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The Unofficial Rules and theme of the game
Topic Started: Oct 22 2008, 03:44 PM (1,004 Views)
Deledio2Tambling
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OK guys, here it is.

Myself, dtm and Jarman Magic have come up with the idea for this Supercoach trade game, and IMO its set to revolutionise these style games.

What we have proposed is an English soccer-style promotion/relegation system where we have 16 clubs, 8 of which are in a 'Premier League', and the other 8 are in a second division.

The Initial Draft

To begin with, everyone goes into the draft pool. I believe the Division 1 teams should get the pick of the litter, and when I say the pick of the litter I mean it. So much so that they may have the first 18 rounds of the draft all to themselves to pick their 18 (18 x 8 = 144). There is one catch for the very first 18 rounds of drafting for Division 1, and that is that they cannot draft any of the draft picks from last season in the first allocated draft (ie. Cotchin, Palmer, Kreuzer etc.). Next, the Division 2's do a draft out of the remaining players and go for 18 rounds (18 x 8 = 144). So right there you've probably only got roughly half the players in the AFL on lists. For all the remaining players in the draft, everyone (both Div.1 and Div.2 teams) draft the remaining players.

I think this works because Div.1 will have the better players, and so they should, but Div.2 will still be left with a lot of guys who get regular games as well.

Promotion/Relegation

Here's where the fun starts. At the end of each season, the bottom 2 teams from Div.1 will be relegated, and the top 2 teams from Div.2 will be promoted.

The National Draft

In the National Draft each year, the Division 2 clubs will all get 1 priority pick (picks 1-8), and for the subsequent rounds after that all clubs get involved with the remaining picks. This gives Division 2 a hand by getting the early picks. However, the catch is Div.1 clubs can trade for these picks as they see fit. This gives great strategy in trading as a Div.1 club may try and continue to build on their good club by trading for picks to be used on talented youth, and it gives Div.2 teams the opportunity to pick up a good player or two that may help them out of the doldrums.

However, for THIS year's upcoming draft, ALL draft picks will go into the draft BUT only after the Div 1 teams have taken their first 18 picks along with any player drafted in 2007. This will give Div 2 teams first opportunity to grab the best young talent if they wish however Div.1 teams can trade for them if they choose to do so.

Trading

Any club will be allowed to trade with any club, be it Div.1 or Div.2.
Seniors can be traded for rookies as long as the teams remain within the list size max & min (below)

List Size
All lists must be between 36-44 seniors and 3-9 rookies

Matches, Premiership Cups

See the "2009 Season" section linked below
http://z13.invisionfree.com/AFL_Premier_Le.../index.php?c=11
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I obviously really like the idea as we will see a flurry of activity from clubs trying to keep their head above water come relegation time, and clubs scrambling to get promoted to Div.1.

Cheers guys,

D2T.
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Thoughts guys? We can change certain aspects of it if you're not entirely satisfied.
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So now there's no allocated teams?


Just a full draft system?

Might want to start soon then.

could take a while.
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I worked it out that if we started on November 1, 5 players would need to be drafted a day before the season started.

If someone has another way around this, I'd love to hear it.
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Ok I'm interested again. In a div 2 team.

Change from that I'd like to see is scrapping of div 2 teams having the first 4 rounds of the draft to themselves, would prefer simply both divisions to take part, from worst to best in div 2 first (first 8 picks in each round), then div 1 teams worst to best (last 8 picks in each round).
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Don't know if all of Div 1's team should be picked before Div 2's.

But what do you mean 5 players need to be selected before the start of the season.
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Ziggy
Oct 22 2008, 05:14 PM
Don't know if all of Div 1's team should be picked before Div 2's.

But what do you mean 5 players need to be selected before the start of the season.

he means 5 players would need to be picked per day in order to have the teams finalised by the start of the new season.
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Oct 22 2008, 06:19 PM
Ziggy
Oct 22 2008, 05:14 PM
Don't know if all of Div 1's team should be picked before Div 2's.

But what do you mean 5 players need to be selected before the start of the season.

he means 5 players would need to be picked per day in order to have the teams finalised by the start of the new season.

Yep! :D
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Ziggy
Oct 22 2008, 06:14 PM
Don't know if all of Div 1's team should be picked before Div 2's.

But what do you mean 5 players need to be selected before the start of the season.

It's not ALL of the team, its 18 players out of probably 40 odd in the end.
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Jarman Magic
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Now that there's not just 8 teams + reserves/affiliates we're gonna have to get 16 coaches asap.

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Yep, if we could get eight Div.1 coaches quickly though we could get that draft started while we look for others.

Even if it takes time, it wouldnt matter so much if we missed the first 3 weeks of the season.

Would leave 19 rounds, take away 4 for finals?

So 15 regular season rounds and a FA Cup style thing to work out.
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Deledio2Tambling
Oct 22 2008, 07:45 PM
Yep, if we could get eight Div.1 coaches quickly though we could get that draft started while we look for others.

Even if it takes time, it wouldnt matter so much if we missed the first 3 weeks of the season.

Would leave 19 rounds, take away 4 for finals?

So 15 regular season rounds and a FA Cup style thing to work out.

8 in each division means 14 rounds for each team to play each other twice so that'd work
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Oct 22 2008, 05:19 PM
Ziggy
Oct 22 2008, 05:14 PM
Don't know if all of Div 1's team should be picked before Div 2's.

But what do you mean 5 players need to be selected before the start of the season.

he means 5 players would need to be picked per day in order to have the teams finalised by the start of the new season.

so would that allow any time for trading?

I like the FA/EPL style though.

sounds good.
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Ziggy
Oct 22 2008, 08:50 PM
dtm 06
Oct 22 2008, 05:19 PM
Ziggy
Oct 22 2008, 05:14 PM
Don't know if all of Div 1's team should be picked before Div 2's.

But what do you mean 5 players need to be selected before the start of the season.

he means 5 players would need to be picked per day in order to have the teams finalised by the start of the new season.

so would that allow any time for trading?

I like the FA/EPL style though.

sounds good.

Hmmm probably not while drafting, but once all drafts are completed its open slather.

Although I don't see a MAJOR reason as to why people can't trade while the drafts are going on.
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are teams going to have a salary cap?
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No. Salary Caps would be too complicated for this game and would hinder trading.
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Definitely liking the idea, and a good decision on not having a salary cap.
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Yeah good decision to not have a salary cap. Maybe if the game games well next season, it could be looked at for further seasons ?

Not 100% about the drafting thing though with Divi 1 teams getting so many early picks, wouldnt it mean there would be too much of a gap between the two divisions ?
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Oct 23 2008, 02:34 PM
Yeah good decision to not have a salary cap. Maybe if the game games well next season, it could be looked at for further seasons ?

Not 100% about the drafting thing though with Divi 1 teams getting so many early picks, wouldnt it mean there would be too much of a gap between the two divisions ?

That's the idea of having 2 divisions. After conducting some research players in the low 80's (average) will be available to Div 2 sides.

With trading during the season, some teams will trade well, and some will trade poorly. Think about it this way, once the Div.2 guys do their draft, all the depth guys will be gone probably, which will leave Div 1 sides not much depth to choose from.

This will encourage trading between everyone as they try and shore up their list.

Don't worry mate it'll all work out, trust me.
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Im putting my trust in you mate :)
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