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Fantasy Addicts League Rules

Fantasy Addicts 

League Rules

 

Rule Changes from previous season appear in green text

Rules Directory:

I    General

II   Format

III  Entry Fees and Payouts

IV   Scoring

V    Rosters

VI   Draft

VII  Free Agency and Trading 

VIII   Regular Season

IX   Playoffs

XI   Tiebreakers

Appendix A:  Regular Season Scoring Contest

Appendix B:   2020 Season Blue vs Gold Rules

I     General

A.     These will serve to be the official rules for the Fantasy Football Addicts Anonymous (Fantasy Addicts) fantasy league

B.    Rule/Settings Lock Date

    1. At a date TBD before the draft, both the rules on this rules page and the settings at the hosting site's league home will be "LOCKED" and will not change until the following offseason
      1. Coaches will be notified of this both before the Lock Date and at the time rules/settings are locked
      2. No changes will be made to settings after this date under any circumstances even if particular settings have been mistakenly set up in a way that is unintended (SEE Sec I.C.1)

C.    For anything not covered in these rules, please refer to the League Settings page at League website

    1. Should there be ANY discrepancy between the rules contained therein on this rules page and the rules listed in the hosting site's League Settings, either in description or in function, the Hosting Site's settings will supercede

D.    All arbitration of League Rules to be arbitrated  by the League Manager (LM)

    1. Should any unforeseen event arise during the season not covered explicitly in the rules, LM will exercise final judgment
      1. Any decision by the LM that involves LM’s team will cause LM’s team to be removed from Championship eligibility

F.     League will be hosted on NFL.com

G.     2020 Blue vs Gold Rules

    1. In the 2020 Season, in any instance where rules in the body of the Fantasy Addicts Rules are contradicted by rules in the 2020 Blue vs Gold Rules Appendix (Appendix B) rules in the Blue vs Gold Appendix will supercede
II     Format

A.     10 teams; No Divisions; Redraft

III     Entry Fees and Payouts

A.    Fantasy Addicts is a free entry - non payout league

B.    SEE Appendix A: Regular Season Scoring Contest

IV     Scoring

A.     Offensive Scoring Settings

    1. Fantasy Addicts will use the AF PPR Offensive Scoring Package with Decimal Scoring Option set to: NO
    2. NOTE: The AF PPR Scoring Package was revised after the 2019 season; changes include:
      • Completion/Incompletion Scoring removed
      • Passing Yardage Changed from 1pt/25yds to 1pt/20yds
      • Rushing TDs changed from 6pts to 8pts
      • Receiving Yardage changed from 1pt/20yds to 1pt/15yds
      • Fumbles changed from -3 pts to -1pt
      • Fumbles Lost changed from 0 pts to -2pts
      • Decimal Scoring changed from NO to OPTION
    3. AF PPR Offensive Scoring Set:

B.     Team Defense Scoring Settings

    1. Fanatasy Addicts will use the AF STANDARD Team Defense Scoring Package
    2. AF STANDARD Team Defense Scoring Package:

C.     IDP Scoring Settings

    1. Fanatsy Addicts will use the AF STANDARD IDP Scoring Package
    2. AF STANDARD IDP Scoring Package:

V     Rosters

A.     Team Rosters will have slots for a maximum of 34 Active Players with no additional slots for Injured Reserve Players

    1. Teams are allowed to carry fewer than a full 34 player roster

B.     Position Limits

    1. There are no Position Maximum restrictions for teams to adhere to
    2. There are no Position Minimum requirements for teams to adhere to

C.     Starting Line-Up:

 

VI     Draft

A.    Draft held live, online, annually on the Wednesday night immediately preceding Opening Thursday, at 10:00pm EDT

    1. The 2019 Draft will be live online on Wednesday, September 9, 2020 at 10:00pm EDT

B.     Draft will be serpentine style, 34 rounds in length

C.     90 seconds are allotted for each pick

D.     Draft order is randomly generated by draft client 30 minutes before start of draft

VII     Free Agency and Trading

A.     Free Agency system to be used each season will be chosen each preseason by league vote

    1. Voting will take place by League Poll, posted to the Fantasy Addicts host site
    2. Should no single option receive a majority of approval, a second, run-off vote will be held with options narrowed to the top two options in the first vote
    3. Options to be voted on are as follows:
      1. OPEN FA - No waivers, Free Agency is always open; players lock at individual game times and are available again Tuesday morning when host site opens
      2. REVOLVE WAIVER - Revolving Waivers, initial waiver priority set to inverse order of first round of the draft; teams move to last after a successful claim, never resets, waivers last 2 days; and players lock at individual game time
      3. LAST TO FIRST - Last To First Waivers, initial waiver priority set to inverse order of first round of the draft; resets weekly to inverse order of standings, waivers last 2 days; and players lock at individual game time
      4. WAB - Waiver Auction Budget, players claimed through blind bidding process, teams have initial budget of 1000, waivers last 4 days; and players lock at individual game time

B.     Trading

    1. There is no Trade Deadline
    2. Trades are subject to Team Owner Review with a 2 day trade reject time
VIII     Schedule/Regular Season

A.    Regular Season will be Weeks 1-13

B.    League will play a randomized single round robin schedule in Weeks 1-9 in which every team will play every other team once

C.    In Weeks 10-13 teams will be matched by Ladder Scheduling

    1. Ladder Scheduling will be defined as: teams matched based on to-date league standings - #1 vs #2, #3 vs #4, #5 vs #6, #7 vs #8, #9 vs #10 in a schedule that resets week to week
    2. Match-ups will be paired on Thursday each week (weeks 10-13) - after stat corrections for the prior week - based on that week's standings
IX    Playoffs

A.     Playoffs will be held in Weeks 14-17 with 5 teams qualifying

    1.    Qualifying/Seeding for the 5 playoff teams will be as follows:
      1. #1 Seed - Regular Season Champion/Ladder Champion (defined as the #1 team by standings at the conclusion of week 13)
      2. #2 Seed - Team with the highest total season points through Week 13 of the remaining 9 teams
      3. #3 Seed -  Highest ranked team - by standings - of the remaining 8 teams
      4. #4 Seed - Highest ranked team - by standings - of the remaining 7 teams
      5. #5 Seed - Team with most toal season points of the remaining 6 teams.

  B.     Match-Ups

    1. In Week 14, the #1, #2, and #3 seeds will receive a First Round BYE
    2. A Wild Card Game will be in Week 14, featuring a head to head match-up of the #4 and #5 seeded teams
      1. The winner of the Wild Card Game will advance to Week 15
    3. IF the #1 Seed (Ladder Champion) is ALSO the Regular Season points leader (tiebreakers apply, if necessary), they will have the option to choose their Week 15 opponent (#2 Seed, #3 Seed, or Wild Card winner)
    4. IF the #1 Seed is not the Regular Season points leader OR if they choose to not exercise their option, THEN the Wild Card winner will play the #1 seed in Week 15, and the #2 and #3 seeds will play each other in Week 15
    5. The Winners of the two Week 15 matches will face each other in the Championship Round
    6. The Championship Round will be a two week, cumulative points match in Weeks 16 and 17

C.        For Association stat-keeping purposes, teams that do not make the playoffs are considered to be idle/eliminated for the remainder of the season and will have their starters benched by AF personnel to result in a 0.00 score and no stats produced for playoff weeks

    1. The above rule will also apply to playoff teams that have been eliminated from the playoffs in all weeks following the week in which they were eliminated
X     Tiebreakers

A.     Individual Match-ups are allowed to end in ties, except in the case of the Playoffs (Weeks 14-17) (see below)

B.     Order of tiebreakers for Standings Ties (for the purposes of playoff seeding) is as follows:

    1. Total season points
    2. Head-to-head record
    3. Head-to-head cumulative points
    4. Total FLEX position points in head-to-head matches
    5. Total FLEX position points in Weeks 1-13
    6. Total kicking points in head-to-head matches
    7. Total kicking points in Weeks 1-13
    8. Total TEAM DEF points in head-to-head matches
    9. Total TEAM DEF points in Weeks 1-13
    10. Coin Flip

C.     Order of tiebreakers for Total Season Points Ties (for the purposes of playoff seeding and for Regular Season Scoring Contest) is as follows:

    1. Total head-to-head points between the teams that are tied (if two teams are tied) - if more than two teams are tied, move to Tiebreaker 2
    2. Highest Week 1 score - if the highest Week 1 score among tied teams is a tie between two or more of the tied teams, tiebreaker proceeds to Week 2, then Week 3, and so on until one team has a clear cut high score to break the total season points tie
    3. If Tiebreaker Progression through Week 13 produces no winner, order of tiebreakers proceeds to the tiebreakers for individual games (Sec X.D.) as applied to Week 13

D.     Order of tiebreakers for the individual games of the Playoffs are as follows:

    1. FLEX position points
    2. Kicker position points
    3. TEAM DEF position points
    4. Total, combined RB position points (does not include RBs starting at FLEX)
    5. QB position points
    6. Total, combined TE position points (does not include TEs starting at FLEX)
    7. Total, combined WR position points (does not include WRs starting at FLEX)
    8. Team with highest total number of receptions among starting WRs (includes WRs starting at FLEX)
    9. Team with highest total number of TDs among starting RBs (includes RBs starting at FLEX)
    10. Team with highest total, combined passing yards at QB position
    11. Team with longest successful Field Goal attempt among starting kickers
    12. Team with highest total, combined sacks at starting TEAM DEF position
    13. Coin flip
Appendix A:     Regular Season Scoring Contest

A.     The Fantasy Addicts Regular Season Scoring Contest ('the Contest') will be a voluntary participation, paid entry/payout contest running in conjunction with the Fantasy Addicts Regular Season (Weeks 1-13)

B.     Entry fee for the Contest will be $35.00(US)

  1. Entry fee is payable through LeagueSafe.com
  2. Entry fee must be submitted before the Fanatsy Addicts draft for teams to participate

C.     The winner of the Contest will be the team posting the highest, regular season (Weeks 1-13) cumulative points total among all participating teams (after Week 13 stat corrections)

    1. In the event of a tie between the highest two regular season scoring totals by two or more individual participating teams Total Season Points Tiebreakers (Sec X.C.) will be in effect

D.     Payout for the winner will be the total pot of all entry fees from all participating teams

  1. Only participating teams - teams that submitted an entry fee - are elligible to win
  2. Payout for the winner will not be made until the conclusion of Week 17 - as per LeagueSafe's policy
Appendix B: 2020 Blue vs Gold Season Rules

TBD