Preliminary Offseason Outline

Hey everyone. Welcome back to the Immersion. It’s been a while since we chatted. Just to refresh your memory, Jason Enright and the Marshfield Pirates are your reigning Immersion champions. The trophy is en route to Casa de Enright.

I’ve fielded a couple of questions about the league, and it’s well past time that we start preparing for our eventful offseason. NFL Free Agency is beginning, and the NFL Draft is only a month away. It was very difficult for me to even think about football after the devastation that was the Super Bowl, but I feel that I have healed enough to move forward (/pours out some of his 40oz for the 49ers.)

Now with that being out of the way, let’s talk about the offseason. First, we have to determine a date for the start of the league year. This will precede both our free agent auction and our rookie draft. For the time being, you are allowed to do two things with your roster:

1. Drop players
2. Trade players

If you drop players now, before the start of the new league year, then it will count against this year’s (2013) salary cap. In other words, when you dropped players during the 2012 season, it counted against the 2013 season. Drops will continue to count against the 2013 season until the start of the new league year. Dropping players now costs you in cap penalties, but it does free up some cap room as we head towards free agency, and it prevents you from mortgaging your 2014 season already. To do either of the aforementioned actions, you should be using the 2012 myfantasyleague site. Results of dropped or traded players will be reported on the 2012 Salary Cap spreadsheet. We will continue to use these two sites until the beginning of the new league year. At that point, we’ll migrate to a 2013 Salary Cap spreadsheet (currently in-progress) and the 2013 myfantasyleague site.

After we determine the start of the new league year, we’ll have to set a date for both the free agent auction and the rookie draft. In the past we’ve put out polls to determine availability, though at some point I’d just like to officially codify the dates for the league year, auction, and rookie draft (and don’t forget, starting next offseason we’ll also have the restricted free agent period to work out.)

I intend to keep working at the site to get things up to speed, and I will be posting updates as I accomplish the myriad tasks involved with transitioning over to a new season. Please keep checking back for updates.

One task is to rename the conferences:

The Gas Giants – won by Matt Giorgianni, who won his second division title in a row. My guess is that he’ll keep the same name, since it seems to work for him and is pretty awesome.

Han Jobs, Done Solo – won by Jonathan Lowry (of all people.) Originally named by Lowry’s buddy, Ryan Lindsay, it fits the Star Wars nerd theme that both the Bounty Hunters and Banthas sport. Hard to say what Lowry will come up with, but rest assured it should be creative.

Beaver Nation – won by Jason Enright for the second season in a row. This division might be called Beaver Nation for years to come, unless the Dream Team and Gridiron Gang can capitalize on having the first two picks in the draft.

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