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FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION SOMIFA

Updated 1/25/2012

Welcome to the SOMIFA! The SOMIFA is a 24 team draft keeper league – each league member drafts individual players and keeps them from year to year – in which each team plays a 16-game schedule (plus potential playoffs) each year. If after viewing these web pages you have any questions please don’t hesitate to post on our League Message Board.

SSFA Spring Keeper Draft League: Strat-O-Matic Spring Football Association SSFA

SOMIBA Strat-O-Matic Basketball League: Strat-O-Matic Internet Basketball Association SOMIBA

SOM Draft Defensive Cards (updated for v9): SOM Draft Defensive Cards

SOM Football Articles: Managing Offense, Short Yardage, Defending the Flat Pass, Formations

Strat-O-Matic Quick Start Guide (I created this guide which is mostly for those who have never seen the game): Strat Football Quick Start Guide

HOST of the game – please e-mail me the POST file as soon as the game ends.

Please set your game options to autosave after each play and either fastest animation or no animation; also, turn off scroll play-by-play text.

The Rookie/Free-Agent Draft will occur on the Saturday before the first Sunday of each NFL season. The 2011 draft order is OAK, CHI/MIN/DET*, SEA, BAL/NYG/JAX, NE/KC, DAL/NO/GB/PHI, TB, HOU, TBD by playoff results. A lottery will be needed in the 2011 preseason for whether CHI or MIN drafts higher in odd-numbered rounds. Teams separated by a slash alternate positions in even-numbered rounds.

Round 2 Playoff Spectator Files: Round 2 Spectator Files

2010 Standings (updated as results are received including playoffs)

2010 Stats (posted 12/23/2011 through Q3)

2010 Final League File (posted 1/20/2012)

2010 Rosters and Schedule (updated as transactions occur)

2010 Draft (final update 9/17/2011)

If you download the league file after you have downloaded your pregame files then you will need to download your pregame files again.

2010 Season Dates:

· July 1, 2011 – Strat publishes the ratings preview

· July 4, 2011 – SOMIFA rosters updated with ratings

· August 31, 2011 – Strat ships game, SOMIFA rosters updated with position ratings (QB, special teams, etc.)

· September 3, 2011 at 1:00pm PT – trading season began

· September 7, 2011 at 10:00pm Pacific Time – cut deadline for any necessary cuts (extra P or K only)

· September 10, 2011 at 8:00am Pacific Time – annual rookie/free-agent draft via AIM chat room

· September 14, 2011 at 9:00pm Pacific Time – deadline to cut down to 53 players (plus up to 3 on IR)

· September 17, 2011 at 3:00pm Pacific Time – deadline for Supplemental Draft picks; Supplemental Draft to be held via lists (not a live draft) at or after this time on 9/17

· September 22, 2011 at 9:00pm Pacific Time – deadline for trades and for teams to declare left/right swaps and choice of 3-4 or 4-3 (and optional coach file)

· September 23, 2011 at 9:00pm Pacific Time – first quarter pregame files sent

· October 24, 2011 at 9:00pm Pacific Time – deadline for all first quarter games

· November 22, 2011 at 9:00pm Pacific Time – deadline for all second quarter games

· December 21, 2011 at 9:00pm Pacific Time – deadline for all third quarter games

· January 18, 2012 at 9:00pm Pacific Time – deadline for all fourth quarter games

· January 20, 2012 – playoff round 1 pregame files sent

2010 Season League News:

• September 3, 2011 Trade – MIN receives RCB 6 Cortland Finnegan; SF receives QB Kyle Orton
• September 3, 2011 Trade – SD receives LILB 5-0 Bradie James; TB receives LT 5-5 Bryant McKinnie, SD #6, and SD #9
• September 4, 2011 Trade – NE receives RILB 5-10 Kevin Burnett; ATL receives FS 5 Chris Harris
• September 4, 2011 Trade – DAL receives RILB 5-6 Carlos Dansby; NO receives LDT 5-1 Domata Peko and DAL #7
• September 5, 2011 Trade – ATL receives NT 5-3 Ahtyba Rubin and TE 4 Todd Heap; SF receives ATL #1, JAX #3, and 2011 ATL #3
• September 7, 2011 Trade – PHI receives HB Darren McFadden, BUF #6, and 2011 BUF #4; BUF receives NT 5-6 Kyle Williams, PHI #1 (9^th overall), PHI #7, and 2011 PHI #1
• September 7, 2011 Trade – TB receives LILB 6-5 Ray Lewis, GB #7, GB #8, GB #9, and GB #10; GB receives TE 4 Brent Celek, PIT #4, and TB #6
• September 7, 2011 Trade – BUF receives RILB 5-6 Paris Lenon; GB receives BUF #4
• September 8, 2011 Trade – SF receives HB DeAngelo Williams, GB #4, GB #6, and TB #6; GB receives SF #1 (17^th overall)
• September 9, 2011 Trade – NO receives SS 5 Yeremiah Bell; TEN receives LE 5-3 Cory Redding
• September 10, 2011 Trade – STL receives LILB 5-0 Channing Crowder; NYJ receives STL #5
• September 10, 2011 Trade during the draft – NYJ receives HB/PR Reggie Bush and 2011 GB #3; GB receives NYJ #2 and 2011 NYJ #5
• September 10, 2011 Trade during the draft – PIT receives TE 4 Dallas Clark and RT 4-7 Ryan Diem; CHI receives DT/DE 0-4 Desmond Bryant, OL no rating Breno Giacomini, LB no rating Jamaal Westerman, 2011 PIT #1, and 2011 PIT #4
• September 10, 2011 Trade during the draft – NYJ receives HB Brian Westbrook; SD receives STL #5, NYJ #9, and 2011 NYJ #9
• September 10, 2011 Trade during the draft – ATL receives SF #3; SF receives 2011 ATL #2
• September 10, 2011 Trade during the draft – TEN receives SF #4; SF receives TEN #4 and 2011 TEN #5
• September 10, 2011 Trade during the draft – SEA receives RE 4-0 Kedric Golston and DAL #5; DAL receives SEA #5
• September 10, 2011 Trade during the draft – NYJ receives SEA #4; SEA receives NYJ #4 and 2011 NYJ #6
• September 10, 2011 Trade during the draft – NYJ receives HB Cadillac Williams; NO receives PIT #6
• September 10, 2011 Trade during the draft – TEN receives NT 5-0 Kelly Gregg; SEA receives TEN #7 and 2011 TEN #4
• September 10, 2011 Trade during the draft – TEN receives LLB 4-0 Danny Clark; NE receives BAL #8
• September 10, 2011 Trade during the draft – SEA receives WR/LP Greg Camarillo; DAL receives SEA #9
• September 10, 2011 – after the draft Ed realized that he forgot to list Matt Prater as having a K card so he did not ask Dennis/SEA to cut a kicker (Matt Prater or Nick Folk) before the draft, Dennis has chosen to keep Prater and cut Folk
• September 11, 2011 Trade – JAX receives LCB 4 Kelvin Hayden and 2011 TB #9; TB receives SS 4 Renaldo Hill and 2011 JAX #5
• September 12, 2011 Trade – TB receives RG 4-4 Adam Goldberg and 2011 NE #8; NE receives 2011 TB #5
• September 12, 2011 Trade – JAX receives QB Tyler Thigpen; HOU receives 2011 JAX #10
• September 12, 2011 Trade – SEA receives QB Matt Moore; HOU receives 2011 SEA #10
• September 12, 2011 Trade – NO receives ROLB 5-9 Calvin Pace; JAX receives LLB 4-7 James Anderson and RE 4-6 Stylez White
• September 13, 2011 Trade – DAL receives QB Marc Bulger; SEA receives 2011 DAL #9
• September 13, 2011 Trade – SEA receives DE 0-9 Raheem Brock; BAL receives 2011 SEA #7
• September 13, 2011 Trade – TB receives RILB/OLB 4-10 Mario Haggan; BAL receives RILB 4-6 Rocky McIntosh and 2011 JAX #5
• September 13, 2011 Trade – TB receives LP Quan Cosby; SD receives NT 0-0 Josh Brent
• September 13, 2011 Trade – SEA receives LOLB/DE 0-8 Chris Kelsay, DAL #11 (1^st round of supplemental draft), and 2011 DAL #7; DAL receives 2011 SEA #5
• September 14, 2011 Trade – STL receives FS 4 Ryan Clark; KC receives LDT 4-0 Shaun Cody
• September 14, 2011 Trade – PIT receives RE 4-0 Kedric Golston; SEA receives 2011 PIT #7
• September 14, 2011 Trade – NO receives C 5-5 Shaun O’Hara; SD receives 2011 NO #6
• September 18, 2011 Trade – SEA receives QB Colt McCoy, K Ryan Succop, FB 4-2 Erik Lorig, and 2011 BUF #7; BUF receives SS 6 Adrian Wilson, QB Seneca Wallace, K Matt Prater, and 2011 SEA #1
• September 21, 2011 Trade – SEA receives QB Vince Young and WR Andre Caldwell; NYJ receives QB Matt Moore and SE Mike Williams (of SEA)

SOMIFA Constitution (updated 9/18/2009)

League Message Board (feel free to post!)

SOMIFA Career Stats (updated 12/5/2011) – contains coach records and also individual player career stats

League Records (thank you Bernie!)

League Membership

Name	SOMIFA Team	E-Mail	AIM Name	Comments
Nathan	Atlanta Falcons	Nathanbaylor@hotmail.com	linebuckeddie
Joe	Baltimore Ravens	jrperron7@comcast.net	Perron J and T
Scott	Buffalo Bills	packfanmn@mchsi.com	packfanfw
Brad	Chicago Bears	brad2lane@comcast.net	Brad1Lane
Zeb	Dallas Cowboys	zebstrong@yahoo.com	merrymaid14557
JJ	Detroit Lions	jjschrems@sbcglobal.net	JJFeo
Ronald	Green Bay Packers	ronald13247@msn.com	PackCel
Paul	Houston Texans	forbin@prodigy.net	paulm0121	TRC*
Chris	Jacksonville Jaguars	beddickck@yahoo.com	beddickck
Kendall	Kansas City Chiefs	kendallkrick@hotmail.com	kendallkrick
Bernie	Minnesota Vikings	bernie.overly@comcast.net	BernieYSP
Mike	New England Patriots	kuduk@earthlink.net	mkkuduk
Dale	New Orleans Saints	marillion9@tds.net	Lextbreds
Rene	New York Giants	rkondrat@hotmail.com	rkondrat2003
Tom	New York Jets	TCooke@nyc.rr.com	Truth Cast Now
Nelson	Oakland Raiders	illinijones@comcast.net	Nibby
Bob	Philadelphia Eagles	coltsgiants@yahoo.com	coltsgiants
Ron	Pittsburgh Steelers	ronmartin5@yahoo.com	Mindstar2525
TJ	San Diego Chargers	anthony.kubacki@hmhpub.com	wyodiablos	TRC*
Ed	San Francisco 49ers	NFLed@aol.com	NFLed	Commissioner, TRC*
Dennis	Seattle Seahawks	seahawk10@gmail.com	DennisCrowley
Wayne	St. Louis Rams	Unruhtw@aol.com	StratRam	TRC*
Tim	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	timboll@sbcglobal.net	DallasLeopard	TRC*
John	Tennessee Titans	jmadden27@yahoo.com	JJMac2x

* 2010 Season Trade Review Committee (TRC) volunteers: Ed/SF, Tim/TB, Wayne/STL, TJ/SD, and Paul/HOU.

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Information for prospective new members: The league is currently full but you are welcome to join the waiting list. If you are interested in joining then:

1) Click on the SOMIFA Constitution link above and view the bulleted items to make sure that this league is a good fit for you

2) If you have any questions or are interested in joining please feel free to e-mail me at NFLed@aol.com

* Coaches interested in joining (updated 8/5/2011): Bob (A2APOLLOS@aol.com), Jay (jvilling@cinci.rr.com), Brad (wolves9999@yahoo.com), Tim F. (foresha97@gmail.com), Justin (jrabs@yahoo.com), Tom (hstngmblr@msn.com), Jim (jimkapla@aol.com), Mike (mjp6269@yahoo.com), Ben (benjamindavidcooper@gmail.com), Jeff (jeff622@comcast.net), Jeff (duckfan_jeff@yahoo.com), Bill F. (billyjoeandpam@yahoo.com).

* Coach who may be interested in the future (not in any order): Bowman (bowman.williams@internetincubator.com), Mark (icetea4me@adelphia.net), Jordan (dgolestani@cox.net), Mike (mikehersch23@yahoo.com), Garry (garrymak@aol.com), Barry (rbdavis2@eastex.net), Matthew (mefer1917@yahoo.com).

League History:

2002 Season: Champion = PIT. The New York Giants led by QB Chad Pennington’s 67% completion percentage and RB Tiki Barber’s 1410 rushing yards led the league with a 13-3 record and defeated 10-6 Chicago to make it to the championship game. Pittsburgh with Brett Favre at QB and Garrison Hearst at RB after an 11-5 regular season defeated 12-4 Dallas in the semi-final game. PIT won the championship game over NYG 27-24.

2003 Season: Champion = SF. Defending champion Pittsburgh had a tough season going 6-10. St. Louis had a great regular season finishing 14-1-1 but was upended by 9-7 Chicago 13-12 in the playoffs. CHI advanced to the championship game with a 33-17 victory over 12-4 New Orleans. San Francisco had an 11-5 regular season and advanced to the championship game with a 24-17 victory against 10-6 Washington and a 33-13 win against the 11-5 New York Giants who were attempting to make a repeat appearance in the finals. SF won the championship game over CHI 23-19.

2004 Season: Champion = STL. 11-5 NYG made their third consecutive appearance in the semi-final playoff game but lost to STL 38-24 after STL’s second consecutive league-best performance in the regular season with a 12-4 record and earning a finals appearance. Defending champion SF lost to HOU 23-17 and HOU lost to KC 34-28 in overtime to give KC a spot in the championship game. In the third consecutive championship game decided by 4 or fewer points STL won the championship game over KC 31-27.

2005 Season: Champion = HOU. Defending champion STL made it into the playoffs at 9-7 but after defeating NYJ 21-17 STL lost to #1 seed and 14-2 record HOU 31-3. HOU defeated 12-4 TB 38-28 to make it to the finals. SF was the #2 seed at 13-3 and defeated 9-7 JAX 35-33 and 12-4 PIT 48-27 to make it to the finals. HOU held down high scoring SF and HOU won the championship game 17-7.

2006 Season: Champion = HOU. Defending champion HOU made the playoffs with a 13-3 record but was the #3 seed as SF and SEA each had 15-1 records. After defeating 9-7 TB 24-21, SEA lost to HOU 34-19 to give HOU another championship game appearance. After defeating 9-7 CHI 41-0, SF lost to 11-5 DAL 21-19 as an 83% field goal attempt with 15 seconds to go was no good. In the championship game HOU defeated DAL 35-20 to give HOU its second consecutive championship.

2007 Season: Champion = SF. In the playoffs 9-7 NYG defeated 9-7 SEA 31-3 and then upended two-time defending champion 12-4 HOU 21-20. DAL had a 14-2 regular season record for the #1 seed and in the playoffs defeated 9-7 STL 31-17 but in a semi-final game NYG defeated DAL 35-21 to give NYG another appearance in the finals. In the playoffs 12-4 SF defeated 11-5 TB 34-21 and then defeated 12-4 PIT 23-17 to earn the other championship game spot. In the championship game SF defeated NYG 23-20.

2008 Season: Champion = SF. In the playoffs NE beat BAL and top-seeded HOU but lost to TB in the semi-finals to give TB a spot in the championship game. In a rematch of the 2007 season championship game SF beat NYG and then beat BUF to advance to the final game. In the championship game SF defeated TB 23-17 to give SF its second consecutive championship.

2009 Season: Champion = PIT. In round 2 of the playoffs SD defeated top seed ATL while second seed TEN beat defending champion SF. In the semi-finals and PIT defeated NE while TEN defeated SD. The two top seeded teams battled for the championship and PIT won 38-29.

Everyone in the league needs to be familiar with the bulleted items in the league Constitution and please make sure that you know the game rules for such things as when show blitz, 3-3-5, and 4-2-5 are allowed and what RB’s are restricted. Also, make sure that you set the game option to autosave after each play by going into the game, clicking on Game, clicking on Options, and clicking on Auto Save after Each Play to put a check mark there. And please follow the other rules listed in the Constitution such as fastest animation (or no animation).

SEASON 8 -- 2009 Season

In round 2 of the playoffs SD defeated top seed ATL while second seed TEN beat defending champion SF. In the semi-finals and PIT defeated NE while TEN defeated SD. The two top seeded teams battled for the championship and PIT won 38-29.

2009 Standings (final update 3/3/2011)

2009 Stats (final update 1/26/2011)

2009 Season Dates:

· July 1, 2010 – Strat publishes the ratings preview

· July 4, 2010 – rosters updated with ratings

· July 26, 2010 – rosters updated with position ratings (QB, special teams, etc.)

· August 27, 2010 – trading season began, updated rosters with subjective card evaluation sent to league members

· September 8, 2010 at 10:00pm Pacific Time – cut deadline for any necessary cuts (extra P or K)

· September 11, 2010 at 8:00am Pacific Time – annual rookie/free-agent draft via AIM chat room

· September 15, 2010 at 9:00pm Pacific Time – deadline to cut down to 53 players (plus up to 3 on IR)

· September 17, 2010 at 9:00pm Pacific Time – Supplemental Draft to be held via lists (not a live draft)

· September 21, 2010 at 9:00pm Pacific Time – deadline for trades and for teams to declare left/right swaps and choice of 3-4 or 4-3 (and optional coach file)

· September 23, 2010 – beginning of the season, first quarter pregame files sent

· October 21, 2010 at 9:00pm Pacific Time – deadline for first quarter game results

· November 18, 2010 at 9:00pm Pacific Time – deadline for second quarter game results

· December 21, 2010 at 10:00pm Pacific Time – deadline for third quarter game results

· January 20, 2011 at 10:00pm Pacific Time – deadline for fourth quarter game results

· January 23, 2011 first round playoff pregame files sent

· February 2, 2011 second round playoff pregame files sent

· February 11, 2011 third round playoff pregame files sent (target for 3nd round was 2/18/2011 but Mike/NE and Ron/PIT were having problems finding a time to play)

· February 23, 2011 championship game pregame files sent

2009 Season League News:

• June 1, 2010 – Larry/ATL has indicated that he will no longer be participating in the league, Nathan nathanbaylor@hotmail.com took over the team for the previous season and will keep the team
• August 19, 2010 – Ed/BUF has indicated that he will no longer be participating in the league
• August 27, 2010 Trade – TEN receives QB Ben Roethlisberger; JAX receives QB Eli Manning
• August 27, 2010 Trade – SF receives HB Jerome Harrison; CHI receives RCB 4 Carlos Rogers, RG/T Trai Essex 4-4/0-4, and SF #4
• August 28, 2010 Trade – JAX receives LCB 5 Antoine Winfield; SD receives JAX #3 and JAX #4
• August 28, 2010 Trade – JAX receives C 5-7 Dan Koppen; TB receives LT 4-7 Charlie Johnson
• August 28, 2010 Trade – SD receives QB Kurt Warner and NYG #4; NYG receives LDT 4-2 Brandon Mebane, SD #6, SD #7, and SD #8
• August 28, 2010 Trade – STL receives FL/LP Wes Welker and 2010 ATL #5; ATL receives RCB 5 Rashean Mathis, STL #10, and KC #10
• August 28, 2010 Trade – OAK receives RILB 5-5 Keith Brooking; SF receives ROLB 4-8 Parys Haralson
• August 29, 2010 Trade – ATL receives RG 4-4 Stephen Peterman; KC receives HOU #5 and 2010 ATL #3
• August 29, 2010 Trade – NO receives FL Hines Ward; NYG receives unrated DT Jay Alford and NO #4
• August 29, 2010 Trade – DET receives RDT 4-1 Antonio Johnson, RILB 4-0 Eric Barton, SD #1 (13^th), and SD #2; SD receives DET #1 (8^th) and DET #2
• August 29, 2010 Trade – JAX receives LG 4-7 Reggie Wells; SF receives 2010 JAX #2
• August 29, 2010 Trade – DET receives RT 4-3 Kareem McKenzie; NO receives DET #4 and DET #8
• August 29, 2010 Trade – GB receives RG 6-5 Leonard Davis; KC receives 2010 GB #2
• August 29, 2010 Trade – DET receives P Adam Podlesh; MIN receives DET #7
• August 29, 2010 Trade – KC receives LDT 5-4 Tommie Harris; SEA receives LE 5-3 Marcus Spears
• August 29, 2010 Trade – TB receives HB Jamal Lewis and KC #5; KC receives TB #3
• August 30, 2010 – Scott packfanmn@mchsi.com has joined the league taking over team BUF, it is possible that Jeff W. jeff622@comcast.net may or may not need to play a few games during the season for Scott and that would be only with prior notice for the game to the opponent and to the Commissioner
• August 30, 2010 Trade – PIT receives LILB 5-6 James Farrior; NO receives RDT 5-2 Tank Johnson
• August 31, 2010 Trade – NO receives SE Randy Moss, TE/BB 5-4 Alex Smith, ROLB 4-6 Chike Okeafor, and BAL #10; BAL receives QB Shaun Hill, RILB 4-0 Akin Ayodele, and NO #2
• September 1, 2010 Trade – NYJ receives RE 6-2 Haloti Ngata; NO receives LCB 5 Charles Tillman and NYJ #3
• September 1, 2010 Trade – JAX receives LDT/DE 5-4/4-4 John Henderson; TEN receives OLB 0-8 Derrick Burgess
• September 5, 2010 Trade – ATL receives SS 5 Melvin Bullitt; KC receives ATL #3 and 2010 ATL #2
• September 6, 2010 Trade – PIT receives P Daniel Sepulveda; SEA receives PIT #7
• September 6, 2010 Trade – JAX receives LT 5-5 Joe Staley; OAK receives JAX #1 (11^th)
• September 6, 2010 Trade – DAL receives C 4-4 Casey Wiegmann, PR Brandon Jones, and SF #10; JAX receives LLB 4-0 Na’il Diggs and DAL #9
• September 6, 2010 Trade – JAX receives QB Billy Volek; GB receives G 0-3 Jamar Nesbit and 2010 JAX #5 – 9/6 Ed called for a TRC review on this which ended up 9/7 5-0 in favor of allowing since all TRC members agreed that the very small magnitude of the deal did not warrant disallowing
• September 6, 2010 Trade – OAK receives C 5-5 Eric Heitmann; TEN receives 2010 OAK #2
• September 9, 2010 Trade – DAL receives C/G 0-2 Seth McKinney; BUF receives FB 4-4 Jeremi Johnson
• September 10, 2010 Trade – PIT receives C 5-7 Jonathan Goodwin; KC receives LB 0-0 Xavier Adibi, SD #3 and 2010 PIT #3
• September 10, 2010 Trade – NO receives RB/KR Chad Simpson; STL receives NO #6
• September 10, 2010 Trade – NO receives LDT 5-3 Marcus Stroud; NYG receives NYJ #3
• September 10, 2010 Trade – STL receives FL Mike Sims-Walker; TB receives WR/LP Dennis Northcutt and STL #3
• September 10, 2010 Trade – NO receives RCB 6 Al Harris; NYG receives NO #3
• September 11, 2010 Trade during the draft – TB receives DAL #1 (15^th overall); DAL receives TB #1 (23^rd overall) and TB #4
• September 11, 2010 Trade during the draft – NO receives LILB/OLB 6-3/5-3 Bart Scott and KC #1 (7^th overall); KC receives NO #1 (4^th overall)
• September 11, 2010 Trade during the draft – NYJ receives GB #1 (5^th overall); GB receives NYJ #1 (14^th overall) and NYJ #2
• September 11, 2010 Trade during the draft – TB receives TEN #4; TEN receives 2010 TB #3
• September 11, 2010 Trade during the draft – OAK receives LE 4-6 Jason Hunter; NYJ receives OAK #4
• September 11, 2010 Trade during the draft – ATL receives SEA #4 and SEA #8; SEA receives ATL #5 and ATL #6
• September 11, 2010 Trade during the draft – SF receives ATL #5; SEA receives SF #5 and SF #8
• September 11, 2010 Trade during the draft – OAK receives PHI #9 and PHI #10; PHI receives 2010 OAK #8
• September 11, 2010 Trade during the draft – SEA receives LLB 4-3 Chris Gocong and RT 4-5 Nick Kaczur; OAK receives FS 4 Chris Crocker and SEA #7
• September 11, 2010 Trade during the draft – NE receives HOU #10; HOU receives 2010 NE #9
• September 11, 2010 Trade during the draft – CHI receives QB Kerry Collins; SD receives CHI #10 and 2010 CHI #8
• September 11, 2010 Trade – SEA receives PR Brandon Jones and 2010 DAL #10; DAL receives 2010 SEA #8
• September 11, 2010 Trade – ATL receives NT 5-0 Jason Ferguson; NE receives 2010 ATL #4
• September 12, 2010 Trade – JAX receives RDT 5-6 Tony Brown; ATL receives 2010 JAX #3
• September 13, 2010 Trade – MIN receives TE 6 Brandon Manumaleuna; HOU receives 2010 MIN #6
• September 14, 2010 Trade – CHI receives LOLB 4-7 Clark Haggans; PIT receives LILB 4-0 Gerald Hayes and 2010 CHI #5
• September 14, 2010 Trade – DET receives QB J.T. O’Sullivan; MIN receives ILB 0-0 Ryan Fowler
• September 14, 2010 Trade – JAX receives WR (un-carded) Laurent Robinson; DAL receives 2010 JAX #7
• September 15, 2010 Trade – TEN receives QB Matt Leinart; KC receives 2010 TEN #6
• September 15, 2010 Trade – TEN receives ROLB 4-6 Adalius Thomas and 2010 BAL #8; BAL receives 2010 TEN #5
• September 16, 2010 Trade – PIT receives RT 5-3 Damien Woody; TB receives TE 4 L.J. Smith, 2010 PIT #4, and 2010 PIT #7
• September 16, 2010 Trade – PIT receives LCB 4 Shawn Springs; NYJ receives LDT 4-2 Ryan Sims, 2010 PIT #6, PIT 2^nd round supplemental (#12), and PIT 3^rd round supplemental (#13)
• September 17, 2010 Trade – SEA receives HB Julius Jones and unrated Jameel Cook; PHI receives HB/KR Ahman Green and C 4-4 Scott Wells
• September 18, 2010 Trade – SEA receives RCB 4 Domonique Foxworth; BAL receives C 4-4 Rudy Niswanger

2009 Final Regular Season League File (posted 1/23/2011)

2009 Rosters and Schedule (final update 9/22/2010)

2009 Draft (final update 9/18/2010)

Rule discussions for the 2009 season (starting in 2010): 1) possibly opening trading season in early-mid August when Strat publishes the annual ratings guide, so far there has not been much discussion of this and unless there is more we will continue the policy of opening trading season when Strat releases the cards.

SEASON 7 -- 2008 Season

In the playoffs NE beat BAL and top-seeded HOU but lost to TB in the semi-finals to give TB a spot in the championship game. In a rematch of the 2007 season championship game SF beat NYG and then beat BUF to advance to the final game. In the championship game SF defeated TB 23-17 to give SF its second consecutive championship.

2008 Standings (final update 2/27/2010)

2008 Stats (final update 1/13/2010)

2008 Season Dates:

· August 28, 2009 evening – roster sheet updated with all card and rating information, preseason begins, e-mail sent to the league

· September 2, 2009 at 10:00pm Pacific Time – cut deadline for any necessary cuts (teams which have too many P, K, PR, or KR)

· September 5, 2009 at 8:00am Pacific Time – annual draft

· September 9, 2009 at 10:00pm Pacific Time – deadline to cut roster down to 53 players (plus up to 3 unrated players on IR)

· September 11, 2009 at 9:00pm Pacific Time – Supplemental Draft conducted with lists (not a live draft)

· September 15, 2009 at 9:00pm Pacific Time – trade deadline and deadline for choosing 4-3 or 3-4 and all position swaps

· September 17, 2009 – beginning of the season

· October 15, 2009 at 10:00pm Pacific Time – end of the first quarter of the season

· November 12, 2009 at 10:00pm Pacific Time – end of the second quarter of the season

· December 15, 2009 at 10:00pm Pacific Time – end of the third quarter of the season

· January 12, 2010 at 10:00pm Pacific Time – end of the fourth quarter of the season

· January 14, 2010 – mini-playoff pregame files sent

· January 18, 2010 – playoff round 1 pregame files sent

· January 28, 2010 – playoff round 2 pregame files sent

· February 8, 2010 – playoff round 3 pregame files sent

· February 21, 2010 – championship pregame files sent

· February 27, 2010 – championship game played

2008 Season League News:

• 8/28/2009 Trade – NYG receives C 5-7 Todd McClure and RLB 4-3 Chase Blackburn; CHI receives DB 0 Corey Graham, HOU #2, and NYG #4
• 8/29/2009 Trade – TB receives LT 5-5 Jared Gaither and C 0-4 Lyle Sendlein; SEA receives LDT 5-5 Tommie Harris, T 0-0 Winston Justice, and 2009 TB #8
• 8/30/2009 Trade – KC receives QB Jake Delhomme and QB Brady Quinn; PIT receives KC #1 (4^th overall)
• 8/31/2009 – due to personal issues Larry/ATL is not able to draft or play this season, Nathan nathanbaylor@hotmail.com will be taking over the team with drafting and playing (and trading only when necessary) for this season; next season if Larry is able to return then he would take over the team but if not then Nathan would be able to keep the team; note that the only players eligible to be traded (as team excess from a mostly objective standpoint) are team excess with decent ratings W.Welker, J.Gage, M.Jenkins, H.Fraley, C.Pitts or J.Beekman, M.Kemoeatu, T.Brown, and A.Cason (and no draft picks higher than round 7)
• 8/31/2009 Trade – MIN receives LE/NT 5-1/4-1 Isaac Sopoaga and STL #8; STL receives 2009 MIN #4 and 2009 MIN #7
• 8/31/2009 Trade – MIN receives SE 4-4-4 Chris Chambers and SE 4-4-3 Koren Robinson; TB receives DE 0-11 James Hall and WR unrated Reggie Brown
• 9/1/2009 Trade – KC receives C 4-5 Chris Myers; TB receives KC #4 and KC #9
• 9/1/2009 Trade – BUF receives LDT 5-3 Grady Jackson; HOU receives DB 0 Jason Allen and BUF #5
• 9/1/2009 Trade – BAL receives QB Jim Sorgi; KC receives BAL #9
• 9/1/2009 Trade – BAL receives RDT 4-5 Rocky Bernard; JAX receives FS 4 Renaldo Hill
• 9/1/2009 Trade – SEA receives QB Seneca Wallace; HOU receives QB Troy Smith and SEA #3
• 9/2/2009 Trade – SEA receives FL 5-5-5 Muhsin Muhammed; PHI receives QB Derek Anderson and SEA #6
• 9/2/2009 Trade – DAL receives WR/LP/KR 4-3-2 Mark Jones; NYG receives DAL #7 and DAL #10
• 9/3/2009 Trade – SD receives FS 6 Brian Dawkins and 2009 PIT #6; PIT receives HB Ricky Williams, SD #7, SD #8, PIT #8, SD #9, SD #10, PIT #10, and 2009 SD #3
• 9/3/2009 Trade – TB receives NT 4-1 Chris Hoke; PHI receives 2009 TB #5
• 9/3/2009 Trade – PHI receives T 4-3 Zach Strief and DAL #8; DAL receives LOLB 4-4 Willie McGinest and SEA #6
• 9/3/2009 Trade – NO receives C 6-7 Kevin Mawae; GB receives RG 0-4 Mike Goff and NO #4
• 9/4/2009 Trade – NO receives QB Brett Favre, LILB 6-6 James Farrior, and DB 4 Deshea Townsend; GB receives QB Jason Campbell, LOLB 4-8 Jarret Johnson, and NO #3
• 9/4/2009 Trade – JAX receives KC #1 (4^th overall); PIT receives JAX #1 (10^th overall), JAX #3, and 2009 JAX #2
• 9/4/2009 Trade – SEA receives RB Derrick Ward, LE 4-0 Anthony Weaver, and RCB 4 Walt Harris; GB receives RCB 5 Corey Webster, TE 4 6-5-3 Owen Daniels, and SEA #8
• 9/5/2009 Trade – TB receives SE 6-6-6 Roddy White; OAK receives TB #1 (18^th overall), RT 0-0 Nick Kaczur, RT 4-3 Willie Anderson, and DE 4-0 Stephen Bowen
• 9/5/2009 Trade – GB receives LG 4-7 Ben Hamilton; KC receives LT 4-4 Jeff Backus
• 9/5/2009 Trade during the draft – SEA receives LDT 4-3 Dewayne Robertson; NYJ receives 2009 SEA #6
• 9/5/2009 Trade during the draft – SEA receives FS 4 Marvin White and SF #2; SF receives GB #2
• 9/5/2009 Trade during the draft – MIN receives SF #6; SF receives MIN #7 and 2009 MIN #10
• 9/5/2009 Trade during the draft – MIN receives MLB 4-3 Napoleon Harris; JAX receives MIN #8
• 9/5/2009 Trade during the draft – NO receives LLB 4-0 Cato June; NE receives NO #7
• 9/5/2009 Trade during the draft – SEA receives C 4-4 Scott Wells, PR Pacman Jones, and 2009 PHI #8; PHI receives 2009 SEA #5
• 9/5/2009 Trade during the draft – MIN receives RCB 4 Walt Harris; SEA receives 2009 MIN #5
• 9/5/2009 Trade during the draft – NYG receives DB 0 Kalvin Pearson; SEA receives 2009 NYG #10
• 9/5/2009 Trade during the draft – TB receives LG 4-3 Mike Wahle and 2009 SEA #9; SEA receives SE 5-5-3 Matt Jones and TB #10
• 9/5/2009 Trade during the draft – BUF receives RT 5-7 Jon Runyan; JAX receives RCB 0 Leigh Bodden and BUF #3
• 9/6/2009 Trade – NYG receives WR/KR 4-3-2 Pierre Garcon; DAL receives RDT 0-8 Tommy Kelly
• 9/6/2009 Trade – NYG receives RB/KR J.J.Arrington; MIN receives PR/KR Dexter Jackson and 2009 NYG #5
• 9/6/2009 Trade – OAK receives RE 4-5 Travis LaBoy; STL receives 2009 OAK #6
• 9/6/2009 Trade – SF receives QB Mark Brunell; JAX receives QB Cleo Lemon and 2009 SF #10
• 9/6/2009 Trade – TEN receives FB 5-4 Mike Karney; HOU receives 2009 TEN #7
• 9/7/2009 Trade – HOU receives LT 5-5 Flozell Adams; ATL receives RCB 4 Nathan Vasher, RE 4-7 Reggie Hayward, and 2009 HOU #5 (note that with the addition of OT 5-5 Duane Brown in the draft this gives three 5-rated OT which made one of them eligible to be traded for the specific situation ATL is in)
• 9/7/2009 Trade – TB receives KR Courtney Roby; BUF receives 2009 TB #9
• 9/7/2009 Trade – DAL receives T 0-0 Winston Justice; SEA receives 2009 SEA #8
• 9/7/2009 Trade – SD receives WR 4-3-3 Sinorice Moss; HOU receives 2009 SD #10
• 9/7/2009 Trade – BAL receives HB/KR Andre Hall; HOU receives 2009 BAL #7
• 9/8/2009 Trade – PIT receives RE/NT 5-0/4-0 Shaun Smith, RDT 5-0 Dusty Dvoracek, RB Kolby Smith, and SD #11 (first round of supplemental draft); SD receives FB 4-4 Corey McIntyre and WR/KR 4-3-2 Lavelle Hawkins
• 9/8/2009 Trade – KC receives TE 4 Joe Klopfenstein; STL receives 2009 KC #10
• 9/9/2009 Trade – BUF receives RDT 5-0 Dusty Dvoracek; PIT receives 2009 BUF #6
• 9/9/2009 Trade – JAX receives LLB 4-0 Nick Roach; KC receives 2009 JAX #5
• 9/9/2009 Trade – CHI receives RT 4-4 Sean Locklear; PIT receives LG/C 0-2 Uche Nwaneri and 2009 CHI #5
• 9/10/2009 Trade – PHI receives RT/G 4-2/0-2 Adam Snyder; SD receives RG 0-5 Chris Kuper
• 9/11/2009 Trade – OAK receives QB Matt Cassel; BUF receives QB Jon Kitna and 2009 OAK #1
• 9/11/2009 Trade – CHI receives 2009 NE #7; NE receives CHI #11 (first pick of supplemental draft)

2008 End of Season League File (final update 1/13/2010)

2008 Season Rosters and Schedule

2008 Season Draft

Rule discussions for the 2008 season (starting in 2009): 1) Currently teams draft in reverse order of regular season finish (with the championship game participants drafting last), we will discuss for teams making the playoffs drafting in reverse order of how far a team went into the playoffs to potentially be implemented in the 2009 season (starting in 2010) – this change was approved by an 8-2 vote on the forum; 2) currently during the draft a team must fill its PR and KR requirements by the end of round 8, this presents admin difficulties for the league so instead teams will be required to fill its PR and KR requirements by the end of the Supplemental Draft, if there is no player eligible to play the needed PR or KR position then the team must use a draft pick on “generic PR” or “generic KR” and the Commissioner will immediately after the Supplemental Draft assign a bad card to fill the slot for the current season – this was presented on the forum with more than a half dozen coaches expressing agreement and there was no disagreement; 3) possibly modifying the requirement for K and P for K to be drafted by the end of round 6 (instead of 5 as it is now) and P to be drafted by the end of round 7 or 8 (instead of 6 as it is now), this modification wouldn’t go into effect until the 2009 season cards (starting in 2010) – this proposal was approved with no dissenting views to have the K position filled by round 6 and P by round 8; 4) currently a 0-rated FB and a 4-rated HB may be positioned at BB, there is a proposal to disallow one or both of these – this was discussed on the forum but several coaches disagreed and there was not enough agreement with the proposal to put it to a vote; 5) next season let’s remove the 3 PR, 3 KR, 3 QB roster maximum until the 53-man cut date, currently it is not allowed to have more than 3 just before the draft but this will allow the draft to proceed more smoothly not having to worry about cutting anyone during the draft – this was presented on the forum with no disagreement; 6) currently a coach must announce before the first play from scrimmage whether a 50-99 carry RB is unlimited in the first half (and it defaults to the second half if there is no announcement), there is a proposal to require this announcement either ahead of time to be posted on the roster sheet or via e-mail with the other coach before kickoff – this was presented on the forum with no disagreement.

SEASON 6 -- 2007 Season

In the playoffs 9-7 NYG defeated 9-7 SEA 31-3 and then upended two-time defending champion 12-4 HOU 21-20. DAL had a 14-2 regular season record for the #1 seed and in the playoffs defeated 9-7 STL 31-17 but in a semi-final game NYG defeated DAL 35-21 to give NYG another appearance in the finals. In the playoffs 12-4 SF defeated 11-5 TB 34-21 and then defeated 12-4 PIT 23-17 to earn the other championship game spot. In the championship game SF defeated NYG 23-20.

2007 Season Standings (final update 2/8/2009)

2007 Final Season Stats (final update 1/11/2009)

2007 Season Dates:

· August 20, 2008 – roster sheet and rookie/free-agent list fully updated; preseason has begun and trading is allowed

· September 3, 2008 – cut deadline for any necessary cuts (teams which have too many P, K, PR, or KR)

· September 6, 2008 from 8:00am PDT to approximately 1:00pm PDT – 10 round rookie/free-agent draft via AIM

· September 9, 2008 at 9:00pm PDT – cut deadline for all teams to get down to 53 players plus optional up to 3 unrated players

· September 13, 2008 at 8:00pm PDT – 3 round supplemental draft (optional) with lists from each participant

· September 18, 2008 at 8:00pm PDT – trade deadline and deadline for announcing 4-3 or 3-4 and any left/right swaps

· September 20, 2008 – the season has begun

· October 18, 2008 – deadline for all 4 first quarter game results (we finished 1 day early, good job everyone)

· November 15, 2008 at 10:00pm Pacific Time – deadline for all 4 second quarter game results

· December 13, 2008 at 10:00pm Pacific Time – deadline for all 4 third quarter game results

· January 11, 2009 at 10:00pm Pacific Time – deadline for all 4 fourth quarter game results

· January 13, 2009 evening – playoffs round 1 pregame files have been sent

· January 20, 2009 – round 1 games are due, playoff round 2 pregame files have been sent

· January 29, 2009 – round 2 games are due, playoff round 3 pregame files have been sent

· February 5, 2009 – round 3 games are due

· February 8, 2009 – championship game

2007 Season League News:

• 8/3/2008 – first e-mail sent to the league
• 8/8/2008 – Neil/IND has indicated that he will not be able to continue participation in the league
• 8/16/2008 – Dale has joined the league taking over IND (he will change the name once preseason begins)
• 8/17/2008 – Joe/KC has indicated that he will not be able to continue participation in the league
• 8/18/2008 – Kendall has joined the league taking over KC
• 8/20/2008 Trade – JAX receives LCB 5 Will Allen, SF receives JAX #2
• 8/20/2008 Trade – MIN receives RG 4-7 Deuce Lutui, SF receives RT 4-3 David Stewart and MIN #3
• 8/20/2008 Trade – TB receives NT 5-3 Jay Ratliff, JAX receives MLB 4-5 Napoleon Harris and TB #7 (note, this trade was put up for a TRC vote as of 8/21 morning and resolved in favor of allowing by 8/22 afternoon 3-1 with TJ, Wayne, and Paul voting to allow and Ed voting to disallow)
• 8/20/2008 Trade – NYG receives QB Kurt Warner, MIN receives RG 5-5 Rex Hadnot and NYG #3
• 8/21/2008 Trade – JAX receives LCB 4 Roderick Hood, SD receives 2008 JAX #2
• 8/21/2008 Trade – BUF receives RG 5-4 Cooper Carlisle, LE/DT 5-1 Dwan Edwards, and NYJ #1 (#2 overall); NYJ receives WR Derek Hagan, OLB (unrated) Manny Lawson, BUF #1 (#4 overall), and GB #2
• 8/22/2008 Trade – TB receives LILB 5-5 Bradie James, STL receives TB #2 and 2008 TB #2
• 8/24/2008 Trade – SD receives QB Kerry Collins, TB receives PR/KR Dante Hall
• 8/24/2008 Trade – TB receives LT 4-5 Levi Jones and RT 4-3 Nick Kaczur, TEN receives TB #1 and 2008 TB #3 (Note that on 8/24 this trade was reported by both as the current TB #3 instead of the 2008 TB #3 but both indicated a change on 8/25 as apparently in IM it was agreed to with 2008 TB #3.)
• 8/26/2008 Trade – TEN receives WR/LP/LK Devin Hester, KC receives C 4-5 Melvin Fowler and TEN #2 (since this trade involves a new league member it required a TRC vote, on 8/27 the TRC voted 5-0 to allow this deal with Ed, Tim, Paul, TJ, and Wayne voting to approve)
• 8/26/2008 Trade disallowed – PIT receives NT 6-1 Casey Hampton and FL Brandon Stokley, CHI receives 2008 PIT #1 and 2008 PIT #3; this trade does not fall within league guidelines as PIT would not fulfill requirements for next season’s draft, here is a quote from the Constitution: “Each team must have at all times at least either one first round draft pick, two second round draft picks, or a second and a third round draft pick for next season’s rookie/free-agent draft.”
• 8/27/2008 Trade – PIT receives NT 6-1 Casey Hampton and FL Brandon Stokley; CHI receives PIT #8, 2008 PIT #1, 2008 PIT #4, and 2008 PIT #5
• 8/28/2008 Trade – BUF receives RG 4-4 Seth McKinney, NYG receives BUF #5
• 8/28/2008 Trade – PHI receives HB Justin Fargas, QB Josh McCown, STL #8, and 2008 STL #10; STL receives PHI #2, PHI #5, 2008 PHI #3, and 2008 PHI #8
• 8/28/2008 Trade – SF receives HB/KR Correll Buckhalter, KC receives SF #5 and SF #7 (note, this trade involving a new league member was put up for a TRC vote as of 8/28 evening and resolved 8/30 morning in favor of allowing 4-0 with Paul, TJ, Wayne, and Tim voting to allow)
• 8/29/2008 Dale has changed his team name from IND to New Orleans
• 8/29/2008 Trade – GB receives C 5-7 Kevin Mawae and FB 6-7 Lorenzo Neal, BAL receives GB #3 and GB #8
• 8/30/2008 Trade disallowed – SF receives HB Fred Taylor; CHI receives DT 0-1 Johnny Jolly, SF #1 (#22), SF #4, and SF #8 (8/30 early afternoon a member of the TRC called for a vote on this trade and 9/1 morning voted 3-1 to disallow the deal with Tim, Paul, and Wayne voting to disallow and TJ voting to allow; the TRC felt that CHI was not receiving nearly enough in compensation)
• 8/30/2008 Trade – TB receives LP Michael Lewis, NYG receives 2008 TB #8
• 8/31/2008 Trade – SEA receives C 4-7 Al Johnson and NT/DE 0-2 Travis Kirschke, PHI receives LG 4-4 Chris Kuper and DT 4-1 Anthony Adams
• 8/31/2008 Trade – TB receives WR Matt Jones, NO receives RB Aaron Stecker and TB #10 (note, this trade involving a new league member was put up for a TRC vote as of 8/31 and resolved 9/1 evening in favor of allowing 4-0 with Ed, Paul, Wayne, and TJ voting to allow)
• 8/31/2008 Trade – SEA receives P Todd Sauerbrun, HOU receives SEA #9
• 8/31/2008 Trade disallowed – GB receives LILB 4-0 Derek Smith, NO receives GB #9 (note, this trade involving a new league member was put up for a TRC vote as of 8/31 evening and resolved 9/2 evening in favor of disallowing 3-2 with Paul, Wayne, and Tim voting to disallow while TJ and Ed voted to allow)
• 8/31/2008 Trade – STL receives FB 5-5 Dan Kreider, KC receives LCB 4 Fernando Bryant (note, this trade involving a new league member was put up for a TRC vote as of 8/31 and resolved 9/1 evening in favor of allowing 4-0 with Paul, Tim, TJ, and Ed voting to allow)
• 9/1/2008 Trade – SF receives HB Fred Taylor; CHI receives DT 0-1 Johnny Jolly, SF #1 (#22), MIN #3, and SF #8 (evening 9/1 TRC member Ed/SF requested a vote and resolved 9/3 evening in favor of allowing 4-0 with Tim, Paul, TJ, and Wayne voting to allow)
• 9/2/2008 Trade – DAL receives LE 5-3 Chris Kelsay, SD receives DAL #3
• 9/3/2008 Trade – GB receives LILB 4-0 Derek Smith, NO receives GB #7 (note, this trade involving a new league member was put up for a TRC vote as of 9/3 evening and resolved 9/4 evening in favor of allowing 4-0 with Ed, TJ, Tim, Wayne, and Paul voting to allow)
• 9/3/2008 Trade – BUF receives K Matt Bryant, SEA receives K Jay Feely and BUF #6
• 9/3/2008 Trade – PIT receives LE 0-1 Orpheus Roye, SD receives 2008 PIT #10
• 9/3/2008 Mandatory Cut – due to having one too many (4) QBs NO has cut QB Patrick Ramsey who is available in the upcoming draft
• 9/3/2008 Mandatory Cut – due to having one too many (4) QBs SD has cut QB Jared Lorenzen who is available in the upcoming draft
• 9/5/2008 Trade – GB receives LG 5-4 Larry Allen, HOU receives GB #5
• 9/5/2008 Trade – GB receives WR Bobby Engram, ATL receives GB #4
• 9/5/2008 Trade – MIN receives RE 4-10 John Abraham and LDT 5-4 Warren Sapp; PIT receives LT 4-4 Marvel Smith, MIN #5, and 2008 MIN #4
• 9/6/2008 Trade during draft – MIN receives RCB/KR 4 Ellis Hobbs, BAL receives 2008 MIN #2
• 9/6/2008 Trade during draft – GB receives NO #8, NO receives GB #9 and GB #10 (trade made by Ed since GB needs to fill two PR spots by round 8 and had no other picks after round 1)
• 9/6/2008 Trade during draft – OAK receives WR/KR Troy Williamson and SF #3, SF receives OAK #3 (a TRC member called for an immediate vote which was 3-1 in favor of allowing the deal: Paul, TJ, and Tim voted to allow while Wayne voted to disallow; Nelson/OAK was not at the draft but Dennis who was given a detailed list by Nelson indicated that Nelson would definitely want this deal as it addresses one of his two needed KR slots and is only moving down 14 spots in round 3 so he can address other needs plus KR was Nelson’s instructions for the next pick, this was taken into consideration by the TRC)
• 9/6/2008 Trade during draft – GB receives WR/PR Tim Dwight, BAL receives 2008 GB #8 (trade made by Ed since GB needs to fill two PR spots by round 8 and had only one other pick after round 1)
• 9/6/2008 Trade during draft – DAL receives SEA #8, SEA receives DAL #9 and DAL #10
• 9/7/2008 Note – there were a few errors noticed within a day after the draft, see draft page if interested in details
• 9/7/2008 Trade – SF receives LB Kevin Bentley 4-0, ATL receives 2008 SF #9
• 9/8/2008 Trade – NYG receives TE Eric Johnson, NYJ receives 2008 NYG #9
• 9/8/2008 Trade – PIT receives TE Reggie Kelly and FB 5-2 Terrelle Smith, SD receives 2008 PIT #8
• 9/8/2008 Trade – MIN receives RCB Eric Green 4, DAL receives 2008 MIN #3
• 9/8/2008 Trade – CHI receives LDT 4-2 Larry Tripplett, DAL receives 2008 CHI #10
• 9/8/2008 Trade – NO receives C/G 0-0 Alex Stepanovich, CHI receives G/DT 0-0 Lorenzo Alexander (note, this trade involving a new league member was put up for a TRC vote as of 9/8 evening and resolved 9/9 evening in favor of allowing 5-0 with Ed, Wayne, Tim, Paul, and TJ voting to allow)
• 9/8/2008 Trade – MIN receives HB J.J. Arrington, STL receives 2008 MIN #6
• 9/9/2008 Trade – BUF receives SS 5 Deon Grant, CHI receives DT 0-4 Damione Lewis and 2008 BUF #4
• 9/9/2008 Trade disallowed as CHI does not have its #10 due to the Tripplett deal above – CHI receives LT 4-4 Marvel Smith and 2008 PIT #7; PIT receives LT 5-5 Matt Lepsis, 2008 PIT #5, and 2008 CHI #10
• 9/9/2008 Trade – GB receives LILB 6-5 Ray Lewis, RLB 5-0 Derrick Brooks, and RE 5-4 Mike Rucker; SEA receives LG 0-3 Rob Sims, 2008 GB #2, 2008 GB #3, 2008 GB #4, and 2008 GB #5
• 9/9/2008 Trade – HOU receives LT 5-7 Jonathan Ogden and 2008 NYG #6, NYG receives 2008 HOU #2
• 9/9/2008 Trade – TB receives DB 4 Calvin Lowry, SF receives 2008 TB #5
• 9/9/2008 Cuts – see Draft link in the Supplemental Draft tab for each team’s cuts, these players are all available in the Supplemental Draft except the ones without a card or rating
• 9/10/2008 Trade – OAK receives FS 4 Marlon McCree, SEA receives LCB 4 Ronald Bartell
• 9/10/2008 Trade – CHI receives LT 4-4 Marvel Smith and 2008 PIT #7; PIT receives LT 5-5 Matt Lepsis, 2008 PIT #5, and 2008 CHI #9
• 9/10/2008 Trade – NYJ receives LE 0-5 Matt Roth, BUF receives RB Adrian Peterson (CHI) and 2008 NYJ #6
• 9/11/2008 Trade – NYJ receives LCB 5 Shawn Springs, SE/LP/KR Nate Burleson, and 2008 SEA #9; SEA receives DB 0 Corey Webster, LP Adam Jennings, 2008 NYJ #3, and 2008 NYJ #7
• 9/12/2008 Trade – CHI receives NYJ #1 Supplemental Draft pick (2^nd pick), NYJ receives 2008 CHI #8 and CHI #1 Supplemental Draft pick (15^th pick)
• 9/16/2008 Trade – GB receives RCB 4 Deshea Townsend and 2008 MIN #5, MIN receives LLB 4-12-3* Joey Porter
• 9/17/2008 Trade – BUF receives RCB 4 Leigh Bodden, OAK receives C/G 4-4 Andy McCollum
• 9/17/2008 Trade – ATL receives LG/T 4-4 Milford Brown, TEN receives G/T 0-0 Paul McQuistan and 2008 ATL #4
• 12/2/2008 Mike/GB has not been returning e-mails, GB has been taken over by Ronald ronald13247@msn.com

2007 Season Rosters (final update 9/18/2008)

2007 Final Regular Season League File (updated 1/11/2009)

2007 Season Draft (final update 9/13/2008)

2007 Season Schedule (posted 8/28/2008)

Rule changes for the 2007 season (starting in 2008): 1) A team choosing to use the 3-4 defensive card must announce before the season which side their MLB(s) will play LILB or RILB and may not swap unless due to injury, a team choosing to use the 4-3 defensive card must announce before the season which side their NT-only(s) will play LDT or RDT and may not swap unless due to injury, the purpose of this is to avoid swapping left/right at will during a game (unless due to injury), currently a player rated at RILB may not play LILB (unless announced before the season) but there is no such restriction on a MLB and this rule would close that loophole; 2) Remove the tie-breaker clause regarding record against #1 seed; 3) players rated at KR or PR may be cut (optionally) before the rookie/free-agent draft and for any of those players drafted in that draft the cutting team will obtain an additional draft pick at the end of that same round in the following season (to a highest of a 7^th round pick) unless the player is drafted by the same team, for example if team AAA cuts LK/PR J.Smith and J.Smith is drafted by any other team in the 7^th round of the immediately following draft then team AAA will get an additional pick at the end of round 7 in next season’s draft; 4) punt returners who had fewer than 15 total attempts (punt returns plus fair catches) and are designated by Strat as a #2 PR and have a 5.0 or greater yard average on the card (add up weighted yardage with TD counting as 75 and divide by 36) may not be used as a #1 PR (this affects only 1 player for 2007 and that player is un-owned); 5) use the good run / average pass defensive card (instead of just the good/good card) for the entire season (not including playoffs which are unchanged, the home team uses the good pass defensive card); 6) FS and SS may swap just as LCB/RCB with the same restrictions (e.g., can't swap a FS to SS and a SS to FS in the same season); in other words, you may announce before the season that a FS is becoming a SS or vice-versa – this also modifies the roster requirements so that 1 FS, 1 SS, and 1 S are required; 7) punters, kickers, punt returners and kick returners who are cut during a draft and then picked up later in the same draft provide compensation to the coach who made the cut with the compensation being an additional draft pick at the end of one round lower in the following season’s draft (to a maximum of a 6^th round pick for a K or a 7^th round pick for P, PR, or KR); 8) the championship game no longer has any home field advantage, both teams will now use the good run defensive card and the average pass defensive card; 9) beginning in the 2008 season (in year 2009) the QB limits will be modified so that under 100 NFL attempts (instead of under 50 as it is now) will not be able to play in a game except due to an injury or blowout.

SEASON 5 -- 2006 Season

Defending champion HOU made the playoffs with a 13-3 record but was the #3 seed as SF and SEA each had 15-1 records. After defeating 9-7 TB 24-21, SEA lost to HOU 34-19 to give HOU another championship game appearance. After defeating 9-7 CHI 41-0, SF lost to 11-5 DAL 21-19 as an 83% field goal attempt with 15 seconds to go was no good. In the championship game HOU defeated DAL 35-20 to give HOU its second consecutive championship.

2006 Season Standings (final including playoffs)

2006 Stats Package (final 2006 season stats)

2006 Season Dates:

· August 15, 2007 – Strat released the cards and the roster sheet and rookie/free-agent list is fully updated

· August 19, 2007 – preseason begins and trading is allowed

· September 5, 2007 – cut deadline for any necessary cuts (teams which have too many P, K, PR, or KR), one cut made Hunter Smith by DAL

· September 8, 2007 from 9:00am PDT finished approximately at 1:40pm PDT – 10 round rookie/free-agent draft

· September 11, 2007 at 9:00pm PDT – cut deadline for all teams to get down to 53 players plus optional up to 3 unrated players

· September 15, 2007 at 8:00pm PDT – 3 round supplemental draft (optional) with lists from each participant

· September 20, 2007 at 8:00pm PDT – trade deadline and deadline for announcing 4-3 or 3-4 and any left/right swaps

· September 28, 2007 – the season has begun! (the season was delayed a few days waiting for the patch released today)

· October 25, 2007 at 9:00pm Pacific Time – deadline for the first quarter of the season

· October 26, 2007 – beginning of the second quarter of the season

· November 21, 2007 at 9:00pm Pacific Time – deadline for the second quarter of the season

· November 21, 2007 – beginning of the third quarter of the season

· December 19, 2007 at 9:00pm Pacific Time – deadline for the third quarter of the season

· December 20, 2007 – beginning of the fourth quarter of the season

· January 18, 2008 at 10:00pm Pacific Time – deadline for the fourth quarter of the season

· January 24, 2008 – playoffs round 1 pre-game files sent

· January 31, 2008 – playoffs round 2 pre-game files sent

· February 11, 2008 – playoffs round 3 pre-game files sent

· February 20, 2008 – playoffs final pre-game files sent

· February 23, 2008 – championship game

2006 Season League News:

• 6/11/2007 Tim/PHI has indicated that he will not be ordering the next version of the Strat game; team PHI has been taken over by Bob (r.militello@att.net)
• 8/14/2007 Jeff/SEA has indicated that due to other issues he will not be able to continue in the league; 8/21 the team has been taken over by Ed (brooks@buffalo.edu)
• 8/19/2007 Trade – GB receives LG 4-5 / C 0-5 Jason Brown, DAL receives LDT 4-7 Corey Williams
• 8/19/2007 Trade – MIN receives RCB 4 Drayton Florence and SF #5, SF receives MIN #2
• 8/21/2007 Team name changes will be allowed – there is a 3-day request period starting now in which a coach may request a name change (feel free to e-mail me) to an available current NFL team name and requests will be processed by league membership seniority first; if at any time a name becomes available then there is a 3-day request period after that; the restriction is that a coach may never go through a second team name change for any reason ever (unless his NFL team moves to a different city)
• 8/22/2007 Trade – NO receives HB 0-5 DeShaun Foster, LDT 5-5 Chartric Darby, C 0-3 Chukky Okobi, and SF #3; SF receives SE 6-6-6 Chad Johnson
• 8/26/2007 Team Name Change – new league member Ed (who took over what was previously team SEA) has chosen BUF as his team name
• 8/26/2007 Team Name Change – Dennis who has been the coach of NYJ has changed his team’s name to SEA
• 8/26/2007 Trade – SEA receives RLB 6-12-6* Julian Peterson, LDT/NT 5-3 Kelly Gregg, and 2007 STL #6; STL receives QB Matt Schaub, RT 0-4 Anthony Clement, SEA #3, and 2007 SEA #2 (for reference, the 2007 draft picks are for the draft occurring Sept 2008)
• 8/29/2007 Team Name Change – Tom who has been the coach of NO has changed his team’s name to NYJ (team name New Orleans is available)
• 8/30/2007 Trade – BAL receives RCB 5 Fakhir Brown; ATL receives FS 6 John Lynch (8/31/2007 allowed 5-0 by the TRC with Ed, Joe, Tim, Paul, and TJ voting to allow)
• 9/2/2007 Trade – NYG receives FL 6-6-5 Hines Ward and LG 5-5 Ruben Brown; JAX receives QB Mark Brunell and RDT 5-7 Fred Robbins
• 9/3/2007 Trade reported – ATL receives SS 4 Dexter Jackson; SEA receives FS 4 Marlon McCree (9/3/2007 allowed 5-0 by the TRC with Ed, Tim, Joe, TJ, and Paul voting to allow)
• 9/3/2007 Trade – SF receives SS 5 Chris Hope and TB #4; TB receives SF #1 (23^rd overall)
• 9/3/2007 Trade – PIT receives SS 4 Nick Ferguson; TB receives PIT #5
• 9/4/2007 Trade – PIT receives LCB 5 Mike McKenzie; TB receives PIT #2, PIT #6, and PIT #8
• 9/4/2007 Trade – DAL receives P Matt Turk; TB receives LB 0-0 Khary Campbell
• 9/5/2007 Trade – PIT receives RT 4-4 Zach Wiegert; CHI receives CHI #8
• 9/6/2007 Trade – STL receives HB/LK J.J. Arrington and STL #7; JAX receives STL #5
• 9/8/2007 Trade – NYG receives RB Verron Haynes and HB Cedric Houston; NYJ receives NYG #9, NYG #10, and 2007 NYG #7
• 9/8/2007 Trade – DET receives QB David Garrard and SD #6; SD receives LT 5-4 Bryant McKinnie and DET #1 (7^th overall)
• 9/8/2007 Trade – ATL receives RDT 5-3 Darnell Dockett and GB #1 (9^th overall); GB receives ATL #1 (6^th overall)
• 9/8/2007 Trade – TB receives SEA #1 (19^th overall); SEA receives SF #1 (23^rd overall) and TB #5
• 9/8/2007 Trade – TB receives HB/LP Kevin Faulk; DAL receives TB #6 and TB #10
• 9/8/2007 Trade – TB receives RG 6-7 Will Shields and DAL #7; DAL receives PIT #6 and 2007 TB #8 (deal modified later in the day by Tim and Zeb to include the 2007 #8)
• 9/8/2007 Trade – DAL receives TB #5; SEA receives PIT #6 and TB #6
• 9/8/2007 Trade initially reported – ATL receives WR/LP/LK 5-4-3 Wes Welker; SEA receives WR/PR/KR 4-4-3 Nate Burleson and ATL #4 (this trade was reported during the draft and Ed had difficulty seeing the fairness of this to new league member Larry/ATL so per procedure Ed notified both that the issue will be looked at and then explained to Larry his reasoning why this appears at first glance to be clearly one-sided in favor of Dennis/SEA as Burleson is a clearly better PR and KR and will also be getting according to his coach Holmgren about 50% of the snaps with the first string in Seattle while Welker is a 3^rd WR for New England; Ed asked Larry per procedure whether he would still like to go through with the deal and if so Ed would have brought it up to an immediate TRC vote but then Dennis and Larry agreed to the replacement trade below instead)
• 9/8/2007 Trade – ATL receives WR/LP/LK 5-4-3 Wes Welker and TB #6; SEA receives WR/PR/KR 4-4-3 Nate Burleson and ATL #4 (this trade was not voted on by the TRC due to time constraints during the draft; however, each member of the TRC indicated that they had no immediate issue with the deal)
• 9/8/2007 Trade – NYJ receives RG 4-4 Benji Olson; ATL receives NYJ #6
• 9/8/2007 Trade – SEA receives MLB Ray Lewis 6-7 and 2007 DET #3; DET receives LLB 6-7 Marcus Washington
• 9/8/2007 Trade – SEA receives RLB 6-0 Derrick Brooks and WR 4-4-4 D.J. Hackett; DAL receives MLB 4-7 Will Witherspoon, RLB 4-0 Nail Diggs, WR 4-3-3 Brandon Lloyd, and 2007 SEA #3
• 9/8/2007 Trade – PIT receives HB/KR Najeh Davenport; DAL receives PIT #9 and 2007 PIT #7
• 9/8/2007 Trade – BAL receives RB Sammy Morris and LE 0-9 Chike Okeafor; GB receives QB Kurt Warner
• 9/9/2007 Trade – MIN receives RE 4-6 Grant Wistrom; STL receives 2007 MIN #8
• 9/11/2007 Trade – TB receives WR 4-3-2 Brian Gilmore and G/T 0-0 Brad Badger; SEA receives LB 0-0 Khary Campbell and 2007 TB #9
• 9/12/2007 Trade – MIN receives QB Kurt Warner and FL 5-6-5 Terry Glenn; GB receives QB Brett Favre and FL 5-4-2 Eric Moulds
• 9/12/2007 Trade – PIT receives LE 6-4 Aaron Smith; NE receives 2007 PIT #3, 2007 PIT #6, 2007 PIT #9, and 2007 PIT #10
• 9/13/2007 Trade – PIT receives QB Brad Johnson, T 4-0 Willie Colon, RG/C 0-3 Duke Preston, and 2007 SD #10; SD receives QB Brian Griese, DB 0 Roderick Hood, unrated DeQuincy Scott, and 2007 PIT #4
• 9/14/2007 Trade – GB receives LILB 5-6 James Farrior and ROLB 4-11 Joey Porter; BUF receives LB 0-4 Keith Ellison, unrated Dan Morgan, and 2007 GB #2 (9/15/2007 allowed 5-0 by the TRC with Ed, Tim, Paul, TJ, and Joe voting to allow)
• 9/14/2007 Trade – SEA receives FB 6-4 Mack Strong, 2007 GB #6, and GB’s supplemental pick #1 (9 overall); GB receives LE 5-2 Anthony Weaver and SEA’s supplemental pick #1 (19 overall)
• 9/20/2007 Trade – BUF receives HB Shaun Alexander, LT 0-4 D’Brickashaw Ferguson, and 2007 JAX #1; JAX receives HB Steven Jackson and LT 6-5 Walter Jones (9/22/2007 allowed 5-0 by the TRC with Tim, TJ, Ed, Paul, and Joe voting to allow)

Rule change for the 2006 season (finalized August 2007): If a team is missing one PR or one KR then an 8th round pick (or earlier) must be used to fill the spot; if two spots are needed then a 7th and an 8th round (or earlier) pick must be used; etc. A coach may choose to take a carded player or be put into the "lottery" below just by announcing PR lottery or KR lottery. No player rated at PR or KR may be taken after round 8 unless there is no-one stuck in that lottery (for example, if there are any coaches in the PR lottery then no player rated at PR may be taken in the draft after the 8th round). After the draft any PR and KR still not taken (which may be one or two or not even any) will be put into a pool along with enough of the very worst previous season PR and KR cards as needed so that every team will get what they need. Each PR or KR card added to a team will count towards the 53 roster max. For example, if after round 8 there are two teams which each need one KR and one team which needs two KR then that's 4 KR's needed; if there's 1 KR remaining from the draft then that would mean the 3 worst previous season KR cards would be added into the KR lottery. Then I would determine randomly which team KR spot would be filled with which KR card.

2006 Season Rosters (final 9/15/2007)

2006 Season Schedule (updated 9/19/2007)

2006 Final League File (posted 1/22/2008)

2006 Season Draft (final 9/15/2007)

SEASON 4 -- 2005 Season

Defending champion STL made it into the playoffs at 9-7 but after defeating NYJ 21-17 STL lost to #1 seed and 14-2 record HOU 31-3. HOU defeated 12-4 TB 38-28 to make it to the finals. SF was the #2 seed at 13-3 and defeated 9-7 JAX 35-33 and 12-4 PIT 48-27 to make it to the finals. HOU held down high scoring SF and HOU won the championship game 17-7.

2005 Season Standings (including playoffs)

2005 Season Statistics (including playoffs)

SOMIFA Spring League Web Page: http://www.somiba.com/somifaspring.html

2005 Season Dates:

· August 15, 2006 – Strat released the cards and the roster sheet and rookie/free-agent list was fully updated

· August 17, 2006 – preseason begins and trading is allowed

· September 6, 2006 – cut deadline for any necessary cuts (teams which have too many P, K, PR, or KR)

· September 9, 2006 from 9:00am PDT until approximately 3:00pm PDT – 10 round rookie/free-agent draft

· September 12, 2006 at 9:00pm PDT – cut deadline for all teams to get down to 53 players plus optional 3 unrated players

· September 16, 2006 at 9:00pm PDT – 3 round supplemental draft (optional) with lists from each participant

· September 21, 2006 at 9:00pm PDT – trade deadline and deadline for announcing 4-3 or 3-4 and any left/right swaps

· September 25, 2006 – the season has begun

· October 22, 2006 at 9:00pm PDT – end of the first quarter, start of the second quarter

· November 19, 2006 at 9:00pm PST – end of the second quarter, start of the third quarter

· December 17, 2006 at 9:00pm PST – end of the third quarter, start of the fourth quarter

· January 14, 2007 at 9:00pm PST – end of the regular season

· January 16, 2007 – start of round 1 of the playoffs

· January 24, 2007 – start of round 2 of the playoffs

· January 29, 2007 – start of round 3 of the playoffs

· February 10, 2007 – championship game played

Rule changes for the 2005 season (finalized August 2006): 1) In the rookie/free-agent draft each team must have a kicker by the end of round 5 and a punter by the end of round 6, 2) each season each team may retain on their Injured Reserve (IR) list up to 3 additional players who do not have current cards or ratings although no player may be on IR for more than two consecutive seasons, 3) supplemental draft will be 3 rounds and picks may be traded (same as last year but need to add to Constitution), 4) 3-3-5 will be allowed 1^st or 2^nd down with 16+ yards to go for a first down or 1^st or 2^nd down and goal from the 16+ yard line and the 4-2-5 (as well as the 3-4 formation for 4-3 teams) will have the same restrictions as the 3-3-5, 5) teams will be assigned 0-0 backups as needed to fill out injury backup positions for depth charts, 6) trades involving next year draft picks are allowed (as long as each team has at all times at least either one first round draft pick, two second round draft picks, or a second and a third round draft pick for next season’s draft), 7) even if a team has a kicker then they may draft a kicker as long as they immediately cut a kicker and that kicker will become immediately available in the current draft (until the end of round 5), 8) even if a team has a punter then they may draft a punter as long as they immediately cut a punter and that punter will become immediately available in the current draft (until the end of round 6), and 9) FB's will be treated the same as HB's and RB's regarding usage limits, the additional situations in which FB's may run the ball will be removed.

2005 Season League News:

• 8/11/2006: Neil has changed his team name from GB to IND (this is Neil’s first full year)
• 8/13/2006: Mike has changes his team name from WAS to GB (this is Mike’s first full year)
• 8/17/2006: Trade – MIN receives QB Steve McNair and RCB 4 Deshea Townsend; NO receives MIN #1 (10^th pick) and MIN #5
• 8/17/2006: Trade (8/20 TRC voted not to disallow 3-3 with Tim, TJ, and Ron voting to allow and Ed, Wayne, and JT voting to disallow) – NYJ receives C 6-4 Tom Nalen; MIN receives C/G 4-0/0-0 Steve McKinney and RLB 4-0 Robert Thomas
• 8/18/2006: Trade – OAK receives LCB 6 Ty Law, HB Chester Taylor, SE 5-6-6 Joey Galloway, and JAX #1 (6^th pick); JAX receives LE 5-12 Michael Strahan, RLB 5-0 Lavar Arrington, OAK #1 (14^th pick), OAK #4, and PHI #8
• 8/18/2006: Trade – JAX receives LDT 5-0 Chris Hovan; NO receives JAX #4
• 8/18/2006: Trade – JAX receives C/T 4-2 Jamar Nesbit; MIN receives RG 4-2 Adam Timmerman
• 8/18/2006: Trade – JAX receives DT 4-9 Rocky Bernard; TB receives JAX #3
• 8/18/2006: Trade – JAX receives QB Kelly Holcomb; TB receives JAX #6
• 8/18/2006: Trade (approved 8/20 by TRC 6-0 Ed, Tim, Wayne, JT, TJ, and Ron) – GB receives QB Drew Bledsoe; MIN receives RB Kevan Barlow and GB #3
• 8/20/2006: Trade disallowed (a vote was called for by Ed; disallowed 8/21 by TRC 3-1 with Wayne, Tim, and Ed voting to disallow and Ron voting to allow while TJ is out of town, when he returned TJ voted to disallow; to summarize the majority opinion two 3^rd round picks is worth much much more than a 37 year old 6 DT with a low pass rush rating and the deal would have been clearly one-sided) – OAK receives LDT 6-3 Keith Traylor; CHI receives OAK #3 and 2006 OAK #3; 8/22 at Brad/CHI’s request a re-vote was called based upon information about Traylor e-mailed by Brad and 8/22 Ed, Tim, and Wayne kept their vote the same to disallow the deal
• 8/20/2006: Trade – TB receives FS 4 Brent Alexander and OLB/ILB 4-0/0-0 Chad Brown; JAX receives TB #6 and TB #8
• 8/21/2006: Trade (a vote was called for 8/21 by Wayne, approved 8/22 by TRC 5-0 Ron, Ed, Tim, Joe, and Wayne; TJ is on vacation, when he returned TJ voted to allow; please note that Wayne and Tim received their cards or an exact quote of T.Jones’ card on 8/22 evening) – DET receives HB Thomas Jones; NO receives RT 5-2 Robert Gallery and DET #1 (#15)
• 8/21/2006: Trade – TB receives QB Byron Leftwich; HOU receives LT 5-7 Chad Clifton and TB’s 2006-season #1
• 8/21/2006: Trade (approved 8/22 by TRC 4-0 Ed, Wayne, Tim, and Ron; TJ is on vacation, when he returned TJ voted to allow) – NYJ receives K Matt Bryant; GB receives unrated WR Todd Pinkston
• 8/21/2006: Trade (approved 8/22 by TRC 4-0 Wayne, Tim, Ed, and Ron; TJ is on vacation, when he returned TJ voted to allow) – GB receives SS 4 Deke Cooper and RG 4-4 Marco Rivera; MIN receives LG 5-3 Joe Andruzzi, LCB/PR/KR 0 R.W.McQuarters, and PHI #6
• 8/21/2006: JT has decided that due to the restrictions on trades being allowed (such as the Traylor issue above) he is resigning the league, I will find a replacement asap (e-mail sent to Nelson 8/21)
• 8/22/2006: Nelson illinijones@insightbb.com has taken over team OAK
• 8/22/2006: Trade (approved 8/24 by TRC 4-0 Ed, Ron, Wayne, and Joe; TJ is on vacation, when he returned TJ voted to allow) – NYJ receives DB 0 Coy Wire; TB receives unrated CB Duane Starks
• 8/22/2006: Ed realized that due to a bad mistake of his memory Joe/KC was not being included in any TRC discussions/votes, going forward Joe will be included
• 8/23/2006: Trade – PIT receives LDT 6-3 Keith Traylor; CHI receives PIT #4 and PIT’s 2006-season #7
• 8/24/2006: Trade (approved 8/24 by TRC 4-0 Ed, Wayne, Joe, and Ron; TJ is on vacation) – DAL receives RE 4-12-1* Simeon Rice, LT 5-2 Kevin Shaffer, and TB #2; TB receives MLB 6-4 Jeremiah Trotter and DAL #6
• 8/24/2006: Trade (approved 8/24 by TRC 4-0 Ed, Joe, Wayne, and Ron; TJ is on vacation, when he returned TJ voted to allow) – NYJ receives C 0-0 Cory Raymer; TB receives OL unrated Makeo Freitas
• 8/24/2006: Trade (approved 8/26 by TRC 4-0 Ed, Tim, Joe, and Wayne; Ron didn’t vote and TJ is on vacation) – NYJ receives HB Tiki Barber, G 0-0 Brad Badger, ILB 0-0 Orlando Ruff, and NYG #10; NYG receives RDT/DE 5-5 Kevin Williams, NYJ #1 (#17), and uncarded WR Ronald Curry
• 8/24/2006: Trade (approved 8/26 by TRC 3-1 with Tim, Joe, and Ron voting to allow and Wayne voting to disallow) – NYJ receives RDE 4-1 Marques Douglas, DB 0 Idrees Bashir, RCB 0 Kenny Wright, SF #10, and either DT 0-0 Dwan Edwards or DT 0-0 Junior Siavii; SF receives NYJ’s 2006-season #5; the choice of Edwards or Siavii is to be made by SF immediately (seconds) prior to the cut deadline on 9/12; 9/12 update SF selects to send Junior Siavii to NYJ as completion of this deal
• 8/25/2006: Trade – PIT receives LT 0-5 Damien McIntosh and NO’s 2006-season #8; NO receives PIT’s 2006-season #4
• 8/25/2006: Trade (approved 8/26 by TRC 4-0 Ed, Tim, Wayne, and Joe; Ron didn’t vote and TJ is on vacation, when he returned TJ voted to allow) – NYJ receives T 0-0 Anthony Clement; SEA receives C 0-0 Austin King
• 8/26/2006: Trade (approved 8/26 by TRC 5-0 Ed, Wayne, Tim, Ron, and Joe; TJ is on vacation, when he returned TJ voted to allow) – NYJ receives RDE 5-8 Mike Rucker and DAL’s 2006-season #10; DAL receives NYJ’s 2006-season #2
• 8/26/2006: Trade (approved 8/26 by TRC 5-0 Ed, Wayne, Tim, Ron, and Joe; TJ is on vacation, when he returned TJ voted to allow) – NYJ receives RCB 5 Samari Rolle; DAL receives LCB 5 Patrick Surtain
• 8/26/2006: Trade (approved 8/29 by TRC 4-0 Ed, Wayne, Joe, and TJ) – NYJ receives FL 4-4-4 Brandon Lloyd and LB 0-3 Raonall Smith; TB receives FL/LP 4-4-3 Antonio Chatman and FB 6-7 Jim Finn
• 8/27/2006: Trade – JAX receives RT 5-5 John Runyan, STL #5, STL #10, and STL’s 2006-season #7; STL receives OAK #4, JAX #5, and JAX’s 2006-season #3
• 8/27/2006: Trade (approved 8/29 by TRC 5-0 Ed, TJ, Joe, Wayne, and Tim) – NYJ receives FS 4 Dexter Jackson; PHI receives unrated LB Barrett Green and NYJ #7
• 8/29/2006: Trade (approved 8/30 by TRC 5-0 Ed, Tim, Joe, TJ, and Wayne) – NYJ receives RG 0-4 Ron Stone; BAL receives C 0-3 Adam Treu
• 9/1/2006: Trade (approved 9/2 by TRC 5-0 Wayne, Tim, Joe, TJ, and Ron) – SF receives RLB 4-0 James Davis; GB receives SF #6
• 9/1/2006: Trade – ATL receives LT 4-7 Brad Hopkins; SD receives ATL #4 and ATL #5
• 9/2/2006: Trade (approved 9/3 by TRC 4-0 Ed, Joe, Tim, and TJ) – NYJ receives MLB 4-5 Sam Cowart; STL receives RB Anthony Thomas
• 9/3/2006: Trade – SEA receives C 4-4 Jeff Mitchell and TEN #8; TEN receives SEA #4
• 9/4/2006: Trade disallowed (disallowed 9/5 by TRC 4-2 with Wayne, Tim, Ed, and Joe voting to disallow and TJ and Ron voting to allow; to summarize the majority opinion, as a WR with a good card 4-5-5 with a high 15.3 average who was a very high NFL draft pick 7^th overall just two years ago and is solidly DET’s #1 WR Roy Williams is worth 15-20 pick of the first round which makes the 49^th pick of the draft a clearly one-sided trade) – BAL receives SE 4-5-5 Roy Williams; GB receives BAL #3
• 9/6/2006: Trade – PHI receives PIT #1 (#11); PIT receives PHI #2, PHI #3, and PHI’s 2006-season #2
• 9/7/2006: Mandatory cut – KC due to having an extra kicker cuts K John Hall who is added immediately into the rookie/free-agent pool
• 9/8/2006: Trade – PIT receives RCB 5 Sam Madison and CHI’s 2006-season #8; CHI receives PHI #3 and PIT’s 2006-season #3
• 9/8/2006: Trade (approved 9/8 by TRC 5-0 with Ed, Joe, Tim, Wayne, and TJ voting to allow) – NO receives WR 4-4-3 Reggie Williams and BAL #2; BAL receives DET #1 (#15)
• 9/8/2006: Trade (approved 9/8 by TRC 5-0 with Ed, Joe, Tim, Wayne, and TJ voting to allow) – OAK receives DT 5-3 Jeff Zgonina and ATL #8; ATL receives NE #4; note that Zgonina was a 5-3 in the preview but actually is a 4-3, this was not found by Ed until 9/22 who notified OAK at that time
• 9/9/2006: Trade – TEN receives RDE 5-7 Bertrand Berry; DET receives LCB 5 Brian Kelly
• 9/9/2006: Trade during the draft – KC receives OAK #1 (#14) JAX receives KC #1 (#23), KC #3, and KC #5
• 9/9/2006: Trade during the draft (approved in 2 minutes by TRC 4-0 with Ed, Joe, TJ, and Wayne voting to allow)– JAX receives OAK #2; OAK receives KC #3 and CHI #4
• 9/9/2006: Trade during the draft (approved in 2 minutes by TRC 5-0 with Ed, Wayne, TJ, Joe, and Tim voting) – TEN receives DAL #8; DAL receives TEN #9 and TEN #10
• 9/9/2006: Trade during the draft – PHI receives NYG #8; NYJ receives PHI #9 and PHI #10
• 9/9/2006: Trade – NO receives LCB 4 Charles Tillman; KC receives RCB 4 David Macklin and NO #10
• 9/9/2006: Trade disallowed (disallowed 9/11 by TRC 5-0 with Wayne, Joe, Ron, Ed, and TJ voting to disallow; Tim abstained due to a potential conflict of interest with his having offered a trade for Webster; and TJ has not yet responded; to summarize the majority opinion Webster is a 4-rated CB starting on a good defense and is not very old at 29 years old and therefore has decent value while Pass has a poor running card with a very high fumble chance and is a 0-rated blocker at FB so the card has little value plus he has a serious injury and is on PUP and thus Pass has little value overall, thus the TRC has decided that the deal is clearly one-sided) – NYJ receives RCB 4 Jason Webster and DAL #7; DAL receives FB Patrick Pass and DAL #10
• 9/10/2006: Trade (approved 9/11 by TRC 4-0 with Ed, Wayne, Joe, and TJ voting to allow) – TB receives DE 0-6 Al Wallace and RG 0-4 Ron Stone; NYJ receives LB 0-0 Na’il Diggs and WR/KR 4-3-4 Edell Shepherd
• 9/11/2006: Trade (approved 9/11 by TRC 5-0 with Ed, Joe, Wayne, Tim, and TJ voting to allow) – NO receives DE 4-1 Marco Coleman; DAL receives LB 0-0 Grant Irons
• 9/11/2006: Trade (approved 9/11 by TRC 5-0 with Ed, Joe, Wayne, Tim, and TJ voting to allow) – DAL receives DT 4-5 Larry Tripplett; NYJ receives NT 5-2 Anthony Adams
• 9/11/2006: Trade disallowed (disallowed 9/12 by TRC 4-1 with Wayne, Tim, Ed, and Joe voting to disallow and TJ later voting to allow; to summarize the TRC view Rattay is a viable backup QB who is still fairly young and his NFL career passing stats are approximately NFL average and he is fairly likely to get a shot against at QB’ing a team, in other words he has value beyond just being a roster filler; Mike Green on the other hand is barely worth the last spot on a roster as he was not at all a success in Chicago and is just hanging onto a spot in Seattle) – NYJ receives QB Tim Rattay; OAK receives DB 0 Mike Green
• 9/12/2006: Trade (approved within 2 hours 9/12 by TRC 5-0 with Ed, Joe, Tim, TJ, and Wayne voting to allow) – NYJ receives NT 5-0 Jason Fisk; BAL receives RDT 4-2 Tim Anderson
• 9/12/2006: Trade disallowed (disallowed 9/13 by TRC 6-0 with Ed, Ron, TJ, Tim, Wayne, and Joe voting to disallow; to summarize the TRC view Rattay is a viable backup QB who is still fairly young and his NFL career passing stats are approximately NFL average and he is fairly likely to get a shot against at QB’ing a team, in other words he has value beyond just being a roster filler; Kenny Wright on the other hand is barely worth the last spot on a roster as he is a career 0 who failed in his shot at starting in Jacksonville and now is just a 29 year old nickel back and the 10^th round pick is worth very little) – NYJ receives QB Tim Rattay; OAK receives RCB 0 Kenny Wright and NYJ #10
• 9/13/2006: Trade (9/14 Tim called for a vote on this deal; approved 9/15 by TRC with Ed, Wayne, and Joe voting to allow and Tim and TJ voting to disallow; there was a large majority agreement that Phillips is worth a 4^th or perhaps a 3^rd round pick but the majority felt that the deal was not “clearly one-sided”) – JAX receives SS 4 Jermaine Phillips; CHI receives JAX #2
• 9/13/2006: Trade – TEN receives RLB 0-5 Mark Brown; TB receives TEN #10
• 9/13/2006: Trade (approved 9/14 by TRC 5-0 with Ed, TJ, Joe, Wayne, and Tim voting) – NYG receives DT 4-2 Fred Robbins; NYJ receives CB 4 Aaron Glenn and NYG #8
• 9/15/2006: Trade (approved within 1 hour by TRC 6-0 with Ed, Joe, Wayne, TJ, Tim, and Ron voting to allow) – TEN receives LLB 4-3 Brandon Short; IND receives TEN #6
• 9/16/2006: Trade (approved within 2 hours by TRC 6-0 with Ed, Tim, Wayne, Joe, Ron, and TJ voting to allow) – CHI receives RCB 4 Jason Webster; DAL receives FB 4-3 Jerald Sowell and CHI #5
• 9/17/2006: Trade (approved 9/18 by TRC 5-0 with Ed, Joe, Wayne, Tim, and TJ voting) – DAL receives FB 0-4 Patrick Pass; NYJ receives DB 0 Terry Cousin and DAL #8
• 9/17/2006: Trade (approved 9/18 by TRC 4-0 with Ed, Joe, Wayne, Tim, and TJ voting) – TEN receives DB 0 Aaron Francisco; GB receives DB 0 Mike Logan and TEN #7
• 9/19/2006: Trade – TEN receives MLB 4-7 Tommy Polley and NO #9; NO receives LE 4-5 Darrion Scott
• 9/21/2006: Trade (approved 9/22 by TRC 5-0 with Ed, Wayne, TJ, Tim, and Joe voting) – BAL receives RE 4-1 Marques Douglas and NYJ #6; NYJ receives LE 4-9 Jevon Kearse and BAL #10
• 9/21/2006: Trade – NE receives SS 4 Mike Doss and HOU #9; HOU receives LB 0-0 Chase Blackburn and NE #4
• 12/4/2006: Team ATL – Larry lmareeves@comcast.net has taken over team ATL as Johnny has indicated that he will not be continuing in the league

2005 Season Final Rosters (updated 10/7)

2005 Season Schedule (posted 8/5/2006)

2005 Season Final Draft Results (updated 9/16)

SEASON 3 -- 2004 Season

11-5 NYG made their third consecutive appearance in the semi-final playoff game but lost to STL 38-24 after STL’s second consecutive league-best performance in the regular season with a 12-4 record and earning a finals appearance. Defending champion SF lost to HOU 23-17 and HOU lost to KC 34-28 in overtime to give KC a spot in the championship game. In the third consecutive championship game decided by 4 or fewer points STL won the championship game over KC 31-27.

2004 Season Standings (updated with every result including the playoffs)

2004 Season Statistics (updated with every result including the playoffs, very large download 3MB)

2004 Season Dates:

• “Late August”/2005 – Strat ships the 2004 cards – completed 8/22
• Unknown – Strat releases information on the new features for version 5, slight discussion of impact of new features and rules (if any); once the cards have shipped and v5 features and rules (if any) are announced then trading season will be open – completed 8/23
• Small cutdown date for teams with excess at a few positions – completed 9/7
• Rookie/Free-Agent Draft – Saturday 9/10 starting at 9:00am Pacific Time – completed 9/10
• Cutdown to 53 players – Tuesday evening 9/13 at 9:00pm Pacific Time – completed 9/13
• Supplemental Draft via lists – Friday evening 9/16 starting at 9:00pm Pacific Time – completed 9/16
• Trade deadline for 2004 season – 9/18 at 10:00am PDT – completed 9/18
• Deadline for 4-3 or 3-4 choice and left/right swaps – 9/24 at 10:00am PDT – completed 9/24
• Start of season – approximately 9/24 – completed 9/24
• End of the first quarter Sunday 10/23 at 9:00pm PST – completed 10/23
• End of the second quarter Sunday 11/20 at 10:00pm PST – completed 11/20
• End of the third quarter Sunday 12/18 at 10:00pm PST – completed 12/18
• End of the fourth quarter Sunday 1/22 at 9:00pm PST – completed 1/24
• Start of the playoffs round 1 1/25 – completed 1/28
• Start of the playoffs round 2 1/28 – completed 2/2
• Start of the playoffs round 3 2/2 – completed 2/9
• 2004 SOMIFA Championship Game – completed 2/13

2004 Season League News:

• 7/31/2005: Rick of ARI has indicated that he will not be able to continue participation in the league
• 8/4/2005: Tim leopard138@comcast.net has accepted an offer to join the league and has taken over team ARI (renaming it to Tampa Bay)
• 8/15/2005: Brian of JAX has indicated that he will not be able to continue participation in the league; an offer has been made to someone on the waiting list
• 8/23/2005: League-wide e-mail sent requesting status of membership in the league, once status is received then that coach is eligible to make trades
• 8/23/2005: Trade -- TB receives QB Kerry Collins; PHI receives TB’s 2004 season 3^rd round pick
• 8/23/2005: Trade -- WAS receives RCB 4 D.McCutcheon, LCB 4 E.Warfield, and STL’s 2004 season 10^th round pick; STL receives RLB 4-4 J.Ulbrich, FS 4 J.Wilson, and WAS’s 2004 season 8^th round pick
• 8/23/2005: Trade – DAL receives LG 6-4 S.Hutchinson and TB’s 2004 season 7^th round pick; TB receives C/RG 5-5 D.Woody and DAL’s 2004 season 5^th round pick
• 8/25/2005: Trade – HOU receives SE/LP 4-4-4 Eric Parker; TB receives FS 4 Chris Hope
• 8/26/2005: Trade – NYJ receives RLB 4-4 Mark Simoneau; SD receives C 4-3 Shaun O’Hara
• 8/27/2005: Trade – OAK receives RLB 5-3 Brian Simmons, LG 4-4 Chris Dishman, and HOU’s 2004 season 3^rd round pick; HOU receives LG 6-5 Larry Allen and OAK’s 2004 season 6^th round pick
• 8/28/2005: Trade – NYG receives RLB 4-5 Junior Seau; NO receives NYG’s 2004 season 6^th round pick
• 8/28/2005: Trade – WAS receives SS 5 Robert Griffith; MIN receives LCB 4 Eric Warfield
• 8/28/2005: Trade – TB receives SS 4 Kim Herring and SD’s 2004 season 10^th round pick; SD receives DAL’s 2004 season 5^th round pick
• 8/28/2005: Trade – TB receives LDT 5-2 Cedric Woodard; SD receives RT 4-2 Matt Willig and TB’s 2004 season 5^th round pick
• 8/29/2005: Trade – CHI receives NT 5-0 Keith Traylor; NO receives RCB 4 David Macklin and CHI’s 2004 season 9^th round pick
• 8/29/2005: Trade – ATL receives RLB 6-9 Keith Bulluck; OAK receives LCB 6 Charles Woodson, RE 0-11 Bryce Fisher, and ATL’s 2004 season 2^nd round pick
• 8/29/2005: Trade – MIN receives LT 5-5 Marvel Smith, TEN’s 2004 season 5^th round and 10^th round picks; TEN receives MIN’s 2004 season 1^st round (17^th pick) and 5^th round picks
• 8/31/2005: Chris beddick@comcast.net has accepted an offer to join the league and has taken over team JAX
• 8/31/2005: Trade – ATL receives LG 6-5 Brian Waters; GB receives RT 6-3 Kareem McKenzie and ATL’s 2004 season 6^th round pick
• 8/31/2005: Trade not allowed – JAX receives P Bryan Barker; SD receives JAX’s 2004 season 7^th round pick – 9/1 the TRC has voted 3-1 to disallow this trade indicating that with Barker 41 years old and not on a team he is clearly not worth the first pick of the 7^th round considering another punter would need to be drafted next season (with Ron, JT, and Wayne voting to disallow; Ed voting to allow; Brad abstaining)
• 9/1/2005: Trade not allowed – KC receives QB Drew Bledsoe and MIN’s 2004 season 4^th round pick; MIN receives KC’s 2004 season 4^th round pick and KC’s 2004 season 5^th round pick – 9/4 the TRC has voted 3-2 to disallow this trade indicating that a 5^th round pick for a stable (not in competition for his job) starting QB is not at all close enough to equal value even for veteran coaches (with Ron, Wayne, and TJ voting to disallow; JT and Ed voting to allow)
• 9/1/2005: Trade -- PIT receives LT 0-5 Derrick Deese; MIN receives G 0-3 Jamar Nesbit
• 9/5/2005: Trade – JAX receives SF’s 2004 season 5^th round pick and SF’s 2004 season 10^th round pick; SF receives JAX’s 2004 season 6^th round pick and JAX’s 2004 season 10^th round pick
• 9/5/2005: Trade – SEA receives QB Billy Volek, NYJ’s 2004 season 2^nd round pick, and NYJ’s 2004 season 3^rd round pick; NYJ receives RB Ahman Green and LLB 5-5 Pisa Tinoisamoa
• 9/6/2005: Trade – NYG receives unrated OL Rich Seubert and TB’s 2004 season 2^nd round pick; TB receives NYG’s 2004 season 2^nd round pick and NYG’s 2004 season 5^th round pick
• 9/7/2005: Trade – NO receives FS 4 Jerome Woods; CHI receives NO’s 2004 season 6^th round pick
• 9/7/2005: Trade – NO receives FB 5-3 Moran Norris; KC receives LG 4-3 Chris Liwienski
• 9/8/2005: Trade – NYJ receives LILB 5-3 Ted Johnson and PHI’s 2004 season 1^st round pick (#5); PHI receives NYJ’s 2004 season 1^st round pick (#3)
• 9/9/2005: Trade – JAX receives TE 6 Kyle Brady and SD’s 2004 season 5^th round pick; SD receives JAX’s 2004 season 4^th round pick
• 9/9/2005: Trade – NYJ receives LT 6-7 Orlando Pace, JAX’s 2004 season 2^nd round pick, and SD’s 2004 season 5^th round pick; JAX receives NYJ’s 2004 season 1^st round pick (#5), NYJ’s 2004 season 4^th round pick, and NYJ’s 2004 season 6^th round pick (one member of the TRC called for a vote on this trade and 9-10 before the draft the trade was allowed 5-0 with Ed, JT, Ron, Brad, and Wayne voting to allow)
• 9/9/2005: Trade – SD receives HB 4-5 Tyrone Wheatley; JAX receives RT 0-3 Scott Gragg
• 9/10/2005: Trade – TB receives TB’s 2004 season 3^rd round pick and PHI’s 2004 season 5^th round pick; PHI receives NYG’s 2004 season 2^nd round pick
• 9/10/2005: Trade – OAK receives LDT 5-2 Cedric Woodard; TB receives OAK’s 2005 season 5^th round pick
• 9/10/2005: Trade – OAK receives NYJ’s 2005 season 2^nd round pick; NYJ receives HOU’s 2004 season 3^rd round pick
• 9/10/2005: Trade – NO receives TB’s 2004 season 4^th round pick and TB’s 2004 season 6^th round pick; TB receives NO’s 2004 season 3^rd round pick
• 9/10/2005: Trade – SEA receives FS 4 Brent Alexander; GB receives SEA’s 2004 season 6^th round pick
• 9/10/2005: Trade – SEA receives PR/KR Jermaine Lewis; SF receives OAK’s 2004 season 7^th round pick
• 9/10/2005: Trade – PHI receives SE Amani Toomer; JAX receives LE 4-9 David Bowens
• 9/10/2005: Trade – PHI receives OAK’s 2004 season 8^th round pick; OAK receives PHI’s 2005 season 8^th round pick
• 9/10/2005: Trade – NO receives PIT’s 2004 season 9^th round pick; PIT receives CHI’s 2004 season 9^th round pick and NO’s 2005 season 10^th round pick
• 9/10/2005: Trade – SD receives PIT’s 2004 season 10^th round pick; PIT receives SD’s 2004 season supplemental 2^nd round pick
• 9/11/2005: Trade – JAX receives RT 4-4 Kenyatta Walker and FS 4 Brent Alexander; SEA receives FS 4 Erik Coleman
• 9/12/2005: Trade – SD receives TE 5 Reggie Kelly; PIT receives DB/KR 0 Roderick Hood
• 9/12/2005: Trade – MIN receives RT 4-4 Stockar McDougle; SF receives MIN’s 2005 season 3^rd round pick (one member of the TRC called for a vote on this trade and 9-14 the trade was allowed 4-1 with TJ, JT, Ron, and Brad voting to allow and Wayne voting to disallow)
• 9/12/2005: Trade – NYJ receives RLB 5-6 Will Weatherspoon; NE receives LLB 5-5 Pisa Tinoisamoa and NYJ’s 2005 season 4^th round pick (one member of the TRC called for a vote on this trade and 9-13 the trade was allowed 4-1 with Ed, JT, Ron, and Brad voting to allow and Wayne voting to disallow)
• 9/13/2005: Trade – OAK receives LE 5-4 Renaldo Wynn and NE’s 2005 season 4^th round pick; NE receives RE 0-11 Bryce Fisher and OAK’s 2005 season 6^th round pick
• 9/13/2005: Trade – PHI receives LOLB 4-4 Ben Leber, C 0-5 Al Johnson, and WAS’s 2005 season 5^th round pick; WAS receives LLB 5-2 Dhani Jones and PHI’s 2005 season 6^th round pick
• 9/13/2005: Trade – PHI receives QB Shaun King and MLB 4-5 Rob Morris; NO receives PHI’s 2005 season 4^th round pick
• 9/13/2005: Trade – PIT receives SS 5 Michael Boulware; NE receives RCB 5 Gary Baxter, PIT’s 2005 season 3^rd round pick, and PIT’s 2005 season 5^th round pick
• 9/15/2005: Trade – PIT receives RT 4-3 Orlando Brown; MIN receives P (no card) Dan Stryzinski and PIT’s 2005 season 6^th, 8^th, and 10^th round picks
• 9/15/2005: Trade – SEA receives WR Johnny Morton; ATL receives FS 4 Will Demps
• 9/16/2005: Trade – NYJ receives QB Matt Schaub and SF’s 2005 season 7^th round pick; SF receives QB Chad Hutchinson and NYJ’s 2005 season 3^rd round pick
• 9/18/2005: Trade not allowed – OAK receives LLB 5-4 Pisa Tinoisamoa and WR Ricky Proehl; NE receives RLB 5-3 Brian Simmons and WR Wayne Chrebet (one member of the TRC called for a vote on this trade and 9-19 the trade was disallowed 4-1 with TJ, Ed, Wayne, and Ron voting to disallow and Brad voting to allow)
• 9/18/2005: Trade – JAX receives LLB 5-4 Carlos Emmons and CHI’s 2005 season 4^th round pick; CHI receives DE no rating Phillip Daniels and JAX’s 2005 season 2^nd round pick
• 10/4/2005: Corrected an error on the roster sheet listing SD as a 4-3 team, SD is actually using a 3-4 defensive card and is a 3-4 team
• 10/8/2005: Mike/NE has changed his e-mail address from kuduk@earthlink.net to mkuduk@bellsouth.net but then on 10/10 changed it back to kuduk@earthlink.net
• 10/15/2005: Brian/WAS has indicated that just as with last year he has been unable to connect the game to ATL and with his schedule this week (the deadline is 10/23) will be unable to make multiple attempts to try again to connect for this game and has asked for a replacement coach for this game, Tommy stepped in and took over WAS for this game
• 10/25/2005: Brian/WAS has indicated that he has become too busy to fulfill league commitments, Tommy leafs93@swbell.net is the new owner of WAS
• 10/27/2005: Due to Hurricane Wilma Jeff/SEA was unable to play games for awhile but Jeff is back and ready to play his 6 remaining first and second quarter games
• 10/31/2005: Vinny/GB has indicated that he has become too busy to fulfill league commitments, Neil neilshannon1@comcast.net is the new owner of GB
• 11/1/2005: Chris/JAX has changed his e-mail address to beddick@wpa.net
• 11/3/2005: Tim/TB has changed his e-mail address to timboll@sbcglobal.net
• 11/18/2005: Joe/NYJ has changed his e-mail address to zeroburn1@verizon.net
• 12/15/2005: Bill/BAL has indicated that a change in work schedule has forced him to quit the league, Joe jrperron7@comcast.net is the new owner of BAL
• 1/1/2006: Vic/DAL has indicated that due to his changing schedule he is no longer able to continue in the league; Zeb zebstrong@yahoo.com is the new owner of DAL
• 1/12/2006: Joe/NYJ has left the league due to personal issues; Dennis seahawk10@gmail.com is the new owner of NYJ
• 1/14/2006: Brad/CHI has changed his e-mail address from Brad1Lane@cs.com to brad2lane@comcast.net
• 1/22/2006: Tommy/WAS has indicated at the deadline and with one game remaining that he no longer has time to be in the league; Mike mjp6269@yahoo.com is the new owner of WAS
• 1/24/2006: Larry lmareeves@comcast.net took over team SD for the SD-KC game, thank you Larry

2004 Season Rosters (final update 9/24/2005)

2004 Season Schedule (posted 9/17/2005)

2004 Season Draft (updated 9/17/2005 with both draft results)

SEASON 2 -- 2003 Season

Defending champion Pittsburgh had a tough season going 6-10. St. Louis had a great regular season finishing 14-1-1 but was upended by 9-7 Chicago 13-12 in the playoffs. CHI advanced to the championship game with a 33-17 victory over 12-4 New Orleans. San Francisco had an 11-5 regular season and advanced to the championship game with a 24-17 victory against 10-6 Washington and a 33-13 win against the 11-5 New York Giants who were attempting to make a repeat appearance in the finals. SF won the championship game over CHI 23-19.

2003 Season Final Standings (updated with playoff results)

2003 Season Final Statistics (updated with playoff boxscores, huge file 3MB)

2003 Season Dates:

• “Early August”/2004 – Strat ships the 2003 cards – completed 8/10
• Unknown – Strat releases information on the new features for version 4, slight discussion of impact of new features and rules (if any); once the cards have shipped and v4 features and rules (if any) are announced then trading season will be open – completed 8/12
• New coach team names finalized – completed 8/13 (further new coaches may pick from available team names)
• 8/24 -- each participant’s draft order will be determined via lottery (see below) – completed 8/24
• 8/29 -- the draft list’s order (used by un-owned teams) will be finalized; the draft will begin immediately via e-mail so that hopefully the first couple of rounds will be completed before the live draft – completed 8/28
• Sunday September 5 and Monday September 6 (Labor Day) starting at 9:00am PDT – the live portion of the expansion draft for new league members will be held on these two dates (lasting approximately 4-7 hours per session) – completed 9/6
• “Early-mid September” – Strat releases version 4 of the computer game – completed 9/10
• September 11 starting at 9:00am PDT – rookie/free-agent draft (10 rounds) – completed 9/11
• September 13 at 10:00pm PDT – mandatory cut-down to 50 players – completed 9/13
• September 17 at 10:00pm PDT – Supplemental Draft (from e-mailed lists, draft is not live) -- completed 9/17
• Approximately September 19 – schedule will be completed -- completed 9/18
• Wednesday, September 22^nd at 9:00pm PDT – trading deadline, no trades are allowed after this – completed 9/22
• Thursday, September 23^rd at 9:00pm PDT – deadline for announcing player swaps (left/right) and choosing 3-4 or 4-3 defensive card – completed 9/23
• 9/24 early evening PDT – start of season! – completed 9/24/04
• 10/24 10:00pm PDT – deadline for all four completed first quarter game results to be sent – completed 10/24/04
• 11/21 10:00pm PDT – deadline for all four completed second quarter game results to be sent – completed 11/21/04
• 12/29 10:00pm PDT – deadline for all four completed third quarter game results to be sent – completed 12/29/04
• 1/30/05 10:00pm PDT – deadline for all four completed fourth quarter game results to be sent – completed 1/30/05
• 1/31/05 9:30pm PDT – mini-playoff – completed 2/8/05
• 2/8/05 – playoff round 1 – completed 2/16/05
• 2/16/05 – playoff round 2 – completed 2/25/05
• 2/25/05 – playoff round 3 – completed 3/5/05
• 3/2/05 – championship game – completed 3/8/05

2003 Season League News:

• 8/23/2004 Trade: HOU receives Brian Simmons 5-4 RLB, OAK receives Mike Peterson 5-3 MLB
• 8/29 Trade: DAL receives Aaron Kampman 4-2 LE and OAK #6, OAK receives John Wade 4-7 C
• 9/3 Trade: STL receives SF #1 (pick #5) and SF #5, SF receives STL #1 (pick #2)
• 9/3 Trade: CHI receives Pete Kendall 5-5 C, STL receives CHI #4
• 9/11 Trade (reported 9/10): DET receives MIN #1 (pick #10) and MIN #4; MIN receives DET #2 (pick #27 overall), DET #3, and DET #5 – trade was approved by TRC 4 (Wayne, TJ, Ron, and JT) to 2 (Ed and Brad)
• 9/17 Trade (reported 9/16): MIN receives Greg Favors 5-0 LLB, CHI receives Todd McClure 4-4 C – trade was approved by TRC 5-0 (Ron, JT, Wayne, TJ, and Ed)
• 9/17 Trade (reported 9/16): OAK receives Keith Bulluck 6-5 RLB, SEA #3, and SEA #5; SEA receives Joey Porter 5-9 ROLB, OAK #1, and OAK #7 – trade was approved by TRC 4 (Ron, JT, Wayne, and Ed) to 1 (TJ)
• 9/19 Trade (reported 9/17): OAK receives Romen Oben LT 0-7, NO receives Jason Bell DB 0 and OAK #3 – trade was approved by TRC 4-0 (Brad, TJ, Ed, and Wayne) (trade had not yet been approved by the 9/17 Supplemental Draft but the vote was already a lock at 3-0 and so was implemented before the draft with NO being allowed to cut Bell for that draft)
• 9/19 Trade: ATL receives Cornelius Griffin 4-2 LDT and Justin Gage WR, ARI receives FS Nick Ferguson 5 and Solomon Page RT/G 0-4
• 9/22 Trade too late: a trade was reported at 10:12pm PDT on 9/22 between OAK and NE but since it was after the 9:00pm PDT deadline the trade has been disallowed by a TRC vote of 3 (Wayne, Ed, and Brad) to 1(TJ) all of whom felt that the deadline was communicated clearly enough; however, the trade may still be made between OAK and NE to become effective beginning with game 5 (after the first quarter of the season) if both teams agree and the TRC approves
• 10/15 Trade (goes into effect beginning with game 5): MIN receives QB Brett Favre, PIT receives QB Brian Griese and MIN #3 – trade was approved by TRC 4 (Brad, TJ, JT, and Ed) to 1 (Wayne) approximately 30 minutes before NFL games began on 10/17
• 12/11 News: Jamie of NYJ has had continuing issues and is no longer in the league; Joe (machine@intelliwave.com) has taken over team NYJ, welcome Joe!! Joe will have the option next preseason to keep the team permanently or to permanently take over a different team (determined at random) if other teams are available at that time
• 12/18 News: Jamie of PHI lost interest in playing games and has left the league; Tim (foresha1997@adelphia.net ) has taken over team PHI, welcome Tim!! Tim will have the option next preseason to keep the team permanently or to permanently take over a different team (determined at random) if other teams are available at that time

2003 Season Rosters (updated 10/15/2004)

2003 Season Schedule (posted 9/18/2004)

2003 Season Expansion Draft (completed 9/6/2004)

2003 Season Rookie/Free-Agent Draft (completed 9/11/2004)

including Supplemental Draft 9/17

2003 Season Expansion Lottery Draft Order Determination

We will use the Massachusetts Lottery http://www.masslottery.com/ and we will use the Mega Ball of the Big Game Mega Millions on Tuesday 8/24.  This is a number from 1-52 which will be listed for 8/24.

Late 8/20 evening I randomly assigned via dice roll to each of the 12 new league members a letter A-L.  Each letter will represent a range of numbers in this mega ball as follows:

Letter A = 1-4 = KC/Joe

Letter B = 5-8 = BAL/Bill

Letter C = 9-12 = SEA/Jeff

Letter D = 13-16 = NYJ/Jamie

Letter E = 17-20 = GB/Vinny

Letter F = 21-24 = WAS/Brian

Letter G = 25-28 = MIN/Bernie

Letter H = 29-32 = JAX/Brian

Letter I = 33-36 = NE/Mike

Letter J = 37-40 = TEN/John

Letter K = 41-44 = NO/Tom

Letter L = 45-48 = PHI/Jamie

If the Mega Ball number for that day is within one of these ranges then the person with that letter gets the first pick in odd numbered rounds of the expansion draft.  If the mega ball bonus is not within one of these ranges (i.e. it's 49-52) then we will instead use the Mass Millions Bonus Number from 8/23 and we will not at all use the Mega Ball Bonus Number whatsoever.

The person with the letter which contains a number closest to the Mega Ball Number will receive the second pick of odd numbered rounds of the expansion draft.  The third pick will be determined by the letter containing a number second-closest to the Mega Ball Number, and so on.

The letters A and L will roll over to each other in each direction so that, for example, if the Mega Ball Number is 2 then A gets the first pick, L gets the second pick, B gets the third pick, K gets the fourth pick, and so on.  In this way those who get more "extreme" letters such as A, B, K, and L will not be at a disadvantage and there will be no letters with any advantage.

Here are further examples:

* Mega Ball Number = 47 means odd numbered rounds of the expansion draft = LAKBJCIDHEGF

* Mega Ball Number = 22 means odd numbered rounds of the expansion draft = FEGDHCIBJAKL

* Mega Ball Number = 50 means we don't use it at all and we use the 8/23 Mass Millions Bonus Number instead; Mass Millions Bonus Number = 35 means odd numbered rounds of the expansion draft = IJHKGLFAEBDC

Even numbered rounds of the rookie/free-agent draft will proceed with the same order (for new league members who will all draft approximately in the middle of each round) as odd numbered rounds of the expansion draft. Even numbered rounds of the expansion draft and odd numbered rounds of the rookie/free-agent draft will proceed in reverse order of odd numbered rounds of the expansion draft.

In other words, the expansion draft is serpentine as is the rookie/free-agent draft.  The person getting the last pick in the first round of the expansion draft will get the first pick of the second round as well as the highest pick (of expansion teams) in the first round of the rookie/free-agent draft.

If someone decides not to participate in the draft after all then his draft spot will be given to the next person joining the league.  If there is a spot open by the time of the draft then an un-owned team will draft for that team and will draft at the end of each expansion draft round.

If there are two or more spots open when someone new wants to join then that person(s) will be given one of these open draft order spots at random. For example, if the person with letters B, E, and J drop out before the draft and I'm able to find two others to take their place then those two others will take two of B, E, and J while the third spot will be drafted by an un-owned team at the bottom of each round.

Result: The mega ball was a 46 which meant LKAJBICHDGEF which means 1) PHI/Jamie, 2) NO/Tom, 3) KC/Joe, 4) TEN/John, 5) BAL/Bill, 6) NE/Mike, 7) SEA/Jeff, 8) JAX/Brian, 9) NYJ/Jamie, 10) MIN/Bernie, 11) GB/Vinny, 12) WAS/Brian

SEASON 1 -- 2002 Season

Our inaugural season was great as we did not have one of the four game result deadlines pass with any games outstanding. Great job everyone!

The New York Giants led by QB Chad Pennington’s 67% completion percentage and RB Tiki Barber’s 1410 rushing yards led the league with a 13-3 record and defeated 10-6 Chicago to make it to the championship game. Pittsburgh with Brett Favre at QB and Garrison Hearst at RB after an 11-5 regular season defeated 12-4 Dallas in the semi-final game. PIT won the championship game over NYG 27-24.

Here were first season league timetables:

· 8/20/2003 beginning of time for league applications to be accepted

· 8/27 posted final Excel spreadsheet draft list

· 8/27 league membership was finalized

· 8/30 at 8:00am Pacific Daylight Time the first 13 rounds of the draft occurred via internet chat room with all league members drafting live

· 8/30 through 9/5 the defensive/penalty card draft and rounds 14 and 15 were held via e-mail

· 9/5 at 7:00pm Pacific Daylight Time rounds 16-26 of the live draft occurred

· 9/8 through 9/10 the groupings draft occurred with each coach drafting one group of 21 players

· 9/14 before the NFL games begin the supplemental draft occurred

· 9/17 was the trade deadline for before the season begins

· 9/19 The season has begun

· 10/19 The first quarter of the season is over and everyone has played 4 games

· 10/19 The second quarter of the season has begun

· 11/12 The second quarter of the season is over and everyone has played 8 games (the deadline was scheduled for 11/16)

· 11/13 The third quarter of the season has begun

· 12/11 The third quarter of the season is over and everyone has played 12 games (the deadline was scheduled for 12/14)

· 12/11 The fourth quarter of the season has begun

· 1/10 The season is over and everyone has played 16 games (the deadline was scheduled for 1/10)

· 1/11 The playoffs began

· 1/24 The championship game was played

10/3/2003 Trade: SD trades RB/KR N.Davenport to DAL for WR J.Jurevicius. Standard procedure in year one is to vote on whether the trade should be allowed as outlined in the Constitution. Ed, Rick, and Paul voted to allow this trade while Wayne voted to disallow the trade (with all other league members not casting a vote). The trade went into effect after game 4.

The following Draft List spreadsheet contains a list of every single player rated or given a card by Strat in the 2002 season. Each player’s rating and card info is indicated as is each player’s 2003 NFL status (such as DENstarterLG, information as of 8/27/2003), age, and ratings from last year.

The following three files are combined into a single zip file:

2002 SOMIFA Inaugural Draft

2002 Inaugural Draft List

2002 Inaugural Draft Leftovers

The first worksheet of the draft list – labelled “All” -- contains a list of 624 players (24 teams multiplied by 26 picks) in order of how unowned teams drafted. The 6 other worksheets of the spreadsheet contain all players eligible in the draft sorted by position.

2002 SOMIFA Final Stats and Standings (including playoffs)

2002 SOMIFA Rosters (in zip format)

The following is a brief history of my Strat-O-Matic experiences which may help you see that this league is in for the long term. I was born in 1963 and began playing Strat baseball in about 1980. I was in a Strat baseball league from about 1981 through 1991.

I began playing Strat football in 1986 and joined a league almost immediately. This league was and still is a draft keeper league called Oops and the league is now in something like its 35^th season. In 1996 I left the area of the league and had to reluctantly leave the league (I stayed in the league an extra full season by flying to the league’s area and playing a bunch of games over three weekends but that was way too tiring). If you’re in the Southern California area I recommend checking out the Oops league.

I began playing Strat basketball (board game) I think in the late 80’s and played season replays on the computer game in the early 90’s. In approximately 1995 I joined a start-up league and helped shape some of the initial rules and then when the next year the Commissioner left the league I took over and the league has grown to 15+ members and always looking for more. The league web page is at http://www.somiba.com and if you’re interested in that league let me know.