This will be a 2 season progressive league, beginning in 1960 and 1985 and progressing one season at a time thereafter. All available players (and units) from both of those years will be thrown into the player pool for the initial draft (initial draft order determined at random and snake style format). We will draft 18 skill position players (QB, RB, WR, and TE), 1 K, 1 P, 1 Def, 1 ST, and 1 OL for a total of 23 rounds. Each owner must draft the minimum players required at each skill position (3 each at QB, RB and TE plus 4 WR's). That means 5 skill position players are available to be dispersed as the owner sees fit.
At the end of the season, owners will name their keepers for the upcoming season (1961/86, 1962/87, etc). There is no minimum or maximum # of keepers required and the owner can keep a player as long as he chooses. All non-protected players will be thrown into the draft pool and be eligible to be drafted.
Draft order will be in determined by prior year playoff and regular season win/loss results. For non-playoff teams, order will go worst to first. For playoff teams, all teams losing in first round will be ordered by regular season win% (worst goes first), then second round losers and so on and so forth. Draft order will not snake back and forth but will stay the same in all rounds. Any tiebreakers will be settled as follows: #1-H2H results w/loser getting priority (skip if 3+ teams are tied), #2-fewest points scored, #3-fewest yards gained, #4-coin flip.
Team Names/Alignment - Team names must include the city or state based on where your stadium is located. Mascot name is your choice. You don't have to stay with the traditional NFL team names. Alignment will be determined at random to start off and then will be kept the same thereafter.
Trades - Trades are allowed including trading draft picks. You can't trade draft picks ahead of the next scheduled/currently underway draft. Edited--at the time this rule was written, I didn't know that in-season trades weren't possible due to the sim not having a trade feature (like there is in baseball). Therefore, the only time trades are allowed are in the off-season and/or during the draft.
Salary Cap - Will be set as high as possible
Waiver Wire - not allowed
Injured Reserve - If a player completely drops out of the player database but comes back in a future year, the owner has the option to place said player on the IR list and re-activate him in the future.
Draft Format - All drafts will be conducted in the Theme League forums. Draft clock will typically be set on either 30 min or hour time blocks with no clock running on the weekends (as I am often out of town on weekends and can't keep the draft updated). If someone else runs the draft and wishes to enforce a clock on the weekends I will defer that to them.
***************NEW RULE ADDED 9/3/15************
There are some players in the player database (especially in the 60's decade) who appear as a skill position player and a K or P or possibly as both a P and K. An example is George Blanda who is a QB/K. For the purpose of this league, those types of players will be considered to be one player. If an owner drafts a "Dual Position Player" or a DPP as it will be referred, he has the option to use that player at either position or both positions. From season to season, he may change how he uses said player. Example, in season 1 he could use that player at QB and K, in season 2, he could use him at QB only (and draft a K for season 2), then in season 3, he could cut his other kicker and use said player at K only.
During the initial player draft, if an owner drafts a "Dual Position Player" and decides to use him at both positions, he will then forfeit his final pick in the draft as that spot on the roster will no longer be needed (as there will be 2 versions of the DPP on his roster). The owner DOES NOT have to decide whether to use the DPP at both positions at the time of that pick. All he needs to do is declare that he is using that player as his K or P by the time his final draft pick comes up.
Example - if I draft George Blanda in the middle part of the draft.....I can wait until the last round and decide whether Blanda is a better K than what is left. If there is a better kicker, then I can draft that player. If not, then I can declare that Blanda is also my staring K and then forfeit my final pick.
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10/7/2015 12:59 AM (edited)