Please explain the rookie system

[DiscoStu]

Gents, im not new to AFL nor am i new to DT, but can someone please explain the rookie system to me. This appears to have slipped through the cracks with me.
What i am after specifically is, how many games can a rookie play, how does a rookie get elevated (and how many elevations can be made by a club etc).

Cheers guys.

[Windigo]

Rookie listed players are not eligible to play in AFL home and away or finals matches unless they are elevated to the senior list, either to replace a retired player or a player with a long-term injury.


    At the start of a season, a club can nominate up to two veterans from its senior list for salary cap reasons; if a team does not have a full quota of veterans, it can make up the balance by nominating rookies to be eligible for senior selection. These players are known as nominated rookies.

    If a senior-listed player is moved onto the long-term injury list, a rookie-listed player can be temporarily elevated in his place, becoming eligible for senior selection, while the senior player remains injured.

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I just got this from Wikipedia.  :P

[DiscoStu]

Mate awesome reply, bugger Wiki you're getting the thumbs up ;)

Reckon this will be useful for a lot of us...

[Mr.Craig]

Just want to add that as of this year the rules have changed and nominated rookies are no longer permitted. Some clubs have deliberately left a spot open on their main list to allow a rookie elevation. The only avenue is through a long term injury or (and I can't confirm this is still the case), from Round 11 onwards all clubs are able to elevate one rookie.

[Colliwobblers]

unless the rule has changed clubs were able to elevate rookies based on the number of "veterans" o their list also. Which was determined by how long a player had been at the cub for as to whether he was a veteran.

[Mr.Craig]

unless the rule has changed clubs were able to elevate rookies based on the number of "veterans" o their list also. Which was determined by how long a player had been at the cub for as to whether he was a veteran.

It is very confusing, there were a number of reports late last year that the nominated rookie rule had been scraped. But now today I see the AFL reporting that Tom Bell at Carlton has been "elevated to the Blues' primary list under the nominated rookie rule".

I have contacted the AFL media department twice about this matter in the past, both times they asked me to clarify exactly which part of the rules I wanted explained, both times I responded with specific questions and both times they failed to respond. >:(