The Rules 2.0

General League Rules

• New rules are implemented upon a majority vote from the league.
• Trades can be overturned by three-fourths of the Rules Committee (Jon, Evan, Eric, Ping). If it is a tie, then the trade goes through.

Roster Limits

• 8 active starters, 6 reserves, 1 IR slot
• Any player can be placed on the IR slot, but once there, they no longer allowed to be active for the rest of the season. The player in the IR slot can be released.
• Five players may be designated as keepers each year

Starting Lineup

1 QB
1 RB
3 WR/TE
1 RB/WR/TE
1 K
1 Def

• Illegal rosters score zero points in standings
• Lineup deadline: Five minutes before gametime for each player

Scoring

• See scoring rules spreadsheet
• Tiebreaker: None, leave regular season matchups as ties

Transactions, Waivers, and Trades

• Add/Drop Deadline: Five minutes before each week's first game
• Add/Drop Limit: None, allow owners to do unlimited add/drops

• Waivers run: Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
• Waivers period: 1 day
• Waivers Order Resets: Never, set at beginning of season according to draft order
• All players not on a roster are picked up via the waivers process for the first waiver run of each week
• All players not cut by a team are then free agents, and available for unlimited adding after the first waiver wire run of the week

• Trade Deadline: December 1st

Playoffs & Toilet Bowl

• Playoffs start: Week 14
• First Round Bye: Division winners receive a first round bye
• Playoff seeding tiebreakers will be determined by: (1) Head to Head Record, (2) Points Scored, (3) Division Record
• [Added 8/2015] Playoff teams always draft after non-playoff teams, regardless of win-loss record.
• In the event that a playoff game ends in a tie, the deadlock will be broken using (1) Most touchdowns scored by a starting roster, (2) Most points scored by a starting defense
• The winner of the Toilet Bowl receives the #1 overall pick in RD1, while the loser of the Toilet Bowl receives #2 overall pick in RD1, before they revert to their original positons for the rest of the draft. Toilet Bowl seedings and details.

Drafting

• Yearly draft order is calculated according to reverse regular season standings (same tie-breakers as playoff format)
• The two Super Bowl contestants draft second-to-last and last
• The draft is worst to first, non-snake