XFL

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Mr. Tibbs
XFL Player Salaries
Players earn $800 for every week of training camp that they make it through until they make the team.
After accomplishing that, salaries increase. The base salary for each player is $59,000.
There also appears to be a per-game payment of $5,000. For every win, players earn an extra $1,000.


not an easy way to make a living after you take out the cost of sharing housing in an extended living joint and breakfast/dinner. I will assume the teams pay for lunch.
 
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Ander1345
I like the kick off rule a lot, but think it could be a little more interesting if the line of scrimmage was staggered or angled across the field. Don't think you'll see nearly any big kick off returns.
 
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champaignchris
Overall, I think the extra point rules, the rules encouraging kick returns and discouraging fair catches on punts, and the rules that make late game come backs more possible add up to a game with fewer empty plays and less incentive to go into an offensive shut down during the fourth quarter.

From a strictly football-nerd standpoint, there are enough new strategic wrinkles to keep you engaged.
 
#10      
TentakilRex
Go Renegades
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#12      
champaignchris
derrick6 said:
Haha, just saw this announced today. First game I’m watching on tv. Jim Haslett is head coach.
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Zook was Haslett’s DC when Haslett was HC for the Saints.

It was a fun season. I like reasonably competent spring football.

However, either the playoff tiebreakers are inordinately complicated or the announcers tonight did a horrible job explaining them. I suspect the former since no one on the field or in the booth seemed to know Seattle had qualified for the playoffs until the very end of the game.
 
#13      
IlliniFaninHoosierLand
champaignchris said:
However, either the playoff tiebreakers are inordinately complicated or the announcers tonight did a horrible job explaining them. I suspect the former since no one on the field or in the booth seemed to know Seattle had qualified for the playoffs until the very end of the game.
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Essentially it came down to how Seattle and St. Louis were combined ranked in the XFL of points for and points allowed. Seattle was 5th in the XFL. St. Louis was 7th.
 
#14      
derrick6
champaignchris said:
Zook was Haslett’s DC when Haslett was HC for the Saints.

It was a fun season. I like reasonably competent spring football.

However, either the playoff tiebreakers are inordinately complicated or the announcers tonight did a horrible job explaining them. I suspect the former since no one on the field or in the booth seemed to know Seattle had qualified for the playoffs until the very end of the game.
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Last St Louis game from yesterday the announcers said Seattle needed to win by a certain margin. But this Seattle game they kept saying 34 points was the magic number. I don’t think they knew.

Haslett’s son was a backup qb at Illinois too.
 
#15      
Ander1345
derrick6 said:
Last St Louis game from yesterday the announcers said Seattle needed to win by a certain margin. But this Seattle game they kept saying 34 points was the magic number. I don’t think they knew.

Haslett’s son was a backup qb at Illinois too.
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It was if they gave up 34 to Vegas.

I know the tiebreaker is confusing but kinda created a lot of drama and every game in the final week had playoff implications.

Good for a league that needs all the publicity it can get.
 
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derrick6
Ander1345 said:
It was if they gave up 34 to Vegas.

I know the tiebreaker is confusing but kinda created a lot of drama and every game in the final week had playoff implications.

Good for a league that needs all the publicity it can get.
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Yeah, announcers thought it was Seattle that needed 34 and created drama around that goal 🤣
 
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