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Commissioner:
Calvin Opheim email = blitzkrieg123 at mail dot com
League Rules
The Paydirt
"Action" Summer Football League (PSAFL) 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
$120,000,000.
2)
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.
3)
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.
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 $1 and
they are marked inactive.
4)
You cannot designate a player to the taxi
squad during FA bidding.
5)
Any player that was a signed free agent
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.
Rookie Draft
1)
The rookie draft will be a straight draft
7 rounds in length.
2)
Available players will be any players
drafted by an NFL team from the prior year’s NFL draft (meaning
rookies that are included in the new disk).
3)
The rookie draft will begin after the new
disk is released and teams have verified their rosters.
4)
After the rookie draft is completed, each
team salary must be no more than the salary cap.
5)
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.
Free Agent Bidding
At the beginning of Free Agent Bidding, all
teams must have
1)
No more than 800 pass
attempts from all QBs on your roster
2)
No more than 540 rushes
from all RBs on your roster
3)
No more than 640
receptions for your roster
4)
No more than 1 kicker
with a durability rating of 10 on your roster
5)
No more than 1 punter
with a durability rating of 10 on your roster
6)
No more than 2 total
kickers (see item 4) on your roster
7)
No more than 2 total
punters (see item 5) on your roster
8)
No more than 3 total QBs
on your active roster
9)
No more than 4 total QBs
on your total roster (includes Taxi Squad)
To participate in Free
Agent Bidding, teams:
1)
Must be
below the cap and have less than 52 active players.
2)
Must also have available
cap space to fill out roster to 52 active players when FA bidding
ends.
Signing Players during
Free Agent Bidding:
You will be awarded any player where
you are the high bidder EXCEPT if:
1)
It’s a QB that puts you
over 800 pass attempts from all QBs on your roster
2)
It's a QB that gives you
more than 3 on your active roster
3)
It's a QB that gives you
more than 4 total QBs on your total roster (includes Taxi Squad)
4)
It’s a RB that puts you
over 540 rushes from all RBs on your roster
5)
It’s a RB/WR/TE/HB that
puts you over 640 receptions on your roster
6)
It’s a Kicker that gives
you more than 1 kicker with a durability 10 on your roster
7)
It’s a Punter that gives
you more than 1 punter with a durability 10 on your roster
8)
It’s a Kicker that gives
you more than 2 total kickers on your roster
9)
It’s a Punter that gives
you more than 2 total punters on your roster
10)
You already have 52
active players on your roster
11)
There is not enough cap
space left to fill your roster to 52 active players after FA bidding
ends
Players signed during
Free Agent Bidding
1)
FAs signed during bidding process cannot
be traded or dropped
until the conclusion of the season (post-Super Bowl)
in part because of possible salary inflation.
2)
FAs can be dropped
at any time but the team that drops them is still responsible for
their entire salary. For example, this means when you drop say a
player with a $500k salary and then sign another FA for say $400k,
the newly signed player’s salary will be increased to $900k.
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 from Running Backs.
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 from WRs/TEs/HBs combined
(does not include RBs).
6)
Teams must
have no more than 640 total receptions (includes all positions)
7)
No more than 1 kicker with a durability rating of 10 on your
roster
8) No more than 1 punter with a
durability rating of 10 on your roster
9) No more than 2 total kickers
(see item 7) on your roster
10) No more than 2 total punters
(see item 8) on your roster
You must have no more
than compliance with the above maximum passes,
maximum rushes,
maximum receptions, and
maximum number of QBs (items 1, 2,
and 6 immediately above) by the start of Free Agency until the end
of the season.
You must be in compliance
with the maximum number of punters and kickers (items 7-10)
above by the start of Free Agency until the end of the season.
11)
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.
12)
Defensive Line - all teams must have at
least 3 defensive tackles and 3 defensive ends
13)
Linebackers - all teams must have at least
2 inside linebackers and 4 outside linebackers
14)
Defensive backs - all teams must have a
minimum of 8 defensive backs. All teams must have at least 4
cornerbacks and 3 safeties.
The above requirements (items 11, 12, 13, and 14)
must be met by the start of the regular season until the end of the
season.
Players rated at multiple positions as in (G/T
ILB/OLB etc.) count toward all positions for which they are rated.
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.
15)
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 theduring
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.
They will also have an x added before the
first letter of their last name for easy identification.
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 PSAFL with the following restrictions.
1)
Trading is not open until after the rookie
draft is completed.
2)
All teams must be at or under the cap in
order to conduct a trade.
3)
No trade can ever be conducted if it
violates league rules.
4)
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.
5)
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.
6)
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.
7)
Any player traded by a team may not be
re-acquired until a full season has passed.
8)
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.
9)
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.
10)
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.
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.
3)
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.
Note
- Using StratDraft ensures items 1- 3 will be automatically managed
for you.
4)
You may not have more active bids than
open roster spots on your active roster (does not
include Taxi Squad).
5)
Once 24 hours elapses without a new bid on
each player, the highest bid wins the player.
Once the season is
over, you can retain your drafted/free agent bid FA and any inflated
salary returns to what the new game release says it is.
6)
Only carded players are available in the
FA period.
7)
You may not drop players during Free Agent
bidding. 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 beginning
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.
8)
FAs signed during bidding process cannot
be traded or dropped until the
conclusion of the season (post-Super Bowl) in part because of
possible salary inflation.
9)
At the
conclusion of Free Agent bidding, all players signed will have their
winning bid salary changed to the actual salary that was originally
included in the game.
Weekly
Schedule/Procedure
1)
The PSAFL 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 PSAFL is a summer league playing from early June until early
October.
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 may 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 7PM 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 Rules
Committee at any time. The
Commissioner will consider rules based on League input and also
based on compatibility with existing PAFL rules. Generally speaking
the goal is to have the PSAFL rules closely mirror the PAFL rules.
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."
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