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What's the strangest league rule you've ever seen? (1 Viewer)

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$20 felony bonus for the first team to have one of its players convicted during the season.I can't stop laughing!!

 
The Jamal Lewis owner is thinking he might win this. The commissioner has ruled that a plea bargain must stilll result in a FELONY guilty plea. I think he's screwed; there's no way Lewis pleads guilty to a felony charge.Janakowski is still in it to win it.... :devil:

 
The Jamal Lewis owner is thinking he might win this. The commissioner has ruled that a plea bargain must stilll result in a FELONY guilty plea. I think he's screwed; there's no way Lewis pleads guilty to a felony charge.Janakowski is still in it to win it.... :devil:
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Sea Bass will be on the next boat to Poland if he commits anything serious much less a felony.Still like your odds though. :D
 
We do the same in my league, but it is $15, and it doesn't have to be felony, and you don't have to be convicted.

 
One of the guys who I helped make out a draft sheet for takes incremental things to determine the total pot rather than one large buy in, they do normal things like charging for pickups/drops and even moves to the bench (not bye moves). But the most strange thing is you owe 1/1000th of any fine your player picks up up to ten bucks an occurance.Makes picking IDPs more challenging.

 
In my league we have a $5 fine (same as a transaction) for any owner who's player is arrested, fined , etc. I term it conduct detrimenal to the league. It is great fining guys who get fined by the NFL for the dumbest things like uniform issues (thank God I did not have to fine the Plummer ower for the Tillman tribute :no: ) and endzone celebrations....TO and Chad Johnson can cost you some money, but it's worth it.But on the flip-side we have a rule that if a player on your team dies then you receive $10.... :devil:

 
$20 felony bonus for the first team to have one of its players convicted during the season.I can't stop laughing!!
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We have had a rule like this for 4 years now. We just increased it from $10 to $20 though.Any team with a player that gets arrested pays the fine.
 
Those are strange rules indeed but only looks like a fun rule. I have to say our league is awesome on it's rules for the last 15 years or so with only minor changes to some IDP stats that developed over time. I feel that Fantasy Scoring should be fun and accurate to realism.With all of that being said I always got a laugh out of leagues that gave skeeball bonuses to Field Goals where say a 50 yard FG was worth more than somebody's TD. That just always never sat well with me.

 
We considered a rule last year where the high score for each week would get to rename the team that posted the low score, for the rest of that week.Never went ahead with it though...

 
I don't know how strange this rule is, but it keeps people from quitting on their teams at the end of the year.The team with the worst record buys the keg for the next years draft!We also fine teams $5 if they turn in a player that is listed as out on the injury report or is on a bye week. One team got fined $15 one week last year.

 
What's the strangest league rule you've ever seen?
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In one of my leagues this year, the commish decided (after the draft, mind you) to institute a home field advantage of 5 points in favor of the higher seeded team in the first round of the playoffs. In the second round, home field advantage goes up to 10 points. That is quite simply one of the most bizarre rules I've ever seen in about fifteen years of playing FF. It's just stupid and indefensible. :rant:
 
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We do the same in my league, but it is $15, and it doesn't have to be felony, and you don't have to be convicted.
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So, the first player to allegedly commit a crime wins? Seems this would get decided by the first week every year in this league.Back to the original poster - So, did the Jamal owner win, or is the commish still waiting for it to officially be labeled a "felony?"
 
home field advantage of 5 points in favor of the higher seeded team in the first round of the playoffs. In the second round, home field advantage goes up to 10 points. That is quite simply one of the most bizarre rules I've ever seen in about fifteen years of playing FF. It's just stupid and indefensible. :rant:
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Sounds like a great idea to me.Places more importance on the regular season; reduces the luck quotient of the playoffs. Good stuff! :thumbup: We have a 'sucks to be you' award just like the 'quit your whinin' award mentioned above.
 
"So, the first player to allegedly commit a crime wins? Seems this would get decided by the first week every year in this league."The season isn't long enough for a player to commit the crime and get convicted. The only convictions could come from crimes that had been commited before the draft.

 
This is a different rule in one of my H2H leagues, but one I like nonetheless. For all the teams that make the playoffs, teams are awarded the difference between their weekly average and their opponents'. For example, if Team A averaged 140 points per week and he's playing Team B in round 1 of the playoffs who only averaged 125 point per week, then Team B would have to outscore Team A by more than the 15 point differential. Very interesting and it awards teams that score well and don't just "squeak" into the playoffs. Some people don't like it though.

 
sounds like a great idea to me
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:rolleyes: So...how do you justify unilaterally changing league rules after the draft...or increasing the HFA from 5 in week 1 of the playoffs to 10 in week 2.A 10 point head start in a playoff game is beyond ridiculous.BTW, I'm high scorer overall, and have been high scorer two of 4 weeks, only missing by 1 point in each of the other two weeks, so I very well could possibly be the one receiving the HFA throughout the playoffs. That doesn't make the rule any less stupid or any more defensible.
 
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Sounds like a great idea to me
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:rolleyes: So...how do you justify changing league rules after the draft...or increasing the HFA from 5 in week 1 of the playoffs to 10 in week 2.A 10 point head start in a playoff game beyond ridiculous.
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Changing it after the draft was a bad idea, but I don't see how he gained any sort of advantage by doing so.10 points is also excessive, but it's hardly:
That is quite simply one of the most bizarre rules I've ever seen in about fifteen years of playing FF. It's just stupid and indefensible.
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Sounds like a great idea to me
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:rolleyes: So...how do you justify changing league rules after the draft...or increasing the HFA from 5 in week 1 of the playoffs to 10 in week 2.A 10 point head start in a playoff game beyond ridiculous.
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Was this a unilateral decision made by the commish or did your league vote on it?
 
Radballs, no vote. Unilateral.Ray, I didn't say he did it to gain an advantage. I just said it was stupid. I'll kick his ### and win the league anyway. The rule will prolly help me do it. It'll still be a stupid rule.

 
We have the 'home field advantage' rule, but it is only 1/2 a point. We have ties in the regular season and if a tie occurs in the playoffs, the higher seed wins. It has never happened, though.

 
This is a different rule in one of my H2H leagues, but one I like nonetheless. For all the teams that make the playoffs, teams are awarded the difference between their weekly average and their opponents'. For example, if Team A averaged 140 points per week and he's playing Team B in round 1 of the playoffs who only averaged 125 point per week, then Team B would have to outscore Team A by more than the 15 point differential. Very interesting and it awards teams that score well and don't just "squeak" into the playoffs. Some people don't like it though.We have the 'home field advantage' rule, but it is only 1/2 a point. We have ties in the regular season and if a tie occurs in the playoffs, the higher seed wins. It has never happened, though.
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Speaking of not happenning frequently, I would have thought that having such a potentially large point differential in the playoffs would have given too much of an advantage to those with it. However, over the last two years and twelve total post season contests, the point differential advantage only came into play once.
 
We do the same in my league, but it is $15, and it doesn't have to be felony, and you don't have to be convicted.
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So, the first player to allegedly commit a crime wins? Seems this would get decided by the first week every year in this league.Back to the original poster - So, did the Jamal owner win, or is the commish still waiting for it to officially be labeled a "felony?"
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The details of the plea agreement are not yet public, so no conclusion has been made. The winner won't get his money until the end of the season anyway.
 
My league has a draft where you can only pick one player at a position for each of the first seven rounds (1QB, 1RB, 1WR, 1K, 1DL, 1LB, and 1 DB). This precludes anyone from loading up at a position (and I hate the rule, but love the league).We also have a rule the qb rush yards are added to pass yards when determining yardage bonus (250 yds = 3 pts and 1 pt per 25 yards over 250).We also have a rule where you can only have 3 waivers for the entire season. You are allowed two IR spots as well, but uonly if the player is on IR or PUP.

 
This is a different rule in one of my H2H leagues, but one I like nonetheless.  For all the teams that make the playoffs, teams are awarded the difference between their weekly average and their opponents'.  For example, if Team A averaged 140 points per week and he's playing Team B in round 1 of the playoffs who only averaged 125 point per week, then Team B would have to outscore Team A by more than the 15 point differential.  Very interesting and it awards teams that score well and don't just "squeak" into the playoffs.  Some people don't like it though.We have the 'home field advantage' rule, but it is only 1/2 a point. We have ties in the regular season and if a tie occurs in the playoffs, the higher seed wins. It has never happened, though.
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Speaking of not happenning frequently, I would have thought that having such a potentially large point differential in the playoffs would have given too much of an advantage to those with it. However, over the last two years and twelve total post season contests, the point differential advantage only came into play once.
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Depends on the scoring system
 
just had a rule proposed for next season for home field advantage that eliminates the allocation of points, and instead gives a subtler advantage.the home team may change his starting lineup up until kickoff of the game the player is participating in. (this is typical of many leagues, including ours)the visiting team, however, must declare his starting lineup by kickoff of the first game of the week.normally, this won't matter a lick. it can be pivotal, though, when your player is a game-time decision, particularly when a thursday game (or to a lesser extent a saturday game) is involved.should add an interesting wrinkle without going overboard on the advantage.anyone have any experience with this? what do the sharks think?

 
just had a rule proposed for next season for home field advantage that eliminates the allocation of points, and instead gives a subtler advantage.the home team may change his starting lineup up until kickoff of the game the player is participating in. (this is typical of many leagues, including ours)the visiting team, however, must declare his starting lineup by kickoff of the first game of the week.normally, this won't matter a lick. it can be pivotal, though, when your player is a game-time decision, particularly when a thursday game (or to a lesser extent a saturday game) is involved.should add an interesting wrinkle without going overboard on the advantage.anyone have any experience with this? what do the sharks think?
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Clever way of doing it. In ours, home field gets first opportunity to win in ties. First bench pts win, so it's not guaranteed (negative pts count against and some teams get all zeroes for the 4 player bench due to injury/bye).
 
Reading some of these gave me an idea for my league...Instead of the High Score receiving $10 a week from the league, the Low Score would pay the High Score $10 every week and all the entry money would go to end of season payouts.I thought it would pretty cool :rolleyes:

 
in our league, if you have the worst record you have to wear a Jason Sehorn jersey for every game during the next year

 
prolly not all that strange but i'm torqued off about a rule i just found out about...only my 2nd year in a high dollar league that has been established for a while...they have a funky waiver system, where basically each week on thursday, between 530 and 630 pacific each team based on standings has a 5 minute opporunity to call in and place a waiver movement...starting at 630 till 700 you can call back and place multiple moves...and that is it for transactions for the week..well, if you desire to trade you have to make the deal and have 3 owners approve prior to the add drop call in period...i came to an agreement with an owner to trade players on saturday afternoon last week..the other owner then posted the trade on the message board and asked for approvals, which we readily received...one of them commenting that i had received the better of the deal...anyway, the commissioner posts the reminder that the trade would not be good until the following week...which i was aware of...the other owner involved in the trade then states that he wants the deal cancelled cuz he wasn't sure that was the rule and he had bye week issues and was doing the deal to alleviate them...and the commissioner stood by him...basically cancelling the trade..so the crazy rule in question is...apparently in this league it is ok to make a deal and then renig on it as long as it isn't processed thru the web site...STUPID!

 
just had a rule proposed for next season for home field advantage that eliminates the allocation of points, and instead gives a subtler advantage.the home team may change his starting lineup up until kickoff of the game the player is participating in. (this is typical of many leagues, including ours)the visiting team, however, must declare his starting lineup by kickoff of the first game of the week.normally, this won't matter a lick. it can be pivotal, though, when your player is a game-time decision, particularly when a thursday game (or to a lesser extent a saturday game) is involved.should add an interesting wrinkle without going overboard on the advantage.anyone have any experience with this? what do the sharks think?
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I don't know if I'm a shark but homefield advantage should not play a role in any FANTASY FOOTBALL game other than just for fun.
 
Why would you people penalize players for arrests? A failed league I was in this year was to give bonuses for suspensions and criminal activity.

 
Bump. Looking for some good ideas for next year...One we thought of not mentioned here was a $5 penalty for any player in your starting lineup who scores zero points (be it by injury, sucking, bye week, etc.) This penalizes crappy owners who do not pay attention to injury reports, etc. And REALLY penalizes the schmo who forgets to set his lineup. Sometimes a player might score a zero out of the blue, but that just makes it more fun....$10 for players who score negative points...All $$$ goes into an end-of-season pot to be paid out for some superlative...

 
I'm in a league that doesn't count receiving yards for runningbacks. Go figure.
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Same here. And no rushing yards for for WRs or QBs. Yet, every year someone drafts Vick as their starting QB. :lmao:
 
After quite a number of beers last year in the preseason league meeting, we voted on including this rule just to piss off the people that didn't show up:CRAZY KICKER TRADE RULEIf a starting kicker scores a non-passing TD the ownerof the kicker may evoke the Crazy Kicker Trade Rule whichmeans he can trade his starting kicker for 1 player on hisopponent's starting lineup for that week. The trade takeseffect for the next week and is permanent. Once a team hashad the Crazy Kicker Trade Rule evoked on him he then getsCrazy Kicker Trade Rule Immunity and no one may evoke theCrazy Kicker Trade Rule on him for the rest of the season.Furthermore, once a team has Crazy Kicker Trade RuleImmunity, if an opponent's kicker scores a non-passing TDin their matchup the team with Crazy Kicker Trade RuleImmunity may evoke the Crazy Kicker Trade Rule against hisopponent even though it was not his kicker that scored theTD.

 
After quite a number of beers last year in the preseason league meeting, we voted on including this rule just to piss off the people that didn't show up:

CRAZY KICKER TRADE RULE

If a starting kicker scores a non-passing TD the owner

of the kicker may evoke the Crazy Kicker Trade Rule which

means he can trade his starting kicker for 1 player on his

opponent's starting lineup for that week. The trade takes

effect for the next week and is permanent. Once a team has

had the Crazy Kicker Trade Rule evoked on him he then gets

Crazy Kicker Trade Rule Immunity and no one may evoke the

Crazy Kicker Trade Rule on him for the rest of the season.

Furthermore, once a team has Crazy Kicker Trade Rule

Immunity, if an opponent's kicker scores a non-passing TD

in their matchup the team with Crazy Kicker Trade Rule

Immunity may evoke the Crazy Kicker Trade Rule against his

opponent even though it was not his kicker that scored the

TD.
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How often has this happened? I remember the Cowboys' kicker running one in a few years back, I think...
 
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