Rules & Guidelines

*Gameplay Settings
-8 Min Qtrs
-Acc. Clock ON
-Trade: ON-No CPU trade
-Injury: ON
-Fatigue: ON
-Weather: ON

General Rules
*We are an active league. We sim every 2 days and we need dedicated users!
-If you play someone that hasn't arrived yet, let us know and we'll temporarily boot the user so you can play.
-If you can't make the game, let BigRed8592 know. That way we won't have people waiting around whining about how their opponent hasn't arrived yet.

*Any known glitches in the game: THESE ARE NOT ALLOWED IF YOU GET CAUGHT DOING ANY YOU'LL BE BOOTED NO EXCEPTIONS!
-Motioning Glitch
-DC Glitch
-Line of Scrimmage Glitch
-Pause Glitch
-Pile Up Glitch
-Onside Kick Glitch
-Hit Stick Glitch
-Onside Kick Glitch
-Nano Blitzing

The list of glitches goes on. Any known type of glitch in the game and again it WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!

*Do not quit or disconnect for any sole purpose.
-If you disconnect because of the game freezes or any other type of disconnection early in the game (1st Qtr, 2nd Qtr), that user has to reset the game.
-If you are getting blown out by a large margin and you dc, the user can continue. Odds are you won't win anyway.
-If the user can prove that you d/c on purpose, you won't get a second chance and you'll be booted from the league. One thing that this league will not allow are quitters.

Little Gamplay Rules

Goal Line

You can only use the formation within the 10 yard lines of both sides of the field

Onside Kicks

No onside kicks unless down by 21 points
No onside kicks unless down in the 4th quarter
Any onside kicks when your up then your automatically gone

Moving Players/Nano blitzes

You may manually move one player prior to the snap anywhere, but you must user that player
Do not put any players manually in the gaps, as this is a clear way of a Nano Blitz occuring.

Special Teams

Special Teams formations cannot be altered before the snap
Don't do fake plays unless in a realistic situation
On Field Goal Defense do not move the MLB at all before the snap.

Defensive Rule

No defensive player is allowed to be moved until the ball is hiked.
Once the ball is hiked, you may move your defensive player.
Don't go cheesing or nano blitzing or anything that is a known glitch.

Defensive Line Rule
Do not loop your D-Line players manually; d-line player, especially fast ones, can loop around the opposing O-Line player and reach the QB with no blocker in site
Make sure you d-line player makes contact with the opposing O-Line player before any type of loop is made

No Huddle

You can no huddle in the 4th when you are down
You can no huddle within 2 minutes of each half
You cannot no huddle if the clock stops

Two Point Conversion

Should only go for it to tie or cut/add the lead to a field goal or touchdown
If down by 21 points then you can go for two

Sportsmanship

Don't run up the score on your opponent
Run the ball/clock when you get a huge lead
Knee it when you can at the end of the game
Use backups and get them some time plus subbing in backups can prevent injuries
Trash talk is allowed, but keep it civil


Milking the Clock
Do NOT milk the clock all game.
You shouldn't be running out the clock if you have a small lead early in the game.
If you have a very large lead when it's not in the 4th qtr, you should just run the ball along with the clock.
In the 4th qtr, you are allowed to milk the clock.
Use common sense, just think: "would a real NFL team run out the clock in this position?"

CPU Games

Keep them as realistic as you would play a human game
Don't pass the whole game
Spread the ball around
Don't pad stats. Use backups and get them some playing time
Play the game the way you would play a User game
63-6 kinda games will be suspicious that your pading the stats
If you get up big then run the ball/clock
We will be looking at your stats

Money Plays

Don't run plays that beats any kind of coverage
If this is how you play then just don't bother joining

Rocket Catches

No Rocket catches
Don't lob it deep then stop then go and catch the ball
User catches are allowed

Scrambling with Quarterbacks

Do not scramble right after you hike the ball
Do not run straight to the sidelines after you hike the ball
Do NOT drop back like 30yds or so and throw perfect passes.
Try to stay in the pocket. If you got pressure on you, you can scramble.

Flats

Do not just throw to your running backs after you hike the ball
Look for an open Receiver,go through your progessions before dumping it off to your backs

Mix Up Play Calling

You can run screens or wildcat thats fine, but don't just run it the whole game
Mix it up on offense and defense
Don't just run any one formation like 1-5-5 on defense. These are viewed like screens and wildcat plays

Motioning

When manually motioning a player. He must be set before hiking the ball

4th Down Rules

If it's 4th down punt the ball. But if you're down by a very large margin you can go for it.
You can go for it if its 4th and 1 past your opponents 50 yrd line
You can go for it any time in the 4th qtr when you'rer down
If you are leading by a large margin and it's 4th down, punt it no matter what. You shouldn't keep going for it on 4th down just so you can run up the score or pad stats.

Trading Rules

2 is the limit for how many trades you can make per week; 4 is the max amount of players/picks you may trade per trade
To get your trade approved both players have to agree on the trade first then one of you post the trade under the trade approval section then wait to see if your trade will be approved by BigRed8592

Keep the trades fair we don't care if you trade a 80 ovr for a 81 ovr but no Aaron Rodgers for Matt Cassel kind of trades.

You may trade draft picks but only rounds 1-4 because i dont think people will trade 5th,6th,7th round picks,Both players have to be at the draft if you traded a pick,if your not at the draft its your fault unless you told us otherwise,when the draft comes around and your draft pick is up the draft will be paused and the players that traded the pick has to contact eachother about who they want,then at the end of the draft you have to drop the player who they choose into free agency.

12 is the max draft picks you can have
4 is the min draft picks you can have

How You Will Get Booted Rules

You get 3 strikes which means 3 chances to stay in the league,get 3 and your booted
Everytime you get a strike it will be recorded in you team page.
Everytime you get a strike you will get a starter or a high OVR player on your team benched of the committee and my choosing for a game. The player will be suspended in the owner's next user game. Here are some examples.
If you break a rule in Week 6 and next user game is Week 10 he'll get suspended for Week 10.
If you break a rule in Week 12 and you don't get a user game until the playoffs, you'll get suspended for that playoff game.
If you break a rule in Week 16 and you don't have another user game until next season, you'll get a suspension for your next user game next season.

Heres A list of notiable rules that if you break them you get a strike:

• Padding stats
  
• Glitching
  
• Cheesing
  
• Not showing up to your game
  
• Threating or hurtful things sent via xbox live,pm,email,or any way they threatened you.
  
• Spaming
  
• Disruptive in the Chatbox
  

Basicly if you break a rule you get a strike
If you see someone breaking a rule in a game save highlights and put it in the highlights section to review

You will get automaticly booted for the following:Quiting a game,playing the cpu over and over untill u win,lying about the way you played,not being on the site or doing anything league related for days,breaking multible rules in a game

You have to come on the site at least once a day unless your out of town or you will be gone for the day notify us in the vacation and the away from the league section for that.

Losing Purposely for a better Draft Pick
Madden NFL 10 Season 1 & 2: If caught losing purposely during Season 1, you will lose your 1st Round Pick for 7 games and your 2nd Round Pick for 5 games. If caught losing purposely during Season 2, you will be removed since we won't be having a draft for Season 3.
Madden NFL 11 and onward: If caught losing purposely, you will give up your 1st and 2nd Round Pick in next seasons NFL Draft. If you traded your 1st and 2nd Round Pick away, the player (if both traded, two players) you traded for will not be usable for the next season.

Depth Chart Rules

Depth Chart
QB can play QB
HB can play HB
FB can play FB
WR can play WR
TE can play TE or FB
Any O-Line player can play any O-Line position
DT can play DT,RE,or LE
RE can play DT, LE, or RE
LE can play DT, RE, or LE
OLB can play OLB or MLB
MLB can play MLB or OLB
CB can play CB,FS,or SS
FS can play FS or SS
SS can play SS or FS
K can play K
P can play P
Either K or P can be KOS

Any other postion changes have to be through packages

Free Agent Rules

Free Agency Will work like this:

At the Beginning of each season we will have a Free Agent Draft this first season will be in a random order the next seasons FA draft will go by rookie draft order excluding traded draft picks.

After the Free Agent Draft you are only able to sign 2 FA a week if you sign more you will get a strike

Every Free Agent you sign will be recorded on your team page

Only exception to signing more than 2 FA is cause of injury

You have to post the FA your signing under the section Free agency market you have to post his name and OVR

These two players cant be signed at all times because they are not real-WR Joe Walsh RB Shagg Makino

No Releasing injured players,if you release any players it will be recorded in your team pages and you have to post that your releasing the player and again you have to post there name and OVR



Well thats all the rules have any questions complaints about the rules contact BigRed8592 via xbox live, chatbox, PM, email anything and we can as a league figure it out.

And just keep in mind its a sim league so just keep the game as real as possible so we wont have complaining all over the league about this cause people dont like that. HAVE FUN!