Welcome everyone to the Retribution Football League Rules Page!
We use Discord, the automatic website text messages that go out, and we have a phone list/Xbox live messaging/etc. Please respond to fellow users in a timely fashion. If you can't play your game that week against another human, let the league know and your opponent and put yourself on autopilot/sim. If something comes up then contact and admin
Madden 23 Rules.
By joining you are agreeing to follow all of the rules stated below:
General:
- The league will be a 2 day(not exactly 48 hours) advance schedule with us advancing at 8pm pst on "Advance day"
- Game settings are All Madden 7 min Qtrs No accel clock, we do use play cooldowns/play call limits(subject to change) and custom sliders(sliders subject to change in between seasons based on current issues or "meta")
- Must Create a coach when joining
Scheduling:
- You have 24 hr from previous advance to respond to an opponents DM. If there has been zero contact attempt your opponent will be given Force win.
- For an Force Win you must provide proof of no communication, or screen shot of times missed.
- If there is a circumstance in which is a serious family matter, moving, and things of that nature, we will require FS or for the user to play CPU.
- Games must be started prior to the advance time
- If we are nearing playoffs and both teams are completely eliminated from playoffs, we may skip your game to advance if you are last game.
Server/Chat:
- We ask that users keep their post relative to their respective channels(trades in #trade-chat, etc,)
- We also ask users keep their smack talk relative to the game of madden(no personal attacks on character, race, religion, life, etc)
- Failure to comply with these rules and/or constantly antagonizing users and/or admins will result in being muted or removal from the server/league.
Roster rules:
- No Editing of real players names and please make sure all player names are SFW.
- Roster Minimum is 50
- And Users Must be under the salary cap in order to play.
- Admins will no longer adjust settings to help with your salary cap or roster issues.
-No editing QB throwing motion/ right/left hand
- No Hb's at fb on the depth chart or formation subs in stacked formations or on fake punts(i form, goaline, strong, weak)(this also includes packages)
The following position changes are not allowed:
- K>P or P>K
- Any Offensive position > Any Defensive Position
- LB>DB or DB >LB
- TE>OL or OL> TE
- WR>HB or HB> WR
- WR>TE *unless Wr is 240 lbs+
- WR/HB*/TE>QB*
-HB>FB *unless RB is 235 lbs+ and speed lower than 89*
No toggling a players position to use a skill point.
*exception can be made for real-life players (ie Taysom hill please contact an admin about this)
- If we continue to see nonbox safeties (smaller cbs who are faster, low tackeling, low block shedding, or low strength) we will make adjustments accordingly and adjust this rule.
SUB-LB rule
-Cannot have 2 safeties at SUBLB
-Also safeties that play subLB must meet 2 out of the 3 attributes:
70 strength
70 block shed
70 tackle
* player automatically disqualified from playing SUBLB if any of those 3 attributes are below 55.
SCHEME RULES:
- No 46 defense scheme: No real NFL team has run this as a full scheme in quite some time and it is only used on game to try to boost scheme fit.(You can still call the formation just no one uses it as scheme in real life)
Banned SuperStar/XF abilities:
XF: Escape Artist, Avalanche
SuperStar: Lurker, Hot Route Master, Human Joystick, Enforcer, Route Apprentice, Wr Apprentice
LIMIT one ability to each side of the ball (Only one WR can have route technician, or DB can have pick artist)
Trades: Updated!!!!
The trade committee will look for fairness and salary cap to make sure all trades are good.
- All Trades must be submitted to the trade committee. Users must supply Player cards, Team Salary cap, Player contract to the trade committee for each trade submission to be considered.
- Hypotheticals will not be factored in "oh if this trade gets approved ill make cap space"
- Any illegal trades will result in both teams losing their top dev and all players involved being changed to 0 overall
-Fire sales are NOT ALLOWED
- 1st and 2nd round rookies cannot be traded their rookie year as this is detrimental to the cap space.
- Please do not submit more than 3 of the same trade in succession as it will waste the committees time.
- Max of 2 first-round picks and 2 second-round picks
Disconnects and De-Syncs:
Going forward at whatever point of the game a lagout or desync occurs you will start a new game and play out the time from your previous game. For example. If it’s the second quarter I’m up 21-17. We will restart the game, 0-0. And play til Halftime, in which you will DASHBOARD out the game. In that half I won 7-0 we would just add that to the previous score making it 28-17. And I would get a force win. This would go for any score, quarter, and situation beyond the first quarter. During the first quarter if a lag out occurs it is a automatic restart unless someone has a 14 point lead, if there is a 14 point lead you would follow the rule mentioned above. WHOEVER HAD THE BALL WHEN THE GAME LAGGED OUT GETS THE BALL TO START. DM for any questions
If it ends up being tied, please play one quarter by OT rules.
CPU Games:
CPU games are now force wins, after multiple seasons of watching inactive users teams make playoffs, we will be removing this rule. If you cant play your game, your opponent shouldnt be punished. However, if you do wish to play the cpu, you must get approval from an admin first.
We will have one freebie per season, so you will be allowed to go over the allotted amount in only 1 game per season without punishment,
Penalty if broken, 2 game suspension/ No All-pro/No end of season devs
QUITTING: NO IN-GAME QUITTING vs HUMAN or CPU. If you are getting smashed in a game, just keep playing. Use the game as experience to get better. We all take ass whippings at some point in time so don't take your ball, go home and quit. We've got a lot of players that used to get destroyed and are now winning division titles and Conference Championships.
CONCEDING:
-Conceding will count as a quit unless your opponent agrees to let you concede
Placement:
-If you are going to move a player to a different spot (not within 1-2 yards away) you must user that player and not switch to another player.
- if you are going to bring down a safety manually you must user that player and not switch to another player.
End of Game:
Approved quits:
- If at any point you are down by a significant amount or time is almost expired and feel as if the score is being run up on you , feel free to DM a admin for an approved quit. One of us will jump on the stream and make a decision based on what we see. You will still a loss if we allow a quit, as your opponent will take an FW.
Sportsmanship/Running up score:
-Please be respectful of you opponent on both losing and winning sides.
Going For 2:
- These are the following situations in which you can go for 2: when it is shown in the Play suggestions or down 8+ or if a tie or OT situation late in the 4th qtr.
4th down Rule:
-4th and 2 passed the 40 your offense can come out and go for the 4th down
-one freebie from anywhere on the field
-Every other 4th down if you go for it has to be a fake
*Rule does not apply if down 15 or more points or if you are tied or within 1 score(8 or less points) in the 4th quarter or Overtime
Chew Clock:
-Cannot chew clock unless up by 28+ OR less than 3 mins left in half
-Cannot chew clock in OT
-Can chew clock if opponent agrees or if admin permission is granted
Offensive Cheese:
Multiple motions during a play, hiking the ball before the player has stopped his motion(unless designed in a light blue line in player arc), calling multiple hot routes to change a play to create your own new play. This also counts for defensive hot routes.
No Scum kicks:
A scum kick is when the kickoff teams short kicks it to the upback to increase chance of fumbles or essentially a “long onside kick”
Quarterback Movement rule
-NO snap n sprints
-If we notice people are abusing crossing routes with qb movement we will adjust this.
Defensive cheese:
- pinching AND containing at the same time: causes the OL to glitch out.
- putting LB into deep third on cover 2
Streaming:
- ALL PLAYOFF GAMES MUST BE STREAMED
- Have your streams set to save