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.

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.

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.

-Other rules may follow as needed.

League Settings

Year Range of Stats	1970 - 2025
Roster Size	50
Rules	Pro (NFL)
Two Point Conv	Yes
Defense	Draft Individual Players
O-Line	Draft Individual Players
Keepers
Change Stats Allowed	(not allowed while under contract)
Free Agency
Drops
No-Drop List
Injuries	(1 games max)
Player Training	(1 schedule days)
User Sims	(every 24 hours)