• Draft picks may only be traded one season ahead.

• Teams must maintain their own salary cap. If a team makes trades that force them over the salary cap, all newly acquired players will sit out that week (and every other week until the team gets under the cap). If this forces the team to not meet the roster requirements then the trades may be reversed at the discretion of the commissioner.

• ALL trades are subject to review by a) trade committee and/or b) commissioner. While an explanation will be given to the coaches, any trade viewed as damaging to either a team or the league as a whole will be reversed immediately.

• Salary cap money may not be traded.

• All trades are subject to the rules governing contracts, meaning if you pick up a player then you are picking up his contract. Be sure to read over the AGENT documentation!!

Roster moves will be the responsibility of the team’s respective GM. All roster moves will be handled using RMUPDAT. Read the program’s documentation and familiarize yourself with how it works. This is an important part of handling your team. Also be sure to remember the league schedule. All roster move files are due IN THE COMMISSIONER’S MAILBOX by 6pmPST on Wednesday. Do not wait until the last minute or your roster moves may not be made for you! Also be sure that you conform to the roster requirements at all times… the position requirements shown under the League Rules are the number of players that must be available to take the field at all times regardless of injury!!

TRAINING

All training will be handled using the ITC program. Please read the necessary documentation and familiarize yourself with the program. The boundaries for training in the UFL2 will be min 5% and max 50%.

TEAM REQUIREMENTS

Everyone will be required to have the following players on their team and active for play every week. If someone is unavailable due to injury for the remainder of the season then you will be required to either trade for or pick up that position via free agency. If this means you need to cut someone, then you are going to need to cut someone. Listed below are a total of 45 players… you are required to carry the team minimum of 46 players to start the year.

QB – 2 DE - 4

HB – 3 DT - 3

FB – 2 LB - 6

TE – 2 S - 4

WR – 5 CB - 4

C – 2 P - 1

G – 3

T – 3

K – 1

FREE AGENTS

Teams are allowed to pick up 2 free agents per play week from the week before league play to the last week of the regular season. Bids will be processed on Monday night. If there is a conflict involving two teams wanting the same player, preference will go to that team with a higher initial draft seating (however, once the tie is broken the winning team will then drop down to #30 in terms of preference). If a team is not allowed to pick up a free agent due to losing a tie, they will have until Tuesday at 6pm to place another request. The team must end under the salary cap after the acquisition of their new free agent, therefore cutting players may be involved. There is no maximum to the number of players that may be cut.

SALARIES

The team salary cap is currently set at $80,000,000 dollars. You will be required to carry the league minimum 46 players. If at any time you do not fit under the cap before your league game, the commissioner will be forced to cut a player for you. In order to be impartial, the commissioner will simply find out how much over the cap you are and cut the single player that puts you back in line. Do what you need to do to keep track of where you sit at all times! The league will try and provide up to date cap information throughout the week, however, cap management is still your responsibility. So if you are only 300K over, you’ll probably just lose some backup OL guy… if you leave yourself 4mil over for some reason, you may just lose your star QB.

PLAY TRANSFERS

So let’s just get this right out on the table. The single most little fragile portion of this league is that fact that we are going to a different type of "stock" than we are used to. What we pick up in play intelligence and usefulness, we give back in stability. Plays are going to transfer every single down. It’s quick and painless and soon enough you’ll hardly notice it… however it brings up the dreaded "But how do you know is someone changed the play on their side?" question. Let’s get it out on the table now… no, there is no good answer. If you are a computer inclined person there is something that you can make work… we’ll be playing with the game "VCR" recording every play, if something comes up that looks like cheating you’d have to drop to the Windows Explorer (which means you have to be playing in window mode in the first place to even be able to do that) and copy the FBPlay~ file after you’ve gone back to the play call screen… and you’ll also have to note the time in the game so that when you make your accusation you can have the commish look on the opponent’s play.log to match up the play you copied with what it is supposed to be in his playbook. OK, a rather painful system but the fact is that folks can be caught… I hate having to write that stuff out but everyone always insists like the entire league is full of cheaters or something "Oh it’s not that I think anyone will, but…" Whatever, so now I’ve written it. Here’s my little system… a) cheat and not only will you get nuked from this league but there will be 29 people that will make a nice effort to make sure you are nuked from every other online activity in existence to the point that you’ll be changing your ICQ and email addresses… and b) odds are you’ll get away with it a few times before being popped, but on the other hand, you don’t have to be actually caught around here guys, after enough people question you it’s just about as good… we aren’t the court system, in case you haven’t noticed… league’s a bit more like the western mob kinda justice… right or wrong, that’s just the way life is… so you might want to go out of your way to be a little helpful to folks because we all need to work together and keep the game integrity intact… if a guy is questioning something, don’t be a jerk about it, help explain it to him so he knows he got burnt and doesn’t wander off and right me this flaming letter about how you cheated. Take this to heart folks… cheating is considered the ultimate sin around here. Accusing and being accused of cheating is serious… don’t go accusing someone unless you are serious about what you are saying.