Roster Position Requirements

[RookieMonster]

Dear Collective wisdom,

To maintain a legal roster, must a manager be able to field a team on any given day?

For example, can a roster just be loaded with MILB guys and 60 Day iL? Another manager who’s focused on next season is asking and I don’t know the answer.

Pat

[nivshah]

Here is a huge thread about this:

Debating Rule 1a In Ottoneu Baseball

Ottoneu is one of the best fantasy platforms available but some of the rules (roster limits, player position eligibility, etc.) are critical to understand before you get started. Use this thread to ask and discuss questions regarding Ottoneu rules. https://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/rules

[mattmaison]

In the leagues I play in, the rule is interpreted to mean that owners must maintain an “active major league roster”. So they can pick up as many MiLB as they want as long as they can fill a lineup with active major leaguers.

60 day IL don’t count toward roster slots, so there’s nothing to stop them from adding as many as they want (other than the salary cap).

Each team shall during the regular season maintain a roster of 22 major-league players that can fill out a starting lineup as defined below. The remaining 18 roster spots can be used for reserves, consisting of both major and minor leaguers.
A roster of 22 major-league players capable of filling out a starting lineup as defined below shall be maintained regardless of any games started, games played or innings limits.