2024 League Rules

Welcome to The Lone Star League.

!!Message Board has been Scrapped by Yahoo!!! Use this Chat for all communications.

Pay 100 in league dues to seilhanb@yahoo.com on paypal or @astros2005 on Venmo

Draft is Sunday March 24th at 7:00 Central / 8:00 Eastern

Random Draft order will be made 1 week before the draft or sooner if all teams pay dues early

!!!All teams, please confirm you are playing by posting a message or posting your keepers. We have a waiting list now to replace teams not returning!!!

Post Keepers to the Chat on Yahoo Fantasy messenger!! Post as soon as you can, you can always change your posted keepers up till draft day.

You may keep up to 5 keepers, they will be your 16th-20th round picks. Your "final keeper roster" to choose your keepers from is available near the top of the League homepage to the right or underneath the large "Lone Star League" title banner where it says "2024 Season". Click the arrow and choose "2023". From that page you can see last seasons Final Rosters, Draft Results (No eligible keepers chosen rounds 1-4 by any team), and Transactions (For teams who dropped potential keepers during playoffs, any move after the last Sunday of the regular season are playoff moves, meaning you can keep anyone you dropped after that date but no one you picked up).

You can drop keeper players during playoffs if it helps you win playoff games. Your "final keeper roster" of players you can choose to keep before next years draft will be on the Monday of the first day of the playoffs. That means the players must be added the final Sunday of the regular season to be on your "final keeper roster". Any players added or dropped during the playoffs will not count, only your roster on the first playoff Monday. Also non playoff teams will not be able to add/drop during the playoffs and teams that get eliminated in the first round will have their add/drops turned off too.

Maximum of 5 trades, make them count. Also you can trade future draft picks for players during the season, so if your down and out you may try to build toward next year. All future drafts will be random order to discourage tanking. Also starting lineups must not have holes in them. The only exception for benching players is to win. Any flagrant starting of non eligible players or benching will be considered collusion.

The league will be four 4-team divisions with 22 regular season games. 3 games apiece vs. division opponents(9), everyone else once(11), and your rival twice(2). Each year your rival will be your same finishing seed in the opposite division(shits vs. giggles/ twigs vs. berries), so last year's Shits division winner's rival will be the Giggles champ. Then finish with 8 playoff teams(4 division winners and 4 wild cards). Payout is 200 to 4 division winners and 800 to final champ.

Trades are approved via league votes.

Rule change proposals, Issues, New Ideas can be posted to message board. Anything that is valid can be voted on and must get a majority. Commissioner will not vote, but give advice and approve or reject changes.

Next years divisions will be shuffled according to this method. Shits=A Giggles=B Twigs=C Berries=D. New Shits division will be A1,B2,C3,D4 and new Giggles will be B1,C2,D3,A4 etc...

Drone Teams 2018 and beyond:
If managers quit and their team cannot be filled, their team will be given their best keepers, auto drafted, locked and run untouched so they can be sold on the internet or to friends asap or the following season.

2020 and beyond Corona Rule:
If for some reason a started season doesn't finish, all money will be split between division leaders(this rule will stay on for future seasons for strikes and lockouts.......and world shutdown)