League Rules

Starting Lineup Options:


"Flex" Leagues:
1 QB (quarterback), 2 RB (running back), 3 WR (wide receiver), 1 TE (tight end), 1 FLEX (choose from one WR, RB, or TE), 1 K (kicker), and 1 DST (Defense/Special Teams).

"Traditional" Leagues:
1 QB, 2 RB, 2 WR, 1 TE, 1 K, and 1 DST.

"SUPERflex" Leagues:
1 QB, 3 RB, 4 WR, 1 TE, 1 FLEX (choose from one QB, WR, RB, or TE), 1 K, and 1 DST.

"MiniFlex" Leagues:
1 QB, 2 RB, 2 WR, 1 TE, 1 FLEX (choose from one WR, RB, or TE), 1 K, and 1 DST.


DRAFTING STYLE OPTIONS:


"LIVE DRAFT" LEAGUES:
Each team gets 1 minute and 45 seconds to make their pick. Drafts occur in an online draft room. The "Traditional" starting lineup will be an 18 round draft, the "Flex" and "MiniFlex" lineups 20 round drafts, and the "SUPERflex" starting lineup a 22 round draft. Drafts typically take around 2 hours to complete.

"EMAIL/SLOW DRAFT" LEAGUES:
Each team gets up to 12 hours to make their picks. These are slow drafts, which take a week and a half to two weeks to complete. The "Traditional" starting lineup will be an 18 round draft, the "Flex" and "MiniFlex" lineups 20 round drafts, and the "SUPERflex" starting lineup a 22 round draft.

"NON-DRAFT" LEAGUES:
Now this one might throw you for a loop, but in our "Non-Draft" leagues, there are no drafts whatsoever. Who woulda thunk it. All you do is simply pick the 20 players of your choice for "Flex", "Traditional", or "MiniFlex" leagues ,and 24 for our "SUPERflex" leagues, and then submit a starting lineup each week. There are absolutely no trades or transactions in these leagues once the first Sunday of the season begins at 1pm ET. Rosters are locked at that juncture. No head-to-head matchups, total points leagues instead, where the winners will be those teams who scored the most points over the first 16 weeks of the NFL season.

OUR ALL NEW "ONE-WEEK REDRAFT" LEAGUES!:
Just remember the first place you ever saw these leagues, once they start catching on like wild fire. What's the problem with current weekly fantasy football leagues? Well, the answer is obvious - there's no draft. We all know drafting is the most fun part of the fantasy season. So, our idea - one-week fantasy leagues - with drafts. BOOM! This will be just like the one-week fantasy leagues you are already familiar with, where you utilize a salary cap to pick your players. But we of course will be providing no salary cap, you'll get your players the good ol' way...you'll draft them. Drafts will take place in a live online draft room on our site. You will draft 12 players, which affords you to take a gamble on the guy who is questionable to play on Sunday, or perhaps take extra at a specific position to disallow others from drafting/using that player. Strategy, strategy, strategy. These will essentially be one-week seasons. The winners will be the 3 teams (we will pay 1st, 2nd, and 3rd) who scored the most points for the week. IT'S HERE! The best new fantasy product to hit the market. So when we start getting copied, you just remember where you started playing them first.
Since there are no head to head matchups in these leagues, if your “One-Week Redraft” league is not completely full come draft time, we will run them with anywhere from 4 to 12 teams! Still kick back the same percentages regardless! And always kick back prizes to 1/4 of the league. These leagues are fun – and profitable – whether you’re playing with 4 team...9 teams...or 12 teams.

ALL NEW "BEST BALL" LEAGUES!:
Now if you haven't played in a best ball league yet, you are definitely missing out on the fun! Every fantasy gamer should always have at least one “Best Ball” league in their repertoire. What are Best Ball leagues?? They contain no roster management whatsoever after the draft. What you will do is draft 20 players – NO KICKERS OR DEFENSES – and then that is it!!! You do not have to submit a lineup each week...you will not be able to alter your roster whatsoever after the draft, there will be no trades or transactions whatsoever once your draft is finished. What will happen is, your lineup each week of the NFL season will be chosen for you, based upon what would have been your optimal, highest scoring lineup. All of these leagues will use the “Flex” starting lineup structure of 1QB, 2RB, 3WR, 1TE, and 1 FLEX (RB, WR, or TE). So you draft...the software, each week, will then select the best possible lineup you could have used, based upon your 20 man roster. No head to head matchups, these are all total points leagues. Standings will be based upon highest scoring team, down to the lowest scoring team, as it adds up your points scored each week. These are season-long leagues, and will culminate with week 16 of the NFL season. The 3 highest scoring teams (for full 12 team leagues) in your league will earn a prize! PLUS, WE KICK BACK 85% OF THE POT FOR ALL OF OUR BEST BALL LEAGUES! Oh...almost forgot the most important thing. Because all of our leagues of course have to be the “Best”, (I mean it is in our name after all) these will also be the best Best Ball leagues, because you won’t have juuusssttt 30 seconds to pick. A lot of “other sites” only allow you 30 seconds to pick. This is a game of skill, not luck; why the rush??? Here we give you 1 minute and 45 seconds to pick. You’ll be doing no management whatsoever after the draft, so isn’t the draft the most important part of these leagues?? That’s a resounding - “YES”.
Since there are no head to head matchups in these leagues, if your “Best Ball” league is not completely full come draft time, we will run them with anywhere from 4 to 12 teams! Still kick back the same percentages regardless! And always kick back prizes to 1/4 of the league. These leagues are fun – and profitable – whether you’re playing with 4 team...9 teams...or 12 teams.

ALL NEW "WEEK 13-16" LEAGUES!:
These ALL NEW leagues were made for those misfortunate teams that did not make the playoffs in their league. Well...that was whom they were initially intended for. However, once we came up with them, we realized they were yet another good fantasy offering that really anybody would like to take advantage of! So - of course - ANYBODY can join them! They are very simple, they are essentially a little 4 week mini-season, that of course will span weeks 13 through 16. They will be TOTAL POINTS LEAGUES, so no head-to-head matchups. Standings instead will be from highest scoring team, to lowest scoring team. You may make transactions throughout the 4 week mini-season, however, there will be no trades allowed. That's it!!! Just another wonderful fantasy offering by us. You're welcome. ;-)
Since there are no head to head matchups in these leagues, if your “Week 13-16” league is not completely full come draft time, we will run them with anywhere from 4 to 12 teams! Still kick back the same percentages regardless! And always kick back prizes to at least 1/4 of the league. These leagues are fun – and profitable – whether you’re playing with 4 team...9 teams...or 12 teams.


Costs:
We provide five entry fee levels to choose from, "A", "AA", "AAA", "Pro", "All-star", and "Hall-of-Famer". The costs per team are $49.99 per "A" team, $99.99 per "AA" team, $249.99 per "AAA" team, $499.99 per "Pro" team, $999.99 per "All-star" team, and $2999.99 per "Hall-of-Famer" team. Please note that the entry fee levels do not necessarily pertain to skill level. While we have labeled the $2999.99 leagues "Hall-of-Famer", that does not mean that the players at that entry fee level are necessarily better than players at the "AA" ($99.99) level, for example.

*** These one time entry fees are the only costs throughout the season! There are no other waiver or transaction costs. You are allowed an unlimited amount of FREE trades and transactions throughout the season!

Refund Policy:
No refunds are allowed for any of our leagues that hold a draft. The reason is twofold. One, you learn your draft position immediately upon paying for your team. It is not fair to allow teams to opt out of a league, after learning their draft position. The draft positions are 100% randomly generated. Part of the skill of our fantasy leagues is building a successful fantasy team, regardless of which draft position you were randomly selected. And the second reason we do not allow refunds for leagues that hold a draft is that the league is closed for registration once you join. The league is full and closed for entry at that point. We can't have people backing out of a full league after they have paid. Especially if their draft is about to begin. You have up to 14 people acting as a community depending upon one another for a league to draft, one team attempting to bow out affects the entire league. We can't have that. When you join a draft league with us, there are other people who depend upon your entry for the league to draft. So refunds are not allowed in our draft leagues for this reason.
Two Exceptions:
(1) If you join a draft league, and for some reason it does not have enough teams to run its draft, at that point you may receive a full refund, or opt to apply your credit towards a future league.
(2) We can however afford you a refund if you join our Non-Draft Leagues, since they do not hold a draft, and since these leagues do not close for registration until the NFL season starts.



Winnings: "Live Draft", and "Email/Slow Draft" Leagues
The bigger investment YOU make, the higher the percentage of the pot kicked back to you! Over 91% of entry fees potentially kicked back!



12 Team "Hall-of-Famer" Football League prize breakdown ($2999.99 entry fee)
1st place: $15,630
2nd place: $9,380
3rd place: $6,255
Toilet Bowl Champion: $1,500

10 Team "Hall-of-Famer" Football League prize breakdown ($2999.99 entry fee)
1st place: $12,900
2nd place: $7,740
3rd place: $5,160
Toilet Bowl Champion: $1,500

14 Team "All-star" Football League prize breakdown ($999.99 entry fee)
1st place: $5,770
2nd place: $3,465
3rd place: $2,310
Toilet Bowl Champion: $500

12 Team "All-star" Football League prize breakdown ($999.99 entry fee)
1st place: $4,910
2nd place: $2,950
3rd place: $1,965
Toilet Bowl Champion: $500

10 Team "All-star" Football League prize breakdown ($999.99 entry fee)
1st place: $4,050
2nd place: $2,430
3rd place: $1,620
Toilet Bowl Champion: $500

14 Team "Pro" Football League prize breakdown ($499.99 entry fee)
1st place: $2,710
2nd place: $1630
3rd place: $1100
Toilet Bowl Champion: $250

12 Team "Pro" Football League prize breakdown ($499.99 entry fee)
1st place: $2,305
2nd place: $1,400
3rd place: $925
Toilet Bowl Champion: $250

10 Team "Pro" Football League prize breakdown ($499.99 entry fee)
1st place: $1,900
2nd place: $1,140
3rd place: $760
Toilet Bowl Champion: $250

14 Team "AAA" Football League prize breakdown ($249.99 entry fee)
1st place: $1250
2nd place: $750
3rd place: $500
Toilet Bowl Champion: $125

12 Team "AAA" Football League prize breakdown ($249.99 entry fee)
1st place: $1065
2nd place: $640
3rd place: $425
Toilet Bowl Champion: $125

10 Team "AAA" Football League prize breakdown ($249.99 entry fee)
1st place: $875
2nd place: $525
3rd place: $350
Toilet Bowl Champion: $125

14 Team "AA" Football League prize breakdown ($99.99 entry fee)
1st place: $465
2nd place: $280
3rd place: $200
Toilet Bowl Champion: $50

12 Team "AA" Football League prize breakdown ($99.99 entry fee)
1st place: $400
2nd place: $240
3rd place: $160
Toilet Bowl Champion: $50

10 Team "AA" Football League prize breakdown ($99.99 entry fee)
1st place: $325
2nd place: $200
3rd place: $130
Toilet Bowl Champion: $50

14 Team "A" Football League prize breakdown ($49.99 entry fee)
1st place: $200
2nd place: $125
3rd place: $80
Toilet Bowl Champion: $25

12 Team "A" Football League prize breakdown ($49.99 entry fee)
1st place: $175
2nd place: $100
3rd place: $75
Toilet Bowl Champion: $25

10 Team "A" Football League prize breakdown ($49.99 entry fee)
1st place: $140
2nd place: $85
3rd place: $55
Toilet Bowl Champion: $25



Winnings: "Non-Draft" Leagues



Multi-Team "AAA" Football League prize breakdown ($249.99 entry fee)*

*** Official Prize Amounts will be announced once registration is closed, but they will be based upon the following breakdown:
1st place: 35% of the Total Entry Fees!
2nd place: 20% of the Total Entry Fees!
3rd place: 15% of the Total Entry Fees!
Weekly Winner for Most Points Scored Each Week (16 winners): $35

*Based on a minimum of 12 entries.

Multi-Team "AA" Football League prize breakdown ($99.99 entry fee)*

*** Official Prize Amounts will be announced once registration is closed, but they will be based upon the following breakdown:
1st place: 33% of the Total Entry Fees!
2nd place: 20% of the Total Entry Fees!
3rd place: 13% of the Total Entry Fees!
Weekly Winner for Most Points Scored Each Week (16 winners): $25

*Based on a minimum of 12 entries.

Multi-Team "A" Football League prize breakdown ($49.99 entry fee)*

*** Official Prize Amounts will be announced once registration is closed, but they will be based upon the following breakdown:
1st place: 30% of the Total Entry Fees!
2nd place: 15% of the Total Entry Fees!
3rd place: 10% of the Total Entry Fees!
4th place: 5% of the Total Entry Fees!
Weekly Winner for Most Points Scored Each Week (16 winners): $15

*Based on a minimum of 12 entries.



Winnings: OUR ALL NEW ONE-WEEK DRAFT LEAGUES! Up to 91% of the pot kicked back for these leagues!



12 Team "Pro" one-week draft league prize breakdown ($499.99 entry fee)
1st place: $2,730
2nd place: $1,630
3rd place: $1,110

12 Team "AAA" one-week draft prize breakdown ($249.99 entry fee)
1st place: $1,300
2nd place: $750
3rd place: $500

12 Team "AA" one-week draft prize breakdown ($99.99 entry fee)
1st place: $500
2nd place: $285
3rd place: $190

12 Team "A" one-week draft prize breakdown ($49.99 entry fee)
1st place: $235
2nd place: $135
3rd place: $90



Winnings: OUR ALL NEW “BEST BALL” LEAGUES! 85% of the pot kicked back for EVERY league!!!



12 Team "Pro" Best Ball prize breakdown ($499.99 entry fee)
1st place: $2,550
2nd place: $1,530
3rd place: $1,020

12 Team "AAA" Best Ball prize breakdown ($249.99 entry fee)
1st place: $1,275
2nd place: $765
3rd place: $510

12 Team "AA" Best Ball prize breakdown ($99.99 entry fee)
1st place: $510
2nd place: $305
3rd place: $205

12 Team "A" Best Ball prize breakdown ($49.99 entry fee)
1st place: $255
2nd place: $155
3rd place: $100



Winnings: OUR ALL NEW WEEK 13-16 LEAGUES! PAYOUTS INCREASED FOR THESE LEAGUES AS WELL!



12 Team "AAA" week 13-16 league prize breakdown ($249.99 entry fee)
1st place: $1,200
2nd place: $720
3rd place: $480

12 Team "AA" week 13-16 league prize breakdown ($99.99 entry fee)
1st place: $450
2nd place: $270
3rd place: $180

12 Team "A" week 13-16 league prize breakdown ($49.99 entry fee)
1st place: $210
2nd place: $125
3rd place: $85

10 Team "AAA" week 13-16 league prize breakdown ($249.99 entry fee)
1st place: $1,000
2nd place: $600
3rd place: $400

10 Team "AA" week 13-16 league prize breakdown ($99.99 entry fee)
1st place: $375
2nd place: $225
3rd place: $150

10 Team "A" week 13-16 league prize breakdown ($49.99 entry fee)
1st place: $175
2nd place: $105
3rd place: $70



Prize Claim and Redemption Process:
Once the fantasy season has ended, and all of our prize-winners therefore determined, you will have the option of either applying your winnings towards our NFL Playoff Fantasy Football Leagues, and receving a 5% bonus, and/or applying your winnings towards next season, and earning a 10% bonus, or simply receiving a check. There will be a message on your league home page and on your member home page when the season is over, detailing your options, and advising you how to proceed.

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Drafting Process:


"Draft" Leagues:
After you join a fantasy football league, you will have the opportunity to make changes to the draft software's draft cheat sheet of players, ranked from best to worst. It is recommended that prior to your draft, you customize your draft cheat sheet to rank the players by your preferences. If you do not customize your cheat sheet , your cheat sheet for the draft will be the player rankings from the draft software's free draft guide as they are listed at the time of your draft. You may customize your draft cheat sheet at any time up to and even during your draft. During the live draft your cheat sheet will be used as a fail-safe backup in case your time limit expires before you make a pick. In the event you should fail to make a pick in the time allowed for your pick, the draft software will automatically draft a player for you. The player will be the top ranked player on your draft cheat sheet.

The draft will be an S-style draft with the team picking last in the first round picking first in the second round and so on. For example,
   • Round 1: Team1, Team2, Team3, Team4, Team5, Team6, Team7, Team8, Team9, Team10, Team11, Team12
   • Round 2: Team12, Team11, Team10, Team9, Team8, Team7, Team6, Team5, Team4, Team3, Team2, Team1
   • Round 3: Team1, Team2, Team3, Team4, Team5, Team6, Team7, Team8, Team9, Team10, Team11, Team12
   • Round 4: Team12, Team11, Team10, Team9, Team8, Team7, Team6, Team5, Team4, Team3, Team2, Team1

Each team will have 1 minute and 45 seconds per pick to draft a player. There will be 20 rounds to your draft.

"Non-Draft" Leagues:
In our "Non-Draft" Leagues, upon registering teams will acquire their players by selecting a list of 20 players (24 in the "SUPERflex" leagues) whom they wish to have on their Regular Season Fantasy Football Teams. Since these leagues will not have an actual "draft", teams are allowed to acquire the same players. Consider it an all-star format, where you are allowed to pick any players from NFL teams to fill out your roster. Each week you will choose from these players to submit what you feel is the best lineup for that week. Here's the catch: THERE WILL BE NO TRADES OR TRANSACTIONS THROUGHOUT THE REGULAR SEASON IN THESE LEAGUES. So not only will it be important to select high scoring fantasy players, but it will be equally important to select those durable players who you deem as most likely to stay healthy throughout the entire season.

Roster Requirements:
GM's may select a starting lineup each week from their players. Below you will find three charts. The charts list how many players you MUST star t at each position for each starting lineup option we provide. You may draft/select as little or as many as you'd like at each position.

Note: Individual defensive players are not drafted; rather, you will draft a team's entire defensive unit. For the purpose of roster limits, each defensive unit will count as one "player."









Scoring System:

YES, all of our Fantasy Football Leagues DO provide LIVE SCORING!

Each week all of the players in your 'starting lineup' (active players) will earn points based on actual statistics from NFL games. They will earn statistics based upon the following structure...





Wins & Losses:
For each head-to-head matchup , the team with the greater number of points will earn a Win and the team with the lesser number a Loss. During the regular season, if two teams have the same number of points, each team will get a Tie, though we have made the chances of a tie actually occurring very slim due to our decimal place scoring (see below) . During the playoffs, there are no ties, and the team with the highest number of points scored by its 'reserve' players in that playoff game will be the winner. If this doesn't break the tie, then the team with the higher playoff seed gets the Win.

Decimal Scoring:
Though we have established rules if ties do occur (see above), we have structured our leagues to make that possibility a minute one. Our scoring system uses two decimal places, there is no rounding up or down, so every single yard your player earns counts. If your RB rushes for 95 yards, you get 9.5 points, not 9 or 10.

Various Scoring Explanations:


   • Offensive Scoring (QB, RB, WR, TE, K) - Any offensive player will receive points for any offensive statistics they accumulate. If you have Cam Newton as your quarterback, and he passes for 324 yards and 3 TD, rushes for 37 yar ds and 1 TD, and also happens to have 12 yards receiving, his point total for the week would be 35.86. Broken down it would be: 12.96 (324 yards passing) + 12 (3 passing TD) + 3.7 (37 rushing yards) + 6 (rushing TD) + 1.2 (12 yards receiving) = 35.86.
   • Fumbles Lost by a player on special teams or defense will lose 2 points if they turn the ball over to the opposing team. For instance, if you have Tyreek Hill active at WR and he fumbles the ball away at any time while he is on the field, your team will lose 2 points. This includes a fumble lost while returning a kick, punt, interception (if your WR were playing defense) or while on offense at WR.
   • Statistics Corrections - Following the completion of each week's games, all statistics and point totals are verified, and corrections are made where necessary.



Schedule & Playoffs



"Live Draft", and "Email/Slow Draft" Leagues:

Regular Season: (8, 10, and 12 team leagues.)
The first 12 weeks of the football season represent the regular season for all (non 14- team) "Live Draft", and "Email/Slow Draft" Leagues. Each week teams will play another team within their league in a head-to-head matchup . Each team will also play one game weekly vs. the "League Average". The "League Average" is the average points scored that week by all of the teams within your fantasy league. So for example, let's say you scored 100 points in week one, but your head-to-head opponent scored 110 points. You would lose that game, so your record for the week would be 0-1 currently. However, let's say the "League Average" for the week is 85 points, you would win that "head-to-head" matchup too, and therefore your record for week one would be 1-1. The team you lost to that scored 110 points in week one would be 2-0. A team that scored, say, 65 points that week, and lost their head-to-head matchup, would have also lost their matchup vs. the "League Average", and therefore would end week one 0-2. After more than a decade of providing fantasy football leagues, we noticed that having the skill to manage your fantasy team to be one of the highest scoring teams in the league, often didn't necessarily mean you would make the postseason. Unlike in "real" football, in fantasy football, you unfortunately aren't able to stop your opponent from scoring. So if in a few weeks during the regular season you just happened to be unlucky enough to play THE highest scoring team in the league, you would be given a loss, despite the fact that you would have beaten every other team in your league that week. That's a tough pill to swallow if your season is based SOLELY upon one head-to-head matchup each week. A couple unlucky weeks of unfortunate scheduling can easily keep the most skilled fantasy owners from the postseason. Our scheduling structure ensures that the best, most skilled fantasy owners be rewarded for their hard work and effort. You'll play one game each week vs. another team in your league, and then another vs. the "League Average", thereby allowing the best of the best, the cream of the crop, to rise to the top!

Playoffs:
The four teams in each Draft League with the best overall records will make the playoffs. Teams will be seeded one to four with the team with the best record being the #1 seed, while the team with the fourth best record w ill be the #4 seed. If there is a tie for a seeding, the following tiebreakers will be used in order.

   1.Total Points Scored
   2.Head-to-Head Record

The team with the best record going into the playoffs will be the #1 seed, and the #1 seed will play the fourth best team (seed #4) in the first playoff match in Weeks 13 & 14. The second and third place teams in the standings will be seeded #2 and #3, and will also face each other in weeks 13 & 14. As fantasy football is a game of skill, not luck, each team will p lay each other twice; once in week 13, and once in week 14. Then, the team that scores the most points TOTAL over the two weeks will advance to the next round. This ensures that, for example, the 4th seed doesn't have ONE lucky week the same week that the 1st seed had its WORST week, and luck into the Championship game. We have nothing at all against the 4th seed beating the #1 seed, this just ensures that if the 4th seed is going to beat the #1 seed, it will be because they are indeed the strongest team of the two at that point in the season. The teams with the highest total scores over weeks 13 and 14 will advance to play each other for the League Championship in weeks 15 and 16. The teams who lost their first round playoff matchups will face each other in weeks 15 and 16 for the 3rd place prize. Then, once again, the teams with the highest point totals over weeks 15 and 16 will be our winners. These top four teams make up the Championship Bracket, detailed below...



Toilet Bowl Championships (consolation playoffs):
The top FOUR teams that do NOT make the playoffs (in other words teams with the 5th through 8th best records) will participate in the Toilet Bowl Championship Consolation Playoffs. The same rules and tiebreakers concerning seeding (as discussed in the above "Playoff Schedule") will apply. These "top four" teams will meet up in the one and only "Toilet Bowl Championships!"



14-team Leagues:

Regular Season: The first 13 weeks of the football season will represent the regular season for all 14-team "Live Draft", and "Email/Slow Draft" Leagues. Each week teams will play another team within their league in a head-to-headmatchup . Each team will also play one game weekly vs. the "League Average". The "League Average" is the average points scored that week by all of the teams within your fantasy league. So for example, let's say you scored 100 points in week one, but your head-to-head opponent scored 110 points. You would lose that game, so your record for the week would be 0-1 currently. However, let's say the "League Average" for the week is 85 points, you would win that "head-to-head" matchup too, and therefore your record for week one would be 1-1. The team you lost to that scored 110 points in week one would be 2-0. A team that scored, say, 65 points that week, and lost their head-to-head matchup, would have also lost their matchup vs. the "League Average", and therefore would end week one 0-2. After more than a decade of providing fantasy football leagues, we noticed that having the skill to manage your fantasy team to be one of the highest scoring teams in the league, often didn't necessarily mean you would make the postseason. Unlike in "real" football, in fantasy football, you unfortunately aren't able to stop your opponent from scoring. So if in a few weeks during the regular season you just happened to be unlucky enough to play THE highest scoring team in the league, you would be given a loss, despite the fact that you would have beaten every other team in your league that week. That's a tough pill to swallow if your season is based SOLELY upon one head-to-head matchup each week. A couple unlucky weeks of unfortunate scheduling can easily keep the most skilled fantasy owners from the postseason. Our scheduling structure ensures that the best, most skilled fantasy owners be rewarded for their hard work and effort. You'll play one game each week vs. another team in your league, and then another vs. the "League Average", thereby allowing the best of the best, the cream of the crop, to rise to the top!

Playoffs:
The six teams in each 14-team league with the best overall records will make the playoffs, and the playoffs in our 14-team leagues will begin in week 14 of the regular season, and will be single-elimination . Teams will be seeded one to six, with the team with the best record being the #1 seed, while the team with the sixth best record will be the #6 seed. If there is a tie for a seeding, the following tiebreakers will be used in order.

   1.Total Points Scored
   2.Head-to-Head Record

The team with the best record going into the playoffs will be the #1 seed, and the team with the second best record after the regular season will be the #2 seed. The top two seeds will get a BYE in the first round of the playoffs. Therefore the #3 seed in the playoffs will play the sixth best team (seed #6), and seed #4 will play seed #5. After week 14 (so in week 15), the #1 seed will play the lowest ranked seed still in the playoffs, and seed #2 will play the highest ranked seed still in the playoffs. The winners of these two games will advance to the League Championships in week 16, while the losers of the week 15 games will play one another in week 16 to claim the 3rd place prize.



Toilet Bowl Championships (consolation playoffs):
In these 14-team leagues, the top FOUR teams that do NOT make the playoffs (in other words teams with the 7th through 10th best records) will participate in the Toilet Bowl Championship Consolation Playoffs. The same rules and tiebreakers concerning seeding (as discussed in the above "Playoff Schedule") will apply. These "top four" teams will meet up in the one and only "Toilet Bowl Championships!" ;-)



"Non-Draft" Leagues:
Our "Non-Draft" Leagues will be structured a little differently than our other Leagues. The "Non-Draft" Leagues will consist of 16 week regular season, with no playoffs. The highest scoring teams at the end of the 16 week regular season will be the winners, along with each high scorer of the week.

Lineup Changes

Weekly Lineups:
Each week owners have the opportunity to select their starting lineup for the week. GM's only must submit a player as a starter by the time that player's game begins. For example, if you have a player playing in a Thursday game, you can either submit just that player in time for their Thursday game, or you can submit your entire lineup. Once a player's game begins, he will be locked in your lineup, but you will however be able to make changes to your other starters all the way up until their respective games begin. Suppose you have two players on a Monday Night Football game, and you are unsure which one will be starting. You are able to wait all the way up until right before kickoff to finally choose your starter for that game.

*** If an owner doesn't set their lineup for a particular week, the owner's lineup from the previous week(s) will be used.

Abandoned Teams:
As is BestFantasyFootballLeague.com policy, whenever a team appears to be abandoned, we reserve the right to submit their starters for them based upon the players that we deem to have the best potential for that week. It is unfair for one team to have to play a tough schedule against teams that are submitting their best lineups weekly, and another team to have a game or two against a team that has apparently abandoned their team, and is not submitting a complete, strong starting lineup weekly. This rule is in place to protect the integrity of our games and leagues. If any GM notices a team that appears to be abandoned within their league, please contact the staff at support@ BestFantasyFootballLeague.com immediately so that we may enact the aforementioned policy.

Deadline to Change Status:
You can change the status of the players on your team (i.e ., "active" or "reserve") up to 5 minutes before that player's NFL team is scheduled to start. While there are benefits to last minute research, please play it safe and change the status well before this 5-minute window arrives. BestFantasyFootballLeague will NOT be responsible if the time you are going by, and the time that we have are not synchronized.

Waiver Wire:
Free agents will be awarded using a prioritized waiver wire system. Team owners may select free agents they wish to acquire via the waiver wire on Tuesdays and Wednesdays during the season. Waiver wire award order will be worst to first by each team's position in the standings. Player requests are accepted until Noon ET on Thursday. Team owners will be awarded players in reverse order of standings, worst to first. Beginning with the worst team in the league, each team owner will be award a single player. Then the second worst team in the league will be award one player, and so on. After each team in the league has been awarded a maximum of one player , the process will repeat beginning with the worst team in the league. This process will repeat until all player requests have been evaluated. If a team makes no player request, that team will not be awarded any players. After waivers then run, add/drop will be open to first come first serve until Sunday at 1pm ET.
*** PRESEASON WAIVERS - during the preseason, waivers will run for the first time, the Tuesday after week 1 of the preseason. This does not refer to the Hall of Fame game weekend, that is not week 1 of the preseason. Waivers will run on Tuesday, and then beginning on Wednesday any players that were not claimed via waivers can be added via a Free Agent Free For All on a First Come First Serve Basis. All add/drops will be locked by the time the first game each week of the preseason on Thursday begins. Once add/drops lock, you may put in waiver claims, which will then of course be ran the following Tuesday. So get all of your waiver claims in by Monday at latest, to be safe. This structure ensures the most fairness, and that the first person to hear about an injury, and rush to their league to add the player, isn't rewarded. We want the structure to be as fair as possible, not a race to the web site to add/drop.

Free For All - REGULAR SEASON:
Beginning each Thursday after Noon ET during the REGULAR SEASON, after waivers then run, add/drop will be open as first come first serve, and you may add players all the way up until a player's game begins that week. Teams may pick up free agents at any time during this free for all period. Team owners may not pick up players once a fantasy player's game begins.

Protected Free Agents:
In order to prevent collusion or coordinated drop trades, any player released from any roster via the waiver wire or the free for all free agent period shall remain a protected free agent until the first waiver wire of the following week. This means the player will not be available to be acquired by any team in the week the player was dropped. This applies only to players that have been on a team's roster for at least one fantasy week.

Trades:

No trades are allowed after NFL week 11 kickoffs, after that SUNDAY that is, 1pm ET.

Once a trade is agreed upon by two owners it is executed immediately . Please be cognizant of this, as it can have its drawbacks too. For example, if you propose a trade to an owner in the middle of the week, and the owner finally accepts the trade on Sunday at 12:45pm ET for instance, the trade will be executed immediately, and the players involved in the trade promptly swapped teams. If the players involved in the trade were in your starting lineup, they will be removed from your starting lineup, and it will be up to you to submit new starters by the time your players' games begin. If you've proposed a trade, you must be aware of the status of the trade, and make the necessary changes to your starting lineup if the trade is accepted, OR rescind the trade if you no longer wish to offer the trade. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE THE NECESSARY CHANGES TO YOUR STARTING LINEUP SHOULD YOU BE INVOLVED IN ANY TRADE THAT MAY EFFECT THAT WEEK'S LINEUP.

Lastly, after any trade has gone through, if any owner feels that the trade was unquestionably one-sided and/or possibly collusive, they have the right to vote to veto any trade. Their vote to veto must be emailed within 48 hours of the trade being consummated to support@BestFantasyFootballLeague.com . An owners vote to veto must contain the following...

   • 1.The league number.
   • 2.Your team name.
   • 3.Trade you are disputing
   • 4.Which team you feel got the one-sided part of the trade.

If the majority of owners within that league (not including the owners actually involved in the trade) vote to veto the trade, the trade will be retroactively overturned. In extreme circumstances where a trade has been made that is ridiculously one - sided and/or potentially collusive in nature, BestFantasyFootballLeague.com has the "Supreme Power of Veto", and the ability to overturn such trades immediately, without any voting process by the league owners. However, this is the exception, certainly not the rule, and we therefore encourage all GM's who feel any trades are unfair, to email us with their vote to veto as soon as such trades occur.

*** IF A TEAM CONTINUES TO ENGAGE IN ONE-SIDED, POTENTIALLY COLLUSIVE TRADES, AFTER BEING ASKED NOT TO MORE THAN ONCE BY US, YET THEY CONTINUE TO DISREGARD OUR WARNINGS, AND CONTINUE TO MAKE ONE-SIDED, POTENTIALLY COLLUSIVE TRADES WHICH THREATEN THE INTEGRITY OF THEIR LEAGUE, THEY WILL BE SUBJECT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF EXPULSION FROM THE LEAGUE. YOUR ABILITY TO TRADE IN OUR LEAGUES IS A PRIVILEGE, NOT A RIGHT. THERE ARE A LOT OF SITES WHERE TRADING IS NOT ALLOWED AT ALL. WE ARE NOT ONE OF THEM. ANOTHER REASON WHY WE ARE INDEED THE BEST. HOWEVER, TRADING CAN NOT BE ABUSED. YOUR TRADES CAN BE OVERTURNED. WE RUN THESE LEAGUES, YOU DO NOT. YOU PARTICIPATE IN THEM, AND IN DOING SO, AGREE TO ABIDE BY OUR RULES, AND STRUCTURE, OR FACE THE CONSEQUENCES, IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN FAIR PLAY. CONTINUAL ABUSE OF OUR TRADING PRIVILEGES, CAN RESULT IN EXPULSION FROM OUR LEAGUES. YOUR ENTRY FEE WILL NOT BE RETURNED, YOUR TEAM WILL BE MANAGED FOR YOUR FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR BY OUR LEAGUE OFFICE, AND WE WILL MAIL ANY WINNINGS TO YOUR AFTER THE SEASON IS OVER, SHOULD YOU EARN A PRIZE.

MORAL OF THE STORY - We run these leagues, the participants do not, and we WILL DO everything necessary to uphold the integrity of our leagues for all members within them. We like to allow you all to have your own perspectives on players, however, once you engage in unquestionably unfair trades, they will be overturned, and continual abuse of this privilege, will result in your expulsion from the league.


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