Seasons Greetings

2017/18 Seasons Greetings

251 Days.  That's how long its been since our last day of Old Milwaukee Football.  We welcomed in a new year, saw the greatest Superbowl there ever was, and swore an orange into office.  But none of that matters anymore as a new season is among us, and all that is on everyone's mind is who will be Old Milwaukee's Best.  It's looking like its gonna be a great season already as the shit talking and complaining is already blowing up everyone's Groupme as is tradition.  New rules have been established and a new member is being welcomed with open arms or whatever.  But before we look ahead, let us look back at what might have been one of the most competitive seasons in league history.  

2016/17 Season Recap

While it may have been more than 250 days since the championship weekend for the 2016 season, it should be worth looking back at what a season it was.  With our 4th season as a league and our 2nd season with a 12 team format, the final standings were as follows. 

Finished	Team	Owner	Total Points For
1st	Ware in the world is Jamaal	Jack	1665
2nd	You Colin me Un-American?	Barbs	1418
3rd	Worcester TurtleFuckers	Tyler	1450
4th	Cincinnati Zoo Silverback	Ethan	1502
5th	Keenan and Crowell	Joe	1390
6th	Crossroad Demons	Trevor	1388
7th	Boston Dirtstars	Greg	1586
8th	Bigger Bagadicks	Dean	1239
9th	Erect Dicker	Vu	1355
10th	Teenage Mutant Ninja Bortles	Max	1354
11th	Oatmeal Creampies	Christian	1144
12th	Ashy Larry	Colby	1395

Jack has emerged, once again, as Old Milwaukee's Best.  He has now won a whopping 50% of every Superbowl played in the OMBFL.  After a tough end to the season and losing out the 1st seed in the playoffs to Barbs, Jack managed to make Chris his bitch during the Superbowl.  Scoring 10 more points, led by the unstoppable David Johnson, Jack put Chris in his place, in the loser column.  Suck it Barbs.

But alas lets take a look at some other stats from this season.  We can see right away from above that Greg got pretty fucked.  with the second most Points For in the league, Greg still managed to miss the playoffs.  But he wasn't the only one with some shit luck.  Colby, with the 6th most Points For in the league somehow managed to come in last.  So Greg, while you may have lost out on the playoffs, at least you won something.  Even it means nothing. Like nothing at all.  It's worth less than dirt what you won.  

Looking at the standings some more we can see that Joe managed to finally pop his playoff cherry!  Tyler managed to as well although he joined during the expansion years.  Congrats you two!  With Joe now a member of the Milwaukee's Playoff Club we only have Christian and Colby who've yet to finish in the top half of the league.  With their rebuilding years behind them, maybe now they can find that sleeper pick that will bring them to ship.

Well that's enough about that.  I'm still waiting patiently for my trophy to arrive but I'm willing to wait a bit longer for that.  Anyway lets look ahead to this season and what changes we can expect.

New Rules, New Member, New Season

With this off-seasons round of surveys that everyone loves so much, we all have voted upon some big new rules for the League.  Here is each new rule we have voted upon for the 2017/18 season.

1. DRAFT DATE : Monday Sept. 4 2017 - 9:00 Pm EST
2. A change from resetting waivers to Rolling Waivers
3. Addition of IR Bench Spot
4. Loser Bracket Winner will be considered for 1st Draft pick/spot
5. Draft Order will be chosen by a lottery system next year
6. Undrafted FA can be kept for a 10th round draft pick next year

To avoid any confusion with the start of the season, here are the rules explained a bit further.

Rolling Waivers

In previous years, the waiver order would reset each week on Tuesday to reverse order of the standings.  So whoever was last after that weeks games, would get first pick off the waiver wire.  This year, it does not reset every week.  Instead, the only way the waiver order changes, is if someone uses a waiver claim.  If someone uses a claim, they are sent back to 12th position.  If you don't use a claim, you continue to move up until everyone in front of you has used a claim.  Keep in mind this is only for waiver claims not FA pickups.  The original order is determined by our starting draft position.  

IR Bench Spot

This year you will see an IR spot at the bottom of your bench.  This spot can only be utilized by a player designated OUT or IR.  Once that player is no longer designated with those tags, waiver claims, trades and roster moves cannot be made until that player is removed from the IR spot.

Loser Bracket/Lottery

The loster bracket will actually mean something this year.  Whoever wins the bracket this year will have the most lottery picks for the draft.  The draft order will be determined via ping pong balls.  So in this case 7th place will have the most ping pong balls and 1st place will have the least.

Undrafted FA Keepers

Any player who went undrafted, who is then picked up off of waivers/free agency, will be eligible to be kept next year for a 10th round pick.  The player must follow all other stipulations for being kept though such as staying on that persons roster for the remainder of the season.

We all voted on a lot more than just that so here are all the rules that have not changed.

1. Keepers can only be kept for 1 season
2. We can only keep from 10th round and later
3. All keepers must remain on roster your entire year
4. Payout is the same
5. Schedule is the same

Divisions

We have not agreed upon Divisions yet as that vote went 50/50 for "Pull From a Hat" and "Something in Common".  If we cannot agree upon something this following week.  I will pull from a hat during the draft.

Well with that all said, I need to get back to preparing my Rum Ham for the draft.  RUM HAM 2017!