THE NBFL TEAMS

- The NBFL has 32 teams, split into 2 conferences (AFC and NFC) of 16 teams. Each conference consists of 4 divisions (East, North, South, West).

- Each team in a division must be a different race.

- Each conference may only have two teams of a given race.

- The whole league may only have three teams of a given race.




THE NBFL PLAYER DRAFT

- Each team is awarded at least one draft pick per season. Draftees are actual that come from the NCBB league or previous (but retired) NBFL teams.

- Draft pick order is determined by reverse order of previous season finish. Note: Forfeit losses count as wins for determining draft order.

- Expansion teams will be granted extra compensation draft picks. There is a seperate compensation draft board which is split into different pools to guarantee new teams have high quality players and compete with existing teams. Typically, there are 3 pools and an expansion team gets 1 pick from each pool.

- Expansion draft order will be assigned at random for round 1, and the reverse order used for rounds 2 and 3.

- Compensation draft picks will be awarded based on some formula related to your current roster, and will be after expansion team picks.

- Any team may try to trade draft picks. However, expansion draft picks may only be traded for other expansion draft picks, and standard draft picks may only be traded for other standard draft picks, even if an expansion teams is getting picks from both draft boards.

- Trade rules:
If you trade, all picks you end up with cannot be skipped and the drafted players must be on your roster for the first game of the season.
You cannot trade a single pick for a single worse pick.
All trades are subject to review.

- Additional information:
The value of a trade is obviously dependent on team needs and the players available in any given draft class. In the past there was a general convention that trading more than 10 spots away was considered “bad value” but that rule is not hard and fast; depending on your team’s needs it might be a net positive to drop further. In general you are free to make any trade you want within the trade rules, but in the interest of full transparency here are some trades from Season 32 that you can perhaps use as a tentative indication of draft value.

#1 for #6 and 38
#20 for #24 and 56
#21 for #26 and 58
#4 for #10 and 42



BETWEEN SEASON ROSTER MANAGEMENT

Teams must start the season with a minimum tv of 1900 and a minimum of 13 players after the draft and when the team is readied for game 1 of the season. These limits will be enforced for the start of each season, but not during the season.

For the NBFL Player Draft, new positional categories for each team can be found on the draft spreadsheet.

All players with no skills and less than 7 spp at the start of each season will be given enough spp to bring them up to 7 spp . If these spp are used to gain skills (chosen or random), the player must be on the roster for game 1.

All teams will start with whatever dedicated fans they had the previous season, or 3 dedicated fans, whichever is higher.

Treasury will be provided to redraft or create your team any way you choose, but set to 50k for each team to start the season regardless of starting team value.