*The Developmental Simulation Football League

[adam2552]

I don't think that a TPE max OR 4 year max are necessary.  If a player has value to the pro teams, he will be called up.  If he doesn't, he won't.  NFL Europe, AFL, and CFL don't have maximums, and this isn't supposed to be college.

I think you need the TPE max AND 4 season max to prevent a player from wanting to stay in the DSFL forever. You don't want a 1000 TPE player down there beating up on new players because he refuses to sign for a NSFL team. You also don't want a guy purposefully sabotaging his TPE to be the best DSFL player for 10 seasons before he retires, recreates, and repeats.

I don't believe NSFL teams should be able to freely call up or send down players.  This would be a nightmare for cap management as well as for GMs.  Right after the draft, cuts are made.  Once those players are released, they are DSFL players for one season.  At the end of that season, they are free agents, eligible for NSFL or DSFL.  I would be okay with limited call ups, maybe one per team, which would allow some flexibility for pro GMs without being a pain.  Also, with all the work DSFL GMs are going to put into planning their strategies, completely losing players every week makes it far more tedious to game plan.  That's a bad thing.

My vision of the DSFL is a lot more like the D-League (G-League) in the NBA rather than the CFL or AFL. If a player enters the draft and signs with a NSFL team, his contract is still paid by the NSFL team. The DSFL is just a more attractive option than riding the bench. The salary is still the same and still counts against the NSFL team's cap. I doubt there would be many call ups/send downs in season. It would really only happen if an in season trade forced a low TPE NSFL starter to become a backup. Then the NSFL team could send him down to the DSFL so he can still play some games. Again, this would have no effect on salary cap, he still belongs to the NSFL team.

I also have concerns about the dispersal draft.  Having to redraft an ENTIRE team every season is both ridiculously tiring and allows no practice in drafting to improve a team.  This is just more work for the sake of more work.  It would not be fun.  It would be a five hour draft every month and a half.

The dispersal draft will ensure parity in the league. I think the dispersal draft will keep the DSFL fresh and stop players from building allegiances with teams/teammates and not moving on to the NSFL. I also think the DSFL draft pool will be relatively small compared to the NSFL draft pool every year. The stakes are also much lower since there is a redraft every season, in my mind it shouldn't be nearly as time consuming as the NSFL Rookie Draft is. If it starts during the NSFL preseason, you could even do a week long slow draft on a Google Sheet or something.


A negative to a dispersal draft is that it would take the DSFL GM's ability to trade away. Although since they will have players that are NSFL owned anyways, I'm not sure how much trading would take place when a player could be plucked away after the season anyways.