FSYFL CHANGES FOR 2015 SEASON
1. Weight and Age changes – With the large demand of youth football clubs moving to a grade based unlimited
weight player format the FSYFL will continue to format their ages and weights to help satisfy both POP
Warner/Independent leagues and the Unlimited programs. The following changes will be made for 2015
season:
a. Both of the sub ages of each division will now become unlimited
b. The weight of 14 year olds on the JV division will be increased to 200lbs
c. 16 year olds will now be added to the Varsity division
New 2015 Ages and Weights
Tiny-Mite
5 & 6yrs both unlimited 7yrs <75 lbs
Mitey-Mite
7 & 8yrs both unlimited, 9yrs <85 lbs
Pee Wee
9 & 10yrs both unlimited, 11yrs <95 lbs
Super Midget
10 & 11yrs both unlimited, 12yrs <115 lbs
Midget
11 & 12 yrs both unlimited, 13yrs <130 lbs
JR Varsity
12 & 13yrs both unlimited 14yrs <200 lbs
Varsity
14, 15 and 16yrs, All Unlimited weight
2. Division 1 and 2 tournament changes (IMPORTANT) – Due to the multiple difficulties that the FSYFL faced in
2014 with the D1/D2 issues a decision has been made to reduce our interference in determining a team D1 or
D2 status. The FSYFL’s mission is “to facilitate a tournament, that is coach and player focused, minimizing
paperwork and bureaucratic interference, and providing all teams with equal and fair opportunity with an
emphasis on multiple benefits, to allow for a fun centered and exciting tournament” With this in mind, while
there is no pure science the FSYFL leadership has come to the conclusion that in general coaches will make the
correct D1/D2 determinations for the most part. We agree the risk may still arise that a D1 quality team may
enter the D2 tournament “just to win a state trophy” but 2014 proved it does not help when we interject
ourselves into the situation and try and manually balance the process. If a coach takes this route deliberately
they will have a boring season of uncompetitive games and likely regret their decision.
The FSYFL will provide 2 tournaments with the exact same outcomes and coaches will make their own decisions
and the following New D1/D2 tournament guidelines will now apply:
a. D1 = Competitive (all divisions) D2 = Developmental (Mitey Mite through JV divisions only). The FSYFL
will make an effort to outline this clearly in the team sales process and discourage coaches away from a
“play for the trophy approach”
b. Teams/Coaches will decide themselves which tournament to enter. (The FSYFL reserves the right
however based on historical team knowledge to at times disallow certain D1 teams from entering the D2
tournament, however these interjections will be limited and discussed with the individual
coaches/clubs)
c. There will be a State Championship for ALL age divisions for BOTH the D1 and D2 tournaments.
d. Teams will remain in their D1/D2 tournament category to the end. There will no longer be a recategorization process at the playoffs. Once a team has elected to play in D1 or D2 they will remain in
that tournament for the regular season and the playoffs.
e. The FSYFL principle for the regular season schedule will be D1 teams play D1 teams and D2 play D2.
Should the amount of teams participating in a given age division not make this possible then the FSYFL
schedule will ensure that ALL teams in that specific age division have the exact same amount of “out of
division” regular season games.
f. All teams 6 regular season games will now count to their records for playoff seeding purposes.
g. The FSYFL will also provide a D3 post season opportunity for the weaker D2 teams. Teams will be asked
if they want to drop out of the D2 playoffs and participate in the D3 district based bowl tournament
where there will be a D3 bowl trophy opportunity. (This decision will be voluntary, and the remainder of
the D2 teams will play in the regular D2 playoffs)
3. FSYFL Pricing Increase – Due to the increasing costs of many items necessary to run a successful tournament we
are forced to increase our prices for the 2015 season. We have maintained the same pricing levels for the past 2
years and we can no longer sustain this for a 3rd year.
New prices for 2015 Season will be as follows:
a. Teams using their OWN jersey = $130 per player
b. Teams using FSYFL jerseys = $145 per player
As a reminder the FSYFL offers a pre season “Buy 2 Get 1 Free” program that operates from July 1 st through Sept
30th, that helps teams with fund raising, scholarships or overall discount opportunities.
4. Printing hard cards through the team management console system – To continually improve the FSYFL’s
attempts to monitor legal ages and reduce the ability of teams to transfer player hard cards to other file folders
and divisions all hard cards will now be printed through the Team Management Console. This will also save time
for coaches to create their file folders.
a. Cards will print with a unique player ID code to help the FSYFL track players by division
b. A transparent color coded watercolor division identifier will print on the hard card. This will help to stop
teams transferring players from one division to another.
c. Coaches will have the capability to electronically upload player photographs to be printed on the hard
cards.
5. Adding Players to teams – To assist coaches with scouting and game planning the FSYFL has reduced the
number of in season weeks that teams can add players to their teams after the season has started. The last date
for adding players to teams has been brought forward one week from the week 4 games to the week 3 games.
6. Hard Card Game day check coding – To assist the FSYFL in calculating the # of games a player has played, and
also help coaches with scouting and game planning the FSYFL will categorize players game day attendance on
their hard cards with a more accurate coding system.
a. GP = player actually played in game
b. IR = player is on injured reserve, checked in for the game but did not play.
c. N# = player did not bring their jersey
d. NS = player did not show up to game check in
7. Minimum # of regular season games for players to qualify for Playoffs – A player must have a minimum of 3
“GP” and/or “IR” stamps to qualify for the playoffs, and a minimum of 2 of those stamps must be a “GP”. In the
event a player does not have the required number of stamps due to an injury that was the result of an early
season FSYFL game, but is able to return for the playoffs the coach can apply for a “waiver”. If granted all other
teams in that team’s playoff age group will be informed of this waiver.
8. Game Jersey numbers – To assist coaches with their scouting and game planning the FSYFL will now require
players to play in the same jersey number from the 3 rd week of games until the end of their season.
We look forward to seeing you in 2015!!