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3.2 Roster

3.2.1 Active Roster

Each team is limited to an active roster of 52 players and must have one backup at each position at a minimum. The exceptions to this rule are the special teams positions of punter, place kicker, long snapper and holder, of which you must have at least one of each. Teams will be limited to a total salary of $121 Million, per the values shown by the current version of the Action PC game as currently released.

There is a minimum usage requirement for skill positions as follows for pass attempts, rushing attempts and pass catches for each team:

Pass Attempts - 340 minimum per team (includes anyone with a pass attempt) but no more than 800 per team’s active roster, and no more than 3 active QB’s on any given roster
Rush Attempts - 220 minimum per team (includes anyone with a rush attempt) but no more than 600 per team’s active roster
Pass Catches - 175 minimum per team (includes anyone with a catch) but no more than 600 per team’s active roster

3.2.2 Special Teams Requirements

Kick Return and Punt Return Limits

Any player with 10+ real life Kick Returns can be used as an unlimited Kick Returner during the season.
Any player with 5-10 real life Kick Returns and < 22 ypr, < 50 yard long and 0 TDs can be used as an unlimited Kick Returner during the season.

Any player who is not Unlimited as defined above can only be used for his real life amount plus 25% (for example, if a player had 8 KR in real life, he can use 10 during the ISFL season).

Any player with 10+ real life Punt Returns can be used as an unlimited Punt Returner during the season.
Any player with 5-10 real life Punt Returns and < 8 ypr, < 30 yard long and 0 TDs can be used as an unlimited Punt Returner during the season.

Any player who is not Unlimited as defined above can only be used for his real life amount plus 25% (for example, if a player had 4 PR in real life, he can use 5 during the ISFL season).

3.2.3 Reserve List

Each team may carry a Reserve List squad of up to 3 players. To be eligible for the Reserve List a player must have played 5 or less games in the past NFL season. Players on the Reserve List do not count against the 49 man active roster. Once placed on the Reserve List a player must stay on there for the entire season and is not eligible to play in any games during that season or the playoffs. Players on the Reserve List must be designated by the preseason cut deadline and once a player is placed on the Reserve List the owner can not change his mind. Players on the Reserve List can be traded but MUST go on the Reserve List of the team that is gaining that player and the team receiving him must have an open slot for him (ie 2 or less players on their Reserve List or trading one Reserve List player for another).

3.2.4 Uncarded Players

Any eligible player who does not have a rating for the current season may be kept on the Active Roster or Reserve List indefinitely. UNCARDED PLAYERS ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR THE FREE AGENT DRAFT HOWEVER.

3.3 Roster Moves

All roster moves during the regular season must be made before week 8. Roster moves made during the off season may be made after the rosters are cut down to 45 players, on or about May 15^th. NO TRADES CAN BE MADE BY A TEAM UNTIL THEY ARE COMPLIANCE WITH THE MANDATORY COUNTDOWNS TO AT LEAST 45 PLAYERS, AND UNLESS THEY ARE UNDER THE SALARY CAP.

3.3.1 Trades

Trades may be made from May 1st of each year (or such a time thereafter that the commissioner is able to disseminate the new ratings to the league) until the deadline for week 8.

All owners involved in a trade must notify the Commissioner of the trade via the game report during the regular season and via electronic mail/Slack during the off season.

Any league member may protest a trade between two teams based on fairness of compensation in the trade. To protest a trade, a league member must send to the Commissioner, Review Board, and the teams involved in the trade an explanation of why the league member feels the trade was unfair. Protests must be filed by 10:59 p.m. EST (11:59 p.m. EDT) on the Friday following the Tuesday that the TSFL Newsletter reports the trade being protested. The Review Board shall request information from the teams involved in the trade as necessary. A unanimous vote on the protest by the Review Board voids the trade. All regular season trade protests must be filed within 24 hours of the current newsletter being released. During the offseason all protests must be filed within 4 days of the trade being confirmed through the mailing list. Once a trade is under protest, all assets involved are frozen until the review board makes their decision.

All trades are final, pending protests, and all player compensation shall change hands at the time of the trade. Draft choice compensation may be conditional, and future considerations are allowed, but conditions of the future considerations must be announced at the time of the trade.

Owners may trade rookie draft picks in rounds 1 through 5 for the current season. The next seasons picks will not be tradeable until the 1 week prior of the current year’s rookie draft (example - from the end of the 2023 draft until 1 week prior to the 2024 draft, only 2023 draft picks are tradeable, 2024 draft picks will be tradeable 1 week prior to the 2023 draft)

3.3.2 New Owner Trading and Draft Picks

All trades from new owners will be reviewed by the league review board for one calendar year from the date that they join the league.

Any team that gets a new owner from the end of the previous seasons draft up through the beginning of the next offseason will have their team reviewed by the league review board. The review board will make recommendations on which teams are missing rookie draft picks AND have an honest need for those draft picks for the continued health of that franchise. The Commissioner will then award said team(s) draft picks after each round in which this team owns no draft picks (if they own a pick from another team in a round, then that round is not considered). These picks will NOT be tradeable and may only be used to select players in the draft.

3.3.3 Setting of Players to N/A

Players will NOT be allowed to be set to N/A by owners during the season until they have either clinched a playoff spot or in weeks 16-18, whichever comes first, so that injuries will work as they are supposed to and teams will not be able to circumvent them, sitting players against teams they want to rather than letting injuries determine when players will miss games. Injuries are meant to make the game more difficult and realistic so teams need to make smart roster decisions, draft picks and trades and anything that allows a team to circumvent them is against the spirit of the game. TEAMS FOUND TO VIOLATE THIS RULE MAY BE SUBJECT TO LOSS OF DRAFT PICKS AND OR REMOVAL FROM THE LEAGUE.

4.0 FREE AGENCY AND THE FREE AGENT DRAFT

4.1 Definition of a Free Agent

A free agent is a player rated in the newest version of the game who is not on the Active Roster or Reserve List of any team in the league.

4.2 Free Agent Draft

The TSFL shall hold a free agent draft supervised by the Commissioner after each season.

4.2.1 Draft Format

There will be a 7 round Free Agent draft held on or about June 1^st each season. By May 15^th, all teams will be required to cut down to at least 45 players; rosters will initially include those 52 players from the previous year’s roster, players previously placed on the reserve list for the preceding season, and the rookies picked the previous fall, and will not include players designated to be added to the upcoming reserved list. Teams may cut down below 45 if they so choose. Prior to trading, all teams must be in compliance with the current listed Salary Cap (currently $121 million). The picks in the Free agent draft are not tradeable, and the order will be determined by the file after cut downs but prior to trading commencing in reverse order of salaries (ie…the team with the lowest team salary will pick 1^st, all the way to where the team with the highest team salary picks last). AT NO TIME MAY A TEAM GO ABOVE THAT SEASON’S SALARY CAP; IF A TEAM CAN NOT SELECT A PLAYER WITHOUT GOING OVER THE CAP WHILE ALSO BEING ABLE TO REACH THE REQUIRED 52 PLAYER ROSTER, WILL HAVE THAT TEAM’S HIGHEST SALARIED PLAYER CUT IN ORDER TO FACILITATE LEAGUE REQUIREMENTS! For those teams that cut down to below 45 players, there will be a supplemental draft held on day 8, where it will be done by the same order as the Free Agent draft, with the team with the highest pick(s) selecting all the needed players to fill their 52 man roster (ie…if there are 10 teams that don’t have 52 players by the end of the 7 round Free Agent draft, the team with the highest FA draft selection will select ALL the players they need to fill out their roster, followed by the next team etc; the team with the lowest FA draft position will pick after all the other teams have filled out their roster). Players may be cut/traded once trading commences after May 15th, until the date/time trading will be suspended for the FA draft (approximately 2 weeks). AT NO TIME MAY A TEAM GO OVER THE CAP AFTER CUTDOWNS; EVERY EFFORT WILL BE MADE BY THE COMMISSIONER TO KEEP TRACK OF COMPLIANCE, BUT IT IS ULTIMATELY THE RESPONSIBILITY OF EACH TEAM OWNER TO MAKE SURE THEY HAVE ADEQUATE CAP SPACE AVAILABLE TO BRING THEIR ROSTERS TO 52 PLAYERS!

On or about May 20th the league president shall post a schedule for the entire Free Agent draft. Teams will make 28 picks per day between 11 am and 6 pm with a 15 minute limit. Anyone who is skipped needs to make up their pick before drafting begins the next day at 10 am.

REMINDER: Before the draft, all teams are required to cut to 45 players or less, and then will have to draft back to 52 players. At no time will a team be able to go above 52 active players, with a max of 3 reserve players having played 5 or fewer games, nor will teams be allowed to exceed the $121 million salary cap.

4.3 Signing Free Agents during the Season

There will be no injury replacements during the season; it is the responsibility of every owner to make sure they have a roster that can accommodate expected injuries. With that in mind, these are the following position requirements:

Quarterbacks: All teams must have a minimum of 2 QB’s but no more than 3 QB’s on their active roster (does not include QB’s on the Reserve list)

Running backs: All teams must have a minimum of 3 RB’s

HB/TE’s: All teams must have a minimum of 3

Wide Receivers: All teams must have a minimum of 5

Offensive Line: All teams must have a minimum of 8 offensive linemen (2 centers, 3 guards and 3 tackles)

Defensive linemen: All teams must have a minimum of 3 DT’s and 3 DE’s

Linebackers: All teams must have at least 2 ILB’s and 4 OLB’s

Defensive Backs: All teams must have at least 8 defensive backs, with at least 4 CB’s and 3 S’s

Kickers and Punters: All teams must have at least 1 kicker and 1 punter. No team can have more than 2 kickers or more than 2 punters. No team can have 2 kickers or 2 punters on their roster with a durability rating of 10. However, if a team has 1 K or 1 P rated with a 10 durability and a second player who is rated as both a punter and a kicker (P/K) that player may have a durability rating of 10 as long as there is not a third player on the roster rated as a P, K , or P/K.

All teams must also have a designated long-snapper, who can also serve as the backup Center.

4.4 THE ROOKIE DRAFT

4.5 Definition of an Eligible Rookie

Any player that was drafted in the previous NFL draft is eligible to be drafted; undrafted rookies are not eligible to be drafted in the rookie draft.

4.6 The Rookie Draft

The Rookie draft will take place on or about the first week of August, consisting of 5 rounds (with supplemental picks as noted previously) with the draft order being in reverse order of record from the previous season. Rookie draft picks can be traded for the current season, with picks for the following season allowed to be traded 1 week prior to the draft (THESE FUTURE PICKS FOR THE FOLLOWING SEASON CAN ONLY BE TRADED FOR OTHER CURRENT OR FUTURE PICKS, UNTIL AFTER THE COMPLETION OF THE CURRENT ROOKIE DRAFT). Rookie draft picks may be traded until 24 hours before the commencement of the rookie draft; at that time, trading is suspended until the completion of the rookie draft. All drafted rookies will be added to the team’s roster upon the release of the new game disk release (usually late April). No team may trade a drafted rookie until after trading recommences after the Super Bowl.

5.0 REPORTING

5.1 Game Reports

Each member is required to send, via E-mail/Slack, a game report for their home game, consisting of:

Expanded boxscore and play-by-play in a text file
Game export in a zip file
A short writeup of the game

This must be sent to the TSFL mailing list/Slack. Game reports are to arrive each week by 7:00 PM Eastern time on Tuesday following the games.

6.0 PROTESTS

Any manager may protest to the TSFL Review Board any loss which the manager feels resulted directly from negligence on the part of the opposing manager. Managers should try to settle all protests by mutual consent prior to filing a formal protest with the TSFL Review Board.

If a member elects to protest the result of a game, the member must send to the Commissioner, Conference Presidents, the Review Board members, and the home manager an explanation of the protest as well as all documentation regarding the protested game. Protests must be filed by 10:59 p.m. Pacific Time on the Monday following the Tuesday that the TSFL Newsletter reports the game being protested.

The Review Board shall then request a statement from the home manager regarding the protest. The Review Board shall then review all evidence and vote on the protest. If a Review Board member believes that negligence did occur and that there is reasonable doubt that the home team would have won the game if there had been no negligence, the member should vote in favor of upholding the protest. A unanimous vote is required to uphold the protest.

The Review Board shall issue a ruling on the protest within two weeks from the date the protest was filed.

The Review Board, upon upholding the protest, may require a game be replayed either in its entirety or from the time of the protest.

No league member may rule on a protest involving his own team. If a Review Board member is involved in a protest, he shall be replaced first by the League President and finally by the Commissioner.

7.0 LEAGUE SANCTIONS

There are very few ways to be sanctioned in our league, we have very good owners who do what they are supposed to and treat each other fairly. Unfortunately there are times when they are called for and this section will lay them out. NOTE: LIFE HAPPENS; THE INTENTION HERE IS NOT TO PENALIZE TEAMS/OWNERS FOR EVENTS THAT ARE UNAVOIDABLE, OR TO ENCOURAGE FAMILY NEGLECT, BUT RATHER TO ADDRESS OWNERS WHO DO NOT PLAY IN GOOD FAITH. THE KEY WORDS HERE ARE “COMMUNICATION” AND “RESPECT”, AND ARE EXPECTED TO BE FOLLOWED.

7.1 LATE COMPUTER COACH OR NON-CONTACT ABOUT GAMES

The league will strictly enforce late contacts with home teams being required to email their opponent and CC the league president by Thursday of each week during the regular season and visiting teams being required to respond to their opponent and the league president no later than Friday of each week. Teams who are late, get a warning the first time, lose a 5th round pick the second time, a 4th round pick the third time, a 3rd round pick the fourth time (lost picks are cumulative) and if there is a fifth time (that's a third of your games) you will lose your team.

If one team can not make a game in any week, the team who is available to play has two options:

1) find a stand-in to play their opponents team for that week from the associates or other league members 2) the game will be simulated by the commissioner with computer coaches from both teams.

Teams may miss playing 2 games hth during the season and without penalty (in a dispute, commissioner will decide who is penalized). The third game missed the coach gets a warning, fourth game missed you lose a 4th round pick, fifth game missed you lose a 3rd round pick (lost picks are cumulative) and if you miss a sixth game your ownership will be reviewed by the league and unless the circumstances are extraordinary you will likely lose your team.

7.3 UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT

This is one thing that will not be tolerated. It's not really possible to legislate against running up the score, games do get out of hand sometimes no matter how hard the winning team tries to keep the score down. All we ask is that when you feel you have a game in hand (ie up 4 TDs or more in the 2nd half) please refrain from throwing bombs or using tons of blitzes on defense. This is just fair play and you will be rewarded someday for it :O) On the flip side, if you're the team on the losing end, be a good sport and don't berate the other coach over the chat link, that is equally bad form and won't be tolerated. We are trying to have fun here and it can be done if both sides do their part. Now, with that all said, if I continually get email about a certain person running up the scores or about a person being a poor loser I'm going to have a talk with you and we'll find out what is going on and I will be sure that the complaints stop one way or another. This same thing goes for any other contacts involving players, trades or drafting speed. There are two people in charge of the league, the commissioner and the president and if someone needs talking to they are the ONLY ones who will do so.

8.0 PLAYING RULES

All rules of football and the Action PC computer football game will apply except where noted below.

8.1 HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE

Home Field Advantage will be used in all head to head games except for the Super Bowl which will be played on a neutral field.

Home Field Advantage will be set to 3 for all games for the entire season except the Super Bowl which will be played on a neutral field.

8.2 BYE WEEKS AND REST

For our leagues purposes all injuries will be treated as per week, which means a player will heal 1 game for each week he doesn't play including bye weeks.

8.3 SEASON USAGE LIMITS

Season usage will be as follows:
Mild - 110%
Moderate - 115%
Major - 120%

8.4 PLAYOFF GAME USAGE LIMITS

These post season settings will not affect multi game injuries in anyway and regular season injuries will still carry over as necessary.
"Limit Games Missed to Real Life Total" remains checked for the entire season and playoffs.

Single game playoff usage will be as follows:
Mild - 10%
Moderate - 20%
Major - 30%