Manual history

The PAFFL continues to evolve & improve. New rules often are proposed and voted upon at the annual draft and winter meetings. Occasionally, loopholes and discrepancies in the league manual surface during the regular season. Team owners are obligated to report to the Commissioner any such issues with the league manual as soon as such loopholes and discrepancies are noticed. In some cases, additional rules will be drafted and ratified by a league vote immediately. All votes regarding rule changes and other issues require approval of a simple-majority vote. Changes involving league membership (e.g. expulsion), or league office (e.g. remove Commissioner), require super-majority (>⅔) vote.

League votes that pertain to transactions require more than 50 percent of the owners’ approval and a minimum of ten (10) total owners voting. In addition teams involved in the trades are not permitted to vote on the issue. (Example, if a trade between Team A and Team B is disputed and put to a vote, Teams A and B are excluded from the vote and 8 out of 14 of the remaining teams must vote to block the trade, in order for the trade to be blocked). For a trade to be overturned, there must be a majority and no less than ten (10) total owners voting.

League votes that pertain to transactions require more than 50 percent of the owners’ approval and a minimum of ten (10) total owners voting. In addition teams involved in the trades are not permitted to vote on the issue. (Example, if a trade between Team A and Team B is disputed and put to a vote, Teams A and B are excluded from the vote and 8 out of 14 of the remaining teams must vote to block the trade, in order for the trade to be blocked). For a trade to be overturned, there must be a majority and no less than ten (10) total owners voting.

Votes must be completed within 48-hours of the time they are announced. If any owner is unreachable during that 48-hour period of time, his vote is counted as an abstain.

There is a strong argument to be made that no document (including the U.S. Constitution) has been created which could govern so thoroughly and effectively that corruption could not exist within that document’s governing rules. This manual is no exception. Cheating at fantasy football, much like cheating at cards, is a fairly easy thing to do. The goal of the PAFFL is to provide a social outlet, not a cut-throat competition.

Owners are expected to conduct themselves accordingly, with high ethical standards. Owners may never knowingly take advantage of another owner, through grossly unfair trades or loopholes in this league manual (see “Rule Changes and Votes” above). This manual is a work in progress and owners are expected to draw the league’s attention to any loopholes or poorly defined sections within the manual.

Owners are expected to conduct themselves accordingly, with high ethical standards. Owners may never knowingly take advantage of another owner, through grossly unfair trades or loopholes in this league manual (see “Rule Changes and Votes” above). This manual is a work in progress and owners are expected to draw the league’s attention to any loopholes or poorly defined sections within the manual.

Additionally, owners must vote on issues using their sense of fairness to all teams involved, not by simply trying to improve their individual team’s standing. For example, teams may not block a trade simply because the trade helps a rival team (the trade must be grossly unfair).