RTL: REDLINE TEAM LEAGUE (Continuing Trial Season)

Greetings Redline Derby Fans! You thought we were taking this fast & furious spring season off, but NO, we're back with our peculiar alternative way of enjoying the exciting Redline Derby Racing action.

Welcome to the third season of the pits teams of Redline Derby Racing participants against each other in weekly head-to-head action...hoping not merely to score points but WINS!

Our first season was the Blind Trial Season--where no interaction by any player was required. It was run merely to prove the concept--whether
LA SALLE CHAMPION PONTIAC FIREBIRDS 41
versus
TUCKER CO-CHAMPION AMC JAVELINS 26
versus
TUCKER CO-CHAMPION STUTZ BEARCATS 45

CONTINUING TRIAL SEASON CHAMPIONS: STUTZ BEARCATS

RTL CONTINUING TRIAL SEASON RULES
a) TEAMS--A team is currently defined as being made up of no more and no less than four Redline Derby Racing Fantasy League players. One player is the Team Captain and is responsible for roster decisions.
b) SCORING--The tournament scores for every member on the team are added up and then divided by 10. That is your team's score for that match.
b-1) HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE--The "home" team's score has any fraction rounded up and the "away" team's score has any fraction rounded down. (There is, obviously, no home field advantage in a neutral site game--and both teams will have fractions rounded down.)
c) WINNING--After comparing the scores of the two teams in a particular match, the team with the highest score wins. If the scores are tied, even after or because of the home field advantage, then that game ends in a tie.
d) ROSTER MOVES--Each team captain is in control of their team's roster and, during the regular season, can make trades or sign free agents. Roster moves cannot be made once the playoffs begin until the playoffs are over.
d-1) CONTINUITY--A player that has been moved off of a team's roster cannot be reacquired by the team that had moved him off their roster for the immediately following week's worth of tournaments. If that team wants to try to reacquire that player, they must wait until after the next week's worth of tournaments.
e) FREE AGENTS--Any player that is not on a team is considered to be a free agent. A team captain can release a player on their roster and sign a player from the pool of free agents. All free agent requests are made by the team captain sending a private message to the league commissioner (seattlegreyy) detailing both the player to be released and the player they would like to sign. All free agent requests received on the same day will be processed, all at once, at the end of that day. All free agent requests received on the same day will be prioritized according to the then current team standings and records--with the teams with the worst records getting their requests processed first. If, due to prioritized free agent request processing, a requested free agent is no longer available, the request will be denied. When a free agent request is accepted, it takes effect immediately.
e-1) BEST AVAILABLE FREE AGENT REQUESTS--A team captain may choose to request the "best available" free agent, instead of requesting a specific player. Doing so avoids having a free agent request denied due to prioritized free agent request processing. The decision of which free agent is the "best available" will be made by the team commissioner using the same method used during the Blind Trial Season.
f) TRADES--A team captain can arrange a trade with another team captain (or, convolutedly, with other team captains) to trade players from one team to another. All team captains involved in the trade must individually send a private message detailing the EXACT same trade agreement to the league commissioner (seattlegreyy) for the trade to be approved. Trades will take effect the day after they are approved. To maintain roster integrity, trades must be equal--in other words, you can trade one player for another player or two players for two other players or even three players for three other players.
f-1) TRADING FOR FREE AGENT PRIORITY--In addition to trading players for players, a team can trade away their "one time use" of free agent priority. This would allow for a team with a bad record to possibly arrange a trade with a better team and, in addition to trading players, the better team could request the bad team's "free agent priority." Then, the better team's next free agent request would be prioritized as if it was being made by the bad team.
g) TEAM HISTORY--This Continuing Trial Season will continue with the team names that were determined arbitrarily before the beginning of the Blind Trial Season and with the rosters as they were developed through the Blind Trial Season and Active Trial Seasons, with the exceptions of changes due to Team Captaincy issues.