Dear IFL Coach,
It only took him a decade, but Papa Jord finally has been promoted from sweaty bus boy all the way to head chef. This year, we’ve brought out of retirement two IFL journeymen, Daddy and lil’ baby Joe, in an effort to prevent Chef Jord from cooking up a second course. I charge you to join them in a league-wide prevent defense against this culinary nightmare:
To accommodate the expansion to 18 teams, we will be making a couple of changes.
The first is a divisional restructuring. The Boy Scout Cyclone division will be dissolved and absorbed by the remaining three divisions: Aaron and Drew to X-IA, John to Papa Jord’s and Chris to Cul-de-Sack. Joe will be returning to the Cul-de-Sack and Daddy to Papa Jord’s.
The second is roster changes. Since we are adding two teams, that’s 26 players that will be removed from the free agency pool. To address this we are going to eliminate one starting position and one bench position, which will add back 36 players to the free agency pool for a net gain of 10 players. To eliminate a starting position but still give positional flexibility, we’ll be eliminating both a RB and a WR slot but adding a second flex slot. Since we will now be down to just 3 bench slots, we are then going to add in a second IR slot, so down on their luck teams can better navigate injuries. Since bye weeks will make QBs, Kickers and DST more scarce, we’re going to cap the number of each of those positions you can roster at 2, so teams can’t roster 3 QBs and squeeze out other teams. In the unlikely event that this happens, a coach that is unable to roster one of these positions during a bye week will have the option of adding the score of the worst QB/K/DST from that week. In the case of QB, they must have played 90%+ of snaps.
Daddy and Joe will be given draft odds equivalent to Jesse’s, which is middle of the pack, better odds than all the playoff teams from last year, but worse odds than the rest of the consolation teams, save Jesse.
The buy-in is the same as last year’s, $60. With 18 owners, that now makes the total prize pool $1,080. The 2025 payout structure will be as follows:
Place Awards
Champion = $445
Runner-Up = $70
3rd Place = $10
Division Winner = $35
Wild Card = $8
Season Awards
Pick 'Em Champ = $25
The Bounty = $20
Regular Season Champ = $15
Weekly Awards
Highest Scoring Team = $15
Highest Scoring Player = $7
The draft will start at 6:30 PM on Saturday August 23rd.
Godspeed men.