$1K Auction Championship
Available in Las Vegas, Dallas, Atlantic City and Orlando
1. Overview: The World Championship of Fantasy Football (WCOFF) “Auction Division” will consist of up to 20 leagues, each composed of 12 teams/managers. The WCOFF “Auction Division” regular season will extend from NFL Week 1 through NFL Week 14. The top 4 teams through week 14 will qualify for the “$1,000 Auction League” playoffs (see part 15 of this section, playoff berths).
2. Auction Draft: All participants are required to attend the WCOFF “Auction Division” Draft in person. The Draft is scheduled for Friday, September 11, 2009 at 1:30 pm PST inside the MGM Marquee Ballroom, Las Vegas, Nevada. Each league will be composed of 12 teams, and each auction draft will last for 20 rounds. Teams may also participate if drafting in Atlantic City (4:30pm EST), Orlando (4:30pm EST) and Dallas (3:30pm CST).
A. Team Salary: Each team will start with 200 auction dollars.
B. Rosters: Each team will have 20 players.
C. Nominating Procedure: Each team will nominate a player in each round in a sequential order (team 1 through team 12 in each round). There are no rules governing the number of players to be selected at each position. It is up to the skill and bidding strategy of each team owner to decide.
D. Time Limit to Nominate: Each team will have 20 seconds to nominate a player. Each nominating team must put a bid with their nomination. Otherwise, the nominating team will automatically be credited with a $1 opening bid on the player whom they nominated. If a team does not nominate a player in the allotted time, that teams is penalized $1 from their team salary. Additionally, the team is passed over until the next round.
E. Nominating Ends: The minimum and maximum roster size for each team is 20 players. Once a team has reached a roster of 20 players, that team can no longer nominate players. Once a team has run out of money, that team can no longer nominate players.
F. Bidding: After a player 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 begins the word “sold,” the bidding is completed for that player.
G. Bid Limits: During the draft, team owners are required to keep enough auction draft dollars available in their team salary to be able to bid at least $1 per remaining roster spot. If a team drops below the minimum of $1 per remaining roster spot, and the auction draft facilitators do not notice the violation, there will be no reversal of the player awarded, and no punitive measure.
H: Tied Bids: In the event of a tied bid, the team who bid first wins the player. As an example, 3 teams each with one dollar remaining bid on a player. The team who bid first (in this case the nominating team) will be awarded the player.
I. 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.
J. Smoking: The WCOFF “Auction Division” Draft will be a non-smoking event.
K. Seating Order: All participants and co-managers MUST sit in their team number order.
L. Surrogates: Each principal participant will have until August 25, 2009 to name a surrogate to Draft if the principal can not attend the Draft. This surrogate must be named in writing by completing out the WCOFF “Auction Division” Surrogate Draft Form.
M. Week One Staring Lineups: Each team will be required to submit their Week One starting lineups before leaving the “Auction Division” Draft. The week one, Thursday night game will count in the WCOFF Auction Division scoring.
N. 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 16, 2009.
3. Roster Requirements: Maximum of 20 players.
4. Lineups Requirements:
Starting lineups will consist of
1 QB
2 RB
3 WR
1 TE
1 Flex player (a RB or WR, or TE)
1 PK
1 Team Defense/Special team
(If no Week One lineup is submitted, the WCOFF will determine your starting lineup. After Week One, if no starting lineup is submitted, your starting lineup will be that of the week prior.)
a. League Management Web Address: You can access your league via the internet by going to http://www.wcoff.com
b. Lineup Submission: All lineups may be submitted on the league web site and are due by the scheduled kickoff time for the game in which the player will participate. Participants are encouraged to submit lineups 5 minutes prior to the scheduled start of the game, or 15 minutes prior to the scheduled start of the game if submitting a line up by phone.
c. WCOFF Phone In: Participants may phone their transactions. You will need your login and password to submit transactions via phone. Call – 1-866-376-9538 during the following hours:
Monday -- Friday 10 am-5pm EST*
Saturday 10am – 5pm EST*
Sunday 10am – 12:45am EST*
* All hours and phone number are subject to change
d. Thanksgiving: The phone-in option will NOT be available on Thanksgiving Day. However, online submission of lineups will be accepted via the website until 12:30 pm EST.
5. Scoring: An individual offensive player on any active WCOFF starting roster will be credited points for scoring in the following manner, unless otherwise noted:
a. Passing:
Yards passing divided by 20 (e.g. 215 passing yards = 10.75 fantasy points).
4 points for every passing TD.
Minus one point (-1) for every interception thrown.
2 points for every 2-point conversion.
b. Rushing:
Yards rushing divided by 10 (e.g. 89 rushing yards = 8.9 fantasy points).
6 points for every rushing TD.
2 points for every 2-point conversion.
c. Receiving:
Yards receiving divided by 10 (e.g. 112 receiving yards = 11.2 fantasy points)
6 points for every receiving TD.
1 point for every catch.
2 points for every 2-point conversion.
d. All Other TDs:
6 points for any TD scored by recovered or returned fumbles, laterals, or any other means by which a skill position player (QB, RB, WR, TE, or K) is awarded an individual TD, except kickoff and punt returns. No rushing or receiving yardage is awarded for a TD returned on a fumble.
e. Placekicking:
1 point for every Extra Point
3 points for every FG of 1 – 30 yards plus .1 point for every yard thereafter.
Example: a 43-yard FG would be worth 4.3 points
f. Team Scoring (Defense/Special Teams):
1 point for every sack
2 points for every team takeaway (interception or fumble recovery)**
6 points for every TD (via interception return, fumble return, punt or kickoff return, blocked FG return, missed FG return, blocked punt return)*
2 points for every safety
5 points for every shutout ***
2 points for allowing between 1- 5 points ***
1 point for allowing between 6 – 10 points ***
* TDs scored on “fake” FGs or “fake” punts do NOT count as Defense/Special Teams scoring. TDs scored by the offensive team after a blocked FG or blocked punt do NOT count as a Defense/Special teams score. TDs scored on a double-turnover only count for the individual player who scored the TD, not for the team.
** A double turnover is considered points for the recovering team's defense and ST. Thus, an example, team A's offense fumbles and team B's defense recovers, but then fumbles the ball back to team A's offense. In that scenario team A's defense and special teams (along with team B's defense and ST) are both awarded a fumble recovery.
*** Any and all points scored against a team are considered points scored against the special teams and defense. Thus, as an example, a turnover by the offense that is returned for a TD is considered as points scored against the special teams and defense.
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. (See example in section 9).
9. Bidding Time Frame: The bidding process starts after the completion of Week 1 and ends prior to Week 14 on Friday at 8 pm ET. Bids will be accepted on the league web site from Tuesday at 9 am ET until Friday at 8 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. Weeks 10 –14: Because of the Thursday night games in weeks 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 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 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).
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 12 free agent bidding and Week 13 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.
13. Trades between managers: To minimize the possibility of collusion, there will be no trading allowed.
14. WCOFF Week 1 Schedule: All WCOFF leagues will have a Week 1 schedule as follows: Team 1 vs. team 2; team 3 vs. team 4; team 5 vs. team 6; team 7 vs. team 8; team 9 vs. team 10; team 11 vs. team 12.
15. League Structure: The WCOFF AUCTION DRAFT will have a 14-week regular season, going from week 1 to week 14. This is a head-to-head league. The League will be broken up into 3 Divisions (A, B and C). Each team will play the three other teams within its own division two times during the regular season, while playing the remaining teams (8) exactly once. Standings for the regular season will be based on head to head records throughout 14 weeks. The top 4 teams at the finish of the regular season will advance to the league playoffs.
16. WCOFF AUCTION DRAFT 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. Playoff Structure: Weeks 15-16 of the NFL season will determine each league champion by means of League Playoffs. The four participants in the League Playoffs will be 1) The 3 divisional leaders based on best record vs. 2) the remaining team with the highest point total.
The tiebreakers for divisional leader in each league after 14 games are:
1. Total points during the regular season
2. Head-to-head won/lost record
3. Total quarterback points (starting QB's week 1 through week 11)
4. Total points in weeks 12 & 13
5. Coin toss
If there is a tie for the remaining highest point leader in a given league, the aforementioned tiebreakers 2- 5 will be used.
b. Playoff Format: Week 15 of the NFL season will begin the WCOFF Auction League playoffs. The divisional leader with the most points during the regular season will be awarded the #1 seed in the playoffs. As the #1 seed, this team will be allowed to pick its opponent for the first round of the playoffs. This selection must be made by 9:00pm EST on Wednesday preceding the first week of the WCOFF Auction League playoffs. If a selection has not been made by that time, the playoff participant with the fewest total points during the season will be assigned the #4 seed and serve as the opponent to the #1 seed in Week 15.
The two remaining playoff participants will also play head-to-head in Week 15.
If there is a tie for the #4 playoff seed, the aforementioned tie breakers 2- 5 will be used.
c. Championship Game: Week 16 of the NFL season will determine the League Champion award winner by means of a single Championship Game. The two participants in the Championship Game will be the winners of the aforementioned Week 15 playoff games.
d. Third Place Game: Week 16 of the NFL season will determine each league's third place award winner by means of a single Third Place Game. The two participants in the Third Place Game will be the losers of the aforementioned Week 15 playoff games
The tiebreakers for games during weeks 15 and 16 are:
1. Total quarterback points
2. Team with the individual highest scoring player for the week
3. Coin Toss
17. Miscellaneous Information: All “total points” means total starting lineup points.
18. Award Breakdown:
a) League Awards:
Auction” League Champion = WCOFF Silver Passport or $5,000
Auction League Championship Game loser (2nd Place) = WCOFF Bronze Passport or $2,500
Auction Third place game winner (3rd Place) = $1,000
Auction League Toilet Bowl winners (3): Entry into 2010 $1K Auction
The Auction League Toilet Bowl will consist of top four teams in total points not qualifying for the Playoffs in each league. The top 3 Auction League teams not in the playoffs that score the most combined points in Weeks 15-16 will win a free entry into the 2010 1K Auction League.
b.) Overall Awards:
World Champion of Fantasy Football – Auction Division = 2010 WCOFF Silver Passport (Value $5,000); and the World Championship of Fantasy Football Auction Division trophy.
Second = WCOFF Bronze Passport (Value $2,500)
Third = Entry into 2010 $1K Auction League
Fourth = Entry into 2010 $1K Auction League
Fifth = Entry into 2010 $1K Auction League
The WCOFF 1K Auction Overall Awards are based on total points accumulated Week 1 thru Week 16. The top 5 teams in total points accumulated will be awarded Overall Awards based on their order of finish.
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) | 
