Westmark Fantasy Football Rules and Regulations

Money Matters:

• Entry Fee is $150.00 – due on draft day.

• Free Agent pick-ups cost $5.00 each.

• Bye week pick-ups cost $2.00 each.

• The team with the most total points for an individual week wins $50.00.

• The top 4 teams win the prize money depending how they finish in the playoffs.

• The top 4 teams in total points split the Free Agent/Trade/Bye Week money.

Scoring Scale:

Draft Details:

• Draft order will be determined by a random system. (E.g. cards on a table.)

• The draft will be serpentine in order: Round One 1 – 12, Round Two 12 – 1 and so forth.

• Each General Manager (G.M.) has 3 minutes to select their player.

• The draft is 10 rounds in length.

Team and Starting Lineups:

• A team may consist of any players (available) that you wish.

• The legal weekly starting lineup:

Team Quarterback*

Wide Receiver or Tight End

Wide Receiver or Tight End

Wide Receiver or Tight End or Running Back

Wide Receiver or Tight End or Running Back

Wide Receiver or Tight End or Running Back.

Kicker

Defense**

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                  Bench          

                  Bench           

*          E.g. The Colts – Peyton Manning and Jeff Sorgi;  they all start so if Manning is pulled for Sorgi  at halftime and throws a TD it counts.

**       Defense includes a teams Special Teams – So any punt return/kick-off returns count.

• The starting lineups are 8 players deep and there are 10 rounds.  Every team also drafts 2 bonus players for their bench, these bonus/bench players may be of any position.  Bench players points do not contribute to any point totals.

                    Bench            Quarterback or Wide Receiver or Tight End or Running Back or Kicker or Defense

                    Bench            Quarterback or Wide Receiver or Tight End or Running Back or Kicker or Defense

• You may change your weekly starting lineup as many times until that games kick-off (as in rotating in your bench players not picking up Free Agents.)  Yahoo, our league host, automatically locks our teams when the games begin. This means if your entire roster plays Monday Night Football you have until Monday to change your starting line-up.

• If you do not have access to the internet, you may contact the commissioner and he shall enter your line-up.

 Player Transaction Policy:

• No trading allowed.  (opinion plays to strongly in trades and it's hard to judge if it's a good trade or not, let alone get a consensus decision among 12 or so different teams. 

• There is no limit on the number of Free Agents a G.M. may pick up, Free Agency ends week 13.  Free Agent pick-ups are $5.00 per player.

• Free Agent priority goes to the team with the lowest season point total.  This priority is only on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.  The policy changes to “first come, first serve” on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday (watch the schedule though if there is a Wednesday or Thursday game things change, Tuesday then is the only day of priority and Wednesday becomes the only day for “first come, first serve” – basically if a game was played that week Free Agency is closed the day before.)  If there is a tie in total points to the teams involved in a Free Agency pick-up the second priority will be to the team with lesser total points of that previous week and the third priority goes to the team with lesser total points over the last 3 weeks.

• When a player’s bye week comes up for $2.00 you may select a bye week replacement in his place.  If you pick up a bye week player you have priority on him over any other team the following week, if you wish to keep him then you must pay an additional $3.00.  Your bye week priority only lasts for that upcoming Tuesday so he may be available for Wednesday’s priority lists.

• Game Time Decision Rule:

From time to time NFL coaches like to keep the opposing team guessing about the health of a player.  So many times a fantasy owner does not know if a player is going to play at all or not.  To protect against this, since you are considered the coach of that player, if the NFL coach decides against playing that particular player then you would do the same and wouldn’t of started him. 

So, if in the printed media (newspapers, TV, internet) STATES that a player is a game time decision then you may do the following:

You start that player like you would if you knew he was going to play, and then you declare one of your bench players as the player to play in his spot if he ends up not playing.  If your player does not play a single down in that game then you get the points for your bonus player performance.  But! If that game time decision player plays even one second you get his points even if it is literally one second.

Draft Details:

• Draft order will be determined by a random system. (E.g. drawing cards off a table.)

• The draft will be serpentine in order: Round One 1 – 12, Round Two 12 – 1 and so forth.

• Each General Manager (G.M.) has 3 minutes to select their player.

• The draft is 10 rounds in length.

The Season and the Playoffs:

• There is no head-to-head match ups during weeks 1 – 13, only points matter.

• Head-to-head match ups begin in the Playoffs.

• Playoffs start week 14 and the championship game is week 16.

• The 6 teams with the most points after week 13 will be seeded into the playoffs.

• If you do not make the playoffs you still field a team and you may win the weeklies even through the playoffs.

• The top two teams are granted a bye week in the playoffs.

• Week 14 will consist of 3 vs. 6 and 4 vs. 5.

• Winners of those games will play 1 and 2.

• 1 will play the lesser of the remaining seeds.  (E.g. if 3 and 6 win it would be 1 vs. 6 and 2 vs. 3.)

• The winner of those games plays for the championship, losers play for 3^rd and 4^th.

• If there is a tie in the playoff games the tie breaker is a comparison to who would have won the games between the two teams throughout the season if they played every game against each other. (which team outscored the other team more often each week to week)