JSN CFFL AOM 2020
Started March
30, 2020 via email
Attending
owners: Darcy, Carl/Susan, Brian, JPL, JT, Rob, Marina, Matt H, Rogers, Mike,
Garts, Sabu
Non-Attending
owners: none
As the AOM
started, current Champion Chris Garton stated that he was quitting the league.
The Commissioner announced that Clay Brooks would take over his spot. Later Garts
realized that he had replied to the wrong thread and had no interest in
quitting this league and had meant to quit a different league. Garts was re-instated
and Clay was put on the list for the potential 2nd JSN CFFL.
AOM
continued:
JPL
Proposed
that to increase parity between Home/Visitor wins, the home team plays with 1 less
player and in addition the owners take turns selecting players to create their
starting lineup.
After a
brief discussion it was agreed that was too much of a hit to the home team and
would make it unfair. Also, the Commissioner went on to explain that in a
perfect world, alternating picks for a lineup would be the ideal way to do it,
but that due to time constraints and the fact that the CFL doesn’t announce
their starting lineups until 24 (or less) hours before kickoff, to monitor the
starting lineup process would be a nightmare for all involved.
Proposal
does not pass
Brian
(Brian’s
original proposal was initially misunderstood and miscommunicated to the rest
of the league by the Commissioner. Ultimately, the following was the final
draft of his proposal)
Proposed
that to increase parity between Home/Visitor wins, we change the Coach’s
scoring from 2 points for a win to 50% of the result of your coach’s game. If
you pick the winning coach, 50% of his points gets added to your score, if you
pick a losing coach 50% of the points gets deducted from your score. The 50%
amount would be rounded down when required.
A lengthy discussion
ensued with variations of the coaches score being added/deducted along with
bonus points. Ultimately the Commissioner ended up going back to the 2019
season, taking 2 random weeks (weeks 1 & 10) and put the calculations in
for all the variations. The one that had the most impact (changing the outcome
of 4 out of 12 games) was Brian’s final proposal as listed above.
Voting
results were as follows:
Brian’s
Proposal: Marina, Brian, Rogers, Mike, JPL, Rob, Carl/Susan, Matt H
Both Brian’s
& JPL’s proposal: Sabu
No Changes
at all: Jeff, Garts
Brian’s
proposal passes for immediate implementation (for a 1 year
trial)
Susan
Proposed
that the score for safeties change from 5 points to 2 points
Yes: Susan,
Rob, Garts, Mike, Rogers, JPL, Marina
No: Jeff
Abstain:
Matt H, Brian, Sabu
Proposal
passes for immediate implementation
Darcy
Did his
Commissioner’s report which involved announcing the following:
1 – Advised
that under the new financial system that had been passed in the 2019 AOM, because
the trophy has been purchased and there are 12 teams instead of 10, the league
fees will change back to $60/team, there will be no administration fees, the
Commissioner will payout everything, and will pay for the costs of engraving
the trophy out of the remainder and whatever is left goes to the Commissioner
for running the league and manually doing all the stats and maintaining the
website.
2 – Advised that
there are 2 other owners waiting to get into the league and mentioned that
there is a possibility of a 2nd JSN CFFL starting up and all owners
would be given the opportunity to join. The Commissioner will contact each
owner individually to get their feedback on their interest level of playing in another
CFFL or not.
The Commissioner
never officially closed the AOM via email so the AOM is officially closed as to
the creation date of this document which is May 5, 2020
AOM
officially closed on May 5, 2020
Post
Script June 5,2020:
Due
to the events of the Coronavirus in late February, the CFL season did not start
at its regular time, and as of early June, it is still unclear if there will be
a shortened season or no season at all. The Commissioner will put forth some options
to the owners regarding money and/or a playing format if the season is
shortened or cancelled altogether, and will do a group email