2021 Season Timelines

[Burt the Butcher]

Mon April 19th at 11:59pm - RFA Declarations are Due
Fri April 30th at 11:59pm - Soft Cap Period Ends - Renegotiations and Franchise tag due
May 1st at 12:00am - Hard Cap Period Begins, rosters rollover and bonus add
Mon May 3rd at 12:00am - RFA Bidding Opens
Mon May 31st at 11:59pm - RFA Bidding Closes
June 1st at 12:00am - Rookie Draft Begins

First Monday after rookie draft ends at 12:00am - Opening of the UFA period

August 31st at 12:00am - this will be a flexible date each year that basically commences the day after the 3rd pre-season games end (4th for the few teams that play 5). This will be approximately 7-10 days before the NFL regular season kicks off - Injured Reserve Opens

August 31st at 11:59pm - this will be a flexible date each year that basically commences the day after the 3rd pre-season games end (4th for the few teams that play 5). This will be approximately 7-10 days before the NFL regular season kicks off - Off-Season Free Agency ENDS

September 1st 12:00am (flexible date to be the day after contracts and DS are declared) - opening of In-Season Free Agency

[Burt the Butcher]

Just a reminder, rosters rollover end of Friday this week. I will be working on new MFL site this weekend hopefully...

[Burt the Butcher]

Dates have been modified above per preseason schedule...so declarations are due August 24th

[Royal Hawaiian Opihi]

Aren't you a week off? This is the first weekend of games... so the 3rd weekend of games would be the weekend of the 27th-29th... making the 31st our target date? At least that's what I put for FRENZY. Or am I off?

[pacificscrub]

It depends on which takes precedence in the rules as this particular one is now outdated. Teams only play three preseason games instead of four, so either the declarations continue to be after the third week of games, which is only three days before the first game of the season or they are due after the second week of games so that they remain 10 days before the first game is played.

[Royal Hawaiian Opihi]

ooohhh... good point.

[Preds]

Earlier in the off-season we all discussed keeping the rules as is with all moves do within 24 hours of the NFL's final cuts. The last NFL Week 3 Pre-Season game is on Sunday August 29th and I believe rosters have to be paired down to 53 by Monday 8/30, meaning our pair down / roster declaration day will be by Tuesday 8/31, not 8/24.

[Burt the Butcher]

Originally Posted by Preds

Earlier in the off-season we all discussed keeping the rules as is with all moves do within 24 hours of the NFL's final cuts. The last NFL Week 3 Pre-Season game is on Sunday August 29th and I believe rosters have to be paired down to 53 by Monday 8/30, meaning our pair down / roster declaration day will be by Tuesday 8/31, not 8/24.

OK, given the change in preseason this year, this seems fair. Sorry, life has kept me away from here.

Dates above have been adjusted accordingly

[pacificscrub]

Burt's timeline works. While there are only three preseason games this year, they increased the time between the end of the preseason and the start of the regular season by one week, so we'll still have over 10 days before games start based on Burt's dates.

[Philadelphia Freedom]

Silly question as I am starting to review my roster to make decisions. Do we assign years to PS/TS players in this league or just when they are moved to active roster?

[Royal Hawaiian Opihi]

only when we move them to active.
not a silly question. new territory for all of us.

[Philadelphia Freedom]

Thanks, just wanted to confirm that SAC'd approved the same updates that Frenzy did. Thanks again!

[Burt the Butcher]

Originally Posted by Royal Hawaiian Opihi

only when we move them to active.
not a silly question. new territory for all of us.

We did not vote on this rule in SAC'd - only Frenzy. So yes, we still assign years to all new players.

I was going to put this out for vote here, but I decided did not make as much sense in SAC'd, since we offer renegotiations, which allows you to keep players well beyond the 5 years.

But that was my reasoning for not putting it out to vote on....I am just commish, not dictator, so if anyone else feels it is worthy of a vote, go for it...

[Philadelphia Freedom]

Thanks I appreciate the clarification!

[Royal Hawaiian Opihi]

Sorry for spreading fake news.

[Burt the Butcher]

Originally Posted by Royal Hawaiian Opihi

Sorry for spreading fake news.