Coaches Draft - Hiring Coaches
Teams add coaches each year in the annual Coaches Draft as part of the GM Meetings during the preseason. Prior to the draft, each team must go into the new season with no more than one head coach still on their roster, and no assistant coaches. Assistant coaches are only in place for one season and must go back into the pool each year, unless they are promoted to head coach and kept in that postion in preparation for the upcoming year. A team can also choose to fire all of their coaches before the Coaches Draft, and start from scratch.
Done over three rounds, teams needing head
coaches
pick in round 1, and all teams pick assistant coaches in rounds
2 and 3.
Once this draft is completed, your coaching staff is set for the
year and
any changes or firings you make are subject to the coaching
rules listed
above.
For details on scoring for coaches, see Section 3 - Game Play and Scoring.
Coaching Eligibility
To be able to count points for his BPFL team in any particular week, a coach has to be actively coaching in the NFL that week as the designated head coach, either on the sidelines or in the coaching box.
If a coach is set to be absent that week for any reason other
than being
fired (which automatically disqualifies a coach from counting BPFL
points),
the league has to be notified before that week's lineup
deadline.
Any GM can submit a notification to the league on any BPFL team's
head
coach eligibility, and it has to be backed up by a confirmed
source coming
directly from that team. If a BPFL head coach is not deemed
inactive
before the deadline that week, his BPFL team will count points for
him
as if he was coaching regardless of whether he is present or not.
Coaching Substitutions
A BPFL head coach will automatically count in every game for his BPFL team from week to week. When a head coach is on his bye week, the BPFL GM will be allowed to substitute his choice of assistants into the head coaching postiion for that one week.
In cases where a BPFL/NFL head coach will miss his particular
game due
to a noted absence - ie., health reasons, bereavement, personal,
suspension,
contract issue (odd, grey area cases to be voted on by other 7
GMs) - and
he was properly deemed inactive by the league before the deadline
(see
eligibility above), a BPFL GM will be allowed to substitute one of
his
assistants in as a temporary head coach even though his head coach
is not
on bye. If the head coach's excused absence lasts more than
one game,
the assistant who was substituted in will remain as the interm
head coach
indefinitely. The remaining assistant can only be
substituted in
if the head coach is still absent and the interm head coach is on
a bye,
or if the interm head coach is fired.
Coaching Slots - Firing Coaches
Each BPFL team starts each season with three coaches - 1 head coach, and 2 assistant coaches. As mentioned above, the head coach is your point counter and the assistant coaches are there for use in substituting for the head coach during bye weeks and excused absences (see above), or for promotion to the head coaching position when the head coach is fired. If a GM would like to permanently replace his head coach with one of his assistants, he can choose between either of his two assistants when appointing a replacement. If only one assistant remains on the roster, he is automatically appointed to the vacant head coaching position.
Also, a team cannot switch coaches at any time unless it is a case of bye week substituion or and excused absence as mentioned above.
Coaches can't be fired after the week 12
trade
deadline within that same season. If a GM wants to fire
their coach
and the deadline has passed, they will have to wait until after
the season
is complete before they can make the change.