POINT SYSTEM
All content created earns points.
- Team Blog – 2 points
- Personnel or Game Highlight Reel – 2 points (minimum 5 plays)
- Highlight Clip – 1 point
- Podcast/Appearance – 3 points
- Every 4 games played – 1 point (can be used 4 times a season)
- Post your point requests in #point-requests  (Max 50 points per season)
- Points can be cashed in on a bye week or at the end of each season

POINTS COST
Dev trait boost – 25 points
Attribute over 20k XP – 25 points
Attribute over 10k XP – 10 points
Attribute under 10k – 1 point
Trait – 5 points
5 points = $5m Available Funds
$5 million in funds = 1 point
$5 million – For if a schedule of all of your HOME games for the week are posted before the Sunday. (Week is Monday - Sunday) Submission format must be followed. 
$5 million – Playing in a Prime Time game
$5 million - Winning a Prime Time Game
$5 million – Doing post-game appearance on FB group
$5 million – doing league commentary for Prime Time Games
**Funds must be requested in #point-requests

Scheduling Policy
-      All home games for the following week should be posted in #Game-times before Sundays
-      Bonus $5 million funds per week given to any owner who uses the league calendar to schedule your games at least a week in advance. (Must also post in the proper #game-times threads and request funds)
-      League format must be followed or 1 trip to Thunderdome per scheduling week.
-      If you schedule a 7pm PT game for Wednesday or Sunday your game is eligible to be chosen as Prime Time Game.
-      By submitting for primetime consideration, if chosen you can do a 5 minute FB group appearance after the game (from your phone) fielding questions from viewers or talk about your team's performance.
-      The League prefers at least one nightly game played at 7PT, games scheduled at this time will have a higher chance of league marketing.

SCHEDULE FORMAT EXAMPLE – Submitted before the end of the previous week (sunday).
#monday-tuesday
WEEK 1
Broncos @ Bills
Monday 7PM PT
http://linktotheteamchannelstreaming.com

#wednesday-thursday
WEEK 2
Jets @ Bills
Wednesday 7PM PT
http://linktotheteamchannelstreaming.com

#friday-saturday
WEEK 3
Bills @ Bengals
Saturday 7PM PT
http://linktotheteamchannelstreaming.com

#sunday
WEEK 4
BYE WEEK - Point Dispersment

Prime Time Games
-      Monetary Reward for Participation and Winning ($5 million each, must request in #point-requests)
-      Schedule a 7pm game for Wednesday or Sunday and you have a chance to be chosen as a primetime game
-      Games will be restreamed by the league from the Team channel on to the facebook group page (No extra work from owner)
-      Owners who schedule in the prime time block agree to use the league discord voice chat during the game to be restreamed with the league broadcast if no commentators are available.
-      Owners picked for primetime games have the option to use your cell phone to live stream on the league FB group after your game for at least 5 minutes to answer questions about your game or recap your thoughts on your teams' performance. ($5m reward)

Madden 17 is the 3rd year for the GML.  It's a serious league for grown men looking for that hardcore football experience that carries over from year to year.
The GML offers the toughest sliders and competition of any CFM. If you have a strong background in football (playing/coaching), enjoy scouting and game planning this league is for you.

KEY DETAILS
- Trade and Admin Committees manned by owners who have been in the league for multiple years.
- Independent Commissioner for disputes and appeals.
- All games must be streamed on Youtube. Youtube permanently archives games, Twitch does not. If this is a dealbreaker for you, this isn't the league for you.
- Sliders adjusted after each season (if needed) to maintain sim/nfl comparable stats
- No silly 4th down rules. If you believe the risk/reward is worth it, go for it.
- In August we sim another 10 years, and our annual champion is determined based on the most championships across all 20+ seasons. This encourages owners to always build for the long term.
- 48 hour (or less) advance. It's not about playing every game, it's about getting 10+ seasons in. We're currently early on in season 3.
- 12 minute quarters. With the longest quarters used by any CFM, our league centers around strategy, clock management, depth and endurance. The run game actually matters.
- Groupme

Our surrounding content includes...
- Podcast
- Plays of the week
- Super Bowl play by play
- Hall of Fame
- Prizes (Most SB's wins free copy of Madden 18)
- There are currently 11 teams open. We do a vigorous vetting process to join. You will be added to the chat and must have at least one owner endorse you.
- Bears
- Packers
- Vikings
- Dolphins
- Giants
- Cowboys
- Redskins
- Seahawks
- Rams
- Raiders
- Steelers
- Browns
- Texans

Trying to change the standings to show a team logo and 3 letter abrivation but cant get it to work any ideas?

The GML would like to congratulate D4_PRoDuC3R (Carlos) on being our first Owner inducted into the GML hall of fame. Carlos has completed more than 22 consecutive seasons, won 5 super bowls with 2 different franchises and has established himself as a perennial contender. Carlos is also a member of our trade committee and takes an active role in helping to groom our younger owners.

Congratulations to our first Hall Of Fame Class.

Quarterback
Brett Hundley
Baltimore Ravens
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12 Seasons
3 Championships
104 QBR
37,433 Yards (358 TD’s, 156 ints, 66%)

Quarterback
Robbie Gibson
Pittsburgh Steelers
—————————
10 Seasons
100 QBR
33,030 Yards (253 TD’s, 111 ints, 68%)

Quarterback
Kyle Hopkins
Toronto Mounties
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7 Seasons
2 Championships
118.4 QBR
28,573 Yards (274 TD’s, 129 ints, 70%)

Wide Receiver
Sharif Kerr
Pittsburgh Steelers
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11 Seasons
847 Catches
12,438 Yards
98 TD’s

Tight End
Eric Dorsey
New Orleans Saints
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11 Seasons
1 Championship
789 Catches
10,223 Yards
62 TD’s

Running Back
Margarito Spencer
Buffalo Bills
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8 Seasons
1 Championship
- 1972 Carries
- 8339 yards (4.2 ypc, 101 TD’s)
- 328 Receptions
- 3,069 yards (9.4 ypc, 14 TD’s)

Cornerback
Raysean Austin
Buffalo Bills
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11 Seasons
1 Championship
- 511 tackles
- 45 Interceptions
- 12 Touchdowns

Defensive End
Vic Beasely Jr.
Toronto Mounties
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12 Seasons
2 Championships
245 Tackles
146 Sacks

Running Back
Todd Gurley
Houston Texans
STATS UNAVAILABLE DUE TO RETIREMENT

Quarterback
Darenton Duncan
Philadelphia Eagles
STATS UNAVAILABLE DUE TO RETIREMENT

Same question.

Welcome to a new year of the GML, this year will be our first with 32 owners and we’re excited to have all of you in the league. This is a general overview of what to expect in the weeks ahead and what needs to be done so you are ready to start the season on Friday, August 26th.

Our mission statement for the GML is to make this league those most competitive sim league in Madden Land. We use some of the toughest sliders of any league, and as far as I know we are the only 12m quarter league in existence. This is a community driven league, which means decisions are made based on owner majority, not a singular commissioner. I (GratwickBills) handle day to day admin responsibilities, but all decisions/issues between owners and/or punishments are decided by our independent commissioner Ernie Green.

Sportsmanship and a positive community are the pillars of the GML.  Inevitably there will be some blowouts if you stick around long enough blowouts will happen to everyone. Do not quit and do not spam. Use the time remaining in a blowout like you would a scrimmage. Try new plays, give some reps to younger players and just focus on improving your game for the next week. 

This league is about the long term, 10+ played seasons and another 10 sim seasons. If you do not focus on building and maintaining your team for the long run, you will struggle in this league. Bad seasons will happen to most of us, use it as an opportunity to groom players and nail your drafts. 

If you mortgage your future and then have bad seasons, you will have no way to recover and improve, DO NOT DO IT.  Any owner that puts themselves in this position will be in danger of losing their team. 

LEAGUE CHAT
- Complaining
If you have any issue with how another player plays, you must file a formal complaint with the league commissioner Ernie Green. This is done with a direct message to him on groupme with a link to the video and a timecode of an example. If you don’t care enough to do this, it's not important enough to be addressed. Complaining in the chat, especially during a game will result in disciplinary action taken against your team. With 32 owners, if every one of us groans about a bad play against us, the chat will be nothing but endless griping.

- Trade Talk
A separate ‘Trade Block’ chat is to be used for trade talk only. This is too thin out the main chat from all the wheeling and dealing that will be happening.

- Scheduling Games
The process for scheduling games is as follows. The home team is responsible for sending a direct message to the visiting team with 3 windows of availability for the 48-hour advance window. The visiting must pick one of those 3 times. If they cannot make one of those 3 times, then the HOME team has the option of playing the CPU or a straight sim. We strongly encourage the home team to contact the visiting team after you finish your previous game.  Ex: It’s week 3 and in week 4 I’ll be home against the Cardinals. As soon as I finish my week 3 game, I send a message to the Owner of the Cardinals with my availability. Done like this, all games should be pretty much scheduled before we advance to the new week.

Home team invites/hosts road team broadcasts unless otherwise decided by owners on a game to game basis.

FINANCES
This is an owner league so you are responsible for every aspect of your team. If you mortgage your future to try and “win now”, there will be consequences when the ‘future’ catches up to you. If you lose your team due to financial responsibility you are out of the league. So take this into consideration when you making ridiculous bids on free agents and giving huge bonuses to your favorite guys.

If you need help running your finances our veteran owners are more than happy to offer advice. Our returning owners are not here to prey on you, they are here to help coach you up and ensure everyone is eventually on the same playing field.  Parity is our goal.

COMMITTEES
- Gameplay Committee
This committee is responsible for everything that happens on the field. The slider settings, penalties and rules. (including suggesting rules for league vote each off-season) The gameplay committee consists of the Cardinals, Dolphins, Saints.

- Trades/Personnel Committee
This committee is responsible for everything that happens off the field when it comes to roster building. The purpose of this committee is to ensure there is no team stacking nor fly-by-nights that burn a franchise for seasons to come. Any trades involving first round picks or players over 90 overall MUST have approval from the trade committee.
The trade committee consists of the Lions, Eagles, Raiders

NOTE: Any owner is free to join a committee after one full season in the GML

LEAGUE CONTENT
All owners are encouraged to cover their team with as much multi-media as you like. Game recap blogs are an easy place to start, creating highlights and submitting them for plays of the week, (how-to’s will be posted in the forum) talking during your broadcasts, or whatever else you want to do with your team is welcomed.

If you would like to be actively engaged in creating content for the league as a whole please send me a direct message about where you’d like to get involved. Here are just some of the areas we can use owner help: DL Site Curation, Plays of the week curation, Podcast host, Owner Interviewer, Draft Grades, play-by-play guys, whatever else we come up with…

STREAMING GAMES
All games must be streamed to Youtube. The reason for this is because Youtube automatically archives all games and allows each owner to scout previous games if they choose to do so. If you wish to stream to Youtube and Twitch or other platforms you are welcomed to do so, I can point you to some tutorials if you need help setting this up.

- We prefer everyone labels their games as such “Gratwick Bills 2016: Week 1 (@Patriots)”, If you stream other games to your channel we insist you label your GML games.

- Super Bowls will be streamed to the Gratwick Madden League channel with Play-by-Play.

- All owners must provide the league with a link to Your Youtube Channel before August 15. This will be your confirmation that you have read this introduction and confirmed your place in the GML.  Any owners who have not confirmed their spot in the league by August 15, will be put at the bottom of the waiting list and their team will be made available to the first name on the list.

Thank you for joining the GML and we look forward to you being a part of the league for many seasons to come.

How to submit a play of the week. (POW)

1. Write down the game time of the play you wish to submit.

2. Once your broadcast has finished exporting (4+ hours after broadcast) use the Youtube video edit features to 'trim' the video to just the play you would like to submit. 'save as a new video'.

3. Edit the title of the video using this formula:  Season/Week: Away Team/Home Team (POW)

Ex: 2020 Week 15: Chargers @ Bills (POW)

4. Submit the link to your play of the week video under the POW Groupme thread.

5. Every Sunday a top 10 plays of the real week we be put into a playlist and posted on the DL league feed. 

AFC EAST
Gratwick Bills - https://www.youtube.com/user/GratwickBills

Gratwick Jets - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjAZUPImja5e9boqoiI3HBA

Gratwick Patriots - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5ERQFqXGFZgWzQRbkalh4A

AFC NORTH
Gratwick Steelers - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj9IRm5PQVbtKMTmaoGKeSg

Gratwick Ravens - http://youtube.com/channel/UCwohiXKTiCauOlijiBUA_oA

AFC SOUTH
Gratwick Texans - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo22yos1aOqsbBb0YHzCd7A

AFC NORTH
Gratwick Raiders - https://www.youtube.com/user/joetodaro

Gratwick Broncos - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4zDkkrlHrzqIxhB-XHPgAQ

NFC EAST
Gratwick Cowboys - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCylKEGwdYS-X1GV3uW2abBg

Gratwick Eagles - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYEco75Hxqh73pHWbFW9-kA

NFC SOUTH
Gratwick Saints - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHbPkEVjmjL_EeXXoPrDTjA

Gratwick Falcons - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcxabxoJHG9cnBV4Gsug8Sg

Gratwick Panthers - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCox953DCpYOIvutA0eG2y_g

NFC NORTH
Gratwick Lions - https://www.youtube.com/user/GratwickLions

NFC WEST
Gratwick Seahawks - https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCVBVl8UHyVjhteFPyXAAbwA

Twitch:  http://twitch.tv/gratwickbills
Twitter: http://twitter.com/gratwickbills
Youtube: http://youtube.com/user/gratwickbills

Embedding your channel on your team page

You can put both ustream and twitch up, if u think you will use them , or just use one. either way you can embed your "channel" on your team page, So now you have copied your embed code, im going to walk you thru how to put it on your teams page.you may look at my teams page (seattle) to see how it should look when your done.  Just follow along :

FOR TWITCH CHANNELS:

1. here on our daddyleagues site, click the "front office " tab

2. click the "post blog" tab there

3.then give your post a title

4.then scroll down to where it says "category" click the little option there(box says league news at first), and a drop down box will come up. Select your teams name there and click it.

5. right below this , you will see it say "content" and in the upper left corner of that box there, you will see the word "source" , BE SURE TO CLICK THIS FIRST HERE!

6.after you have clicked "source" , then go down to the box where you would type words. first type in    <a>     ( just like it that)

7.then right after you type in <a>    , then you paste your code right after it.

8. now you will notice when you paste your code , it will start like this <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="378" width="620" , you will need to only change where it says   width="620"   , to make it say width="450" , u dont have to retype the whole thing, just delete out the 620 and input 450 there. make sure the "450" is still on both sides. this is only thing you have to modify on these, so you maximize the viewing box on your teams page.

9. scroll down to bottom and click "post blog"

10. your done , you can check your teams page and it should be there now.