Free Agent Signings

Well with Free Agent signing over here are the signings. If you need to release a player you should comment on who you want to release. If you dont comment int he next day or two, I'll just release the last player on the depth chart.

WEST CONFERENCE
Albuquerque:
None
CAP: 160

Boise:
Signings:
WR Justin McCariens/ 79-4
TE Leonard Pope/ 77-1

Needs to Release:
WR and TE
CAP before:161; CAP Now:166

Las Vegas:
Signings:
WR Eric Parker/ 79-3

Released:
WR Billy McMullen/ 72-3

CAP(stayed the same):164

Pearl City:
Signings:
HB Ian Johnson/ 80-3
WR Eron Riley/ 79-2

Needs to Release
HB and WR
CAP Before: 151; CAP Now: 156

San Antonio:
None
CAP: 166

EAST CONFERENCE
Alabama:
Signings:
QB Brian Johnson/ 81-4
HB P.J. Daniels/ 80-2

Released:
QB Chad Hutchinson/ 70-3
HB Thomas Jones/ 73-3
CAP(stayed the same): 169

Connecticut:
None
CAP: 160

Louisville:
None
CAP: 158

Mempis:
Signings:
WR Darrel Jackson/80-3

Released:
WR Paul Hubbard/67-1
CAP Before: 164; Cap Now: 166

Quebec:
Signings:
DE Earl Cochran/ 71-3

Needs to release:
DE
CAP Before: 153; CAP Now: 156

Now we do have a free agent pool, but you will not be allowed to sign Free Agents until All-Star Week, which we will hold another Free Agent Week and that will also be the Trade Deadline Week. If a player is injured and he is injured for over 2 weeks then you my sign an "emergency" player. The reason for all of this is because when you edit created team's rosters on Madden, you have to fill in the whole roster all over again, which takes a long time.

I also thought about how many years we are allowed to keep players, and I think I have come up with a good system.
10 point Salary players - 10 seasons (2 and half years)
5 points - 5 seasons (1 1/4 years)
4 points - 4 seasons (1 year)
3 points - 3 seasons (3/4 year)
1 point - 2 seasons (1/2 year)

This system takes place this year, meaning if you have a player you are paying 1 point to this season, you get to keep him for the next 2 seasons instead of him becoming a free agent. Also we can talk about lowering the kickers salarys as well.

Travis Henry on the Block

The Tropics have placed Travis Henry on the trading block. The Trops are asking a good amount for him. Send a facebook message or a PM to sizemore to workout a deal.

Alabama and Quebec finalize Blockbuster Deal!

After long hours of tough negotiating, Alabama Owner Big Mike and Quebec Owner TC have finalized a blockbuseter Draft Deal.

Alabama will send a Quality QB Chris Leak (West All-Star MVP) to Quebec, where he will likely serve as a backup, or a starter if needed. His Rating is an 80 overall, unchanged from the start of last season after a rollercoaster year.
They also send a very good LB in Junior Seau, one of the games greatest who will not play MLB for Quebec but move to their weekest LB position (LOLB 75 overall) and become the starter. Seau is an 82 Overall Player.
Rounding out this part of the deal, Alabama will send their 2nd Round Draft pick (18th Overall) to Quebec.

In Return for all of this Alabama will now recieve the 3rd Overall Pick (1st Round) in the MLF Draft.

Alabama owner Bigmike says he is very happy with the deal and TC said he feel's good about it as well. Quebec will get a Quality QB, a Starter in Seau which feels up a Draft need, and get's an extra 2nd Round Pick. While Alabama will now have the 1st and 3rd Overall pick in the Draft.

Transaction thread

I thought if we had a post for all transaction talks, we could make some deals.

Trade Deadline has passed!

Well the Trade Deadline has officially passes for this season, you are allowed to make trades with EXPANSION teams, but that is it now, it is fine to do so because a deal between the 2 can't be done officialy until the end of hte season. We had one BIG deal on Deadline day today between South Carolina and Pearl City:

PEARL CITY GETS:
SC HB Travis Henry/ 87

SOUTH CAROLINA GETS:
PC 1st Round Draft Pick
PC HB Kevin Faulk/ 81(^82)

That was a preety big deal and Pearl City got the Runningback they have been looking for after losing Rudi Johnson. Alright so Week 6 is done, we only have 4 Regular Season games left!

Tropics Trade Faulk

HONOLULU (AP)- The Pearl City Tropics have accomplished their primary goal, acquiring a top running back by trading Kevin Faulk and a 1st round pick for Travis Henry.

Deal by the Deadline!

Alright guys, tonight at 12(Midnight) et, 11 ct is the Trade Deadine, only one deal has been made this season and so far looks like it has worked great for both teams (ALA-Johnson, BOI-King,Irons), it looks like San Antonio might be after a QB, after Leak's poor performance, so is Leak on the block? If so is anyone intrested in the 81 Overall player, he is only 23 and could be a franchise QB but has been shaken up the past couple of weeks and has thrown some picks. The other big question out there is can Pearl City get the Top notch RB they want? Many questions that could be answered but are unknown as of now.

My thoughts on what the best moves might be?

Well there are alot of possibilities, one could be

San Antonio going after Tim Couch (77, got a 2 point bump for first half performance while Detmer got 3 and hit 78), or maybe even Quincey Carter (77, dropped 2 points), or they may sit back and look to draft a QB, which leads me to my next observation, trading up, they could possibly make this trade wit Sout Carolina.

SC Gets:
SA QB Chris Leak - 81
1st or 2nd Round Draft pick - (1st Round Projection as of now: 6th Overall)
(2nd Round Projection as of now: 16th Overall)

SA Gets:
SC QB Tim Couch - 77
SC 1st Round Draft pick - (Projection as of now: 3rd Pick Overall)

Of course just throwing ideas out there, but we will see if anyone steps up and trys to make a Deal by the Deadline!

2009 Summer Rookies (Draft Players!)

Well I have been making a list of the players available for the Rookie Draft next year, and there are some REAL gems out there, I updated the Free Agents on Madden (You can update the rosters on the internet), and have been looking on scouts for the top BACKUP free agents for next year, some guys to look at are Seahawks WR Bobby Engram, Engram will be a 86 overall tying Michael Vick for the top rated offensive players. Surprisingly we will have a 90 overall player up for the draft, but dont get too excited, Matt McBriar is a punter and is rated 90, maybe a 1st rounder and maybe a answer to Boise punter problem?, but I wouldnt waste my pick on a punter, stay tuned for more players in the next couple of days!

Rudi Johnson heading to Alabama! In return for King and Irons!

Alabama owner Big Mike from Honolulu Hawaii -

"Hello everyone, I have enjoyed ny stay here in Hawaii, and am glad I get to stay for 2 more weeks before leaving, I have just talked to Grizzle's owner Beast Mode, and we have come to agreement on a deal today! Rudi Johnson is now a Alabama Gladiator, and we have sent our backup QB Shaun King (74) and RB Kenny Irons (79) to Boise. Beast Mode liked this deal better than the 3-way deal between ALA/PC/BOI, either was fine with me but I knew I wanted a deal done and I am verry happy with this trade! As for Johnson, we dont know what we will do with him, right now it's up for grabs. We are not open to any trade offers for him for this season, but we are going to wait for the best one, We will be playing him at Fullback, or having a 2-RB system, since Sproles is small and speedy, and Johnson is Power and can Score alot easier."

The trade as been officially made and here is the deal broken down more.

BOI Gets
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ALA QB Shaun King - 74
ALA RB Kenny Irons - 79
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ALA Gets
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BOI Rudi Johnson - 84 (Rating Bumps 3 points to 87 after this week)
BOI Chad Hutchinson - 72

Alabama has announced that they plan on keeping Rudi Johnson for the rest of the Season and will be using him at Fullback and a "Redzone" Halfback, if Sproles struggles he will move back to Runningback. We plan on trading him at the end of the season, mainly looking for a top draft pick.

Trade Offer

Well sizemore has offered SA and BOI a 3-Way Trade

BOI trades RB Rudi Johnson to PC.
PC trades 1st round Draft pick and Kevin Faulk to SA.
SA trades Chris Leak to BOI.

It is not official by all means but it has been offered, Team Owners negotiate!!!

Off Week

Well since I have had to sim some games this week, and it is a busy week as well, I think we sould take a off week next week as well.

For one thing I have Finals next Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday and I really need to study for those. Also I am heading to Durham, North Carolina Saturday, and won't return till Tuesday. So really I am not going to have any time to sim games.

It would be a benefit to this league as well, why? Well with all the Trade talk swirling around it could be a Trade Deadline week, and I could update ratings, also since we have soo many guys available for Draft next year, if we could figure out the salary situation (no one would reply) we could have some of the guys enter the league as Free Agents and bid on them. Which would be a ton of help to the guys looking for new QBs since thier are so many.

Please Tell me if you like this idea, LOU/MEM start in 30 minutes

Salary Talk

Hey guys I want to try and clear this up before next season and All-Star Week seems like a good time. I think it will be easy cause we got some ideas out there that seem preety good, I tink we should do something like the XFL did (click on this link to read about it), and there was an idea to use a Salary System simular to the old Triple Play (I think it was Triple Play) baseball games.

Pearl City Tropics Look to Acquire Top Running Back

HONOLULU (AP)- sizemorematters, owner of the Pearl City Tropics said today the team wants to acquire a top running back for the playoff run. "After last night's disappointing loss, we feel we need to get another piece of the puzzle in place to become serious contenders. We are willing to trade Kevin Faulk and (a) draft pick(s) to acquire this top tier running back. The guys we're looking at are Redhawks RB Travis Henry, Nightmare RB Shaun Alexander, Aces RB Kevin Jones, and Grizzlies RB Rudi Johnson."

Week 3 on the way!

Alright guys we have succesfully gone through 2 weeks already. This will be a fun week because we have the Top 2 Teams facing off.

East
Alabama @ Louisville

West
Pearl City @ San Antonio

Possible Conference Championship matchups? Too early to tell as a win by the bottom teams might help them get back in it.

Other News, Quincy Carter was benched after a poor 4 INT performance to Alabama, he had 3 INTs against Pearl City, Las Vegas announced immediatly after the game that Ryan Leaf will be the starter vs. Boise this weekend. It will be Leaf's first Football apperance since his downfall n the NFL.

So far no other teams have announced any depth chart arranges are Trade possibilitys.

I also need playbook options from the following for next week.

Las Vegas - Mykl/raysox
Memphis - boneheadz/mburmy
South Carolina - Johnny???
Boise - chickenfish

Please send me your playbooks or they will be the default ones!

Also tell me if anyone else has wants to change up thier starters or if anyone wants to put a player on the Trade Block ( Once someone is I will make a Gadget on the Side called Trade Block where everyone can look at and make a possible trade)

Can't wait for this week's games!

Free Agents

Well Adam "Pacman" Jones has been released by the Cowboys so looks like he will enter the 1st MLF "Rookie Draft" next season.

Other Former Pros that will join the MLF in the future.

QB - Michael Vick (Will be released from Prison July 20, and will be eligible for MLF)

QB - Brett Farve? ( Yes the Veteran has shown intrest in the league if he decides not to come back to the NFL)

WR - Plaxico Burress (If he doesnt have to spend jail time this year)

Juat thoughts, but right now thats all I can think off, anyone has anymore name them, this is kind of a look ahead to next season, so dont focus on this more then your games or anything.

Week 2 Transactions

Alright guys, you do know you can trade players as well. Now I am not crazy about doing that, especially in a league like this where most players are balanced but everyone should know that. Now no one probably wants to trade after the 1st week, considering no one knows that much about there team yet.

The Trade Deadline will be Week6, on Tuesday, 2 days before games start so I can update rosters if needed.

Now another thing is, we will have a Rookie Draft, same format as NFL, so by week 6 we may be able to tell the outcome of the Draft order and you might want to sacarfice a big player for a good draft pick, maybe a older player? or something like that.

Also
I would like for EVERYONE to comment and tell what uniform set they would like to where this week, if no one replys I will just take the Defult Home/Away.

I am assuming Louisville will where Gold on Thursday, I think everyone should wear thier alts on Thursday night games. Someone may want to where thier altenate set anyways though, even on Saturday, and i have a Alt. Away so anyone else who has that may want thier team to wear those.

Alright, I am going to make a new poll discussing the South Carolina Owner Crisis.

MLF Important News!!!

Alright everybody, the draft was alright but I got to admit it had some issues, from now on we will not use th live chat thing, we will just make a new post Called __ Draft and comment on what our picks are.

Now I will post the new RB draft order tonight, here is the deal on the order, Good News : EVERYONE yes EVERYONE will get a #1 draft pick for one offensive postion because thier are 8 draft positions QB-RB-FB-WR-TE-T-G-C (Guards and Tackles include both Right and Left), theBAD NEWS: Not really bad but you only get one #1 pick, now you can not every be in the same spot you were in once, EX: Iwas the 3rd pick of the QB draft, I cant be 3rd pick for any other positions.Defense- Really only has 7 positions for Draft but we will include K &P with them, and combine Kickers and Punters so that makes 8.DT-DE-OLB-MLB-CB-SS-FS-K/P see not so hard.

Now I will give the RB draft Order tonight, we will likely have the RB draft Friday or Saturday, please leave what time is best for you!

Also anyone have ideas on Salary/Contracts, etc. We need ideas on that for the future of the league, so please leave any ideas regrading that.

Another thing I wanted to touch on is trades, if you have a trade propsal just post it for the other owner to see. On the RB draft, just befor the Draft Post we will make a post called Draft Trades, where you can swap players and draft picks, If you have a Player you want to put out there for anyone but you want something in return (Trade Blcok) just make a post about the players name and what you wan in return!

Thanks, Bigmike