Ladies Championship
1. Overview: The World Championship of Fantasy Football (WCOFF) “Ladies Championship League” consists of 12 teams/managers. The WCOFF “Ladies Championship League” regular season will extend from NFL Week 1 through NFL Week 14. The top 4 teams through week 14 will qualify for the “Ladies Championship League” playoffs (see part 15 of this section, playoff berths).
2. Draft: All participants are required to attend the WCOFF “Ladies Championship League” Draft in person. The Draft is scheduled for Thursday, September 10, 2009 at approximately 7:30pm PST (immediately following the completion of the first game of the NFL season) inside the MGM Grand Marquee Ballroom, Las Vegas, Nevada. Each league will be composed of 12 teams, and each draft will last for 20 rounds, with each team selecting a player in each round in a serpentine fashion (team 1 through team 12, team 12 through team 1, team 1 through team 12, etc.). There are no rules governing the number of players to be drafted at each position. It is up to the skill and draft strategy of each team owner to decide.
a. Time limit per pick: Each participant will have one minute and thirty-five seconds to make a player selection. He will be notified of the time at 1:15 and again at 1:30. If a participant does not make a selection in the allotted time, he is passed over until the next participant makes a player selection. The passed-over participant then has five seconds to make a player selection before he is again passed over.
b. Trading of draft picks: No trading is allowed.
c. 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 is no guarantee that internet connections or electrical outlets will be available. We encourage participants to wait until a break to use cell phones.
d. Smoking: The WCOFF Draft will be a non-smoking event.
e. Seating order: All participants and co-managers MUST sit in their draft order.
f. 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 declared in writing or other approved method as determined GridIron Fantasy Sports LLC, by completing the WCOFF Surrogate Draft Form.
g. Week one staring lineups: Each team will be required to submit their Week One starting lineups before leaving the Draft. The September 10, 2009 game will count in the WCOFF scoring.
h. 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: 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.
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 13 on Friday at 8 pm ET. Bids will be accepted on the league web site from Tuesday at 9 am ET until Friday at 8:00 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. Weeks 10 –13: Because of the Thursday night games in weeks 10, 11, 12 and 13 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 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 Ladies Championship 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. League Structure: The WCOFF Ladies Championship 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 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.
15. WCOFF Ladies Championship 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 1-3) the 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. Head to head (best won-lost-tied percentage in games between the teams)
2. Total points during the regular season
3. Total quarterback points (starting QBs week 1 through week 11)
4. Total points in weeks 10 & 11
5. Coin toss
b. Playoff Format: Week 15 of the NFL season will begin the Ladies Championship 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 1:00pm EST on Wednesday prior to the first round of the playoffs. If a selection has not been made by that time, the team with the remaining 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
16. Miscellaneous Information: All “total points” means total starting lineup points.
17. Award Breakdown:
a. Individual League Awards:
Each “Ladies Championship League” League Champion = Silver Passport
Each “Ladies Championship League” 2nd Place = Bronze Passport and $500
Each “Ladies Championship League” third place team in each league = $1,500
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