Schedule and Deadlines

There's a double bind in setting the transaction dates.  By conducting the transactions at the beginning of each Major League week (starting with Opening Day), early-season off dates and rainouts cause the Benchwarmer season to be delayed at times.  The effect is that the gap between when lineups are issued and when they actually count grows pretty large.

On the reverse side, to start transactions a week later would mean that at the end of the season, by the time the Major League games catch up, Benchwarmer lineups would be due after the actual games that they use are already played.

To try to be more fair to owners at both ends of the season, Benchwarmer Baseball changes the deadline day throughout the season.  The first week's deadline will be on the Friday of the first full week of the Major League season.  Some pitching performances will already be known, but that shouldn't have too much of an effect.  The deadline will remain on Friday for the next four weeks.  Then, for weeks 6-10, the deadline will be on Thursday.  For each fifth of the season, the deadline will move one day earlier until, in the final five weeks of the season, Monday will be used for the deadline day.

See Transaction Deadlines for more details.

Each season, the schedule will be posted both for all the games and for the transaction and lineup deadlines that occur throughout the summer.