SO WHAT THAT THE SUPER BOWL IS OVER....THE NFL DRAFT LEAGUE IS BACK for another exciting season of WIS SIM fun after a long hiatus!!!

After nine entertaining seasons and a two year hiatus, it's time to sign up for season TEN of the NDL,

Here is how it works:

Each owner signs up here in the forum. Once we have 24 owners, I will randomly decide the draft order

Once the draft order is established, the draft will begin on the Sim League football "theme league" forum.

Each owner can decide who to pick with each pick. You don't HAVE to draft a QB first. If you have the 4th pick for example, and Rodgers, Brady, and Brees are gone, you may decide to pick Jim Brown or OJ or Walter Payton over Dan Fouts or Matt Stafford or another QB. If you have the 11th or 12th pick and you would tather take Crazy Legs Hirsch than a QB or RB, hey, go for it! If you want to take the 42 Bears D and build a team round that, it's up to you.

There will be eight total rounds. In the draft portion of the team construction, each owner MUST draft ONE QB, ONE RB, TWO WR's, ONE TE, ONE Offensive line, and ONE Defense. That equals seven of course and the remaining spot can be either a QB, RB, WR or TE.

All draft picks will be EXCLUSIVE. That means that once you draft Aaron Rodgers, not one other team will be able to use ANY Aaron Rodgers season. Once an owner drafts a player, that player is his for the rest of the league, including non drafted position picks. Same goes for defenses. Once someone picks, say, the Chicago Bears, they can use any season of Bears defenses, and no one else can use ANY Bears defenses. Also, there are no clones. You may only use one season of your drafted players.

The ENTIRE draft will be "On the clock". Times may be adjusted in case we get ahead. Proxy picks are accepted and even encouraged. That means, an owner can sitemail their pick to at least THREE other owners, and they will be posted by one of them and count.

If an owner misses their draft time slot, they will be skipped, but can make their pick whenever they get online and notice that their turn has been skipped.

The overall salary cap will be $75 million dollars for each team

Once the draft portion is complete, each owner may fill their team with ANY PLAYER WHO WAS NOT DRAFTED, plus punter/kicker/special teams etc

The extra $15 million from a typical open league gives each owner the strategical choice of how they want to spend that money. Do you want to spend more on the defense that you draft, or on players or on a better Offensive line or special teams or kicker.

Now.....who wants in? Try to join the LIST OF CHAMPIONS!!!:

NDL 1 winner: tonyvoss
NDL 2 " tomhanrahan
NDL 3 gencoimports
NDL 4 gencoimports
NDL5 grayfoxx
NDL 6 amerk1180
NDL 7 riverratk
NDL 8 lilspike0738
NDL 9 tomhanrahan

DRAFT ORDER (as determined by random.org--5X randomized) Timestamp: 2018-03-12 02:26:22 UTC

1. Got_Worms
2. tomhanrahan
3. riverratk
4. karcher
5. Poddy (ronblood2?)
6. loosecc (2)
7 amerk1180
8. grayfoxx
9. democolson
10. rjk2781
11. longtallbrad
12. isacqbs58
13. Boddicker
14. tidealer
15. whatifle
16. loosecc
17. Got_Worms (2)
18. isacqbs58 (2)
19. gencoimports
20. ronblood
21. cellkev
22, PoppaPomp
23. 666ace
24. roadhouse19

Sitemail list: riverratk; grayfoxx; tomhanrahan; gencoimports; roadhouse19; ronblood; loosecc; tidealer; Got_Worms; karcher; cellkev; isacqbs58; whatifle; longtallbrad; Boddicker; poppapomp; 666ace; rjk2781

DIVISIONS AND DRAFTED ROSTERS

AFC EAST
tomhanrahan "Snow Rodgers & the 7 dwaRBs": Aaron Rodgers, BILLS D, BRONCOS O-LINE, Mercury Morris, Hoyle Granger, Billy Joe Dupree, Devery Henderson, Mervyn Fernandez DONE

cellkev "Too Sweet": BUCCANEERS D, Walter Payton, Philip Rivers, BEARS O-LINE, John Jefferson, Nat Moore. Jimmie Giles, Lorenzo Neal DONE

Got_Worms "Hammer & Slammer": Jim Brown, Rich Gannon, SAINTS D, GIANTS O-LINE, Warren Wells, Don Currivan, Bucky Pope, Jason Dunn DONE

amerk1180 "The Gauntlet": Ben Roethlisberger, Crazy Legs Hirsch, Antonio Brown, RAIDERS O-LINE, COLTS D, Antonio Gates, Jamal Lewis, Homer Jones DONE

AFC CENTRAL
poppapomp "Coneyo Valley Rams": RAIDERS D, COWBOYS O-LINE, Roman Gabriel, Franco Harris, Tony Gonzalez, Rob Moore, Henry Ellard, Dick Bass DONE

loosecc (2) "Cam & friends": Marcus Allen, Jerry Rice, TomFears, LIONS O-LINE, Cam Newton, Steve Smith, TITANS/OILERS D,

rjk2781 "Culpepper County": Daunte Culpepper, DALLAS TEXANS/CHIEFS O-LINE, 49ERS D. Clinton Portis, Rod Smith, Brandon Jacobs, Mike Wallace, Ladarius Green DONE

Boddicker "Loose Ends": RAVENS D, Steve Young, COLTS O-LINE, Ladanian Tomlinson, Jimmy Smith, Kellen Winslow Sr., Stanley Morgan, Daryl Johnston DONE

AFC WEST
ronblood "Ancalagon the black": VIKINGS D, BILLS O-LINE, Eric Dickerson, Sammy Baugh, Tim Brown, Jackie Smith, Otis Taylor, Paul Warfield DONE

karcher "San Diego Horn Sharks": Peyton Manning, COWBOYS D, PATRIOTS O-LINE, Earl Campbell, Jimmy Graham, Dez Bryant, Steve Largent, Keith Jackson DONE

roadhouse19 "Born in the USA": PACKERS O-LINE, EAGLES D, Milt Plum, Chris Johnson, Andre Johnson, Milt Morin, Nappolean Kaufman, Chris Sanders DONE

isacqbs58 "Wilsons Army": STEELERS D, Russell Wilson, 49ERS O-LINE, Larry Johnson, Dave Parks, Jim Benton, Muhsin Muhammed, LeGarrette Blount DONE

NFC EAST
isacqbs58 (2) "Old Skool Ottomatic": BROWNS O-LINE, Otto Graham, LIONS D, Leveon Bell, Lance Alworth, Jason Witten, TJ Houshmandzadeh, Mark Van Eeghan DONE

loosecc "Yesterday is Back": Ottis Anderson, JETS D, Tony Romo, Torry Holt, Wes Welker, Pete Pihos. FALCONS O-LINE, Wayne Chrebet DONE

Got_Worms (2) "OJ Hypothetical": OJ Simpson, Dan Marino, Julio Jones, Charley Hennigan, Flipper Anderson, RAVENS O-LINE. SEAHAWKS D, Walter White DONE

grayfoxx "Glory Days": Barry Sanders, Brett Favre, Charley Taylor, Bobby Mitchell, Marvin Harrison, Billy Cannon, RAMS D, PANTHERS O-LINE DONE

NFC CENTRAL
longtallbrad "Space Ghost": BEARS D, TITANS/OILERS O-LINE, Otis Armstrong, John Elway, Ed McCaffrey, Riley Odoms, Haven Moses, John Fuqua DONE

amerk1180 (2) "Moore Cousins to Hutson, All day": Adrian Peterson, Kirk Cousins, CHARGERS O-LINE, Don Hutson, FALCONS D, Herman Moore, Harlon Hill, Bud Grant DONE

gencoimports "Montana Management": RAMS O-LINE, CHARGERS D, Ken O'Brien, Jamaal Charles, Lenny Moore, Victor Cruz, Josh Gordon, Rickey Dudley DONE

666ace "Northmen": SAINTS O-LINE, GIANTS D, Marshall Faulk, Isaac Bruce, Ray Berry, Donovan McNabb, Jerome Bettis, Bill Anderson DONE

NFC WEST
ronblood (2) "Crazy Horse": Drew Brees, CHIEFS/DALLAS TEXANS D, CARDINALS O-LINE, Wes Chandler, Gale Sayers, Cliff Branch, Cloyce Box, Fred Bilitnikoff DONE

riverratk "Soacely Sprockets": Tom Brady, DOLPHINS O-LINE, Calvin Johnson, Randy Moss, PACKERS D, Ahman Green, Todd Christensen, Babe Parilli DONE

whatifle "Texas Railroaders": REDSKINS D, REDSKINS O-LINE, Kurt Warner, Terrell Davis, John Gilliam, Mike Ditka, Jordy Nelson, Karl Noonan DONE

Tidealer "Eight Ball": Matt Ryan, BROWNS D, EAGLES O-LINE, Rob Gronkowski, Joe Perry, Cris Carter, John David Crow, Carl Pickens DONE

Timestamp: 2018-03-12 02:39:18 UTC

If it's okay with Amerk1180, I'll start the draft off with Jim Brown.

Are 2017 players eligible if they ever get added into the database? Think we should clear that up now.

I think at this point, no, we can't use them, even if they get added sometime during the draft

#2 pick, Aaron Rodgers, with the wonderful 91 pass accuracy.

FYI, I sm'ed the next two owners

FYI to anyone using me as a proxy - I will be traveling this Friday-Sunday and won’t be able to help on those days. I will do my best to get my picks in on time and/or send out my proxy on those days.

Tom Brady, QB

QB Peyton Manning

Posted by amerk1180 on 3/12/2018 4:02:00 AM (view original):
I think at this point, no, we can't use them, even if they get added sometime during the draft

It would only affect rookies, IMO. If somebody drafts Tom Brady and wants to use his 2017 season, he should be able to as long as 2017 players are in the database.

He should NOT be able to use his 2017 season if the rookies from 2017 have been made UNavailable.

proxy for loosecc2 - RB Marcus Allen

Im a little Torn but i guess its my pick here now .
I will Take DREW BREES QB.