THE DRAFT

8 round draft

Order is all jacked up intentionally. The teams picking 8-16 get a slight advantage over the draft for missing out on the top picks.
NOT A SNAKE DRAFT

Trades are allowed
commish may rescind collusion trades

Draft will be run in PM format until all 12 rounds are completed

UDFA

Any unsigned or released healthy players will be on the UDFA Board

UDFA will be frozen while a replacement coach is being introduced into the league in the event that a coach leaves mid season.

NO injured players will be put on the UDFA
Injured players retire from the league when retired

Players on the UDFA board are available to all teams and assigned to interested teams on Tuesdays.

TOURNAMENTS

4 - 4 team divisions
2 divisions - All Fitz Conferences (AFC)
2 divisions - National Fitz Conferences (NFC)

Conference Round Robin

PLYAOFFS:
Best Conference = Bye + Homefield
2nd Division Winner = Homefield
Best record remaining = Wildcard
Homefield = 50k for a Card

Conference Winners play at Neutral Site

TRADES

Trading deadline is the end of the week 9 games

Any And all trades are allowed
Commish must be notified

*Players
*Gold
*Future Draft Picks
*OTHER?

FDL Trade Board Records

FREE AGENCY

ALL players must be re-signed or released at the beginning of each season
(including practice squad players)

This is the 1st cost of the next season's salary cap
*Seasoned teams will have less available cash for draftees and for in season costs.

Player re-signing fees cost a team part of their salary

Teams may protect 5 players in Free Agency, other players will be draftable Free Agents

Players released in Free Agency will credit the teams salary cap for that season

Add the cost of all re-signed players & subtract the credits of all released Free Agents to figure out your salary cap hit

SPECIAL SPP Levels

Until we can assign SPPs, there is an extra skill level

1spp=skill

In addition to the 6,16,31,51,76,176

PRACTICE SQUAD

You may have a roster of up to 16 players, up to 4 of those players may be designated as "practice squad" Those players are removed from the UDFA eligibility list, and are part of your team, but are not part of your game time roster (TV) and you do not hire them.

You may call move a player up to your team roster at any time there is an open spot for them, but they can NOT be sent back to the practice squad once activated.
They have a good union

e.g. A team with 4 blitzers, 3 healthy and 1 MNG would NOT be able to activate a practice quad blitzer without releasing one of their current rostered blitzers.
(Your team may not rehire that player until other teams have a chance to pick them up)

DRAFT INFORMATION

LINK TO DRAFT PAGE

UDFA Process
*When a player is offered a contract by multiple teams priority is invoked.

Teams with the worst record = Priority
1st tie = Lowest TV & practice squad & MNG
2nd tiebreaker = First submitted request

Teams will be granted their 1st pick so long as another team has not been given that player on priority. After each player is given priority is re-evaluated until all requested Free Agents have been assigned.

Tourney Bracket

PUT TOURNEY BRACKET PICTURE HERE

Free Agency Costs

FREE AGENCY PLAYER COSTS:
0-10 games = 10% of TV (90k*.1 = cost of 9k)
11-20 games = 20% of TV (140*.2 = 28k)
21-30 games = 30% of TV (110*.3 = 33k)
31-40 games = 40% of TV (240*.4 = 96k)
41+ games = 50% of TV (140*.5 = 70k)
-5% TV cost/permanent injury
eg. 0-10 game -ma, -av player costs 0 to re-sign

[b[FREE AGENCY RELEASE CREDITS
0-15 games = 30% of TV (70k*.30 = 21k)
16+ games = 50% of TV (150*.5 = 75k)
-5% credit/permanent injuries
eg. 0-15 game -MA, -AV 140TV*.(.3-.1) = 28k
eg. 16+ game --MA, -AV 140TV*(.5-.1)= 56k