LEAGUE MEETING SUMMARY
June 9, 2004
All Teams were represented except the Mud Pigs.
Below is a summary of all the decisions from the meeting
LEAGUE START DATE: June 26th (No games planned for Canada Day or Labour Day weekend. However, potentially games on the Monday of Labour Day weekend.)
FIELD: Pleasantville
- Games on weekends and Monday/ Wednesday evenings prior to Labour Day and into early September if necessary. Also, Friday evening makeup games during the summer are possible.
- Lining (Mark to arrange with private company and with City via Neil/Kevin)
- Cleaning (League to conduct cleaning prior to June 26) COORDINATOR NEEDED
- Referees to cancel games in rain if steady rain and field damage is likely. Decision to be made at the field at game time.
FIELD SIZE
The league will use the full length of the current pitch between goal lines (approximately 110 yards between goalposts) and the end zones will be up to 15 yards past the posts. The field width between goal lines will be proportional to the Canadian regulations - which are 110 x 65 yards.
NUMBER OF TEAMS:
10 Men's Teams (uniform colour):
- Mustangs (red)
- The Pack (burgundy and white)
- Outlaws (black)
- Harbour Gulls (orange and white)
- Wolverines (yellow and green)
- Hurricanes (purple)
- Thunder (Carolina Blue)
- Edge (Green and white)
- Rage (Silver with black trim)
- Mud Pigs TBD (??)
6 Women's Teams
- Normies Heat (white and orange)
- Republic (green, pink and white) Republic will consider uniform options for games vs Heat due to conflicting colours.
- Hickman Motors (Navy)
- Renegades (black)
- Syrens (Red)
- M5 Rockets (grey)
FINANCES:
- Projected league fees per team are approximately $800 + $100 per team should cover costs, although the executive reserves the right to revise if necessary. Women's fees will be proportionally less based on games played.
- All fees must be paid by August 29. Upon payment of all fees prior to August 29, teams will receive 5-dozen Coors Light.
- All new teams must pay half ($400 + $100 deposit) before the league starts. New teams include Outlaws, Thunder, Mud Pigs, Edge, Rage, and the M5 Rockets.
MEN'S PROVINCIALS AND QUALIFICATION:
- The men's provincials will be held on Aug 28/29. Corner Brook will try to send in a team. There will be 8 men's teams entered. Depending on Corner Brook teams, the top X teams from St. John's will be eligible. Eligibility will be based on the first or second game against all other teams. These qualification games will be noted on the schedule with a P.
- A committee of Brad Kearley, Dave Trickett and Tim Hoskins will coordinate the provincials. Let them know if you wish to help out.
WOMEN'S PROVINCIALS
- There will be no women's tournament.
- Does anyone know where the women's provincial trophy is?
REFEREES
- Those wishing to referee should contact the executive by Friday June 11. A referee clinic will be held before the season.
- New jerseys will be purchased and must be worn by referees.
- Referees will be paid $25 per game.
Referees will be paid $25 per game. In addition to the game, the referees' responsibilities are: (These must be completed in order to get paid)
- Collecting and storing equipment
- Keeping statistics during the game (to be delegated to linespersons)
- Ensuring roster sheets are filled out by the teams
- Bringing the statistics (not calling) to a predetermined person who will advise the media of game results and tabulate scores.
- Enforcing line duty rules
- Enforcing default and start time rules
- Decisions re legality of footballs (inflation, size and quality etc.)
- Decisions re postponement of games due to weather
- Decisions re size of field re: field repair
- Advising the league and disciplinary committee re infractions potentially requiring disciplinary action.
DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE
- A disciplinary committee has been formed including Jeff O'Keefe, Dave Cochrane, Paul Vincent, Stefan Jensen, Paul Smith and Carolyn Jensen. Anyone else wishing to join should contact them. Dave Trickett will provide initial guidance. The committee will set guidelines and develop a system to review disciplinary issues. They will send an email to all team representatives prior to June 26.
EQUIPMENT STORAGE
- Pam is investigating the Caribou complex. Pam will update the league prior to June 26.
ROSTERS
- Teams to provide an accurate roster to referees at the coin toss or else lose choice in both halves. This is the responsibility of the teams. Players who show up after the game starts can be added to the roster. Todd will include a revised roster sheet on the web page before the season starts.
STATISTICS & PR
- Mark will tabulate again but referees must bring to my house at the end of each day. Pam White will take over when I am away.
- Whoever does stats will email scores to the Telegram, and sportsphone and to Todd for insertion on the web page.
- QB Touchdown passes will also be tracked this year.
- Other PR - league article in Telegram. Dave Trickett and Mark to coordinate.
- Dave Cochrane will begin a weekly editorial report on the league for the website. Others are asked to write articles as the season progresses.
LEGAL FOOTBALLS
- In the men's league only leather footballs are permitted. The league will have leather balls available for the men's league.
- The women's league will allow any ball of legal size and inflation. The referee will use judgement to approve each ball.
RULES
- A rule committee has been formed to review all league rules including the new rules as found in the revised national committee rulebook - which Todd will include on our web page. The committee includes Mark Peters, Stefan Jensen, Todd Pardy, and Jeff O'Keefe. Others, including a women's rep, are welcome.
The league will follow the rules outlined by the NFFC (and any subsequent revisions) unless overruled by a local rule. We will clarify several rules before the season and answer any questions during the season. Also, the rules committee will brief the referees at the clinic and can have a rules clinic for players if desired.
Most notably, our local league rule indicates the final 3 minutes of the 2nd and 4th quarters will be replaced with 5 plays. At the moment the play is whistled, if there are 3 minutes or less remaining then the referee will advise 5 plays remaining. Any of the remaining 5 plays will be replayed when a live ball penalty is accepted. After a timeout, the clock does not start until the snap of the ball, not when the referee blows play in.
OVERTIME
There will be no overtime in the regular season. Both teams will get 1 point for a tie.
BLACKOUT DATES
All teams must provide any June/July dates when they are unable to play by next Wednesday June 16. Dates for August are due by July 15 and dates for September onwards are due by August 15. Two or three blackout dates are allowed.
The league will not guarantee any blackout requests - especially in the playoffs.
LINE DUTY
All teams must provide two linespersons for line duty when noted on the schedule.
Please speak to the referees prior to the game if linespersons are not familiar with the role.
Teams will be fined $25 for each missing linesperson for the start or any portion of a game. For each linesperson who misses a full quarter, the team will lose one point.
Line duty is the responsibility of the teams as listed on the schedule. If teams decide to switch line duty with another team, penalties will be applied to the team listed on the schedule unless the league is notified by email prior to the game by the team who is replacing.
Referees are responsible for monitoring line duty and reporting missing linespersons.
Linespersons are responsible for doing stats during the game.
START TIME OF GAMES
Referees will blow the whistle for the coin toss at the scheduled start time or whenever the referees are ready after the previous game has been completed. The game will begin as long as each team has 5 players in attendance.
If a team has less than 5 players in attendance when the whistle is blown, the opposing team will have first choice in both halves. The game will start as soon as the 5th player arrives or will be defaulted once 15 minutes elapse after the referees whistle.
A game can be continued if a team is reduced to less than 5 players. However, a player cannot be recruited just to achieve 5 players at the beginning of the game and then discarded. The referee will use discretion.
DEFAULTS
The penalty for default is $50 and LOSS of 2 points.
It is highly recommended that teams do not quit the game until there are 5 plays left in the game.
Quitting a game early may result in a default at the discretion of the Referees.
TIEBREAKERS
Point standings will determine the final position. If 2 or more teams are tied in points the following tiebreakers will be used in sequence until the teams are no longer tied:
2 Teams Tied
- Total points awarded in games between the two teams (ie 2 points for a win)
- Points against in all league games.
- Points for in all league games.
- Coin flip
3+ Teams Tied
- Total points awarded in games between all tied teams (ie 2 points for a win,)
(NOTE: If first tiebreaker above separates all tied teams, the result is final. If 2+ teams are still tied, the tiebreaking process for these remaining tied teams will begin again from the beginning using the procedure for 2 or 3+ tied teams. This is also true for the tiebreakers below.)
- Points against in all league games.
- Points for in all league games.
- Coin flip
A team will not be eliminated by a tiebreaker. If more than 2 teams are tied for the final 2 playoff spots, one team will earn a berth based on a tiebreaker, and the other 2 will have a playoff game.
INSURANCE
The league is investigating this issue. This may result in a slightly higher league fee.
SCHEDULE/LEAGUE FORMAT/PLAYOFFS:
Women's League:
6 Teams to play each other 3 times = 15 games. Top 4 make playoffs.
Men's League:
The league is ranked in three groups:
Teams 1-4 (Mustangs, Outlaws, Pack, Gulls)
Teams 5-6 (Wolverines, Hurricanes)
Teams 7-10 (Thunder, Dooley's/Rage, Edge, Mud Pigs)
Teams 1-4 play each other three times = 9 games per team
Teams 1-4 play teams 5&6 two times = 4 games per team
Teams 1-4 play teams 7-10 once = 4 games per team
Teams 1-4 play one more game against a 7-10 team = 1 game per team
TOTAL = 18 games per team
Teams 5-6 play all teams 2 times = 18 games per team
Teams 7-10 play each other three times = 9 games
Teams 7-10 play teams 5&6 2 times = 4 games
Teams 7-10 play teams 1-4 once = 4 games
Teams 7-10 play one more game against a 1-4 team = 1 game
TOTAL = 18 games per team
All teams play 18 games, and the top 6 make the playoffs.
If the Mud Pigs don't field a team, the executive will develop a revised schedule based on this system.
