Hello AFBL members,
We are about to kick our 4th season as a league for the 2016 season. We have a new Oregon GM (Malek) for this season so welcome to him! We also have 3 future expansion team GMs (Paul, Frank, Matthew) and the 2017 Illinois GM (Raymond) who will take over for the club when Lawrence takes over the 4th expansion team.
I am pleased to have a few announcements about features in OOTP to enhance everyone's experience! Here is an overview on new additions to the league and some rule/options adjustments...
AFBL reaches an agreement with 20 High Schools and 20 Colleges as feeder leagues for its AFBL Amatuer Draft Pool!20 team HS and COL feeder leagues to become AFBL Draft Pool selection beginning
this year (2016) in 2017
100-game balanced schedule for COL
50-game balanced schedule for HS
Player Origin is same as AFBL (USA & Canada with 10% random)
HS player created age is 14; HS roster age limit is 14-17
COL player created age is 18; COL roster age limit is 18-21
AFBL Amatuer Draft Pool UpdatesAmmy Draft Pool moves to 'Feeder League Players only' from previously game generation at specified date
in 2017Ammy Draft stays scheduled for November 15th annually
Ammy Draft Pool still announced 75 days before draft (Sept 1st each year)
Expansion teams will pick in between non-playoff teams and playoff teams for the 2016 Ammy DraftAmmy Draft moves to 8 rounds (11 rounds generated) from 7&9 before in 2016 & 2017
Ammy Draft moves to 7 rounds (10 rounds generated) in 2018 & 2019
Ammy Draft goes back to 7 rounds (9 rounds generated) in 2020 and beyond
OOTP In-Game Option Update...Enable "Overall rating based on all players, not positions" checkbox
AFBL Realignment With 20 Teams...AFBL realigns to two leagues of two divisions of five teams in 2017
AFBL Playoff Format for 2017 and beyond...AFBL votes to go with a playoff format of the two division winners and two wildcards decided by winning percentage. Division winner with highest winning percentage will play lower seeded wildcard. The other division winner would host the top wildcard seed.