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0 Subject: RIFC 2016: Getting Started

Posted by: Guru
- [330592710] Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 11:24

I am pleased to announce the 14 managers for the 2016 RIFC:

Diamondback190
Doug
Gmoney
Jaydog
mmikulka
Philly Busters
Promize
s_R
Slackjawed Yokel
SwinganaMiss
TD
twilson
twolves
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 (7th), I get the last spot.

All of the invited managers have responded favorably for 2016.

I’ll be setting up the league at myfantasyleague.com shortly. The registration process at myfantasyleague may be a bit different this year. Stay tuned. Managers will be notified by email when the league is set up.

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 near the bottom of the GuruPatron info page.

Last year, the draft began on August 29, and was completed in 10 days. This year, the NFL season starts late again (September 8), so if we keep a similar schedule, the draft would begin on August 27. All but the final three games of the third preseason week will be completed by the night of August 27. Therefore, you should plan to be available to manage your draft during the last weekend in August and the first week in September.

I’ll post a recap of our league rules in a moment.

Information on qualifying league organization will be in a separate thread.

1Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 11:28
These were the rules for 2015, with one amendment.

One change that I know I will make (by fiat) for 2016 is the elimination of the one point deduction for a missed extra point by a kicker.

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 (eliminated for 2016)
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 (including safety on extra point attempt)<
Blocked kick (FG, XP, punt) 2
Defensive conversion returns (extra point) 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.

2Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 16:41
League invitations were just sent out directly from myfantasyleague.com to all managers, both new and returning. Please log in to your team ASAP so that I can be sure that you are "in the loop."
3Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Mon, Aug 08, 2016, 10:45
Hearing no suggestions for rules changes (not that I was expecting any), I will be starting the draft selection round shortly. Recall that we use the bonzai order, which is a standard snake except that the 3rd round is reversed.

I will generate a random draft order using the MFL draft system. That is the order that will be used for the draft selection round only. You will then pick (in that order) what your draft preference will be. When we have completed the process, I'll override the order on the MFL site.

I'm still inclined to start the actual draft on or about August 27.

I'll send out an email to the league when the draft selection round is set to begin.
4Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Wed, Aug 10, 2016, 10:15
Here is the randomly generated order fro our draft selection round:

1 Promize MizzDawgs
2 Gmoney
3 Philly Busters
4 SwinganaMiss
5 Jaydog
6 Doug
7 s_R
8 Slackjawed Yokel
9 TD
10 twolves
11 Aussie Diamondbacks
12 Guru
13 mmikulka
14 twilson's Milchian Magicians


Promize gets the first selection.
5Promize
      ID: 57662211
      Wed, Aug 10, 2016, 13:11
I'll try that #14 spot for a change, see what happens.

Promize.
6SteelerG
      ID: 177521520
      Wed, Aug 10, 2016, 13:17
I will take 7
Gmoney
7Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Wed, Aug 10, 2016, 13:23
1
2
3
4
5
6
7 Gmoney
8
9
10
11
12
13
14 Promize

Philly Busters is up
SwinganaMiss on deck

then:
Jaydog
Doug
s_R
Slackjawed Yokel
TD
twolves
Aussie Diamondbacks
Guru
mmikulka
twilson's Milchian Magicians
8Philly Busters
      ID: 336352414
      Wed, Aug 10, 2016, 20:48
I'll take #12
9Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Thu, Aug 11, 2016, 10:01
1
2
3
4
5
6
7 Gmoney
8
9
10
11
12 Philly Busters
13
14 Promize

SwinganaMiss is up
Jaydog on deck

then:
Doug
s_R
Slackjawed Yokel
TD
twolves
Aussie Diamondbacks
Guru
mmikulka
twilson's Milchian Magicians
10SwinganaMiss
      ID: 537471117
      Thu, Aug 11, 2016, 18:47
1
2
3
4
5
6
7 Gmoney
8
9
10
11 SwinganaMiss
12 Philly Busters
13
14 Promize

Jaydog is up
11Jaydog
      ID: 106132311
      Thu, Aug 11, 2016, 18:56
1
2
3
4
5
6
7 Gmoney
8
9
10 Jaydog
11 SwinganaMiss
12 Philly Busters
13
14 Promize
12Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Thu, Aug 11, 2016, 19:26
Doug is up.

then:
s_R
Slackjawed Yokel
TD
twolves
Aussie Diamondbacks
Guru
mmikulka
twilson's Milchian Magicians
13Doug
      ID: 326332712
      Thu, Aug 11, 2016, 23:25
1
2
3
4
5 Doug
6
7 Gmoney
8
9
10 Jaydog
11 SwinganaMiss
12 Philly Busters
13
14 Promize
14s R
      ID: 4474191
      Fri, Aug 12, 2016, 02:40
1
2
3
4
5 Doug
6
7 Gmoney
8
9 s R
10 Jaydog
11 SwinganaMiss
12 Philly Busters
13
14 Promize
15Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Fri, Aug 12, 2016, 09:20
Slackjawed Yokel is up

then:
TD
twolves
Aussie Diamondbacks
Guru
mmikulka
twilson's Milchian Magicians
16Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Sat, Aug 13, 2016, 14:05
I've emailed Yokel twice, the second time giving him until the end of Saturday or we will skip him and move on.
17Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Sun, Aug 14, 2016, 08:30
Still nothing from Slackjawed Yokel, so TD may go ahead and select if he wishes.

18TD
      Leader
      ID: 036331011
      Sun, Aug 14, 2016, 09:17
1
2
3
4
5 Doug
6
7 Gmoney
8
9 s R
10 Jaydog
11 SwinganaMiss
12 Philly Busters
13 TD
14 Promize
19Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Sun, Aug 14, 2016, 22:12
twolves is up,
Slackjawed Yokel may pick whenever he shows up.
20twolves
      ID: 57491413
      Mon, Aug 15, 2016, 08:39
1
2
3
4
5 Doug
6
7 Gmoney
8 twolves
9 s R
10 Jaydog
11 SwinganaMiss
12 Philly Busters
13 TD
14 Promize
21Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Mon, Aug 15, 2016, 08:52
Aussie Diamondbacks is up.
Slackjawed Yokel may pick whenever he shows up.


Last three:
Guru
mmikulka
twilson's Milchian Magicians
22 Aussie Diamondbacks
      ID: 33712162
      Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 03:13
1
2
3
4
5 Doug
6 Aussie Diamondbacks
7 Gmoney
8 twolves
9 s R
10 Jaydog
11 SwinganaMiss
12 Philly Busters
13 TD
14 Promize
23Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 09:05
1
2 Guru
3
4
5 Doug
6 Aussie Diamondbacks
7 Gmoney
8 twolves
9 s R
10 Jaydog
11 SwinganaMiss
12 Philly Busters
13 TD
14 Promize


Slackjawed Yokel may pick whenever he shows up.

Last two:
mmikulka
twilson's Milchian Magicians
24mmikulka
      ID: 57791610
      Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 11:10
1
2 Guru
3
4 mmikulka
5 Doug
6 Aussie Diamondbacks
7 Gmoney
8 twolves
9 s R
10 Jaydog
11 SwinganaMiss
12 Philly Busters
13 TD
14 Promize


Slackjawed Yokel may pick whenever he shows up.

Last up:
twilson's Milchian Magicians
25twilson
      ID: 37573115
      Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 11:31
I'll take the top slot!

1 twilson
2 Guru
3 Slackjawed Yokel
4 mmikulka
5 Doug
6 Aussie Diamondbacks
7 Gmoney
8 twolves
9 s R
10 Jaydog
11 SwinganaMiss
12 Philly Busters
13 TD
14 Promize
26Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 12:30
I've been away for the past few days with limited checking in, so thanks to all for continuing to plod along. I'll set up the draft order on MFL in a few days.

I can already anticipate that twilson and I will drive each other crazy during this draft.

Hopefully, Slackjawed Yokel is just on vacation for now. He's a long-timer, so I anticipate that he'll be ready to go for the draft.

I still anticipate starting the draft on Saturday, Aug 27.
27Slackjawed Yokel
      ID: 21723188
      Sun, Aug 21, 2016, 17:54
yeah, sorry for my absence... I'm getting back in football mode now. Hopefully, the third pick is the one to have this year!
28Donkey Hunter
      ID: 51728714
      Sat, Sep 17, 2016, 08:16
Just noticed this in an email from Judy about our league but the trade deadline is now in the playoffs. Teams have byes in week 13, so the trade deadline being the weekend after that puts it in the first round of the playoffs. Might be something to look at for future years if the NFL keeps having byes so late.
29Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Sat, Sep 17, 2016, 09:46
Yeah, I actually decided to keep the trade deadline in the same week as before, which is the Friday after week 11.

All league calendars are already set up for that date.
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