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Frequently Asked Questions
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Why should I join a Premium Franchise League?Franchise Football is more than just Fantasy Football team management. You must manage the finances, the players and the coaching staff of your Franchise carefully to survive the challenges of a successful season. It may take several years to build your Franchise into one worthy of a championship. A Franchise League offers a different challenge level than most yearly draft leagues. You can't drop your injured stud player, because another Franchise may sign him to a long term contract for next year. The rookie that you draft this year may sit on your bench all season and may not develop into the next stud until next year. The roster moves you make now can effect your roster potential for next year. Typically, a Franchise owner is in the game for the long term challenge. You will compete against the same Franchise owners year after year and will hopefully get to know your competition; learn their tendencies, build rivalries, and find trading partners. Back to Top
How is Franchise Football different from Fantasy Football?A fantasy football draft is usually a serpentine draft with each team taking turns. In Franchise Football, everyone can bid on each available free agent and could easily get multiple top Free Agents to join his Franchise.In fantasy football you are normally charged extra for roster changes but you can make as many roster moves as you like. In Franchise Football there is no additional charge, but you will need to manage the funds of the organization to account for the budget of your replacement players. Fantasy football players are all thrown back into the draft for next year, in Franchise Football you can build a team by retaining a few of your best players as a foundation for the next season. The fantasy football season typically ends after week 16 or 17 of the NFL season. Franchise Football trades often occur during the off-season. If one Franchise owns more top players than they can retain under contract, they can trade away this excess talent for an improved rookie draft pick or for Franchise Funds. Back to Top
How do I...?Below are basic navigation moves that be executed from the league web pages, follow the menu structures:View my Roster: Click on Reports/Franchise/Rosters to view the current rosters and contract status of each Franchise. Set my Lineup: Click on For Owners/Submit Lineup to select your weekly starting roster. Update a Contract: You must e-mail the commissioner with your desired contract. Click on Communications/ Email to Commissioner. Please include your League name, Team name, Player name and the contract change information. Find Free Agents: Click on Reports/Players/Top Performers. From here you can sort by Free Agent and player position and find all of the stats for the best available potential replacements. Make Waiver Pickup: Click on For Owners/Waiver and enter the amount you will bid. The minimum salary is $400,000, you may offer the player a signing bonus in addition to the minimum salary. Change E-mail Address: Click on For Owners/Franchise Setup and enter your new e-mail address. This updates the My Fantasy League site, also please update your E-mail in your registration setup on the Franchise Football home site. Back to Top
What happens if my league isn't filled?We will do our best to fill all of the leagues before the drafts. The auction draft starts early, at the beginning of August, so many people aren't thinking about the football season yet. If leagues aren't full, the following steps will be taken:
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What can I do if I can't make the draft?The rookie draft is during the last week of the pre-season. Each Franchise will have 12 hours to make their pick. If you can't participate in this draft, you can do several things:
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What is an Orphan Team?Whenever a Franchise owner opts out of a league, his team becomes an orphan. You can adopt an orphan Franchise and pick up where the previous owner left off. You inherit the player contracts, the draft picks and the additional funds for his losses from the previous year. Often a new owner is just what the Franchise needs to become successful.Every team has potential, if it's not with the players under existing contracts, it is often with the rookie players. A poor team will have a high draft in each round of the upcoming two round rookie draft and will be granted additional funds to spend for free agency. Various league parity rules are directed at balancing the potential of each Franchise. Back to Top
How do I re-build my Franchise?Sometimes a team just can't win! Don't panic—even the worst teams have potential to build a Franchise around. There are several things you can do.Each Franchise is given $400,000 for each loss from the previous year, so a Franchise with less talent will have more funding available to offer free agents as a signing bonus. The Rookie Draft gives you an opportunity to add the young players that will be the future of the NFL. Your draft position is based on the Franchise record from the previous year, the worst team will draft first. You can also extend one of your rookies for a second year. Every week the NFL suffers season ending injuries, watch the free agent market carefully and sign the next NFL starter to your team. One tip for a re-building Franchise is to sign your top players to an extended contract before the end of the year, with the current year's extra funding. Your un-spent funds do not carry over to next year, so you can get a head start on your contracts for next year. Your first priority should be to find a starting QB, a top ranked Quarterback will typically score the most points. Second in importance is a top RB and then a good WR core. A coach, TE, PK, and a Defensive Player will all contribute about the same, but finding a good head coach can be rare. Back to Top
Why don't my Franchise funds carry over to next year?Many funds really do carry over. Although you must spend what you have each year, you can invest up to $14.75M in salary contracts for next year. This, coupled with the bonus for losses incurred, can be a tremendous advantage going into the following year, giving a Franchise considerably more funds than another to bid for the Free Agent signing bonus. I have found that if all funds carry over from year to year, some owners will prefer to keep the majority of their available money, which eventually becomes so large that league parity cannot be maintained. Back to Top
How do Player Contracts work?You can keep 2 player for up to 2 years, and 2 others for up to 3 years. You can extend any player into a longer contract, but never into a shorter one. You can move a 1 year player into a 2 year contract at the beginning of your second year. Then at the beginning of year 3, you can move that same player into a 3 year contract, and keep him one addition year. You must have a 3 year contract available, which means you could be forced into cutting a 3 year guy, or moving him up to your Franchise spot and cutting your old Franchise player. You must assign these contracts before the Free Agency period, (auction draft). You can do this at the beginning of a new season, with that year's $55M budget, or you can do it at the end of the current year, if you still have money left over. You can cut a player on contract any time you want. Any cut player goes to the weekly Free Agent blind bid draft first. A player cut during the off-season goes to the Free Agent auction. That means that everybody will get a chance to bid on him. You can re-sign him if you have high bid, and he will be a 1 year player again. Back to Top
How does the Signing Bonus work?Signing bonus is a one time payment to a player to entice him to join your team. If you get say, Tomlinson for $7M during the auction bidding, all but $400,000 of that $7M is signing bonus. A standard 1 year contract is built into the auction bid to simplify the process. If you want to make him your Franchise player, you will then need to upgrade his 1 year contract to a Franchise contract, which will cost your Franchise an additional $5M. You will be credited the $400,000 1 year contract value. The player only gets a signing bonus one time. Next year, it will only cost you the $5M Franchise contract to keep him. Back to Top
Can I get a private league at Franchise Football?Certainly! Franchise Football will be happy to be the commissioner of your league. All leagues will have the exact same format as Franchise Football and all costs and payoffs will also be identical. There are no extra charges for a private league. Send me an e-mail with the details that you prefer and a league name, and we'll help you to arrange it with your friends. Back to Top
Last modified: February 09, 2009 |
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