Posted by: Guru
- [330592710] Sat, Jul 25, 2015, 10:00
I am pleased to announce the 14 managers for the 2015 RIFC: Kyle twilson YWK Toral TD Fugazi twolves Promize Goldcoach Donkey Hunters jaydog Goatlocker Diamondback190 Guru
Typically, I invite the top 6 teams from the RIFC, the top 3 from each of the AAA leagues, and the winner of the AA playoffs. For purposes of ranking teams in each league, the winner of the playoffs is assigned a rank of #1, and then the playoff seedings are used after that.
That list comprises 13 teams for a 14 team league. Since I did not finish in the top 6 of the RIFC last year, I get the last spot.
For those who are returning to the RIFC this year, your league setup (team name, password, etc.) have been left intact. Our 2015 home page is here. Feel free to sign in.
For those who are being promoted to the league this year, I will be sending out invitations from myfantasyleague.com shortly. I'll let you know when they go out. I need to flush the team info from the departing teams first.
Here are the next steps: 1. Discussion of possible rules changes. 2. Discussion of any other issues that should be resolved before the start of the draft. 3. Run the draft position selection process. 4. Draft.
Once again, the RIFC drafts for all leagues will be held on the myfantasyleague site.
RotoGuru will pay the cost of all RIFC leagues. A voluntary donation of $5 per manager is suggested to help defray the cost. (Managers who have already contributed this year are exempted.) If you wish to donate to the cause, please see the instructions on the GuruPatron info page.
Last year, the draft began on August 24, and was completed in 8 days. This year, the NFL season starts late (September 10), so if we keep a similar schedule, the draft would begin on August 30. All but the final two games of the third preseason week will be completed by August 29. Therefore, you should be available to manage your draft during the last weekend in August and the first week in September.
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Guru
ID: 330592710 Sat, Jul 25, 2015, 10:06
These were the rules for 2014. Same as 2013, except for the timing priority claiming and the addition of an injured reserve slot. (2014 Rules changes highlighted in blue)
Draft “Banzai” format: Same as a traditional snake, except the third round is reversed. Thus, the team with the first overall pick has the last pick in rounds 2, 3, and 4.
Roster 1 QB 2 RB 2 WR 1 WR/TE 1 TE 1 K 2 DL 2 LB 2 DB 1 additional IDP (flex) 9 bench 24 Total
Decimal scoring is applied for all categories.
Offense Category Points (apply to all players, including IDP) Passing TD 4 Other TD 6 (all TDs, whether on offense, defense, or special teams) Passing-2pt conv 1 Other-2pt conv 2 Passing yard 1/25 (i.e., .04 per yard) Rushing yard 1/10 (i.e., .10 per yard) Receiving yard 1/10 Punt return yard 1/10 (also applies to IDP) Kick return yard 1/25 (also applies to IDP) Kick return 0 (no deduction) Int, fumbles lost -2
Kicking Points (apply to all players, including IDP) Extra point made 1 Extra point missed -1 FG under 40 yards 3 FG 40-49 yards 4 FG 50+ yards 5 Missed FG <30 -1 Missed FG 30+ 0
Indiv Defensive Player Points (apply to all players, including offensive players and kickers) Solo Tackle 1 Asst Tackle 0.5 Tackle for loss 2 QB hit 1 Pass defensed 1 Sack 1 (half sack=0.5) Interception 3 Fumble forced 2 Fumble recovery 2 TD 6 (all TDs, whether on offense, defense, or special teams) Safety 3 Blocked kick (FG, XP, punt) 2
Unlisted players During the draft, any player may be drafted, regardless of whether or not the player is listed at the hosting game site. Once the draft is completed, unlisted players may not be added to any roster. This applies for any post-draft waiver processing as well.
In the event that a drafted player is not listed after the draft has completed, a placeholder player will be assigned to the drafting team, to be replaced by the drafted player as soon as he is available.
Position eligibility Except as defined below, a players position eligibility will be that assigned by the league hosting site.
If a player is listed at one position when drafted and that position is subsequently changed by the hosting site, the manager drafting that player may elect to retain the original position. In this event, that player will keep the drafted position eligibility until he is dropped or traded, at which time the eligibility will revert to the hosting systems default position.
Injured Reserve Each team will have one slot available for injured reserve. A player may only be placed on injured reserve when he is so designated by the NFL and the hosting site reflects that IR status.
If a manager adds a player who is already designated as IR at the time of his pickup (either through priority claiming or free agent pickup), that team must keep the player on its active roster until the following week. Players who are already designated as IR when drafted are not subject to this limitation, and may be placed in the IR slot immediately after the draft.
Once an IR player has returned to active status by the NFL, that player must be removed from the IR slot no later than the Wednesday following his activation. If an ineligible player remains in an IR slot after this time, the commissioner may forcibly drop such player after a 24-hour notice (via email) to the manager.
Priority Claiming All free agents (any players not on a current roster) are subject to a weekly claiming process at 7:30pm ET on Wednesday, using a blind bidding process. Each team will be allocated a budget for the regular season of $100, with a minimum bid of $1. Ties will be broken in favor of the current standings (with applicable tiebreakers), worst-to-first. For 2014, blind bidding will use the conditional setup at MFL.
Starting at 10:30pm ET on each Wednesday, all free agents may be picked up by any team "first come, first served" Dropped players will not be subject to a one day waiver period.
During the postseason (weeks 14-16), the waiver schedule will be pushed back to Thursday so that any stats corrections (which might conceivably impact playoff results from the prior weekend) can be processed. For surviving teams in the championship bracket, blind bidding will take place at 3pm ET on Thursday, with free agents released for FCFS pickup at 6pm ET.
Immediately following the draft, undrafted players will be subject to a priority claiming process (blind bidding), with tiebreaking priorities equal to the reverse of the draft selection order (i.e, the order in which team selected their draft sequence.)
Starting five minutes prior to the scheduled start of each NFL game, no player in that game may be dropped, regardless of whether the player is an active or bench player.
Schedule 13 week round robin Doubleheaders all weeks 1-13 (play each team twice) Single elimination playoffs, weeks 14-16
Trades and trade deadline During the draft, trades may include draft picks. Trades will normally be approved immediately by the Commissioner, assuming they are reasonably balanced. If league managers believe an announced trade is unbalanced, they should protest the trade ASAP.
After the draft, trades will be subject to a review period. For the first 24 hours following a trade, managers may protest a trade by posting a message at the RotoGuru forum, or by sending an email to the Commissioner. If at least 3 managers protest a trade within 24 hours of its announcement, then all managers will be polled within the next 24 hours. If seven or more managers vote to veto a trade, then it will not be approved. If a proposed trade is announced less than 24 hours before the earliest freeze for any player involved, then the entire trade will not be processed until the following week.
If a trade does not receive at least 3 protests, then it will be effective 24 hours after it is announced. If a trade receives at least 3 protests but the protests are not upheld in a full league vote, then the trade will be processed 48 hours after it is announced.
The trade deadline is the weekend following the final week with byes.
Stat corrections Official stat corrections will be automatically applied. This typically happens on Thursday morning. In the playoffs, this can lead to an issue if a team is suddenly “back in the game”, but that team was unable to make roster moves the prior day. If a stat correction changes a playoff matchup at the last minute, then any impacted team will be given the opportunity to make a last minute roster move, if needed. The Commissioner will attempt to ensure that this provision is enabled as fairly as possible under the circumstances.
During the playoffs, once the first game of the week has started, no stat corrections will be allowed thereafter.
Playoffs 8 teams, single elimination The 8 teams will be those with the top 6 W/L records plus the two other teams with the most points The top four seeds will be based on W/L record (including applicable tiebreakers) Seeds 5-8 will be based on total points for the other four playoff teams Teams with equivalent W/L records are ranked based on total points first, then head-to-head record. Bracket is fixed (no reseeding after each round)
Blind bidding will continue throughout the playoffs. At the beginning of the playoffs, the top seeded team will receive an additional blind bidding allocation of $16, the second seed will receive $14, … with the 8th seed receiving $2. These allocations will be added to any balances remaining from the regular season. Any blind bidding ties during the playoffs will be awarded in favor of the better seeded team.
If a playoff game ends in a tie score, the team with the better seed shall advance.
There will be no restriction on player add/drop transactions for teams still active in the championship playoffs. Teams which are not still active in the Championship playoffs may not make any transactions - adds or drops - even if they are still competing in the Consolation bracket.
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Guru
ID: 330592710 Sat, Jul 25, 2015, 10:10
I don't recall that we had any new rules changes to consider - at least based on discussion last year.
But I'm always willing to open anything up for discussion.
I don't know how we would institute this and or if it's something of interest, but there's two positions that don't accumulate stats for us, offensive line and punters. While I have 0 idea how you would score an o-lineman if we were to do that, I think punters could be an interesting addition. Give them some sort of credit for net yardage and inside the 20s while losing points for touchbacks on punts. We could also increase the kicker value along with punters to give credit to the kickoff specialists who consistently boot the ball out the endzone for touchbacks.
At this point there's so much information for everyone I feel like having 20 or so punters in rotation wouldn't cause anyone to have to do any more extra research.
It's a stretch I know, and I kind of wanted to gauge interest to see if anyone had the same inkling as I did.
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Promize
ID: 35392417 Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 14:42
I've always liked the idea of adding punters, just never been in a league that does it.
MFL actually has it in its list of stats already.
Punts Punt Yard Average Yards Per Punt Punts Inside 20 Punts Blocked.
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Doug
ID: 19613816 Mon, Aug 03, 2015, 17:33
I was in a league once previously where we used "Team OL" as a position... points for things like total rush/pass yards/TDs, negative points for sacks/safeties allowed, etc.
Not suggesting it, just saying that's how I'd think you'd do it (as opposed to individual OL players).
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Guru
ID: 330592710 Wed, Aug 12, 2015, 08:57
In the past, we've had more interest in eliminating kicker than in adding something like punter.
Not saying any of these are bad ideas, but my sense is that they don't have enough traction to pass, and I'm not even going to call for a vote. We'll stick with the same rules as last year. There is value in consistency.
Here is my tentative schedule: Monday, Aug 17: start the draft selection process - choosing draft order.
Open draft on August 30.
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Kyle Sustainer
ID: 052753312 Wed, Aug 12, 2015, 16:26
In all honesty, it would require someone smarter than I am to put together a proposal for a position addition that would cause me to vote yes for it. Thought I would just throw out a feeler though.
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Guru
ID: 330592710 Mon, Aug 17, 2015, 09:10
I will be starting the draft selection round momentarily. I will use the MFL system to generate a random order, but this will only be the order for the draft selection round.
Remember that the actual draft uses the "bonzai" order, which is the same as a traditional snake draft except that the third round is reversed. So the team with the #1 overall pick will draft last in rounds 2, 3, & 4. The team drafting last in round 1 will draft first in rounds 2, 3, and 4.
Please post your selection in this thread when it is your turn. If you can, please email the next manager on the list after you pick. Email addresses can be found under Reports->Franchise->Franchise information at the myfantasyleague.com site.
twilson has the first selection.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
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Kyle Leader
ID: 052753312 Mon, Aug 17, 2015, 11:20
Yep, I go from picking first last year to picking last this year. I think this season I'm alright drafting from any position so let's see what you all leave me!
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Toral
ID: 1753514 Mon, Aug 17, 2015, 14:42
I (Wheatfarmers) am moving this week and so will be Off the Air between sometime Wednesday morning and sometime Thursday (or later, if the phone company screws up).
Someone asked about whether we would score the new defensive 2-pointer (when a defensive player returns a point after attempt for a "TD").
MFL has not yet added this as a scoring option, but they expect to do so later in the preseason. If so, we'll treat them like other two-point conversions (i.e., 2 points)
Kyle Leader
ID: 052753312 Fri, Aug 21, 2015, 12:29
Well I've got my first draft rationale written.
0.14 Draft pick #3 When we got to Goatlocker and picks 5-7 were still available I was hoping to get one of those. Then 7 was snatched up followed by 6. We got within 2 picks of my spot and it was 2, 3, and 5. Then 5 went off the board I muttered "of course" and started looking at the top 3 rated players. I got the one pick I really didn't want, so now I'm going to have to see who makes it to me in picks 26 and 40... Don't get hurt future first round pick please. (Regardless of who he is, he will)
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