League Bylaws

Article X – Managing Your Roster

Team rosters will consist of 25 active roster spots, 3 Taxi/Practice Squad roster spots and 2 IR roster spots. The starting lineups will consist of 1 Quarterback, 2 Running Backs, 2 Wide Receivers, 1 Tight End, 1 Kicker, 1 Flex (RB/WR/TE), 2 Defensive Lineman, 3 Linebackers & 2 Defensive Backs.

To place a player on IR, the player has to be listed as “Doubtful”, “OUT” or “Suspended” on the NFL’s weekly injury report. Once a player is placed on your Taxi/Practice Squad or IR, that player is no longer counted on the 25 man active roster. Once a player is no longer listed as “Doubtful”, “OUT” or “Suspended” on the NFL’s weekly injury report, he must be moved back to your fantasy team’s active roster. Failure to do so will result in a roster violation and you will not be able to submit a lineup for the upcoming week until fixed.

All teams can protect up to five players (or 20% of their roster) from season to season, but no player can be kept for more than three consecutive seasons in a row.

Teams will be required to relinquish a draft pick for the player kept determined by that players Round Tender. A drafted players round tender is established in several ways but the most common way is by what round they were drafted in. In example, if you drafted Ezekiel Elliott in the 1st Round, you will have to give up a 1st Round pick in order to keep him for the upcoming season.

There are two cycles that players will go through when establishing keepers, and a players round tender can change during the two keeper cycles. Since we reward team who draft well, if a team drafted Alvin Kamara-RB after the 9th round, Kamara’s round tender would be…

• 1st Year Kept, a 9th rounder with a 2 yr round acceleration
• 2nd Year Kept, a 7th rounder with a 2 yr round acceleration
• 3rd Year Kept, a 5th rounder

But say that owner for whatever reason didn’t want to keep Kamara, then his round tender will be adjusted to their fantasy point total ranking at their position for that season. No way should another team grab Kamara at that price if they didn’t draft him.

Any player selected as a keeper can be kept by one team for a maximum of three consecutive seasons (or Keeper Count). After their third consecutive season, the player MUST BE added back to the player pool to be redrafted. The team losing said player can redraft the player again if they wanted and the player’s Keeper Count will restart all over again.

A. 9th Round Stack

Players established as a 9th Round Tender can be stacked. What this means is you can keep multiple 9th Round Tendered players and you subsequently give up consecutive round picks starting with a 9th rounder. See the table for a better understanding of this…

• If you keep one 9th Round Tendered player, you will have to give up a 9th round pick.
• If you keep two 9th Round Tendered players, you will have to give up 9th & 10th round picks.
• If you keep three 9th Round Tendered players, you will have to give up a 9th, 10th & 11th round picks.
• If you keep four 9th Round Tendered players, you will have to give up a 9th, 10th, 11th & 12th round picks.
• If you keep five 9th Round Tendered players, you will have to give up a 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th & 13th round picks.

B. True Round Tender Value

Future round tenders are based off of that players True Round Tender Value. In short, when a player is determined to be a 4th Round Tender, a team will use their 4th round pick to keep that player. There are some cases where a team will overpay (or use a higher round draft pick) to keep that player due to the fact that they have another player they want to keep with the same round tender, they don’t have a 4th round pick to give, or whatever other reason that arises.

In this case, if a team used a 3rd round pick to keep a 4th Round Tendered player the upcoming season their round acceleration will increase +1 as normal. That player will be a 3rd Round Tender & not a 2nd Round Tender based off of his true 4th round tender value of that year.

For 9th Round Tender players who were stacked, their round acceleration will increase by +1 or +2 depending on that players acceleration. No matter if you spent a 10th or an 11th round pick to keep that player, their round tender for the upcoming season will be based off of their true round tender value of a 9th rounder.

So if you stacked three 9th Round Tendered players with a +2 acceleration and you gave up your 9th, 10th & 11th round picks to keep them, for the upcoming season their round tenders will all be valued as a 7th Round Tender. This is based off of their true round tender value of a 9th rounder for that current season.

If you stacked three 9th Round Tendered players with a normal +1 acceleration and you gave up your 9th, 10th & 11th round picks to keep them, for the upcoming season their round tenders will all be valued as a 8th Round Tender. This is based off of their true round tender of a 9th rounder for that current season.

C. Round Tender Acceleration

Round tenders will accelerate +1 round for each consecutive season a player is kept. Round tenders will accelerate +2 rounds for players drafted after the 10th round for each consecutive season that player is kept.

D. Free Agents

Free Agents, or players that were picked up through the waiver wire and not drafted, can ONLY be kept under the following two scenarios…

Restricted Free Agents (RFA):

You can designate up to two free agents (as long as you do not go over your teams 5 players kept limit) from your team as your team’s Restricted Free Agents. Once selected, that player’s round designation will be determined by the players fantasy point ranking for their position (but no lower than a 9th Round pick). *See Below*

Any conference team can attempt to acquire another teams player by offering up a draft pick one round that the asking price for that player. The team the player is currently on will have 24 hours to match the offer from the other team. If their offer is not matched, that player will be added to the new team.

Compensation for the Restricted Free Agent lost will come in the form of a draft pick in the following season. That pick will be determined by that player’s fantasy point ranking for their position for the upcoming season.

Un-Restricted Free Agent:

Any players not designated as a Keeper or a Restricted Free Agent by their current team are to be considered Un-Restricted Free Agents and will be returned to the draft pool and will be available for the Free Agency period. Any team can select one player from their conference player pool as long as they are willing to pay that players round tender price in the upcoming draft. Again, this can only be done once and no compensation will be given in this instance…

E. Free Agent/Compensation Tender Table

This table is for players who’s round tender is determined by their fantasy point total ranking for that season at their position. If a RB finishes ranked 17th in scoring among all RB’s in the league, he is considered a Tier 1 RB and will be tendered as a 4th rounder. The following tables are to be used for tendering the rounds of undrafted players, UFA’s and for compensation of any RFA’s lost…

Table A (for QB’s, TE’s & K’s)

• 1st-12th: Considered as a Tier 1, 4th Round Tender
• 13th-24th: Considered as a Tier 2, 6th Round Tender
• 25th-36th: Considered as a Tier 3, 8th Round Tender
• 37th or below: 9th Round Tender

Table B (for RB’s, WR’s, DL’s & DB’s)

• 1st-24th: Considered as a Tier 1, 4th Round Tender
• 25th-48th: Considered as a Tier 2, 6th Round Tender
• 49th-60th: Considered as a Tier 3, 8th Round Tender
• 61st or below: 9th Round Tender

Table C (for LB’s Only)

• 1st-20th: Considered as a Tier 1, 4th Round Tender
• 21st-40th: Considered as a Tier 2, 6th Round Tender
• 41st-60th: Considered as a Tier 3, 8th Round Tender
• 61st or below: 9th Round Tender

E. K3’s or Final Year Keepers

Final year keepers, or K3’s, are players that have been kept on one team for a three consecutive seasons.

NOTE: No team can keep a player any longer than three consecutive seasons

If a K3 player is on your end of year roster, he will not be eligible to be kept going into the upcoming season. That player will also not be available during the Free Agency period, they will only come available again during the fantasy draft.

A K3 players, upcoming round tender is established by their average draft position (or ADP) of the current season we’re in.

Article XI – League Rules

A. Schedule

The schedule will consist of sixteen games played in twelve weeks. Each team will play each divisional foe twice, an entire division from the other conference or four non-conference games, and six random conference foes. The 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th weeks of the season will be the playoffs. The 3 division champions will earn automatic bids into the playoffs (or The Chase!), and two wild card teams from each conference. The wild card teams will always be seeded fourth and fifth going into the playoffs and will play a play-in game in week 13. All other teams will have a bye in week 13. The remaining seven teams plus the loser of each play-in game from each conference will play in their conferences consolation playoffs (or Draft Lottery) to determine the draft order for the next season.

B. Tiebreakers

If, at the end of the regular season, two or more teams finish with the same record, the following steps will be used to break the tie:

Division/Conference Tiebreakers

1. Overall Record
2. Head-to-Head
3. Head-to-Head, Total Points
4. Divisional Record
5. Total Points
6. Most High Score Weeks
7. Coin Toss

If a regular season game ends in a tie, it will go down as just that…, a tie! If a playoff game ends in a tie, the highest scoring bench player from both teams will be used as the tiebreaker. The bench player, or tiebreaker player, does not have to be determined beforehand…

C. Transactions/Trade Deadline

Waiver Wire add/drops and trades can be made/proposed freely between teams with no weekly or seasonal limitations. Add/Drops can be made any time during the regular season and playoffs although they are not allowed during the off-season. Only one trade is allowed between the same two teams during the same season, meaning the same two teams can’t keep make multiple trades back in forth all season long. This is for transparency purposes and to keep collusion between any two teams to a minimum.

The trade deadline however is at the start of week 7 of the NFL season. After that, no trades can be made until the start of the new calendar year (typically 20 days before the upcoming season’s draft).

D. Waiver Wire

During the season, the new week starts on Wednesdays at 10 am. At 10 am on Wednesday mornings, the waiver wire is opened up to all teams on a First Come, First Serve basis. This will last up until kickoff of each teams’ game when players lock automatically. At that time the Waiver Priority goes into effect. We have Rolling Waivers, meaning your team will be put to the end of the waiver list once you have a successful waiver request. You do not go down in waiver priority otherwise.

Any player that is dropped from a roster will automatically be locked for 24 hours (in case the player was dropped by mistake and for all teams to have a fair chance at acquiring that player). If a player was dropped accidentally, that owner will have the 24 hour period to contact the league commissioner or their conference ambassador so we can correct mistake. Once the 24 hour period is over, we will considered the player dropped as intentionally dropped.