NFL Challenge

Introduction

Welcome to the NFL Challenge!!!

Have you ever wanted to be the General Manager of your own NFL football team? Now is your chance! Choose your own NFL team and use you 133 million (133,000,000) dollar cap space and create your Super Bowl winning team. It's up to you to choose your team: big and tough or small and speedy? Stay within your budget and bring your city a Lombardi Trophy. This game is perfect for Football Fanatics and Welker Wannabes.

Task

As a GM of your team you will be able to create and choose your own team. You're given 133 million dollars to select your Lombardi winning team. First, choose your NFL team from the 32 options to your bottom.

Next select 2QBs,3HBs,4TEs,4Gs,6WRs,2Cs,2FBs,4Ts,4DEs,5LBs,3CBs,2SS,5Ts,1K,1P. Use the link below for players.( see glossary in credits for meanings) http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/

Process

1. Pick one of the 32 teams.

2. Using the table below fill in your 37 players to make your team. Remember you won't be able to fill your team with ALL the superstars because of the salary cap.(You can take players from any team) Link : http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/

3. The next step is to research the Arena your team will be playing in. Link: http://goo.gl/40Onc6

4. Now you must determine ticket prices, parking revenues here : http://goo.gl/N46tg4

5. Next, calculate expenses to see if you were successful and stayed beneath your salary cap.

NFL Webquest

Name: ________________________

Team Name:________________________

POSITIONS	PLAYER'S NAME:	SALARY
QB
QB
HB
HB
HB
TE
TE
TE
TE
G
G
G
G
WR
WR
WR
WR
WR
WR
DE
DE
DE
DE
C
C
FB
FB
OFT
OFT
OFT
OFT
LB
LB
LB
LB
CB
CB

SEATING AND TICKET PRICES

AVERAGE TICKET PRICE
# OF SEATS

TOTAL TICKET REVENUE: $_____________________________

PARKING (REVENUE)

PARKING	CARS & BUSES
CAPACITY
PRICE

TOTAL PARKING REVENUE : $_________________________

EXPENSES VS. REVENUE

EXPENSES	REVENUE	TOTAL:
PLAYER SALARY $	PARKING $____ X 17 GAMES
	TICKET SALES $_____ X 17 GAMES
$________________	$_________________	$_______________

TO COMPLETE YOUR BUDGET, SUBTRACT YOUR EXPENSES FROM YOUR REVENUE (BASED ON A FULL 17 GAME SEASON). FILL IN THE TOTAL. (EITHER POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE IN THE AREA MARKED 'TOTAL')

Evaluation

	Beginning 1	Developing 2	Qualified 3	Exemplary 4	Score
Roster	Roster is incomplete or not done according to guidelines.	Roster is missing one or more key components (Salary/Player Name/Salary Cap exceded).	Roster is missing one key component. (Salary/Player Name/Salary Cap exceded)	Roster is complete and all of the key components are present and accurate.	/4
Revenue	Students have not calculated their team revenue.	Students have missed one or more key components in their calculations (Ticket Sales or Parking Revenues).	Students have missed one key component in their calculations. (Ticket sales or Parking Revenues)	Students have correctly calculated all of their team's revenues.	/4
Expenses	Students have not calculated expenses.	Students have calculated expenses inaccurately or have purposely not counted in order to stay under the cap.	Students have calculated expenses inaccurately (Ex:// Missed one player's expenses)	Students have correctly calculated all expenses related to their team.	/4
Reflection Questions	Students have not answered their reflective questions.	Students have inaccurately answered or skipped one or more of the reflection questions.	Students have given a brief response to the reflection questions with little detail.	Students have given a thorough and detailed response to the reflection questions.	/4
Overall	Students did not complete the assignment.	Students have completed the assignment but many errors are present.	Students have attempted the assignment but their team not profitable.	Students have successfully created a team that is profitable.	/4
FINAL GRADE					/20

Conclusion

After your calculations, determine whether or not you made your money back at the end of the year. Judging from last year's stats, how will your team do? Will they bring home the Lombardi trophy? Or will you be sitting on the couch watching the playoffs? Answer these questions on the back of the evaluation worksheet.

Credits

Glosssary :

QB: QuaterBack

HB: HalfBack

TE: TightEnd

G: Guards

WR: WideReciever

C: Center

FB: FullBack

T: Tackle

DE: DefensiveEnd

LB: LineBacker

CB: CornerBack

SS: StrongSafety

K: Kicker

P: Punter

Teacher Page

Teacher Introduction

For this assignment students will be playing the role of a General Manager of an NFL football team. Their goal is to form a team that does not surpass the salary cap and then determine revenues based on ticket and parking sales.

This assignment has been developed for use in a Grade Ten Economics class but could be useful in other Business or English classes as well.

Students will be working collaboratively in groups and only one submission is required per group. Teachers can determine group size (ideally not bigger than four)