This league is like any other fantasy football league in many respects. We play in a head-to-head format, and generally allow the Yahoo! settings to determine the winners every year. However, there is also a “three-year term” that we are recording independent of Yahoo!, based on the performance of each team from year to year. Your performance this year, and every year over the next three years, contributes to your overall performance during the three-year term.
The One-Year Term
Each year you will pay $25 which will go toward the winners of the league that year. The rewards will be distributed as follows:
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1st Place
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$165
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2nd Place
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$135
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3rd Place
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$25
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Most Points
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$25
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Note: The payout for most points can be stacked on top of any other payout.
The Three-Year Term
The three-year term is more complicated, and will require you to manage and monitor your team’s performance on a TBD location online (updates on individual team performance are kept there). The three-year term will reward yearly performance, actual player performance—independent of Yahoo! player performance—and overall league performance via a points distributed system. We are keeping track of this, completely on our own. Points will be distributed based on the below elements of the game, listed in detail.
Note 1: These points are all cumulative throughout the entire three-year term. If you win one year, you are not disqualified from winning points for winning the same category in any other year.
Note 2: At the culmination of a three-year term, a new three-year term begins the following year.
Yearly League Performance
These points are distributed based on whether or not you are successful in winning (in a variety of ways) during any of the three years.
100pts - 1st Place
60pts - 2nd Place
45pts - 3rd Place
30pts - 4th Place
25pts - 5th Place
20pts - 6th Place
25pts - Best record during a fantasy football regular season
25pts - Most fantasy points accumulated during a fantasy football regular season
Player Performance (yearly)
Each of the following performance categories will be awarded 25pts on a yearly basis. The player to have the most of each of these statistics during a given year wins the points. For example, if at the end of this first year your team has accumulated the most passing yards, you would get 25pts toward the three-year term.
Passing Yards
Rushing Yards
Receiving Yards
Tackles
Interceptions
Sacks
Note: Only performance from the players you start on any given week will contribute to these performance categories. This same rule applies to the Weekly Player Performance points.
Weekly Player Performance
Two performance categories will be chosen, one offensive and one defensive, from the categories listed above every week. The team(s) to have the best performance in each category will receive 5 points. In the case of a tie, both teams will be awarded the points.
How to win the Three-Year Term
By the Super Bowl of the second year in any given three-year term, you will pay $100 which will go towards the winnings of the three-year term. The three-year term award money will be distributed as follows:
1st Place - $700
2nd Place - $325
3rd Place - $175
How do you know who came in first? The points system I outlined above determines the winners. Basically, whoever has the most points will be awarded first place, and so on. So, you had better be thinking about three years from now as well as this year!
Rule: If the extremely unlikely scenario occurs where a team wins first place all three years, but does not have enough points to win the league, they, by default, win the league regardless of their points or lack thereof. KKR Stat. §146.75.4 (g) ...if thy pointage is exceeded by thy peer’s, though thy winningness has exceeded theirs, common law states that thou shant lose any league due to said inconceivable events…
Playoffs
The playoffs will include the top six teams in the league (assuming a 12-team league) with the top two seeds receiving a bye week.
Keepers
Each team can keep up to four players on a yearly basis.
The Draft
The first year of the draft will be a traditional serpentine draft drawn in a random order. After the inaugural year of the league, subsequent drafts will function as follows. The first four rounds of the draft will be non-serpentine with the order being the reverse of the final standings from the previous year. The fifth round begins the serpentine, meaning the 1st Place team from the previous year will not have first pick in a round of the draft until the seventh round.
Note: Rookies in a given year will not be available to any team until the draft.
Waivers
There will be weekly waivers on a continual rolling list starting from Game Time to Tuesday.
Trades
There will be a trade deadline at 11:59PM on the Saturday before the Sunday of Week 11. The trading of both players and future draft picks is allowed with Commissioner approval. After the final game of Week 16 in a given year, the trade market is again open until Week 11 the following year.
Other Notes
This is not a regular fantasy football league. You may feel in over your head. Not only are we determining winners in a dramatically different fashion than a standard league, we also have a very unique set of rules, scoring settings and rosters. This league is not for the faint of heart. But you knew that when you signed up. This league has elements of a Rotisserie League, as well as a Head-to-Head league, with strong keeper elements to be mindful of. Many of the rules are instituted to cause you to sacrifice your performance elsewhere. That’s on purpose. In the end, only the player who not only thought the most about fantasy football, but who thought about how to win a league this intricate will be awarded. Do your homework, study the art of drafting, and learn the rules on the Yahoo! stats page as well as in this post. Heck, tweet Matthew Berry and ask him for advice in your draft strategy if it helps (others have been doing so, twitter.com/MatthewBerryTMR). We’re gonna have fun for sure, but don’t get frustrated if your team underperforms because you didn’t take the time to read about these things.
The league page will be updated weekly with the Weekly Player Performance Categories, as well as the results from the previous week. We will also track individual Yearly Player Performance on a weekly basis. I have enlisted three other members of the league to help out posting the stats, so they are not again left unattended. These stats will have a due date of Wednesday night, every week. These stats will be subject to official NFL stat corrections which are announced on Thursdays. You can begin complaining about the stats not being up starting Thursday of every week.
Lastly, in lieu of the upcoming draft, please be mindful of the roster and scoring settings.
Roster Settings
1 QB
3 WR
2 RB
1 TE
1 QB/WR/RB/TE
1 D (any defensive player)
2 DL
2 DB
2 LB
7 BN
2 IR
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Offense
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League Value
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Passing Yards
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25 yards per point
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Passing Touchdowns
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6
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Interceptions
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-1
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Rushing Yards
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10 yards per point
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Rushing Touchdowns
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6
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Receptions
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0.5
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Receiving Yards
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10 yards per point
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Receiving Touchdowns
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6
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Return Yards
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20 yards per point
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Return Touchdowns
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6
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2-Point Conversions
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2
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Fumbles Lost
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-2
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Offensive Fumble Return TD
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6
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Kickers
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League Value
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Field Goals 0-19 Yards
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3
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Field Goals 20-29 Yards
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3
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Field Goals 30-39 Yards
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3
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Field Goals 40-49 Yards
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4
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Field Goals 50+ Yards
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5
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Point After Attempt Made
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1
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Defensive Players
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League Value
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Tackle Solo
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1
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Tackle Assist
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0.5
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Sack
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3
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Interception
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4
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Fumble Force
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3
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Fumble Recovery
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1
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Defensive Touchdown
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6
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Safety
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2
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Pass Defended
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1
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Block Kick
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2
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Extra Point Returned
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2
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Return Yards
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20 yards per point
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Return Touchdowns
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6
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