MADDEN 18 LEAGUE RULES AND GUIDELINES
All members of a PX1 Sports Madden League are required to read and know these rules. Once you have read over the rules and guidelines, please reply to this thread with some version of "Read and Agree" acknowledging you have read, understand and agree to abide by the rules laid out in this thread. To keep the thread clean and easy to navigate, any comments other than an acknowledgement and agreement to the terms will be removed.
CODE OF CONDUCT
All members of PX1 Sports leagues are expected to conduct themselves as mature adults. PX1 should be a place to meet new friends and have fun. Users are expected to play realistic simulation football and treat other members with integrity and respect. We expect all members to be open to feedback and improving their sim game.
The code of conduct extends to the forum, Discord, Twitch chat, and any other league related communications. We reserve the right to remove any member for any reason if we feel they violate the conduct we expect here at PX1.
TWITCH
All league games must be streamed on Twitch. If you do not have a Twitch account, you can sign up for a free account here.
Once you have signed up, make sure to go into your settings (wrench icon), go to "Channel & Videos" and click the box next to "automatically archive my broadcasts" and then save your changes. This is required and allows us to go back and watch games and pull the video for league related shows if need be.
ADVANCE SCHEDULE
All leagues advance on Tuesday and Thursday night at 10 PM CST and Sunday morning at 10 AM CST.
PLAYER RANKINGS
All Madden league game results between two users on PX1 Sports will be entered on the PX1 Player Rankings. When the game is complete, the winning team should go to the Rankings page on the forum and click “Submit Game Result”. Then enter the system the game was played on, your opponent’s forum username (just start typing and the name will autopopulate), the game played (Madden), game result (you won, lost or the game disconnected), your score, your opponent’s score and your rating of your opponent’s simulation gameplay principles.
Rating Guidelines
Here are the guidelines members should use when rating their opponent’s gameplay:
GAMEPLAY FEEDBACK
If you rate your opponent less than a 5 you must send them feedback on why you gave them the rating you did so that they can improve. Please be as detailed as possible so that they and the leadership group can all understand what your opponent needs to improve on. To send feedback, after the game has been confirmed (not just submitted) send a PM here on the forum to your opponent and include majesty95, pack1797 and Burns.
DISCONNECTS
If your game disconnects, we will use the following process for handling them:
Nine point lead or less in first half, replay game in full.
If there is a 10 point lead or more in first half or the game disconnects in the second half we will handle it as follows:
OWNER SANCTIONS
All sanctions and disciplinary measures will be handed out by the leagues Competition Committee. This includes broken records, statistical outliers and gameplay violations. Any sanctions handed down are able to be appealed to the league commissioner. However, the Competition Committee has unilateral control over sanctions and suspensions and any penalty handed down by them will typically be final.
USER ACTIVITY
Owners are expected to be active in the Discord chat and to check the forum at least once per day to keep up on league activity, confirm game results, etc. We are not a league to just show up and play your games. We want everyone to be active and to get to know each other and enjoy the game beyond just playing games. Owners who are inactive may face removal from the league.
All members of a PX1 Sports Madden League are required to read and know these rules. Once you have read over the rules and guidelines, please reply to this thread with some version of "Read and Agree" acknowledging you have read, understand and agree to abide by the rules laid out in this thread. To keep the thread clean and easy to navigate, any comments other than an acknowledgement and agreement to the terms will be removed.
CODE OF CONDUCT
All members of PX1 Sports leagues are expected to conduct themselves as mature adults. PX1 should be a place to meet new friends and have fun. Users are expected to play realistic simulation football and treat other members with integrity and respect. We expect all members to be open to feedback and improving their sim game.
The code of conduct extends to the forum, Discord, Twitch chat, and any other league related communications. We reserve the right to remove any member for any reason if we feel they violate the conduct we expect here at PX1.
TWITCH
All league games must be streamed on Twitch. If you do not have a Twitch account, you can sign up for a free account here.
Once you have signed up, make sure to go into your settings (wrench icon), go to "Channel & Videos" and click the box next to "automatically archive my broadcasts" and then save your changes. This is required and allows us to go back and watch games and pull the video for league related shows if need be.
ADVANCE SCHEDULE
All leagues advance on Tuesday and Thursday night at 10 PM CST and Sunday morning at 10 AM CST.
PLAYER RANKINGS
All Madden league game results between two users on PX1 Sports will be entered on the PX1 Player Rankings. When the game is complete, the winning team should go to the Rankings page on the forum and click “Submit Game Result”. Then enter the system the game was played on, your opponent’s forum username (just start typing and the name will autopopulate), the game played (Madden), game result (you won, lost or the game disconnected), your score, your opponent’s score and your rating of your opponent’s simulation gameplay principles.
Rating Guidelines
Here are the guidelines members should use when rating their opponent’s gameplay:
- 5 stars – Opponent played great sim football and adhered to all rules and guidelines. One or two minor infractions could be allowed. You generally have no complaints or they are very minor.
- 4 stars – Opponent played mostly a sim football game. Minor infractions may have been made. Possibly one known cheat or exploit used, most likely unintentionally. The game was pretty good overall but you were a little frustrated by a couple of things that your opponent did.
- 3 stars – Opponent played sim football principles but made some minor infractions and used some game exploits. A three-star rating generally indicates a player who wants to play sim but may have some bad habits or may be unknowingly using game exploits. This player needs help to clean up their game to continue playing at a league level.
- 2 stars – Opponent made some attempt to play sim football but was heavily reliant on game exploits and broke several rules or guidelines. This opponent really does not grasp the idea of sim football that we expect.
- 1 star – Opponent does not have an understanding of sim principles. Mostly game exploits were used and many rules or guidelines were broken. This is a typical lobby player who exploits AI issues over and over.
GAMEPLAY FEEDBACK
If you rate your opponent less than a 5 you must send them feedback on why you gave them the rating you did so that they can improve. Please be as detailed as possible so that they and the leadership group can all understand what your opponent needs to improve on. To send feedback, after the game has been confirmed (not just submitted) send a PM here on the forum to your opponent and include majesty95, pack1797 and Burns.
DISCONNECTS
If your game disconnects, we will use the following process for handling them:
Nine point lead or less in first half, replay game in full.
If there is a 10 point lead or more in first half or the game disconnects in the second half we will handle it as follows:
- notate the score, time remaining and who had the ball.
- Give the ball to whoever had the ball at time of disconnect (if they do not receive the kickoff, punt the ball to them and try to punt it out of bounds as close to where they had the ball as possible).
- Play the remainder of the time that was left rounding up to the nearest minute if more than three minutes remained (if under three minutes play the exact minutes and seconds that were left). For instance, if there was 4:21 second left in the third quarter, play the first quarter of the new game and then the first five minutes of the 2nd quarter (if there was 1:21 seconds remaining in the 4th, play the first 1:21 of the 1st quarter while giving them the ball as close to where there we when the game disco'd as possible).
- Take the score when you reach the time remaining in the new game (ex. 7:00 left in 2nd quarter under first example) and add that to the score at disconnect.
- If the game is tied and would go to OT, start a new game with coin toss and follow traditonal OT rules while playing to a conclusion (we cannot sim to a tie).
- Then post in the simmed win thread on the forum with the final score, users involved and brief explanation of what happened.
OWNER SANCTIONS
All sanctions and disciplinary measures will be handed out by the leagues Competition Committee. This includes broken records, statistical outliers and gameplay violations. Any sanctions handed down are able to be appealed to the league commissioner. However, the Competition Committee has unilateral control over sanctions and suspensions and any penalty handed down by them will typically be final.
USER ACTIVITY
Owners are expected to be active in the Discord chat and to check the forum at least once per day to keep up on league activity, confirm game results, etc. We are not a league to just show up and play your games. We want everyone to be active and to get to know each other and enjoy the game beyond just playing games. Owners who are inactive may face removal from the league.
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