AFL Garbage Disposal

	SEASON STANDINGS
SEASON LEADERS	INJURY REPORT	CAREER STATISTICS
CLARIFICATIONS	SPECIAL PLAYERS	HALL OF FAME

Tuesday, October 26 4:30pm ET

Season Schedule, Reporting Games, & Challenges

Schedule of Games: Every new season means a new Cup for which teams compete. There is a regular season period to determine seeding for the postseason(playoffs). When regular season concludes, post-season begins(there is no week off for teams, with the exception of occasional byes under certain circumstances). After the playoffs are concluded and a new champion is crowned for that particular Cup, all teams get a week off to recoup before the next season starts!; REGULAR SEASON
Each team within a division will play two matches against every other team in the same division and one match against every other team outside their division. Currently, this means a team will complete 10 matches during the regular season. The order in which the matches are played does not matter, excepting that a team may _not_ play the same opponent twice in a row. This means that coaches have to be sure and schedule their intra-division matches responsibly. There is also no mandate on how quickly or slowly matches get played, with the exception that team's should finish their regular season matches by the deadline for regular season ending. Regular season lasts 10 weeks(with occasional exceptions)- which means that teams should try to at least average 1 match per week so as not to risk any unplayed matches. The penalty for such missed matches is obvious...; POST SEASON
Once all teams have completed their regular season matches or the regular season deadline is reached, post season gets underway. Teams are seeded based on their regular season record. Should two teams have the the same record, the first tie-breaker is their regular season head-to-head record(better head-to-head record wins), the second is Team Rating(higher team rating wins).; The play-offs proceed as per the image below...
But... only 8 teams can go to the quarter-finals, so to determine who will get 7th and 8th seed, the bottom four ranked teams will have to face off in a special contest- the Toilet Bowl!!! The winner gets 7th seed, the runner up 8th, and the biggest loser gets a special Toilet Scrubber Trophy that acts as a trophy reroll(i.e. a TRR usable once per match) which they keep until the next Toilet Bowl when they will hopefully be able to pass it off to some other unfortunate soul.; Once that is decided, the Quarterfinals commence. The losers of each round get a consolation match with the other loser within their bracket. Thus if after the Q-finals 8th, 4th, 6th, and 7th seeds were eliminated, 8th and 4th could play each other in a consolation match, and 6th could play 7th. Should both coaches wish, the consolation match can be ignored, but if only one coach wants to play the match then the other has to either agree to play or forfeit and suffer. Losers of the Semi-finals get a similar consolation match.; THE GLITTERING PRIZES!!!
Each season coaches compete for one of four major trophies. The Spike, Dungeonbowl, Chaos Cup, and Blood Bowl. The prize and purse differ for each one as follows.; Spike- Purse: 50,000gc Prize: +1d3 FF; Trophy; Dungeonbowl- Purse: 70,000gc Prize: Bob's Bag o' Magic Crap!; Trophy; Chaos Cup- Purse: 160,000gc* Prize: Amulet of Storms; Trophy *the purse is divided by a die-roll: on a 1 the winner gets only 60,000, on a 2-5 he gets 80,000, and on a 6 he gets 100,000- the loser gets the balance of the purse.; Blood Bowl- Purse: 150,000gc to the winner; 50,000gc to the loser. Prize: Bob's Anti-boot Ointment.

Reporting Games: After each match it behooves coaches to report their matches and team data to the commish so that he can keep the webpage up to date. There are three important pieces of data that the commish needs at his disposal in order to keep things rolling.; The Season Standing stats(W-L-T; PF/PA; CF/CA; Team Rating; Home/Away; Streak)

The Injury Report stats(Lasting SIs- given/taken; Lasting Kills- given/taken)

The Season Leader stats(Any player that deserves to be recognized for his deeds!); The winning coach should also provide the list with a colorful(or at least accurate) account of the match that took place. If all coaches provide timely and up to date info about their teams then the commish has no excuse to not provide the best looking site possible!!! =)
Challenges: Throughout the season, most coaches will gladly schedule matches against each other and complete them in a timely fashion. Yet sometimes a coach may decide that he doesn't wish to play another coach. It happens. And when the coach that really wants to play the match has had enough of waiting, his only recourse is to issue a challenge!!!; In order to issue a challenge a coach must do/fulfill the following:; Submit either a message to the group or at the least to the opponent and CC'd to the Commish stating explicitly the intent to challenge(Putting "Challenge" in the Subject line usually works).

Cannot currently have any other issued challenges outstanding. This means that coach Jones cannot issue challenge to two separate people. He must first finish out the first challenge he made before he may make another.

Challenges are scheduled/enforced in the order in which they were received. In the event that two coaches both issued challenges that would impact the other at roughly the same time, and there is a dispute as to which was sent first, the Commish will use the time marked on the messages _he_ received to determine which challenge has precident.

When a player receives a challenge, he can either accept it, forfeit, or try to work out some sort of deal with the challenging coach(in the event that he simply wants a bit more time). Further, the challenging coach _can_ drop the challenge if he wishes to play someone else, but then he must allow the former challengee to play at least one match against someone else(this prevents someone from playing Beardy and dropping the challenge for long enough to play another match and then reissuing the challenge immediately thereafter).
Are there ways to "get around" getting challenged? Yes and no.
Were a coach to be challenged by several people, the sheer amount of waiting by the last coaches to challenge could turn them off from following through on it. A good coach will try to stay aware of what other coaches in the league are doing while maintaining a sense about his own team and who he should be playing. If a coach is proactively seeking out opponents and scheduling matches regularly, then he will likely never be challenged(unless he's ducking someone that wants to play him).

A coach _could_ try to schedule games so that he may avoid a coach for a few matches, but in order to do so he'd probably have to bribe other coaches to challenge him which ties up both their matches and his. Furthermore, any coach who seemingly tries to use the challenging system in order to undermine it will most likely find some of his players suspended for his next match(along with any colluders).

All that being said, challenges are _not_ the standard method of scheduling games. Rather, they are a special means of forcing an "unwilling" opponent to get off his duff and play!

*FINAL NOTE: Anything deemed unbalancing or simply in need of changing will be removed, altered, or edited by the Commissioner as he sees fit. Ain't power grand? =); Cannot currently have any other issued challenges outstanding. This means that coach Jones cannot issue challenge to two separate people. He must first finish out the first challenge he made before he may make another.

Challenges are scheduled/enforced in the order in which they were received. In the event that two coaches both issued challenges that would impact the other at roughly the same time, and there is a dispute as to which was sent first, the Commish will use the time marked on the messages _he_ received to determine which challenge has precident.

When a player receives a challenge, he can either accept it, forfeit, or try to work out some sort of deal with the challenging coach(in the event that he simply wants a bit more time). Further, the challenging coach _can_ drop the challenge if he wishes to play someone else, but then he must allow the former challengee to play at least one match against someone else(this prevents someone from playing Beardy and dropping the challenge for long enough to play another match and then reissuing the challenge immediately thereafter).
Are there ways to "get around" getting challenged? Yes and no.
Were a coach to be challenged by several people, the sheer amount of waiting by the last coaches to challenge could turn them off from following through on it. A good coach will try to stay aware of what other coaches in the league are doing while maintaining a sense about his own team and who he should be playing. If a coach is proactively seeking out opponents and scheduling matches regularly, then he will likely never be challenged(unless he's ducking someone that wants to play him).

A coach _could_ try to schedule games so that he may avoid a coach for a few matches, but in order to do so he'd probably have to bribe other coaches to challenge him which ties up both their matches and his. Furthermore, any coach who seemingly tries to use the challenging system in order to undermine it will most likely find some of his players suspended for his next match(along with any colluders).

All that being said, challenges are _not_ the standard method of scheduling games. Rather, they are a special means of forcing an "unwilling" opponent to get off his duff and play!

*FINAL NOTE: Anything deemed unbalancing or simply in need of changing will be removed, altered, or edited by the Commissioner as he sees fit. Ain't power grand? =); Challenges are scheduled/enforced in the order in which they were received. In the event that two coaches both issued challenges that would impact the other at roughly the same time, and there is a dispute as to which was sent first, the Commish will use the time marked on the messages _he_ received to determine which challenge has precident.; When a player receives a challenge, he can either accept it, forfeit, or try to work out some sort of deal with the challenging coach(in the event that he simply wants a bit more time). Further, the challenging coach _can_ drop the challenge if he wishes to play someone else, but then he must allow the former challengee to play at least one match against someone else(this prevents someone from playing Beardy and dropping the challenge for long enough to play another match and then reissuing the challenge immediately thereafter).; Are there ways to "get around" getting challenged? Yes and no.
Were a coach to be challenged by several people, the sheer amount of waiting by the last coaches to challenge could turn them off from following through on it. A good coach will try to stay aware of what other coaches in the league are doing while maintaining a sense about his own team and who he should be playing. If a coach is proactively seeking out opponents and scheduling matches regularly, then he will likely never be challenged(unless he's ducking someone that wants to play him).; A coach _could_ try to schedule games so that he may avoid a coach for a few matches, but in order to do so he'd probably have to bribe other coaches to challenge him which ties up both their matches and his. Furthermore, any coach who seemingly tries to use the challenging system in order to undermine it will most likely find some of his players suspended for his next match(along with any colluders).

All that being said, challenges are _not_ the standard method of scheduling games. Rather, they are a special means of forcing an "unwilling" opponent to get off his duff and play!

*FINAL NOTE: Anything deemed unbalancing or simply in need of changing will be removed, altered, or edited by the Commissioner as he sees fit. Ain't power grand? =)