Welcome everyone to the eleventh year of TFP’s original fantasy league with its live in-person draft day.
The roll of honour so far is:
2014 – Chris Parkes
2015 – Dean Poole
2016 – Robert McGregor
2017 – Chris Jennings
2018 – Jon Cartwright
2019 – Javier Aparicio
2020 – Sean Connors
2021 – Shani Senaratne
2022 – Toby Nash
2023 – Dan Nichols
With 6 former winners in the field, can we finally get our first repeat winner in 2024?
Our entry fee stays at £125. With 16 people in the league, this gives a £2,000 prize pot. General setup and admin costs come to around £100. The other £1,900 is to be distributed as follows:
Winner – £1,000
Runner-up – £400
Losing Semi-finallists – £125 & £125
Regular Season Number 1 Seed – £125
Highest Weekly Score (weeks 1 to 14 only) – £125
In addition to the above, a spot prize is on offer (not taken from the prize pot). If the highest weekly score from weeks 1 to 17 surpasses Simon’s record 173.16 weekly points, then the person achieving that score will win a spot prize equivalent to their points scored in that week, for example, if scoring 175.85 points, they will win £175.85. If this is done in weeks 1 to 14, they will also win the £125 prize as described above. If more than one person surpasses 173.16 during the season, then only the highest scorer wins this spot prize.
There will be a 14 week regular season. At the end of that time, the top 8 teams will reach the playoffs (teams are ranked on number of wins - where two or more teams are level, total points scored is the tiebreaker).
For week 15, the number 1 seed will choose their opponent from the other 7 playoff qualifiers. Then the other six playoff qualifiers will be paired off automatically, for the 3 remaining 1st round play-off games, plus both semi-finals (highest remaining seed plays lowest remaining seed, second highest plays second lowest etc).
The roster will be : QB, 2RBs, 2WRs, 1TE, 1DEF, 1K, 1 Flex RB/WR/TE, 6 bench spots, 1 IR spot.
Scoring will be the same as previous seasons (broadly NFL standard, though without PPR scoring, and with points for individual players for any punt return and kick-off return TDs)
We will continue to use WAB (Waiver Acquisition Budget) for making in-season player pick-ups. All managers will have 200 waiver points for the season, and 3 ways they can use them:
In the run up to draft day, each manager will submit a private bid of 0 to 200 points. The manager with the highest bid gets first choice of draft spot, next highest has second choice etc (two or more managers with the same bid will draw lots for priority). Each team will then have the amount of their bid deducted from their 200 points, to leave their remaining budget for the season
During weekly waivers all managers can use any or all of their budget to bid for unowned players.
During the season, all managers can use any or all of their budget as part of a trade deal (for example Manager A sends Patrick Mahomes to manager B, in exchange for Dak Prescott and 40 waiver points)