Football God XI Rules

Welcome to another stellar year of Football God.  I'm going to spend the next several paragraphs breaking down the points system for you, as well as the new way the scoring will work at the end of the year.  Makes sure you take your time to read this.  This is the biggest overhaul we've done in a long time.

ROTO SCORING

This is in essence, THE change this year.  First I'll explain the process, then I'll explain the reasoning.

There will be 9 categories this year.

Fantasy Football, College Pick'em, Pro Pick'em, Survivor Pool, Losers Pool, Bowl Pick'em, College Predictions, Pro Predictions, & Bonus points.

The way that each of these categories operates will remain largely the same as years before, but here's the difference.  In previous years, you would receive 10 pts for a fantasy win, or 20 pts for a correct prediction, which would go to an overall total of points that would usually end up being between 950-1100 for the winner.  This year the winner will likely have between 65 & 75 points total.  Here's how it'll work.

If you win fantasy football you receive 12 points.  If you finish in last place you will receive 1 point.  If you finish in 2nd you get 11 points. 8th place would get 5 points.

The same goes for every category.  So, here's an example score sheet

Fantasy - 3rd (10 pts)
College pick - 8th (5pts)
Pro pick 6th (7 pts)
Survivor Pool 10th (3 pts)
Bowl pick 'em 12th (1 pt)
College Predictions 1st (12 pts)
Pro predictions 9th (4 pts)
Bonus points 2nd (11pts)
Losers Pool 8th (5 pts)

Total 58 pts out of a possible 108

Why am I making this change?

There are a couple reasons but mainly, it makes things a lot easier for me.  I can look at the scoring and figure out where people stand much more quickly.  I can still do point updates, just instead of points going up all year long, points will fluctuate up and down, depending on people's place in the standings.

I think this will help people stay in the mix to win for longer, and keep people more engaged.

TIE BREAKER

If there's a tie it will be broken by looking at the places.  If Jim & Joe both have 70 points and Jim has 1 first place and Joe has 0, Jim would win the tiebreaker.  If Joe also had 1, we would go to 2nd place finishes.  If Jim had 1 2nd & Joe had 2, Joe would win.  So on and so forth .

PAYMENT

The entry to Football God will be $77 this year.  Geiss & Colin were always the holdup from us raising the fee.  I accept payment through VENMO.  As I stated last year, I always hated taking money for the league.  This way things are in an escrow account of sorts.  I can also take Paypal if that's your only option, but I'd prefer Venmo, so all the money is in the same place.  $2 of the prize money from each person will go towards the site hosting our losers pool.

Eplin, I kept your $60 for coming in 3rd last year, so you only owe $17 for this year.

That puts our prize pool at $900 for the year.

1st $550
2nd $250
3rd $100

We'll probably move the entry to $100 next year and cap it there.  Unless anyone has an objection.

BOWL PICK'EM

Because the bowl pick'em has such a limited spectrum of games, we can't just do straight points.  We'll end up with the potential to have way too many people tied.  Also, since bowl pick'em is now equally weighted to the other areas of Football God, we need to up the skill level.  Because of this, I'm instituting confidence points in the bowl pick'em this year.  

I'll explain that more when the time comes to sign up for the bowl pick'em.

FANTASY FOOTBALL

Fantasy

1. Hale
2. Gary
3. Rob
4. Folden
5.  Adam
6.  Munez
7.  John
8. Shawn
9. Eplin
10. Jim
11. Joe
12. Kemp

Draft is Wednesday the 29th at 8:00 PM. 

Points for this will go reverse order of standings 12th-7th.  The consolation games will be meaningless.  The losers each round will be placed by order of regular season finish, reverse order in points. 

SURVIVOR POOL

Survivor pool rules are the same as last year.  2 strikes and you're out.  Pick the team most likely to lose their game.  Can only choose each team once.

LOSERS POOL
We're going to do a weekly losers pool this year too.  The way this works is the opposite of the survivor pool.  You pick a team each week to lose.  You can pick each team once.  You get 2 strikes and you're out.

COLLEGE & PRO PICK'EM

I went back to doing the pro pick'em against the spread.  I know some of you don't like it, but with every category being of equal weight, the difficulty needs to be higher.

College pick'em is a weekly pick'em against the spread as well.

PREDICTIONS

You all should have received the Predictions sheet. I uploaded it to the facebook group message.  Let me know if you can't open it.


Bonus Points

Bonus points will still exist same as always.  But, they're a little different this year.

If you survive past week 4, 8, & 12 in survivor & losers pool you'll receive 1 bonus point
If you win college or pro pick'em in a week you get 1 bonus point.
If you are the highest scoring team in fantasy football for a week, you get a bonus point.
If you are the highest scoring losing team in fantasy football for a week, you get half a bonus point.
Every 4 wins you have in fantasy football you get a bonus point.  If you make the playoffs you get a bonus point.
If you win any of the categories you receive 5 bonus points. 2nd gets you 3 bonus points. 3rd gets you 2 bonus points.  This excludes losers pool and survivor pool, & obviously the bonus point category.

For every 5 points you score in the predictions, you get a bonus point.