1. Overview: The World Championship of Fantasy Football (WCOFF) GridIron League will consist of at least 1 league composed of 12 teams/managers. The WCOFF GridIron League regular season will extend from NFL Week 1 through NFL Week 14. Each league will hold playoffs on Weeks 15 and 16.

2. Draft: All participants are required to attend the WCOFF GridIron League Draft in person. The Draft is scheduled for Thursday, September 9, 2010 at approximately 7:30pm PST at The Venetian Las Vegas. The league will be composed of 12 teams, and the draft will last for 20 rounds.

A. Auction for draft spots in rounds 1 & 2: Each team may bid (real dollars) on a draft position for each of the first two rounds. The draft positions are auctioned off; not a particular player. The league auctioneer will start the bidding for pick 1:1 and end at pick 1:12. Each team can only have one pick in each round. After the first round is auctioned off, the second round is auctioned off in the same way. Round 3 mirrors the team spots in round 1. And rounds 4 through 20 revert to a standard “serpentine” draft order.

B. Nominating Procedure: The league auctioneer will bring up each draft position (in order from 1:1 to 2:12) for bidding. There is no cap to what a team may bid on a draft position. It is up to the skill and bidding strategy of each team owner to decide.

C. Bidding: After a draft position is nominated, the verbal bidding process starts. The bidding process is an open process and there is no sequence for the bids. Team owners may bid at any time. In the event of simultaneous bids, the auction draft facilitator will determine who was first. Bids are made in $1 increments (no cents). To end the bidding, a facilitator will say: “Going once…. going twice… Sold to team x for y auction dollars.” Team owners can still declare a bid before the facilitator reaches “sold.” Once the facilitator says “sold,” the bidding is completed for that draft position.

D: Tied Bids: In the event of a tied bid, the team who bid first wins the draft position.

E. Bidding Deposit: Each team will deposit $2,000 toward the draft position bidding. Any “overages” in bidding must be covered by credit card at the end of the draft. Instructions on how to do so will be given at the end of the draft. Any overpayments of the $2,000 will be returned to teams by October 15, 2010.

F. Use of Cell Phones, Lap Tops and Other Electronic Equipment: Use of electronic equipment is permitted, so long as it is not a disturbance to the Draft, and does not take up excessive space (in the case of lap tops). There will not be internet connections or electrical outlets. We encourage participants to wait until a break to use cell phones.

G. Smoking: The WCOFF GridIron League Draft will be a non-smoking event.

H. Seating Order: All participants and co-managers MUST sit in their team number order after the first 2 rounds are completed.

I. Surrogates: Each principal participant will have until August 25, 2010 to name a surrogate to Draft if the principal can not attend the Draft. This surrogate must be named in writing by completing the WCOFF GridIron League Surrogate Draft Form.

J. Week One Staring Lineups: Each team will be required to submit their Week One starting lineups before leaving the GridIron League Draft. The September 9, 2010 game between will count in the league scoring.

K. Confirming Roster: Each team will be required to confirm their team roster before leaving the Draft. Additionally, there are occasional errors in importing player names into the league management web site. Principal participants are responsible to note any error and report the errors to GridIron Fantasy Sports LLC by 10pm EST on September 15, 2010.

3. Roster Requirements: Maximum of 20 players.

4. Lineups Requirements: View Lineup Requirements HERE

5. Scoring: View Scoring Rules HERE

6. Point Calculations: Team scoring will be carried out to the hundredth (e.g. a team may score 94.75 points).

7. Free Agents: Any active NFL player who is not on a team roster within your league is considered a free agent for that league. GridIron Fantasy Sports LLC may, in rare instances, remove a free agent who has been dropped by a WCOFF team if in the judgment of GridIron Fantasy Sports LLC the dropped player would unfairly impact the outcome of the WCOFF or if there is suspected collusion.

8. Free Agent Acquisitions/Blind Bidding: The free agent system will be a “blind bidding” process. Each team will start with $1,000 free agent “dollars” for the season, and will be permitted to bid for free agents on a weekly basis. No team will be informed of any other team's free agent bids until after the winning bids have been awarded. A team owner will no longer be able to bid on free agents once their season long waiver wire cap of $1,000 has been reached. Awarding of free agents begins with the highest bid by any team for a free agent. Once that free agent has been awarded to the winning bidder, all other bids for that free agent are discarded as losing bids. Then the highest remaining bid by any team for any remaining free agent will be considered. That winning bid will be awarded the free agent and all losing bids for that free agent will be discarded. This continues until the lowest valid bid remaining is considered. A team may acquire any number of players provided they have not reached their season long waiver wire cap of $1,000. A team's roster must always consist of 20 players. All bids must be in increments of dollars (no cents). The free agent bidding system is the only means by which free agents may be acquired.

a. Bid Priority: Bids will be processed in the order of highest dollar amount.

b. Auction Bidding vs. Blind Bidding: The WCOFF blind bidding process is not an auction bidding process. Though you may bid on the same player in multiple bid groups, you can only bid one amount for such player.

c. Conditional Bids, or Exceptions: A player can place make certain bids conditional on the outcome of a previous bid. By making an exception in Step 3 of the bid process, a player can invalidate a future bid if a prior bid is successful. (See example in section 9).

d. Player Drops: For each bid, an owner needs to identify a player or a list of players to be dropped if the bid is successful. To be dropped, the player needs to be on your roster after your previous bids have been processed. The player drop list works in descending order based on the list the owner creates for each bid.

9. Bidding Time Frame: The bidding process starts after the completion of Week 1 and ends prior to Week 14 at 8 pm ET. Bids will be accepted on the league web site from Tuesday at 9 am ET until Friday at 8:00 pm ET in each of these weeks. If you are submitting by phone, you must submit your bids by 7:45 pm ET on Friday. Rosters will be updated by 8:15 pm ET Friday night with the results of all successful bids. There will be no free agent pickups after the completion of the WCOFF regular season.

10. Thursday Night Games: Because of the Thursday night games in certain weeks, there will be two waiver wire periods for those weeks. The first period will end at 8 pm ET on Wednesday night. The second period will end at 8 pm on Friday night. Teams may bid on and/or drop a player who plays in a Thursday game. However, teams may not (i) place a Thursday player in their starting lineup retroactively in the case of picking up a player on Friday, nor (ii) drop a Thursday player from their starting lineup after picking him up on Friday. (Examples: For Week 10, you may acquire Denver QB Jay Cutler on Friday after his Thursday night game, but you may not put him into your Week 10 lineup. As a separate example, if Cutler is already in your starting lineup for Week 10, you may not drop him Friday morning if he was in your starting lineup for the Thursday night game).

11. Tied Bids: If there is a tie, the team that receives the player will be determined in order by:

1. Worst total points.
2. Worst won/lost record.
3. Worst previous week score.
4. Worst QB points total to date.
5. Coin toss.

12. Available Players: Teams may acquire players not on any roster within their league, with one exception. Players cut during Week 13 free agent bidding and Week 14 free agent bidding may not be re-acquired by any team. This is done to minimize potential collusion. On occasion, the WCOFF commissioners may remove a dropped player from the free agent pool if the commissioners think it is in the interest of upholding the integrity of the league or the event. Teams may bid on and/or drop a player who plays in a Thursday game. However, teams may not (i) place a Thursday player in their starting lineup retroactively, nor (ii) drop a Thursday player from their starting lineup. (Examples: For Week 10, you may acquire Chicago QB Jay Cutler on Friday after his Thursday night game, but you may not put him into your Week 10 lineup. As a separate example, if Cutler is already in your starting lineup for Week 10, you may not drop him Friday morning if he was in your starting lineup for the Thursday night game.

13. Trades between managers: To minimize the possibility of collusion, there will be no trading allowed.
 
14. League Structure: The WCOFF GridIron Leagues will have a 14-week regular season, going from week 1 to week 14. There will be no head-to-head games in the regular season. Standings for the regular season will be based on cumulative fantasy points (starting players only) for each team throughout 14 weeks. The top 4 teams at the finish of the regular season will advance to the league playoffs.

a. Tie-breakers for determining playoff seeds: Each of the 4 playoff teams will be seeded according to total regular season fantasy points (1 through 4). The tiebreakers for the standings in each league after 14 games are:

1. Total quarterback points (starting QBs week 1 through week 14)
2. Total points in week 14
3. Coin toss

15. GridIron League Playoffs: The scoring rules and starting lineup format is identical to regular season. The playoffs will consist of 4 teams playing 2 rounds, as follows:

a. Semi-Finals: #1 vs. #4 and #2 vs. #3 during Week 15 of the NFL Schedule.

b. League Championship Game: The 2 winners of the Semi-Final round will compete in the League Championship Game during Week 16 of the NFL Schedule. The winner will be the 1st Award winner.

c. Third Place Game: The 2 losers of the Semi-Final round will compete in the League Consolation Game during Week 16 of the NFL Schedule. The winner will be the 3rd Place Award winner.

d. Tie-breakers: Any playoff game ending in a tie will have a winner determined by the following:

(i). Total points in the regular season
(ii). Total QB points in regular season
(iii). Total points in Week 14
(iv). Coin flip

The tiebreakers for playoff spots are:

(i). Total Points for the regular season only
(ii). Regular Season Won/Loss record
(iii). Most points in League Championship Game
(iv). Total points for the playoffs in Week 16 only
(v). Total points for the playoffs in Week 15 only
(vi). Coin toss

18. Miscellaneous Information: All “total points” means total starting lineup points. GridIron Fantasy Sports LLC reserves the right to amend the numbers of teams in playoffs if there are fewer than 100 leagues.

19. Award Breakdown:

a. League Awards:

Each GridIron League Champion = WCOFF Gold Passport or $10,000
2nd Place = WCOFF Silver Passport or $5,000
3rd Place = WCOFF Bronze Passport and $500 or $3,000
4th Place = $1,500

Gold Passport – Entries into the 2010 Main Event, 2010 $1K Auction, 2010 $5K Event of choice, Draft Masters, Super Satellite and 3 nights stay at the host hotel and airfare to Las Vegas, NV and $1,000 of spending money.

Silver Passport – Entries into the 2010 Main Event (inclusive of 3 nights stay at the host hotel and airfare to Las Vegas, NV), 2010 $1K Auction, 2010 Super Satellite entry, 2010 WCOOF entry and 2010 Draft Masters entry. (ARV = $5,500 or $5,000 cash)

Bronze Passport – Entries into the 2010 Main Event, 2010 $1K Auction (ARV = $2,750 or $2,500 cash)

b. High-Score Weekly Awards and Most Fantasy Points:

The team(s) with the weekly high score for each of weeks 1-16 will receive 1/17 of all “Draft Position Bidding” money spent plus 1/17 of all “Free Agent Bidding” money spent. All awards will be distributed at the end of the season, and no later than February 15, 2009. The team with the most cumulative fantasy points during the regular season (weeks 1-14) will also receive 1/17 of all “Draft Position Bidding” money spent plus 1/17 of all “Free Agent Bidding” money spent.