Fantasy Football Anyone?

FINAL STANDINGS

ROSTERS

SCHEDULE

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Wks 14-15___________First Round of Playoffs____________

Wks 16-17___________Final Round of Playoffs____________

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The Rules
Of your 12 players you must choose 7 who will play for the week. You MUST play 1 QB, 1-2 RB's*, 2-3 WR's*, 1 TE and 1 Kicker. (you may choose to play 2 RB's and 2 WR's or 1 RB and 3 WR's. you CAN NOT choose 3 RB's and 1 WR.) Your remaining 5 players will not play and their stats will not count. If one of your players gets injured during a game, you are stuck with whatever, if any, stats he accumulates for that game. (See injuries for more info below) You are free to juggle around your starting 7 players week by week. Your starting players must be turned into me (via post or pm) PRIOR to the FIRST game of the week. In the event of a Thursday night game, your starters must be in before kickoff Thursday night. If I do not recieve notification of any changes before the first game of the week, you will use your starters from the week before. (Even if your player is injured or has a bye week)

1 MOVE PER WEEK RULE REWRITE

Everyone is allowed 1 move per week. This move can be made for whatever reason: injury, bad play or because he has red hair and you hate red heads. It doesn't matter. It also does not matter what position he plays. If you want to swap a QB for an RB you may do so, AS LONG AS YOU HAVE THE MINIMUM AT EACH POSITION. This must be done on TUESDAYS-SATURDAYS (or one hour before kickoff in the event of a Thursday night game) with a POST saying who you are selecting and who you are cutting. In the event two teams pick the same player, the team who posts first will get him. The other team will have to pick someone else.

TRADES

Trades with other teams will be allowed. You may trade amongst yourselves as much as you wish. This will NOT count as your 1 move per week. I will need a confirmation post from both teams before the start of the week's games.
TRADE DEADLINE IS WEEK 10! There will be no more trades allowed after Week 10's games start!

THE POINTS

6 points per rushing/recieving Touchdown
4 points per passing Touchdown
1 point per 10 yards rushing/recieving
1 point per 25 yards passing
5 points per Successful 50+ yard Field Goal
4 points per Successful 40 - 49 yard Field Goal
3 points per Successful 39 and less yard Field Goal

*Your players may recieve points for more than one category. For instance, if your QB is Mike Vick and he passes for 310 yards and 2 passing Touchdowns AND rushes for 100 yards and 1 rushing Touchdown, he will get points for everything. So, in this case, he would get 12 points for yards passing, 8 points for passing Touchdowns, 10 points for yards rushing and 6 points for the rushing Touchdown. In all he would earn you 36 points.

The total number of points your starting lineup recieves for the week will determine your score. If you have more points than the team you are playing you win the game. If you have less points than the team you are playing you lose. For example, Team 1 (me) plays Team 2 (Azale) the first week. If my players combine for a total of 400 points and Azales players combine for a total of 410 points, then Azale wins the game. My record would be 0-1 and Azale's 1-0.

SEASON SCHEDULE

We will play 13 regular season games and 2 playoff games. Each team will play his/her 4 confrence rivals 2 times and his/her 5 non confrence opponents once. At the end of week 13, the top 4 teams advance to the winners bracket and the remaining 4 teams will move to the conselation bracket.

PLAYOFFS

Playoffs begin Week 14 of the NFL regular season. There are 2 rounds in the playoffs. Round 1 takes place during weeks 14 AND 15. Round 2 (final round) takes place weeks 16 AND 17. Each playoff team is allowed to change their active roster between EACH WEEK of playoff play. All teams will play during the playoffs. The top 4 teams (East confrence champ, West confrence champ, and 2 wild card teams*) will compete for the league championship. The remaining teams will play for better placing in the final standings but cannot win the championship. The standing will be based on win/loss records. The team with the best record from the East Confrence is the East Division winner. The team with the best record from the West Confrence is the West Division winner. Out of remaining teams, the two with the best records will be the Wild Card teams.

*The 2 wild card teams can be from EITHER division. They could be both from the same division or not.

## In the event of a tie at the end of week 13, we will use the following tie-breakers:

1. Head-to-Head Record - If the 2 teams in question have played each other twice and Team A beat Team B both times, then Team A gets the tie-break. If the two teams split the games, then we move on to tie break number 2.

2. Overall Points - the team with the most total points for the season will get the tie-break. If there is still a tie we go to number 3.

3. Division Record - the team with the best division record will get the tie-break

PLAYOFF SCHEDULE

ROUND 1 - Of the top 4 teams, the Division winner with the best record will play the Wild Card team with the worst record. The other Division winner will play the Wild Card team with the best record. The remaining teams will battle for final placing in the standings.

League Championship Pairings:

Round 1 - Weeks 14 & 15
Game 1 - 1st seed vs. 4th seed (division leader vs. wild card)
Game 2 - 2nd seed vs. 3rd seed (division leader vs. wild card)
Game 3 - 5th seed vs. 6th seed (5th place team vs. 6th place)
Game 4 - 7th seed vs. 8th seed (7th place team vs. 8th place)
Game 5 - 9th seed vs. 10th seed (9th place team vs. 10th place)

Round 2 - Weeks 16 & 17
Game 1 - Winner of game 1 vs. Winner of game 2 (For Champ!)
Game 2 - Loser of game 1 vs. Loser of game 2 (for 3rd & 4th place)
Game 3 - Winner of game 3 vs. Winner of game 4 (for 5th & 6th place)
Game 4 - Loser of game 3 vs. Winner of game 5 (for 7th & 8th place)
Game 5 - Loser of game 4 vs. Loser of game 5 (for 9th & Dead last)

sure, id like to play. Iver never done anything like this before so be easy on me

Originally posted by Azale
sure, id like to play. Iver never done anything like this before so be easy on me

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LOL. Well, at least there is nothing to lose. I've done it for a couple of years now and its pretty fun. You find yourself pouring over stats constantly. The ones I did were for money, so there was a little more excitement, but I think it will still be fun.

Here is my projected scoring system. (Discussion of rules is definitely up for debate. So let me know if anyone wants any changes):

OFFENSE (QB's, RB's, WR's, TE's)

6 points per rushing or recieving touchdown
4 points per passing touchdown
1 point per 10 yards rushing or recieving
1 point per 25 yards passing

KICKERS
5 points per 50+ yard field goal made
4 points per 40-49 yard field goal made
3 points per 39 and less yard field goal made

Again this is just a rough draft. If anyone wants to make changes I am willing to discuss them. We could also add defensive players, but I would only want to do that if we had enough people to make it worth while. The season is getting close so hopefully we can get some people to play and get this thing rolling. It should be easy enough to do. The only obstacle is going to be the draft.

It is my duty to participate in fantasy football. What can I say, I'm a football fanatic.

Sweet! Thats 3 people so far. I've pmed a mod to make sure it will be okay. I don't expect any problems though. As soon as he gives me the green light I'm going to pm everyone who took part in any NFL discussion. And if there is anyone that you guys think might be interested, let them know. The more the merrier!

hmm, what exactly are the rules to picking players? i think it is a weekly selection right?

Originally posted by Azale
hmm, what exactly are the rules to picking players? i think it is a weekly selection right?

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Well, I was thinking more along the lines of 1 draft. Before the season starts each person will select their players and that is who they are stuck with the rest of the season.

So we would all have to agree on a time to hold the draft. (Which is going to be pretty tricky I think) So, say we have mayakovsky, Azale, Chris85, xxx, yyy, and zzz. The draft would go something like this:

Azale (first)
Chris85 (2nd)
xxx (3rd)
yyy (4th)
zzz (5th)
zzz (6th)
yyy(7th)
xxx (8th)
Chris85 (9th)
Azale (10th)
Azale (11th)
Chris85 (12th)
etc. until we all have 10 players.

We will only start 7 players a week. So three will not be used. You can change your starting line-up each week. So it would be wise to get 2 QB's in case one gets injured. Or you can sub in and out who is playing better. But really you can do whatever you want.

How to do the draft? I'm not quite sure. We could do it in this thread and people can pm me their pick. So we would all meet here at a specific time and I will make a post saying 'Azale is up, Chris85 on deck. Then we can give every drafter 5 minutes to pm me his pick. I could then edit my post and say 'Azale - Marshall Faulk, Chris85 is up, xxx on deck. Then nobody else can pick Marshall Faulk so everyone would cross him off their lists. This way we don't fill up the thread with a bunch of posts. We would really only need one post by me that I will just keep editing so people know who has been picked. Lots of refresh clicks.

Or we can ask a mod to let us open a thread just for the draft and then he can delete it after we are finished. Whatever works for everybody else would be fine with me.

So, hopefully we can get some people to play, actually have everyone agree on a time for the draft, everyone actually showing up to the draft and execute the draft without a hitch.
I think we can do it.

If anybody has any other ideas, I'm all ears. Any ideas on anything from the scoring, draft process or anything else would be welcome. Sorry for the long post.

hmm, a specific time? why not a specific number of days or a week. then we just pick whenever our turn is up

Originally posted by Azale
hmm, a specific time? why not a specific number of days or a week. then we just pick whenever our turn is up

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Yeah, I was thinking about that last night. That would probably be a better idea. We'll hammer it all out if we can get some more people to play.

Edit: FINALIZED RULES ON FIRST POST!!!!

Count me in. I have been running my own 16 team keeper league for 13 years. kepp me updated on what's going on.

I'll be checking here, though.

Sure, I'll go in. Name my team the Tigerwoods.

May I suggest you relax the injury rule. There is no "official" way to define the injured status. Just let each team make one move per week, at their discretion, and limit the injured reserve to one player (any beyond one must be released.)

Originally posted by OneFastWarrior
Count me in. I have been running my own 16 team keeper league for 13 years. kepp me updated on what's going on.

I'll be checking here, though.

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16th year as commissioner, 12 teams (now) hybrid-keeper.

Doesn't Civfanatics have chat rooms where we could conduct the draft? Or we could do it at snails pace and shuffle posts around.

im in if you have room left.

Great! I'm glad this is starting to pick up now. Since mardukes and OneFastWarrior have both been involved in running fantasy football, I would definitely like to hear more of your suggestions. This the first time I have put something like this together, so feel free to speak up if you have concerns.

@mardukes --- your injured reserve thing might be a little easier to do. I'll see what everybody else thinks, but I will probably change the old rule to what you suggested. About the draft, we do have a chat room here. The only problem with that, is that we would have to get everyone to meet there at a certain time. I'm not sure how feesible that is. However, that was my first idea on how to run the draft. It will either be that or just starting the draft as soon as possible and HOPE that we can get through all 12 rounds before Week 1.

@joycem10 -- thanks, you're in!


PLAYERS SO FAR

mayakovsky
Azale
Chris85
OneFastWarrior
mardukes
joycem10

Thats 6 players! Like I said I would like to have 8, 10, or 12. So if anyone else wants in, let us know.

Sure, I'm in. You can never be in too many leagues.

Count me in as well Commissioner. My team- the Silverfish-are a hard working organisation with strong family values who do a lot of work that enriches the local community and I think will be an asset to your league. Unlike the Tigerwoods who are reputed to be a bunch of prettyboy ne'er do wells

Alright, tcjsavannah and samildanach are in! That makes 8 people. Again, there is still room if anyone else wants to play. I will check in later tonight and see whats up. In the next couple of days we need to get an idea how we will do the draft. Please leave any suggestions on how and when we can do this.

My thoughts:

1. Set up a time when we can all get together and conduct the draft with posts, or in the chat room if I can get permission.

2. Start the draft right away, without a specific time, and just have people post when they see that they are up. This would mean that everyone would have to be pretty diligent and check this thread as much as possible.

Again, if there are anymore suggestions I would love to hear them.

ps- First thread edited with new players.

I like your rules, teh only time you can pick up any players when they are injured makes it a little more difficult, but, hey, I like difficult. also makes you have to know what the bye weeks are when we draft. I like choice 2, draft by post, and keep diligently checking back.

i like choice 2 as well

Originally posted by Azale
i like choice 2 as well

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ditto.