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OVERVIEW: 2024 ACL Pro Teams Structure

September 19th, 2023 Trey Ryder

ACL News + PR

This article will cover all of the details related to the 2024 ACL Pro Teams Division

Format

All ACL Pros will be drafted into 16 teams and compete head to head across the season in Teams matchups. Teams will compete in regular season series against other teams, these series can range from 3 to 7 games. The top 2 team records in each of the four regions through the regular season according to overall game record advance to the single elimination playoffs at the 2024 ACL World Championships. Unlike previous seasons, winning the overall series does not contribute towards a team's record, only the individual games matter towards record in 2024. Each game in the ACL Pro Teams season will be limited to 10 rounds in 2024.

Payout

The total payout for the 2024 ACL Pro Teams season will be determined by January 2024. 84% of the prize pool will be allocated to awarding a flat prize for every single individual game won by a team during the regular season (840 games are played total throughout the regular season). Prize money for all participating players will be pooled. The remaining 16% will be saved for the playoffs where the two third place finishing teams will win 1.5% of the prize pool each, the second place team will win 5% of the prize pool, and the World Championship team will win 8% of the prize pool. The prize money earned by each team will be equally split between all players on the roster at the end of the season.

Teams

This season, teams will be regionally affiliated and will feature a team manager, a Captain, and five additional pre-filled player positions selected by the team Captain from the previous year’s roster.

Teams will be split into two divisions, National and American. Each division is divided into two regions. The American Division will feature a North Region and a South Region. The National Division will feature a West Region and a Central Region. As mentioned above, the top two records from each region will advance to the Playoffs at the 2024 ACL World Championships.

American Division

South North

Florida Freeze New England Woodchucks

Carolina Coasters Ohio Aviators

Georgia Sliders Pennsylvania Ringers

Virginia Cutters Michigan Marauders

National Division

West Central

California Slingers Missouri Maize

Las Vegas High Rollers Chicagoland Spinners

Arizona Burn Texas Bully Baggers

Colorado Timber Kentucky Kernels

Draft

The 2024 ACL Pro Teams draft will be October 7th. The draft will be 10 rounds and will draft all Pro players. The first round of the draft will be the reverse order of the ranking of all 6 returning players via Pro Singles rankings on the roster. Following the first round, the draft will be a snake draft starting with the reverse order of the ACL Pro Teams standings from last season (Note: if a team had a player who was not able to finish out the previous season, they were assigned a ranking of 100 for the sake of calculating cumulative team rank for draft order).

1st Round Order

Virginia Cutters
Georgia Sliders
Ohio Aviators
Carolina Coasters
New England Woodchucks
Colorado Timber
Kentucky Kernels
Las Vegas High Rollers
Texas Bully Baggers
Arizona Burn
Michigan Marauders
California Slingers
Chicagoland Spinners
Missouri Maize
Pennsylvania Ringers
Florida Freeze

2nd Round Order (snake draft)

Kentucky Kernels
Georgia Sliders
Virginia Cutters
Michigan Marauders
Chicagoland Spinners
New England Woodchucks
Las Vegas High Rollers
Colorado Timber
Texas Bully Baggers
Carolina Coasters
California Slingers
Florida Freeze
Missouri Maize
Ohio Aviators
Arizona Burn
Pennsylvania Ringers

Rosters

Each team will have 16 players at the conclusion of the draft. The total roster cap for the team is 18. The remaining two roster spots may be filled by teams adding any Elite player from an affiliate state to the pro team. Teams may only have one U18 Elite player on the roster at any time. Teams can add players to their roster via the waiver wire during the regular season up until the transaction deadline, as long as they do not exceed the 18 player cap max. Teams can also release players as free agents from the roster. Pros that are released by a team are free to be picked up by another Pro Team, but Elite players may only be called up by the Team that corresponds to their affiliate state. The waiver wire is processed in the reverse order of the current Pro Teams standings, or in the reverse order of the draft order if it is before the first Pro Teams event. Waiver claims for free agents must be submitted before Monday morning each week at 9 am EDT, and waiver claims are processed by 12 pm EDT on Wednesday each week. There is a second waiver processing each week that happens by 12 pm EST on Friday for those that miss the Monday window.

Teams can also trade players with other teams before the transaction deadline. The captain is the only player not eligible to be traded or released at any point throughout the season. The first two draft picks by each team are also ineligible to be released during the season, unless there are extenuating circumstances approved by the ACL.

The ACL Commissioner may veto any trade or transaction at any time, to maintain integrity of the season. The transaction deadline is two weeks after the Sunday of the second ACL Pro National. After this time, no trades can be processed and no players can be released from the roster.

In the event that there is a discrepancy on lineups, roster additions, player releases, or trades, the primary team captain has the ultimate authority.

Returning Players

New England Woodchucks

Jimmy Youmans

Jacob Trzcienski

Storm Hogg

Kyle Malone

Zach Schibner

Michael Lucas Jr

Ohio Aviators

Noah Almanza

Trey Burchfield

Fisher Hamilton

Matt Abernathy

Tyler Cobb

Carson Goette

Virginia Cutters

Justin Stranger

Ryan Wiedenfeld

Logan Chamberlain

Leston Allen

Dakota Sallee

Michael Dinges

Michigan Marauders

Joe Kniesteadt

Jordan Power

Mike Ferriera

Jeremy Schermerhorn

Chuckie Love

Trevor Kuhfuss

Georgia Sliders

Noah Wooten

Kamryn Belvin

Ryan Smith

Bobby Hunt

Terry Mathis

Duncan Clemmer

Arizona Burn

Ty Lopez

Doug Zafft

Derek Holland

Jeff Reynolds

Moses Zazueta

Florentino Mendoza

Kentucky Kernels

Matt Guy

Bret Guy

Daymon Dennis

Samantha Finley

Justin Reul

Kimberli Glass

Florida Freeze

Alex Rawls

Cheyenne Bubenheim

Ryan Hart

Chris Kingsbury

Jeremy Frazier

Blaine Rosier

California Slingers

Tony Smith

Corey Gilbert

Nick Williams

Peter Zazueta

Travis Purser

Alec Ryon

Colorado Timber

Yetty Irwan

Frank Modlin

Adam Hissner

Justin Doss

Eric Anderson

Josh Holland

Las Vegas High Rollers

Tanner Halbert

Hunter Thorne

Cody Henderson

Eric Zocklein

Alan Rawls

Koby Costanza

Texas Bully Baggers

Eddie Grinderslev

Kaleb Batson

AJ Sims

Dillon Turpin

Cameron Kingfisher

Debra Odum

Pennsylvania Ringers

Devon Harbaugh

Justin Burton Jr

Matthew Creekkiller

Gage Landis

Tubby Cobb

Jacob Foreman

Chicagoland Spinners

Mark Richards

Nico Mireles

Tyler Poythress

Timmy Jonas

Jordan Kimbrell

Philip Lopez Jr

Missouri Maize

Ryan Windsor

Isidro Herrera

Steven Bernacet

Gavin Cano

Ethan Walker

Jalen Jones

Carolina Coasters

Jamie Graham

Trevor Brooks

Erick Davis

Berklee Pair

Chad Hunt

Derrick King

TV Broadcasts

This season, there will be 8 ACL Pro Teams broadcasts during the regular season on CBS Sports Network. Each of the 16 teams will get an opportunity to compete on a broadcast this season and the match will count towards the regular season record of the team. The American and National Division Finals, as well as the Teams World Championship Final will also air on CBS Sports Network. There will also be a 1 hour CBS Teams recap show that will air in August 2023.