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Dy-NASTY Football League Rules

What is a Dynasty League?

A dynasty style fantasy football league is a league where you retain most or all of your players from year to year. This creates an environment which is very different from that of a redraft league. By enabling team owners to keep players and build a team over time, there is a much stronger sense of team ownership, and success is achieved with a greater sense of satisfaction.

A dynasty league is for those owners who want the “real” GM experience. Mistakes or successes in a dynasty league can affect the future of a franchise for years to come – just like in the NFL. A sharp owner through trading and judicious use of the waiver wire can build a dominant team for years to come (without having to start over each and every season).

By joining this league, you are making a commitment to be in an ongoing year-to-year league. You will be competing against the same 11 owners each year. Your payment will be due by July 1st each year. Should an owner decide to leave the league, his team will be put up for sale.

League Dues:

Dues to participate in the league are $30 per season, per owner. As stated above, all dues are owed by July 1st. If payment isn’t received by July 1st, you will be removed from ownership and the team put up for sale.

League Overview:

12 teams / 3 divisions of 4 teams. League play is head to head competition.

All leagues have real time scoring. 6 of 12 teams qualify for playoffs.

Initial draft is an 20 round serpentine draft.

Drafts:

Your team roster is updated as you make the selections online! The draft timer will be set at 2 minutes per selection. This type of draft will normally take 1 to 2 hours to complete. The draft Order for the initial draft will be Random.

There is no trading during the initial live draft. Please see “Trades”.

In the event an owner allows the time limit to expire, the league software will immediately select the best player available using current average draft position data and until you sign in it will continue to do so.

After the first season there is an annual Rookie/Free Agent Draft. This draft is a 5 round Draft and will start on the second Saturday in August each year. These drafts will be non-serpentine, ensuring that the worst teams get first crack at the players in the pool, giving us a very competitive league. The six teams that did not make the playoffs will be entered into a lottery to determine slots 1-6 in the draft.

Player Eligibility: Only players currently in the NFL, which means they are on an NFL team roster, are currently a NFL free agent player in search of a team or rookie players that were drafted to an NFL team (even if they’re unsigned) are eligible for the fantasy draft.

Keepers:

After the season ends, you will be required to keep 15 players of your 20-man roster. All keepers must be submitted by the first saturday in August. If 15 keepers are not selected by this date, the commissioner reserves the right to select up to 15 keepers for the owner, selecting who is deemed to provide the best roster for the following year.

League Schedule:

Teams start playing during week 1 of the NFL season. You play each team in your division twice and 7 of the 8 non-divisional teams once. The regular season lasts for 13 weeks; the playoffs begin in week 14 and the league Championship is in week 16.

If the NFL reschedules a game or games for ANY reason, the statistics from those games will count for the week in which the game is actually played. If this were to happen after the rosters lock at 1pm on Sunday, you would receive zero points for the players involved.

Reports:

Each week, all of the information, such as standings, available free agents, weekly results, game-by-game breakdowns and more, is posted online on your league’s web page.

Free Agents:

This league uses a Blind Bidding system to acquire free agents.
Blind Bidding (BBid) waivers for a 48 hour period when a) a player gets dropped from another teams roster or b) a player enters an NFL game and is already a free agent. At the beginning of the season, all teams are given $500 in bidding dollars (not real money). To pick up a player off waivers, you must put in a bid. The team that has the highest bid for that player will get him. Since this is a blind bidding process, no one knows what the others are bidding. Once all the bids are processed, first-come-first-served waiver will start Wednesday at 11pm EST and run through 1pm on Sunday. The FCFS waivers do not cost any bidding dollars.

•    Bid minimum is $1.
•    If you win the bid at $28, and the next highest bid was $19, you still pay $28 for your player.
•    If there is a tie bid, the player is awarded to the team with the earliest submitted bid.
•    Note that if you wish to receive one player over another than it will be required that you submit a higher monetary bid on that player as there is no priority when submitting your bids.

Any player not currently on an active league roster is a free agent (NFL players only).
If your team roster is full and you acquire a player, then you must drop a player.?Players picked up are available immediately for that week’s action or for trade to another team.
“Dropped Players” and “Waiver Wire Transactions” are final. That being said, from time-to-time owners accidentally drop players. The owner might confuse player’s names or simply click the wrong button. When this happens, just email me and I will correct it. It is imperative that we are notified prior to the player going through Blind Bidding. If the player is awarded to another team during Blind Bidding it is final.

Blind Bidding will start approximately 24 hours after draft completion and will run weekly until the season ends. After the season ends (which is after week 16) – ALL free agents or non-roster players lock until after the Rookie/Free Agent Draft.

Scoring:

Please see our “Scoring Rules” section for scoring rules.

Lineups:

1 QB, 1 RB, 3 WR, 1 TE, 1 PK, 3 IDP (Independent Defensive Players)

Owners can set starting players up until each game time. Once a game has started, all players involved in that game are frozen as starters or bench players.

Trading:

There is no limit to the number of players a team can trade in a given week. Both teams need to give approval and list terms of the trade for it to be confirmed. Once approved by the league Commissioner, the trade will be official. Trade results will be posted on the website for each league. As a trade is approved, the team(s) rosters will automatically be updated and a transaction record will be listed. There is NO trading after week 8 of the season.

Any trades involving more than 6 players will be automatically rejected.

If a trade is one-sided or collusion between owners is suspected, the trade will not be allowed.

Blind bidding dollars cannot be traded.

All transactions are final.

Playoffs:

Divisional Standings: Will be sorted 1st by winning percentage, if needed then by divisional winning percentage, then by total Points For, then by total Points Against (if still tied then by a coin flip).

The divisional winners will then be ranked for the playoff bracket 1-3 1st by winning percentage, if needed then by total points (if still tied then by a coin flip).
Wildcard Spots: The best 3 teams of the remaining 9 will be the wildcard teams. They will be sorted by winning percentage, then by total Points For, then by total Points Against (if still tied then by a coin flip). Their playoff ranking will be 4-6

Playoff Bracket: 1st Round (week 14) The 2 top division champs will have a 1st round playoff bye week. The remaining division winner (3rd seed) will face the lowest seeded (6th seed) wildcard team in the 1st round. The remaining two wildcard teams (4th & 5th seed) will face each other.

Playoff Bracket: 2nd Round (week 15)
The 1st seed will play the lowest remaining seed.
The 2nd seed will play the highest remaining seed.
League Championship (week 16)
Winners advance to the League Championship.

If a playoff game ends in a tie – the tie will be broken by the highest scoring starting player, then the highest bench point total

League Prizes:

All prizes won are paid at the end of the season. 12 Owners x $30 each = $360 pot. All division winners received a prize of $30, with the remaining $270 going to the league winner.

Additional:

Abandoned Teams: The commissioner will run abandoned teams. They are not eligible to win any prize money. Commissioner run teams are not dead teams. Commissioner run teams function like any other team. What we feel is the best lineup will be used. These teams will only participate in waiver pickups in order to fill a starting lineup. Commissioner run teams are not available to trade with.

Conduct: Conduct that is deemed detrimental o the league will not be tolerated. This includes, but is not limited to, posts and or emails that are harassing in nature and serve no legitimate purpose other than to cause discord within the league. There is a difference between expressing viewpoints or likes/dislikes of a league or format and personal attacks toward fellow owners or the commissioner.

Failure to comply may result in IMMEDIATE EXPULSION WITHOUT REFUND. In addition, attempts to negatively impact the integrity of the league (i.e. threatening or outright refusal to submit lineups, partaking in bogus trades, disruption of a live draft etc.) will result in an immediate expulsion, without refund, from the league.

The commissioner reserves the right to set your lineup for you if in our opinion you are intentionally trying to lose games.

Special Dynasty League Rules:
After each season the divisions will be re-cast. The 4 semi-final teams will be in one division. The 4 teams with the lowest point total (provided they weren’t in the semi-finals) will be in one division. And the remaining 4 teams will make up the final division.

After the first season there is an annual Rookie/Free Agent Draft. This draft is a 5 round Email Draft and is tentatively scheduled to start on the second Saturday in August each year. This draft will not start until there are 12 paid teams. If a league does not have 12 paid teams by August 21st it will fold and all prepaid entries will be refunded to the owners of the teams. This draft is a fixed round draft (non-serpentine).

The draft order for the Rookie/Free Agent Draft is determined by randomly drawing via lottery format for the six non-playoff teams and placing them #1 to #6. The six playoff teams will draft in the order of their playoff seeding with the League Champion drafting #12 and the Runner-Up drafting #11. The reason for randomizing the first 6 picks is to prevent teams from throwing games at the end of the season to improve their draft pick.

Trading will be suspended approximately an hour prior to the start of the Rookie/Free Agent Drafts.

Trading will resume once the draft has been completed.

After the season ends (which is after week 16) – ALL free agents or non-roster players lock until after the rookie/free agent draft.

Trading. Dynasty Leagues by nature involve a LARGE amount of trading. If you are opposed to trading – do NOT sign up for a Dynasty League. All trades have to be balanced and may either be 1 for 1, 2 for 2 or 3 for 3. Any trades involving more than 6 players will be automatically rejected. When evaluating trades in Dynasty Leagues we will be more tolerant than we are in regular re-draft leagues. Some trades may appear lopsided on paper but allow a weaker team to have a chance to re-build for the future.

You will NOT be able to trade draft picks during the initial 20-round dispersal draft.

Renewal fees will be due by July 1st each year. If your payment has not been received by July 1st, your team will be declared abandoned and placed up for sale. You will NOT receive a refund for any previous payments. In addition, you will not be able to make any transactions or trades until your payment has been made.

This league will only come to an end when we are unable to fill it.

(Modified League Constitution from Masters League Football)