Fantasy Football Rules - San Diego League

Fantasy Football
Rules & Regulations

2005 Season

Pre-Season	In-Season	Post-Season
Membership	Weekly Games	Playoffs
Fees	Starting Lineup	Tiebreakers
Team and Roster	Scoring	Prizes
Draft Method - 2 Phase	Restricted Waivers
Draft Phase 1 - Auction	Free Waivers
Draft Phase 2 - Pick Order	Trades

Pre-Season

Membership

Membership to this league is a privilege and is by invitation only

Fees

Fees for membership will be determined by the commissioner

Team and Roster

Team roster will be 14 (a defense and/or special-team takes up 1 roster spot)

Draft Method - 2 Phase

The draft consist of 2 phases, the auction and the straight draft
This is designed to avoid unfair advantage to "luck of the draw" situations

Draft Phase 1 - Auction

Each team owner starts with a salary cap of $100 (fictitious dollars) All owners will pull a number out of a hat, this number will be used to determine their turn to declare a player for auction.

The auction starts when the owner who has been predetermined to go first, names a player and declares an opening bid for said player

A bid must be at least $1, and must be in increments of $1 (50 cents and 25 cents bids etc. are not allowed)

An owner must have enough money to make the minimum bid, $1 for all 6 rounds, therefore the max bid for a player is $95

Once an owner passes on a bid, he is out of the auction for that particular player

The auction for a particular player ends when all but 1 owner still bidding passes, the remaining owner then right to draft that player, and his bid amount gets subtracted from his salary cap pool.

Then owner predetermined to go next can declare his bid on a player of his choosing

Each owner can only draft 6 players in the auctin round, at anytime during the auction round when an owner reaches 6 players drafted, the owner is no longer allowed to bid.

This auction round ends when all teams have 6 players

Draft Phase 2 - Pick Order

The Straight Draft occurs after the auction rounds

The owner with the most cash left after the auction round gets to go first, and the owner with the second most cash goes next and so forth.

In case of a tie in remaining cash, the order will be determined by the auction order in the auction round

After the last person has drafted, then the next round proceeds in reverse order.
Ex. 1st round order 1, 2, 3 �. 7, 8, 9, 10. 2nd round order 10, 9, 8, 7 �. 3, 2, 1

The owner simply names the player his would like to draft and will receive said player

The drafting will continue to 8 rounds (total of 14 players on each team).

In-Season

Weekly Games

There will be 14 weeks of head-to-head play followed by 2 rounds of playoffs
There will be no games on week 17 as some teams already qualified
for playoffs may not play their starters

The top 4 teams after week 14 will qualify for playoffs which will be 2 rounds
semi-finals on week 15 and finals, and 3rd place game on week 16. The weekly games will be head-to-head round robin match-ups
the schedule is determined randomly depending on the website in use
A team is not allowed to intentionally field an un-complete lineup
whether they are still in contention or not
the commissioner reserves the right to modify the line-up before game time

Starting Lineup

Starting lineups should consists of the following :

Defense/ST = 1 (team)

Dealines for starting lineips :

Starting lineups can be changed up to 5 minutes before the start of each player's game .

Scoring

Scoring by Offense (positive)

Throwing touchdown = 4 pts

Rushing touchdown = 6 pts.

Receiving touchdown = 6 pts.

2 point conversion = 2 pts.

Throwing 2 pt. Conversion = 2 pts.

Field goal from < 50 yards = 3 pts.

Field goal from > 50 yards = 4 pts.

Point after touchdown = 1 pt.

Passing yards, every 25 yards = 1 pt.

Rushing yards, every 10 yards = 1 pt.

Receiving yards, every 10 yards = 1 pt.

Scoring by Offense (negative)

Throwing interceptions = -1 (negative 1pt.)

Lost Fumble = -1 (negative 1pt.)

Scoring by Defense (positive)

Fumble recovery by defense = 1 pt.

Interception by defense = 1 pt.

Sack by defense = 1 pt.

Blocked kick = 1 pt.

Defensive Touchdown = 6 pts.

Kick-off or Return Touchdown = 6 pts.

Defensive Safety = 2 pts.

Defense shuts out opponent = 10 pts.

Defense holds opponent to 6 or less points = 5 pts.

Restricted Waivers

Every week after all games are played (typically Tue. Mornings), each team is allowed to draft 1 player

The order of the draft will start with the team with the worst record at that time (in case of tie, least number of cumulative points), and ending with the team with the best record.

A time limit will be set for each team to draft, if a team does not make a draft in the allowed time, they will forfeit their right to draft.

A player that is dropped during the weekly restricted drafts cannot be picked up by another team until next week's restricted draft period.

Free Waivers

After all teams have made their 1 pick during the restricted draft, at a pre-determined time (typically Sat. morning 6:00 am) the free waivers period will start.

In this period any team is allowed to make any number of transactions until game time.

Players dropped during this free waiver period CAN be picked up by other teams

Players dropped during the most recent restricted waiver period CANNOT be picked.

All Free Waiver player transactions must be completed no later than 5 minutes before the start of the week's Sunday games .

Trades

Team owners are free to make trades proposals anytime to any other team

Trades must be completed by Wed for traded players to be eligible for the weekend's games

Once a trade is made other team owners will have 48 hours to file a protest, in which case it will go to a vote where the trade will either be upheld or vetoed.

Once traded players have played in a game, the trade will no longer be reversible.

If a trade is completed after the Wed deadline, owners involved may request the commissioner to allow traded players to be eligible for the coming weekend's games, this request will not have automatic approval and will be up to the commissioner's discretion. The closer to the weekend's games this request is made the least likely it will be approved, this option is open until midnight Sat night (it is your responsibility to make sure the commissioner will reachable and able to make approvals at the time you complete your trade).

All approved trades will be published on the website, it is the owners responsibility to look at published trades on a regular basis, once a traded player has played in a game, the trade is irreversible.

Post-Season

Playoffs

The top 4 teams (rank 1 to 4) after regular season will qualify for playoffs
There are 2 rounds of playoffs, semi-finals and finals
to be played on week 15 and week 16 respectively

Semi-finals Match-ups

rank 1 vs. rank 4

rank 2 vs. rank 3

Finals Match-ups

winner of (rank 1 vs. rank 4) vs. winner of (rank 2 vs. rank 3)

play for championship, loser will end up in 2nd place

loser of (rank 1 vs. rank 4) vs. loser of (rank 2 vs. rank 3)

play for 3rd place, loser will end up in 4th place

The next 4 teams (rank 5 to 8) after regular season will qualify for consolation playoffs
There are 2 rounds of consolation playoffs, round 1 and round 2
to be played on week 15 and week 16 respectively

Consolation Round 1 Match-ups

rank 5 vs. rank 8

rank 6 vs. rank 7

Consolation Round 2 Match-ups

winner of (rank 5 vs. rank 8) vs. winner of (rank 6 vs. rank 7)

play for 5th place, loser will end up in 6th place

loser of (rank 5 vs. rank 8) vs. loser of (rank 6 vs. rank 7)

play for 7th place, loser will end up in 8th place

Tiebreakers

Tiebreakers for qualifying for playoffs are as follows :

Win percentage

Cumulative points in regular season