2023-24 CBSSports.com Free Fantasy Hockey Official Rules (2024)

Each team''s goalies must accumulate a combined total of at least 82 games played over the course of the season or it will be placed in last place in the Goalie Save Percentage and Goals Against Average categories. All leagues that begin after October 30, 2023 will use 40 as the minimum.

There will be no tie-breaker to determine Rotisserie league champions.

For a Rotisserie League, a team will receive no credit for statistics in any week it has an illegal lineup.

Deadline to Change Status
The deadline for setting your weekly lineup is 5 minutes before the start of the first game of the Scoring Period. The Scoring Periods for the Challenge run from Monday to Sunday (except week 1, as noted earlier will run from Friday-Sunday, the two-week All-Star Break Period and the final four-day period that runs from Monday-Thursday). Once the lineup is set for the week, it cannot be changed.

Free Agents
Throughout the season you may want to improve your roster by adding available free agents and dropping players who are not performing up to your expectations. You can submit a free agent request at any time. With the exception of requests for players on Waivers (discussed below) free agent moves are first-come, first-served and are executed immediately.

With only two exceptions, there are no limits to the number of Add/Drops you can request, nor are there any transaction fees.

1. The first exception is when a manager drops his entire team or a significant number of players, also known as "team dropping". Team dropping has a negative impact on the league and as such, any manager who elects to drop his team shall be subject to immediate removal from the league. Players selected from waivers or added from free agency that were part of a team drop may be reversed at our discretion. In such move reversals, the waiver ranks will not be reset. CBSSports.com's Free Fantasy Hockey Challenge uses weekly lineups, so any changes made may go into effect for the following week's games.
2. The second exception is abuse of the waivers process. This is when a team manager adds then drops a series of players, putting those players on waivers and making them inaccessible to other team managers. Such an action could result in forfeiture of points as well as that team manager being blocked from making any additional add/drops for the remainder of the season, in some cases dismissal of the league as determined by CBS Sports.

If either of these situations occurs within your League, please contact CBSI through the Help Center as soon as possible.

Waivers
To provide an equal opportunity for all managers to add players to their roster, a Waiver process is used. Requests for players that are on Waivers are not executed immediately but are put in a pending status. The Waiver process allows multiple teams to request the same players. Each night between midnight and 9AM ET, CBSI will process all of the pending requests. The order in which these requests are processed is based on the Waiver Rank of each team.

Any player who is dropped from a team during an add/drop transaction is considered to be on waivers until one waivers process is completed without that player being claimed. At that point, the player is considered a free agent, and is available on a first-come, first-served basis. All players who are not drafted will also be placed on waivers once your draft ends.

Any player that is new to the player pool will be placed on Waivers, and subject to the league's Waiver process.

Waiver Rank
During the waiver process, pending transactions are processed in an order determined by each team's waiver rank. The team with a waiver rank of 1, considered the highest, will get its first requested player. After the transaction is executed, the team's waiver rank is then set to 12 (last), and all other teams move up one spot.

If a team's highest pending transaction becomes invalid because another team received the requested player, the transaction gets deleted and the team's next waiver request, if one exists, becomes that team's highest. If a team doesn't have any pending transactions because all players requested were taken by other teams, or the manager simply didn't request any players, there isn't any penalty and the Waiver Rank will not be changed.

Undroppable Players
To maintain the integrity of your League, you will be prevented from dropping certain star NHL players throughout the season. CBSI, as Commissioner of all Challenge Leagues, will decide, in its sole discretion, which NHL players are undroppable. If there are players we've deemed undroppable on your roster, they will not be displayed on the "Add/Drop" page for your team. You may appeal to CBSI for permission to drop an undroppable player; however, CBSI will make the final decision on all undroppable player requests. Appeals can be sent via the Help Center page and should include the names of the players you want to add and drop.

Trade Approvals
In an effort to prevent collusion among managers, and/or unfair trades among teams, a trade approval process is used. After two managers agree to a trade, the trade will be put in a pending status for at least twenty-four (24) hours. If four (4) managers in your League object to the trade within the pending time period, the trade will not be executed. Example: a trade made at 5:00:00 PM ET Tuesday will not execute before 5:00:00 PM ET Wednesday at the earliest, assuming four managers do not object before then.

If four (4) managers in your League object to the trade within the pending time period, the trade will not be executed. However, please note, that trades that do not meet the necessary number of objections are still subject to review by the Commissioner ("CBSI"), to determine fairness principles are followed and to keep the integrity of the league. Any trade reviews and determinations by the Commissioner are final.

All trades between managers must be made at least twenty-four (24) hours before the first game day of the week and not be disputed by four managers in order to be effective for the current week. If you make a trade offer, be sure to monitor the status of that offer (on the My Team, Trade page) as the weekly lineup deadline approaches, to ensure that acceptance of that trade does not cause your team to have an illegal lineup for the current week's Fantasy Matchup.

Multi-Player Trades
Managers can enter unbalanced multi-player trades such as a three (3) player for one (1) player trade. A trade that results in an illegal roster will be allowed; however, you will be required to enter the necessary transactions to correct your roster before your lineup is due for the coming week. If your roster is not legal by the weekly deadline, you will receive zero (0) points for that particular week.

Trade Deadline
Throughout the season, managers can trade players with other teams. In an effort to keep the integrity of the League, a deadline for trades will be imposed at 11:59:59 PM ET Wednesday, February 14, 2024. No trades will be allowed after that time. Any trades accepted by two parties before the deadline will be subject to the trade approval process.

General Sportsmanship
By participating, you agree to abide by the general sportsmanship rules set forth in these rules and fantasy games in general. You further agree to accept and abide by the rulings and the decisions of CBSI regarding all questions of sportsmanship and fairness. If a manager does not comply with the sportsmanship and fairness rules as embodied in these Official Rules, or CBSI determines (in CBSI's sole discretion) that a manager has acted in an unsportsmanlike or unfair manner, CBSI reserves the right to disqualify the manager and/or remove that manager from the league. All decisions by CBSI in sportsmanship and fairness related matters will be final.

Multiple Teams
In order to keep the leagues as competitive as possible, managers will only be allowed to have one (1) team in a League.

Collusion
CBSI does not permit two (2) or more managers in the same league to work together to better one team at the expense of the other (for example, making one-sided trades, one team dropping highly-rated players so the other team can pick them up, etc.).

Inappropriate League Communication
The Fantasy and League Message Boards, League News area, League Email Address and Chat Room are available for you to communicate with other League managers. We ask that you refrain from posting or sending messages that could be construed as offensive to other managers. Inappropriate communication can also include spamming other league team managers with trade offers, posting multiple messages on the message board, and using inappropriate League and/or Team names. If a team manager is unable to abide by the guidelines specified in the Paramount Terms of Use, CBSI reserves the right to terminate that team manager's ability to communicate within the league.

User's Name
A user's name may be displayed in full (name and last name) or partial (name and first initial of last name) format in certain instances within the Fantasy Products' League pages. If you do not want your name to appear on your league pages, we suggest you go the League Home page and change your personal information within the "Options" tab; more specifically the information you input in the "Your Name" area. The information you write into the "Your Name" area, is the information that will be displayed on your League's pages. We cannot ensure the security of any information you choose to make public in the League's chat room, forum, or message board. Also, we cannot ensure that parties who have access to such publicly available information will respect your privacy. Please exercise caution when disclosing personal information in these areas.

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General Conditions
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This Challenge may not be used for any form of gambling.

Internet
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CBSI assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries or transactions. CBSI is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail entry or transaction to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Web site, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to participant's or any other person's computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading any materials in this Challenge.

Lost or Corrupted Entries
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Damaged Property
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In the event of a dispute, entries made by internet will be declared made by the authorized account holder of the e-mail address submitted at time of entry. "Authorized account holder" is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an e-mail address by an Internet access provider, on-line service provider or other organization (e.g., business, educational institution, etc.) that is responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address.

Any entry that is incomplete, late, or does not include a validly issued User ID will be disqualified.

In the event that the Challenge is challenged by any legal or regulatory authority, CBSI reserves the right to discontinue or modify the Challenge, or to disqualify participants residing in the affected geographic areas. In such event, CBSI shall have no liability to any participants who are disqualified due to such an action.

Challenge Errors
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Binding Arbitration
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