Owner's Manual: How to Use the NJFFL Site

Welcome to the new home of the NJFFL. Here's how to use it.

1. Your first login

There is no public sign-up. The commissioner creates one account per franchise and sends you the email address and temporary password tied to your team.

1. Click Sign In in the top-right corner.
2. Enter the email and password from your credentials email (sent from notify.thenjffl.com).
3. You'll land back on the site with your team name in the header, and owner-only menu items — My Team, Trades, Players — will appear.
4. Forgot the password? Use Forgot password? on the sign-in page, or ask the commissioner to issue a fresh one.

Your account is bound to your franchise, so the site always knows which roster is yours. Don't share the login; every trade proposal and lineup change is stamped with it.

2. Setting your lineup

Head to My Team. Your roster is split into your active starters and your bench.

• Each starting slot shows the position it accepts. Click a slot, pick an eligible player from your bench, and the swap saves immediately — there's no separate "submit" button.
• Locked players (already kicked off) can't be moved.
• Bye weeks and injury designations are flagged next to the player's name so you don't start a ghost.
• Your salary cap number updates live at the top of the page, so you always know what you're carrying.

3. Proposing trades

Open Trades.

1. Pick the team you want to deal with.
2. Select the players and/or draft picks going each way. The builder shows both sides' salary cap impact before you send anything, so you can see whether the deal actually fits under the cap.
3. Add a note if you want to make your pitch, then hit Propose.
4. The other owner sees the offer in their Trades inbox and can Accept, Reject, or counter.

Accepted trades post automatically to the Transactions feed and update both rosters, cap sheets, and draft pick ledgers. The commissioner can reverse anything that violates the constitution — cap, roster limits, or the trade deadline.

Trade value on the site is powered by a dynasty valuation feed that refreshes monthly, blending consensus positional and overall rankings, plus a real pick value chart. Treat it as a sanity check, not gospel.

4. Draft night: the Live Draft Hub

The Draft page is the war room. On draft night, it's live for everyone at once — no refreshing, no group text confusion.

• Auction first. As each free agent is nominated, the winning team and price are posted to the board in real time. Nomination order runs down the published auction order, and your passes are tracked on screen.
• Then the rounds. After the auction closes, the seven-round draft runs on the published order. The board is organized round by round, with each team's helmet next to its pick.
• Transaction feed. A running ticker shows every signing and selection the moment it happens, so you always know what just came off the board.
• Your cap, always visible. Remaining cap space and roster count update after every signing, so you know exactly what you can still spend.

Bring the printed Draft Day Packet too — but the site is the official record.

5. What live scoring looks like

Once Week 1 kicks off, Scoreboard becomes the busiest page in the league.

• Every matchup updates as NFL plays happen, with each starter's live point total, game status and remaining players.
• Projected final scores sit next to live scores, so you can see whether you're actually winning or just ahead early.
• Player scoring is keyed off official NFL player IDs — no name-matching guesswork — and follows the league's scoring rules exactly as written in the constitution.
• A player on bye who was started the prior week is scored using his pre-bye per-game average, per league rule.
• Standings, Playoff Watch, and Power Rankings all recalculate off those results, so Sunday night the whole site tells the same story.

Until Week 1 results exist, League Central on the homepage shows preseason projections instead — projected standings, title odds, and tiers.

6. Free agency: FAAB or the traditional way

In-season free agency is the one piece the league still has to vote on. Both formats are supported by the site — here's what each looks like in practice.

Option A — FAAB (Free Agent Acquisition Budget)

• Every team gets an identical bid budget for the season (a dollar figure the league sets, separate from the salary cap).
• During the week, you submit blind bids on any available player. Nobody sees anyone else's bid.
• Bids process at one weekly deadline. Highest bid wins; ties break by the standard order. The winning bid is deducted from your budget, and the player's salary hits your cap.
• Advantage: the best available player goes to whoever wants him most, not to whoever happens to be 0-6.

Option B — Traditional waiver priority

• Claims process in a set order each week — typically reverse standings, with the claiming team dropping to the back of the line after a successful claim.
• No bidding. You submit a claim, and priority decides it.
• After waivers clear, remaining players are first come, first served at the standard $0.2M in-season price.
• Advantage: simple, and it protects struggling teams.

Either way, the mechanics you already see on the site stay the same: the Free Agents page separates the Auction Pool (veterans cut before the draft) from Draft Only players, shows each player's NFL team, and — when the commissioner enables it — flags Right to Match for released veterans. Salary rules don't change: auction signings carry permanent salary, while in-season $0.2M pickups clear when the player is released.

Once the league votes, this article gets updated with the exact deadline, budget and processing day.

Where everything else lives

• Standings, Historical Standings and the Record Book for the numbers.
• Hall of Champions for the rafters — every banner since 1990.
• Constitution for the rules, in full, whenever someone insists they remember it differently.
• Transactions for a complete audit trail of every move in the league.

Questions, bugs, or something that looks wrong? Message the commissioner. See you on draft night.