SPFL Constitution & Bylaws

Sociable Pine Football League 2022

Keeper League Transition Year

League Homepage: https://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/67268

Commissioner Blog: http://www.commissionerperry.com

Commissioner:

Fees:     $50 per team, due prior to the draft, check or cash

              Kangaroo court fines possible, based upon ignorance or insolence

League Accounting:        $ 400 – SPFL Super Bowl Champion

                                           $ 150 – SPFL Super Bowl Runner-up

                                           $   50 – SPFL Third Place

                                           $ 600 – ($50 x 12 teams)

Draft:    Sunday, August 28, 2022, 2:00 pm first draft pick: The draft will be live and online. Draft order will be drawn and announced prior to the draft. The draft will consist of SEVENTEEN rounds, with each round being the inverse of the previous round (a “serpentine” draft, i.e., if you pick last in round 1, you pick first in round 2). The draft timer will be 90 seconds this year.

Roster: Each team’s 17 roster spots may consist of whatever the heck you want it to, but the weekly lineup requirements are as follows…

Lineups: A weekly starting lineup of 1 QB, 2 RBs, 2 WRs, 1 TE, 2 “FLEX” (may be RB/WR/TE), and 1 D/ST is to be selected for your team and input on the league website by the team owner. A player becomes “locked” at kickoff of their game that week, so you must choose to start them before the game begins – whether a Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, or Monday game. With nine starting positions and seventeen roster spots, you may have up to eight bench players/defenses BUT we no longer utilize an injured reserve. If you want to keep an injured player on your roster, they must fill one of your bench positions.

Waivers/Free Agents: Teams are allowed to make up to fifty (50) waiver moves per season. However, it is your responsibility as team owner to put in the request via the league homepage. Just like last year, waivers will be processed on a nightly basis during the season on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. A dropped player is ineligible to be picked up for two days. There is no seasonal deadline on waivers/free agents. (In other words, you can make free agent acquisitions throughout the postseason … within the same 50 moves limitation.)

NOTE: I am granting ONE freebie transaction per franchise between our draft date and the first game of the NFL season (Thursday, September 6th). This will allow owners to recover from bone-headed mistakes or a catastrophic preseason injury to a marquee player.

Trades: Trade “bait” may be posted on the league website or negotiations may occur privately between owners, but once agreed upon, a trade is formally proposed by the owners on the website and requires commissioner approval to prevent any shenanigans. If you have a trade “in place”, please let me know in case I’ve not noticed it online. Trade deadline: Saturday, November 12^th, 10pm EST.

If you have trouble with either of these tasks or questions about the process, feel free to let me know and I’ll do my best to help.

Keepers: In order to spice things up a little and because we are all such seasoned owners now, I have decided to transition the SPFL into what’s called a keeper league. I’m still learning the process so I may not have all the answers or wrinkles ironed out but here’s the idea in a nutshell:

AFTER this season, each team can elect to keep up to two players from this upcoming year’s roster on next year’s team. I am announcing this now because it is conceivable that knowing this is coming could affect your draft strategy this year (e.g., do I want to draft Aaron Rodgers early, knowing that he may be hosting Jeopardy next season or wait and try to get Trevor Lawrence in a later round, knowing that he’s just getting started in his career?).

Two important caveats: Free agents/waiver acquisitions are not eligible to become a keeper. The player to be kept must have been drafted. Players that were acquired via trade AND were drafted by their original team ARE eligible to be kept. Why? That’s the second caveat. If you elect to keep a player, the cost will be the corresponding draft pick next year minus one round. For example, if you take Trevor Lawrence in round 11 and decide to keep him next year, you will be forfeiting your 10^th round draft pick next season. (11^th round pick MINUS one round = 10^th round pick). This also carries over if said player is traded by one team to another. This rule also tells us the obvious – first round draft picks are not eligible to be “kept”.

And one final rule, the maximum number of years that a player can be “kept” is two seasons after being initially drafted (i.e., three total years on one team before going back into the draft pool). This prevents an imbalance if, say, someone drafted a magical, break out rookie in round 15 and would then be able to keep them for their entire career. Teams will have to publicly announce their keepers one week before next year’s draft.  

I hope this doesn’t confuse or given anyone anxiety, I’m just trying to keep things interesting and keep us invested all year long. Please let me know if you have any questions.  

Communication:  Contact information for each team and owner(s) is located on the league website. When contacting the commissioner, please use text or email if possible. This provides written documentation of the time and content. However, phone calls are acceptable, as needed.

Articles, etc.: In addition, after much encouragement (and disenchantment with last year’s Yahoo restricted product), I have started a blog. This is where I will post my weekly recap articles of SPFL action and anything else that might electrify my gray matter. All league business will still be carried out on our league Yahoo page, so if you’re not interested in my nonsense, you’re free to ignore it, but if you are itching for some Commissioner-penned ramblings, it will be found at …. www.commissionerperry.com. I have no idea what I’m doing in terms of running a website, so it may be like the Cowboys and be a steamy pile of something, but I do hope to see you all there somewhere along the way.  

Schedule/Playoffs: After the draft, the twelve teams will be randomly placed into two conferences, the Tommy Boy and the Matt Foley (obviously in honor of Chris Farley, incomparable American thespian, and namesake of our league championship trophy – The Farley).

A 14-week regular season schedule is randomly generated by the league software, with teams playing conference rivals twice and three random cross conference teams. At the end of the regular season, the two conference champions will have definitely earned a playoff bye, having out-managed five other battle hardened SPFL owners (meaning, yes, they will only be one victory from the SPFL Super Bowl).  

In addition, there will be four wild card teams. The divisions’ second place teams will be playoff seeds #3 and #4. Playoff seeds #5 and #6 will be the top two total point scoring teams remaining (regardless of division or record). Winners will advance to play division winners according to their original playoff seeding. A three-week postseason will culminate with the SPFL Super Bowl being played in NFL Week 17 (remember there are 18 weeks to the NFL season now).

There will be a Consolation Bowl this year with the winner recouping his/her entry fee.  

Scoring System:

              Individual Offensive Players (QB, RB, WR, TE)

• Touchdowns Thrown:
  • 1-39 yards – 4 points
  • 40+ yards – 6 points
• Touchdowns Scored of:
  • 1-39 yards – 4 points
  • 40+ yards – 6 points
• Two Point Conversion:
  • Thrown, caught, or scored – 2 points
• Yards Rushing:
  • 1 point for every ten yards rushing
• Rushing Attempts:
  • 0.1 points for each rushing attempt
• Yards Passing:
  • 1 point for every twenty-five yards passing
• Yards Receiving:
  • 1 point for every ten yards receiving
• Receptions:
  • 1 point for each reception
• Interceptions Thrown:
  • MINUS 1 point for each
  • MINUS 4 points for each “pick six” thrown
• Kickoff or Punt Return Touchdowns:
  • 6 points for each individual player touchdown
• Kickoff or Punt Return Yards:
  • 1 point for every ten yards of return yardage by any individual offensive player
• Quarterback Sacks:
  • MINUS 1 point for each time your quarterback is sacked
• Fumbles Lost:
  • MINUS 1 point for each fumble lost

Team Defense/Special Teams

• Yardage Allowed:
  • Negative Yardage: 15 points
  • 0-99 yards: 12 points
  • 100-199 yards: 8 points
  • 200-299 yards: 5 points
  • 300-399 yards: 1 point
  • 400-499 yards: MINUS 1 point
  • 500+ yards: MINUS 3 points
• Points Allowed:
  • Shutout: 15 points
  • 1-6: 12 points
  • 7-13: 8 points
  • 14-20: 5 points
  • 21-27: 1 point
  • 28-34: 0 points
  • 35+: MINUS 4 points
• Fourth Down Stop:
  • 1 point for each
• Three & Outs Forced:
  • 0.5 point for each

• Touchdown Scored:
  • Defensive/Special Teams Touchdown – 6 points
• Safety:
  • 2 points each
• Sacks:
  • 1 point each
• Interceptions/Fumble Recoveries:
  • 2 points each
• Blocked Field Goal, Punt, or Extra Point:
  • 2 points each

Tie Breakers:     For divisional standings, it is (1) overall record, (2) head to head competition (if only two teams are tied), (3) total points scored, (4) divisional record, and (5) “power ranking” (mfl.com feature).  But remember, fifth and sixth playoff teams are TOP SCORING TEAMS REGARDLESS OF RECORD OR DIVISION. For regular season games, ties are broken by total bench scoring. For playoff games, “home field advantage” is the tiebreaker, i.e., higher seeded team wins the tie.

Disputes: Any questionable, unclear rulings fall under the ultimate jurisdiction of … you guessed it, the Commissioner.