SUMMARY:

18 teams, individually named by each owner, organized into four divisions of four teams.

53 man rosters, 10 man IR, 8 man Taxi Squad

22 starters, balanced between offensive positions and defense for realism.  

The balanced MFL Zealot PPR scoring system.

Initial creation of teams combines best elements of auction and draft in this hybrid dynasty league:

Auction 1 - $1000 budget for ebay-like acquisition of 10 offensive players.

Auction 2 - $1000 budget for ebay-like acquisition of 10 defensive players.

Draft - 33 round 3rd round reversal serpentine draft to acquire the remaining players for your roster.

Annual off season draft, auctions and blind bidding waivers.

Every week, last place scoring team is eliminated and the players go back in the FA pool to be bid on until the last team stands.

No Salary Caps or contracts.

Keep ONE active Franchise Tag player each year plus any Taxi squad players

Large prize pools with 100% payouts less MFL league fees of $70/yr approx.

1) League Fees & Prize Money

a) The league fees will be $200 a year.

b) Upon requesting a franchise, payment into leaguesafe is required in full before the commissioner will grant ownership.

c) After the first season, fees will be due on March 1st each year as defined in the league calendar.

d) Failure to meet the payment deadline will result in franchise will be declared orphaned and a new owner being sought.

e) Any concerns about not being able to meet the payment deadline should be communicated to the league commissioner ASAP. Commissioners decision in all circumstances will be considered final.  Commissioners decision in all circumstances will be considered final.

f) 100% of fees (minus yearly costs of myfantasyleague.com) will be paid out.


g) If The final 4 teams will collect the prizes.  The following prize amounts for the pool each year are listed below, less MFL league site fees, are paid out after the championship and the amounts are voted to release via Leaguesafe:
18 Teams x $200= $3,600
1st - $2,000 minus share of MFL fees
2nd - $1,000 minus share of MFL fees
3rd - $400 minus share of MFL fees
4th - $200 minus share of MFL fees

2) Teams, Divisions, and Ownership of Teams

a) The League will consist of 18 teams, all in one division.  

b) The GFFL commissioners at their discretion will grant ownership to the most qualified GM's expressing interest in owning a franchise. It would be nice to see all of our owners return year to year and the league is therefore specifically designed to provide financial incentives for teams to stay for the initial five years, at the very least.

c) Each owner can name their team as they see fit, and select their own graphics for their banner and logo. Division names, significance, and annual realignment is as per Godfather Common Rules.

d) If an owner should choose not to return, the commissioner will find a replacement GM using whatever means necessary to keep the league stable. See common rules for scenarios around how this works.

e) As per Section 11, all new team owners will utilize the Replacement Owners draft options as specified.

3) Rosters, Starting Lineups

a) 53 players will make up an active roster. There are no restrictions regarding the number of players by position, or minimum number of players after the initial draft. The only minimum requirement of a roster is the ability to fulfill the starting lineup requirements.

b) 22 players make up a valid starting Lineup, consisting of the following positions:

1 QB
2 RB
3 WR
1 TE
2 RB/WR/TE Flex
1 PK
1 PN
2 DE
1 DT
3 LB
2 S
2 CB
1 DL/LB/DB Flex

c) Off Season Roster increase: After League Championship game, rosters are increased to 65 via system settings. Approximately 1 week after the last team has fully paid into Leaguesafe OR 1 week after the completion of a replacement owners draft or new owner roster replacement, a blind bid waivers period will be run. Teams may use their BB money, as usual. 48 hours After This Waivers Period, a FCFS (First Come First Served) waivers period will exist for one week. Rosters must be cut down to the league maximum 53 by 5pm on the Monday after the last NFL Preseason game.

4) Injured Reserve

a) Each team will have 10 injury reserve positions on their rosters.  

b) Players declared to be on injured reserve by the official NFL injury report and Myfantasyleague.com (MFL) injury designations can fill these positions.

c) Players must remain on the injured reserve list for the remainder of the current fantasy season.  The only exception to this is a scenario where a player is released from Injured Reserve and the MFL IR designation is lifted.  In this case, the player cannot remain on IR.  To align with what is happening in the NFL, the fantasy team owner must either activate the player or cut the player since he no longer has an IR designation.  This is the only scenario where as commissioners we would allow an IR player to be activated since he is no longer eligible for IR.

d) Trading of players placed on the injured reserve list is allowed.

e) Owners can place players on injured reserve at any time during the current season. To move a player to injured reserve, the owner must use the leagues website to process the transaction.

f) Once a player is on the injured reserve list, the team may acquire a free agent to fill the empty spot on the main roster (in accordance with acquisition rules).

g) All players must be removed from IR by April 1st by either being placed on the active roster or waived by the team owner. All players not activated from IR by 1st of April will be returned to the free agent pool by the commissioner.  In actual practice, the league site will be rolled over ASAP, most likely mid-February to the new year’s version.  At that point, all IR players will be placed on active rosters, and teams could be over the roster limit.  They will then have until March 1 to cut their roster down to the league limit.

5) Regular Season

a) The league season will run from weeks 1-17, teams do not play each other. Instead the last placed team each week is eliminated until only the final two remain.

6) Playoffs

There are no playoffs!!!

Just be the last to survive and take home the biggest prize

7) Inaugural Auctions and Draft

a) During the inaugural season, the auctions will commence per the season calendar.

b) The first auction shall be for offensive players only (IOP).  The second auction shall be for defensive players only (IDP).  The following positional players are ineligible for either auction (Punter, Kicker)

c) The auctions are conducted using $1000 in fictional money to spend.  It will be conducted using the MFL site, and handled similarly to eBay using Proxy Bids.  Each owner will be asked to nominate 2 names. When one of those names is won by any team, they are required to nominate a new player immediately as per Paragon auction rules.   Each team can spend their $1000 on exactly 10 players in each auction.  

After completing the auctions, there shall be no other significance or value on how much they were bid or won for.  The $1000 is solely to allow for a fair auction where each team has an equal chance for each and every player.    The purpose of 2 auctions is to ensure that each team starts off with an equally strong defensive and offensive roster, to minimize future regret or potential abandonment.

d) After the auctions, teams should have a good portion of their starting roster.  At that point, a 33 round draft will fill the remaining roster spots.  As per all Godfather draft leagues, 3rd Round Reversal (3RR) will be utilized. See common rules for more details.

e) Draft order will be the reverse of the rookie draft order

f) All draft picks, when entered into system, will then be available for trading among all teams.

g) Drafts will be 4 hour slow drafts handled via the MFL league website software. Please see common rules for additional information on this regarding times/rules etc.

h) Post Inaugural Draft Fill:  Starting at 6pm on the day AFTER the conclusion of the inaugural veteran draft, the DTS will close, and at that time there will be an initial blind bid waiver run.  Immediately after that, there will be 48 hours of FCFS (first come, first served) waivers.  This is a one-time occurrence allowing all teams to fill their initial rosters, at their leisure, with their best available team, prior to commencing the rest of the preseason.  Please note that any players acquired are NOT eligible for the DTS, so please plan accordingly.  Dates will be finalized in the league calendar.

8) Replacement Owners Draft

See Godfather Common Rule book, Section 12.  54 round draft.

13) Dynasty Taxi Squad Players (DTS)

a) Owners may initially designate 8 rookie players from their team to the Dynasty Taxi Squad (DTS) for development purposes, replacing any openings on the DTS with rookies they draft in future years.

b) Players on the DTS will be in addition to the 53 active roster players.

c) Players may only be placed on the DTS if they were either initially drafted in the draft or in the initial auctions

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d) The team owner is responsible for demoting their selections to the DTS via league software within a week of the conclusion of the draft.

e) The closure of the DTS will always be detailed on the MFL League Calendar.  Once this date has passed, no more demotions to the DTS will be allowed until the following year's drafts begin.

f) Once a player is placed on the DTS, he can remain there for 2 seasons. Besides the ONE Franchised Keeper (see sect. 16), the DTS players are the only players that will remain on the roster for the next season.

g) At the end of their 2nd NFL season, any players who based on this rule who are no longer eligible for the DTS must be placed on the team's active roster or waived. Team owners have until 1st April to do this.

h) Only a rookie in his rookie year can be placed on your DTS, not a 2nd year player who was never on any other roster previously.

i) Once a player is activated from the DTS to the active roster, he is ineligible to return to the DTS. This includes if the player is traded to another franchise or waived and subsequently picked up by another team owner.  

j) Players on the DTS are not eligible to start a game until they are moved onto the active roster.

k) Traded players may be placed on the DTS if they were on the other teams DTS when the trade took place.

l) There is NO activating/signing DTS players from opposing franchises.

14) Free Agent Waivers

a) Any player not on a roster, DTS, or IR are considered a Free Agent.

b) All free agents not selected in the league draft processes are handled by the blind bidding waiver process, utilizing blind bid waiver dollars.

c) All teams will have a Blind Bid Waiver Dollar budget of $1000.

d) The Blind Bid Waiver Dollar budget of $1000 can be traded.  

e) The Blind Bid Waiver Dollar budget of $1000 is for all FA transactions during the league year.

f) At the end of the league year, the balance of the Blind Bid Waiver Dollar budget of $1000 will NOT carry over to next season.

g) Between the end of the draft and the start of the first week 1 game, free agent acquisitions can be made every 2 weeks via the Blind Bid waiver periods as defined in the league calendar.

h) Commencing Week 1 of the NFL regular season and ending at the commencement of Week 1 games, there will be 4 waiver periods each week as defined in the league calendar.

The 1st Blind Bid Waivers period starts from the kickoff of 1pm Sunday games and will end on Wednesday.

The 2nd period will be on a First Come First Served (FCFS) basis. This will run from Wednesday until Thursday evening prior to kick off of Thursday night football.

The 3rd is a Blind Bid Waivers period starting on Thursday and will end on Saturday.

The 4th period will be on a First Come First Served (FCFS) basis. This will run from Saturday until the 1pm kickoff of Sunday games. Please refer to the league calendar for details.

i) There is a $1 minimum on all waiver transactions, whether through blind bidding or FCFS.  Therefore, if you spend all of your budget before the end of the season, you WILL NOT be able to acquire free agents. You may not be able make future roster moves even when an accidental drop has occurred.  Please keep this in mind.

j) From the commencement of Week 17 games, free agent pick-ups will be suspended until the next season.

k) Each team will be able to acquire an unlimited amount of free agents per week/year dependent on roster space limits & Blind Bid Waiver $.

l) Once the owner makes a waiver request, the owner cannot rescind or replace it with another request after the bidding deadline.

m) Free agent waiver requests are to be submitted as per the time frames specified in the league calendar.

15) Trading

a) The trade window is only from the end of the Monday night game until the start of the Thursday night game during the season except from 2 weeks prior to the playoffs, until the completion of the league championship game.  The dates/times this takes affect will be specified in the league calendar.

b) Trading will be allowed between teams that are paid in full for the current season.

c) You may trade a player you have placed on injured reserve, but he will remain on IR for the new team.

d) Trades can involve players & BB money with owners responsible for ensuring trades do not put their teams over the roster limits.

e) You may not trade in the off-season until you have paid for the upcoming year meaning that both teams must be paid up in full to complete a trade.

g) Owners are responsible for responding to trade offers from other owners taking into account the Code of Conduct & Team Ownership Responsibilities specified in the Godfather Common Rule Book.

16) Franchise Player Keepers

Each team is allowed to keep ONE player from their active roster once they are eliminated from the season. Player will need to be posted on the message board immediately (24 hours) and will not be tradable until the conclusion of the season.

17) Timeline of Important Dates

Where possible, all below dates will be specified in the league calendar, which is considered final.

March 1st:

New fantasy season/year begins.

Deadline for teams to pay the following year's dues. (Failure to pay by this date will result in having your franchise being placed on the orphan list.)

Ineligible DTS Players are moved back to their team's active roster or waived

Late April/Early May:

NFL Draft

June 29th☹appx)

Offensive Auction

July 5th: (appx)

July 18th (appx)

Free Agent Blind Bidding Waivers commence.

Dynasty Taxi Squad is closed

Commencement of NFL Week 12 games:

Trading deadline

Commencement of NFL Week 14 games:

Playoffs Begin.

NFL Week 16:

League Super Bowl (championship)

Free Agent Waivers end.

After NFL Week 17:

Current fantasy season ends.

Trading/DTS Activation recommences.

Off Season Roster limit increased to 65.

Fantasy League Off-Season:

After NFL Week 17 to April 1st.

Fantasy League Pre-Season:

April 1st to NFL Week 1

Current Fantasy Season:

NFL Week 1 - NFL Week 17.

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