Mr. EFL Answer Man

About Mid-Month Roster Moves

Dear Mr. Answer Man:

Can you reiterate the new mid-month reallocation rule? Is it three moves of any kind, any time during the month?

— Out of Breath in Salem
Dear Mr. Salem:
It’s a long season. The season hasn’t even started!  And you’re out of breath already? You obviously did far too much heavy lifting this morning for a man of your age and general condition.  I see you are lugging around a giant fish.  Already your possessions are possessing you.
Here is my advice: go, sell all your possessions and/or give them to the poor…
Oh, you weren’t asking about how to save your soul, were you? You are instead asking about how to shuffle your vast roster resources using our new mid-month roster moves rule.   I provide the rule itself below.  Here is a summary:
1)  You can make three roster moves each month.  You can pick the timing and the player(s) involved. They do not have to be in the minors, , injured, or dead.
2)  A roster move can be simply adding to a player’s active playing time or sending him to the minors.  But if you banish someone to the minors, you can also bring someone back from the minors and/or move players from inactive or OH status to fill the gap left by the demoted player — all as one transaction.
3)  We have kept our old rule forbidding any move that DECREASES a player’s playing time at a position (other than OH) — unless you are sending them to the minors.  (You can’t decrease a percentage playing time allotment, but you can stop them from playing by sending them to the minors.)
4)  The new rule says, once you’ve sent someone to the minors you cannot bring them back until the next month.
I THINK you can think of it this way:  a roster move starts when you make a hole somewhere by moving a player, and it includes filling that hole again.  As long as a player’s move starts from that hole or ends in that hole, it’s part of a single roster move.
Don’t quote me on that.
— Answer Man.

Mid-Month Roster Moves: During the month each EFL owner may make three roster moves. A single roster move can include:

a) Increasing an active player’s playing time at one or more positions where he is eligible to play (with accompanying decreases in OH time, if necessary), OR

b) Demoting a player to the minors (which means the player will accumulate no more stats for the rest of the month), and

(i) Calling up one player from the minors to replace the demoted player at one or all of his positions, and /or to play at OH;  and/or

ii) Increasing active players’ playing time at eligible position(s) covered by the demoted player (with accompanying decreases in OH time, if necessary).

The EFL team may not make any other adjustments, such as decreasing the percentage of playing time of any active player at any defensive position. The playing time added to any position (including Other Hitter or a pitching role) must be between 1% and 3% per day remaining in the calendar month counting the day the owner announces the change(s) to the league. (The normal requirement that players be activated for a minimum of 33% of their actual PA or IP for the entire month is waived for changes announced under this rule.)   No player may be moved from starting pitcher to relief pitcher, or vice versa, as a mid-month replacement. No player may be promoted to the major league roster in the same month he was demoted to the minor leagues.

 

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  • Since the Drive has never had a “minor league,” though many of our players have played as if they were, and since we usually deploy all our players, including the evil and incompetent ones, thus diluting the overall impact of our team in any given month, what is the definition of “minor league” in the context of the EFL?