Rules

The Basics

• $400 entrance fee — due before draft
• Draft is the Tuesday after Labor Day at 7pm CT
• 12 teams
• Half-point PPR scoring
• Starting lineup — 1 QB / 2 RB / 2 WR / 1 Flex / 1 TE / 1 K / 1 DST
• Roster — 9 starters + 7 on bench (16 total)
• 2 IR spots — only for players on PUP, IR, or designated as OUT
• We're playing on Sleeper — they have an app.
• 4 divisions of 3 teams each
• During the season each team plays every other team in the league once, and the teams in their division twice. Because there are 14 regular-season games, each team also gets one extra game against a non-division team.

Money & Payouts

• Each owner must pay the $400 entrance fee prior to draft.
• FAAB waiver pickup fees, GOAT fees, and all cumulative trade fees are due once your season is over.
• $150 payout for the high score each week. Sent on Tuesdays.
• $25 fee for the worst team of the week — the GOAT (aka Shitty Kitty). Collected at the end of the season.
• We use Venmo or PayPal for all transactions.

Post Season

• 3-week playoff — weeks 15–17
• The top team in each division advances to the playoffs.
• Of the remaining teams, the two with the best record advance as at-large spots.
• The 2 division winners with the best record get a bye.

Waivers / Trades

• Regular season FAAB budget is $400 for waiver pickups.
• All FAAB bids are real money. $10 minimum bid. Highest bidder wins; a tie goes to whoever's lower in the standings.
• Waivers process at 4am ET on Thursdays and Sundays.
• Once the playoffs start, FAAB budgets reset to $200 for teams still in it. Non-playoff teams have their FAAB zeroed out and rosters frozen — they'll settle their balance sheet at this time.
• Trades are pretty much unrestricted but need commissioner approval, generally within 24 hours.
• Trade deadline is the end of Week 11.
• A trade costs $25 per owner, but can include multiple players at no additional charge.

Misc

• All 9 roster spots must be filled for a matchup — if you don't, you'll forfeit the match. (This is to cover a situation from one year where a DST was pulled at the last minute to secure the win in a very close match.) A player on IR is fine, but the spot can't be empty — you can no longer leave a roster spot empty.
• For the new fish — have backup player pickups queued when FAAB runs. For example: you need a RB, so queue pickup player 1 / drop player X, then pickup player 2 / drop player X, then pickup player 3 / drop player X. If the first one goes through, the rest are invalid and don't process — that's why Sleeper has ordering in the pickup process. Also: you can't drop a player who has already played, and you can't pick up a player who has already played.