RULES AND STUFF
FREE AGENTS
All requests should be sent by PM to @FF_Original_FAs up to 10pm the night before the first game of every round. In previous years the coach could state who to drop but that is no longer a requirement. All a coach needs to do is clearly state how many players they wish to add to their list and who they are.
It is the coaches responsibility to ensure that the player named is available. Please check the Player Market on thebench.
Any PM that has a time stamp of 10:01pm will be ignored and rendered invalid.
An example of the format is shown below:
Free Agent…
2 of the following:
Player M Geel
Player X Syd (only if Player M is not available)
Player Y Haw
Player Z Car
I will accept choices with conditions.
Just to quickly highlight some historical examples of how people have prioritised choices.
Free Agent…
Jack Trew FR
John Lester R
Mark Betts CB
Tobey Brand FB
Mitch McStay FC
Andy Smith R
Lewis Brown F
Beau Young B
Dictator Dan F
Oscar Cordy FB
Matty Cox FR
- I only want 1 forward, one ruck and one backman.
The results of the free agency requests will be processed and published to the league by midnight that night if not earlier, with any list changes on the AFL Fantasy website to be the responsibility of each coach. The coach has until the end of the round to pickup their free agent and drop whoever they want.
I. Free Agents
All players delisted by a side the previous week as well as all available players are deemed free agents. Free agents are available during the weekly free agency period and are processed the night before the first game of the round. These requests are processed in reverse ladder order at the end of the preceding week of games.
II. Errors - taking a player that is not eligible (on someone else’s list)
Given every choice is not thoroughly checked at the time of processing, there may be times when a player is named who isn’t on the free agent list but on someone else’s list. The pick will be forfeited. At the end of the draft, if you still have some ‘Ins’ on your list that haven’t been taken by anyone else, then that player is assigned as the replacement.
This occurred in Round 11 2021 when Neela accidentally chose Meek who was on Dunlop’s list. After everyone had taken their pick, Neela’s ins were:
Lloyd Meek
Ned Reeves
Michael Owies
Tom Williamson
Jake Aarts
The Meek pick was forfeited. Reeves was already taken. Owies was already processed as Neela’s pick. Given he still had nominated Williamson and no one else took him, he was allowed to take that player in the place of Meek.
| FREE AGENT ORDER | IN | OUT |
|---|---|---|
| Screw Flanders 2.0 (Awesome Scotty) | Forfeited (Meek already owned) | |
| Pimpinio Tigers (wimmera1) | Pass | |
| Knights of Columbus (Crazy Bomber) | Jake Aarts | Ben Brown |
| Mildura Crunchas (The_Mad_Bomber1) | Pass | |
| Stop! Hammertown (You Shall Be Smoten) | Pass | |
| Excitement Machines (Stoops) | Pass | |
| Windy Dill FC (Windy_Dill) | Pass | |
| Sunbury Seagulls (Dunlop) | Pass | |
| Bomber Pride (Blummers) | No Picks | |
| Trust The Process (wezza) | Will Martyn | Rhyan Mansell |
| Mymidons (Alber_Goodthur) | Ryan Clarke | Aiden Corr |
| Screw Flanders 2.0 (Awesome Scotty) | Michael Owies | Will Gould |
| Screw Flanders 2.0 (Awesome Scotty) | Tom Williamson | Luke Parks |
III. Weekly Signing Deadline
For each round, players must be signed by the start of the first game of that round.
Teams that fail to do this will be automatically prevented by AFL Fantasy from naming that player for the round.
IV. Pass vs No Pick
It’s just a terminology I use to identify the difference between providing pickups and running out of selections.
Pass means that you chose not to partake in FA pickups at all.
No pick means you did partake, but you ran out of players on your list to pick up.