{"id":2289,"date":"2011-06-15T16:03:58","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T20:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qballers.com\/blog\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2011-06-15T16:03:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T20:03:58","slug":"comcomm-tackles-lockout-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/15\/comcomm-tackles-lockout-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"COMCOMM Tackles Lockout Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even though yesterday there was some indication of a labor dispute resolution<\/a> coming soon, several influential members of QFL Nation have been asking tough questions about the QFLs official contingency plans for various NFL labor dispute scenarios. The truth is COMCOMM is still reviewing many proposals and hasn’t released any kind of guidance for 2011. <\/p>\n

Under Consideration.<\/h3>\n

The leading proposals have come Paul. Back in December 2010, lame duck <\/del>Commissioner Pope Paul-I outlined his ideas which are being reviewed by COMCOMM. However, the progress of the review process\u00c2\u00a0is unknown.<\/p>\n

Proposals From Pope Paul-I.<\/p>\n

Please see the following lockout\/labor strife proposals and
\nlet me know what you think:<\/p>\n

1. If an NFL lockout seems inevitable on August 1, 2011, the
\nCommissioner will declare “lockout rules.” Under lockout rules, on
\nAugust 20, 2011, all owners must cut to 8+QFLE players on their active
\nrosters, as usual. At some point in September, the league will conduct
\nits auction and draft, as usual, (I imagine many will be phoning it in
\nsince its tough to convince wives and significant others that they
\nneed to travel to DC for a fantasy draft when NFL football has been
\ntentatively cancelled. If we don’t hold a auction\/draft in September,
\nhowever, we run the risk of the NFL and players reaching a settlement
\nand starting play before all of the QFL owners can schedule a
\ndraft\/auction).<\/p>\n

2. Replacement Players and the QuIntense Football League: Following
\nthe conclusion of the rookie draft, each team has the option of
\ndeclaring up to 4 “replacement players” and placing 2 players in the
\nQuIntense Football League. In the event that there is a significant
\nlockout that cancels the 2011 NFL and\/or QFL season, the 4
\nscabs\/replacement players can be kept during the 2012 season under
\ntheir 2011 contracts (protecting teams have been building from
\nwithin). The QuIntense Football League works just like QFLE, allowing
\nteams to protect two additional players in 2011 that can carry over to
\nthe 2012 cut to eight deadline. A player may have both a scab tag and
\na QuIntense tag, but any player who is not designated as a scab will
\nhave their 2012 contract determined as if the 2011 season had occurred
\n(e.g. a 2010 L1 non-scab will be a L3 in 2012; a 2010 L1 scab will be
\na L2 in 2012). Usual cut to eight rules will apply in 2012 (the Scab
\nrule only deals with the non-escalation of certain players’
\ncontracts).<\/p>\n

In the event that the NFL labor dispute ends so that the 2011 QFL
\nseason does not have to be cancelled, the locked-out players will
\nreconcile with the players who crossed the picket lines and the
\nQuIntense Football League will fold. Quite simply, we already have
\nconducted the draft\/auction, we waive any transaction fees\/practice
\nsquad designations, and start the season as usual, except for the
\nshortened season rule below:<\/p>\n

3. Shortened season: In the event that the NFL schedules 14-16 games,
\nthe QFL playoffs and the Superquince formats will not change (except
\nperhaps, the scheduling of fewer QFL regular season games). In the
\nevent that the NFL schedules 10-13 games, a shortened QFL season will
\noccur where the teams will be seeded as usual before the final two
\nweeks of the NFL regular season. During the final two weeks of the NFL
\nseason, individual leagues will compete in three Round Robin
\ntournaments (seeds 1-4, seeds 5-8, seeds 9-12). The first two picks in
\nthe 2012 rookie auction will be awarded to the 5th and 6th place teams
\nafter the round robbin tournament. The third pick in the 2012 rookie
\nauction will be awarded to the winner of 9th place. All other picks
\nwill be handled as usual (5, 6, 9. . . ). The Superquince will
\nbasically be the same, except obviously, shorter. If the NFL schedules
\nfewer than 10 games, the QFL season will be cancelled \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

4. Longer season: In the event that the NFL schedule 18 games in 2011,
\neverything stays the same except the QFL will add 4 weeks to its
\nregular season. An exploratory committee will be formed to see if any
\nroster or playoff rules need to be tweaked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00c2\u00a0Hopefully none of these options will have to be implemented, but it would be nice if COMCOMM would let us know where they stand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even though yesterday there was some indication of a labor dispute resolution coming soon, several influential members of QFL Nation have been asking tough questions about the QFLs official contingency plans for various NFL labor dispute scenarios. The truth is COMCOMM is still reviewing many proposals and hasn’t released any kind of guidance for 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19,24],"tags":[253,81],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-qfl-nation-news","category-rule-changes","tag-labor-strife","tag-rule-change"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2298,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions\/2298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}