Well we have completed another successful CIFL season, and soon we will be voting on the new rules for the league. I thought I would discuss some of this years proposals so that my opinions and why are known by the league. This is not to try and sway votes, I just want everyone to know why I am voting the way that I am. Feel free to respond with your opinions whether you agree or disagree.

The first rule to discuss deals with franchise players. Many of us felt that 5 was too many last year and this proposal could very well of passed as it was 6-3 in favor of. The purpose of lowering back down to 4 franchise players was to provide more quality to the draft. I think it ended up working to all of our advantages by having a year of 5 franchise players before voting again as it seems that many have changed their minds on this proposal. I have joined the group opposed to this now. Although with my team, it would probably be to my personal advantage to go ahead and vote in favor of this proposal, I felt like we still had some quality players lower in the draft.

Next we have the deadline to get the proposals turned in. This is a very important proposal for the league. There is a lot of work that goes into getting the league ready for the season and getting the rules in place is an important part of that. We saw last year how owners weren’t able to properly prepare for the draft like they normally do since they weren’t sure on the rule changes for the season. Having a deadline assures that everyone will know the changes with plenty of time to prepare for the upcoming season.

A change in the tie breaking order has been suggested as well. Currently, head to head match ups is ahead of division record. The proposed change is to swap these two factors. I disagree with this for this reason. If I have the same record as team A and I beat them twice in a season, I think that should give my team an advantage over team A even if they have a better division record. While the proposed method may be a better way to list the standings within the season when only 1 game has been played between the 2 tied teams, in the end each division team plays 2 games vs each other and I think that should take precedence in the end.

The Status of games proposal, I am up in the air about. I completely understand both arguments on this. I am leaning toward voting yes however, mainly due to the fact of I don’t like changing results a week after the fact. We got really lucky this year that things worked out with this, but there is definitely a chance of controversy in the future if this is taken care of one way or the other. There is also a proposal for allowing a waiver move to playoff teams for the playoffs. I am against this mainly due to the fact that everyone knows that good players on good teams might not play in the final weeks and that it is a good idea to take that into account with your draft day or trade deadline strategy.

And finally we have the go a year without rule proposals, proposal. To me this would hurt the league big time, even if it’s just one year. As we have seen, things come up every year. Our league needs the ability to make changes when needed. I don’t think anyone wants (and I don’t want to have to) the commish to put rules into place when something comes up and not having the ability for the league to vote on the matter for 2 years. This league is a modern day fantasy league and proposals are needed to keep it a modern league so that its rules don’t get classified as a "stone age of fantasy football" rule.

Like I said, feel free to post your opinions if you would like. But I do ask that you provide reasons for feeling the way that you do so that everyone can try to understand your views on the subjects.