Overview
The First year, the divisions and conferences will be picked randomly. After the first year, each year after will have the division determined by a snake draft from the 4 Division winners regardless of conference. The Division winners from each division the previous Fantasy Season, will snake draft the other owners that they want in their division. The draft order of these division winners will be from worst division winner record picking first, then the 2nd worst division winning record, to the 2nd best division winning record picking 3rd, to the Presidents Cup Winner (division winner with best record) picking 4th (last). It will be a snake draft involving fantasy owners that will be done via group text and/or email. For example, Cowboys, Vipers, Kegstands and Big Lou all win their divisions this year. The worst record of those winners picks first. If Big Lou had t he worst record of these 4 division winners, he gets the first pick for a team in his division the following season. He can pick Fauci with the number 1 pick. Then it snakes until every owner is in a division. This may be a way for Fridge to finally get picked first in something.
Schedule (28 Games)
This schedule allows you to play each team in the entire league at least once, play each division opponent 4 times (weeks 1, 3, 8 & 13) when there are NO NFL teams on their Bye. It also allows you to play each other conference team twice (weeks 2 & 9). You will play each team from the other conference once. This gives us a total of 28 games in this format.
In the unlikely event of a game ending in a tie, bench scoring for that week will determine the winner for that game.
Weeks 1, 3, 8, and 13 will be DIVISION RIVALRY WEEKS. These weeks will be triple headers (head-to-head against each of the 3 teams within your division). To clarify, you will play 3 games Weeks 1, 3, 8, and 13.
Weeks 2 & 9 will be CONFERENCE RIVALY WEEKS. These weeks you will play a quadruple header (head-to head against each of the 4 non-division teams in your conference). To clarify, you will play 4 games weeks 2 & 9.
Weeks 4-7 and weeks 10-12 and week 14, you will play 1 game versus an out of conference opponent.
PLAY-OFFS: 8 playoff teams with each Conference Regular Season Champion getting a First Round Bye Week 15. The remaining 3 playoff teams in each conference will be playing "best score" week. The top score in each conference playoff game for week 15 will advance to week 16--so there is no "one-opponent" week 15.
Week 16 will have the top seed (Conference Regular Season Champion) facing the highest scoring team from their conference playoff game week 15, Head-to-head.
Week 17 will be the Fantasy Bowl between the two head-to-head winners from each conference playoff champion determined week 16. The winner of the Fantasy Bowl is the Oz 2024 Champion.
PRO BOWL: Week 18 (yes, after the Fantasy bowl) will be our Pro Bowl. The team with the highest Starters AND Bench scoring will win the $50 prize. You will not need to set a lineup. If there is a tie, the team with the best record of the tie scores will win the tie breaker. If those records are the same, the $50 will be split evenly.
HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE/12th MAN-During Division Rivalry and Conference Rivalry weeks (1, 2, 3, 8, 9, & 13) the Home Fantasy Team Designated by the schedule will receive and additional 1.2 points (Everyone will have the same amount of these home games). All out of conference games are played on a neutral site in London so there is NO Home Field Advantage for weeks you play an out of conference opponent.
Home Field advantage will also be done for the first round of the playoffs only (the Division winner will have a 1.2 point bonus for home field when they play “best score” that week against the 2 Wild Card teams).
Rosters (14 total players)
Starting Lineups
Scoring
Payouts
This 16-team league will be utilizing these payouts:
$170 (League fee per team)
x 16 (teams)
$2720
-$80 (rt sports fee)
$2640
-$800 (4 Division winners x 200)
$1840
-$600 (4 Wild Card winners x 150)
$1240
-$100 (2 Regular Season Conference Champions x 50)
$1140
-$50 (Overall Best Regular Season Record after tie breakers x 50)
$1090
-$340 ($20 weekly high x 17 weeks)
$750
-500 (Fantasy Bowl Winner)
$250
-$200 (Fantasy Bowl Runner Up)
$50
-50 (Pro Bowl Winner Week 18)
$0
To summarize the above math, each of the 4 Division winners will each win $200. Each of the 4 Wild Card winners will win $150. The Presidents Cup winner (best overall record after tiebreakers) will receive an extra $50. The 2 Regular Season Conference Champions (best overall regular season record in each conference) will receive $50 each. The winner of the Fantasy Bowl will receive $500. The loser of the fantasy Bowl will receive $200. From weeks 1 thru week 17, the team scoring the highest point total for each week (tie breakers utilized if necessary) will receive $20. The winner of the Pro Bowl will receive $50. The league site fee is $80 which goes to rtsports.
Waiver Wire
WAIVER WIRE TRANSACTIONS WILL BE AVAILABLE THRU WEEK 18 FOR ALL TEAMS (NON-PLAYOFF TEAMS CAN MAKE CLAIMS/PICK-UPS SINCE THEY CAN COMPETE FOR WEEKLY HIGHS AND OUR PRO BOWL PRIZE).
Once a players NFL game has started you will not be able to pick up or release anyone playing in that game until the waiver wire re-opens for the following week. Any player that has not played yet or is on a bye is eligible to be released or picked up until their NFL game starts.
Trades
For a trade to be granted in each week, it must be posted through our league message board (not on a handshake) ASAP for 72 hours. This gives all owners 3 days to review the trade. Owners will be notified of trades automatically if you choose to get notifications from the site. If you do not want the automatic notifications, it is up to the owner to frequent the message board for trade announcements. Ignorance will not be an acceptable excuse for extending trade deadlines or retroactive vetoes.
Once posted on our league message board, a trade cannot be withdrawn by one party due to player injury, suspension, or any other unforeseen circumstance. The only way an agreed upon trade can be voided is if it is withdrawn by both parties before the trade is granted or vetoed by the majority of the uninvolved owners. A veto must be published on the message board or in the group text mesage, otherwise it will be considered an approval.
During the 3-day trade acceptance period, all owners (except those involved in the trade) will be given the opportunity to veto the trade. However, those owners who choose to veto the trade must make a valid case to the message board for why the trade should not be granted.
There are only 2 valid reasons which a trade can be vetoed:
If a plurality of the valid votes cast is against the trade, then the trade will not be granted. If a plurality of the valid votes approves the trade before the 72 hours, the transaction will happen before the 72-hour period, as there would not be enough veto votes to stop it. Failure to vote will be counted as accepting the trade as an approval. If there is a tie then the trade is COMPLETED AND ACCEPTED.
If you cannot contact a commissioner or co-commissioner, and your issue is time-sensitive (for instance, if you are requesting a roster modification because you do not have access to the Internet), please use the league message board or TEXT/email the commissioner AND your OPPONENT to make your request. Or have someone made this communication public for you via these methods. In this way, we can verify the time of your request and make your roster change retroactively if necessary.
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Quarterback | 1 | 2 |
Running Back | 1 | 12 |
Wide Rec/TE | 1 | 12 |
Kicker | 1 | 2 |
Defense/Sp Team | 1 | 2 |
Quarterback | 1 | to | 1 |
Running Back | 1 | to | 1 |
Wide Rec/TE | 1 | to | 1 |
Kicker | 1 | to | 1 |
Defense/Sp Team | 1 | to | 1 |
Flex ( RB WR/TE TE ) | 3 | to | 3 |
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Week 2 | Thu Sep 12 12:00pm ET | thru | Sun Sep 15 1:00pm ET |
Week 3 | Thu Sep 19 12:00pm ET | thru | Sun Sep 22 1:00pm ET |
Week 4 | Thu Sep 26 12:00pm ET | thru | Sun Sep 29 1:00pm ET |
Week 5 | Thu Oct 3 12:00pm ET | thru | Sun Oct 6 1:00pm ET |
Week 6 | Thu Oct 10 12:00pm ET | thru | Sun Oct 13 1:00pm ET |
Week 7 | Thu Oct 17 12:00pm ET | thru | Sun Oct 20 1:00pm ET |
Week 8 | Thu Oct 24 12:00pm ET | thru | Sun Oct 27 1:00pm ET |
Week 9 | Thu Oct 31 12:00pm ET | thru | Sun Nov 3 1:00pm ET |
Week 10 | Thu Nov 7 12:00pm ET | thru | Sun Nov 10 1:00pm ET |
Week 11 | Thu Nov 14 12:00pm ET | thru | Sun Nov 17 1:00pm ET |
Week 12 | Thu Nov 21 12:00pm ET | thru | Sun Nov 24 1:00pm ET |
Week 13 | Thu Nov 28 12:00pm ET | thru | Sun Dec 1 1:00pm ET |
Week 14 | Thu Dec 5 12:00pm ET | thru | Sun Dec 8 1:00pm ET |
Playoff Week 1 | Thu Dec 12 12:00pm ET | thru | Sun Dec 15 1:00pm ET |
Playoff Week 2 | Thu Dec 19 12:00pm ET | thru | Sun Dec 22 1:00pm ET |
Playoff Week 3 | Thu Dec 26 12:00pm ET | thru | Sun Dec 29 1:00pm ET |
Offseason | Thu Jan 2 12:00pm ET | thru | Sun Jan 5 1:00pm ET |
Week 1 | Fri Mar 1 12:00am ET | thru | Thu Sep 5 12:00am ET |
Week 2 | Tue Sep 10 7:00am ET | thru | Thu Sep 12 12:00am ET |
Week 3 | Tue Sep 17 7:00am ET | thru | Thu Sep 19 12:00am ET |
Week 4 | Tue Sep 24 7:00am ET | thru | Thu Sep 26 12:00am ET |
Week 5 | Tue Oct 1 7:00am ET | thru | Thu Oct 3 12:00am ET |
Week 6 | Tue Oct 8 7:00am ET | thru | Thu Oct 10 12:00am ET |
Week 7 | Tue Oct 15 7:00am ET | thru | Thu Oct 17 12:00am ET |
Week 8 | Tue Oct 22 7:00am ET | thru | Thu Oct 24 12:00am ET |
Week 9 | Tue Oct 29 7:00am ET | thru | Thu Oct 31 12:00am ET |
Week 10 | Tue Nov 5 7:00am ET | thru | Thu Nov 7 12:00am ET |
Week 11 | Tue Nov 12 7:00am ET | thru | Thu Nov 14 12:00am ET |
Week 12 | Tue Nov 19 7:00am ET | thru | Thu Nov 21 12:00am ET |
Week 13 | Tue Nov 26 7:00am ET | thru | Thu Nov 28 12:00am ET |
Week 14 | Tue Dec 3 7:00am ET | thru | Thu Dec 5 12:00am ET |