RNFL Constitution
GMs are expected to abide by the rules below. Any questions should be brought to the attention of the Commissioner immediately.

Last Updated: March 30th, 2008

Fairness and good behavior
1.0 Fairness and good behavior is not something directly enforced. It is simply expected. Owners will be expected to heed the following rules involving fairness and good behavior.
1.1 Cheating or taking advantage of bugs within Front Office Football will not be tolerated. If found cheating or exploiting bugs, Commissioner will assume that the GM knew what he was doing. The Commissioner will do what he can to best educate all GMs on game exploitations, but it is the responsibility of the GMs to avoid these exploitations and bring any suspision to the attention of the Commissioner.
1.2 A majority of the time, cheating isn’t a oblivious action, and will be treated as such. So, if you think an action is questionable, talk to a Commissioner before doing it.
1.3 Sanctions will be brought against a GM found cheating.
1.4 If a GM performs a suspicious action, such as being able to sign a player for well below his asking price (a known bug), a GM will avoid sanctions from the league if the Commissioner is immediately informed.
1.4.1 Regardless of whether the Commissioner is quickly informed of a suspicious action, the action will be removed by whatever means. That means a stage could be rerun.
1.5 Backloading contracts is not a tolerable action. Sanctions could be brought against a team that backloads their contracts. Regardless of how small the contract is in size or money, sanctions will still be brought against a team.
1.6.1 An example of a backloaded contract could looked like one of these two contracts:

Example 1
Year........Base Salary
1st year $1 million
2nd year $1.5 million
3rd year $2 million
4th year $4.5 million

Example 2
Year........Base salary
1st year $1 million
2nd year $2 million
3rd year $3 million
4th year $6 million
5th year $6 million

Simply put, you cannot double the base salary of a contract from one year to the next (other than the first and second year).

1.6.2 When renegotiating a contract, you may not lower the total demand of the contract by less than 20 percent of the total asking price.
1.6.3 For players asking for contracts of three or more years in length, you may not lower the signing bonus by less than 33 percent. Meaning, a player asking for a $9 million bonus, cannot be given a bonus of less than $6 million.
1.6.4 An unrestricted free agent asking for a contract of two or more years may be signed to a one year deal as long as the full requested bonus is included.
1.6.5 During the pre-draft FA period, a free agent with 10 years of experience or less is required to get at least the length of contract he is requesting.

Expulsion From League
2.0 If the conditions arise, a GM could be dismissed from the league through either of two ways:
2.0.1 The Commissioner may dismiss any GM at any time for any reason without prior notice or warning.
2.0.2 Other GMs may hold a vote and expel any owner. The vote must be at least three-quarters of the current owner base (24 or more votes for a full league)
2.0.2.1 An expulsion by vote would be under review of the Commissioner.

Trades
3.0 All proposed trades that are agreed upon by the teams involved will be under the review of the Commissioner.
3.1 Trades with CPU run teams will not be allowed.
3.2 A trade that is opposed by at least half of the league's GMs, but no lower than 8, will force the cancellation of a trade.
3.3 Opposition can be in the form of replies to the proposed trade or personal messages to the Commissioner.
3.4 The trading deadline is Week 6 (no trades will be allowed after the Week 6 Gameday stage)
3.5 Newly signed free agents, regardless of the time they have spent on a team in the past, must be on a team for at least one season before they can be traded. This rule does NOT included DRAFTED rookies.

Changing Player Positions
4.0 Players can be moved to any position as long as the scout doesn't foresee the player’s abilities decline more than 10 percent by the move.
4.1 The Commissioner has the right to stop any position change.
4.2 A player's position cannot be moved more than once in the same season without approval from the Commissioner.
4.3 Rookies can only be moved once in the player's first season. A GM cannot move a rookie to another position until the next offseason.
4.4 Position changes cannot be made if the player is being moved out of his positional bracket without Commissioner approval.

Brackets include:
Quarterback
runningback/fullback
fullback/Tight End
Wide Receiver
Center
Guard
Tackle
Defensive Line
Linebacker
Cornerback
Safety

Player Salary Cap
5.0 The salary cap will increase on a fixed amount of $5 million each year for the life of this league.

Injury Setting
6.0 The current injury setting is 110.

Stage File
7.0 GMs do not have to turn in stage files at every deadline, but they must meet deadlines when they turn stage files in. Deadlines are posted on the forums and can also be obtained by contact the Commissioner.
7.1 Owners are expected to submit stage files that include rosters that meet or are less than the game’s roster maximum of 70 players during training camp, 60 players during the preseason, and 53 players during the regular season.