Rosters:
We purchase 20 players at auction; minimum requirements are 1QB, 2RB, 3WR/TE, 1K, 1D, 1 ST. You must meet all starting requirements, and fill out your 20 roster spots at the auction.
After the auction is over, roster limits immediately rise to 23 players.
We use CBS Sportsline’s waiver-wire process after each week’s games. Pickups are allowed from after the week 1 games, until before the week 13 games, subject to an increasing transaction fee (see Transactions below).
Roster deadline is 5 minutes before game time for each player.
Players may not be dropped after your team has been eliminated from the playoffs.
Players may be protected from year to year, with a salary increase of 25% (rounded up to the nearest quarter). A player may be protected only twice before he is returned to the player pool (see P1, P2 status in the Protct field).
Transactions:
Each team's first waiver-wire pickup costs $1. The cost increases by $.50 for each subsequent pickup over the course of the regular season. Teams must remain under the salary cap ($100 during the auction, $110 afterwards).
After the last regular-season game, players may be picked up during the playoffs from waivers at a flat rate of $10, max of 2 pickups during the playoffs. Teams must stay under the salary cap during the playoffs.
Free agents which have a salary set (e.g., players which were purchased at auction but later dropped) retain their salary throughout the season; however, pickups of such players are still subject to the increasing transaction fee noted above.
For trades, there is a transaction fee of $1 for each player added to a roster; the trade fees do not affect the increasing transaction fee.
Players may be traded until just before the week 12 games. After the playoffs begin, players may be traded, but all players traded must be protected for next year’s auction. You must fit under the salary cap and trades must be approved by the commissioner. After the trade deadline, you cannot trade a player that has had two years of protections.
All transaction fees go into the league prize pool.
Auction:
The auction begins with last season's roster list, sorted by price in descending order. Change for 2006; we will include all players who have a salary > $1, whether or not they are on rosters at the end of the season. After all players from last year's list have come up for auction, first nomination is done by the person with the fewest number of players, rotating among teams with the same number of players.
We have a $100 salary cap during the auction.
You cannot drop players during the auction; however, trades can be made during the auction.
Scoring:
For final decisions on disputed scores (e.g., offensive player fumble recovery for TD), we stick with what CBS decides.
Scoring is set in our league configuration.
Playoffs:
The four division winners (determined by overall record, with total points as a tiebreaker) become the top four seeds in the playoffs, with two wild-card teams (selected by overall record, with total points as a tiebreaker) receiving the #5 and #6 seeds. For all except the championship games, the higher-seeded team receives a 0-4 point home-field advantage. HFA is one point for each game difference in the standings (half a point for a half-game difference), added to the average weekly score differential between the two teams. The advantage is capped at 4 points; the lower-seeded team cannot have HFA.
Non-terminal playoff games that end in a tie will be re-scored using decimal yardage scoring (0.05 points per yard instead of 1 point per 20 yards) to break ties.
Week 14:
#6 seed plays at #3 seed
#5 seed plays at #4 seed
#1 and #2 seed have byes
Week 15:
Winner's bracket:
Lowest-seeded week 14 winner plays at #1 seed
Highest-seeded week 14 winner plays at #2 seed
Loser's bracket:
#12 seed plays at highest-seeded week 14 loser
#11 seed plays at lowest-seeded week 14 loser
#10 seed plays at #7 seed
#9 seed plays at #8 seed
Week 16:
Super Bowl: Winners of winner's bracket games play (combine week 16 and 17 scores)
Consolation Bowl: Losers of winner's bracket games play (combine week 16 and 17 scores)
Loser's bracket:
Lowest-seeded winner plays at highest-seeded winner
Second-lowest-seeded winner plays at second-highest-seeded winner
Week 17:
Super Bowl, continued (combine week 16 and 17 scores)
Consolation Bowl, continued (combine week 16 and 17 scores)
Loser's bracket: Two remaining winners play the Toilet Bowl
Payouts:
First place: 40% of the entry fees, plus 66% of the transaction fees less any commissioner expenses.
Second place: 25% of the entry fees, plus 33% of the transaction fees less any commissioner expenses.
Third place: 15% of the entry fees.
Fourth place: 10% of the entry fees.
Loser's bracket winner: 10% of the entry fees.
League MVP (most points scored in the starting lineup): $10
Best player week: $5
Highest scoring team (year): $10
Highest scoring team (week): $5