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INTRODUCTION
The objective of Fantasy Football is for an owner of a franchise to assemble a team comprised of twenty (20) professional football players in order to participate in weekly head-to-head matches with other franchise owners. Each week, eight (8) of the twenty (20) players and (2) Def/Spec. teams are activated whose performance, based on points awarded for performance statistics achieved in the National Football League (NFL) by active players as described below, determines a win, loss, or tie for that week's results.
Following a regular season consisting of thirteen (13) games, those teams qualifying, will enter the conference championship playoffs to determine the Conference Champion. See the Playoffs Section of the constitution for more.
There will be a $45.00 entry fee for each year of play, totals $540.00, the Commissioner and NAFFC League Average Team plays free. The Commissioner is responsible to provide the Web Site updates and maintenance for the year, that will be his entry fee. The entry fee will be used as follows, $105.00 put toward FLM Online Software purchase ($80.00) and NAFFC Domain Fee ($25.00). The remainder of $435.00 will be awarded at the end of the season to the top six (6) franchises as shown below.
Send a check or money order to Victor Odland, 204 Heritage Court, Belvedere, SC 29841. The money will be held in savings until the end of the season and awarded as follows:
The 2 Division Winners would each get $75.00 for winning their division, ($150.00).
Playoffs 1st Place - $100.00
Playoffs 2nd Place - $75.00
Playoffs 3rd Place - $40.00
Playoffs 4th Place - $40.00
Playoffs 5th Place - $15.00
Playoffs 6th Place - $15.00
CONFERENCE DIVISIONS
The Conference will be made up of two (2) divisions with seven (7) teams in each division, equally balanced in strength
Every seven (7) years the Conference will be rebalanced by using the last waiver wire of the previous year. The first place team (Champion) remains in their current division with the odd placed teams, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, 11th, and 13th. Then place the even placed teams, 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, 10th, 12th, and 14th in the other division. This will be done in years 2001, 2008, 2015, etc.
TEAMS AND ROSTERS
There are fourteen (14) teams in the North Augusta Fantasy Football Conference (NAFFC), each with rosters of twenty (20) players and two (2) Defensive/Special Teams, except for the NAFFC League Average team, as follows:
4 Quarterbacks (QB)
6 Running Backs (RB)
6 Wide Receivers (WR)
2 Tight Ends (TE)
2 Placekickers (PK)
2 Defensive Teams (DT)
2 Special Teams (ST)
1 Rookie Player (R) Any one (1) position *
1 Injured Reserve (when applicable)
The NAFFC League Average Team will not have a roster, but will score each week the average score of the other 13 teams.
A player may only be assigned to a position for which he is qualified as set forth in the Constitution - Player Position Eligibility.
* One rookie player (R) is allowed in any one (1) position that causes that position to exceed the player limit. The rookie is eligible to play.
One player per team is allowed on the Injured Reserve as long as the player is officially on the IR in NFL. Team may pick up a player from the Free Agent List during the IR tenure. When the player is reinstated by the NFL the owner must balance their roster.
During the off season, a balanced roster is not required. Transactions can be unbalanced, QB for RB, RB for WR, etc. All teams must balance their rosters by midnight preceeding the first regular season game.
PLAYER POSITION ELIGIBILITY
The Commissioner will list a player only at the primary position which he is openly recognized to play. Such recognition will come the rosters within the FLM Software.
The Commissioner may amend the positional designation if a player's true position changes during the course of the season.
PLAYER DRAFT
INITIAL PLAYER DRAFT
The draft selection order shall be randomly determined and the order reversed for the even numbered rounds. Owners will be notified prior to the draft of their draft position.
For example: 1st Round - Team 1, Team 2, Team 3, etc. then in the 2nd Round - Team 12, Team 11, Team 10, etc.
THE CONFERENCE DRAFT CAN BE HELD ONLINE VIA A CHAT CONNECTION IF POSSIBLE, BY EMAIL OR IN PERSON (PREFERED METHOD).
All parties will be notified of the draft dates and times and given specific instructions for the draft connection requirements.
Teams must meet the positional requirements as described in the Constitution - Teams And Rosters. No team may draft a player who qualifies only at a position that the team has already filled.
If a Team Owner is not available to make a draft pick at a reasonable time limit, that pick will be skipped. Team Owners are required to provide a Draft Priority List to the Commisioner if they are unavailable for the draft.
YEARLY COLLEGE / FREE AGENT PLAYER DRAFT
At the end of the year, as with the pros, the league will determine its draft order by the results of the final standings and playoff position from the previous year. The last place team, the team with the worst record, will be awarded the 1st draft pick and the Champion will get the 13th, and so on through the rest of the league. The NAFC College / Free Agent Draft will take place sometime between May and September. The draft order will go as follows:.
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13
Each team will draft 3 Free Agent/College players.
Trading of draft picks in conjunction with other trades are allowed at anytime in accordance with trading rules as put forth in the constitution. All trades that involve draft picks will be approved and maintained by the commissioner.
Wild Time
After the College/Free Agent Draft has concluded and before the regular NFL Season starts, there will be an open roster time for trades and transactions. A balanced roster at this time is NOT required. It is not allowed to freely pick free agents from the free agent lists to get the 28 players. The open roster is for trades and regular transactions to help determine final rosters during the pre-season football schedule. All teams must balance their rosters by midnight preceeding the first regular season game.
There is no limit on transactions or trades during this time.
In case of an expansion draft, the expansion teams will fall into the draft between the bottom four teams and the top eight teams in a lottery pick order. Each team in the existing league will give up one (1) QB, one (1) RB, one (1) WR to the free agent list for the expansion teams to pick from.
SCHEDULE AND STANDINGS
Each team shall play thirteen (13) games of head-to-head play (against each other team at least once) from which a Win, Loss or Tie shall be determined, based on scoring methods presented in the Constitution - Scoring.
Such Won-Loss-Tie (W-L-T) record shall be the sole determining factor in standings. (For the purposes of standings determination, ties are counted as 1/2 win and 1/2 loss.
Divisional alignment of the North Augusta Football Conference will be based on the number of teams within the conference. For a conference with 14 teams, there would be 2 divisions with seven (7) teams each.
| Schedule Week 1 |
NAFFC Fourteen Team Conference Each Team plays each other team |
The standings and playoff seeding shall be determined by the following steps in succession:
PLAYOFFS
Following the completion of the regular season of 13 games, a conference championship playoff shall commence to determine a Conference Champion.
The championship playoff procedures for 14 teams are as follows:
SCORING
The results of each week's head-to-head match shall be determined by awarding points for NFL game statistics compiled that week only by those players/teams on the team's weekly active lineup as defined in the Constitution - Active Lineups. Point earnings for specific stats are outlined from the FLM Software on the Scoring Rules Web Page.
Offensive players (QB's, RB's, WR's, TE's, PK's, DT's and ST's) may score points by any of the methods indicated.
League will use only official NFL game stats as compiled by FLM Software to determine league scoring.
Regular season games ending in a tie will be a tie.
Playoffs will utilize a Home Field advantage points of 3.5. This will eliminate any possiblity of a tie score.
NOTE: In the event of a proposed and passed scoring scheme, the proposed change will not be official until it has been tested to determine the results are as expected. If results are not achievable as proposed, the Commisioner will reject the proposal and remove it from the FLM Software.
ACTIVE LINEUPS
Each owner shall be required to post an active lineup comprised of the following positions to total eight (8) players:
1 QB (Quarterback)
1 or 2 RB's (Running Backs)
3 or 4 WR's (Wide Receivers) (RBs and WRs can only have 5 total)
1 TE (Tight End)
1 PK (Placekicker)
1 DS (Defense Team)
1 ST (Special Team)
Lineups must be submitted prior to the start of the early games in the week and those players will be locked. All others must be submitted by 1:00 PM ET.
Lineups must be submitted online at the NAFFC Web Site.
Only the eight (8) players and (2) Def/Spec Teams can be submitted in the active lineup, shall be considered active for scoring purposes. Only this active lineup can score points for a given team.
If an active lineup is submitted which is incomplete or contains too many players, the missing, or undetermined player(s) shall be the prior week's active lineup for that position(s) in the specific slot.
An active lineup that is submitted with the intent to lose will not be accepted. This is a concern at the end of the season when certain teams have been eliminated from playoff contention. These teams cannot "throw" games in order to acquire a better draft position. This is unfair to the league. All active lineups submitted must be an honest attempt to win the game.
TRANSACTIONS AND ROSTER MAINTENANCE
All transactions (2 per calender week) will take place weekly between Tuesday 12:01 AM until Monday 11:59 PM EST, determined by a calendar week. This includes cut/release and Free Agent pickup, placing and removing players from the Injured Reserve unless the move makes no change to the roster count. For example, you can make 2 transactions at 11:00 PM Monday and another 7:00 AM the following Tuesday. You would then need to wait a week (the following Tuesday) to make more. Providing you notify your opponent and the commissioner of a starting lineup change in time (one hour prior to the first kickoff of the week), you can play a newly acquired player immediately. You cannot release a player the same week as you use the player as a starter. Any change that affects starters will be made the following week.
Once a valid transaction is posted, it may not be withdrawn.
When a player is dropped/released from a team the player is placed on waivers for 3 days. Owners can request to pick this player up prior to the end of the 3 days but if more than one owner requests this player, the owner highest on the Waiver Wire priority list will get the player.
"Waiver Wire" Priority
To provide an equal opportunity for all owners to add players to their roster that are new to the free agent pool, a Waivers process is used. Requests for players that are on waivers are not executed immediately, but are put in a pending status until Tuesday 12:01 AM of the following week. This allows multiple teams to request the same players. The order in which these requests are processed are based on a "Waiver Wire" Priority of each team. The "Waiver Wire" will be found on the Scores and Standings page and will start the first week of each season and will run accumulative until the next year.
Each week a league rating is established based on results of the previous weeks. The Waiver Wire Priority would be the reverse order of the league ratings for that week. So the team rated #14 would have the highest priority. If you desire to pick up a player that is available on the next Tuesday AM, send an email to the Commisioner and you will be put on the waiver list. If a team with a higher Waiver Wire Priority also wants that player the team with the higher priority would get the player. Requesting transactions will not be posted, the commisioner will communicate the results.
TRADES AND ROSTER MAINTENANCE
Teams are free to make player trades, so long as the active rosters of both teams involved in a trade reflect a balanced roster. Owners are responsible to maintain a balanced roster as shown in Teams and Rosters. Trades are open at all times during the year, except as restricted below.
- Teams eliminated from playoff competition may not make trades.
The claiming or releasing of a player is permitted in a trade transaction but only when balancing the roster.
The Commissioner may void any trade if such trade is deemed by the Commissioner to be improper and/or not in the best interest of the conference.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
Any Team Owner in good standing may propose a change or amendment to the Constitution. The Owner submits the proposed amendment to the Commissioner along with a brief justification. The Commissioner distributes the proposed amendment via email to all Owners. Each owner has five (5) days to offer comment, obtain clarification, and vote on the amendment. Comments/clarification may be submitted to either the Commissioner or amendment author. The amendment cannot be changed or further amended once distributed by the Commissioner. If an amendment requires revision, the initial submittal shall be retracted and the newer version distributed. Changes to the amendment may not be made without the consent of the author. For an amendment to pass, a simple majority vote of the owners must be obtained."
NAFFC COMMISIONERS OFFICE
The Commissioner will be responsible for:
In circumstances which may occur that are not covered by the Constitution, or in the event of a conflict in the Constitution, and which requires a resolution, the Commissioner, upon petition, shall issue a final determination.