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. @steelcurtain29 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 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigben07MVP Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 Thank god, something to help pass the time during quarantine sign me up. I’ll nominate myself as creative writer and @jebrick as GM or draft analyst. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigben07MVP Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 Or I can be the GM if no one else wants to do it....regardless I’m happy to be involved because I have WAY too much time on my hands right now.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOSteelers56 Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 I will help out. I'm about to get a little busy for the rest of this week, but after that I should be good to go. I mean it's either this, or designing digital lessons for my students.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jebrick Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 I can do it but realize I tend to be conservative on trades and I am an opinionated A-hole. @bigben07MVP we would clash on a RB pick :-) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chieferific Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 (edited) 25 minutes ago, jebrick said: I can do it but realize I tend to be conservative on trades and I am an opinionated A-hole. @bigben07MVP we would clash on a RB pick :-) Edited March 25, 2020 by Chieferific 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigben07MVP Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 1 hour ago, jebrick said: I can do it but realize I tend to be conservative on trades and I am an opinionated A-hole. @bigben07MVP we would clash on a RB pick :-) That’s ok I’m open minded. As long as you’re cool with signing Cam Newton and trading Ben for a 3rd. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jebrick Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 Who wants to do the write-ups? The Creative Writer position. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurgan Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, jebrick said: Who wants to do the write-ups? The Creative Writer position. IDk what it entails, TBH, but I am down. I am ahead on lesson plans and just finished my mock draft on the other thread. IDK if creative is with edits (which I am NOT good at, or know how to do) or creative in with player prospects, scheme fit... etc. If it is the former, you might want to find someone else. Edited March 26, 2020 by kurgan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOSteelers56 Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 3 hours ago, jebrick said: Who wants to do the write-ups? The Creative Writer position. @bigben07MVP volunteered on one of the first couple posts. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jebrick Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 @bigben07MVP Go sign up for the creative writing position in the GM forrum 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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