Fantasy Football League Rules

Positions

Each fantasy team will consists of 14 players from five Offensive positions and includes one Defense.

The offensive positions are as follows (minimum-maximum number of players):

1 — 3 Quarterbacks (QB)
1 — 5 Running Backs (RB)
1 — 5 Wide Receivers (WR)
1 — 3 Tight Ends (TE)
1 — 2 Team Kickers (K)
1 — 2 The Defensives/Special Teams unit (D)

NOTE: K & D are selected from an individual NFL team.

Free Agent Holding Period

From the time starters are due until Wednesday at Noon we enter a period Free Agent holding period. During this time all roster moves and requests and put on hold. At Noon on Wednesday the requests will be processed in reverse order of record.

Note: the record is determined by Overall Winning Percentage, Head-Head Record, Total Points Scored, Divisional Winning Percentage, Reverse Order of Opponent Total Points Scored, Power Rank.

Injuries/Injured Reserve

During the season you are allowed to have two players on injured reserve that do not count against your 14 players. These people must actually be injured (no freeloading). When you place a person on IR, you may pickup a replacement player from the pool of available players. To activate the player off IR, you will need to drop a player to make room for them to return (or place someone else on IR in their place).

NOTE: an IR player MUST be activated after they score points unless still injured (NFL injury list).

Playoffs

Once the playoff games begins there will be no changes allowed to your team (drop/pickup players, IR) although you can still change your starters throughout the playoffs. Players on IR must be removed before the playoffs or they will automatically be cut. Remember to pick some backups in case your starters get injured.

Two division champions and four wild card teams go to the playoffs (the next two teams with the best records in their division). The division champs get a BYE in the first round of the playoffs. The remaining teams in each division (or the loser’s brackets) get a chance to play for the Stupor Bowl.

If two or more teams have identical win/loss records, the tiebreaker is win/loss records in head-to-head games. If necessary, additional tiebreakers are Division Record, and Total Points (season).

NOTE: In a three-way tie, the tiebreakers are Division Record, Total Points, Coin Toss.

NOTE: Playoff ties will be determined by Bench Scoring, followed by Home Field Advantage.

Reports

Available reports include:

Results/Standings
Breakdown
History
All-Stars
Starters
Rosters
Transactions
Scoring Rules
Draft
Schedule
Top Scorers
Free Agents
NFL Schedule
NFL Injury List

Schedule:

14 weeks head-head (3 weeks for playoffs - 6 playoff teams)

The regular season schedule is listed on the web page.
Playoff schedules will be determined as described above.

Scoring

Each week your starters points will be added and you will compete head-head against another opponent in the league. The person with most points is awarded the victory. In the event of a tie, bench scoring will determine the winner. If the bench scoring is the same, then the tie will stand. Complete list of scoring rules by position are published on the web page.

Note: Sometimes the NFL will go back and change rulings on plays later in the week or on the following week. We will not go back and make these changes, even if they affect the outcome of that week's game. The scores listed on Tuesday morning are the final scores except in the case of data entry errors by the commisioner.

Starting Lineups

You will be able to make changes to your starting lineup until 11:59pm Saturday. After this time, you will not be allowed to make changes to your active lineup. If you do not contact the commissioner, your starting lineup from the previous week will be used. Changes in the above time will be emailed to all team owners.

Each week, you will decide which eight players you would like to activate for the upcoming game.

Below are the required starters:

1 QB — 1 Kicker — 1 Def/ST — 1 RB — 1 WR — 1 TE plus 2 more skill positions (RB/WR/TE)

Transactions

There will be hundreds of available free agents each week. These unsigned players are available to be added to your team whenever you wish. However, if you have filled all 14 available slots on your roster, you must drop players before you may add new ones or move an injured player to IR.

You may not drop a healthy, top-ranked player from your roster without an explanation. "Top-rank" usually means that a given player is in the top five to ten percent of his position's ranking. For example, Brett Favre may not be dropped if he is healthy. This does not mean that you must keep a star on your team no matter what - any player may be traded.

You can make trades with any other team owner, but some trade requests may be turned down. For instance, if a team tried to trade Brett Favre for Ty Detmer right before the playoffs, it is unlikely that this trade would be allowed.

Week 12 is the trading deadline. No trades made be made from week 13 through the playoffs; off-season trading will resume when the playoffs are over.

Web Page

Full reports are published on the web: http://waukesha.uwc.edu/cc/dweber/

The preliminary standings are published on Monday morning (usually before 8am).
The final standings are published on Tuesday morning (usually before 8am).
Transactions are published as they happen (starting Wednesday at Noon).
Injuries are published on Thursday morning (time varies)
Starters are published by Saturday at Midnight unless stated otherwise by email (early game).

If you have additional reports you would like to see added to the web, please contact me.

Last updated: 11/16/2005 by David J. Weber

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