FFMD '13 Rules & Schedule Thread (UPDATED)

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FFMD '13 Rules and Schedule Thread

FFMD '13 Schedule

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General Rules And Notes

Please Note that at all times The Forum Rules are in effect and must be followed. Additionally the following rules are in effect for the Footballs Future Mock Draft:

1. No Chatzy, off site forums, chats or communication methods.

Google Documents (Without chats or other communication methods) are allowed for the sake of record keeping and big boards. Please Forward a link to your Google Document to me, Estonianzulu, for review. This rule is not negotiable or up for debate. Any found violation of this rule will result in the following punishments.

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Staff Positions and Appointments

All members of a forum can be a part of the team's decision making process. No one who is a fan of a team should be prevented from participating. The following are considered “official” positions in for the FFMD teams.

General Manager- The primary decision maker and point of contact for the team
Assistant General Manager- The second to the General Manager who will make decisions when the GM is unavailable.
Capologist- This position will be responsible for the tracking, updating and review of the team's running cap space.

Other, Unofficial positions include: Head Coach, Assistant Head Coach, Offensive/Defensive Coordinator, Head Scout, Positional Coaches (QB, RB, DB, etc.) or any other title or job you wish to create.

Fans interested in a position as a General Manager will need to post in the GM Sign up thread. Once all 32 teams have had proposed GM's, the Moderating team will decide (based upon reputation, post frequency and familiarity) who is appointed General Manager for which team. If you feel you have pertinent information for the General Manager selection, please PM me and it will be taken into consideration.

The General Manager will then appoint an AGM and other positions as necessary. Only the GM and AGM can make trades, sign Free Agents or make draft picks. Unless otherwise appointed and approved by the moderating staff, no other staff member may make official decisions.
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EFRA Rules

An Exclusive-Rights Free Agent is an NFL player who is not under contract, but has only two years of NFL experience. If your team has an ERFA you may choose to offer these players the minimum contract of $615,000 or opt to release him from the team. At that point the player will become an unrestricted free agent. This period will coincide with the RFA period. You will either offer your ERFA player a contract or release them. Please keep all your ERFA’s in one post so it is easier to follow for everyone involved. There will be no cap penalty for releasing a ERFA if signed to the 615k tender.

Please post only once for all of your ERFA's include both the players you are tendering and the players you are not tendering. You may edit your post freely until the deadline at which point the thread will be locked and all ERFA offers will be made official. Please include ALL ERFA's in your post. Any EFRA not included will be released.
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RFA Rules

A Restricted Free Agent is a player whose contract has expired but who can be “tendered” an offer by their previous team. RFA's will be assumed to sign their RFA contracts without hold outs. Tenders for RFA's can be in the following amounts:

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Franchise Tag Rules

Any player who does not sign a contract extension may be given a Franchise Tag. A Franchise Tag is automatically accepted by the player and will count against the cap in full. Please see below for Franchise Tag Numbers. During the RFA signing period, all teams will have the opportunity to offer a contract to a Franchise Player. If the contract is accepted, the host team then has the opportunity to either match the contract or receive two first round picks in return and lose the player immediately to the opposing team.

If a team elects not to use a franchise tag, they may use a Transition Tag. The Transition tag works exactly like the Franchise Tag except that there will be no draft compensation if the player is signed by another team.

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Tag And Trade

Free Agents may only be traded if they resign. Tagged players can not be traded in the year in which they are tagged.

Extensions on Tags/Tenders

You will not be able to sign a franchise/transition tagged player, or a tendered free agent to an extension or restructure.

Trades and Extensions/Restructures

You may use your extensions/restructures on players you trade for. They could towards your total extension/restructure.
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Free Agency Bidding Rules

After re-signing, free agents will be open to receive bids from all interested teams. Free Agent bidding will take place in two parts. The first will be the “Talent Agency” where players are required to submit bids directly, and in secret, to the agents for the free agent in question. Bidding will work in the following manner:

Each Free Agent represented in the talent agency will have a certain contract offer which they are seeking. These contacts have been pre-determined and are based upon similar players in recent years and the contracts they have received.

Teams will submit contract offers in an attempt to match the contract numbers the player is seeking. All contracts within a given percentage of the target contract number will be kept.

All Contract offers should include a “pitch” including any relevant information as to why a player should select a given offer. This can include things such as playing time, play system, coaches, fellow players, etc. The agents will then determine which contract offer wins using both the pitches, and the accuracy of the contract offer.

The percentage of the desired contract you are able to go over or under will be broken down by tier of free agent in the following fashion:

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Shark Tank Rules

Any free agent not represented in the Talent Agency will be placed in the Shark Tank. These players are available for any team to bid on. The Shark Tank will be broken down into the following positional groups for bidding:

Offensive Backs (QB, RB, FB)
Receivers (WR, TE)
Offensive Line (OT, OG, OC)

Defensive Backs (DB, FS, SS)
Line Backers (OLB, MLB)
Defensive Line (DT, DE)

Contract Information

The initial contract offer must match the minimum contract per year served requirement below. The number on the left is the years of accrued experience in the NFL, the number on the right represents the minimum contract that must be offered for the player's service. These numbers will be listed on the Free Agency database and must match for an offer to be valid.

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Free Agent Resigning

Teams will have an opportunity to resign one of their unrestricted free agents before they hit the free agency market. Each team will have the opportunity to resign one unrestricted free agent. If they fail to resign or chose to abandon a bid, they may move on to trying another free agent until a single free agent has resigned. Resigning free agents is treated exactly like other UFRA's, in that the interested team must submit a bid and contract to the player. Bids will be highly considered in the initial resigning process. Any free agent not resigned will be sent to the UFRA pool. Teams may continue to bid on free agents once they have been sent to the talent agency like any other available FA.

Resigning free agents must use the same contract rules as other Free Agents.

Contract Restructuring

Up to two contracts may be restructured by submitting a bid and contract to the Talent Agency for your currently signed player. These two resigning will be considered automatically, and will work in the following way: You will convert the player's current salary into a combination of a salary equal to or above the veteran minimum salary and a pro-rated signing bonus over the length of the contract. The difference between the player minimum and the previous salary will be extended equally among the remaining years as a guaranteed salary.

For example:

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Player A: Salary- $5M, SB- $1M, Future SB- $1M/year for 3 years
Restructured to:
Player A: Salary- $1M (5-1=4- divided over the four years of the contract- SB- $2M, Future SB- $2M/year for 3 years

Extensions

Each team will have the opportunity to extend one player. This will be done in the same fashion as Free Agent offers and will be issued to the Talent Agency representative for that position.

Cut and Resign

Players who are cut due to cap space concerns can be resigned in Free Agency. It is not guaranteed that the players will resign but the potential exist. Long term veterans who have spent their careers on a single team can be convinced to return at a reduced salary.
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Trade Rules

Trades are encouraged and desired, they help keep the game fun and active. However, there are some rules we will need to follow in order to avoid too much confusion or conflict. There will be a “trade council”, the job of the trade council is not to determine whether a trade is fair, or even, or 'good' but instead make sure that the trade is made in the spirit of the game.

All trades involving players must be sent through the Trade Council. No trade is official until approved by the Trade Council. Trades involving well known or highly paid players must be discussed in detail with the entire staff. If you want to trade an all-pro QB, you can do this, however it must be discussed among the staff in order to avoid inter-staff conflict.

If there is significant doubt about the discussion, or it appears that the trade was opposed by a large portion of the team's staff, the trade council will put the trade on hold until the following occurs: Either the GM or AGM (or the Trade Council) holds a vote of all listed staff members of a team. If 60% of the staff approves the trade, then the approval will be given.

Trades may either be posted in the trade forum or sent to the Trade Council via PM. Both team's must approve the trade for it to be discussed. Approved trades will be posted in the News and Trade Threads.

Draft Day Trades

During the Draft, trades will be far more common. Therefore the following rules will be in place for the draft. To expedite trades, we will use the NFL Trade Value Chart. Any trade that is within 100 points of equal is automatically accepted. Any trade not within 100 points must be reviewed by the trade council.

If a player is used in a draft day trade, their value (listed in the team's FFMD HQ) can be used in lieu of a draft pick, but it most also follow the 100 point rule.

Trade Format

Trade should be formatted in the following way when either posted in the trade thread or sent via PM.

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General Manager Responsibilities

It is the responsibility of the General Manager to keep and update a FFMD HQ thread. This thread must contain the following Information:

1. A link to the forum rules Listed Here

2. A list of all staff including AGM and Capologist

3. A link to this thread.

4. A list of any “trade block” players including specific pick value (For draft day trades)

Additionally, the GM should include any important links, such as draft and free agency threads.
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FFMD Staff

CWood21- League Commissioner. Please PM me with any general questions not involving any of the mods below. If there is ever a serious complaint, rules violation or conflict, please bring them to my attention immediately. CWood21 will be the ultimate arbiter on on all punishments or conflicts which arise.

CWood21- Draft Moderator. Cwood21 will be running the draft , please direct any Draft Related questions or concerns to him.

TheVillain112- Free Agent Moderator. Chipperboy1 will be running the free agency, please direct any Free Agent related questions or concerns to him.

tylerdouglass- Trade Moderator. tylerdouglass will be running trades, please direct any trade related questions or concerns to him.

scar988- Capologist. scar988 will be in charge of the cap, updating cap numbers and ensuring accuracy in restructuring.

The FFMD is run by Mods, however this year we are asking for your help. We are asking for volunteers to serve as liaisons between the Moderators and the FFMD staff. We are asking for 8 volunteers, one from each division. These volunteers will not be the GM, AGM or Capologist of the a team.

The responsibilities of the liaisons will be two fold:

1st- They will serve as a way point for communication between the staff and the players. There are times when a player may feel that a mod has made a decision that is unfair or missed something important, we want to know. But, we know that this can be a difficult topic to bring up so the liaison can serve as a point of contact for your concerns.

2nd- They will serve as a form of disciplinary hearing board. If there is a reported rule violation, the 8 volunteers will advise the moderating staff as to whether the violation qualifies for the punishments listed above. If a member of the liaison team is from the team under review the member should recuse themselves from the discussion of the infraction. Additionally, if a punishment is issued and the receiving war room feels it was unwarranted, the liaisons will be able to take their complaints and propose to the moderating staff a reviewed punishment.

FFMD '13 Division Liaisons

AFC North- iPwn
AFC East- Rumless
AFC South- marshawn lynch
AFC West- Runaway Jim

NFC North- DrawABlank
NFC East- Detfan782004
NFC South- Texas_OutLaw7
NFC West-marshawn lynch
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War Rooms : : : General Manager : : : AGM(s)

AFC East
Buffalo Bills : : : ianlewis16 : : : LionsFTW
Miami Dolphins : : : patdt13 : : : ProudDolphan47/mountainpd
New England Patriots : : : rabbisson : : : goldfishwars
New York Jets : : : green24 : : : Spiel612

AFC North
Baltimore Ravens
Cleveland Browns
Cincinnati Bengals
Pittsburgh Steelers

AFC South
Houston Texans
Indianapolis Colts
Jacksonville Jaguars
Tennessee Titans

AFC West
Denver Broncos
Kansas City Chiefs
Oakland Raiders
San Diego Chargers

NFC East
Dallas Cowboys
New York Giants
Philadelphia Eagles
Washington Redskins

NFC North
Chicago Bears
Detroit Lions
Green Bay Packers
Minnesota Vikings

NFC South
Atlanta Falcons
Carolina Panthers
New Orleans Saints
Tampa Bay Buccaneers

NFC West
Arizona Cardinals
San Francisco 49ers
Seattle Seahawks
St. Louis Rams
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Roster, Cuts, Cap

The FFMD '13 Roster can be found here:

FFMD '13 ROSTERS

GM's may use this link to try edits and changes to your team's roster

To determine the gross loss to your cap from a trade or cut by viewing the "Cut Cap Hit" column. The net loss can be determined by subtracting the "Cut Cap Hit" from the "Cap Hit".

For example:

If Player A has a Cut Cap Hit of $5,000,000, and a Cap Hit of $7,000,000, the team would save a total of $2,000,000 off the cap.

If Player B has a Cut Cap Hit of $7,000,000 and a Cap Hit of $5,000,000, the team would lose a total of $2,000,000 off the cap.

Cap Space Deadline

You must be under the cap by the end of the tender/tag period. That gives you until February 8th, 10:00 AM to complete your cuts Please make sure that all cuts occur prior to this point.

Failure to do so will prevent you from signing any free agents or submitting any bids until you are under the cap. Any free agent targeted by bid by an over-the-cap team will be thrown out and that free agent will not sign even when the team is under the cap.
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