The Retention deadline will be Friday 28th February at 2200 AWST.
Due to the earlier PSD, the need to have the Pre-PSD Draft Pick draft and admin processing the Retentions Deadline is required to be relatively early this year. In addition the PSD itself is relatively early.
Injury AllowancesAs a result I’ve decided to provide some allowance for injuries this year as follows:
– if you retain a player and they receive a significant injury up to 5pm on PSD night, you can choose to delist them and be awarded the relevant compensation pick instead.
– if you draft a player at the PSD and they receive a significant injury up to the beginning of Round 1, you can choose to delist them and draft an undrafted player.
Posting RetentionsThis year Retentions will only need to be posted in one place, the google drafting sheet – HFFL 2020 drafts. They do not need posting on the hfflonline.com website.
The google sheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hbae2bV0HXxwZ4eHdHtUXyVoEob_DcT3bUC29KPjAUM/edit#gid=0
You’ve all been invited to this sheet. Heath and Twadds I used both your emails including your gmail ones.
After the retentions deadline has passed, you should then draft them to your team on the bench.
I strongly advise all coaches to submit their retentions now as you can always change them later up until the deadline.
Compensation Picks
This is the first season we have introduced compensation picks – if you choose not to retain a player in any of the specified ranking categories that you are allowed to retain, you receive a compensation draft pick instead. The compo picks have been designed to be very fair so as general rules:
- If you have a player you predict will finish this season near the top end of their current stats ranking group (or above it) —> RETAIN THEM
- E.g. you have a player who is an 11-20 ranked player, finished 17th but they are young and improving and you expect them to finish higher like 11th/12th or maybe even in the next higher category (Elite) then you should retain them.
- If you have a player who does to fit the above criteria —> DELIST them
- E.g. you have a player who finished 17th in the 11-20 group and you don’t expect any improvement —> delist
The only exception is that there are 2 mandatory sub-30 retentions so you must choose your best 2 sub-30 players and retain them regardless of whether they are good/promising or not. This was made part of the retentions rules to minimise the length of the draft in the new compo pick system.
The template for the draft/compo picks, with an example of retentions for each team (in blue at the bottom) and the resultant compensation picks in the green rows above, are shown here
http://hfflonline.com/spreadsheet-for-retentions-compo-picks-from-2020/