CBS Commissioner Question on DL

[CaptainTrunk]

Anyone here use CBS? I implemented a DL spot this year because of the havoc that the 10-day DL caused in our league last year. But I'm not sure how it works when someone comes off the DL. I'd like to know before something weird happens and I have to deal with it after the fact. I turned on the option to force owners to take players off the DL because I didn't want them to be able to be stashed there the whole year.

When a player comes off the DL, does the owner have to activate them, or does CBS do it?
Is the lineup illegal if you don't take the player off the DL?
What happens if a player's MLB team activates him and CBS takes the player off the DL 10 minutes before game time? Does the owner have to constantly check or else they're screwed?
What happens if a player's MLB team activates the player on Tuesday because they had no Monday game?

In my football league, you have to activate the player yourself, but your lineup isn't actually illegal. You just can't make any other roster moves with the guy in the DL spot. Hoping CBS works similarly.

[Todd Zola]

Sorry, moved all CBS leagues elsewhere a few years ago. Best to ask them for support.

[CaptainTrunk]

They don't seem to have a forum. I put in a support request, but in my experience they're not great about getting back to people. And it'll take them 2 days to respond, they won't address everything, I'll have to ask for followup, which will also take 2 days, etc.

So I was just hoping someone here had some experience.

[Todd Zola]

Now you know why I moved off CBS...

[Trav The Ump]

Used CBS for years but we've migrated over to FanTrax, significantly cheaper and the replies come pretty quick.

Our "old" setup, guys could stash them there forever...so as commish I had to email/ message and pester them to activate guys to follow our two week activation rule. Failing that I'd drop the guy, and that usually got their attention.

[Kelly_Leak]

Sigh ... I was just about to post a CBS question here and noticed the responses to your question.

Specifically related to how CBS handles the DL:
CBS forces an owner to activate the player once the player is off the DL. You cannot make a roster move (add/drop, lineup moves, trades) without also activating the player. Theoretically you could go the rest of the season, not make a roster move and therefore never activate the player. Specifically, in our league, the commissioner does a quick check of eveyone's roster Monday morning (our scoring period is Mon-Sun, and FAAB runs Sun night) and notifies owners that have illegal rosters.

When a player comes off the DL, does the owner have to activate them, or does CBS do it?

The owner will be forced to activate during any roster move (add/drop, lineup change, trades)

Is the lineup illegal if you don't take the player off the DL?

No, but once a roster move is made and the player is forced back onto non-DL part of roster, the roster becomes illegal.

What happens if a player's MLB team activates him and CBS takes the player off the DL 10 minutes before game time? Does the owner have to constantly check or else they're screwed?

No, as long as your active roster is set and you do not make a move in the 10 minutes the roster will be legal

What happens if a player's MLB team activates the player on Tuesday because they had no Monday game?

This is basically the same as the question above. As long as you don't make a roster move after the player is activated, the roster will remain legal and the player will stay DL'd

Hope that helps a bit.

[Captain Hook]

Sorry but I totally disagree with Kelly's responses. The answers may be in how the commissioner sets up the league

I have used cbs for over thirty years and have very few if any problems.

My AL only league even uses midweek DL moves where the commissioner can change a team's lineup from email instructions to DL a player after the lineups have closed for the week and activate a reserve in his place or activate a player and reserve or cut a player in a corresponding move and it works very well.

In fact I have the opposite problem and have to have to enforce a two week deadline to get teams to activate or reserve their DL players