Category: Key Dates

Key Dates & Deadlines in the HFFL

2020 MSD Dates & Draft Plan Set

MSD Dates

MSD Time: Wed 22nd July at 8pm AWST
Venue: Twadds’ place

Trade Period: Opens at the 8:30pm AWST on Monday 20th July AWST

Trading & Delistings Deadline: Wednesday July 22nd 1200 AWST

Give the short official trade period it is recommended that trade discussions commence before the official trade period starts. Trades just can’t be formally lodged with HFFL Admin until the trade period.

Draft Order

Due to the challenges posed by the COVID shortened season and change to MSD timing the MSD Draft Order will be as follows:

  • The draft order will be 10th-1st for the first 2 rounds then snake. e.g
    • Round 1: 10th to 1st
    • Round 2: 10th to 1st
    • Round 3: 1st to 10th
    • Round 4: 10th to 1st
    • Round 5 1st to 10th etc
  • To clarify, the key difference to previous years is that
    • There is no random draw
    • The only difference is that Round 2 is 10th to 1st rather than a random draw. 
    • The snake then starts at the exact same time as always (Round 3)

Delisting Process

Go to our HFFL 2020 Drafting Googlesheet

Click on column G to select it (Player Picked)

Perform Find function (Apple +F or Ctrl+F) and type the name of player you want to delist to locate

Then cut & paste their name from their cell and move 2 cells over into the Delisted column (Column I).


This will show they have been delisted and by them being removed from the Player Picked column it will return them to the list of available players for drafting

Then go to thebench and go to “Squad” and click the bin icon next to your player

HFFL Retentions & Compensation Picks 2020

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:

  1. 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
    1. 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. 
  2. If you have a player who does to fit the above criteria —> DELIST them
    1. 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/

2019 Delistings & Trades Posting Instructions

Post and notify your delistings and trades in 3 places:

  1. Here (below):
    1. So we have an easily viewable timestamped list.
  2. Delist in the HFFL Drafts googlesheet (new process – see below)
    1. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1igMMt2MCm3qQ-gwXf8hi6j-0jq9XRsArGvbHwJjpj1I/edit#gid=0
  3. Delist from your squad in the bench and submit trades on the bench

Instructions for Delisting from Googlesheet

  1. Click on Player Picked column (D) so it highlights all contents
  2. Use Find Function (apple + F or ctrl+ F)
  3. Search for your player by typing name into Find function
  4. Cut and paste:
    1. “cut” the players name and paste it 2 cells across in the Delisted column
  5. Repeat above steps for each delisted player

  • Delistings Deadline: Monday 20th May 1000 AWST
  • Trade Period Ends: Monday 20th May 1600 AWST

2019 MSD Extended Trading Period and Deadlines

Like last year, due to the MSD being on a Monday, the MSD trade period has been extended. The deadlines working backwards from the MSD are:

  • 2019 MSD: Monday May 20th at 8pm AWST
  • Trade Period Ends: Monday 20th May 1600 AWST
  • Delistings Deadline: Monday 20th May 1000 AWST
  • Trade Period Opens: Friday 17th May 0800 AWST
Continue reading “2019 MSD Extended Trading Period and Deadlines”

MSD Time Changed to 1900 WST

After consultation the MSD Draft Time has changed to 1900 WST (still on Monday 21st May) = 2100 EST = 0700 New York.

 

It is the responsibility of each coach to confirm their local time above is correct.

 

If this new time poses a problem, then please advise within 24hrs.