Commissioner: Calvin Opheim email = blitzkrieg123 at mail dot
com
League
Rules
The Paydirt
"Action" Football League (PAFL) is a computer football league
that uses Action! PC Football (APCFB) by DKS to play all of
its games. Teams will play home games in the current home
stadium with each stadium having a 3 point home field
advantage. No home field advantage will be awarded for the
Super Bowl.
What is
the Salary Cap?
1)
The current salary cap for season is
121,000,000.
2)
Teams may not conduct any trade
until the team is at or below the salary cap.
3)
Teams that fail to meet the salary
cap figure by the allotted time (see calendar page) will have
players removed from their roster alphabetically by the
commissioner so as to meet the salary cap requirements.
4)
You are never allowed to exceed the
salary cap.
How many
players may I have on my team?
1)
When the first disk is released for
a new season, you are allowed to keep all of your players as
long as your team salary is not more than the salary cap.
2)
If your team salary exceeds the
salary cap, you must release players (date will be provided)
until you are at or below the salary cap.
3)
Before Free Agency bidding begins
(date will be provided), your team roster must have no more
than 52 active players and 2 taxi squad players.
4)
You can never exceed 52 active
players once Free Agency bidding begins till the end of the
regular season.
5)
If you plan on participating in Free
Agency bidding, you must have less than 52 active players on
your roster.
6)
You must have 52 active players at
the end of Free Agency bidding.
7)
You can never exceed 2 players on
your taxi squad.
Taxi
Squad
1)
Each team may have up to two players
on an inactive taxi squad.
2)
To be eligible, the player must have
played in 5 or less regular season NFL games (includes
uncarded players).
3)
Once a player is named to the taxi
squad, he cannot be used the entire season, nor traded. Their
salary becomes zero and marked inactive.
4)
You cannot designate a player to the
taxi squad during FA bidding.
5)
Any player that was signed as a
result of a successful bid CANNOT then be designated to the
Taxi Squad as this would defeat the cap rules.
6)
Once designated, the player must
remain Taxi for the season.
Position
Requirements
1)
Quarterbacks - all teams must have a
minimum of 2 QBs but no more than 3 quarterbacks on their
active roster (does not include quarterbacks on the taxi
squad). All teams must have a minimum of 340 attempts but no
more than 800 attempts.
2)
Running Backs - all teams must have
a minimum of 3 RBs. All teams must have a minimum of 220
rushes but no more than 540 rushes.
3)
HB/TEs - all teams must have at
least 3.
4)
Wide Receivers - all teams must have
at least 6.
5)
All teams will must a minimum of 160
receptions but no more than 640 receptions from WRs and TEs/HBs
combined. Note that RB receptions are not included.
6)
Kickers and Punters - all teams must
have at least 1 kicker and at least 1 punter. No team can
have more than 2 kickers or more than 2 punters. No team can
have 2 kickers or 2 punters on their roster with a durability
rating of 10. However, if a team has 1 K or 1 P rated with a
10 durability and a second player who is rated as both a
punter and a kicker (P/K) that player may have a durability
rating of 10 as long as there is not a third player on the
roster rated as a P, K , or P/K.
7)
You must be in compliance with the
above maximum passes, rushes, and receptions (items 1, 2, and
5 immediately above) and maximum number of QBs by the start of
Free Agency until the end of the season.
8)
You must be in compliance with item
6 above by the start of Free Agency until the end of the
season.
9)
Offensive Line - all teams must have
a minimum of 8 offensive lineman. In addition each team must
have at least 2 centers, 3 guards, and 3 tackles.
10)
Defensive Line - all teams must have
at least 3 defensive tackles and 3 defensive ends
11)
Linebackers - all teams must have at
least 2 inside linebackers and 4 outside linebackers
12)
Defensive backs - all teams must
have a minimum of 8 defensive backs. All teams must have at
least 4 cornerbacks and 3 safeties.
13)
The above requirements (items 9, 10,
11, and 12 immediately above) must be met by the start of the
regular season (January 1) until the end of the season.
14)
Players rated at multiple positions
as in (G/T ILB/OLB etc.) count toward all positions for which
they are rated.
15)
Players rated as a QB-WR, QB-RB etc.
will have their pass attempts added to the QB limits, their
rush attempts added to the RB limits, and their WR receptions
added to the WR limits if they are rated at that position.
16)
However, players rated at QB/TE/WR
only will not have rush attempts added to the team limits.
Signing
Free Agents During the Season
1)
Free Agents may only be signed
during the season if injuries at a position leave you unable
to properly field the needed players for a game at a specific
position.
2)
If the FA addition takes you over
the 52 active players then you must drop a player to stay
legal.
3)
Signing FAs during the season will
be tightly monitored and should only be considered when
absolutely necessary.
4)
Any free agent signed (or placed
upon a team by the league due to compliance mandates) prior to
the start of the regular season will be labeled as a “Free
Agent Signed In-Season” and will have an FAI designation on
the league file.
5)
All FAI designated players MUST be
returned to the free agent pool at the conclusion of the
season.
6)
Signed Free
Agents cannot have a performance value superior to the
player(s) that were injured or placed the franchise out of
compliance.
Trading
Trading is
allowed in the PAFL with the following restrictions.
1)
All teams must be at or under the
cap in order to conduct a trade.
2)
No trade can ever be conducted if it
violates league rules.
3)
The trade deadline is Week # 4.
This means the time period up and until all week 4 games are
played but before the week 5 file is issued during the regular
season. No trades may be made after the Week # 5 file has been
sent out.
4)
No draft picks beyond the next draft
may be traded. You may begin trading the following years
draft's picks when the current year's draft period has
concluded.
5)
Any proposed trade can be rejected
by the commissioner/trade committee if he/they feel(s) that
the trade was not done in good faith. Teams can submit an
explanation as to why they feel a rejected trade makes sense.
A decision to reject may be reversed if the
commissioner/committee feel the explanation reveals a valid
reason for reversal.
6)
Any player traded by a team may not
be re-acquired until a full season has passed.
7)
All trades must be finalized in the
"Finalized trade forum" so we can keep track of all trade
info. One team involved in the trade must post in that forum
with the exact details of the trade. The other team must
confirm the trade in that trade's forum post. No trade will
take effect until both parties have agreed. Do not send your
trades via the league group email.
8)
If the trade, prior to the start of
the regular season and after Free Agent Bidding is completed,
takes you below 52 active players, you may sign a Free Agents
to become legal. You will not retain the rights to this
player after the season is completed.
9)
Once the regular season begins, free
agent in-season signing rules will be enforced negating the
ability to make a trade that takes a team out of compliance
and then desires to claim one or more free agents in order to
bring that team back into compliance.
Post
Season
1)
The 3 division winners, plus the 3
non division winners with the best records (the Wild Cards) in
each conference will qualify for the playoffs. Teams will be
seeded 1-6 and will be bracketed using the method that the NFL
currently uses. The higher seeded team for each playoff game
will be at home and will get the HFA except for the Super
Bowl. The Super Bowl will be played at a neutral site and the
HFA will be turned off.
2)
All stats will be carried over into
the post season. Instead of getting a clean "fatigue" slate
for the playoffs, a 10% increase in season fatigue would be
added for each additional round of the playoffs.
Rookie
Draft
1)
The rookie draft will be a straight
draft 7 rounds in length. Available players will be any
players drafted by an NFL team from the most current NFL
draft.
2)
Once the draft begins, all trading
(including draft picks) is frozen. The trade deadline usually
takes place a few days before the draft so preparations can be
made.
3)
No team may trade a drafted player
until after the subsequent Super Bowl and the new roster
valuations are released.
Free
Agent Bidding
1)
To participate in Free Agent
Bidding, teams must be below the cap and have less than 52
active players.
2) Teams must also have available cap
space to fill out their roster to 52 active players with at
least 350K players during the FA bidding
process.
3) By the end of Free Agent bidding,
teams must have 52 active players on their roster. If not,
the Commissioner will assign 350k players to
fill teams.
Free
Agent Bidding Rules
Free agency
will be conducted by bidding only. Highest bid (24 hours
without another bid) gets the player. That player reverts back
to his in-game value in subsequent seasons. Free agents cannot
be traded in the inaugural season of their signing. You may
not drop players to make room for FAs signed during the FA
draft.
1)
You may not bid lower than their
listed salary in the game.
2)
You may not bid higher than the
amount of available salary your team has.
Note that the total available salary
in Strat Draft does not take into account how many open
positions that you need to fill to bring your active roster to
52 players. It’s your responsibility to determine what the
maximum amount you can bid on any player while still allowing
you to have 52 players on the active roster.
3)
If you’re
not able to fill out your active roster to 52 players at the
end of FA Bidding, you will lose a 5th round pick.
You may also not retain the rights to all Free Agents that you
signed.
4)
You may not have more active bids
than open roster spots on your active roster (does not Taxi
Squad).
5)
If it is
determined that you had more active bids than open roster
spots, you will lose a 5th round pick. You may
also not retain the rights to all Free Agents that you signed.
6)
You may not
have several bids at one time that when added together, amount
to more than what your team has available under the cap. If
you do, you will lose all active bids at the time of the
infraction. So be careful and do the math.
7)
Once someone out-bids you for a
player, you can opt out if you like and the money is returned
to you to bid on other players.
8)
Once 24 hours elapses without a new
bid on each player, the highest bid wins the player.
9)
Once the season is over, you can
retain your drafted/free agent bid FA
(except as mentioned in item 3 above) and any inflated
salary returns to what the new game release says it is.
10)
Only carded players are available in
the FA period.
11)
You may not drop players to make
room for FAs won in bidding. So make sure you can fill out
your roster to the needed 54/52 players...EXAMPLE.... If you
have 42 players at the end of FA bidding, you need a minimum
of 10 players to be legal. So 10, 350K players means you need
at least 3.5 million in open cap space.
12)
Signed FAs
can be dropped but the team that signed them is still
responsible to pay their entire salary (meaning there is no
cap relief for dropping a player).
Weekly
Schedule/Procedure
1)
The PAFL week starts on Tuesday and
ends the following Tuesday at 8 PM ET.
2)
The home team is designated the
"host" and has the "right" to host the game. If for some
reason the home team does want not to, or cannot host the
game, the visiting team may host. The team that ends up
hosting the game is responsible for sending the commissioner
the game file on time.
3)
Both teams are responsible for
contacting, scheduling, and playing their game with their
opponent each week by the deadline.
4)
This is a head-to-head league but
there are circumstances when guys will be unable to play their
game a particular week. Please let your opponent know ASAP if
you will not be able to play them head-to-head in a particular
week. (Failure to do so more than twice per season is reason
for dismissal).
5)
A substitute coach may be used if
you are unable to coach your game a particular week. If you
plan on using a substitute coach please clear it with your
opponent and Commish beforehand. Only other members of the
PAFL may be used as substitute coaches. Please use this rule
sparingly.
6)
While an occasional occurrence of
"not being able to play" will be accepted, absentee ownership
will not. Any team that makes a "practice" of not playing
their games head to head will be subject to removal from the
league by the commissioner. No owner will be removed from the
league for this reason without a written warning first.
Emergencies come up and certain situations arise that are
beyond our control. That's not what this is referring to. Rule
of thumb, after your third miss, expect to hear from the
commissioner.
Schedule
All PAFL
teams will play a 17 game (8/9 at home & 8/9 on the road)
regular season schedule. Teams will play all other teams in
their own division twice (once at home and once on the road).
The schedule will be determined using the same formula the NFL
used when it had 28 teams. The PAFL is a winter league playing
from early January until early May.
Game
Playing Procedures
1)
Each team must play at least 12
games in a year Head to head AND meet the requirements of
contacting fellow owners for games or they will be removed
from the league.
2)
The accepted way of scheduling your
game each week is via the league's Game Scheduling Forum. This
way the Commissioner can clearly see who is properly
scheduling their games or not in case of dispute. He can also
foresee a problem before it becomes an issue and has to issue
a simmed game. The home team is responsible for posting first
and must post by no later than Thursday at 6PM ET of each week
giving a variety of times when you can play the games,
although you can and are encouraged to post sooner. Each
visiting team must reply to the home team's forum post and
either choose one of those times or announce he cannot meet
any of those times and make new suggestions by Friday. All
Games must be completed and reported to the Commissioner
before Tuesday at 10PM ET. (Exception to the forum scheduling
is if you cannot gain access to the forums for some reason. In
that case, you must privately email your opponent with a CC to
the Commissioner).
3)
Please DO NOT use the league group
email to schedule games or chat with another owner. Keep those
e-mails private so we don't all get spammed.
Penalties
Are there
penalties for breaking the max player limits? (maximum
carries, receptions or passes)
Yes. In
cases where it is caught in time to reverse, the deal that
caused the infraction is reversed and offending player loses
his "latest" round pick in the upcoming rookie draft. *(if
your latest pick has been traded, the next to latest will be
forfeited). If reversing the deal harms the unoffending party
because of other trades conducted based on this one, the
carded player is suspended for the season and counts toward
the team's salary cap and 54/52 limits and loss of latest
draft* pick in upcoming rookie draft.
Salary
Cap Infractions
Due to a
trade....
1)
Suspension of most valuable player
in trade for season. Of course, teams are allowed to make
drops as part of a trade, if needed, but must remain in the
54/52 limit and all other roster carry/reception limits. FAs
can only be signed after a trade if trade places them under
the 54/52 limit. All FA signings in this case must be filler
players and of same position as players lost due to trade.
(filler players are players with no real future increases in
worth in the foreseeable future and not salaried at more than
350K).
2)
Trade infractions may not be caught
until one of the other teams involved in the trade have made
other trades. This could cause a snowball effect, resulting in
the cancellation of several trades spanning several teams.
This of course can cause pandemonium. With suspensions, we
avoid opening that can of worms. This rule also places
responsibility for making a legal trade fully on the shoulders
of the team owner.
3)
Suspended players may not be traded
and their salary counts toward the team cap for the season.
4)
Please notify the Commissioner if a
rule is not clear, incorrect, or missing.
5)
Any rule that is not 100% clear may
be amended by the Commissioner to better reflect the intent of
the rule.
6)
The Commissioner may add a new rule
at anytime but that rule will still be at the mercy of a
league veto, if desired. A rule can be vetoed with a 60% vote
"against."
Rules Committee
There is a Rules Committee. The Rules
Committee will consist of 3-4 league owners/members selected
by the commissioner. A Rules Committee member will retain that
post until removed by the commissioner, the member resigns
from the position, or the member is no longer an owner of team
within the league.
New Rule
Proposals
New rules
may be suggested by team owners to the CommissionerRules
Committee at any time.
However, it is recognized that any new rule, suggested by a
team owner to the committee, will not necessarily be
immediately enacted nor immediately put onto the committee
docket.
The Committee will review any
submitted rule or constitutional amendment submitted
suggestion. The review may include, but is not limited to,
additional questioning of the member or members sponsoring the
rule submission. The Committee may alter the wording or amend
the suggestion if it desires to do so. Once the amending and
alteration process is completed, the committee will proceed
with a vote to move the rule/amendment to the commissioner for
his approval or rejection for a league wide approval vote or
league wide veto vote. The committee will need to submit any
committee approved rules/amendments any time after the
conclusion of the Super Bowl and the release of the new roster
valuations and no later than (1) week prior to the drops
deadline date. Any new rule(s) or amendment(s) submitted by
the committee and approved by the commissioner will not become
enforceable until after the following season's Super Bowl.
In order for any rule(s) or
amendment(s) to be approved by the committee and sent to the
commissioner three (3) of four (4) committee members must vote
affirmatively (Yes). Any rule(s) or amendment(s) can be tabled
for future consideration should the deadline for that season
pass or if the committee feels it needs to delay a vote for
any reason. Any rule(s) or amendment(s) can be tabled if the
vote within the committee acquires two (2) affirmative (Yes)
votes but does not garner the necessary third vote. If any
rules(s) or amendment(s) does not garner at least 2
affirmative (yes) votes it is considered defeated and cannot
be tabled.
New rules
suggested by team owners can be put up for vote and voted into
action with a 60% vote "In favor of." |