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FFL LEAGUES 1 & 2 RULES

1. There are ten (10) teams in the league split into 2 5-team divisions.
2. Each team will consist of 15 players on its roster:

   2 QB, 3 RB, 3 WR, 2 TE, 2 PK, a defense and 2 wild card players. The wild cards can be any position you want, but roster size has a maximum number of 15. The wildcards are EXTRA players to be used AFTER the minimums have been met. You can have less than 15 on your roster, but not more.

3. Every NFL player must have one defined position for FFL purposes. NFL primary position will be used.
4. Teams must protect at least one (1) player. That protection player is your 1st round draft pick. Teams have the option of protecting up to two (2) additional players in exchange for their next two (2) Draft picks. To clarify this, if you protect two players, you use your draft picks in rounds 1 & 2 for those protections. The first three (3) rounds of the draft will be in reverse order of last year's overall standings. The order of the remaining twelve (12) rounds will be drawn out of a hat and then inverse on alternate rounds (1-10 then 10-1, etc.). Standings are sorted by points, then chips.
5. Each team must declare its active roster by kickoff of each player's game that week. Rosters freeze at the roster deadline. Any trades made after the roster deadline are part of the following week.
6. An active roster will consist of:

   1 QB, 2 RB, 2 WR, 1 TE, 1 PK and a defense.

7. Points will be scored as follows:

   TD = 6 points, FG = 3, 2 point conversion = 2, Safety = 2 and PAT = 1.
   Any scoring play of 50 yards or more will score double points.

   EXAMPLE: If your QB throws a 50 yard TD pass, you get 12 points. If you also own the receiver who caught it, you get 24.

8. Special team scores ARE defensive scores. In other words, a special team score (any kickoff play and punt returns) helps you either if you own the player who scored or the team. If you own the player and the defense, you get points for both. The gray area is fumble returns for TDs. In theory, an offensive player can fumble and his teammate can recover it and run it in for a touchdown. The box score would read "fumble return for a touchdown". A literal interpretation would make this a defensive score. It isn't. It is the commissioner's responsibility to research fumble return touchdowns to make sure that they were not scored by the offensive team. The objective here is to get it right, not to so literally interpret the rules that an injustice is done.
9. Trades will be allowed at any point during the season up to the trading deadline. If a trade puts your roster over the maximum, you must immediately waive a player to get back to the maximum. Traded players can not return to your roster for 2 games. Rosters freeze at the roster deadline. Any trades made after the roster deadline are part of the following week. No trades will be permitted after the Week 17 rosters are submitted. No player can be traded after his week 17 game has kicked off.
10. Rosters must remain at no more than 15 with the correct breakdown by position as indicated above. The only exception is injuries.
11. Player transactions (waivers) may be made during weeks 5, 8, 11 and 14. You may at that point release a player and claim a previously unclaimed player under the following guidelines:

    A. Transactions will be made in inverse order of the overall standings. Standings are sorted by points, then chips.
    B. INJURIES - A player is considered to be injured when he is on the NFL Injured Reserve list. If a member of your roster is placed on IR, you may replace him with a player during the aforementioned transaction weeks. You do not have to waive a player in this transaction. If/when said player returns from IR, his FFL owner will have to either waive that player or waive someone else to keep the active + bench roster size at 15. That IR activation roster move must happen before the returning IR player's next team game kickoff (Thursday 8:20 PM ET, Sunday 1 PM ET, etc.).

12. Just like the NFL, the FFL is run by the basic premise that while owners may change, the teams stay the same (or at least the core of the teams). That's why we require that a minimum of one player be protected each year. In the unfortunate instance where an owner leaves the FFL, a replacement owner will acquire the roster. Should multiple owners leave, the replacements will randomly draw for the abandoned rosters.
13. Prime Time Rule: A CB like Patrick Peterson will be viewed as a wide receiver for FFL purposes. HOWEVER, he cannot score FFL points while playing defense, only offense or special teams. Simply put, any points that he scores on a pass reception, run or kick return will count as FFL points, just like anybody else. Any points that he scores on an interception return will not count as FFL points. If he scores on a fumble return, it will be the commissioner's responsibility to determine whether the play was offense, defense or special teams. Again, if it's a defensive play there are no FFL points.