1. Team Ownership Rules

1a. Coach-owned teams:

The success of the XFBS is directly a result of the effort, energy, and integrity of the commissioner, and the level of involvement and activity of the owners.  The following rules are to ensure the integrity of the league, and to assure a long future for the XFBS.

 

Each team will have one primary “owner” who is ultimately responsible for all actions of that team.  The owner may delegate certain responsibilities to other people, such as GMs, assistant coaches, etc., but the owner remains fully responsible to make sure the team abides by all rules, and is sufficiently “active” to stay in the league.

 

No person can hold a role with more than one team.  That includes being an owner, GM, assistant coach, etc.  If a person is involved with a team, they cannot have ownership/management/coaching involvement with any other team.  This is to protect the integrity of competition and to eliminate any conflict-of-interest if the teams were to meet.

 

Owners are expected to participate and remain active.  If an owner is recurrently “absent” from team activities (roster moves, PPPs, recruitment draft, training camp, etc), they will be "retired" and will fall under the computer-owned team rules below.  If you’re going to be absent for some period of time (vacations, etc) – send an email to the commissioner letting him know your situation, and arrange for someone else to help with critical team activities in your absence.

 

If the commish does not hear anything from a new "owner" for 6 game weeks in a row, his team will be listed as "retired" and will fall under the computer-owned team rules below. The commish will keep track of the last date he was contacted by each "owner" on the Coach's page. If it is a tenured coach (more than 1 season), the rule is 8 weeks.

 

If an "owner" does not participate throughout an entire offseason or the entire draft, his team will be listed as "retired" and will fall under the computer-owned team rules below.

 

If an owner does not send a Training Camp file, his team will be listed as "retired" and will fall under the computer-owned team rules below.

 

If a coach-owned team becomes vacant or inactive at any point, the following applies: If you quit, you can request an exception and ask that a former "retired" coach's PPPs or the CPU profiles be used for your team and that your profiles remain private. If you lose your team due to inactivity or do not request an exception when you quit, your latest profiles will be used.

 

New owners/coaches are encouraged to seek out advice from seasoned owners. Usually after a couple of seasons, you’ll be well on your way to building a strong franchise.

 

1b. Commish-owned team:

If the commish owns a team, he can run it just like any other human coach. He can make roster, profile and plan changes weekly. He can use the XFBS and PNFL play pool. He can submit custom plays to the XFBS play pool in the offseason and between game weeks. Plays he submitted between game weeks will not become publicly available to the league until the following week just like it is for other human coaches. He is not required to make his actual game plans and profiles available ever.

 

If the commish reaches the playoffs, he will always run layoff games versus human opponents LIVE on-line through a screen sharing service to further provide full transparency.

 

1c. Computer-owned teams:

The reality of FBPRO in 2017 and beyond is that most of the coaches that used to play this game have retired. To address the decline of available active FBPRO coaches, computer-owned teams in the XFBS will be managed as follows:

 

• The commissioner will manage all computer-owned teams including roster moves, PPPs, recruitment, and training camp.

 

• Computer-owned teams will use the XFBS and PNFL play pool. The commish will endeavor to use profiles, plays and schemes being used by the team's NCAA counterpart. In other words, if NCAA Wisconsin is using the i-formation with a heavy run focus, so will the CPU Wisconsin team in the XFBS.

 

• The commish will assign a 'retired' coach to each CPU team to give it 'personality.' The commissioner will ensure these "retired" coaches were successful in FBPRO in the past. During the offseason only, the commish can supplement the XFBS play pool with custom plays from that particular "retired" coach's plays that comply with XFBS play design rules.

 

• Computer-owned teams will use the same set of PPPs throughout the regular season and playoffs. No plays will be added or removed from CPU game plans during the season. The same profiles will be used throughout the season as well. All CPU gameplans will be made available in the Play Pool. The Commish will also provide multiple sets of CPU profiles in the Play Pool that the CPU teams will use. DO NOT ASK WHICH PROFILES A CPU TEAM IS USING. Because everyone has access to the CPU gameplans, determining which profiles a CPU team uses is the only real challenge to scouting them. You'll have to figure out which profiles they are using based on log files and team statistics. Human coaches can use the CPU profiles too (highly recommended for newbies).

 

• If a computer-owned team finishes THREE CONSECUTIVE regular seasons WITH A RECORD WORSE THAN 5-7, the retired coach will be "fired" from that team. What this means is that the commissioner will simply start adding another "retired coach's" custom plays to the XFBS play pool during the offseason for use by that team (and the league). After the first losing season, the retired coach will go on 'coaching watch' status. After the second consecutive losing season, the retired coach will go on 'hot seat' status. After the third consecutive losing season, the retired coach will be FIRED.

 

 

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