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FOOTBALL CHALLENGE LEAGUE RULES SFL FOOTBALL CHALLENGE OVERVIEW The SFL Football Challenge is played throughout the 17 week NFL regular season games. Sports Fantasy Leagues Football Challenge Team Owners select a personal team of 12 NFL teams consisting of 10 offensive teams and 2 defensive teams. Your fantasy team accumulates points based on the number of points scored by each NFL team each week. You can make as many or as little trades as you like from week to week as you manage your team. Small league sizes provide fantasy team owners with realistic opportunities to win. All league participants must agree to all the Sports Fantasy League terms and conditions. LEAGUE SIZES AND MULTIPLE LEAGUES All Sports Fantasy Leagues programs are limited to a small number of team owners per league. Unlike many of the other fantasy leagues where you compete against hundreds and even thousands of players, SFL leagues are much smaller providing all fantasy teams with greater chances to win multiple prizes. SFL is committed to providing exciting league play with very reasonable chances to win weekly and championship cash prizes. To this end, SFL has set a maximum league size of 80 teams per league. REAL TIME LIVE LEAGUE SCORING ( Live League Scoring ) Real time on-line live league scoring adds to the excitement of league play by providing you information about the current performance of each team in your league as the games unfold. During the football weekend, you can view the current standings for the week as they change based on the current NFL game scores at the time you click on the Live League Scoring link. Live League Scoring is active while all NFL games are in progress. Watching the games is more fun when you can see how you and your league competitors are doing as the games unfold. Live Scoring is presented as a fun feature but due to how it works their may be times when it is not 100% accurate due to matters beyond our control so it is not the official scoring. The Official SFL Scoring is posted to the Weekly Standings page and the Announcements page some time after the Monday night game for each week. PRE-EVENT SCORING SHEETS ( Sample Scoring Sheet ) Pre-event scoring sheets add to the excitement of league play by providing you information about each team in your league. The scoring sheets are uploaded to the web site prior to the first game of each week after the trade deadline expires and all trades have been entered. This prevents teams from copying each others weekly strategies yet provides the information you need to watch the league results unfold. This open league format adds to the excitement allowing you to see what teams need to win or lose to increase the performance of your team during the current week's games. This Team info is also shown in the Live League Scoring page. WEEKLY LEAGUE STATISTICS UPDATES ( Sample Statistics Report ) Each week, the league statistics for all team owners will be updated to the SFL web site. This page shows the latest league results, weekly winners and points standings. Using your log in name and password, you will be able to view the statistics for any league you are entered in. These updates are normally posted within 24 hours after the final game of the week. Additionally, statistics are provided to show how many points each team may need to catch the current Football Challenge leader, Bonus Program results, total winnings and other league statistics. The top seven finishers each week receive weekly cash prizes as per the posted SFL Football Challenge Prize Schedule. Additional season ending cash prize awards are awarded to the top 10 in Championship points, the team that earned the Highest Points in a Week, the Most Wins, and the Most Top 5 Finishes. Double Cash Weeks double the prize amounts for the designated weeks. The designated Double Cash weeks are shown at the bottom of the Prize Schedule page. The top 5 finishers at the end of the year receive beautiful trophies in addition to the cash prizes. MVP trophies are also awarded at the end of the year. BONUS PROGRAM The points scored in each of the predefined Bonus Program Weeks throughout the season are accumulated for the Bonus Program Mini Championship. The team scoring the most points in these designated weeks win the Bonus Program Winner's Cash Prize and a Cash Prize is also awarded to the second place finisher. This Mini Championship is in addition to the Season Championship which pays cash prizes for the top 10 teams in the points standings. SPORTS FANTASY LEAGUES FOOTBALL CHALLENGE GROUPS Using your personal integrated Team Trades page, you will select your initial fantasy team from the groups shown below. Select two teams from each of the five offensive groups and one team from each of the two defensive groups. Your team should then consist of ten offensive teams and two defensive teams. Teams used on offense may also be used on defense.
EARNING WEEKLY AND CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS The 10 offensive teams are selected from five (5) different offensive groups of NFL teams (2 per group). The two defensive teams are picked from 2 defensive groups of NFL teams (one per group). These groups are shown above as the SFL Football Challenge Groups. Offensive teams earn the number of points they scored in each week's games if they win the game or they earn 5 points if they tied their game. Offensive teams do not accumulate points for your team if they lose. The two defensive teams reduce the total offensive points earned by the number of points scored against your defensive teams regardless of weather they win, lose, or tie. Do not carry a defensive team that is on a "bye" or it will cost you minus 40 points from your offensive points total. Any NFL team you select for offense can also be selected for defense. The points your team earns each week are accumulated for each of the 17 regular season weeks. Each week, cash prizes are awarded as per the Weekly Cash Prize Schedule for the top 5 teams. At the end of the 17 week regular season, cash prizes, trophies, and statistical awards are awarded as per the Championship Cash Prize Schedule. Weekly winnings can be distributed at any time throughout the season. Weekly Team Scoring Example: You have selected the following NFL teams for this weeks games and they win, lose, or tie as shown below. In this example the points scored by your selected NFL team are shown to the left of the points scored by the opposing team.
Special Rulings The SFL reserves the right to make special rulings that may effect the scoring in special cases where games may be cancelled or postponed or in any other special case which may present a situation that would not be fair to ALL teams. The intent of these rulings are to resolve any issue such that the league scoring remains fair for all teams and would only be made in extremely rare situations. TRADES Any of the twelve (12) NFL teams on your fantasy team may be traded each week based on how you expect the games to turn out. Trades are not mandatory but can increase the performance of your fantasy team each week. Any NFL team traded onto your team will remain on your team until you select to trade that team out. Any NFL team traded out must be replaced by an NFL team in the same group as the team traded out. There is no limit to the number of trades you can make and your personal fully integrated team operations page creates a very simple online trading process. Trade costs are shown on the Prize Schedule page. Trade deadlines are strictly enforced automatically by the web site to provide a level playing field for all league competitors and to provide a suitable amount of time in order to publish the Scoring Sheets prior to the start of the weekly games. This deadline may vary from week to week based upon the start of the first game for each week. Thursday, Saturday, or Sunday games begin each weekly event. Monday night games are always the last game of each weekly event. Trade deadlines are always posted at the sportsfantasyleagues.com web site and you will receive an email each time the trade deadline is updated. WEEKLY TIES Weekly ties though rare can occur as a result of an identical team or because of mathematical coincidence. In case of a tie in any of the Top Five finishing positions cash prizes are awarded by combining the finishing position's cash prize amounts, and splitting the prize amount equally between the teams that are tied. Please refer to the following example Weekly Tie Example: Team A and Team B are tied for second place. The posted weekly cash prize schedule for second place is $50.00 and $30.00 for third place. Team A and B would split the total of the second and third place prize amounts which is $80.00 in this example. Thus Team A and Team B would each win $40.00 for that week. CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS TIES Though unlikely, it is possible for a tie to occur in the Championship Points at the end of the season. A Championship tie is resolved by granting the Championship to the team with the most weekly wins. If they have the same amount of weekly wins then it is resolved by the most weekly second place finishes, then third and so on until the tie is resolved. LEAGUE FEE PAYMENTS AND TEAM OWNER ACCOUNTS After you register you will receive your selected login password will be activated as soon as SFL receives your league registration fee. Once your team is activated you will have full access to the league operations area including on-line trading, live league scoring, pre-event scoring and the league announcements and statistics pages. Trade fees are accumulated and posted to your SFL account at the end of each weekly update. All your winnings, league fees, league payments, and SFL payouts are tracked for you automatically through this account. This information is provided in your own personal SFL Account Balance page which only you can see. Weekly cash payouts can be requested at any time during the season otherwise SFL will hold your winnings in your account until the end of the season when all Weekly and Championship cash prizes, trophies, bonus awards, and winnings are distributed. SFL reserves the right to temporarily disqualify any team owner from league play and accumulating Championship and Weekly points for nonpayment of any league fees. Your account balance must have enough funds to cover the cost of any trades you wish to make. The web site will prevent you from making more trades then you have the funds in your account to cover. You can always go to your account balance page to make a credit card payment to increase the funds in your account. It is the full responsibility of each team owner to maintain an appropriate account balance to support the number of trades you wish to make. LEGAL STUFF It is illegal to copy or duplicate any Sports Fantasy Leagues formats, league documentation, or support software without the prior written consent from Sports Fantasy Leagues. SFL reserves the right to cancel the creation of the league prior to season start or at any time due to any technical development that may interrupt league operation as per the stated rules. SFL will provide a full 100% refund to all current league participants in the unlikely event of a league cancellation. Sports Fantasy Leagues is not affiliated with the NFL, NASCAR, PGA or any official sports sanctioning body. SFL is not responsible for paying any taxes as a result of cash prizes you may win. SFL does not guarantee that you will win a cash prize if you enter any SFL league. All league competitors enter at their own risk. All league participants must agree to all the Sports Fantasy Leagues terms and conditions. Back to top |
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