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2020 Rules Updates

This page lists all 2020 AFFL Rules Updates.  Revisions to the Rule book also appear on the Rules Page (in Green Text), but this page serves to offer coaches a quick guide to all rules changes and a side by side comparison between each 2019 Rule and it's 2020 Revision (where applicable)

2019 Rule versions of rules appear in Yellow Text

2020 Rule revisions appear in Green Text

Subject matter of rule appears in Blue Text

Unchanged portions of rules appear in White Text

UPDATES:
Appendix A: Covid and the 2020 Season

A.     Keepers

    1. Any team with a player on their 2019 end of season roster who opts out of the 2020 NFL season for the reason of covid will retain the rights to that player
      1. A team wishing to retain the rights to a player that opts out of the season, must contact the commissioner with the name(s) of the player(s) in question
      2. Commissioner will then add that player to the team's 2020 end of year rosters so that the individual team will have access to the player in the following season
      3. Any player that falls under this rule will retain their 2020 preseason salary at the start of the 2021 season
    2. Any team with a player on their 2019 end of season roster who opts out of the 2020 NFL season for the reason of covid may trade that player to another team in preseason trading
      1. Teams acquiring a player in this manner may retain rights to that player by the procedure listed above
    3. Any player that opts out of the 2020 NFL season for reasons of covid but whose rights are not retained by any team prior to the start of the 2020 season, will follow all salary rules when returned for the 2021 season
    4. Free Agent Players opting out of the 2020 NFL season because of covid cannot be drafted

B.     In Season Covid Circumstances

    1. One additional IR spot has been added to the roster for the 2020 season to assist owners in roster management vis-a-vie covid
    2. Should the competition committee decide it has become neccessary, more IR spots may be added during the season
    3. This, and any additional, added IR spot(s) will be removed for the 2021 season

 

Section I.D.1 thru I.D.1.1 (Competition Committee)
  1. Competion Committee will be made up by the League Manager (LM), the League Asst Manager (ALM), the prior season League Champion, the prior season Runner-Up, and the prior season last place team
    1. In the inaugural season the 3 ‘prior season’ slots will be filled by the first 3 franchises to pay league dues in full
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  1. Competion Committee will be made up of the League Manager (LM), the League Asst Manager (ALM), and three volunteer coaches
    1. Coaches will be allowed to volunteer for placement on the Competition Committee each off season immediately following the League Championship
    2. Unless there is a limited pool of volunteers, coaches will not be allowed to volunteer for multiple consecutive seasons
    3. If less than 3 coaches volunteer, LM will appoint coaches to the Competition Committee at his discretion

 

Entry Fees

Section III.3.2

 

2. Payment deadline is: 24 hours prior to draft

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2.    Payment deadline is: July 30

3.     Teams cannot participate in off-season activity, including but not limited to trades, trade counter offers, or roster cuts until payment has been made

 

Orphaned Teams
Section II.E.1 thru II.E.6

New Rule Inserted after II.E.2:

  1.  In the event that an owner/coach withdraws from the AFFL during the off-season period, their franchise (Team + Roster) will become an open franchise
  2. If no existing owner/coach wishes to claim the open franchise it will be claimed from outside the league, via waiting list if neccessary
  3.    Once an open/orphaned franchise has been claimed (by either an existing coach or a new/waiting list coach, that coach reserves the right to claim a different open/orphaned franchise should one become available later in the same offseason
    1. Should a coach opt to claim a different open/orphaned team, the same process will apply
    2. Once any off season roster moves (trades, free agent acquisitions, cuts) have been made by an acquiring coach the forfeit the right to claim a new open/orphaned franchise in the same off season period
  4. Coaches cannot exchange franchises more than once in any rolling 4 year period
    1. This does not apply to multiple switches (as outlined in Section II.1.3 (above)), b ut only in franchise swaps deemed to be "FINAL" by the conducting of an offseason roster move or by the draft
  5.      All open franchises claimed by a new owner/coach will carry with them all obligations received or promised through trade by the open franchise's previous owner/coach, including draft picks

 

Scoring

All Scoring Rules have been revised for the 2020 season.  Please use the button below to view the full report on all scoring rules revisions.

2020 Scoring Revisions

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A. Scoring Irregularity Review Rule

    1. There are certain rare instances where teams may want to request a "Rules Review" from the Competition Committee
    2. Certain Scoring Rules on the host site do not conform to all possible instances for fantasy scoring
      • EXAMPLE: under certain defensive scoring rules players receive a points bonus for 2 or more blocked kicks/punts, but in the MFL Score settings this falls under two different categories (blocked kicks and blocked punts) so the bonus would not be triggered by 1 blocked kick and 1 blocked punt
      • EXAMPLE: under kicking rules, kickers receive a bonus for a 100% field goal rating of different point values based on number of field goals from 1-7; there is no rule defined if a kicker were to make an 8th field goal
    3. In any instance (like the examples given above, but not limited to those examples) where a coach feels there are rules defined in the official AFFL Scoring Rules that were not granted by the host site, they may request a review by the Competition Committee
      • Request must be made by email to the commissioner and must be made in the week immediately following the scoring irregularity in question
      • In these instances, the Competition Committee is encouraged to rule in the spirit of the AFFL Scoring Rules, and simple majority vote will carry their decision
      • In the event that a sitting member of the Competition Committee is involved in the game in question, they will recuse themself, and their vote will be cast by the coach with the highest current waiver priority
      • All Competition Committee decisions are final
Rosters
Section V

A.     Team Rosters will have slots for a maximum of 19 Active Players with an additional 3 slots for Injured Reserve Players

    1. Teams are allowed to carry fewer than a full 19 player roster
    2. At no time may team roster exceed the Salary Cap

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A.     Team Rosters will have slots for a maximum of 20 Active Players with an additional 3 slots for Injured Reserve Players

    1. Teams are allowed to carry fewer than a full 20 player roster
    2. See Section X Salaries and Salary Cap for cap information

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B.     Position Limits

    1. The following Position Limits will be in place, meaning team rosters may not exceed the listed number of players at the specified positions:
      • Quarterback: 1
      • Runningback: 4
      • Wide Receiver: 4
      • Tight End: 2
      • Place Kicker: 1
      • Defensive End: 4
      • Linebacker: 4
      • Defensive Safety: 2

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B.     Position Limits

    1. The following Position Limits will be in place, meaning team rosters may not exceed the listed number of players at the specified positions:
      • Quarterback: 1
      • Runningback: 3
      • Wide Receiver: 5
      • Tight End: 3
      • Place Kicker: 2
      • Punter: 2
      • Kick Returner: 1
      • Defensive Tackle: 2
      • Defensive End: 2
      • Linebacker: 4
      • Cornerback: 4
      • Defensive Safety: 1

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D.     Kick Returners

  1. Kick Returners are a Specially Designated Position
    1. PLayers with the MFL designation of Runningbacks, Wide Receivers, and Cornerbacks ONLY can be designated as a Kick Returner
    2. Elligible players may be designated as Kick Returners for a minimum of 1 week and a maximum of 17 weeks
    3. Commissioner or Asst Commissioner will perform the designation to Kick Returner of any specified, elligible player on a team's roster at coach's emailed request
      1. Individual Coaches may re-designate Kick Returners on their own roster back to their original MFL designated position at any time
        1. Roster Maximums WILL BE in effect and a requisite drop of another player at that position may be required to perform this switch
    4. Commissioner or Asst Commissioner will perform the designation to Kick Returner of any specified, elligible FREE AGENT player at coach's emailed request
      1. Up to 3 players per week per coach's request can be redesignated to KR in order for individual teams to target an unspecified player for Free Agent Kick Returner acquisition
      2. Free Agent Kick Returners acquired by any team may then be redesignated by that team to player's original MFL designation
        1. Roster Maximums WILL BE in effect and a requisite drop of another player at that position may be required to perform this switch
  2. Kick Returners and the Draft
    1. (See Section VI Draft)
  3. Kick Returners and Salaries
    1. (See Section X Salaries)
Draft
Section VI

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A.     Inaugural Draft will be held live online on September 1, 2019 at 4:00pm EDT

    1. Draft timer will be set for 60 seconds per pick

B.     Inaugural Draft

    1. Inaugural Draft will be 19 rounds in length
    2. Roster position limits on players drafted will be in effect
    3. There WILL be a Salary Cap in place for players drafted for which teams may not exceed (hard cap) (SEE Sec X)
    4. Draft Order for Inaugural Draft will be determined by random order generation for EACH Round in which each team will be assigned (in advance) a random draft position for every round of the draft (randomization to be performed with draft order randomizer tool at fftoolbox.com)

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C.     Subsequent Drafts

    1. In seasons following the inaugural season, drafts will be as many rounds as are needed for all teams to fill all roster positions after their keeper players are taken into account (SEE Sec VII)
      1. Teams will draft until their roster is full or until their salary cap has been reached; teams that fill first will be done with their draft while other teams continue in the pre-determined order
    2.  In seasons following the inaugural season, draft picks may be traded - either in the prior season or in the Preseason Trading Period (SEE Sec IX.A.2)
    3.  In seasons following the inaugural season, Draft Order for the first round of all drafts will be determined by inverse order of prior season final standings (NFL formula); Draft Position for all other rounds will be determined by random order generation for EACH Round in which each team will be assigned (in advance) a random draft position for every round of the draft

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A.     Draft Order

    1. Draft Order will be determined by inverse order of prior season final standings (NFL formula)
    2. Each Round of the draft will proceed in the specified Draft Order for that season, picks #1-#20 (except in the case of traded picks)
      1. There will be no snake/serpentine style turnaround at the end of any round
      2. Draft Picks will proceed #1-#20, #1-#20, #1-#20, etc for the duration

B.     The Draft

    1. Drafts will be as many rounds as are needed for all teams to fill all roster positions after their keeper players are taken into account (SEE Sec VII)
      1. Teams will draft until their roster is full or until their salary cap has been reached; teams that fill first will be done with their draft while other teams continue in the pre-determined order
    2. Pick Timer will be set at 5 Minutes Per Pick
    3. Position Limits will be in effect
    4. Draft picks may be traded - either in the prior season or in the Preseason Trading Period (SEE Sec IX.A.2)
    5. Draft Day Trading is allowed (See Section IX.D for full details)
      1. Teams intending to make a draft day trade, should announce a possible trade several picks in advance to allow the commissioner to start the 10 minute trade timer
      2. A 60 second counter offer period will follow any accepted trades

C.     Draft and Salary

    1. Salary Cap limits will be in effect during the Draft
    2. Rookies drafted during the draft's will be subject to post-draft salary adjustment per salary rules
      1. If a team drafts a rookie during the first round of the draft, that team should be aware that their overall cap hit will be adjusted at the conclusion of the draft and if that adjustment causes them to go over the salary cap, they will be fiorced to cut the neccessary personel to get under the cap

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E.     Kick Returners and the Draft

  1. Prior to the Draft, teams may, at their discretion, designate any elligible player on their pre-draft KEEPER ROSTER as a Kick Returner
    1. After the Draft, Individual Coaches may re-designate these KEEPER Kick Returners on their own roster back to their original MFL designated position at any time
      1. Roster Maximums WILL BE in effect and a requisite drop of another player at that position may be required to perform this switch
  2. Prior to the Draft, all Draft Elligible Players (Players that are not on any team's keeper roster) will be designated with their original MFL position designation - meaning no players in the draft will be designated explicitly as a Kick Returner
  3. During the Draft, position maximum limits for Runningback, Wide Receiver, and Cornerback will be removed in order for teams to draft players above the roster limits for those positions with the intention of having them designated as Kick Returners
    1. After the draft, (RB,WR, and CB) position maximums will be re-enabled and teams will have to designate a Kick Returner or make neccessary cuts to bring their team back into legal roster status prior to being allowed to set a week 1 line-up
Free Agency
Section XIII

A.    Waiver Order

    1. Waivers are "Permanently Enabled", meaning franchises must go through a waiver proccess for acquiring all Free Agent players added throughout the entire season

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A.    Waivers

    1. All unsigned players are placed onto Waivers immediately following the conclusion of the draft; after being cut by any team; and at the start of their individual games each week
      1. Bye Week players are place onto Waivers at the start of the final game of the week

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D.     Free Agency Period

    1. An Open Free Agency Period will be held weekly beginning Sunday mornings at 10:00am (ET) and remain open until all unsigned players have returned to waivers by way of the start of their individual games (or the start of the final game of the week for Bye Week players)
    2. Players released to Waivers on the immediately preceeding Saturday night Waiver Event will remain on Waivers during this Open Free Agency Period, but all other unsigned players will be available as Open Free Agents at the start of this period
    3. Teams may sign any open free agent player during this time period on a first come-first serve basis
    4. Players acquired by a team during any weekly Open Free Agency Period will be paid a "Signing Bonus" equal to 50% of that player's salary
      1. This "Signing Bonus" will be payed in the form of a Cap Penalty - a reduction in the signing team's Regular Season  Salary Cap of the equivelant amount at the start of the following regular season regardless of the length of time that player is kept on the roster
Sec IX Trading has been completely updated:

A.    Trading Period

    1.   In-Season Trading will be allowed from the day after the draft until the conclusion of Week 17 - There is no Trade Deadline
    2.   Pre-Season Trading will be allowed in a Pre-Season Trading Period which will open each year on July 1 and close 72 hours before the Keeper Lock Day (SEE Sec VII)

B.    Eligible Trades

    1.  Any player on a team's roster at the time of the deal may be traded including players on IR
    2.  Any Current Year, Current Year +1, or Current Year +2 draft pick may be traded
    3.  Any combination of elligible Player(s) and/or Draft Pick(s) may be traded for any combination of elligible Player(s) and/or Draft Pick(s), EXCEPT Draft Pick for Draft Pick, however trades involving only Current Year Draft Pick for Current or Future Year Draft Picks are allowed
    4. In-Season Trades must adhere to Salary Cap Rules or must include a Player(s) to be dropped by trading team(s) to keep them within Salary Cap Rules (SEE Sec X)
    5. In-Season Trades must adhere to Roster Limit Rules or must include a Player(s) to be dropped by trading team(s) to keep them within Roster Limit Rules (SEE Sec V)
    6. Pre-Season Trades may exceed both Salery Cap and/or Roster Limits with the understanding that the trading team(s) exceeding those limits must be within those limits at the Keeper Lock Day (SEE Sec VII)
    7. Three-Way Trades are NOT allowed, however Turn Around trades WILL BE allowed with "Turn Around Trade" being defined as a player and/or draft pick being acquired by a team through trade and then immediately traded away to a third team, and further, there is no prohibition on any teams engaging in closed door negotiations with any third party team while negotiating a trade with another team
      1. Turn Around Trades are subject to counter offers just as any trade would be (SEE Sec  IX.C)

C.    Trade Procedure and Counter Offers

    1. Once a Trade Deal has been reached, terms of the trade, including player(s) and/or draft pick(s) involved will be made known to the entire league automatically, and each team will be prompted to acknowledge the trade deal with an up or down vote before submitting their line-up
    2. Teams' individual trade reject votes will not cause the trade to be rejected except by unanimous vote of the competition committee
    3. Once the agreed trade is posted, the pending trade will begin a 48 hour window in which any other team may offer a counter-offer to either party in the transaction, as long as counter offer includes at least one part (player or draft pick) of the original trade
    4. An accepted counter-offer to a trade will involve the same process as the original trade:  terms must be emailed and posted; League Office will post confirmation and issue an emailed notice to the league, and a new 48 hour countdown will begin during which the counter-offer may also be countered by any team.
    5. If a counter-offer to a pre-season trade causes a 48 hour countdown to carry over into the 72 hour period before the Keeper Lock-In Date, trade (and countdown) will proceed and counter offers to the the accepted counter may proceed as well, BUT the 48 hour time limit for counter-offers to be made MAY be shortened at commissioner's discrestion.
    6. Once any trade offer or counter offer has been confirmed with the league office by both trading parties, the trade deal may be quashed only by both parties unanimously for any reason or by one party only in the case of an injury, suspension, public arrest anouncement, or announcement of retirement of a player(s) involved in the trade
      1.  Any Trade Deals that are quashed by one or both of the trading pasrtners will work backwards through all accepted counter offers to the original trade deal where both trading partners must agree to either accept or quash the trade at each step as trade works its way backwards

D.  Trade Review

    1. Accepted trades and counter offers will be reviewed by the Competition Committee (SEE Sec I.C) who may veto the deal by unanimous vote within the 48 hour counter period of the deal
    2. If a trade counter offer is vetoed by the Competition Committee it will revert backwards in the progression of counter offers where the 48 hour counter offer period will start over

NOTE:  Trades will be processed immediately upon expiration of a trade's final 48 hour counter offer period -  but because of the nature of the rules allowing for counter offers and counter offers to counter offers, etc and because of the 48 hour period involved with each counter, there is no explicit or implicit rule on the duration of time for any trade to become finalized

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A.    Trading Periods

    1. There will be 3 distinct Trading Periods throughout the calender year, each with their own set of rules and procedures
      1.      Pre-Season Trading Period
      2.      Draft Day Trading
      3.      In-Season Trading Period
    2. All salary obligations for any player traded will transfer with that player

          B.    Eligible Trades

    1.  Any player on a team's roster at the time of the deal may be traded including players on IR
    2.  Any Current Year, Current Year +1, or Current Year +2 draft pick may be traded
    3.  Any combination of elligible Player(s) and/or Draft Pick(s) may be traded for any combination of elligible Player(s) and/or Draft Pick(s)
    4. Draft Pick for Draft Pick trades, are allowed, including trades involving only Current Year Draft Pick for Current or Future Year Draft Picks
    5. In-Season Trades must adhere to Salary Cap Rules or must include a Player(s) to be dropped by trading team(s) to keep them within Salary Cap Rules (SEE Sec X)
    6. In-Season Trades must adhere to Roster Limit Rules or must include a Player(s) to be dropped by trading team(s) to keep them within Roster Limit Rules (SEE Sec V)
    7. Pre-Season Trades may exceed both Salery Cap and/or Roster Limits with the understanding that the trading team(s) exceeding those limits must be within those limits at the Keeper Lock Day (SEE Sec VII)
    8. Three-Way Trades are NOT allowed, however Turn Around trades WILL BE allowed with "Turn Around Trade" being defined as a player and/or draft pick being acquired by a team through trade and then immediately traded away to a third team, and further, there is no prohibition on any teams engaging in closed door negotiations with any third party team while negotiating a trade with another team

C.     Pre-Season Trading Period

    1. Pre-Season Trading will be allowed in the Pre-Season Trading Period which will open each year on July 1 and close 72 hours before the Keeper Lock Day (SEE Sec VII)
    2. During Pre-Season Trading, once a deal has been reached for an Elligible Trade (See Section IX.B above) between two teams, the Commissioner or Asst Commissioner must be notified of the deal and details
    3. The Commissioner (or Asst Commissioner) will then publish the trade deal by email to the entire league and begin a 48 hour Trade Timer 
    4. At any time during the 48 hour countdown of the Trade Timer, any team may approach either trading party with a counter offer for the posted trade
      1. If any counter offer is accepted by either trading party during the 48 hour period, the party accepting the counter offer must contact the Commissioner (or Asst Commissioner) with the details and the original trade will be voided and a new 48 hour Trade Timer will begin for a new counter offer period to start
      2. Once a full period of 48 hours has elapsed with no counter offers accepted, the Commissioner or Asst Commisioner will anounce the trade deal to be FINAL at the expiration of the 48 hour Trade Timer
    5. If a counter-offer to a pre-season trade causes a 48 hour countdown to carry over into the 72 hour period before the Keeper Lock-In Date, trade (and countdown) will proceed and counter offers to the the accepted counter may proceed as well, BUT the 48 hour time limit for counter-offers to be made MAY be shortened at commissioner's discrestion.
    6. Once any trade offer or counter offer has been confirmed with the league office by both trading parties, the trade deal may be quashed only by both parties unanimously for any reason or by one party only in the case of an injury, suspension, public arrest anouncement, or announcement of retirement of a player(s) involved in the trade
      1.  Any Trade Deals that are quashed by one or both of the trading pasrtners will work backwards through all accepted counter offers to the original trade deal where both trading partners must agree to either accept or quash the trade at each step as trade works its way backwards

NOTE:  Pre-Season Trades will be processed immediately upon expiration of a trade's final 48 hour counter offer period -  but because of the nature of the rules allowing for counter offers and counter offers to counter offers, etc and because of the 48 hour period involved with each counter, there is no explicit or implicit rule on the duration of time for any trade to become finalized

D.        Draft Day Trading

    1. The Draft Day Trading Period will govern any/all trades taking place During The Draft
    2. Teams that may be interested in making a draft day trade, should contact and negotiate terms of a possible trade with interested teams prior to Draft Day
      1. No official agreements need be made during these negotitations, but the terms of any possible trades should be discussed before hand to save time during the draft
      2. If possible, teams that are negotiating possible Draft Day Trades should inform the commissioner prior to the start of the draft, and provide the Round and Pick number at which a trade might take place - no other details need be made known
    3. Draft Day Trade Procedure
      1. At the appropriate Round and Pick number, Commissioner will Pause The Draft and announce that there is a possible trade
      2. A ten minute timer will be started
      3. During the ten minute time limit, the trading teams must finalize any possible trade deal either by draft chat or outside of the draft room via email, etc
      4. Before the end of the ten minute timer, Commissioner will seek confirmation of the trade from both trading parties, and then announce said trade
    4. Once any Draft Day Trade has been announced by the commissioner, teams will have 60 seconds to request another ten minute pause to make a counter offer
      1. If no counter offers are made, the trade will be processed and the draft will be unpaused
      2. If a counter offer is accepted, the process repeats
    5. If teams have not made a prior announcement to the Commissioner of a possible Draft Day Trade, they can still request a ten minute Trade Pause from the Commissioner once they are on the draft clock and trade procedure will proceed as outlined above

E.     In-Season Trading

    1. The In-Season Trading Period will be open from immediately following the conclusion of the draft through to the first NFL game of Week 9
      1. All Trades must be initiated prior to the first NFL game of Week 9, but may be concluded after that point
    2. Trade agreements made during the In-Season Trading Period will be made by the usual trading procedure of the host site and will follow all Elligible Trades rules (See Sec IX.B Above) 
    3. Trades made during the In-Season Trading Period will undergo a 4 day Trade Review by mandatory league vote
      1. Teams will be required to submit their vote on any accepted trade before setting their weekly line-up
      2. Team votes are anonymous
      3. With a total of 11 "YES" votes the trade will be automatically processed (even if 4 day period has not elapsed); or
      4. With a total of 11 "NO" votes the trade will be automatically rejected (even if 4 day period has not elapsed)
      5. After a period of 4 days, even if league vote is incomplete trade will process automatically

D.  Trade Review

    1. Accepted trades and counter offers will be reviewed by the Competition Committee (SEE Sec I.C) who may veto the deal by a minimum vote of 4 (of 5) against
      1. If trade has already been processed before the Competition Committee has a chance to review/vote on it, trade can be reversed at their discretion with 4(of 5) votes
      2. During any Draft Day Trade, commissioner will keep draft paused long enough for any Competition Committee member to call for a private Competition Committee vote on the trade
    2. If a trade counter offer is vetoed by the Competition Committee it will revert backwards in the progression of counter offers where the 48 hour counter offer period will start over
X     Salaries and Salary Cap

X.A.1     

    1. The formula for determining player salaries will be: (Prior Season Total Fantasy Points) x 50,000 = Salary

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X.A.1     

    1. The formula for determining player salaries will be: (Prior Season Total Fantasy Points) x 100,000 = Salary

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F.     Kick Returners and Salary

    1. Any player spending at least 1 week of the prior season both designated as Kick Returner and also started at the Kick Returner Position will have their following season salary manually calculated by the following formula:

(Total Kick Returner Points for each week Started at Kick Returner) + (Total Original Position Designation Points for each week NOTG Started at Kick Returner) = Total Season Points x 100,000 = Salary

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X.F.3. 

    1. The salary cap formula will be determined by the following method:
      • Number of teams in AFFL = 20
      • Number of roster spots per team (starters and bench) = 19
      • 20 teams times 19 roster spots each = 380 players
      • The combined salaries of THE TOP 380 PLAYERS  = "Total380"
      • Salary Cap Formula:
Salary Cap = (Total380 divided by 20) +20%(rounded)

G.     Salary Cap for the 2019 season has been calculated to be: $251.9 million per team

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X.G.3. 

    1. The salary cap formula will be determined by the following method:
      • Number of teams in AFFL = 20
      • Number of roster spots per team (starters and bench) = 20
      • 20 teams times 20 roster spots each = 400 players
      • The combined salaries of THE TOP 400 PLAYERS  = "Total400"
      • Salary Cap Formula:
Salary Cap = (Total400 divided by 20)

H.     Salary Cap for the 2020 season has been calculated to be: $438.4 million per team

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I.     Cut Cap

    1. Each off-season, in conjunction with the Keeper Lock Date, the total salary of all teams' Designated Keepers must fall at or below the Cut Cap
    2. The anual Cut Cap is determined by the following formula:
    3. Current Season Salary Cap x 50% = Current Season Cut Cap (Regular Season Salary Cap divided by 2)
    4. Cut Cap for the 2020 season has been calculated as $219.2 million

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J.     Cap Penalties

    1. Certain Events in the course of a season will result in a Cap Penalty assessed to individual teams involved in stated events
    2. Cap Penalties will be assessed as a reduction in the following season's Regular Season Salary Cap of the individual team penalized
    3. No Line-Up Cap Penalty = %5 million
      1. A Cap Penalty of $5 million will be assessed to teams for each infraction of failing to set a weekly line-up
      2. Penalties will not be assessed for partial line-ups due to injury/bye week/personnel issues but only to completely missed line-ups
    4. Sunday Acquisition Cap Penalty = 50% of acquired player's salary
      1. Free Agent Players acquired in any Sunday Open Free Agency Period will incur a Cap Penalty of 50% of the acquired player's salary for each Sunday Acquisition throughout the course of the season
    5. Cap Penalties and Orphaned Teams
      1. At their discretion, Competition Committee has the ability to waive all or part of any Cap Penalties carried by Orphoned Teams
Section XI Schedule has been completely reworked to introduce "Home FIeld Advantage":

 

A.     Regular Season will be Weeks 1-13

B.     In Weeks 1-4 all teams will play a randomly ordered Divisional Round Robin in which each team will play every other team in their division  (SEE Sec II.B.1)

C.    In Weeks 10-13 all teams will play a second randomly ordered Divisional Round Robin in which each team will play every other team in their division  (SEE Sec II.B.1)

D.   Match-ups for Weeks 5-9 will be the responsibility for each Franchise Owner to schedule among each other in coordination with the League Office in the Pre-Season Period before each season

    1. A Master Schedule Page will be posted and maintained daily showing all franchises' schedules and available open weeks
    2. Franchise owners must email one another to agree to a match-up in the coming season and to agree on which week that match-up will take place (according to availability) and then notify the League Office for the Master Schedule to be updated
    3. All 5 games of this period of the season must be vs non-divisional opponents
    4. Teams may not play each other more than one time during this 5 game period of the schedule
    5. Before each season's draft takes place, Open Scheduling will be closed and teams that have open dates remaining will be matched at random with other teams that have remaining open dates
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 Team Schedules will designate "Home", "Away", and "Neutral Site" games

    1. Visiting Teams ("Away Team") will be handicapped -3 points on the official game scoreboard in all regular season games
    2. Neutral Site Games will have no handicap
    3. Teams will play 6 Home Games, 6 Away Games, and 1 game at a Neutral Site during the course of the regular season

C.   Teams will play a double round robin schedule in division, and 5 self-scheduled out of division match-ups

    1. Teams will play each of their Division Opponents in a Home and Away series (8 games) spread randomly throughout the week 1-13 regular season schedule
    2. The League office will post the next season's division schedule during the offseason
    3. This will give all teams a schedule with 4 Home division games, 4 Away division games, 2 Home "OPEN" weeks, 2 Away "OPEN" Weeks, and one Neutral Site "OPEN" Week, all randomized through weeks 1-13

D.   Match-ups foreach team's 5 "OPEN"  Weeks will be the responsibility of each Franchise Owner to schedule among each other in coordination with the League Office in the Pre-Season Period before each season

    1. A Master Schedule Page will be posted and maintained showing all franchises' schedules and available open weeks
    2. Franchise owners must email one another to agree to a match-up in the coming season and to agree on which week that match-up will take place (according to availability), which team will be HOME and which team will be AWAY and then notify the League Office for the Master Schedule to be updated
    3. All 5 "OPEN" Weeks must be vs non-divisional opponents
    4. Teams may not play an out of division oponent more than one time per season
    5. Before each season's draft takes place, Open Scheduling will be closed and teams that have open dates remaining will be matched at random with other teams that have remaining open dates

 

Playoffs -The playoff structure has been updated slightly:

XII    Playoffs and Payouts

 

C.     AFFL Playoffs will be held in Weeks 14-16 with 8 teams qualifying for advancement to the post season

    1. Playoffs will be an 8 team, fixed. single elimination bracket, culminating in a League Championship Game
      1. "8 Team" = (See SEC XII.D)
      2. "fixed" = Bracket is seeded one time (first round) and winning teams advance along their arm of the bracket without a reseeding in the second round
      3.  "single elimination" = Once a team loses one time, they are eliminated from the post season (except in the case of the 3rd/4th Place Game, (SEE Sec XII.G.3)
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C.     AFFL Playoffs will be held in Weeks 14-16 with 8 teams qualifying for advancement to the post season

    1. Playoffs will be an 8 team, resetting. single elimination bracket, culminating in a League Championship Game
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D.     The Playoff Bracket will be populated by the following 8 teams:

    • The 4 Division Champions
    • The top two teams in the league by overall W-L-R record (Weeks 1-13) after the 4 Division Champions
    • The top two teams by total points (Weeks 1-13) after the 4 Division Champions and the top two teams by record

 

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D.     Playoff Seeds

    1. Seed #1 - Division Champion with best W-L Record (Standings Tiebreakers in effect)
    2. Seed #2 - Division Champion with second best W-L Record (Standings Tiebreakers in effect)
    3. Seed #3 - Division Champion with third best W-L Record (Standings Tiebreakers in effect)
    4. Seed #4 - Division Champion with fourht best W-L Record (Standings Tiebreakers in effect)
    5. Seed #5 - Standings Wild Card #1 - Team with the best W-L record (Standinigs Tiebreakers in effect) among the 16 other teams
    6. Seed #6 - Points Wild Card #1 - Team with the highest season total points score (Total Points Tiebreakers in effect) among the 15 remaining teams
    7. Seed #7 - Standings Wild Card #2 - Team with the best W-L record (Standinigs Tiebreakers in effect) among the 14 remaining teams
    8. Seed #8 - Points Wild Card #2 - Team with the highest season total points score (Total Points Tiebreakers in effect) among the 13 remaining teams

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E.     Bracket Seeding will be as follows:

    1. Teams will be ranked #1 - #8 based on overall, Regular Season (Weeks 1-13) total W-L-T records, Standings Tiebreakers in effect (SEE Sec XIII.D)
    2. The #1 Seeded Team receives the option of choosing their Round 1 opponent from the other 7 playoff teams (Match-Up#1)
      1. Should the #1 seeded team decline to choose their opponent, they will be paired against the #8 seeded team
    3. The remaining 6 teams will be matched against opponents by their Original Seeding as follows:
      1. Match-Up #2 - Highest vs Lowest
      2. Match-Up #3 - Second Highest vs Second Lowest
      3. Match-Up #4 - Third Highest vs Third Lowest
    4. Round 1 Match-Up #1 and #3 will be in the top arm of the playoff bracket, and Match-Up #2 and #4 will be in the bottom arm

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E.     Bracket Seeding

    1. The #1 Seeded Team receives the option of choosing their Round 1 opponent from the 4 Wild Card teams (Seeds #5-#8)
      1. Should the #1 seeded team decline to choose their opponent, they will be paired against the #8 seeded team
    2. Seeds # 2, #3, and # 4 will be matched in Round 1 against the remaining Wild Card teams by highest vs lowest seed

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F.   Round 1 will be held in Week 14, with the 4 winners advancing along the fixed bracket where they will face each other in Round 2 (Week 15)

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F.   Round 1 (Week 14)

    1. Division Champions (Seeds #1, #2, #3, and #4) will be designated Home Team
    2. Wild Card teams (Seeds #5, #6, #7, and #8) will be designated Away Team and will receive a -4 point handicap on the game scoreboard
    3. The four winning teams advance to round 2 (week 15)

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G.     Round 2 (Week 15)

    1. The four winners from Round 1 will be matched based on their original playoff seeding - highest vs lowest
    2. The two higher seeded teams will be designated Home Team for the Round 2 match-up
    3. The two lower seeded teams will be designated Away team for the Round 2 match-up and will incur a -2 point handicap on the game scoreboard
    4. The two winning teams advance to the AFFL Championship (Association Bowl)

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G.    Championship Game will be held in Week 16 between the two winning teams advancing from Round 2 (Week 15)

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H.     Championship Game (Association Bowl)

    1. Will be held in Week 16 between the two winning teams advancing from Round 2 (Week 15)
    2. The Association Bowl is held at a neutral site and neither team will receive a handicap

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I.     League Champion (1st Place) will be the winner of this Week 16 Match-up and will win $500.00(US)

    1. The League Runner-Up (2nd Place) will be the loser of this Week 16 Match-up and will win $250.00(US)
    2. Simultaneous to the Championship Game , a 3rd/4th Place Game will be held in Week 16 between the two losing teams from Round 2, and the Winner of this Game (3rd Place) will win $150.00(US) while the Loser of this Game (4th Place) will win $100.00(US)

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I.     League Champion (1st Place) will be the winner of this Week 16 Match-up and will win $430.00(US)

    1. The League Runner-Up (2nd Place) will be the loser of this Week 16 Match-up and will win $200.00(US)
    2. Simultaneous to the Championship Game , a 3rd/4th Place Game will be held in Week 16 between the two losing teams from Round 2, and the Winner of this Game (3rd Place) will win $150.00(US) while the Loser of this Game (4th Place) will win $100.00(US)
      1. This is a Neutral-Site Game with no team receiving a scoring handicap
    3. Also Simultaneous to the Championship Game, a 5th/8th Place and 6th/7th Place Game will be held in Week 16
      1. These two games will be held between the four losing teams from Round 1 with match-ups being the Highest Playoff Seed vs Lowest Playoff Seed and Second Highest Playoff Seed vs Second Lowest Playoff Seed 
      2. These are Neutral-Site Games with no teams receiving a scoring handicap
      3. The two winners of these games will be ranked 5th and 6th place and will win $60.00(US) each

 

Payouts

Section III.D

D.     Payouts

    1.      $1000 League Prize Pool will be divided by the following:
      1. 1st Place (League Champion) $500.00(US)
      2. 2nd Place(League Runner-Up) $250.00(US)
      3. 3rd Place $150.00 (US)
      4. 4th Place $100.00 (US)
      5. 5th Place $50.00 (US)
      6. NOTE:     3rd and 4th places will be determined by the outcome of a 3rd vs 4th place game in week 16 to be held simultaneously with the League Championship; 5th place will be determined by the highest scoring loser of the playoff opening round (field of 8) (SEE Sec XII.F and G)

       2.     The remainder of the sum used to pay hosting fees ($200.00 pool) - whatever that amount may be - will make up the High Score Prize Pool and will be awarded in its entirety to the team with the Regular Season High Score , regardless of playoff outcome

      1. NOTE:  "Regular Season High Score" will be defined as the highest single week score posted by any team during the weeks 1-13
      2. In the event that there is a tie, Regular Season High Score Tiebreakers will be in effect (SEE Sec XIII.B)

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D.     Payouts

    1.      $1000 League Prize Pool will be divided by the following:
      1. 1st Place (League Champion) $430.00(US)
      2. 2nd Place(League Runner-Up) $200.00(US)
      3. 3rd Place $150.00 (US)
      4. 4th Place $100.00 (US)
      5. 5th Place $60.00 (US)
      6. 6th Place $60.00 (US)
      7. NOTE:     3rd and 4th places will be determined by the outcome of a 3rd vs 4th place game in week 16 to be held simultaneously with the League Championship; 5th and 6th places will be determined by 5th and 6th place games between the four Playoff Round 1 losers to be held simultaneously with the League Championship

       2.     The remainder of the sum used to pay hosting fees ($200.00 pool) - whatever that amount may be - will make up the High Score Prize Pool and will be awarded as follows:

    1. ONE HALF (of the total dollar sum) of the High Score Prize Pool will be awarded to the team with the best Regular Season High Score
      1. NOTE:  "Regular Season High Score" will be defined as the highest single week score posted by any team during the weeks 1-13
      2. Tiebreaker for determining Regular Season High Score Contest Winner - if there is a tie for the highest Regular Season single game score will be the highest scoring individual player among the starting line-up of the game in question, between the teams that have tied.  If a player on both teams tie high scores, then tiebreaker proceeds to next highest scoring player, and so on unitl a winner is produced.
    2. The OTHER HALF (of the total dollar sum) of the High Score Prize Pool will be awarded to the team with the best Regular Season Total Score
      1. NOTE: "Regular Season Total Score" will be defined as the highest scoring total posted by any team for all regular season weeks (1-13) combined
      2. Tiebreaker for determining Regular Season Total Score - if there is a tie between two or more teams for the Regular Season Scoring Total, tiebreakers for Total Points Ties for determining Points Wild Card Spots (Playoff Seeds #6 and #8) will be used (Section XIII.E)
    3.      Both of these prizes are stand-alone prizes and can be won by any team, regardless of playoff disposition or regular season win-loss outcome, and either or both prizes can be won by any team, even the same team for both

 

Tiebreakers

Section XIII

Division Champion:

OLD:

  1. Head to head record
  2. Division record
  3. Record vs common out of division opponents
  4. Total points
  5. Total (cumulative) head to head points
  6. Total (cumulative) points vs all division opponents
  7. Total (cumulative) points scored by kicker in head to head games
  8. Length of longest field goal kicked by starting kicker in head to head games
  9. Length of longest field goal kicked by starting kicker in Regular Season
  10. Coin flip

NEW:

  1. Head to head record
  2. Division record
  3. Total points
  4. Total (cumulative) head to head points
  5. Total (cumulative) points vs all division opponents
  6. Total (cumulative) points scored by kicker in head to head games
  7. Total (cumulative) points scored by kicker in division games
  8. Length of longest field goal kicked by starting kicker in head to head games
  9. Length of longest field goal kicked by starting kicker in Regular Season
  10. Coin flip

Standings Ties

OLD:

D.     Order of tiebreakers for Standings Ties in determining seeding for Playoff Bracket are as follows:

    1. Head to head record
    2. Total Points
    3. Total (cumulative) head to head points
    4. Division record
    5. Total (cumulative) points vs all division opponents
    6. Total (cumulative) points scored by kicker in head to head games
    7. Total (cumulative) points scored by kicker in Regular Season games
    8. Length of longest field goal kicked by starting kicker in head to head games
    9. Length of longest field goal kicked by starting kicker in Regular Season
    10. Coin flip

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D.     Order of tiebreakers for Standings Ties in determining seeding for Playoff Bracket (Division Champions, Seeds #1-#4) and for the Standings Wild Card Spots (Playoff Seeds #5 and 7) are as follows:

    1. Head to head record (if only 2 teams are tied)
    2. Total Points
    3. Division record
    4. Away Record
    5. Home Record
    6. Neutral Site Record
    7. Total Season Special Teams Points
    8. Total (cumulative) points scored by kicker in Regular Season games
    9. Length of longest field goal kicked by starting kicker in Regular Season
    10. Coin flip

A new set of tiebreakers for Points Wild Card have been added:

E.   Order of tiebreakers for Total Points Ties for determining Points Wild Card Spots (Playoff Seeds #6 and #8)

  1. Head to head record (if only 2 teams are tied)
  2. Cumulative head to head points
  3. Average of 5 highest individual game scores
  4. Average of 10 highest individual game scores
  5. Average of 5 lowest individual game scores
  6. Average of 10 lowest individual game scores
  7. Total Season Special Teams Points
  8. Total (cumulative) points scored by kicker in Regular Season games
  9. Length of longest field goal kicked by starting kicker in Regular Season
  10. Coin flip