Entry Fee £20 - (limit of 1 entry per person)
Hey are you an NFL fantasy football fanatic? - Yes, then read on…
After a 1-year sabbatical my most in-depth in-house NFL game returns. This is the fantasy game I always wanted to have on TFP as a proper website game but alas I don’t possess the necessary programming skills to make that a reality and the website owner despite telling me he will look into it every year never does (too busy I guess, along with the small take up who would actually play the game just not worth the effort in his eyes me thinks). So, as I am not rich enough to pay someone else to make a proper website game a reality for me, I have to make do with running it via the TFP forum and Google Sheets. I will need to spend many hours myself each week doing all the scoring and table updates by hand. That is why I did not run the game last year as the effort involved needs to have at least half a dozen entrants to make me feel like it’s worth my time investment.
So, I have decided any year I do not meet the minimum threshold of 6+ entrants to make the time I invest worth it, I will not bother to run the game the following season - take a year off as I did last year.
Alas, it’s like anything, build it and hope they will come - even if it takes time to gain traction. This game is totally my own idea and a game I wanted to be exclusive to TFP’s website. I’ve not seen another NFL game like this anywhere else out there as yet.
Firstly, I like a game that covers the whole season so this game will from NFL Week 1 up to and including the Super Bowl.
You pick a new team every week that consists of one each of following positions:
HC
QB
RB
WR
TE
K
DEF
There is no budget - that’s right pick studs or unknowns it’s totally your decision.
You can find a list of Head Coaches, Players and Team Defence’s here:
NFL Players List (Gridiron Game) 2026/27
(Just ignore the values as this is a player list I update annually and use for another game of mine that does use values - though you could use the values listed as a rough guide as to who the premium players are.)
Now the catch with this game is, as the games title alludes to (1 & Done!), you can only ever select any player, team defence or head coach once. Yes, you read that correctly, only one time over 22 game weeks. Furthermore, just to make it even harder and to offer up strategy the post season weeks are worth more points the deeper you go.
Wild Card x2
Divisional x3
Championship x4
Super Bowl x5
Having these extra bonus points at the back end of the season makes for some very tough decisions - do you use the studs early and get points on the board, but then only have backups and 2nd, 3rd or 4th stringers to pick from come the post season - or what if you swerved studs to use later and they get injured or the teams you thought would make post season don’t. This is a mine field that not only you have to navigate, but so does everyone else - it’s your judgement trying to identify who will score you big points each week and which teams will make a deep run, in post season. So many variables and here is another - due to having to manually do all the scoring and team updates myself I am restricting this game to one entry per person. No multi-teamers I’m afraid. It’s one entry only per person.
You must post your entry on this thread each week.
Staggered entry deadlines - those being the scheduled kick off of every game!
New this season I will have rolling entry deadlines - those being the scheduled kick off time of every game. YOU MUST NEVER EDIT A POST - as this will invalidate your entry (as you could cheat) so you must post again between deadlines. For instance, if you want a HC/players/Team DEF in the Thursday night game you must post an entry before that games scheduled kick off time - and those TNF players will be set in stone/locked. But if you change your mind on your other players or didn’t pick any yet for Sunday’s 1pm ET or 9pm ET games you can make a new post before each of those deadlines, same again for SNF (Sunday Night Football) and MNF (Monday Night Football) just make new posts before each game’s deadline (kick-off time). I will check the post times of each post and compare it to the scheduled kick-off times for each game. Any edited posts will be invalidated. So just make new posts for each games deadline as I will always take the last entry you posted as long as it was posted before the game(s) started you picked players for (and was not an edited post). Same rule applies to Monday’s game(s) - this is great news if you have forgotten to do an entry in time for all of Sunday’s games as you can do a last day saver and just pick players from the MNF games to avoid missing out on points for that week. Also, you cannot re-pick players to replace players from games played on earlier days - if you posted players for an earlier day’s game(s) they are locked.
TIP
To make it easy to know what players you have already used I suggest making a copy of the players list on Google Sheets - just go to my players list and click on ‘file’ (near the top left in the menu bar) - select ‘make a copy’ and save it. Then you can just use that copy to mark off (highlight) all the players you have used as the season goes along to make sure you don’t pick the same ones twice.
Rules Clarification - If you do select a Player/Head Coach/Defence for a second (or third) time etc., then you will score zero points for those extra times you selected them - it is each entrant’s own responsibility to check they are selecting valid teams each week (so keep a record of who you have picked previously). So, the rule will be if you select any Head Coach/Player/Defence more than once you will score zero points for the extra times you selected them. If this is only picked up later or in an audit conducted at the end of the season, then the points will be deducted for the extra usages when discovered.
I will confirm prizes after I know how many entries I get, but in honour of my favourite home team player when I first got into American Football (Barry Sanders) the entry fee will be £20 - as #20 was his jersey number for the Detroit Lions.
If I get 10 entries or less, it will be ‘Winner Takes All’, 11+ entries it will be 1st & 2nd.
So, I’ve built it - as best I can - now I need some players to come and partake!
best regards,
bluelionman / Noel Symonds
Fan Pub Founding Member
SCORING
PS As this is a TFP forum game and entries must be posted on this thread entries will not have team names but use your TFP Forum Username.
Weekly entries and scores will be recorded here:
TFP / BLM - NFL 1 & Done! - 2026/27 - Entered Teams
A Standings Table (updated weekly) can be viewed here:
TFP - 1 & Done - 2026/27 - Standings Table
PREVIOUS WINNERS
next to those entries. Please pay ASAP once you know you wish to partake and in any case before the main slate of games starts NFL Week 1 (Sunday 1pm US ET / 6pm UK BST)
