2016 RIPKEN/GWYNN DISPERSAL DRAFT RULES

• Team owners coming into the Ripken/Gwynn Leagues from the WABTOGS/WABTOTT will be designated as "continuing owners" and will retain rights to the players and draft choices they would have had in the old leagues.
• All other team owners will be designated as "new owners".
• New owners will populate their team rosters via a dispersal draft to be held approximately 2 weeks before the full league draft (the target for the dispersal draft would be 16March).
  
• All players from non-continuing team rosters, who would be eligible for retention in 2016, will be eligible for selection in the dispersal draft, including farm players.  Player contracts and salaries will be carried over from the WABTOGS/WABTOTT leagues.  Players with contracts that have expired, who have switched leagues or are free agents in MLB will not be eligible for selection.
• 2016 Farm Draft Picks not owned by continuing owners will also be eligible for selection in the dispersal draft.
• A list of all eligible players and draft picks will be published at least one week before the dispersal draft.
• If we have less than 10 teams in a league, the available farm draft picks will be adjusted so that each farm draft round will have he same number of picks as we have teams.
• The dispersal draft will be a snake-draft with the selection order determined randomly at the time of the draft.  With the snake draft, the owner that picks first in odd-numbered rounds picks last in even-numbered rounds, the owner that picks last in odd rounds picks first in even rounds.
• In each round, each new owner may select a regular player, a farm player, or a specific 2016 farm draft pick, at their discretion.
• Note:  At no time may any team own more than 2 first round farm picks.
• Owners with back-to-back picks at the ends of the rounds may not make consecutive selections of farm draft picks
  
• The draft will continue until all new owners have made as many picks as they desire
• On the day following the dispersal draft, new owners will be able to start making trades with each other or with continuing teams.

• To mitigate risk for new owners choosing players early, the dispersal draft will serve as the demarcation line for the rule concerning trades of players to the opposite league.  This will apply to all teams, continuing and new. 
  
• In other words, players who are no longer in the American League on dispersal draft day may not be retained by continuing RIPKEN League teams or drafted by new RIPKEN teams. 
  
• After the dispersal draft, players on RIPKEN League rosters who leave the American League may be retained under the interlague grandfather rule. 
  
• The same would hold for National League players and the GWYNN League. 
  
• For players who change leagues between the dispersal draft and the regular RIPKEN or GWYNN draft, 2016 would be considered the "following year" - making 2016 their final contract year.