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Live Draft will start on Friday Sept 15th at 10am. We begin with the banned round. See details below.
Draft League details to build "your" core team:
- 10 live rounds total. 1 banned round to begin, then 9 rounds thereafter. All rounds are ON the clock with your scheduled time slot. If miss your time slot, you can make a late pick at your earliest convenience, but the draft keeps moving per the posted schedule. Proxy lists can also be sent ahead of time to multiple owners.
- Make your draft election. You choose where you prefer to draft out of the following: Top 1-9, Middle 10-15, or Back 16-24. And, you can specify which number you want to be closer to within that tier. The elections are put into a draft order generator. The overage falls to the next tier. The only rule here is for anyone with 2 teams to not request 2 elections in the top tier.
- Divisions will be posted prior to the start of the draft. Therefore, you will know exactly where your division mates will be in the draft. Matchups matter. You play 6 games within the division, so like a real draft, you take that into account as you watch the rosters populate. Each season, we will alternate most or all of the single owners to a different division or conference, and also some of the 2 team owners to another division for new matchups each season.
- The banned round! This will start in reverse order of the posted draft order. 24-1. 24th pick starts off and may ban any player entirely off the draft grid for all years of their career. Or, they may ban any OL, DL or ST for up-to an 11 yr bubble. This is your chance to ban any player or OL or DL that you absolutely loathe to play against!
- After the banned round is complete, the draft format of 1-24, 24-1, 24-1, 1-24, 24-1 will commence for 9 more rounds. In this format, the third round of selections in the live draft is flipped to have the 24th pick begin vs the traditional snake that starts with the 1st pick. Thereafter, we go back to the traditional snake format for the fourth round of selections.
- 75 million salary cap. YES- More money than the standard 60 million in open leagues which makes it very hard to win with anything other than extreme offense and cheap defenses. Here is the place for the variety of teams, using more of the inventory and creating your own team style.
- 12 roster spots are uniquely yours: 9 position spots, OL. DL and ST. No clones. You select any non-banned position player or 11 year bubble on OL, DL or ST with your 1st round pick, no one else gets them for any year, they are off the board completely. You may select any year of the individual position players you choose in the live draft and do not need to share what season you intend to use. The OL, DL and ST do require the up-to 11 year bubble to be posted when making those selections, but do not need to share what season you intend to use.
- Up-to 11 year bubble protection for OL, DL and ST. Say you select the 1950-60 LA Rams era Offensive Line. No one else gets any year in that bubble. It is exclusive to you with no overlap. You may pick any of the LA Rams OL in your 1950-60 bubble and do not need to share which year you intend to use.
- This is not a progressive league with keepers and trades. If it works well, we hope to be a successful recurring theme where every league is a new and different roster for returning and new owners.
League format and playoffs:
- Standard 24 teams format.
- 6 playoff teams per conference.
- 3 division winners and 3 wild card spots.
- Top 2 seeds in each conf get first round playoff bye.
Live Draft format with roster requirements:
After the banned round, Rounds 1-6 with 1 selection each. Rounds 7-9, you pick two. This gives everyone 12 exclusive starters (no clones) that must consist of the following:
1 Defensive unit (11 year bubble protection)
1 offensive line (11 year bubble protection)
1 QB
3 RB
3 WR
1 TE
1 Flex position- This can be either a 2nd QB. 4th RB, 4th WR or 2nd TE.
1 Special Team unit (11 year bubble protection)
As we are adding the names to the banned list, we put the owner name by it to keep a tally on the draft position requirements. For the other 11 spots on the roster, you fill those spots AFTER THE DRAFT is fully completed, i.e, after all selections are made at the end of Round 9. Then please proceed to fill the remaining 11 spots with anyone not already drafted or listed on the banned list (to get under the 75 mil cap).
Examples:
- Once any position player, OL, DL, ST is drafted - they are off the board and exclusive to that team. Only 1 Matt Ryan in the league. Someone drafts Matt Ryan, then he is completely off the draft grid for any season.
- 11 year bubble protection applies to offense/defense/special teams units. You take the 1970-80 Pittsburgh Steelers defense, then all of the Steelers Defenses from 1970 to 1980 are off the board. Say you take the 1941-51 bears defenses off the board, someone could later take a 2006 bears defense after that. This rule does not eliminate cities or franchises, just that 11 year bubble of that particular OL, DL or ST.
- For those selections where the selected bubble overlaps franchise name changes or city relocation, we will clarify as it occurs. One of the more complicated ones like the 1995-2005 Houston/Tennessee Defenses as such: 95-96 Houston Oilers, 97-98 Tennessee Oilers, 99-2005 Tennessee Titans. All of those teams are off the draft board.
Owners:
1- seay00- will take 2 teams
2- riverratk- will take 2 teams
3- roadhouse19- will take 2 teams
4- tidealer- will take 2 teams
5- tomhanrahan
6- DCarden34- will take 2 teams
7- danpsull71- will take 2 teams
8- cellkev
9- rjk2781
10- CFSportsClub
11- 666ace
12- coolmay_one
13- Petroff- will take 2 teams
14- spaolo
15- jfg1997
16- kaniac- will take 2 teams
9/15/2023 12:21 PM (edited)