We are about midway through Season 3 of the NFL Draft League. See the start of this topic on page 1 for full details. Looking at mid-November for the next draft for Season 4 which runs for 8-10 consecutive days. You have a scheduled 30 min window for you to post your draft selection each day. It's a super fun experience to put your GM and coaching skills to the test here. Your opportunity to have a minimum of 10 roster spots exclusive to your team only. If you go to the football theme leagues and choose the last 6 months option on the drop-down menu, you can see all of our topics for seasons 1-3.

Hope you will give us a look! You can post here to claim a team-- or feel free to sitemail me with any questions.

Seay00,
I have had a hard time finding time these days, to recruit for my 50 mil Theme League. It's pretty much a dry well out there in WIS football. I would like to manage only (1) team next season. Maybe one day we can have a low budget draft league.

Posted by DCarden34 on 10/11/2023 9:23:00 PM (view original):
Seay00,
I have had a hard time finding time these days, to recruit for my 50 mil Theme League. It's pretty much a dry well out there in WIS football. I would like to manage only (1) team next season. Maybe one day we can have a low budget draft league.

Thanks for the update. There is a core audience there and you are really close. Happy that you will be back for our live draft league.

We are on the back end of Season 3 of the NFL Draft League. Looking to fill 2 spots for next season. See the start of this topic on page 1 for full details.

Looking at Tuesday November 7th at 10 am EST to begin the next draft for Season 4--which runs for 8-10 consecutive days. You have a scheduled 30 min window for you to post your draft selection each day.

It's a super fun experience to put your GM and coaching skills to the test here. Your opportunity to have a minimum of 10 roster spots exclusive to your team only.

If you go to the football theme leagues and choose the last 6 months option on the drop-down menu, you can see all of our topics for seasons 1-3.

Hope you will give us a look! You can post here to claim a team-- or feel free to sitemail me with any questions.

If a spots open I am interested in playing, never done anything like this before

Posted by PsychoWarper on 10/15/2023 3:47:00 PM (view original):
If a spots open I am interested in playing, never done anything like this before

Welcome PsychoWarper!

Happy to have you join us. We are looking at the live draft to begin on Tuesday November Nov 7th at 10am. As an owner for season 4, please cast your vote for the proposed rule revisions. I'll post here and you can vote here or in the NFL Draft League 3. Official Rulebook topic (in the football theme league, not the classifieds). The current vote totals are listed over in the aforementioned topic as well. Feel free to ask any questions, you can also sitemail me at anytime. Welcome aboard!

Proposed rule revisions for Season 4:

1- Should we expand from 24 to 48 bans for season 4? YES or NO

2- Should we keep the banned round for season 4? YES or NO. (The bans would remain but we would use the season 3 bans and/or first rounders)

3- If the banned round is kept going-forward, should we flip the banned round order to be the same as the draft order? YES or NO.

4- Should we keep the current draft length and format? Please choose one of the following:

YES, stay the same- 9 live rounds. 6 single/3 double selections. Same 12 roster spots.
NO- 8 live rounds. 5 single/3 double selections. 11 roster spots. Only 2 RB requirement in live draft. All else remains the same.
NO- 7 live rounds. 4 single/3 double selections. 10 roster spots. Only 2 WR and 2 RB requirement in live draft. All else remains the same.

Thank you PsychoWarper for submitting your vote--- on each of the Season 4 proposed rule revisions! We have posted on the NFL Draft League, Official Rulebook 3 topic with the current vote totals.

Hoping to add 1 more new owner for Season 4.

Short synopsis- We are on the back end of Season 3 of the NFL Draft League. Looking to fill 1 more spot for next season. See the start of this topic on page 1 for full details.

Looking at Tuesday November 7th at 10 am EST to begin the next draft for Season 4--which runs for 8 consecutive days. You have a scheduled 30 min window for you to post your draft selection each day. You can also send proxy lists to another owner(s) of your preferred players/units (to select for you), or make a late selection should you have a time conflict or miss your window that day.

It's a super fun experience to put your GM and coaching skills to the test here. Your opportunity to have a minimum of 10 roster spots exclusive to your team only.

If you go to the football theme leagues and choose the last 6 months option on the drop-down menu, you can see all of our topics for seasons 1-3.

Hope you will give us a look! You can post here to claim a team-- or feel free to sitemail me with any questions.

Join us! Full details above. Highly competitive NFL Draft league entering season 4. It’s a Mean Machine!

Draft is next Tuesday at 10am EST. Draft election is in progress to select where you would like to be in the draft order.

Join us! Reserve a spot for season 5. Among the highest owner retention in all of WIS games.

We have started season 4, but we are always looking to add new owners. Post here if you want a future team. You can view all the current and past topics for our league in the SimFootball Theme League Forum.

Two spots available for Season 5 of the NFL Draft League. Full details are above.

We are on the back end of Season 4. Looking at Tuesday January 2nd for the start of the next live draft. You can view all of our topics from each season in the SimFootball Theme league forum. Post here if you would like to claim a team and join us!

me: back to one team for NDL5

Posted by tomhanrahan on 12/7/2023 3:32:00 PM (view original):
me: back to one team for NDL5

Copy. Will open up another spot.

Two spots available for Season 5 of the NFL Draft League. Live draft will occur after we fill the remaining vacancies. You can view all of our topics from each season in the SimFootball Theme league forum. Post here if you would like to claim a team and join us!

***Revised for Season 5**** For more, drop the classifieds and find our seasons 1-4 with topics of the live draft, rosters/divisions and general commentary in the sim football theme leagues. You'll need to alter the drop down box to the last year option to see all the archives.

Draft League details to build "your" core team:

- 8 live rounds total. 1 banned round to begin, then 7 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 the same order of the posted draft order. 1-24. The 1st 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 7 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.

10 roster spots are uniquely yours: 7 position spots, OL. DL and ST. No clones. You select any non-banned position player or up-to an 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 1-4 with 1 selection each. Rounds 5-7, you pick two. This gives everyone 10 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
2 RB
2 WR
1 TE
1 Flex position- This can be either a 2nd QB. 3rd RB, 3rd WR or 2nd TE.
1 Special Team unit (11 year bubble protection)

As we are adding the names to the banned/drafted list, we also populate the Division/Team Rosters topic. So, we are able to have a birds-eye view of the team building for all teams and what remains on the live draft position requirements. For the other 13 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 7. Then please proceed to fill the remaining 13 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- coolmay_one
12- spaolo
13- jfg1997- will take 2 teams
14- PsychoWarper
15- specsman

We have 2 immediate teams ready for your drafting! Post here to claim your team. Live draft will occur after we fill the remaining vacancies

Draft runs for 8 consecutive days with a 30 min window for your pick each day. You also can elect where you prefer to be in the draft order. Full details above. Fantasy football is closing and this can be your new dream team!

Live draft league on hiatus. You can post here if interested in future leagues, or sitemail me directly.

Working on a separate theme league now. I will post in classifieds soon.