TFLcommish
Footballguy
There are still a few spots open in The Football League, which we are looking to fill immediately to give owners ample time to prepare for the draft. These spots are first-come, first-serve based on buy-in, and you receive instant access to our subscriptions (PFF, UDK, The Athletic) once you have paid. Reach out to me for any further questions / access to our league pre-draft tools and scoring sheet.
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Hey y'all,
I'm Commissioner C, founder of the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) and, as of this week, founder of The Football League (TFL). I can say with confidence that this league is the most comprehensive, intuitive, engaging fantasy experience and NFL facsimile that you'll come across. And we want you to be a part of it.
In short, TFL is a 32-team salary cap football league inspired by and focused on realism and NFL recreation -- from a custom-built scoring system and scheme integration to a tailored salary cap structure with a unique player-agent association featuring real humans. Every aspect of fantasy football has been scrutinized, researched, and reworked to mimic the NFL as close as possible and create the ultimate team ownership experience.
Membership to TFL costs $160, equal to the salary cap, and also includes a free subscription to Pro Football Focus ($200 annual value), a year subscription to The Athletic ($60), and a subscription to the Fantasy Footballers' Ultimate Fantasy Football Draft Kit ($30) which includes Matt Harmon's Reception Perception. That's nearly $300 worth of football content PLUS membership in the league...which could net you an additional $2,500+ per year.
The draft begins next Wednesday, August 21 with a 32-player QB auction (8 p.m.) and resumes Thursday at 8 p.m. (Rounds 1-5, 90 seconds per pick), Friday at 8 p.m. (Rounds 6-17, 45 seconds) and Saturday at 5 p.m. (Rounds 18-40, 30 seconds). All times Eastern. The draft order will be fixed 1-32 per round in reverse order of salary spent in the QB auction.
Some of the details:
[*]Offensive flex positions no longer benefit from empty receptions or carries, which have been removed or altered to replicate the real-life negative effect of a zero-yard gain. First downs are now an integral part of player value, boosting the value of do-it-all contributors (Taysom Hill, Curtis Samuel), and return yards also have a minor impact on player scoring.
[*]IDP scoring has been completely reinvented, de-emphasizing value-agnostic stats like tackles in favor of value-based stats such as stuffs, incompletions forced, receiving yards allowed, pressures, etc. Snap counts are also considered, as being on the field and not allowing yardage is a valuable stat for defensive players. The result is an IDP system that properly weighs each position relative to their on-field value and to how NFL teams invest in positions with their real-life dollars (i.e. CBs and DTs benefit, ILBs drop).
[*]Weekly lineups determine a team's scheme/personnel, which combines with a run/pass focus for small weekly bonuses to the team with the better "game plan." This forces teams to consider their opponent and allows for a strategic element to lineup management beyond just "most points." Home teams will also get a 3-point "home-field advantage."
[*]The inaugural draft will set each team's initial 41-man roster. Each pick will have a salary slot based on "average total value" (explained below), and teams can assign players to any contract length from 1-5 years after the draft at that value. Those contract lengths must add up to a total of 113 years per team for the first year (2.75 years per player); there is no contract years cap in future years.
[*]TFL operates in a "total value" market that combines guaranteed and non-guaranteed money to determine a "total value" (TV) for each contract offer. Based on TFL's proprietary contract formula -- which is rooted in extensive statistical analyses of NFL contracts and relative market value -- teams will be incentivized to offer more guaranteed money to bring down a player's total cap hit or more non-guaranteed money if they'd rather avoid the risk. It's entirely up to you...and the player's agent.
[*]All contracts (starting with the 2020 offseason) will be negotiated between teams and real-life "player agents," who under certification from The Football Agency (TFA) represent all available free agents. These agents earn real-life commission for every dollar signed and are also eligible for large cash bonuses that align with their clients' goals (i.e. most salary signed, most guarantees, highest average annual value).
That's just a taste of what TFL has to offer, with other NFL staples like holdouts, rookie wage scales, IR/PUP lists, and even the dreaded Final League Year before the CBA expires. The league will also bring a familiar dynasty feel with an active trade market, an in-season waiver system, a league Discord, and regular league media content from professional sports writers on staff.
If you are interested in joining The Football League, please send me an email at thefootballleaguecommish@gmail.com and I can provide you a personal copy of The Pre-Draft Tool -- a powerful spreadsheet which includes our comprehensive scoring system, theoretical roster projections based on 2018 scoring, The Game Plan Tool (for weekly scheme bonuses), The Salary Tool (which shows conversions for every current NFL contract from total salary to "total value"), and more.
I'm always happy to answer any questions you have, day or night. The clock is ticking on the draft, so we hope to have you aboard soon. It'll be the best fantasy (and football) decision you've ever made.
Thanks,
Commissioner C
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Hey y'all,
I'm Commissioner C, founder of the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) and, as of this week, founder of The Football League (TFL). I can say with confidence that this league is the most comprehensive, intuitive, engaging fantasy experience and NFL facsimile that you'll come across. And we want you to be a part of it.
In short, TFL is a 32-team salary cap football league inspired by and focused on realism and NFL recreation -- from a custom-built scoring system and scheme integration to a tailored salary cap structure with a unique player-agent association featuring real humans. Every aspect of fantasy football has been scrutinized, researched, and reworked to mimic the NFL as close as possible and create the ultimate team ownership experience.
Membership to TFL costs $160, equal to the salary cap, and also includes a free subscription to Pro Football Focus ($200 annual value), a year subscription to The Athletic ($60), and a subscription to the Fantasy Footballers' Ultimate Fantasy Football Draft Kit ($30) which includes Matt Harmon's Reception Perception. That's nearly $300 worth of football content PLUS membership in the league...which could net you an additional $2,500+ per year.
The draft begins next Wednesday, August 21 with a 32-player QB auction (8 p.m.) and resumes Thursday at 8 p.m. (Rounds 1-5, 90 seconds per pick), Friday at 8 p.m. (Rounds 6-17, 45 seconds) and Saturday at 5 p.m. (Rounds 18-40, 30 seconds). All times Eastern. The draft order will be fixed 1-32 per round in reverse order of salary spent in the QB auction.
Some of the details:
- Membership in TFL costs $160 for Year 1, due before the draft. The league will be hosted on MyFantasyLeague (MFL) and use LeagueSafe to collect league dues. TFL offers a $2,500 prize for 1st place, $800 for 2nd place, $160 to 3rd and 4th place, and $25 to teams hosting a playoff game (based on concessions/merchandise/parking lot revenue). The rest of the prize pool goes toward paying player agents and other operational league costs.
- TFL has a $160 hard cap, scaled down from the NFL's $188.2 cap based on salary analysis of OL + K/P/LS over a five-year period. Every detail of the NFL salary cap has been replicated where possible (franchise tag, salary cap rollover, RFA, compensatory picks, etc).
- Teams will feature 41-man rosters (70 in offseason) with 18 starters (7 offense, 11 defense), with balanced scoring on both sides of the ball. Average scoring is approximately 140 points per game.
- TFL's league office has engineered a custom scoring system to better emulate on-field value and value per opportunity. Every statistical value was re-considered and mapped to the base "yard" to create a cohesive scoring system that fundamentally restores value to players based on tangible on-field impact:
- QB scoring has been reworked to create variance in the position, boost overall scores above most flex players, and deconstruct stats that had an unfair penalty against QBs (0.25 per passing yard, 4 per passing TDs, etc). All QB stats are now in line with every other skill position player, and the results correlate much stronger to QBR, PFF passing grades, and other value-based measures.
Because QBs are both more valuable and particularly scarce, teams will have the ability to apply for a "QB waiver" if they have no active starting QBs on their roster due to injury, bye week, benching, or TFL transactions. If approved, the waiver grants the team the lowest score of any starting QB that week, offering a safety net against an empty QB score and avoiding the dreaded "Team QB" option that can sink 32-team leagues.
[*]Offensive flex positions no longer benefit from empty receptions or carries, which have been removed or altered to replicate the real-life negative effect of a zero-yard gain. First downs are now an integral part of player value, boosting the value of do-it-all contributors (Taysom Hill, Curtis Samuel), and return yards also have a minor impact on player scoring.
[*]IDP scoring has been completely reinvented, de-emphasizing value-agnostic stats like tackles in favor of value-based stats such as stuffs, incompletions forced, receiving yards allowed, pressures, etc. Snap counts are also considered, as being on the field and not allowing yardage is a valuable stat for defensive players. The result is an IDP system that properly weighs each position relative to their on-field value and to how NFL teams invest in positions with their real-life dollars (i.e. CBs and DTs benefit, ILBs drop).
[*]Weekly lineups determine a team's scheme/personnel, which combines with a run/pass focus for small weekly bonuses to the team with the better "game plan." This forces teams to consider their opponent and allows for a strategic element to lineup management beyond just "most points." Home teams will also get a 3-point "home-field advantage."
[*]The inaugural draft will set each team's initial 41-man roster. Each pick will have a salary slot based on "average total value" (explained below), and teams can assign players to any contract length from 1-5 years after the draft at that value. Those contract lengths must add up to a total of 113 years per team for the first year (2.75 years per player); there is no contract years cap in future years.
[*]TFL operates in a "total value" market that combines guaranteed and non-guaranteed money to determine a "total value" (TV) for each contract offer. Based on TFL's proprietary contract formula -- which is rooted in extensive statistical analyses of NFL contracts and relative market value -- teams will be incentivized to offer more guaranteed money to bring down a player's total cap hit or more non-guaranteed money if they'd rather avoid the risk. It's entirely up to you...and the player's agent.
[*]All contracts (starting with the 2020 offseason) will be negotiated between teams and real-life "player agents," who under certification from The Football Agency (TFA) represent all available free agents. These agents earn real-life commission for every dollar signed and are also eligible for large cash bonuses that align with their clients' goals (i.e. most salary signed, most guarantees, highest average annual value).
That's just a taste of what TFL has to offer, with other NFL staples like holdouts, rookie wage scales, IR/PUP lists, and even the dreaded Final League Year before the CBA expires. The league will also bring a familiar dynasty feel with an active trade market, an in-season waiver system, a league Discord, and regular league media content from professional sports writers on staff.
If you are interested in joining The Football League, please send me an email at thefootballleaguecommish@gmail.com and I can provide you a personal copy of The Pre-Draft Tool -- a powerful spreadsheet which includes our comprehensive scoring system, theoretical roster projections based on 2018 scoring, The Game Plan Tool (for weekly scheme bonuses), The Salary Tool (which shows conversions for every current NFL contract from total salary to "total value"), and more.
I'm always happy to answer any questions you have, day or night. The clock is ticking on the draft, so we hope to have you aboard soon. It'll be the best fantasy (and football) decision you've ever made.
Thanks,
Commissioner C