League Calendar - 2021 to 2022

[Athletics GM (Jared)]

Tentative Schedule taking us from today until opening day 2022:

Sunday 8/29/2021
- End of Regular Season
- ALL TRANSACTIONS LOCK including Minor League Callups and Injured List. Get your 40 man roster the way you want it before midnight on this date because that's what you've got for the playoffs.

Monday 8/30/2021
- Draft Lottery for the top 5 spots
- MiLB Draft Order Announced

Sunday 9/26/2021
- 2021 F-Mode World Series Champion crowned
- All transactions remain closed for offseason archiving

October/November League Break:
- League Payouts issued by commish when released by Fantrax
- 2021 Season archived by commish
- League boards reset for offseason transactions and draft
- Fantrax rolled over to 2022 product
- Fantrax open for league fee payments

Wednesday 12/1/2021
- League offseason begins
- League fees due from all GMs
- Search for any replacement GMs begins
- Franchise Tag declarations open
- Restricted Tag declarations open
- Salary Roll-over declarations open
- Mandatory Transactions posted for GM decisions
FOR PAID GM'S ONLY:
- Trading open at 12:00AM
- MiLB Transactions open at 12:00AM
- Player releases open at 12:00AM
- Waivers open at 12:00AM with all existing waiver players going back on the 24 hour clock at 12:00AM
- Injured List reopens, though all players must have the IL symbol in Fantrax to be eligible
- Free Agent Bidding remains CLOSED
- Mandatory Transactions must be posted within 24 hours.

Wednesday 12/15/2021
- Deadline for Mandatory Callup decisions at midnight
- Trading open at 12:00AM
- MiLB Transactions open at 12:00AM
- Player releases open at 12:00AM
- Waivers open at 12:00AM with all existing waiver players going back on the 24 hour clock at 12:00AM
- Injured List reopens, though all players must have the IL symbol in Fantrax to be eligible
- Free Agent Bidding remains CLOSED

Sunday 1/2/2022
- Franchise Tag declarations close at midnight 11:00 AM
- Restricted Tag declarations close at midnight 11:00 AM
- Free Agency Opens at Noon eastern
*Subject to change depending on the climate of MLB labor talks. Aiming to not have teams commit to FA contracts if there's going to be a significant labor stoppage. At a minimum we'll have a conversation as a league about how to proceed.

Monday 2/7/2022
- MiLB Draft Begins at Noon eastern

Wednesday 3/30/2022
- Salary rollover declarations close at midnight

Thursday 3/31/2022
- 2022 season begins (fingers crossed)

[Athletics GM (Jared)]

11/21 - Updated to reflect early opening of transactions for paid GMs.

[Angels GM (Todd)]

The calendar notes that FA opening may be delayed because of the lockout. Just wondering if there is any discussion as to whether that may include deadline for franchise tag declarations as well if a lot of guys remained unsigned in real life.

[Athletics GM (Jared)]

Dec 12, 2021 14:47:58 GMT Angels GM (Todd) said:

The calendar notes that FA opening may be delayed because of the lockout. Just wondering if there is any discussion as to whether that may include deadline for franchise tag declarations as well if a lot of guys remained unsigned in real life.

Yes, that would certainly be part of the conversation.

[Athletics GM (Jared)]

12/27 - Moving up free agency to 1/2 to make the start on a weekend.

As discussed on Slack, I'm bumping up the start of free agency to Sunday (1/2) at Noon instead of Monday (1/3). It's more practical to have the initial flurry of free agency start on a weekend so that I can be available for any issues like double postings and out of order bids.