5 Things The FCF Needs To Fix Before Season 2

By: Sauce

After a strong start to its presumably large lifespan in the upcoming years, the FCF is heading into its first offseason, something no startup american football league has done in recent years. With that comes the question of how, and if, the FCF can make it’s product better for the Fall. 

​1. Refining their Website:
​The biggest problem that I have noticed people having with the FCF is their poorly designed website. The website lacked a lot of crucial information early on such as box scores after games, but many things were added in the middle of the season. At the same time, there is still room for improvement as the box

scores look anything but clean on the website and there is still a lot of useful information that could be put on the website in easily accessible places.

2. Rules for Powerups:
On a direct segway to the next fix, the FCF really needs to iron out the rules for the on field powerups. In the People’s Championship, the chat was full of people misrepresenting what I thought were the correct rules for the Flip the Field power-up (There needs to have been a turnover and it needs to happen at the start of a possession), but even I’m not sure if I am right. The FCF needs to iron these rules out and put them on their website in an accessible fashion in order for fans to really understand what is going on on the field, and why they can’t use their power-ups.

3. Uniforms:
In my opinion, the FCF uniforms should be one thing that fans don’t vote for, or at least don’t influence so heavily to the point that reading the name of the team on the jersey is the only way to decipher the teams. The Aces and Glacier Boyz have extremely similar uniforms, with the Aces wearing slightly darker shades. From my understanding, teams’ uniforms were selected individually by the fans, and the league simply didn’t realize what problems they would cause. In the end, this was just poor foresight, and not a huge issue, but it is definitely something that could use a fix.

4. Drafting Offensive Linemen and Defensive Players:
One of the big structural issues in the rules of the FCF are that fans draft a new team every week, with one new keeper every week of the season. This sounds great in theory, but with half the roster changing up every week, it can become problematic for team identity. One way to fix that is to allow teams to have a one time draft for defensive players only in order to decide what defensive unit a team will be playing with all season. This would limit the final roster changeup to about 1/4th right before the playoffs. Another draft to add would be Offensive Line, which would make the final changeup just 1/8th of the total roster. This would allow for teams to build a team their way, but still be constrained by basic roster rules, similar to the NFL. Seeing as this league is trying to give fans a chance to be a GM and emulate that experience, this seems like the best way to do it.

5. Franchise Players:
If 1/4th roster changeup with an Offensive Line and Defensive draft is desired, reducing the number of overall keepers, or Franchise players, teams can have, would be an option. In addition to that, the league needs to consider not starting with any keepers and choosing keepers from the roster after week 1 in order to keep things fair between the original teams and the expansion teams. Otherwise, we would be looking at Deondre Francois and Andrew Jamiel matching up against James Harden and Braden Smith.