ANY potential NEW Team owner MUST send a PM with your application or get an automatic rejection.

Everyone who is in this league owns it, it's OUR league and to keep it fun and honest want people to be respectful.
We've seen other leagues where name calling etc has gotton out of hand, and then people leave. Whilst I do want to encourage healthy rivalry can we please keep it clean.

Trades

Keep it fair.

I Have now turned off the trade meter which means any trade can now go through. The reason for this is because sometimes one team in a trade values a player or picks differently to another, player weights can also skew the meter . In short it makes trading easier.
....................................................................................I can reverse a trade trade though.

If anyone has any concerns about a trade please let me know.

Trading with new players to the game, we all made mistakes when we first started , but we don't want to See noobies having the **** taken out of them, specifically trading older players for high draft picks, yes the broken trade meter says it's fair but unless you're making a SB push this type of trade will be scrutinised.


After a lot of thought I'm bringing in a new ruling....

- No team can carry more than 3 x 1st round picks.


My reasoning for this rule is that many people look forward to drafting and if they've had a rough season a high(ish) 1st round pick can go someway to help improve your team, there is noting to stop you trading your rookie #1 pick, so long as you don't go over the 3 x 1st round picks in the same year.
Other reasons are it also helps keep parity within the league and encourages teams to value their picks more and be more cautious with trading. Too many times I've seen owners use up all their valuable draft picks in rebuilds only to then abandon their team and leave it in a mess, this makes teams look unattractive to would be new owners.

So this is what you are allowed to carry entering the draft:
Round 1 - 3 picks only
Round 2 - 3 picks only
Round 3 - 4 picks only
Rounds 4 - 7 unlimited.
(If you are over these limits, trades will be reversed to get you under the quota. However if a team has been left by a previous owner in a bad state I will waive these limits for one draft.)

Tanking
I really hope that no one goes 0 - 16 and I think that if anyone does then as a league we'll have to look as to why.
I was in the 7 5 league which is really well run with all the owners contributing and one of the features there is to be active, both in your own team and within the community. If anyone were to tank in there, they would be booted subject to a league discussion.

JETS...****,****,****!
Am I booted? I mean...let's be truthful here. ;)

Not for speaking the truth. Still not as bad as your lot though ;)

Trade rules updated.

OP updated:

2005 is for Die Hards as we've already had our 2005 draft. If it's like DH, it will be the 2007 draft.

I am not the fan of this rule for obvious reason but I respect our Commish a lot plus agree we need to have everyone value their pick a lot.

In full disclosure in 2006 I own 4 1st round pick so this rule will have impact....but to make it fair and allowing commish to implement this rule I am willing to switch 2006 Oakland 1st round for 2007 or 2008 Oakland first round providing Commish want to implement this rule and Raider agree to switch....

Only for respect of Commish and Health of this league Bucs are ready to help....

Thanks, you got to this before I could edit my copy/paste job :)

Thank you, you are OK and don't need to do anything :)
You can still load up on 2nd round picks though and TBH will hopefully work out better for you as they tend to not bust as much., you would still have 3 x 1st rounders as well, so its not all that bad :)

I am never worried... will learn the rules and maximize to what's allowed.

I currently have 4 - 1st round pick in 2006 so if you need me to comply I am happy too... as long as Raiders are ok to swap from 2005 to 2006. If you implementing this starting 2007 or allowing me exception for 2006 than we are ok.