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I. Money
A. Entry Fee $100
1.
Payment is due by February 1st
each year. If you do
not have your money paid by February 1, you will lose your first
round draft pick and will have to pay a $25 dollar late fee.
This $100 dollars is for the entry fee into the league and
does not include fees to run the league such as web-space,
domain, software, and draft fees. Payment will be made
by check, money order, or cash. Payments for fees will
be made at the PBFFL Rookie Draft.
2.
Non Payment Penalty of the Entry
Fee: The penalty
for not paying the entry fee by February 1st is a $50
deduction from your free agent budget. If a team does
not pay by week 1 of the regular season, they will not
be eligible for any post season awards (playoffs). If they don’t
pay by the end of the season they are required to pay
the $100 fee plus double the entry fee for the next season by
January 1, or their team will be sold.
B. Free Agent
Budget $200
1. Teams will have a budget of $200 dollars to acquire
free
agents for both free agent periods,
not each.. This is not real money. (YET)
II. Teams
A.
16 Teams will compete in 2
Conferences (AFC & NFC).
The 2 conferences will be divided into 2 divisions each: (East & West).
III. Rosters
A. In-Season
Roster
1. Active Roster (Max 50 Players) 4 QB’s (from only 2 NFL Teams), 6 - RB,
10 - WR/TE, 2 - K, 5 - DE, 5 - DT, 8 - LB, 5 - CB, 5 - S.
2. Developmental Squad (Max 5 Players) Any positions.
a. Developmental Squad Requirements: In order for a player to qualify for
the Developmental Squad they can not exceed the following statistical levels:
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QB - 80 attempts
in a season.
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RB - 64 carries
plus receptions in a season
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WR - 30 receptions
in a season.
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TE - 20 receptions
in a season.
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DL - 20 tackles or
4 sacks in a season.
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LB - 30 tackles or
5 sacks in a season.
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DB - 20 tackles or
3 INT’s in a season.
B. Off-Season
Roster
1. Feb 1st Cut Down Date: Following the PBFFL Super Bowl, teams have
until Feb 1st to trim their rosters down to the Off-Season Roster Size (See
below).
4 QB’s (from only 2
NFL Teams), 5 - RB, 8 - WR/TE, 4 - DE, 4 - DT, 7 - LB, 4 - CB, 4 - S,
Developmental Squad - 5.
2. Off-Season Roster Size: After Feb 1st, Due to trades, Free Agent
acquisitions and the Rookie Draft, teams may exceed the roster size required on
the Feb 1st Cut Down Date (See III.B.1). Rosters can stay above that level with
no maximum until the final cut down date prior to the start of the season, when
teams return to the In-Season Roster Size (See III.A).
IV. Roster Cut
Down Dates
A. Feb 1st Cut
Down Date: Rosters will be trimmed down to meet the
Off-Season Roster Size
requirement.
B. Final Roster
Cut:
After all of the off season player acquisitions teams will be required to trim
their rosters down to In-Season Roster Size (See III.A)
One Week Prior to the start of the
Regular Season.
V. Player
Acquisition
A. Rookie Draft:
Each year the PBFFL will conduct our
annual Rookie Draft.
1. Draft Date: The draft will be held approximately 30
days following the NFL entry draft.
2. Draft Order: The draft order will be determined by
the previous years standings. Lowest ranked team
picks #1, next to the lowest ranked team picks #2, and
so on... following the inverse order of the previous
years standings. Picks 9-16 pick in order of how they
faired in the post season tournament (playoffs). Those teams
eliminated first are awarded higher draft picks.
3. Draft Selection: After the order has been
determined, teams will pick in order 1-16 in each of
the 7 rounds of the rookie draft.
4. Player Draft Eligibility: Teams may only select
those players who were drafted in the NFL entry draft
of that same year.
B. Trades:
Trades can be made without limit between
February 1st and Week 5 of the regular season. Trades
that take place between Week 1 and Week 5 of the
regular season must be submitted to the league
Commissioner no later than Wednesday at Noon in order
to take affect for the coming week's games.
1. Trade Committee: The League has determined to
govern trades through a committee. The committee will
review each and every trade to determine whether the
deal is fair and if collusion is taking place. The
committee will be made up of 4 owners, one from each
division. After a trade is turned in to the
Commissioner, the Commissioner will select 2 of the 4
committee members who are not as directly affected by
the trade (not in the same divisions as the teams
making the trade) to analyze the deal. In determining
whether the trade should go through or not, if there
is a split decision, the Commissioner will cast the
tie-breaking vote. Teams involved in the trade will
be notified immediately of the Committee’s decision.
C. Free Agency:
Any player not on a PBFFL Roster - who
is on an NFL Roster - is considered a Free Agent. The league
will schedule two free agent bidding periods
during the off season. Each team will have a maximum
spending allowance of $200 (not real money) to spend on
acquiring free agents.
Acquiring Players Via Free Agency
Owners are required to
submit a list of those players they wish to bid on during the
announced Free Agent Periods. These lists should contain the
following:
1. Positions you wish to bid on.
2. A Minimum number of spots you wish to fill per position.
3. The names of the players you wish to bid on (by position).
If you do not bid on any of the players
you submitted on your Free Agent Wish List, and all other teams have bid on and
filled their open spots, you will be required to take the remaining players at a
particular position, provided your listed players are still available.
Example:
If you decide you want to fill 2 RB spots,
but there are 5 RB’s you would be willing to settle for at that position, your
RB list should look like this.
Position:
RB
Number to Fill: 2
Players: (5) Franco Harris, Tony
Dorsett, Barry Sanders, Bo Jackson, and Marcus Allen
What this means is the only RB’s you will
be eligible to bid on will be the players on your list (in this case 5). And,
the maximum number of Roster Spots you can fill is 2.
Repeat this process for each position
where you want to bid on players.
An example of what your entire list might
look like is this:
Position:
QB
Number to Fill: 1
Players: (2) Dan Marino, John
Elway
(example: wants to fill 1 QB spot, willing
to bid on these 2 players)
Position:
WR
Number to Fill: 1
Players: (3) Steve Largent, Al
Toon, Drew Pearson
(example: wants to fill 1 WR spot willing
to bid on these 3 players)
Position:
DT
Number to Fill: 1
Players: (4) Darwin Walker, Robert
Bernard, Cletidus Hunt, Brandon Whiting
(example: wants to fill 1 DT spot willing
to bid on these 4 players)
Note:
If you submit 100 (or some ridiculous number)
for the “Players” you are willing to bid on, you will end up with as many as you
requested to fill, so be sure to only put players you really want to bid on in
your list.
BIDDING
Once your lists are turned in (by
the announced deadline), we can begin the bidding process. Bidding will take
place at our leagues message board. Bids will be made in $5.00 Increments via
the PBFFL Bid Machine.
Bidding will open on the
Announced Date at 7:00AM CST. Each player will be open for bidding for one
24-Hour period - EXCLUDING WEEKENDS (this means that any bids made on Friday
will expire on Monday. Weekend Bids are acceptable, but will be viewed as a
7:00AM Monday Morning Bid. That means that if you place a bid on Saturday or
Sunday, the Expiration Clock won't start ticking until Monday Morning at 7:00AM).
If no bids are made within the 24 hours, the players is awarded to the team with
the last highest bid. If a team does make a bid within the 24 hour time limit,
that players bidding is extended another 24 hours from the time of the last
bid.
Example: 9:00AM Monday Morning
three teams have submitted their list at QB and have Dan Marino on their lists.
I will start a thread on the message board titled QB-DAN MARINO and open the
bidding at the minimum $5. In the posted message it will read like this.
Current Bid: $5
Eligible to Bid: Storm, War Pigs, Gravediggaz
What this means is only the
Storm, War Pigs, and Gravediggaz can bid on Dan Marino, because they are the
only teams to have Marino on their Free Agent Wish List.
It is important to note that
bidding will not open on Marino until someone who is Eligible to Bid comes in
and makes an offer. Once that offer is made the 24-Hour clock starts ticking.
So, if Storm comes in at noon on Monday the 17th and nobody has made a bid, then
he posts a $5 offer for Dan Marino, the bid will now expire on Tuesday the 18th
at Noon. If War Pigs then comes in and ups the bid at 7:30PM that same day, the
new expiration date becomes 7:30PM on Tuesday (or 24 hours from the most recent
bid). The 24 hour deadline allows you to check the bids once a day, stay in the
bidding or drop, then leave. If you log on and check at the same time every
day, you will be safe in knowing the bid has not expired. Example: If I decide
I am going to check every morning so I log on at 7:00AM, I check the players I
want, make my bids and leave. I know those bids are safe at least until 7:00AM
tomorrow morning.
VI. Starting
Line-Ups
A. Submission Deadlines:
Each team is required to turn
in their line up each week via the Line-Up Submission
page available on our Web Site. Line-Ups are
due no
later than 10:59AM or prior to the kick-off of the
first game that week. In the event of Thursday or
Saturday games, only players playing in those early games need
to be submitted. If you fail to submit your lineup in
time, you will forfeit your game that week.
B. Line-Up Requirements:
1. Offense:
a. Offense Option 1: 1-QB, 2-RB, 3-WR, 1-K
b. Offense Option 2: 1-QB, 1-RB, 4-WR, 1-K
c. Offense Option 3: 1-QB, 0-RB, 5-WR, 1-K
2. Defense:
a. Defense Option 1: 2-DT, 2-DE, 3-LB, 2-CB, 2-S
b. Defense Option 2: 1-DT, 2-DE, 4-LB, 2-CB, 2-S
* Only 1 DT may be started in a 3-4 scheme
VII. Scoring:
Teams will acquire points for their team
each week by how the players in their starting
line-ups perform each week.
VIII. Regular Season Schedule:
The regular season will consist of 13 games, 6 games within
the division (playing each of the 3 other teams in the
division
twice), 4 conference games (playing each of the 4 teams within
the conference - but in the opposite division -once) and 3
games outside the conference. The out of conference games will
be determined by alternating match-ups against an entire
division, every other year. (Example: If the AFC West plays
its out of conference games against the NFC West, the
following year the AFC
West will play its out of conference games against the NFC
East. Since there are only 3 out of conference games, the last
place team in each division will not face the 1st place team
in that division in the other conference they are matched up
against that year).
IX. PLAYOFFS:
Eight Teams will qualify for the Post
Season Tournament. Each of the 4 Division winners
automatically qualify for the Post Season. The
remaining 4 playoff spots (Wild Card Spots) will be
awarded to the 2 top, non division winners in each
conference.
A. PLAYOFF
TIE-BREAKERS:
Overall Record
Division Record
Conference Record
Head-to-Head
Total Points
B.
Playoff Seeding:
#1 Seed in each
Conference will be
the division winner with the best record. #2 seed will
be the Division Winner with the 2nd best record. #3 seed will be the Wild Card
team with the best record.
#4 Seed will be the Wild Card team with the 2nd best
record.
C.
Playoff
Schedule
Week 14: Divisional Playoff Round
AFC Game 1: AFC #1 Seed vs. AFC #4 Seed
AFC Game 2: AFC #2 Seed vs. AFC #3 Seed
NFC Game 1: NFC #1 Seed vs. NFC #4 Seed
NFC Game 2: NFC #2 Seed vs. NFC #3 Seed
Week 15: Conference Championship
AFC Championship Game: Winner of AFC Game 1 vs. Winner
of AFC Game 2
NFC Championship Game: Winner of NFC Game 1 vs. Winner
of NFC Game 2
Week 16: PBFFL Super Bowl
Winner of AFC Championship vs. Winner of NFC
Championship
D.
Playoff Tie Breaker: In the event
of a tie during a
playoff game, the home team will be awarded the
victory, except in the Super Bowl. In the event of a
tie in the Super Bowl the winner will be determined by
bench points.
X. AWARDS
Playoff Teams eliminated in the Divisional Playoff
Round will be awarded $100. If you finish 5, 6, 7, or 8,
you
get $100.
Playoff Teams eliminated in the Conference
Championship will be awarded $200. If you finish 3rd or
4th, you get $200.
Super Bowl Loser will be awarded $300.
Super Bowl Winner will be awarded $500.
XI. Off-Season Schedule
Feb: Free Agent Bids
Submitted
Mar: Free Agent Bidding
Apr: NFL Entry Draft
May: PBFFL Rookie Draft
Jun: Free Agent Bids Submitted
Jul: Free Agent Bidding
Aug: Roster Cut Down Date
The above dates are tentative and
flexible.
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