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EX-FL Fantasy Football Rules

A rules meeting is held every year, a week or 2 before drafting the upcoming season.
Each team has 1 and only 1 vote. This is important as a team could have multiple managers.
This is the payment deadline for returning teams.
Draft order will be determined via a standard "drawing from a hat" procedure.
Draft slot is subject to change in the scenario where the league contains less than the planned number of teams by draft day.
When a rule is proposed, ALL present players must vote explicitly "yes/yay" or "no/nay". No Switzerland.
Remote folks, with at least 1 year of league history under their belts, can attend the rules meeting remotely by some way of their own doing. It's not on the commish to make arrangements for this.

Accepted -> Draft Day is August 21st, 2024.
Accepted -> 2nd Flex position replaced with single IDP (Individual Defensive Player) slot.
Accepted -> A single hat-drawing mulligan will be allowed only for managers present at the rules meeting. The 2nd number drawn will be final in this scenario.
Accepted -> SPECIAL THUG RULE - If a player is arrested, the manager owes the next season's pot another $20 for each arrest. This will be verified according to nflarrests.net as long as it's still a thing. The league will need to make a collective effort to police this rule.
Accepted -> One of the two IR slots is removed.
Accepted -> One of the Bench slots is removed.

Divisions are determined by the number of teams in the league. 12 teams will have 3 divisions of 4 teams each. 16 teams will have 4 divisions of 4 teams each. In the case of exactly 14 teams, there will not be divisions. 14 is not as easily divisible like 12 and 16 are. Ditching divisions in this scenario also enables a team to play every other team exactly once.

6 teams make the playoffs, except in the case where we have 10 total teams or less. With 10 or less teams, only 4 teams will be playoff bound.

We use DraftOrDie.com for our live drafts. This is an app I built that allows for a live draft experience similar to player stickers.
Players at the draft can take a mulligane to make one missed pick. If a player does not have a mulligan available and misses a pick (goes over the time limit), that spot will be left blank and will be chosen at random from the "shitty hat" at the end of the draft from the remaining stickers.
A player who leaves the draft early will have all their subsequent picks delayed until the draft concludes and those skipped picks will be drawn at random from the shitty hat. The DraftOrDie app has a draft manager button for this.
No shows and late players who miss a pick will have that pick chosen by the first person in the draft order. The next time it happens, the 2nd person in the draft order will choose the pick. This will continue until the end of the draft order is reached and snake back if there are more missed picks than draft participants.

Waivers are Standard. Waiver priority will persist until a player has been claimed during the waiver period by the team manager.

The league winner will show up physically to the prior champ's residence, knock on the door and when greeted, ask "Where is my mother-fucking fantasy football trophy?".

5% of each buy-in goes to a side-pot which will be awarded to the owner with the team having the most total points over the regular season that DOES NOT make the playoffs.
In addition to the side-pot, this person has the option to choose his/her draft slot in next years draft. This is subject to the player remembering to declare it prior to the rules meeting. Spoiler, no one has once remembered this. It's not on the commish to remind folks.

These rules were voted on and denied at the Rules Meeting. We are keeping them here for historical purposes.

DENIED -> New players to the league may draft on the app remotely.
DENIED -> Remove 2 bench slots
DENIED -> Top-loaded hat-drawing for present voters - if 6 players show, then picks 1-6 are drawn from the hat first with one mulligan to redraw from the greater pool.
DENIED -> 6 points for 60+ yard Field Goals (this was accepted, but not supported by Yahoo - there's a new fractional option we can explore next year though)