- Player pool: Fictional
- Economics: Level economic playing field, set at the Allocation Draft
- Cohesion / Chemistry: On
- Government: Dictatorship. Sorry, someone needs to call the shots.
- Injury setting: 50 (off during the preseason)
- Combine accuracy: 50
- Sims per week: 5 – 6
- Cap increase range: 50 to 50 (a flat $5M per season)
- Sim engine: FOF8
House Rules
- No franchise tag / ticket stage. This may be reconsidered down the road.
- 70-player limit. If you go over 70 players under contract at any time, there will be draft pick penalties.
- Be under the cap for Week 1. Every team must be under the league salary cap when Regular Season Week 1 is simmed. If you're not, the league will make cuts for you, and you may lose draft pick(s). At all other points in the season, FOF's cap rules apply. That includes trades: a trade that puts you over the cap will not be processed.
- No moving franchises. Do not do a team relocation.
- Drafted rookies can be traded at any point from the draft through the trade deadline.
- No illegal defensive game plans. You may not use a defensive game plan that makes the log show plays the game isn't meant to allow. If you run a 4-3, you can't load (or leave in) a 3-4 game plan, or vice versa, that makes the game report more blitzers than your front allows, or a QB spy when one shouldn't be available.
Not House Rules (listed for clarity)
The catch-all: if it's allowed in FOF and not specifically banned here, it's allowed in the WAFL. These aren't house rules as such, just reminders:
- Sign-and-trade is illegal, as per FOF rules, except for current-year draftees after the draft (House Rule 5).
- All renegotiations are allowed, as per FOF rules.
- You can't trade a draft pick that doesn't exist in the game.
- There are no restrictions on the kinds of offers you can make to free agents.
Competitiveness
Apart from the two exceptions below, owners are expected to make every effort to win as many games as possible in every season. "Tanking" (putting forth little or no effort to win) to improve your draft position is not allowed.
Always acceptable:
- Benching a player who is injured to any degree until he's healed.
- Resting your starters once your team has clinched a playoff berth.
Beyond that, whether a team is in violation is up to the sole discretion of the Commish. If you're in doubt about something, ask before you do it.
Penalties may include loss of draft picks, being moved down in the draft order, or any other penalty the League Administration sees fit, up to and including expulsion from the league.
Trading and Competitiveness
Roster dumps and fire sales are not allowed. That said, I believe in letting owners run their teams as they see fit, as long as it doesn't look like they're tanking or gutting their talent.
The same goes for lopsided deals. I want everyone to feel comfortable trading freely, but I reserve the right to veto any trade I believe is unacceptably lopsided.
If I believe someone is breaking the spirit of these rules, I'll act to fix it. That may mean a talk with the owner, a discussion with the Assistant Commissioners, a direct ruling from me, or any combination of the three.
My only goal is that everyone enjoys themselves and stays competitive every season.
— CMax
