Also, be aware that the draft positions of the 4 teams will be averaged based on the current season standings and then re-seeded. The team that drafts 1st in the expansion draft will pick 4th of the expansion teams in the ammy draft. This works just fine in the system so just let it happen.At the end of a Term league's 8-month term, new owners typically join the league as Expansion owners. These leagues use a pre-rank draft system where you can rank the players in the order you want to choose them. The list of draftees will be available at 11:30PM once a league has all teams either paid up or listed for Expansion sale (note the Expansion teams don't have to be purchased, just listed for sale). A league also needs to have reached the trade deadline plus the number of waiver days in the league in order for the expansion draftees to populate. So if your trade deadline is September 1st, and it takes 7 days for players in your league to clear waivers, the draftee list can't be populated before September 8th.
Expansion owners will have at a minimum of 24-48 hours to prepare for the Expansion Draft. The Expansion Draft script runs every day at 2PM. After the OffSeason runs for a league, the league date is set to 03/25. The first time the Expansion draft script runs, the date will be set to 03/26 if a league has a total of 16 renewed owners and expansion owners. The next day when it runs, the Expansion Draft will run; the league date will remain 03/26. The Amateur Draft will run at the next time slot after that (for most leagues, this will be the next day). If a league has a pause day, that would be in effect after the Amateur Draft. The new season then starts the following day.
Thanks again BKCUBS! Well done with filling the league.