2012 Important Off-Season Dates

[bonscott]

Good reminder for us all, especially the newbies.

As a reminder here are the upcoming league off-season items for the rest of the 2011 season and start of the 2012 season. Please point out any errors and commish please update if something needs to be.

Rest of 2011 post-season

* Players dropped until Feb 15th still have their 50% current year cap hit count for 2011 season.
* Teams have until Feb 15th to clear players off their IR and Taxi Squads
* Roster limits (min and max) are lifted (commish will need to make that adjustment)

Jan 2nd

* Trading opens up for the off-season including 2013 picks

Feb 1st

* Must pay up for 2012 season

Feb 1st - Feb 15th

* Tagging period, post your tagged players on the forum

Feb 15th (or when 2012 MFL sites are available if not available on the 15th)

* Start of the 2012 season
* Commish will drop any unkeepable players not tagged, everyone still on a roster get's their raise and contracts are reduced by 1
* Any players dropped from this point forward have their 50% cap hit count toward 2012 and future cap hits go against 2013

Feb 16th - Feb 28th

* Teams can make offers on tagged players

Mar 1st - Mar 7th

* Team can match offers on tagged players

Mar 15th (Approx)

* Offseason FA auction begins

Early May

* Rookie draft

Aug 19th

* Teams must get back down under the max roster requirements
* Rosters will be set to 22 max, min of 17 (however you must have 20 under contract at all times, 17 active plus 3 TS for example) once the season starts.
* Rookies drafted in May must be assigned a contract or else the default of 5 will stay

Aug 29th

* Last day that players can be brought up on the FA auction. Players still on auction will have a week to finish.

Sept 5th

* FA auction is over

Sept 6th

* NFL season begins!