- The allocation draft on the site, then entered into the game.
- Training camp, preseason, the 17-week regular season, the playoffs and the Bowl, twice.
- A full offseason: coach re-signings and a stadium vote, the staff draft, free agency (including two owners bidding on the same player), the rookie draft on the site (all 224 picks imported into the game exactly as made) and Late FA.
- An outside owner importing and exporting all season.
- 59 site updates after sims, every one clean.
Thank you to everyone who set lists, drafted and poked around the site. It helped.
What's left before launch: a short list, mostly cosmetic
- Draft room (being built now, live before the draft): real buttons on the position filter (All / All but K-P-LS / Clear all); a quick-look panel to check a player without leaving the list; My DA's Players tab split into pages so it loads fast.
- League pages (before the first sims):
- ratings that show 0 / 0 for a day at the start of preseason
- sim threads that list every week of a multi-week sim
- box scores and game logs that open in a new tab
- injury and IR markers on rosters
- a "file in for this stage" mark on Upload Status
- a weather pop-up that pushes the Schedule sideways
- Offseason touch-ups (before the first offseason): a staff-draft edge case, coach re-signings listed under the wrong heading, and a better default rookie pick for teams with no scouting upload.
None of these change how the league runs.
Rollout
Over the next few days I'll switch the site from the rehearsal league to the real WAFL and set up the allocation draft.
- Mon 10/26: the allocation draft starts on the site. It uses preference lists only, as in the rehearsal, and should take about a week. The details are in "WAFL Allocation Draft — How It Will Work".
- After the draft, I enter every pick of all 53 rounds into the game by hand, so your whole draft is exactly what you chose.
- Fri 11/6: the league files go out (Pre-Training Camp). This is your first import.
- Mon 11/9: Training Camp, then preseason that week.
- Mon 11/16: Week 1.
How the schedule works
Like IHOF, the WAFL runs continuously: one season rolls straight into the next with no break.
- Each season takes six weeks: regular season, playoffs and offseason.
- There are six sims a week, Monday to Saturday. Sunday is always off.
- Each day is a deadline: have your file exported before that day's sim.
Week 1 — Regular season
- Mon–Sat: Weeks 1–6
Week 2 — Regular season
- Mon–Sat: Weeks 7–12
Week 3 — Regular season
- Mon–Fri: Weeks 13–17
- Sat: midweek
Week 4 — Playoffs and staff
- Mon: Wild Card
- Tue: Divisional
- Wed: Conference
- Thu: Bowl, then the season rolls over
- Fri: Staff retention (re-sign coaches)
- Sat: Staff draft, then free agency opens (the rookie class is out)
Week 5 — Free agency and the rookie draft
- Mon: FA 2 (rookie draft starts)
- Tue: FA 3
- Wed: FA 4–5
- Thu: FA 6–8
- Fri: FA 9–12, rookie draft into the game, Late FA opens
- Sat: Late FA, then Pre-Training Camp
Week 6 — Training camp and preseason
- Mon: Training Camp
- Tue: Preseason 1–2
- Wed: midweek
- Thu: Preseason 3–4
- Fri: Preseason 5
- Sat: midweek
The next Monday is Week 1 of the next season.
The rookie draft runs on the site Monday to Friday of week 5. You'll have the weekend before to study the class.
- Clocks: 2 hours in round 1, 90 minutes in round 2, 60 in round 3, 30 in round 4 and 15 in rounds 5–7.
- The clocks run 8 AM – 8 PM CT.
- If the draft is lagging on Wednesday evening, I'll switch the clocks to 24/7 so it finishes in time for Friday's import.
Season 1 key dates
- Week 1: Mon 11/16
- Week 17: Fri 12/4
- Playoffs: Mon 12/7 – Wed 12/9
- Bowl and rollover: Thu 12/10
- Staff draft: Sat 12/12
- Free agency and rookie draft: Mon 12/14 – Fri 12/18
- Late FA: Sat 12/19
- Training Camp and preseason: Mon 12/21 – Sat 12/26
- Season 2, Week 1: Mon 12/28
Season 3 then starts Mon 2/8, and so on, every six weeks.
We play through the holidays: Thanksgiving is Week 10 and Christmas is Preseason 5.
Questions? Reply here.
Thanks!
CMax
