Blazers Dynasty League

1. §1.1
   The length of the regular season will be 14 weeks.
2. §1.2
   Weekly league games will be played head-to-head against opposing franchises.
3. §1.3
   The league will consist of two divisions.
4. §1.4
   Each franchise will play each division rival twice, and opposing division foes once, except as provided in section 1.5. WordingCross-reference added; no meaning change (1.5 has modified this rule since 2021).
5. §1.5
   Effective the 2021 season with the expanded NFL and BDL schedules, each franchise will play one (1) opposing division foe twice. This matchup will take place in the first week of the season and will feature franchises from opposing divisions that finished in the same place within their division the previous season.
6. §1.6
   Regular season tie games will be scored as ties.
7. §1.7
   The League Office will consist of one League Commissioner and one Vice Commissioner.
8. §1.8
   If requested by owners in the league, a new Commissioner and Vice Commissioner will be appointed each season by informal general acclamation.
9. §1.9
   The League Office is responsible for conducting league business, arbitrating league disputes, and conducting drafts and auctions. WordingWas “The League Commissioners” — unified to the term defined in 1.7.
10. §1.10
    Rule changes can only be made through a league-wide vote.
11. §1.11
    League off-season votes require a minimum of 7 franchises to participate, and require at least 51% of the votes to pass. Wording“Owners” → “franchises” — see 1.18.
12. §1.12
    League in-season votes require a minimum of 7 franchises to participate, and require at least 75% of the votes to pass. Wording“Owners” → “franchises” — see 1.18.
13. §1.13
    Votes will normally be conducted by the polls on BDL2K.com. If a vote is conducted outside of BDL2K.com (e.g. Owners Meeting), the results must be documented on the site directly afterwards.
14. §1.14
    In-season votes are due within 5 days of poll creation. Off-season votes are due within 2 weeks.
15. §1.15
    The off-season runs from the day after the BDL Championship until the roster cut-down date (5.3). All other times are in-season. This definition governs the entire charter, including vote thresholds. ClarificationPreviously defined only for roster purposes (5.2) — the boundary between the 51% and 75% vote thresholds was undefined.
16. §1.16
    Polls with more than two options are decided by plurality among polls meeting quorum. A tie preserves the status quo; where no status quo exists, the tied options proceed to a runoff poll. New ruleMulti-option polls never fit the 51%/75% framework — a 2016 poll tied 4–4 with no defined outcome.
17. §1.17
    A poll that closes below quorum is void and preserves the status quo. It may be re-posted once. New ruleSub-quorum polls previously had no defined outcome (a 2017 poll passed 6–0 below quorum, then needed a do-over vote in 2018).
18. §1.18
    Each franchise casts one vote regardless of its number of co-owners. Clarification2.2 allows co-owners; the vote rules counted “owners” — a two-owner franchise could have claimed two votes.
19. §1.19
    The charter at charter.bdl2k.com is the authoritative text of these rules. Every binding league decision must be reflected there within 14 days, citing the vote that produced it. New ruleMFL purges message board history, so the prior documentation mechanism (1.13) was ephemeral — which is how this charter drifted out of date in the first place.
20. §1.20
    Any situation not covered by this charter is resolved by league poll under 1.11–1.17. The status quo, or the result as played, stands unless the poll passes. New ruleThe disputes that actually burn commissioners — scoring discrepancies, platform glitches — previously had no default procedure.

1. §2.1
   The cost to own a franchise and its draft picks is $150.00 plus league fees per season.
2. §2.2
   An owner may only own one franchise. Co-Owners are allowed.
3. §2.3
   Absent extreme circumstances, such as a medical emergency, no refunds of league fees will be given out. Paying league fees implies a commitment to run the franchise for the full season.
4. §2.4
   Payments can be made by PayPal or Venmo to a designated member of the League Office. WordingWas “front office,” a term defined nowhere; the League Office is defined in 1.7.
5. §2.5
   Payout of the prize pool — all franchise dues net of site hosting costs — will be 65% to 1st, 25% to 2nd, 10% to 3rd. ClarificationThe percentages previously referenced an undefined pot.

1. §3.1
   Bones are the official currency of the BDL.
2. §3.2
   Bones may only be transferred among BDL owners in exchange for players or draft picks. No betting of Bones is allowed.
3. §3.3
   Bones not used during the season are carried over to the following season.
4. §3.4
   Each franchise will be awarded 100 Bones in the initial year of the franchise and 75 Bones each successive season.
5. §3.5
   A franchise’s Bones balance may not go below zero. Obligations a franchise cannot pay are deducted from its next season’s allotment, and a franchise with zero Bones may not acquire players. New ruleFines and fees could previously drive a balance negative with no defined consequence.
6. §3.6
   Bones paid as fees or fines are removed from circulation. ClarificationWhere fines and drop fees “go” was previously implicit.
7. §3.7
   All Bones amounts are whole numbers; any amount derived from a calculation (e.g. 9.8) rounds up to the nearest whole Bone. ClarificationThe Franchise Player formula could previously produce half-Bones (a 23-Bone high bid → 1.5 Bones).

1. §4.1
   The BDL rookie draft begins the first Thursday in June unless changed by off-season vote. The draft will last 3 rounds, and will be linear (non-snake). ClarificationRestores the date anchor unintentionally deleted when the 2022 amendment replaced old 8.4 (was “a date agreed upon by the owners,” with no agreement mechanism).
2. §4.2
   Draft order is determined by finish, worst first: picks 1–4 to the non-playoff franchises in reverse order of the ranking system in section 10.6; picks 5–6 to the wildcard-round losers in reverse order of 10.6; pick 7 to the third-place game loser; pick 8 to the third-place game winner; pick 9 to the runner-up; pick 10 to the champion. ClarificationThe full 1–10 mapping previously had to be derived from “determined by playoff finish” each May.
3. §4.3
   Trading of draft selections is permitted before or during the draft. Franchises may trade picks from the current draft and the next immediate future draft only. The trade window for a draft year’s picks opens the day after the preceding rookie draft concludes. ClarificationThe moment “current” rolls over was undefined — the most common dynasty-league dispute genre.
4. §4.4
   The draft will be conducted online at BDL2K.com via the slow rookie draft format. Each owner has 24 hours per pick and will receive automated email notification when they are on the clock.

1. §5.1
   Each franchise will maintain an in-season active roster with a maximum of 25 players and a minimum of 20.
2. §5.2
   During the off-season (1.15) there will be no roster size limitation. WordingThe off-season definition moved to 1.15 so it governs the whole charter.
3. §5.3
   The cut down date for rosters will be 5 days before the first NFL game, at 9 p.m. ET, to consist of at most 25 active players and 3 IR players. WordingWas “EST” — literally off by an hour during daylight time, here and in 8.3.
4. §5.4
   On cut down day, each owner must post contract years for their entire roster, meeting the contract cap defined in section 6.1. Additionally, each franchise is responsible for matching their roster to the post. In case of discrepancy between the post and the MFL site data, the posted contract years govern. ClarificationWhich source wins on a mismatch was previously unstated.
5. §5.5
   If a franchise does not meet these deadlines or the roster does not meet BDL guidelines, said franchise will be docked one (1) Bone per day, beginning the day the violation is identified by the League Office or by any owner posting it to the league site, until the tasks are completed and within the rules. ClarificationWas “upon notification,” with no notifier defined — an unnoticed violation arguably cost nothing.
6. §5.6
   For a player to be eligible for Injured Reserve they must be designated Doubtful, Out, or IR on the MFL site.
7. §5.7
   Once per season, each franchise may optionally activate a player off of IR (IRDR). A player is eligible to return after having served at least 6 in-season weeks on IR, cumulative across franchises if traded. The once-per-season IRDR belongs to the franchise, not the player. Clarification“A team’s IR” left both questions open for traded players.
8. §5.8
   Players on IR count towards the contract year cap. No IR players may be dropped, but players may be traded to another franchise as long as all roster requirements are upheld. Wording“Traded with” → “traded to.”
9. §5.9
   A player on IR who no longer carries a qualifying designation (5.6) must be activated — or the roster otherwise made compliant — within 7 days of losing the designation. The penalty in 5.5 applies thereafter. New ruleNothing previously forced a healthy player off IR — combined with “no IR players may be dropped,” IR was a free roster spot.

1. §6.1
   Each franchise has a contract cap of 50 years per season, which cannot be exceeded. The cap applies continuously, including in-season: an acquisition that would exceed it may only be signed for the years remaining under the cap (minimum 1). ClarificationWhether the cap was checked only at cut-down or year-round was unstated.
2. §6.2
   A player contract is the number of years that the player can remain on your roster before becoming a Restricted Free Agent.
3. §6.3
   When a player is released the franchise will be charged 5 Bones for every year left on the player’s contract past one, counting the current season as a year left until the BDL Championship (6.4). For example, a player with 3 years left would cost 10 Bones to release. A player with one year left can be dropped with no charge to the franchise. ClarificationWhether the in-progress season counts as a “year left” was previously arguable.
4. §6.4
   Contract years conclude after the BDL Championship.

1. §7.1
   Trades will be conducted exclusively through the website. Any owner may create a poll questioning the legitimacy of a trade; the challenge poll must be created within 48 hours of the trade executing, and closes 48 hours after creation, notwithstanding 1.14. The trade stands while the poll runs. If 7 of the 10 franchises vote against the trade it will be overturned; this threshold operates outside 1.11–1.12. New ruleThe 48-hour windows are new — previously a trade could be challenged and overturned weeks later, after lineups and waivers had built on top of it. The 7-vote threshold is unchanged.
2. §7.2
   Any trade that does not result in both owners having compliant rosters will be overturned. Rosters must be compliant within 24 hours of trade execution or before that week’s first lineup lock, whichever is sooner. During the off-season, compliance means the contract cap (6.1) only. ClarificationWas “automatically overturned” with no assessment moment — read literally, every in-season 2-for-1 trade was void on arrival.
3. §7.3
   The trading deadline is one half hour before the start of the Week 14 NFL games. ClarificationRatifies Week 14: the recorded 2019 vote (9–0) said Week 13; the move to 14 accompanied the 2021 schedule expansion (1.5) but was never voted.
4. §7.4
   Every player traded carries his contract years with him.
5. §7.5
   Trading resumes after the Championship Game.
6. §7.6
   Owners are prohibited from trading any RFA-eligible player (a player with 0 contract years remaining). Exception: an owner may trade their Franchise Tag, but in doing so forfeits their tag for that year. The prohibition lifts for a given player when he receives new contract years (9.9). AmendedAdopted by league vote, May 2021 (6–1); effective the 2022 off-season. ClarificationWhen the ban lifts was unstated — see the unsold-RFA fix in 9.6.

1. §8.1
   Any player not on a roster is considered an Unrestricted Free Agent (UFA).
2. §8.2
   When a player is dropped from a roster during an active waiver period, that player is locked from Free Agency until the following waiver period. A player dropped while no waiver period is active is locked until the first blind-bid processing that follows the drop. ClarificationWhat “the following waiver period” means for off-season drops was unstated.
3. §8.3
   Blind bidding begins Tuesdays at 8am ET and bids are processed Thursday at 12pm ET. WordingWas “EST” (see 5.3).
4. §8.4
   Pre-Season UFA will open on the Tuesday before the first Thursday in August and run in accordance with section 8.3 (bids can be submitted starting Tuesday at 8am & MFL will process waivers Thursday at 12pm). AmendedBy league vote, May 2022 (7–3) — replacing the prior rule under which UFA opened one week before the NFL Draft and ran monthly until the rookie draft.
5. §8.5
   The minimum UFA bid is one Bone. Bids must be in whole number increments.
6. §8.6
   In-season UFA weekly process will be conducted in 2 steps: a blind auction and then first come first serve pickups.
7. §8.7
   In-season blind bidding ties will be determined using the tie-breaking criteria in section 10.6 — where the lower “seed” is awarded the player. Off-season ties will use that year’s original draft order as the initial waiver order, and when an owner wins a tie they then move to the bottom of the order while all other owners move up a position in the order. The League Office maintains the current off-season waiver order on the league site. ClarificationThe rotating order previously had no keeper of record.
8. §8.8
   Blind Bid FA pickups must be signed to a contract before the kickoff of that player’s game by message board post. If contract years are not assigned by kickoff of that player’s game, the FA will default to a 1 year contract. For a player whose NFL team has no remaining game that week (bye, or already played), the deadline is the final kickoff of that NFL week. ClarificationA bye-week pickup previously had no deadline at all — “kickoff of that player’s game” never arrives.
9. §8.9
   Immediately after blind bid waivers have processed in-season there will be a First Come First Serve (FCFS) free agent period, during which any free agent may be acquired for 1 Bone, until kickoff of their NFL team’s game — or, for players with no remaining game that week, the final kickoff of that NFL week (8.8). Players acquired via FCFS will be assigned a mandatory 1 year contract. ClarificationSame bye-week fix as 8.8.
10. §8.10
    In-season blind bid waivers continue through the BDL playoffs, ending at the conclusion of the BDL Semifinals (Week 16). AmendedAdopted by league votes, 2016: extend waivers through the playoffs (9–1); end at the conclusion of NFL Week 16 — then the Semifinals — (8–0). ClarificationResolves the post-2021 week-numbering question in favor of the Semifinals round, matching the 2016 votes’ evident intent.

1. §9.1
   Once a player’s contract expires he becomes a Restricted Free Agent (RFA).
2. §9.2
   RFAs will be auctioned off via owner nomination, proceeding in reverse order of that year’s draft. This auction will occur at a time agreed upon by the owners.
3. §9.3
   Owners may nominate any player eligible for RFA even if they own the rights to that player, provided they have the Bones available to pay the minimum bid to nominate. The minimum nomination bid for a non-franchised RFA is 1 Bone. ClarificationThe ordinary RFA minimum was never stated; only the franchised-player minimum (9.8) existed.
4. §9.4
   After a player has been nominated, franchises cannot bid on their own player. Once bidding is finished, the RFA owner has the option to match the highest bid.
5. §9.5
   Owners are allowed to raise their own bid on another team’s RFA. Once bidding concludes and the highest bidder is determined, that bidder has the opportunity to increase his bid one final time if he so chooses.
6. §9.6
   After the RFA signing period, any players that did not receive bids will remain on the current franchise’s roster at no cost, and receive a contract (minimum 1 year) at the following cut-down posting (5.4), within the contract cap. ClarificationUnsold RFAs previously received no contract years anywhere in the charter — leaving them permanently expired and, under 7.6, untradeable forever.
7. §9.7
   Each year an owner may designate 1 player whose contract has expired to be his Franchise Player before the RFA auction. Cost to designate a franchise player is 10 Bones, which is refundable if the franchise loses that player in RFA. This designation is due 5 days prior to the RFA Event via message board post.
8. §9.8
   The minimum bid on another owner’s Franchised Player is 22 Bones. The original owner’s total cost to retain him is half the high bid, of which the initial 10 Bones designation fee counts as already paid (the 10 Bones is the equivalent of a 20 Bones bid). Example: high bid 30 Bones → total cost 15, minus 10 already paid → 5 additional Bones. Amounts round per 3.7. WordingRestated as a formula. The prior text was mathematically correct but nearly unreadable — both of its phrasings converge on the same number.
9. §9.9
   Players acquired, matched, or retained through the RFA auction are signed to contract years at the following cut-down posting (5.4), within the contract cap. ClarificationThe auction set a price, but nothing said what contract followed, or when.
10. §9.10
    The RFA auction concludes when every franchise has consecutively declined to nominate. Clarification“The RFA signing period” was referenced (9.6) but never defined. This codifies the presumed practice — correct it if actual practice differs.

1. §10.1
   Playoffs begin on Week 15 of the NFL season. The playoffs conclude on Week 17 with the BDL Championship Game. NFL Week 18 is outside the BDL season; no lineups are played. ClarificationThe Week 18 exclusion has been true since 2021 but was never stated.
2. §10.2
   Six franchises advance to the post-season: two division winners and four wildcard franchises.
3. §10.3
   Week 15 will consist of the wildcard games; seeds 1 & 2 receive a bye.
4. §10.4
   Week 16 will be the Semifinals. The bracket will be re-seeded to have the highest seed face the lowest seed.
5. §10.5
   The losers from Week 16 will play for the third place payout in Week 17. WordingWas “will face to find a winner”; Week 17 timing made explicit.
6. §10.6
   The BDL tie-breaking system for playoff qualification, seeding, and playoff tie games is as follows: First Criteria — Regular season winning percentage
   Second Criteria — Most points for season
   Third Criteria — Head to head (2 franchises only)
   Fourth Criteria — Virtual Coin Toss For ties of 3 or more franchises, head-to-head is skipped, and the virtual coin toss is conducted by the League Office using a publicly verifiable method, with results posted to the site. ClarificationNo multi-team tie procedure previously existed, and the coin toss had no conductor or venue.
7. §10.7
   The four franchises not involved in the BDL Playoffs will be ranked and join the Ultimate Losers Bracket based on their regular season final position, with 7th seeded highest and 10th lowest. In Week 15, the 7-seed plays the 10-seed and the 8-seed plays the 9-seed; the losers meet in Week 16, and the loser of that game is the Ultimate Loser. The Ultimate Loser will be responsible for etching the new champion’s name into the BDL trophy and ensuring the finished piece is in the champion’s hands prior to the next season’s RFA event. New rulePairings and schedule were previously unstated (“head to head matches will ensue”) — for the bracket most likely to be litigated by sore losers. Correct the proposed bracket if actual practice differs.
8. §10.8
   The BDL RFA Live Event will utilize the prior year’s finishing position to prioritize room assignment — with the reigning champion getting first selection.

1. §11.1
   Each franchise starts 9 players: 1 Quarterback, 2 Running Backs, 2 Wide Receivers, 1 Tight End, two flex (RB/WR/TE), and one superflex (QB/RB/WR/TE). On the MFL site this is encoded as position limits: QB 1–2, RB 2–5, WR 2–5, TE 1–4. AmendedA superflex starting spot was added by league vote, 2023 (7–0), effective 2025. ClarificationThe prior min/max lists (RB max 4, WR max 4, TE max 3) predated the flex spots and no longer matched the site settings.
2. §11.2
   Franchises must start 9 players per week. Owners will be penalized 2 Bones per invalid lineup slot, assessed weekly, for a slot with a player on bye or an empty starter position. ClarificationWas “per infraction” — ambiguous between per-slot and per-week (three bye starters: 2 Bones or 6?). Per-slot is proposed.
3. §11.3
   Franchises cannot start a player on bye.
4. §11.4
   The detailed scoring system is in the Rules section of BDL2K.com.
5. §11.5
   A player officially ruled Out before his lineup lock counts as an invalid lineup slot under 11.2. Unexpected late scratches and players ruled out after lock are not penalized. New ruleFormalizes the November 2025 commissioner guidance (12.2) with the same 2-Bone penalty — previously starting an Out player carried no penalty at all.
6. §11.6
   Lineups lock at each player’s kickoff per the MFL site. No retroactive lineup changes are permitted regardless of circumstance. New ruleThe classic “submitted one minute late” dispute previously had no charter basis either way.
7. §11.7
   Scoring follows MFL’s final stat corrections as of Wednesday 9am ET each week. Disputes beyond that are resolved under 1.20. New ruleStat-correction and mis-scoring disputes previously had no defined endpoint.

Player-specific and one-off precedents that do not change the rules above but are binding league decisions. Sourced from polls and commissioner statements; maintained as part of charter reconciliation.

1. §12.1
   Taysom Hill is TE-eligible. RulingLeague vote, September 2024 (8–1).
2. §12.2
   Starting inactive (Out/injured) players to tank is against league expectations; owners must field active players weekly, with allowances for unexpected late scratches. RulingCommissioner statement, November 2025 — originally guidance only with no penalty attached. WordingNow enforced via 11.5 if this revision is ratified.