The 3 Division winners:
Hammer of the Gods
The Color Purple
Hurricane Lombardi
are defending the Dutch Clark, Indian Packing Company amd Winter Park divisions respectively. As Division Winners, you 3 are allowed to rename your division to your liking. Homerism, as in mandatory.
Secondly, although roster moves were frozen after Week 15, I think everyone should understand they were frozen for PICKUPS and NOT to prevent IR moves. I inadvertently set the site to freeze ALL moves so I will create roster space for those of you who have players on the IR still on the active roster.
That brings up a secondary point: when do these guys get pulled from the IR? Just on my team: Delhomme is hoping to BEGIN throwing in a month, and Irons hopes to begin running in JULY. Clearly, this will have to be a case by case basis, but for the time being it appears that players IR'ed in 2008 are pretty much still in that status.
Other things we need to decide:
from this thread:
http://forums.thehuddle.com/index.php?s=&a...t&p=2335847
QUOTE(Puddy @ 12/16/07 9:30pm) 
1. No free agent pickups after kickoff of the first game of the week (regardless of day).
2. Starting lineups allowed to be changed until kickoff of each players game.
2. Starting lineups allowed to be changed until kickoff of each players game.
These two suggestions started a bunch of talk so they'll definitely be put to a vote.
Two other things I can think of are this: dealing with the Taxi Squad in the off-season, and the off-season schedule itself.
Regarding the Taxi Squad, this was approved in our rules last year:
http://forums.thehuddle.com/index.php?s=&a...t&p=2007393 :
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10.2.2 2007 to 2008: Draft orders will be based on 2007 results. One week prior to the 2008 rookie draft, taxi squads are locked and cuts and/or promotions will need to be made if any franchise wants to make more room on their taxi squad. These can be made at any point during the off-season. Prior to the 2008 Veteran Draft, all Norris franchise rosters must be cut to meet a total of 9 to 11 players on the franchise's roster.
Example: Ditka's Demons during the 2007 season elevated 2 of his 7 taxi squad player's to his roster. He traded a third player to Titletown's taxi squad. This leaves him at least 3 spots to draft NFL rookies onto his taxi squad. Of his roster of 18, he decides to cut his 2 PK's outright and elevates 2 more taxi squad players to his roster. He is now able to participate in 5 rounds of the Rookie Draft, bringing his taxi squad total back up to 7. Then, prior to the Veteran draft he selects 10 players to keep (one under the max) but he has ZERO obligation to keep the 2 players he elevated from his taxi squad earlier in the year.
Example: Ditka's Demons during the 2007 season elevated 2 of his 7 taxi squad player's to his roster. He traded a third player to Titletown's taxi squad. This leaves him at least 3 spots to draft NFL rookies onto his taxi squad. Of his roster of 18, he decides to cut his 2 PK's outright and elevates 2 more taxi squad players to his roster. He is now able to participate in 5 rounds of the Rookie Draft, bringing his taxi squad total back up to 7. Then, prior to the Veteran draft he selects 10 players to keep (one under the max) but he has ZERO obligation to keep the 2 players he elevated from his taxi squad earlier in the year.
Here are some of the votes. Look closely at link #’s 2 & 4.
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Polls Where Rules Have Been Changed:
http://forums.thehuddle.com/index.php?showtopic=202568
http://forums.thehuddle.com/index.php?showtopic=199613
http://forums.thehuddle.com/index.php?showtopic=199464
http://forums.thehuddle.com/index.php?showtopic=196384
http://forums.thehuddle.com/index.php?showtopic=202568
http://forums.thehuddle.com/index.php?showtopic=199613
http://forums.thehuddle.com/index.php?showtopic=199464
http://forums.thehuddle.com/index.php?showtopic=196384
That's actually kind of vague, but given that Taxi Squads were new last year, we didn't have a handle on them long term. That's something we need to address.
So, votes on roster deadlines, weekly free-agent cutoffs, IR tracking/definitions and Taxi Squads.
The final discussion is the final off-season schedule.
Last year our off-season moves went like this:
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1 - Scrub Draft end of April 07 – same week as NFL rookie Draft.
2 - Rookie Draft on Monday, June 18 2007 (I think we had travel conflicts that pushed it into June, many had wanted end of May).
3 - Vet Draft was in mid August, after July 31st 2007 cuts to 4-6 keepers.
4 - promotions and further trims to meet the 18 active and 10 taxi player limits for the first game of the 2007 year on Thursday night.
2 - Rookie Draft on Monday, June 18 2007 (I think we had travel conflicts that pushed it into June, many had wanted end of May).
3 - Vet Draft was in mid August, after July 31st 2007 cuts to 4-6 keepers.
4 - promotions and further trims to meet the 18 active and 10 taxi player limits for the first game of the 2007 year on Thursday night.
I see no reason why we shouldn’t do this again, assuming, of course, some type of Srcub Draft takes place.
This year, Labor Day is on Monday, September 1st this year. The Kickoff Game is Sept 4th. It would seems like we should start the Vet Draft around August 18th. We might actually be able to do it later on the 25th, given that it's only going to be around 9 rounds. We should be able to get through that in 2-3 days, especially given the crop of players we'll be sifting through.
We should be able to wrap this up in 2-3 weeks, leaving more than a month before any potential round of player pickups. Let's say we'll have all votes by Friday, March 21st.
Sorry for the long winded post, but there's no rest for the Dynastic Owners. Fer cryin out loud, the Pro Bowl was weeks ago!