ny92mike Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 Welcome to FFMD 2020 Attention Moderators: We are requesting that you priority pin this thread. @.Buzz FFMD II '20 - Official Workbook FFMD II '20 - League Discussion Thread / Guidelines Sign Up Thread is Located in the GM Mock Draft forum. CLICK HERE TO BE DIRECTED FFMD WANTS YOU.... The sign up process officially begins on Wed, March 25th but if you're feeling froggy feel free to sign up now. Providing we have an adequate number of members signed up, we'll end the GM hunt on March 31st. If you are interested in contributing to the successful relaunch of FFMD, we encourage you to join by submitting your request for either General Manager, Creative Writer and Draft Analyst by heading to the signup thread in the GM Mock Draft forum. Schedule of Events - Eastern Time Zone General Manager (GM) & Creative Writer (CW) Sign Up Open - Wed, March 25th @ 10:00 AM GM & CW Sign Up Close - Tues, March 31st @ 12:00 PM (noon) GM Announcement - Tues, March 31st @ 8:00 PM NFL Team Rosters Locked & Cap Finalized - Thur, April 1st NFL Draft Begins - Fri, April 3rd @ 9:00 AM FFMD is a forum-wide GM mock draft designed to give the members of the site a fun way to pass the time during the dry spells of the offseason taking place April 1st and takes us to just a few days of the irl NFL draft. There were two versions of this mock, however we will only be operating version 2. FFMD II, consists of a full 7 round mock draft with the ability to trade picks and/or players without the stress of a salary cap or the confusion of a free agency. Current free agents, not signed by another team by Apr. 1st are relocated back to the original team. To encourage membership at the GM level our plan is to reduce the typical workload previously required of the general manager. We will be doing the following which in theory will provide you with more time to communicate with your group and not having to worry about keeping track or collecting information. We hope that these changes will encourage you to join the FFMD experience. The “League Office” will post the initial discussion thread aka team war room within each team sub forum. This provides everyone regardless of their level of interest looking at it with all the information they’ll need to participate in a structured format. We’ll ask that each moderator assigned to their team forum pin this war room thread so that it remains at the top of the thread. This war room post will be titled FFMD II ‘20 - [Team Name] Front Office. It will contain links to the primary discussion thread housed in the GM Mock Draft sub forum. Guidelines Important dates (schedule) League workbook (described below) A single google doc workbook is used to keep track of everything FFMD, which will house the following information. Draft board / Draft Order Used to list and track available and selected draftees. This has been used in both tcmd, bdl and other GM mocks for several years with great success. Team Roster sheets for all 32 teams designed to display and track every transaction. Both tcmd and bdl have used something very similar in the past and this will be a much more simplified version of those workbooks. Roster data is collected by us. Important information is displayed and updated automatically. In the past, only the GM and a coGM were the only ones permitted to seek trades from other members. Now any member of your group is allowed to seek out trade inquiries that can be delivered to your war room for debate and vote on. As the GM your responsibilities are a bit more involved than other members within your front office therefore your final vote in which players are selected during the draft and finalizing trades does carry a little more weight, after all you are the General Manager. So for example, if you have a couple different options for an upcoming pick and the war room is split on which player to take as the GM it’s your responsibility to make the final decision. General Managers or an elected member within your front office are required to post each transaction you make within the League Office thread. We will update the workbook based on the data posted. General Manager Best Practices Be a leader not a dictator. Listen to the feedback & suggestions from all participating members of your front office. Keep your war room thread informed Create discussions early on items such as “team needs” so that everyone within your group is on the same page. Stay on top of the action by starting the discussion early enough that your front office has the necessary time to discuss various options. Give your front office more control to scout for potential trades. @EaglesPeteC - Commish @ny92mike - League Office Lead @Counselor - FFMD Board @Packerraymond - FFMD Board @MikeT14 - FFMD Board @mountainpd - FFMD Board 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrenaline_Flux Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 the disrespect 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EaglesPeteC Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 Long story short, a group of us have worked hard to bring FFMD back. We'd love to see your forum get involved and give it a fair shot. Hit me up if you have questions 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Buzz Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 12 minutes ago, EaglesPeteC said: Long story short, a group of us have worked hard to bring FFMD back. We'd love to see your forum get involved and give it a fair shot. Hit me up if you have questions @LinderFournette I may be down to help out. I'm sure a couple others in here may have interest too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinderFournette Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 2 minutes ago, .Buzz said: @LinderFournette I may be down to help out. I'm sure a couple others in here may have interest too. i got a good bit of time to do it depending when it starts.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Buzz Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 2 minutes ago, LinderFournette said: i got a good bit of time to do it depending when it starts.... Goes from April 1st until a few days before the draft from the looks of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ny92mike Posted March 25, 2020 Author Share Posted March 25, 2020 1 minute ago, .Buzz said: Goes from April 1st until a few days before the draft from the looks of it. Managed to screw up the days with the schedule so ignore the day, but the dates are correct. April 3rd is when we start drafting, with the 1st being the date the rosters are locked in. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tugboat Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 Guys, let's do this. Like the good ol' days. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Buzz Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 @LinderFournette You wanna put your hat in as GM? @Tugboat and I will help out, and hopefully a few others get in on this too. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinderFournette Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 5 hours ago, .Buzz said: @LinderFournette You wanna put your hat in as GM? @Tugboat and I will help out, and hopefully a few others get in on this too. I already put something in 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tugboat Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 On 26/03/2020 at 10:56 AM, .Buzz said: @LinderFournette You wanna put your hat in as GM? @Tugboat and I will help out, and hopefully a few others get in on this too. Yeah. @LinderFournette seems like a good bet as GM. Seems to be around really reliably with some time to invest in coordinating all this. I'll definitely throw my hat in the ring for an AGM role or whatever. I can help out with stuff, and i'll try to be as involved as i can manage. Hopefully i'm not too busy and schedule aligns to really participate. I've been looking forward to the return of FFMD for a while now. Hope we can lift it back to the glory days of these forum games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinderFournette Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 1 minute ago, Tugboat said: Yeah. @LinderFournette seems like a good bet as GM. Seems to be around really reliably with some time to invest in coordinating all this. I'll definitely throw my hat in the ring for an AGM role or whatever. I can help out with stuff, and i'll try to be as involved as i can manage. Hopefully i'm not too busy and schedule aligns to really participate. I've been looking forward to the return of FFMD for a while now. Hope we can lift it back to the glory days of these forum games. since my job essentially closed up im free.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tugboat Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 2 minutes ago, LinderFournette said: since my job essentially closed up im free.... Rough. But good for FFMD probably. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinderFournette Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 (edited) 1 minute ago, Tugboat said: Rough. But good for FFMD probably. whats worse is the stupid Phone line for the unemployment office cuz apparently were supposed to remember answers to security questions from Years ago LOL brightside is im actually getting some much needed house work done and ive already got 2 job offers for when this is all over. Edited March 27, 2020 by LinderFournette 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tugboat Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 One thing that always made the old school FFMD games fun, and easy to participate in "secretly" and argue back and forth and ultimately vote on...was a "code" for talking about various prospects. We gonna have anything that cool this time around? Like, each prospect in consideration gets themselves a codename based on some random theme, like Pokemon or Wrestlers or whatever feels right? So we can all openly debate picks, without those scumbags from like Bills Mafia tryna' spy on us to steal our ideas and stuff. I'd try to set something up myself, but i'm honestly so far behind usual on watching prospects, my board is a mess right now and not helpful. I'm thinking maybe we could work some small scale code-names for the first couple rounds at least, based on maybe a dozen likely popular choices? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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