because he can't pick up two new guys in a row), the "dibs" goes to the next lowest score player who has yet to get a crack at a new arrival.

If, by chance, so many new people show up that everyone gets to pick a new arrival before the two weeks are up for the first guy, the system will start anew.

Changes to rosters will not take effect until the Sunday of the following week, to prevent "Smackdown-foreknowledge" problems, and you may not pick up new wrestlers on the day of events.

WAIVERS:
If you choose to drop one of your wrestlers and pick up an unclaimed wrestler (or new arrival), then the dropped wrestler will be treated as if he were a new arrival, and thus the last place player would have dibs on him, and you would move to the end of the 'dibs' line no matter where you are in the standings, because by dropping him, you have indicated that you have the least interest in that wrestler. If he remains unclaimed for a week, he is then unrestricted and can be picked up at any time.