Fantasy Football League Dynasty 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.

Salary Cap

Auction Draft

Injuries/Injured Reserve

During the season you are allowed to have two players on injured reserve that do not count against your 14 players (although half of their salary, rounded up, will still count against your salary cap). 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: a player on injured reserve MUST be activated after they score points unless they are still listed as injured on the ESPN web site.

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.

Trades

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. Trades must be approved by both owners through the commissioner and both teams must remain under the salary keep after the trade.
Leaving salary behind in trades is acceptable (i.e. Team A trades $13 James Stewart to Team B for $10 Drew Bledsoe but agrees to pay $4 of Stewart's salary) although the player will maintain their original salary value for the purposes of keepers. Trades including contingencies for following weeks are not 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.

Free Agents (Holding Period and Bidding)

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 as owners submit their bids for free agents. All bids should include a listing of moves that will be done to allow the pickup of the desired free agent.

Simple conditional bids are allowed ("I want to cut Player X at $3 and sign a kicker for $2 - my choices are Kicker Y or Z"). Complex bids are not ("I want to bid $1 more than the Cannon Fodder on Player X and cut Player Y"). Please try to make your bids as clear as possible to avoid any confusion. Unclear bids will be handled at the Commissioners discretion and all decisions will be final.

At Noon on Wednesday the requests will be processed. Players will be awarded to the highest bidder. Tie bids are determined by Overall Winning Percentage, Head-Head Record, Total Points Scored, Divisional Winning Percentage, Reverse Order of Opponent Total Points Scored, Power Rank.

Free Agents (Released players)

Players that have been released as part of a free agent pickup will be available at their current salary for the remainder of the week on a "first come - first served" basis. If no one selects a dropped player at their current salary, owners may then bid on the player as a free agent during the next week's free agent holding period.

Keepers

One week prior to the draft, each owner will submit a list of players that they will be keeping from the previous year. Each player being kept will be given a $5 raise (minimum of $10). These players will automatically remain with their current team at their new value.

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, Division Record, then Total Points (season). In a three-way tie, the tiebreakers are Division Record, Total Points, and Coin Toss. 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
• Team Information
• 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)

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 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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