Blazers Dynasty League

1. §1.1
   The length of the regular season will be 14 weeks.
2. §1.2
   Weekly league games will be played head-to-head against opposing franchises.
3. §1.3
   The league will consist of two divisions.
4. §1.4
   Each franchise will play each division rival twice, and opposing division foes once — except that one opposing division foe is played twice. That extra matchup takes place in the first week of the season and features franchises from opposing divisions that finished in the same place within their division the previous season. (Effective the 2021 season with the expanded NFL and BDL schedules.)
5. §1.5
   Regular season tie games will be scored as ties.
6. §1.6
   The League Office will consist of one League Commissioner and one Vice Commissioner.
7. §1.7
   If requested by owners in the league, a new Commissioner and Vice Commissioner will be appointed each season by informal general acclamation.
8. §1.8
   The League Office is responsible for conducting league business, arbitrating league disputes, and conducting drafts and auctions.
9. §1.9
   Rule changes can only be made through a league-wide vote.
10. §1.10
    League off-season votes require a minimum of 7 franchises to participate, and require at least 51% of the votes to pass.
11. §1.11
    League in-season votes require a minimum of 7 franchises to participate, and require at least 75% of the votes to pass.
12. §1.12
    Votes will normally be conducted by the polls on BDL2K.com. If a vote is conducted outside of BDL2K.com (e.g. Owners Meeting), the results must be documented on the site directly afterwards.
13. §1.13
    In-season votes are due within 5 days of poll creation. Off-season votes are due within 2 weeks.
14. §1.14
    The off-season runs from the day after the BDL Championship until the roster cut-down date (5.3). All other times are in-season. This definition governs the entire charter, including vote thresholds.
15. §1.15
    Polls with more than two options are decided by plurality among polls meeting quorum. A tie preserves the status quo; where no status quo exists, the tied options proceed to a runoff poll.
16. §1.16
    A poll that closes below quorum is void and preserves the status quo. It may be re-posted once.
17. §1.17
    Each franchise casts one vote regardless of its number of co-owners.
18. §1.18
    The charter at charter.bdl2k.com is the authoritative text of these rules. Every binding league decision must be reflected there within 14 days, citing the vote that produced it.
19. §1.19
    Any situation not covered by this charter is resolved by league poll under 1.10–1.16. The status quo, or the result as played, stands unless the poll passes.

1. §2.1
   The cost to own a franchise and its draft picks is $150.00 plus league fees per season.
2. §2.2
   An owner may only own one franchise. Co-Owners are allowed.
3. §2.3
   Absent extreme circumstances, such as a medical emergency, no refunds of league fees will be given out. Paying league fees implies a commitment to run the franchise for the full season.
4. §2.4
   Payments can be made by PayPal or Venmo to a designated member of the League Office.
5. §2.5
   Payout of the prize pool — all franchise dues net of site hosting costs — will be 65% to 1st, 25% to 2nd, 10% to 3rd.

1. §3.1
   Bones are the official currency of the BDL.
2. §3.2
   Bones may only be transferred among BDL owners in exchange for players or draft picks. No betting of Bones is allowed.
3. §3.3
   Bones not used during the season are carried over to the following season.
4. §3.4
   Each franchise will be awarded 100 Bones in the initial year of the franchise and 75 Bones each successive season.
5. §3.5
   A franchise’s Bones balance may not go below zero. Obligations a franchise cannot pay are deducted from its next season’s allotment, and a franchise with zero Bones may not acquire players.
6. §3.6
   Bones paid as fees or fines are removed from circulation.
7. §3.7
   All Bones amounts and bids are whole numbers.

1. §4.1
   The BDL rookie draft begins the first Thursday in June unless changed by off-season vote. The draft will last 3 rounds, and will be linear (non-snake).
2. §4.2
   Draft order is determined by finish, worst first: picks 1–4 to the non-playoff franchises in reverse order of the ranking system in section 10.6; picks 5–6 to the wildcard-round losers in reverse order of 10.6; pick 7 to the third-place game loser; pick 8 to the third-place game winner; pick 9 to the runner-up; pick 10 to the champion.
3. §4.3
   Trading of draft selections is permitted before or during the draft. Franchises may trade picks from the current draft and the next immediate future draft only. The trade window for a draft year’s picks opens the day after the preceding rookie draft concludes.
4. §4.4
   The draft will be conducted online at BDL2K.com via the slow rookie draft format. Each owner has 24 hours per pick and will receive automated email notification when they are on the clock.

1. §5.1
   Each franchise will maintain an in-season active roster with a maximum of 25 players and a minimum of 20.
2. §5.2
   During the off-season (1.14) there will be no roster size limitation.
3. §5.3
   The cut down date for rosters will be 5 days before the first NFL game, at 9 p.m. ET, to consist of at most 25 active players and 3 IR players.
4. §5.4
   On cut down day, each owner must post contract years for their entire roster, meeting the contract cap defined in section 6.1. Additionally, each franchise is responsible for matching their roster to the post. In case of discrepancy between the post and the MFL site data, the posted contract years govern.
5. §5.5
   If a franchise does not meet these deadlines or the roster does not meet BDL guidelines, said franchise will be docked one (1) Bone per day, beginning the day the violation is identified by the League Office or by any owner posting it to the league site, until the tasks are completed and within the rules.
6. §5.6
   For a player to be eligible for Injured Reserve they must be designated Doubtful, Out, or IR on the MFL site.
7. §5.7
   Once per season, each franchise may optionally activate a player off of IR (IRDR). A player is eligible to return after having served at least 6 in-season weeks on IR, cumulative across franchises if traded. The once-per-season IRDR belongs to the franchise, not the player.
8. §5.8
   Players on IR count towards the contract year cap. No IR players may be dropped, but players may be traded to another franchise as long as all roster requirements are upheld.

1. §6.1
   Each franchise has a contract cap of 50 years per season, which cannot be exceeded. The cap applies continuously, including in-season: an acquisition that would exceed it may only be signed for the years remaining under the cap (minimum 1).
2. §6.2
   A player contract is the number of years that the player can remain on your roster before becoming a Restricted Free Agent.
3. §6.3
   When a player is released the franchise will be charged 5 Bones for every year left on the player’s contract past one, counting the current season as a year left until the BDL Championship (6.4). For example, a player with 3 years left would cost 10 Bones to release. A player with one year left can be dropped with no charge to the franchise.
4. §6.4
   Contract years conclude after the BDL Championship.

1. §7.1
   Trades will be conducted exclusively through the website. Any owner may create a poll questioning the legitimacy of a trade; the challenge poll must be created within 48 hours of the trade executing, and closes 48 hours after creation, notwithstanding 1.13. The trade stands while the poll runs. If 7 of the 10 franchises vote against the trade it will be overturned; this threshold operates outside 1.10–1.11.
2. §7.2
   Any trade that does not result in both owners having compliant rosters will be overturned. Rosters must be compliant within 24 hours of trade execution or before that week’s first lineup lock, whichever is sooner. During the off-season, compliance means the contract cap (6.1) only.
3. §7.3
   The trading deadline is one half hour before the start of the Week 14 NFL games.
4. §7.4
   Every player traded carries his contract years with him.
5. §7.5
   Trading resumes after the Championship Game.
6. §7.6
   Owners are prohibited from trading any RFA-eligible player (a player with 0 contract years remaining). Exception: an owner may trade their Franchise Tag, but in doing so forfeits their tag for that year. The prohibition lifts for a given player when he receives new contract years (9.9). AmendedAdopted by league vote, May 2021 (6–1); effective the 2022 off-season.

1. §8.1
   Any player not on a roster is considered an Unrestricted Free Agent (UFA).
2. §8.2
   When a player is dropped from a roster during an active waiver period, that player is locked from Free Agency until the following waiver period. A player dropped while no waiver period is active is locked until the first blind-bid processing that follows the drop.
3. §8.3
   Blind bidding begins Tuesdays at 8am ET and bids are processed Thursday at 12pm ET.
4. §8.4
   Pre-Season UFA will open on the Tuesday before the first Thursday in August and run in accordance with section 8.3 (bids can be submitted starting Tuesday at 8am & MFL will process waivers Thursday at 12pm). AmendedBy league vote, May 2022 (7–3) — replacing the prior rule under which UFA opened one week before the NFL Draft and ran monthly until the rookie draft.
5. §8.5
   The minimum UFA bid is one Bone. Bids must be in whole number increments.
6. §8.6
   In-season UFA weekly process will be conducted in 2 steps: a blind auction and then first come first serve pickups.
7. §8.7
   In-season blind bidding ties will be determined using the tie-breaking criteria in section 10.6 — where the lower “seed” is awarded the player. Off-season ties will use that year’s original draft order as the initial waiver order, and when an owner wins a tie they then move to the bottom of the order while all other owners move up a position in the order. The League Office maintains the current off-season waiver order on the league site.
8. §8.8
   Blind Bid FA pickups must be signed to a contract before the kickoff of that player’s game by message board post. If contract years are not assigned by kickoff of that player’s game, the FA will default to a 1 year contract. For a player whose NFL team has no remaining game that week (bye, or already played), the deadline is the final kickoff of that NFL week.
9. §8.9
   Immediately after blind bid waivers have processed in-season there will be a First Come First Serve (FCFS) free agent period, during which any free agent may be acquired for 1 Bone, until kickoff of their NFL team’s game — or, for players with no remaining game that week, the final kickoff of that NFL week (8.8). Players acquired via FCFS will be assigned a mandatory 1 year contract.
10. §8.10
    In-season blind bid waivers continue through the BDL playoffs, ending at the conclusion of the BDL Championship (Week 17). AmendedAdopted by league votes, 2016: extend waivers through the playoffs (9–1); end at the conclusion of NFL Week 16 (8–0).

1. §9.1
   Once a player’s contract expires he becomes a Restricted Free Agent (RFA).
2. §9.2
   RFAs will be auctioned off via owner nomination, proceeding in reverse order of that year’s draft. This auction will occur at a time agreed upon by the owners.
3. §9.3
   Owners may nominate any player eligible for RFA even if they own the rights to that player, provided they have the Bones available to pay the minimum bid to nominate. The minimum nomination bid for a non-franchised RFA is 1 Bone.
4. §9.4
   After a player has been nominated, franchises cannot bid on their own player. Once bidding is finished, the RFA owner has the option to match the highest bid.
5. §9.5
   Owners are allowed to raise their own bid on another team’s RFA. Once bidding concludes and the highest bidder is determined, that bidder has the opportunity to increase his bid one final time if he so chooses.
6. §9.6
   After the RFA signing period, any players that did not receive bids will remain on the current franchise’s roster at no cost, and receive a contract (minimum 1 year) at the following cut-down posting (5.4), within the contract cap.
7. §9.7
   Each year an owner may designate 1 player whose contract has expired to be his Franchise Player before the RFA auction. Cost to designate a franchise player is 10 Bones, which is refundable if the franchise loses that player in RFA. This designation is due 5 days prior to the RFA Event via message board post.
8. §9.8
   Bids on another owner’s Franchised Player must be in even-number increments, with a minimum bid of 22 Bones. The original owner’s total cost to retain him is half the high bid, of which the initial 10 Bones designation fee counts as already paid (the 10 Bones is the equivalent of a 20 Bones bid). Example: high bid 30 Bones → total cost 15, minus 10 already paid → 5 additional Bones.
9. §9.9
   Players acquired, matched, or retained through the RFA auction are signed to contract years at the following cut-down posting (5.4), within the contract cap.
10. §9.10
    The RFA auction concludes when every franchise has declined to nominate. A franchise that declines to nominate may not nominate again in that auction, but may continue to bid.

1. §10.1
   Playoffs begin on Week 15 of the NFL season. The playoffs conclude on Week 17 with the BDL Championship Game. NFL Week 18 is outside the BDL season; no lineups are played.
2. §10.2
   Six franchises advance to the post-season: two division winners and four wildcard franchises.
3. §10.3
   Week 15 will consist of the wildcard games; seeds 1 & 2 receive a bye.
4. §10.4
   Week 16 will be the Semifinals. The bracket will be re-seeded to have the highest seed face the lowest seed.
5. §10.5
   The losers from Week 16 will play for the third place payout in Week 17.
6. §10.6
   The BDL tie-breaking system for playoff qualification, seeding, and playoff tie games is as follows: First Criteria — Regular season winning percentage
   Second Criteria — Most points for season
   Third Criteria — Head to head (2 franchises only)
   Fourth Criteria — Virtual Coin Toss For ties of 3 or more franchises, head-to-head is skipped, and the virtual coin toss is conducted by the League Office using a publicly verifiable method, with results posted to the site.
7. §10.7
   The four franchises not involved in the BDL Playoffs will be ranked and join the Ultimate Losers Bracket based on their regular season final position, with 7th seeded highest and 10th lowest. In Week 15, the 7-seed plays the 10-seed and the 8-seed plays the 9-seed; the losers meet in Week 16, and the loser of that game is the Ultimate Loser. The Ultimate Loser will be responsible for etching the new champion’s name into the BDL trophy and ensuring the finished piece is in the champion’s hands prior to the next season’s RFA event.
8. §10.8
   The BDL RFA Live Event will utilize the prior year’s finishing position to prioritize room assignment — with the reigning champion getting first selection.

1. §11.1
   Each franchise starts 9 players: 1 Quarterback, 2 Running Backs, 2 Wide Receivers, 1 Tight End, two flex (RB/WR/TE), and one superflex (QB/RB/WR/TE). On the MFL site this is encoded as position limits: QB 1–2, RB 2–5, WR 2–5, TE 1–4. AmendedA superflex starting spot was added by league vote, 2023 (7–0), effective 2025.
2. §11.2
   Franchises must start 9 players per week, and cannot start a player on bye. Owners will be penalized 2 Bones per invalid lineup slot, assessed weekly, for a slot with a player on bye or an empty starter position.
3. §11.3
   The detailed scoring system is in the Rules section of BDL2K.com.
4. §11.4
   A player officially ruled Out more than 90 minutes before his kickoff (i.e., before the NFL’s standard inactives announcement) counts as an invalid lineup slot under 11.2 if started. A player first ruled Out at the inactives announcement or later is a late scratch and is not penalized.
5. §11.5
   Lineups lock at each player’s kickoff per the MFL site. No retroactive lineup changes are permitted regardless of circumstance.
6. §11.6
   Scoring follows MFL’s final stat corrections as of Wednesday 9am ET each week. Disputes beyond that are resolved under 1.19.

Player-specific and one-off precedents that do not change the rules above but are binding league decisions. Sourced from polls and commissioner statements; maintained as part of charter reconciliation.

1. §12.1
   Taysom Hill is TE-eligible. RulingLeague vote, September 2024 (8–1).
2. §12.2
   Starting inactive (Out/injured) players to tank is against league expectations; owners must field active players weekly, with allowances for unexpected late scratches. RulingCommissioner statement, November 2025 — originally guidance only with no penalty attached.