https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NCvdtEuZCET9hu6BFHxolkurWkwQeOKj/edit

Commissioner – Jerrelle Clark - Jerrelle

Dean of Discipline – Theo Jordan - CallME5

Tabari Lott - Swac Time 80

Tharon (probationary)

Table of Contents

Instructions for Joining the Franchise: 2

Related League Websites: 2

Administrative Rules: 2

In Game Rules (Human): 6

In Game Rules (CPU): 7

Reporting Unsportsmanlike Conduct/Banned Gameplay: 8

Punishments: 8

MNFL Court Room: 10

League Incentives: 13

Notable updates: 14

Instructions for Joining the Franchise:

In order to be in the league you must first read and sign the MNFL Code of Conduct that will be emailed to you.

Related League Websites:

Site Title | URL | Description
DaddyLeagues Website | http://www.daddyleagues.com/mnfl | Our Main Hub, Manage your roster, post news articles, check the schedule, etc..
Xbox DVR Website | http://xboxdvr.com | Free hosting of game clips, just enter a gamertag and it will show all of their saved clips. Use this for reporting “cheese”, talking shit, making gifs etc….
Twitch | https://www.twitch.tv/mnfl_network | Free Game streaming service
EA sports Franchise Website | http://www.easports.com/madden-nfl/connected-franchise | Standard EA Sports Webiste, Not Very Useful
YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4BIsO1wGx6QMGTn90O1TmQ | This is where we will post highlight videos, countdowns, game commentary, etc.
Soundcloud | https://soundcloud.com/user-428817590 |

Twitter | https://twitter.com/THEMNFL |

Administrative Rules:

1) QUITTING: NO IN-GAME QUITTING vs HUMAN or CPU. If you are getting out played in a game, just keep playing. Use the game as experience to get better. We all take Ls at some point in time so don't take your ball, go home and quit.

2) NO FIRE SALES: No Fire Sales. Fire Sales are when you plan to leave the league but trade your best players away for next to nothing. Both you and the remaining party will be expelled from the league and the players will be returned to the original team.

3) TRADING: You can only trade with HUMAN players. CPU Trades are turned off. You MUST announce your trade on GroupMe. Only announce it once it has been completed.

4) TRADE DEADLINE: The trade deadline is at the end of the season. You may only trade BEFORE you have played your week 17 game.

5) ADVANCE SCHEDULE:

ADVANCE NOTES:

It is your responsibility to schedule your games. Everyone must have a GroupMe Account and be available via Private Message. You must respond in 24hrs or you run the risk of being put on autopilot for that week.
You must attempt to contact the person twice before requesting an auto.
If you wait until the day of and inform us that “your opponent is not responding” within an hour of advance, then your game will be simmed. Don’t wait until the last minute.
You are responsible for placing yourselves on auto if you are going to be going out of town or if you’re unavailable for your next game. Please have the decency to inform your opponent that you’ve placed yourself on auto and will be unavailable to play.
Please contact Proto with any other questions regarding Advance related issues.

6) OWNER COACHES LEAGUE ONLY: When you start the franchise you must select a “NEW OWNER or NEW COACH”. Make your own custom owner/coach because we all want to start on the same level. If you mess this up we will make you retire and restart.

7) Pre-Season Games: We do not play Pre-Season games for any season. After the draft the pre-season begins. We will be turning off injuries and simulating these pre-season games. After the draft you will have the chance to perform your game prep in between advances. This way your players will still earn their XP and they won’t get hurt in the pre-season.

8) Last Man Standing Rule: If all human v. human games are completed before the deadline and you have a CPU game remaining you will get “simmed”. We have 30 plus people in this league, we’re not waiting for you to play a game you don’t have to schedule.

9) Uniform Rule: On the road wear WHITE, playing at home wear DARK. This is just to avoid confusion and visibility of your own players during the game.

10) Position Rule: You cannot play offensive players out of position. No WR’s at RB or vice versa, no WR’s at TE or vice versa. You may use formations subs (Use RS on the play call screen to use packages like 2 RBs, swap wide outs, RB at WR).

TE to FB Position Changes and Formation Guidance: Changing a TE to a FB, or OL to FB is explicitly prohibited. A player that is labeled as TE at launch or is drafted as a TE, is not to be changed to any RB position namely FB.
Formations: Formation stock or through Formation adjustments (using RS) that can place a TE in your backfield in the shotgun sets, are allowed. TEs are not to be subbed into Power Sets, such as I-Form or any 20 series personnel formation. (i.e. I-Form or Goaline)
Regular Season/Playoff Position Changes: Position changes are allowed at any time of the season for non X-factor and non-superstar players. We are now allowing 1 position change per season for your X-factor and Superstar players.
If you change a Superstar or X-factor player’s position more than 1 time per season, you will be suspended multiple games in the league.
*Note: DO NOT CHANGE PLAYERS NAMES

11) Roster Minimums:

You must maintain these minimums within your 53 man roster at all times. You must also maintain an active roster of at least 46 players. Your practice squad does not count towards these roster minimums.

Position | Minimum #
QB | 2
TE | 3
OL | 7
DL | 5

12) Draft Pick Rules:

Number of Picks per Round Allowed by the time the draft starts is Limited In Rounds 1 and 2

Draft Round | Max # of Picks
1 | 2
2 | 3
3-7 | Unlimited

13) De-Syncs:

In the event of a De-Sync, here is the criteria by which the coach winning the game has the right to a Force Win. (Please note, if a game de-syncs before halftime the game must be replayed no matter the score.)

If the Coach WINNING the game is in possession of the ball at time of De-sync

Up 35+ points at any point after halftime FORCE WIN
Up 28+ points and under 3mins in the 3rd Qtr FORCE WIN
Up 21+ points and under 1min in the 3rd Qtr FORCE WIN
Up 21+ points at any point in the 4th Qtr FORCE WIN
Up 14+ points and under 2mins in the 4th Qtr FORCE WIN

If the Coach LOSING the game is in possession of the ball at the time of De-sync

Down 35+ points at any time after halftime OPPONENT FORCE WIN
Down 28+ points and under 3mins in the 3rd Qtr OPPONENT FORCE WIN
Down 28+ points at any time in the 4th Qtr OPPONENT FORCE WIN
Down 21+ points and under 3mins in the 4th Qtr OPPONENT FORCE WIN
Down 14+ points and under 1min in the 4th Qtr OPPONENT FORCE WIN

If any of the criteria above are met, then the winning coach determines the outcome of the game. That being either a Force Win or they play the CPU.

NOTE: This is one of two scenarios in which you can quit CPU games. If you have already “won” the game vs the human you can replay till you win unless you are up against the league advance, then you get one try. The second scenario is when playing a user’s cpu team due to the said user being suspended. (You also have the option to take a force win in this scenario)

14) Times Started: We can track your times started from the main franchise screen so don’t try to hide when you disconnect and try again. It will result in penalties or expulsion from the league.

15) Assigning Wins and Losses: EA finally gave us the ability to assign wins and losses. If you won a game and it’s close to advance time after a de-sync or you just don’t feel like playing the game again let us know and we can assign a WIN for you.

16) Chat Etiquette: Please conduct yourself in a respectful and orderly manner at all times. Disrespectful posts directed toward anyone or anything in the chat will not be tolerated. Trash talk as it pertains to football is acceptable but personal attacks of any kind are strictly prohibited.

All locker room talk and explicit media is prohibited until after 5pm. Fully clothed or at minimum, a bathing suit, is allowed before 5pm.

Removing any person from the chat is also strictly prohibited. Only commissioners will be allowed to remove an individual from the chat.

Banned Abilities: The following Abilities have been banned until further notice. If your player obtains one of these abilities, you may re-roll that player UNTIL the banned ability does not roll.

Film study
Omaha

Each team can have no more than a combination of 4 Super stars and X Factors on each side of the ball. (O linemen will be included in the overall count). You can either have 2 XF and 2 SS or 1 XF and 3 SS but the caveat is you can only have 4 Max and can't exceed 2 XFs.

You will have the option to downgrade an existing SS or XF in order to make space for a new one. (Reach out to a member of the front office to have this done)
Once a player has been downgraded to Star, he may not be changed back to a SS/XF
The "re-roll" sanctions that were put in place last Cycle will remain in place for Madden 23

Note: The front office reserves the right to ban any other abilities if deemed op and push a new vote if the abilities become unbalanced. If option 1 wins the vote, we will reassess the overall state of abilities in the league after 2 seasons.

18) Cap Management: Each team must remain in the black when managing the salary cap. This might mean making tough decisions to not resign your best player or trading/cutting a contributing player on your roster. A part of managing a franchise is managing the salary cap.

In Game Rules (Human):

4th Down Rules:
1. You may now go for it on 4th and 5 or less all the way back to your 40 yard line.
2. If you are winning by 17 points or more you CANNOT go for it on 4th down on the other side of the 50.

Rush 3: You must rush at least 3 players at all times. No 9 man zones. You can use QB Contain as rushes.
No Huddle: You can only run No Huddle during the following scenarios:

Down by 17 points or more anytime
2 min drill, end of half
Down 2 or more scores (9+ points) under 4 mins in the 4th quarter

(If you call a hurry-up by accident DO NOT run a play. Either call a timeout or take a delay of game. If you do not, you will be suspended.)

Chew the Clock/Waste Time: You may only chew clock during the following situations

Last minute of the first half (taking knees)
Last 1:30 of the fourth (coffin time)
4th qtr of a blowout (Let’s pull the plug on this nonsense)

A blowout means 30+ points at any point in the 4th qtr

In Game Rules (CPU):

Very simple, a CPU game is NOT an XP game. We have some simple rules for CPU games. Breaking these rules will result in a 1 game suspension.

Stat Cap: During CPU games, your players must be taken out of the game once they reach a certain stat line that will be outlined below. This is to stop people from stat padding in cpu games and throwing off season awards because you were lucky enough to play a couple computer games.

QB - 450 Passing yards

RB - 250 Rushing yards

WR - 250 Receiving yards

TE - 250 Receiving yards

Once your player reaches any of these stat caps they must be benched for the rest of the game.

Mercy Rule: If you are up on the CPU by 40 pts at any time, pull your skill position starters (QB, RB, WR, TE). Don’t try to keep racking up XP with them when the game is out of hand.

Banned Plays/Gameplay:

Gun Monster Formation: No play out of the two Gun Monster formations is allowed.

Nano Blitzing: No explanation needed

WR Motion Runs: Hiking the ball while the WR is in motion when it’s not designed by the play.

Milking the Clock: See Chew Clock Section

First and Goal D: i.e. Dropping 9 guys into coverage

FG Block/Punt Block as a defense. It is not a defense. It may only be used on FG/Punt attempts

QB Rollouts: Snapping the ball and immediately running to the side to get passing lanes when it’s not designed by the play.

If a “glitch” is discovered during the season, it will be brought to the leagues attention as a banned play, formation or gameplay. If proven to have been used, the violating team will be suspended.

More on QB Runs (Snapping and Sprint) "The Ole S&S"

Immediate running with the QB is only allowed in situations of an instant block shed, or a heavy blitz (5 or more Rushers), or designed run plays like QB Power, QB Draw and Read Option style plays.

Immediate running with the QB on a constant basis 2 or more times in a given game, without the above criteria being met, will be considered snapping and sprinting and will be subject to review by the front office and could result in a suspension if deemed by video evidence it was intentional.

Bottom line, play the game straight up. Don’t try and cheese your opponent by manipulating the AI and code deficiencies.

QB Sneak: QB sneak is only allowed if you are pinned inside your 5 yard line. This should only be run if you need to get some breathing room or are looking to play for the punt or end of half/game.

FB Runs: Handoffs or Toss plays to the Fullback are allowed. No FB dives unless you are pinned inside your 5 yard line. This should only be run if you need to get some breathing room or are looking to play for the punt or end of half/game.

All other suspect game play should be reported to the front office with supporting video evidence. Let’s keep it clean fellas. Play it like a real NFL game.

Reporting Unsportsmanlike Conduct/Banned Gameplay:

To report unsportsmanlike conduct use the “Xbox Record this” Feature. It will record the last 30 seconds of gameplay.

Press the Xbox button on your controller. Then press X

After that you can go to xboxdvr.com and search for your gamertag. The link to the video will be right there. You can let the commission know and we will address it from there.

Yelling about it in the main chat with no proof isn’t going to get things done.

Punishments:

Game Quitting: This is a very competitive league that usually has close to 32 users actively participating. We take quitting very seriously and by joining this league you are stating that you are not the quitting type. That being said, punishments will be more severe in Madden 20 when it comes to quitting. There will no longer be a warning for your 1st offense. This rulebook is your warning.

1st Offense 4 Game Suspension

2nd Offense 8 Game Suspension

3rd Offense 17 Game Suspension

4th Offense Automatic expulsion from league

Roster Requirement Infractions: We have roster minimum requirements in this league to promote balance among teams. We do acknowledge that it is not always a calculated move on the individual’s part to not have the proper amount of players in a position so there will be a somewhat of a grace period to start off.

Player Numbers and Names: Please respect NFL standards for player numbers by position.

1 - 19: Quarterbacks, receivers, running backs, punters, and kickers
20 - 49: Running backs and defensive backs
50 - 59: Centers (or 60-79 if this range is taken)
60 - 79: Defensive linemen and offensive linemen
80 - 89: Receivers and tight ends (or 40-49 if this range is taken)
90 - 99: Defensive linemen and linebackers

1st Offense The individual AND the league will be warned that a roster infraction has occurred and reminded to maintain the roster minimums laid out in the rulebook.

2nd Offense The individual AND the league will be warned that a roster infraction has occurred and reminded to maintain the roster minimums laid out in the rulebook.

3rd Offense The individual AND the league will be warned that a roster infraction has occurred and reminded to maintain the roster minimums laid out in the rulebook.

Any Offense thereafter 1 Game Suspension

*These punishments apply to everything under Roster Requirements

CPU Game Infractions: 1 Game Suspension

User vs. User Game Infraction: 1 Game Suspension. If this happens multiple times the commissioners will evaluate if this league is right for you.

Chat Etiquette Infractions:

1st Offense Formal warning

2nd Offense Formal warning

Any Offense thereafter 1 Game Suspension

Racism is strictly prohibited and is grounds for immediate removal and lifetime ban from MNFL. Political chat - please stay away from it at this time.

Banned Plays: If you run a play that is banned you are subject to the following punishments.

1st Offense 1 Game Suspension

2nd Offense 3 Game Suspension

3rd Offense 8 Game Suspension

4th Offense You will go under consideration for expulsion from the league.

MNFL Court Room:

In the event that there is a dispute that isn’t clearly covered in the rulebook we have created a separate groupme chat to give the individual or individuals the opportunity to present whatever evidence they have or plead their case in a way that we are able to stay on topic and come to the most fair result as possible. MNFL Court is reserved for situations where there is vagueness in whether a rule has been broken or not and there is no clear ruling within the rulebook. A commissioner may ask you if you would like to speak on the situation in the separate chat or if you would feel you may fare better speaking outside of the main chat you can request to speak there.

League Incentives:

Game Played Incentive:

There will be a 3 tier reward system for games played by users. 1 game played = 1 credit

Tier 1: 5 credits = +1 any attribute boost for 1 player OR a normal to star dev jump for 1 player.
Tier 2: 10 credits = +2 any attribute boost OR a Star to SuperStar dev jump for 1 player.
Tier 3: 12 credits = normal to SuperStar dev jump for 1 player.

Earn up If a user reaches out to his opponent and it is determined to be a force win, that does count towards your games played. Speed and Throw Power ARE included for attribute boost but there's a cap. Speed cap is 93 and Throw Power cap is 92. If a players speed or throw power is natively at the cap, you can not update that attribute.

This includes user and cpu games.

Every 7 Games Streamed Incentive:

Every 7 games streamed (GoW count), you get +1 any attribute. Speed cap and throw power cap still applies. Speed cap is 93 and Throw Power cap is 92.

Only user games count for any attribute!

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