[Zaphod]

Everyone,

After many months of careful deliberation and consideration, I have decided to shut down the UFFP. Personally, I have reached the end of a very difficult decision. In the fall, I started an evening MBA program at IU. Due to this additional demand on my time and my family, I can no longer continue running the UFFP. I simply cannot give this league the time it deserves. Basically, it feels that I have not done justice to the league and the members that pay each year to participate. In my mind, I have such dreams for the UFFP, but I can’t spend the time or the money right now to get it to where it needs to go. I hope you can understand how hard this decision was for me, both for the league and for you, the friends I have made over these past years. It is my complete intention to bring back the UFFP once school concludes for me, but I cannot in good conscience continue at this juncture.

I truly hope we can stay in touch and continue to remain friends and that we can all be reunited in a few years.

One last wish, the UFFP admins have given so much of their time over the years on this project. If you get the chance, please let them know what their sacrifices have meant to you and the leagues. Many a night they have drafted for you, set lineups, settled disputes, put together statistical spreadsheets, filled the boards with both their humor and understanding, and much more. Those guys in particular have made this league great and I would consider myself lucky to be in any league they were a part of.

A deep and sincere thanks to each of you for all of your help in making this one of the best leagues I have ever participated in. It has always been my mantra that good owners make a good league and each of you have proven that on many occasions during the past 8 years. I want to deliver my personal thank you to all of you for your efforts and contributions. Thank you for helping make my vision a reality.


Zaphod
Akhenaton’s Revenge
(Bill)

[5Rings]

Thanks Bill--always enjoyed this league, it became the only "redraft" I played each year.

You guys that ran it are top notch, thank you for your time.

All the best

[t26treasurer]

similar league available:

The UCFFL is an 8th year, tiered league consisting of six, 12-team leagues. You start at College level (3 leagues), move to Pro level (2 leagues), and work your way to Ultimate League. Of course if you under perform, you can fall down a league too!

This league is played on Fanball's "Real Leagues" and the only $$ is to Fanball, which charges $9.95 for a two team package and 4.95 for each additional two team set. Fanball rewards the winner of each of their leagues with a free set of teams next season.

These are re-draft leagues, using an 8 hour time limit, email draft format. This years drafts are scheduled to begin at 8am (Eastern USA) on Monday August 11th, 2008. The drafts typically last around a week.

During the season, we have weekly stats and league-wide rankings.

We are in the process of organizing for this season, and we usually have a few dropouts each year (2 official openings at the time I write this).

New Teams will be given a spot in the College leagues on a first come, first serve basis. If you are a serious player and this league is for you, go to the league message board (http://ucffl.proboards52.com <http://ucffl.proboards52.com/> ), register, and post your team name in the New Players forum.

We also have a website with some info for the curious, http://ucfflrealleag...googlepages.com <http://ucfflrealleagues.googlepages.com/>

Also, here is a chart illustrating league promotion/demotion.
http://ucfflrealleag...matePyramid.pdf <http://ucfflrealleagues.googlepages.com/UltimatePyramid.pdf>