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Tournament Rules

I     General

A.   These will serve to be the official rules for Suicide Squad - Points Race Tournament (SS-PRT)

B.   For anything not covered in these rules, please refer to the League Settings page at League website;  League will be hosted on TBD

C.   All arbitration of League Rules to be arbitrated solely by Tournament Coordinator (TC)

D.   TC may maintain their own team in the tournament, OR may be listed as a “Co-Owner” of a team, in the event TC is listed as a “Co-Owner” it will only be for the purposes of running the tournament and TC will have no actual control over the team they are Co-Owner of

E.   Should any unforeseen event arise not covered explicitly in the rules, TC will exercise final judgment

1.    Any TC judgment made outside of specified rules that involves TC’s team will cause TC’s team to be removed from Championship eligibility

2.   This rule applies ONLY if TC is a team owner.  If TC is a Co-Owner, that team will not be effected by this rule

F.   Tournament rules are subject to adjustment before entry fees have been paid, and will be marked ‘LOCKED’ once any changes are final

G.   If, for any reason, there is any discrepansy between rules listed in these rules and settings listed on the League Settings page of the host site, settings page will supercede

II     Format

A.   12 Team Total Points Competition

III     Fees/Payout

A.   Entry fee for SS-PRT will be $25.00 (US) per team

B.   Payout will be $150.00 (US) for Tournament Champion (1st place); $100.00 (US) for Tournament Runner-up (2nd place), and $50.00(US) for 3rd place

C.   Entries and payouts will be handled through LeagueSafe.com

D.   TC will set deadline for payment of entry fee prior to tournament draft

E.  Prize money will not be disbursed until the Friday following Week 17 of the NFL Regular Season

IV     Scoring

A.  SS-PRT will utilize the AF Standard Offensive Scoring Package with Decimal Scoring Option set to "YES"

NOTE: This is a change from last season when the tournament utilized the AF-Milestone Offensive Scoring Package

NOTE: There will be no Team Defense Scoring Package used, also a change from prior seasons, because roster requirements have changed and Team Defenses are no longer utilized

V     Rosters

A.   SS-PRT will utilize a 17 player Starting Line-Up consisting of 17 QB/RB/WR/TE (Super-Flex) positions

      B.     There will be no bench spots or position minimum/maximums

VI    Draft

A.   Draft held live online, at a date/time TBD

1.   Draft will be serpentine style, 17 rounds in length

2.   90 seconds are allotted for each pick

3.   Draft order will be determined randomly by draft client 30 minutes prior to start of the draft

B.     In order to make it easier for all teams to follow the draft in progress, ALL TEAMS are required to post logos to their team prior to the draft

1. 1. 1. Logos may be custom or NFL default
      2. Teams that do not post their own logos will have logos posted for them by AF

VII     Free Agency and Trades

A.   Free Agency

1.   Free Agency is open from the Tuesday following Week 1 through to the end of season with Waivers in effect

B.   Waivers

1. 1. Waiver order will reset weekly with order determined by the inverse order of current points total (last place is first)
   2. Waiver period is 2 days

C.     Add/Drop Restrictions

1. 1. Add/Drop Restrictions have been removed

D.   Trades

1.   Trading is not allowed in the Tournament

VIII     Required Cuts

A.   Beginning after the conclusion of Week 1, teams must cut ONE player from their roster, reducing their total number of players by ONE, EVERY WEEK

1. 1. Required cut can be made at any point during the week, but must be performed by the conclusion of the Monday Night NFL game 
      1. There are no positional or scoring restrictions to which player a team can cut, not or their any restrictions against reacquiring a cut player in a later week as long as a team's roxter contains only the allowed number of players in any given week
      2. NOTE that players are set to lock at the start of their individual game times and once locked, cannot be cut
      3. NOTE that waivers are set to prevent cycling of players - meaning that once a player is acquired through either waivers or free agency, they cannot be cut in the same week
   2. A schedule of the total number of players each team should have in each week appears at right
   3. Teams that do nopt make the required cut each week will be deemed to be in DEFAULT for the week

B.     Default

1. 1. Tournament Officials will check rosters weekly after the MNF game and any team having more than the total number of players allowed for the week ending on that Monday night will be considered to be in DEFAULT
   2. Default - 1st Offense
      1. Teams in Default for the first time in the season will receive a Default Warning
      2. The lowest scoring player by total season scoring will be cut by Tournament Officials
      3. If team is in default by more than one player, Tournament Officials will cut the neccessary number of players required to bring the roster into legal limits, always making the cuts to the lowest scoring player (by season total scoring) on the team's roster
      4. If 1 or more players are tied for lowest scoring on a defaulted roster, tiebreaker will be alphabetical order by player's name (last, first)
      5. Defaulted Team's current week score will be adjusted to remove any points scored by the players cut to bring the team's roster into legal limits
   3. Default - 2nd Offense
      1. Teams in Default for the second time in the season will receive a Default Violation
      2. The lowest scoring player by total season scoring will be cut by Tournament Officials
      3. If team is in default by more than one player, Tournament Officials will cut the neccessary number of players required to bring the roster into legal limits, always making the cuts to the lowest scoring player (by season total scoring) on the team's roster
      4. If 1 or more players are tied for lowest scoring on a defaulted roster, tiebreaker will be alphabetical order by player's name (last, first)
      5. Defaulted Team's current week score will be adjusted to 0 (zero) points
   4. Default - 3rd Offense
      1. Teams in Default for the first time in the season will receive a Disqualification
      2. All Players on their roster will be cut by Tournament Officials, and the team will be locked out of the remainder of the tournament, forfieting any claim on prize money

IX     Schedule/Playoffs/Payoouts

A.   SS-PRT is a total points tournament and uses no schedule or W-L standings

B.   Standings are determined by total points scored through the season (Weeks 1-17)

C.   The SS-PRL uses no playoffs or Championship Game

D.   Total season points tabulated in Weeks 1-17 will determine the League Champion, Runner-Up, and 3rd Place Team after the conclusion of Week 17

1.   Team with the highest total season points through Week 17 will be declared League Champion and win the $150 first place prize

2.   Team with the second highest total season points through Week 17 will be declared League Runner-Up and win the $100 second place prize

3.   Team with the third highest total season points through Week 17 will be declared Third Place Team and win the $50 third place prize

4.   In the event of a tie of total season points after week 17, see TIEBREAKERS

IX     Tiebreakers

A.   There are no head-to-head matches in the SS-PRL so there are no head-to-head match-up or standings ties or tiebreakers

B.   Should two or more teams (1st -4th place) have an exact tie of their total points after the conclusion of Week 17, the tiebreaker for the purposes of determining the League Champion, Runner-Up, and Third Place Team will be the week 17's total points

1.   If week 17’s total points between tied teams is tied as well, tiebreaker will continue backwards until there's a higher score

2.   If teams (1st-4th) are tied for total season points and have tied in every single game over 17 weeks, prize money will be split between them

X     Special Rule

A.     Participation in tournament is limited to one entry per household/IP address

B.     After all tournament slots are filled but before draft order has been established, NFL.com will be contacted to verify that all participants registered with tournament are originating from different IP addresses to verify that no participant is registered with multiple teams

C.     Multiple teams originating from the same IP address will result in immediate expulsion of all teams involved

D.     It is recommended, that before the draft, each individual team verify for themselves that all teams are from different IP addresses; this can be done through the contact NFL tool (found in the FAQs), simply send an email, include league ID number, and ask NFL to verify that no teams in the league originate from the same IP address