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The Official Rulebook of the ★NFL★
[Table of Contents] (Ctrl+F to search for a topic)
1. Salary Caps
2. Free Agency and Draft Information
3. Player Terms and Conditions
4. Coach Terms and Conditions
5. Game Day Requirements
6. Trades
7. NFL Website
8. Regular Season Scheduling
9. Playoff Seeding
10. Playoff Tiebreakers
11. Admin Members
12. Use of Admin
13. Player Age Requirement
14. In Game Rules
15. Miscellaneous
16. Disclaimer
★Salary Caps★
Now, for S4 I am implementing something never before seen in Ro-Football, which is using "fake money" to pay players. The reason I am implementing this into the league is to break away from overpowered teams. For example, if at the end of the season, every elite F/A all go to the Seahawks, they'd be unstoppable. So since I'm putting a price on things, it'll limit how many elite players can be on 1 team, and will make HC's rethink signing a player. Every franchise will get a new amount of cap space every offseason, if the team did good last season, they get less space. If they did worse, they get more cap space. The least amount you can offer a player is 500K, pricing goes up by 50K. So you can't offer someone, let's say, 126K. It has to be 500K, 550K, 600K, etc. This is to make the numbers easier to calculate and less confusion. If a AC+ offers an amount to a player, and EB+ thinks it's a lowball offer, then we have the power to undo or reject the signing. And might I add that if a player is released, the team gets 50% of the amount they paid the player. We will keep track of how much each player is paid by making a public leaderboard on the NFL Website. This will range from the highest paid player in the league, to the lowest. Use this as a scale to see who the most and least skilled players in the league are. These leaderboards will also be used in the crowning of awards, and the forming of Pro Bowl Rosters in the postseason. The way we'll do this is we'll take the highest paid players in each conference, and place them on their respective conference Pro Bowl Rosters. Same with the awards, the highest paid players will will be nominated for awards. If a player was bad early in the season and got paid for a low amount, with the aid of EB+, the player can re-negotiate a higher contract if you get better later in the season. So basically if you're not paid alot, don't expect alot in return.
★Free Agency and Draft Information★
Every offseason, there will be a F/A Combine, Rookie Combine, F/A Week, and a Draft. The F/A Combine is available for anyone that has recently been on an NFL team to be noticed and get signed during F/A Week. F/A Week is when all players are released from their team and are able to sign with anyone they want to. The Rookie Combine is available to anyone new to the league, and which are available to be drafted. This event will help rookies get a fresh look into the league. NFL Assistant Coaches or higher may sign, drop, and trade players for their team. To sign a player, a AC+ may post a offer on the league wall and the player has to accept on the league wall. Any signings will HAVE to be posted officially on the NFL Transaction Group, as it will hold documented proof of the signing. The Head Coach can also veto/reverse any action made by the Assistant Coaches, as long as it is within 24 hours. To add onto this, in the offseason, every HC of their team will be given 3 Franchise Tags to use. These tags give HC's the power to automatically resign a player free of charge, and lock them onto their team for the upcoming season. You CANNOT tag the same player 2 seasons in a row. If the HC does not want to tag anyone, they can cash in a Franchise Tag(s) for 5 Mil a piece.
★Player Terms and Conditions★
Upon joining a team either as a player, you will not be able to join or tryout for any other NFL team. You will not be able to play for other teams while participating in one already. You are limited to only one NFL team. If you would like to join a different NFL team, you can ask the Head Coach of your team to release you. If the Head Coach agrees, he will release you on the wall. From there, the player can sign with any team who offers the player a contract. If the Head Coach denies the player to leave the team, the player must stay on the team. If the player really would like to leave the team, the player can appeal to the Commissioner and he will either approve or deny the appeal. If approved, the player will be removed from the team and placed on the “Free Agent” ranking. The following methods of leaving a team will not be allowed and will result in a suspension whose length will be determined by the Commissioner (The suspension will be terminated if the act is undone):
Method One: Fake Retiring: If a player leaves a team while the player still has years left on the players contract, the player may not join another team for a minimum of one seasons.
Method Two: Resigning: If a player resigns from the league altogether, the player will not be able to rejoin a team for a minimum of one league seasons.
★Coach Terms and Conditions★
★NFL★ Coaches don't really follow the same policy as players do; if they leave in the middle of a season, they are automatically put on the team they used to Head Coach and is put as a player. That former Head Coach may leave the former team at the end of the season. The only way for a Head Coach to leave a team without being stuck on it for the rest of the season, would be to resign during the offseason. Although if the HC is a veteran coach of that team, they have the ability to leave with the cost of no charge.
★Game Day Requirements★
If a team does not have atleast 6 players during the day of a game the team will automatically forfeit the game. If a team uses players that are suspended or are not on their team they will automatically forfeit unless said so by the Commissioner. It may also be noted that on gameday, no transactions may be made until 12:00 AM EST (midnight). The only ways a game can be postponed are exploitation and Commissioner postponement.
★Trades★
Two teams can choose to trade players between one another. The trade deadline will start at the beginning of Week 6 of that season. When players are traded, their value of their contract will have to be negotiated with their new Head Coach. But there are rules to these negotiations, as you cannot sign a new contract where you are paid 50% below your old one.
★NFL Website★
This is where most of NFL should usually be on a daily basis. Here we have all the news of the NFL, such as predictions, rosters, trade block, etc.
★Regular Season Scheduling★
There will be 8 Weeks in a Regular Season of NFL. 5 In-Conference games, where a team will play their In-Conference rivals. And 3 randomly chosen Out Of-Conference teams to play.
★Playoff Seeding★
The four best teams from each Conference will advance to the playoffs. The 1st seed will play the 4th seed, and the 2nd seed will play the 3rd seed. There will be no bye weeks or "home-field advantages".
★Playoff Tiebreakers★
If there should be a tie between teams in the playoffs, the following will decide which team will get into the playoffs:
1. Best won-lost-tied percentage in games played within the conference.
(ex. Team 1: 4-9 Team 2: 5-8 | Team 2 is ahead of Team 1)
2. Head-to-head (best won-lost-tied percentage in games between the clubs).
(ex. Team 1: Beat Team 2 twice | Team 1 is ahead of Team 2)
3. Best won-lost-tied percentage in common games.
(ex. Team 1: Beat Teams 3, 4, 6 Team 2: Beat Team 3, 4, Lost to Team 6| Team 1 is ahead of Team 2)
If all else fails, the Commissioner will decide with aid of the EB+.
★Admin Members★
Referees will manage the game aspect of the league. You can see a list of all the game rules further down. Executive Board Members are admins that help the league as a whole. They aren't powerful individually, but all together can be a great force when determining rule changes, ranks, etc. If any Executive Board Member "AA's" please report it to the Commissioner. Co-Commissioners are the Commissioners right hand man(s). They are like a Commissioner, but with less power and can be overruled by the Commissioner. The Commissioner shall own every team’s group. He shall choose a maximum of two assistants to help him. Any questions you have should be directed to the Commissioner.
★Use Of Admin★
The use of admin should be for helpful purposes. There is NO tolerance for abusing your admin rights. Doing so will lead to demotion, and possible suspension/exile.
★Player Age Requirement★
Players in the NFL must be atleast 100 days old. If they are under, they must prove that they are not an alt. Any player above 100 days old may be considered an alt if evidence is found.
★In Game Rules★
1. No “:m”ing during a game unless it is halftime or there is a timeout called.
2. The offense must wait until the playlock hits "25" seconds to snap the ball. The only exception to this rule is in the final two minutes of the 2nd and 4th quarters. Failure to do so will result in a five yard penalty. (If the clock is stopped in the last 2 minutes of the 2nd or 4th quarter, then the 15 second rule still applies.)
3. The Player must snap it in the pocket (in between hashes). Failure to do so will result in a 5 yard penalty.
4. The QB must snap it inside 15 yards of the LoS and outside 5 yards of the LoS. Failing to do so will result in a 5 yard penalty.
5. NFL games must be atleast 6v6, if there are more players on the field than the designated value, it is a -5 yard penalty.
6. Every player of each team MUST play a minimum time limit of 2 minutes each game. If not followed for 2-3 games, the designated player that's being underplayed will have a option to leave the team with no punishment. If the problem of underplaying players continues, the team may lose contract space and/or draft picks. (NOTE: This rule is in construction, don't bother with it unless stated.)
7. Any ingame glitches such as getting sacked in the endzone and it not counting as a safety, getting a int but the downs not getting turned over, anything along those lines must be fixed. For example, x back, add/remove points, etc.
8. Tails, Swordpacks, Wings, Picture frames, and any package that changes it to where you can't see your jersey is prohibited. If any player has any of these on, tell them to change or else they must be taken out of the game.
9. Anything that affects gameplay externally (such as macros, hacks, exploits, etc.) are banned and any player who creates this act will be banned from the game and suspended.
10. If a player trolls in-game (such as turning the ball over, hiking the ball without permission, etc.), the ball is x'ed back (if turnover) or the yards are regained. That specific player is then suspended for the remainder of the season
11. Dunking behind the LoS (Line of Scrimmage) before the ball is thrown is banned, doing so results in a respawn and a -5 yard penalty.
12. Doing anything as to cheat the system, such as backspacing the ball oob during a kickoff to gain extra yards, or anything of that sort is prohibited. If an illegal kick happens, the offense is moved back to the 20.
13. If there was a fumble or interception in the endzone, and the person possessing the ball never leaves the endzone, but it's still called a safety, then the safety is called back and the team that got the turnover gets the ball at the 20.
14. DE's using their exclusive armbands to rush, roll, and sack a QB is banned from games. If a DE is found rolling, they are given a warning, if it happens again, they cannot DE anymore that game.
★Miscellaneous★
Numerical values of this rulebook may be changed as the league grows or shrinks.
★DISCLAIMER★
Anything written above may be changed at any time. It is NOT written in stone.
~Franky264, ★NFL★ Commissioner |