FFL 2002 - Rules

The purse will pay 1st & 2nd, roughly 70% - 30% split (rounded off at descression of the commish).
There will be a draft just after the regular season, but you can keep as many or as few players from your roster as you wish, at no extra cost.
The draft will be in reverse order of the final regular season standings. 7th place will be in the first draft possision, then it will snake from there.
Each team will accumulate points for his entire 14 player roster. The team with the most points at the end of the SUPER BOWL, Wins! If there is a tie, the tie breaker will start from Points scored in the Super Bowl. The team with the most in that game will Win the tie breaker. If there is still a tie, then we count points awarded in the Conference Championships and so on

3. Fees

Yearly franchise fee - $25.00

Playoff fee - $15.00

Each loss - $1.00 (for each team with a better score than you)

Drop & add a player - $3.00 minimum (bidding if needed)

Trades - $5.00 per team (number of players doesn't matter)

4. Payout

Regular Season:

1st) 60% of pool

2nd) 25% of pool

3rd) 15% of pool

If we have 8 or more teams, then 1st place will pay 50% and we will pay 4th place 10%

Playoff Pool: 1st - 70%, 2nd - 30%

5. Tie breakers for final positions

A) Most points scored during the season.

B) Head to Head results

C) Fewest point allowed

D) A Coin Toss

6. Draft order

Will be determined by record of the previous year. The Worst record gets first choice of draft position. Second worst gets the next choice, and so on. New teams in the future will get last choice of draft position.

7. ROSTER AND LINEUPS

The roster size is 14 players, in any configuration.

Starting lineups will consist of the following:

1 - Quarterback

2 - Runningbacks

3 - Receivers

1 - Kicker

2 - "Wild Card" players (any positions)

8. Submiting Starting Lineups

Weekend Games: Starting Lineups must be turned in to the Commissioner no later than "end of day" Friday for players whose games are being played on Saturday or Sunday.

Thursday Night Games: No later than 4pm Thursday for Players whose games are to be played on Thursday night. You must determine by this time if you want to change your line up involving a player in a Thursday game. If you do not Make the choice, the player from last weeks line up will start for that current week.

(i.e. If you started Payton Manning in week 5 and he is playing a Thursday game for Week 6, then that Owner must call the commissioner by Thursday to make the choice of starting or not starting him for Week 6. If the Owner fails to call, then Payton Manning WILL start for Week 6.

Thanksgiving Week: No later than end of day Wednesday for ALL player for Thanksgiving Weekend games.

Failure to meet the submission deadline means the previous weeks lineup will be used for the upcoming game.

The Commissioner will try to have ALL lineups posted by Sunday Morning

9. Determining Winners

The winning team of each game will be the team whose starters score the most points. In case of a tie the winning team will be the team will be the team whose active roster players score the most points.

Example: If every team played 6 games. One team will be 6-0, the next 5-1, next will be 4-2, the next team is 3-3, next is 2-4, then 1-5 and the last team will be 0-6. Each loss will cost $1.00.

As commissioner, I am only human. If I make a mistake on figuring points, please let me know within 48 hours of when the standings/results are published. Otherwise they remain as is.

10. Scoring System:

Rushing TD's - 6 points

Rushing for Extra Point - 2 points

Receiving Td's - 6 points

Receiving for an Extra Point - 1 point

Passing Td's - 4 points

Passing for an Extra Point - 1 point

Kicking Field Goals - 3 points

Kicking an Extra point - 1 point

Defensive Player Td's by turnover - 6 points

Defensive Player Td's by kickoff or punt return - 6 points

Defensive Player scoring a safety - 2 points

BONUS POINTS

No Caps
2 point

3 points

4 points

5 points

6 points

7 points

8 points

9 points

10 points

1 Point for each:

RB's
(all off. yds) 100-109 yards 110-119 yards 120-129 yards 130-144 yards 145-159 yards 160-179 yards 180-199 yards 200-219 yards 220-239 yards Each
25 yards

WR's
(all off. yds) 80-99 yards 100-114 yards 115-129 yards 130-144 yards 145-164 yards 165-184 yards 185-204 yards 205-224 yards 225-244 yards Each
20 yards

QB's
(all off. yds) 250-274 yards 275-299 yards 300-324 yards 325-349 yards 350-364 yards 365-379 yards 390-404 yards 405-419 yards 420-434 yards Each
15 yards

Kickers 48 yards 49 yards 50 yards 51 yards 52 yards 53 yards 54 yards 55 yards 56 yards Each
1 yards

11. TRADING

Trading of players, and only players, will only be allowed up to Noon Thursday of Week 14. All trades must be called in by Noon Thursday. A limit of only 3 players each to be traded between 2 teams. It is not allowed to trade players for anything (money, favors, sex), except for other players. Trades are $5 per team, no mater if it is a 1 for 1, 2 for 2 or a 3 for 3, at the same time. We can now do uneven trades... 3 for 2, or 2 for 1, (within 1 player) however... all teams must stay at the 14 player limit.

12. Waiver Wire

A player not on a roster can be picked up by a team for $3.00 minimum bid. You may pick up as many players as you wish through out the season.

If more than 1 team bids on the same player, they will enter the automatic "Bidding War". The "Bidding War" will be a silent bid by all owners involved and they will not know what the others bids are.

There are no no limits to the amount of "Bidding Wars" you can enter for the season for each team.

Must be done by Noon Thursday, except for Thanksgiving, which will still be noon Wednesday.

Released players are not available until the following week.

13. Voting

A majority vote of the franchise owners is needed to amend the rules or to add new rules. All rules for the next season must be approved before August 1st of each year.

All league meetings must take place in a "Face-to-Face" environment. No Phone tag, email strings, chat room meetings will be recognized as official. Advanced notice of any meeting, with tentative agenda, must be given to ALL team owners. If an owner can't make the meeting, he may give a proxy vote to another owner.

Rev. 02/18/04