League Rules

Welcome to The Decades Budget League

League Premise:
-A 16 team league of NFL Franchises.
-Budget style drafting.
-No Owner will repeat building a franchise until he has used all.

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Stay informed please. Especially when we get to post season and nearing off season and draft. Please pre rank if you won't be around near your turn. Franchise draft usually doesn't take long. If you get auto picked w/out pre ranking I will put that franchise back in the pool and you will have to move to the back of the draft. Not being a hard ass it's just a pain to assign an owner with a franchise they didn't want. So a pick at the end is a good compromise IMO.
If you pick a franchise for the 2nd time the same rule will apply. You will pick at the end with that franchise still available.

Initial Season
-A random draft will be held to chose franchise used for first season.
-All subsequent drafts will be in reverse order of finish. (League champion drafts last. Runner up 15th. The rest reverse order of reg season finish.


For some franchise clarification:
If you pick the Browns you lose the Ravens unless you pick the Browns post 2000. They are separate. I don't think anyone will. iff you have used the Browns pre 2000, you lose the Ravens until it goes around again. I hope we are playing that long.

Season Play
- 21 game schedule
-2 Conferences. NFC and AFC
-2 Divisions in each conference.
-4 teams per division

-Playoffs
-8 teams total. 4 per conference
-Division winners plus 2 W.C in each conference.
-WC are the 2 teams with the best record not division winners.
-Division winners are home team. Best record in conference #1 seed. Other division winner is #2 seed.
-All tie breakers are H2H first. If still tied, best conference record. If 2 teams are tied and are in same division then best division record breaks first tie. (In case more than 2 teams are tied for a WC. Must break tie within division first) Final tie breaker is P.C. power ranking).

Games
-Each team will play division opponents 3 times. =9 games
-Each team plays other division teams 2 times. = 8 games.
-Each team plays four out of conference games =4 games. Total 21 games.
-Commissioner will manually create schedule each season.

Budget Style Draft
-275 AV budget

Budget Bonus
-Champ gets a 10AV Bonus the following season when drafting new team.
-Division winners and Super Bowl runner up get 5 AV Bonus the following season. (If runner up was a division winner bonus is 5 AV max. No double bonus. This way if a WC makes the title game they get at least a 5 AV bonus. If WC wins title the total bonus is 10 AV. No bonus bigger than 10 AV.
This bonus is for the following season only and does not carry over to a 3rd season.

-Following Seasons

Season 2 the player pool will be 1970-1979
Season 3 the player pool will be 1980-1989
Season 4 the player pool will be 1990-1999
Season 5 the player pool will be 2000-2009
Season 6 the player pool will be 2010-2020
Season 7 the player pool will be 2016-2025
Season 8 the player pool will be 1970 2025 (same as season 1 plus 2025)
season 9 will start over at season 2 and continue.

-remember
Remember not to draft the same franchise until you have used them all. Unless as we get to the end it is impossible to do so. I may have to assign franchises as we get 20+ seasons played. Ravens owner may not draft Baltimore Colts. I know it's the same franchise but it keeps it things simple. Titans can't draft Oilers. Indy Colts may not draft Baltimore Colts. Technically they are different franchises, (Colts) but again let's try and keep this aspect simple. Commanders owners may not draft Redskins.

-Other rules may follow as needed.

League Settings

Year Range of Stats	1990 - 1999
Roster Size	50
Rules	Pro (NFL)
Two Point Conv	Yes
Defense	Draft Individual Players
O-Line	Draft Individual Players
Keepers
Change Stats Allowed
Free Agency
Drops
No-Drop List
Injuries	(1 games max)
Player Training	(1 schedule days)
User Sims