8 MEN OUT FANTASY FOOTBALL LEAGUE RULES
1. Each Team pays $250.00 entry fee
All transaction fees should be paid by the Saturday of the 1st Wildcard playoff week.
Entry fee is due the day of the BBQ (2nd Wildcard playoff week).
10th Place owes the BBQ Host an additional $50 the day of the BBQ.
2. League Fees
Entry Fee = $250.00
Per Player(s) Pick-Up Fee = $2.00 starting bid
Per Team Trade Fee for each player(s) traded = $2.00 starting bid
No Lineup Turned In = $5.00 fee, and you must the previous week’s lineup (EXCEPTION: If a Thursday Night player is not named before kickoff on Thursday night, that player cannot be used and none of their points will be counted, regardless of their presence on the previous week's lineup.)
Starting Week 11, No Lineup Turned In = $20
3. Big money payoffs are as followed
1st Place: 60 % of pot
2nd Place: 30 % of pot
3rd Place: 10 % of pot
4. League consist of ten (10) teams. Place of finish to be determined as follows.
Win-Loss record for an 18 week season.
Tiebreaker is Offense Win
2nd tiebreaker is total QB points
3rd tiebreaker is total RB points
5. Each Team will consist of:
13 Players
1 – Offensive Team (Weekly Tiebreaker)
1 – Defense/Special Teams
6. Each week every team will start:
1 – Quarterback
2 – Running Backs
2 – Receivers (TE count as WR)
2 – Flex Player (RB, WR, or TE only)
1 – Offensive Team (Tiebreaker is a Win)
1 – Defensive Team/Special Teams
7. All transactions (trades, pick-ups, drops etc.) Must be given to the Commissioner Via:
Text Message
8. Trades, Bidding and Pick-Ups:
Blind Bidding Procedure: Submit your desired players and a one-time bid to the Commissioner by 9:00 pm Tuesday night. Nobody will receive the blind bid results until Wednesday.
Waiver Wire Auction: Players who weren't claimed with blind bidding are available for normal text-based bidding until the usual deadline of 9pm Wednesday night. Finalized transactions must be finished before the Thursday night game
Player Drops: All players expected to be dropped to make room for pick-ups must be submitted through the website before kickoff of the Thursday night game. If a drop is not submitted, you may keep the picked-up player but they cannot be used until the start of the next week.
Owners must notify Commissioner of transactions for them to count that week.
Starting Week 10 and through the end of Week 12, trades can only happen between teams that are not mathematically eliminated from a Top 3 finish. After the completion of Week 12, no trades are allowed at all.
Starting in 2014, First Round Draft Picks can be traded, within the constraints of the rule above.
Defense and Offense are free pick-ups on when your original team is on a bye, and you must drop the free pick-up by next week’s deadline or get charged $2.00 pickup fee.
Players can be picked up and bid on until the last week of the season.
9. PICK-UPS – Any player not on a team’s current roster is eligible.
10. Bidding Wars
A. Highest bid gets player(s) $2.00 minimum
B. It is the RESPONSIBILITY of each owner in the bidding war to let the Commissioner know what the results are.
12. A player's presence or absence from a lineup is editable until their game's kickoff. At that point, the lineup entered is locked in.
All lineup changes must be timestamped, ideally through the online submission link. A backup timestamped text message, email, etc., to either your opponent, the commissioner, or the scorekeeper can substitute if the website is unavailable for any reason.
14. No lineup turned in:
A. The previous week's lineup must be used, but Thursday night player's points will not count and no substitute can be used.
16. ESPN, Yahoo, NFL, and Local Papers are official sources for statistics.
17. SCORING:
A player will get any points if they are listed in the paper as being involved in a rushing, receiving, or passing play.