Death Valley FFL

Death Valley Fantasy Football League Rule Book

I. Franchise Information

A. Buying a franchise: Any interested coach/owner is awarded a �franchise� upon payment of an entry fee of $50.00. The maximum number of franchises will not exceed sixteen. Renewing franchise owners are given first consideration when awarding a franchise provided that the deadline is met.

B. Deadline for purchasing/renewing a franchise, and declaring franchise players: One week prior to the start of the draft. Payments must be made on or before this date unless other arrangements are made. Franchise players will be declared at this time, but teams have the option to change players if an injury occurs before the draft.

C. New franchises: In the case of the league losing a past member, the designation of the franchises given will be on a first come, first serve basis.

D. Naming of teams: All owners will submit a team name. Changing of team names is allowed, but the owner will submit the changed logo and color scheme.

II. League Structure

A. The league will be comprised of three divisions: Purple, Gold and White with four teams in each. Any new franchise will be placed into the division where the vacancy occurred.

III. League Draft

A. Draft Day: The draft will occur at a site and time to be determined by majority of league members.

B. Draft Structure and Order: 12 rounds. The draft order will be determined by the previous year�s results. The consolation bracket teams will makeup the top picks. The consolation teams will be determined first by record and then by points for, with the worst record getting the 1st pick. The bottom half of the draft will be organized using the previous year�s playoff teams with the League champ getting the last pick, the runner-up getting the second to last pick, third place team gets the 3rd to last pick, fourth place gets the 4th to last pick. The rest of the teams will be broken down just like the consolation teams with record and points for as reference. The remaining rounds will be inverted and reverted using the serpentine method.

C. Time Limits: A generous time limit of two minutes per pick is given. If the time limit has been exceeded, the next team in line will then be able to pick. Following that pick, the team skipped will be able to pick. To avoid being skipped, PLEASE BE PREPARED!

D. Eligible Draft Players: Each franchise will draft scoring players: i.e. quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers (including tight ends), kickers, and team defense/special teams. Note that quarterbacks and kickers are not team designations. They are individual positions. When drafting a QB or PK, you will not get their backups.

E. Injured reserve. One player may be placed on injured reserve if liste listed as OUT or DOUBTFUL. The team will not be penalized any roster space.

IV. Legal Formations, Scoring, Line-ups:

A. Legal Formations: Two formations are allowed to be run.

1) Standard: Includes 1 QB, 2 RBs, 3 WR�s (including TE�s), 1 PK, and 1 Team Defense/ST.
2) West Coast: Includes 1 QB, 1 RB, 4 WR�s (including TE�s), 1 PK, and 1 Team Defense/ST.

B. Scoring (See scoring page)

1) Scoring.
After all point totals have been recorded. The team with the highest point total will be awarded a victory and the losing team will record a loss. Official scoring stats will be via the official NFL website. Scoring disputes must be brought to attention by the Thursday following the week�s games.

2) Tiebreakers.
If a tie occurs, then total yardage of starters will be used to declare the winner. If there is a tie, and the game is during the regular season, then it will be declared a tie. If the tie occurs during the playoffs and total starter yardage does not settle the tie, then total starter touchdowns will be used. If this doesn�t break the tie, then total team yardage, followed by total team touchdowns, highest scoring starting player, the longest touchdown by a starter, highest scoring non-starter, longest touchdown by a non-starter and then finally, the higher seeded team.

3) Submitting line-ups.
Owners will simply use the website,e-mail or phone the commissioner to name starters. This must be done before kickoff of a started player�s game. It should be noted that some games will be played on Thursdays and Saturdays.

V. Schedules.

A. Regular Season. The league will play a fourteen game regular season.

In a 16 team league, each of the four teams within a division plays the other three twice for a total of six games. Each team also plays each team in the intra-conference division. Each team will also play three other teams from the opposing conference to round out the schedule. The teams played will be determined by the previous year�s standings. In other words, the 1st place division teams will play the rival conferences two 1st place teams and one 2nd place team. The 2nd place teams will play the two rival conference 2nd place teams and one 1st place team and so on down the line.

B. Playoffs: The seedings are set up as such:
1. Best win-loss record.
2. Division win-loss records (intra-division tiebreakers only)
3. Most points scored during the regular season.
4. Head-to-head competition
5. Head-to-head points
6. Most points allowed.
7. Coin flip. (If there is still a tie) In the case of multiple teams, whoever has the odd coin will win.

The three division winners advance to the playoffs along with one wild card (best remaining team) while the bottom eight move to the consolation bracket in a 12 team league. The wild card will be seeded #4 and play the overall #1 seed, while the #2 and #3 seeds will play. After the completion of the first playoff round, the teams will be re-seeded just like the NFL.

VI. Trading and Pick-ups.

A. Trades prior to draft. Only draft picks in the first five rounds are eligible to be traded prior to the draft. Any trade is conceivable, but to determine a fair trade the picks are assigned points based on draft order times the five rounds. Therefore the first pick has a designation of 80 points and the last pick of the fifth round has a designation of 1 point. In order to have a trade approved, the traders must get these numbers relatively close for a subjective review by the commissioners.

B. Trades after draft. Any trade is conceivable but must meet the approval of the commissioners. Approval usually relies on the subjective analysis of point differential between the players, injury status, and general fairness of the trade. Please use the trade analysis link to get a good guideline, as the commissioners will use this as well. Understand that it no longer becomes fun for the rest of the league when trades become unfair.

C. Trade Costs. All trades, pre or post draft, cost $5.00 per player.

D. Trade deadline. The end of the tenth week (Thursday) at midnight.

E. Rosters and Pickups. Rosters cannot exceed 15 players (not including players on IR). Pickups will be allowed starting immediately after the draft and will continue until the kickoff of the first NFL game during our first round playoff games (usually week 15). Free pick-ups will run from the Monday after the draft until the start of each team`s season on a first come, first serve basis. After the opening kickoff of a free agent`s team, pick-ups will no longer be free. If an owner wants to pick up a free agent, he must pay $5.00 to acquire him. Pick-ups can be made no sooner than Tuesday at 9:00 pm, but no later than 12:00 pm the following Sunday.

VII. Arbitration. In the event of a dispute, the commissioners will do their best to rectify the situation. If the commishes can not agree, then the league will vote. Majority will rule. If there is no majority, then the initial ruling before the dispute will stand.

VIII. Awards.
As for our local awards:

Death Valley Championship $550.00
Post Season Winners (18 games) 5% of Trade/Free Agency Money
Coach of the Year 10% of above

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