Prospective UWFFL Expansion Teams / Concepts

Rob Holecko wrote:I decided to go ahead and open up this thread.  It will be open ended for now with no specific deadline, but we may open and close at various times due to amount of submissions that are received.

There will be further details released later, but for now we will be accepting submissions for possible Fall 2021 expansion.  However, teams and concepts may be randomly offered early inclusion into the accelerated 2016-2020 seasons that will be simulated in the coming months.

Feel free to post teams names, uniforms, wordmarks or any other details that you would like.  UWFFL teams may be in any geographic location in the USA or Canada.

Rob Holecko wrote:That is a good question... The site has the current "teams" as they were in 2015, but there are a few changes that won't be indicated anywhere yet.   But for the most part we will be more lenient than the GSL and allow more than one team in a city although we would discourage it.  For instance we had 2 teams in Brooklyn, and that worked out fine.

I will put out a list of all existing franchises soon.  There are also existing franchises than have been abandoned that are available to take over.

To go ahead and give a little more info, the main part of the UWFFL is made up of a 12 team Premier league and 4 geographically arranged Division II divisions.   Expansion teams will begin play in a Division II league.  There is yearly Promotion and Relegation between the Premier league and the Division II.

Owners may only have one team in a particular Division II league at a time, however an owner may have multiple teams that earn their way into Premier League.  For instance Curtis may own Iowa in the Central League and another team in the Pacific Coast Conference but if Pontiac was relegated to Division II we would try to align one of his Central League teams to the Eastern Association  or Metro South, for instance, but if we were geographically unable to justify that, we may require him to relocate that franchise, swap it with another owner or some other resolution, perhaps surrender it to the league.  However if Iowa were to earn promotion into the Premier League, he could own both Iowa and Pontiac in the Premier league just fine.

We try to keep continuity with franchises throughout ownership changes.

If we get a lot of interest, we may further limit ownership to the amount of Division II teams, or possibly expand each Division II league to 16 teams.  But for now owners may have up to 4 Division II teams.  And owners who have teams in Division II accepted under that rule will be grandfathered in, meaning if in 2022 we decide to limit owners to only 2 Division II teams across the 4 leagues, that will not apply to any existing franchises.

Also teams that finish below .500 in Division II have to requalify for the following season.  They will go into a pool with potential expansion teams for Summer qualification.

More to come.

sfcom1 wrote:This is Also A concept I was working on That might not work in the UWFFL. Possibly be used for expansion in the GSL

Rob Holecko wrote:I'm debating whether to let Vancouver & Motor City (as well as the other owners that are taking over existing franchises if they want) go ahead and enter these new looks in next week's Fall 2020 Simulation.  

The initial reason I had said for the Fall was I didn't want anyone to be encouraged to rush their designing process, but you two have these ready to go it looks like, so I say why not.  If the other new owners can go ahead and get me a home and away uniform posted here by Sunday, then I'll allow you to go ahead and enter for the Fall 2020 Simulation.  But don't rush anything, you may have the time if you need it to wait and submit your redesign for the Fall if you'd prefer.

Anybody's input is appreciated.

92Mafia wrote:I've got to ask you guys, what programs do you use to make these? Because I currently lost my free trial to illustrator so I'm wondering if I should risk pirating illustrator or if I should be using a different program.

Rob Holecko wrote:I'm debating whether to let Vancouver & Motor City (as well as the other owners that are taking over existing franchises if they want) go ahead and enter these new looks in next week's Fall 2020 Simulation.  

The initial reason I had said for the Fall was I didn't want anyone to be encouraged to rush their designing process, but you two have these ready to go it looks like, so I say why not.  If the other new owners can go ahead and get me a home and away uniform posted here by Sunday, then I'll allow you to go ahead and enter for the Fall 2020 Simulation.  But don't rush anything, you may have the time if you need it to wait and submit your redesign for the Fall if you'd prefer.

Anybody's input is appreciated.

Austin Snelick wrote:Up to you if you want to use these for 2020, or wait until 2021, but here's the Seawolves default home and away uniforms:

Home


Away

Rob Holecko wrote:

I like them.  If you're happy that that's the finished product, then I'll go ahead and consider the franchise transfer competed and Vancouver can go ahead and take the field with those for this 2020 season.