Since the last time we reviewed the Franchise League rules we missed 2 years because of Covid ON TOP of the other 4 years since the last update. I think it’s time to make some more tweaks, adjustments and outright changes to the way things are done. Every season new situations and scenarios pop up that force the League Offices to view things in a different way. So below are new additions to the rules for the Spring 2022 off-season.
Here is the complete and updated set of rules regarding all things Franchise League. Some rules have not changed, many have. Read them. Learn them. Live them.
There is only ONE Draft Board for the entire history of the Franchise League. Each off-season this board will be updated with the new player list, free agency tracker and team salary cap pages. You can find every piece of Franchise A League history on this board: Franchise A League All Franchise B League information will be found on this board: Franchise B League
The initial Draft of any Franchise League will be conducted as an Auction Draft with all players in the draft pool.
Anyone is able to be a Franchise League captain. Each captain will be assessed a ‘Captain’s Cap Hit‘ based on their APR and will hold true for the current season only. Each offseason APRs will be recalculated and a new cap hit will be assessed. In order to have such a wide variation of talented captains, the cap hit will be determined based on the Captain’s APR and a salary analysis of all players signed up for the league.
All captains will have access to each and every player. Captains will be able to nominate players for auction and bid on them accordingly until all players in the Auction Pool are assigned to a team.
Captains must have enough cap space to sign players to make a 6 man roster (minimum contract is 1 season @ $1) without going over the salary cap for a bid to be valid. Contracts to players, can only be offered as a whole number or tenth of a decimal. All players are originally signed to 1 season contracts.
If a captain offers a rookie a second season contract, the player has the right of refusal and can keep the 1 season contract. Captains have until noon on the day of the third week of the season to turn in contract lengths to League Offices. Contracts that are 2 seasons in length are also eligible to be restructured to save money in the 2nd season (see: Contract Restructuring)
The second season of the contract will increasing based on Escalators. These escalations are also applicable to contract offers to free agents and auction players.
The off-season will contain 3 major activity periods (Cuts/Extensions, Rookie Auction and “Free” Agency) with Trades allowed throughout the entire off-season, that will begin once the full player pool has been determined and paid for.