Season 24 Rule Changes Announced

The SFL will be making slight modifications to its rulesets in Season 24.

• Alongside the current playbook rules: (min. 230 plays, each formation must include 2 runs/2 passes and 2 stunts/4 coverages, no added or deleted formations) the league will now allow blank books to be used under slightly different rules (min. 200 plays, each offensive formation must include 4 runs/4 passes and defensive formation must include 4 stunts/8 coverages, can delete formations). If teams produce a gameplan that shows 
• Regardless of what playbook rules are used, teams will be able to use a max of four base books through their first six games; three of those bases can carry through game 9; two of those bases can carry through the end of the regular season and one of those bases can carry through the playoffs. Once a base is not carried forward, it cannot be used in any other period of the season.
• The league will be increasing the catch slider 25% (from 0%). In testing, quarterback completion percentage increased without increasing interception rate and resulted in roughly three more first downs and 30 more passing yards per game, bringing the league averages more in line with today's professional averages.
• Teams who carry debt will prevent their players from utilizing the gifting feature and will not be able to sign players to midseason contracts. This closes the loophole of using players as cash mules to mask the team's financial mismanagements.
• The next season's salary cap will be determined at the halfway point of the season and will take the average of all team salary caps to determine the next cap. This is what occurred in Season 23, but is now an official rule for future seasons.
• Teams will be fined $50,000 of cap space every instance a NFL team's logo or defunct SFL team's logo appears during game presentation, imploring teams to take pride in how they represent themselves during competition.
• In the event draft picks that were involved in trades cannot be claimed in future drafts or teams wish to trade draft picks for bank money, the below compensation table will be used to put a value amount on each selection. 3,000 = $3,000,000. The league will utilize the pick #, not the round #, to determine value by pick. If, for example, a team wanted to trade for the 20th pick and in return the seller wanted cash considerations, the buying team would pay $850,000 for that pick.