Trades
ARTICLE 1. a. If two or more franchise owners wish to trade players, draft picks, or league dollars, they may do so.
b. A trade becomes official when accepted on the web site as proposed and is reviewed by the commissioner. If the trade is proposed outside the website it becomes official when the commissioner manually enters it into the database.
c. No trades shall be permitted after the kickoff of the first NFL games at 1:00pm Eastern Standard Time on Sunday, November 7.
d. Draft picks may be traded for a period of three (3) years into the future. Any teams trading future draft picks must pay the entry fee for each future year in which a pick is being traded.
This advance payment is non-refundable, and will be added to the prize pool if the owner does not return for the season in question. Agreeing to such a trade constitutes a binding contract to make said payment. In the event the entry fee for any given year changes, the owner must pay any difference prior to or on the day of the draft.
e. If you accept a trade in error you have exactly five (5) minutes from the trade timestamp to notify both the Commissioner (Todd) and Assistant Commissioner (Jack) of your error. If more than five minutes have passed before this notice your trade is considered official. This notification may take place via private message, email or phone.
f. Trades offered on the website are considered valid offers until they are revoked, rejected or their expiration date is reached. Owners are responsible for removing offers they have made.
g. Trades must be consummated on the web site to be official. Agreement by any other medium is not binding.
Veto of Trade
ARTICLE 2. a. A trade that’s agreed upon and intended purpose is to strengthen one team at the expense of the other can be overturned by the league commissioner or a majority vote of the MFFL Rules Council (see also Section 2. Ethics).
b. For trades involving the commissioner the assistant commissioner will act with the commissioner’s power.
c. For trades that involve both the Commissioner and the Assistant Commissioner the Rules Committee member will act with the commissioner’s power.
d. If for any reason the Commissioner, Assistant Commissioner or Rules Council member are unable to act on a trade, responsibilty moves to the next available league officer, with the League Treasurer next to act, followed by the previous year’s Rules Council member.
e. A veto may be overturned by a majority vote of league owners.
Free Agents
ARTICLE 3. a. If a player isn’t on a fantasy team, he is considered to be a free agent available on the waiver wire.
b. Unless a roster slot is unoccupied, for each player obtained via waivers a player must be released. This player will then be eligible to be picked up by other teams the following week.
c. All franchise owners must be informed that a player has been waived before any team can acquire the player. This notification will take place via the Transactions section of the league web site.
d. Signed free agents must stay on the roster until the kickoff of that week’s games.
e. Waiver moves are allowed throughout the entire season, including the playoffs.
f. Players who are released during the playoffs are ineligible for pickup.
g. Teams that have been eliminated from competition cannot sign or release players.
h. The MFFL Rules Council reserves the right to void any transaction that is deemed an attempt to undermine the competitive balance of the league. (See Section 2. Article 2.)
Free Agent Bidding
ARTICLE 4. a. Each team has $20 in free agent cap space per season.
b. During each bidding period teams bid on free agents using their league currency, and assign players to drop if needed.
c. The bidding periods are: End of last game of the week through midnight Wednesday, then midnight each evening preceding the first game of the week. The time between the last bidding period and kickoff of the first game of the week is a first-come, first-served time.
d. During each bidding period teams bid on free agents using their league currency, and assign players to drop if needed.
e. Bids are sent in private to the Commissioner via the Waiver Wire section of your team page. This is the only accepted submission method for waiver wire claims.
f. Bids may be cancelled only before the end of the bidding period in which they are placed. Once the deadline is passed the transaction is considered to have taken effect, even if it has not been processed.
g. Whoever bids the most gets a player. In the event of equal bids the player will be awarded to the team with the worst record using standard league wildcard tie-breaking methods.
h. Minimum bid for any free agent claim is 25¢, with 5¢ increments. (i.e., 55¢ is a legal bid. 57¢ is not. 20¢ is also illegal.) Owners with no bidding cap allotment remaining may not make any free agent pickups. Amounts of bids that are successful are deducted from your cap space and added to the league prize pool.
i. Free agent cap space is a commodity and is tradable.
j. $10 of your $20 cap is non-refundable. This portion of the cap will be added to the prize pool regardless of use. $5 of the remaining cap may be rolled over to the following season if desired. Any balance remaining will be credited to the owner.
k. Teams submitting an invalid transaction (failure to list player to release, player being claimed is already on a roster, not yet eligible for pickup or other reasons) will have the transaction voided and must resubmit their transaction.