THE RULES
1)For a rule to be enacted, seven of the ten owners must agree. Further, the 'seven out of ten' standard applies to all league wide action that requires a vote.
2) Each owner will be allowed to retain four players from his previous year's roster.
3)The previous year's roster is defined as that roster in place at the end of the NFL regular season,(the Executive Secretary to the Commissioner shall send out notice to all owners at such time as the rosters lock, and such notice shall include a hyperlink (or URL)to the ESPN page which reflects such roster).
4)All owners will be required to claim their keepers in the first four rounds of the current player draft.
5) The draft of free agent players, beginning with round five, will be conducted in inverse order of finish during the previous season (alternate rounds will be in reverse order as prescribed by the ESPN system). [Order of finish is defined by two standards: 1) Those that finished out of the top four spots will draft in inverse order of their playoff seeding {#10 drafts 1st, #9 drafts 2nd......#5 drafts 6th} 2) Those that finished in the top four vie for the Playoff Championship and will draft in inverse order of their playoff finish {i.e., the Champion will draft #10, the Runner-Up will draft #9.....4th place will draft #7}.
6) It is agreed that all members will act to disable the trade review feature of the ESPN system. Trades may be consumated beginning immediately after the final pick is made in the current year's draft.
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