Expansion Team Policy SECTION 2: Expansion teams are defined as a team that did not exist the previous year and will be formed. The expansion draft policy is defined as follows: Note: If a new division is formed, all in the division are not considered expansion teams. All players will tryout and be drafted per STJFL draft policy. 1 The expansion draft will take place prior to any tryout and open draft. (Time will be set by the participating association). Each existing team will protect 33% of the players on the current roster. (i.e. 15 players, you protect 5). If there are brothers on an existing team and the team wants to protect 1 of them, they must protect both and they will both count towards your 33%. If the brothers are unprotected and expansion team picks one brother the other brother must be also taken and will count as part of the percentage”. “equal Existing teams with fewer than 3 players will not participate in the expansion draft. The expansion draft will last as many rounds as needed. The expansion team will pick from the pool of unprotected players in the expansion draft until their numbers are equal to existing teams. They must pick equal percentages from both teams. The remaining players not picked by the expansion team will return to their respective teams. This will conclude the expansion draft.
SECTION 2: Expansion Team Policy Expansion teams are defined as a team that did not exist the previous year and will be formed. The expansion draft policy is defined as follows: Note: If a new division is formed, all in the division are not considered expansion teams. All players will tryout and be drafted per STJFL draft policy. 1 The expansion draft will take place prior to any tryout and open draft. (Time will be set by the participating association). Each existing team will protect 33% of the players on the current roster. (i.e. 15 players, you protect 5). If there are brothers on an existing team and the team wants to protect 1 of them, they must protect both and they will both count towards your 33%. If the brothers are unprotected and expansion team picks one brother the other brother must be also taken and will count as part of the “equal percentage”. Existing teams with fewer than 3 players will not participate in the expansion draft. The expansion draft will last as many rounds as needed. The expansion team will pick from the pool of unprotected players in the expansion draft until their numbers are equal to existing teams. They must pick equal percentages from both teams. The remaining players not picked by the expansion team will return to their respective teams. This will conclude the expansion draft.
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