League Guide

Every team scores every week — there are no weekly matchups or opponents. Your weekly score is the total points earned by your 12 starting players. Season standings are determined entirely by cumulative total points.

All teams make the playoffs. Playoff weeks (Wild Card through Super Bowl, weeks 19–22) follow the same scoring rules — everyone keeps playing. The final champion is whoever has the highest cumulative total at the end of Week 22 — regular season and playoff points combined.

Cumulative season total determines waiver priority — teams with lower cumulative points have higher waiver claim priority (they get first pick at contested adds). Level on points, the earlier claim wins. Playoff scores count toward this total.

Kicker and Defense slots are team-based, not player-based. When you hold a team's kicker slot, you earn points from whoever kicks for that NFL team that week — the slot follows the team, not the individual player. This applies to every NFL team.

If a kicker changes teams mid-season (e.g. moves from Team A to Team B), the owner of Team A's kicker slot retains the Team A slot only. That player's stats on Team B are not tracked — a different owner would need to pick up Team B's kicker. Defenses work exactly the same way.

When you draft a quarterback, you hold exclusive rights to that NFL team's QB position. No other fantasy owner can roster or start any QB from that same NFL team. You own the team's QB slot — not just the individual player.

The 2-QB roster limit means 2 NFL team slots — not 2 individual players. If your QB is injured mid-season, you can add the backup from that same team via waivers without violating the roster limit. You'd then hold the starter, the backup, and your second team's QB — three physical QBs, all within the rules, because they come from only two NFL teams.

Your Supplemental pick can also be used to draft a backup QB ahead of time as insurance — entering the season with both the starter and the backup from one of your teams already on your roster.

During playoff weeks, if you're holding multiple QBs from the same NFL team and both play, both score independently for you. No lineup is submitted during playoffs — every player on your roster contributes.

Each team may designate one player as Injured Reserve. While on IR, that player does not count against position limits, freeing a roster spot to add another player.

When the IR player returns to your active lineup, they do count toward limits again. If activating them would push you over a position limit, you must drop a player first.

The NFL week typically has games on Thursday, Sunday, and Monday. Waiver deadlines are tied to when those games start:

Special-schedule weeks (international games, Black Friday, etc.) follow the same logic — a player who kicks off outside the Sunday slate has their own deadline an hour before their game.

Your claim rolls to the next deadline. It isn't thrown out and you don't have to re-submit — it just doesn't compete in a round that had already closed when it arrived. Miss Thursday's window and your claim is settled at noon Sunday instead, alongside everything else due then.

One catch worth knowing: ties are broken by who submitted first, so a rolled-over claim still loses a tie in its new round to anyone who was in early. And if there's no later deadline left in the week — you submitted inside the last hour before Monday night — the claim has missed the week and is denied. Re-submit next week.

If two owners request the same player, the owner with the lower cumulative season total wins the claim. Lower total = higher waiver priority. If you're level on points, the claim that was submitted first wins. That's what decides Week 1, when nobody has scored yet. When you type a player into the add form, you're told how many owners have already claimed them — but not which ones. That's your cue to set a backup add; who you're up against stays private until the deadline settles it.

When submitting a waiver add, you can specify a backup add. If your primary is denied because someone with higher priority claimed the same player, your backup will be processed automatically — no need to resubmit. The backup follows the same conflict resolution rules.

Lineup changes let you sit one rostered player and start another in their place — temporarily adjusting your active lineup for a week without permanently changing it. There are two ways to do it, and the first is the one you'll use most weeks.

Open the Lineup tab on My Team and pick your name. Click a bench player to move them into your starters, or click a starter to send them to the bench — if that position is already full, the site benches an eligible starter for you. Kickers and defenses always start and can't be moved. Then click Save Lineup. Until you do, the page shows Unsaved changes and nothing has been submitted — leaving at that point saves nothing. Once it saves you'll get a confirmation with the week, the time it went in, and how many starters you set. No approval needed; this takes effect straight away.

If your lineup change goes with a roster move, specify who to sit and who to start alongside the add and drop in the same form. You can include multiple lineup changes in one submission. This route is a request — it's settled at the deadline along with everything else.

After each NFL week, a pipeline runs automatically to fetch ESPN play-by-play data, apply the Jenny Circle scoring formula, and publish the results to this site. Standings, team stats, and player stats all update without any manual steps.

The pipeline runs on a schedule tuned to the NFL calendar — more frequently during game windows, with a final sweep each Tuesday morning to catch any plays that ESPN reports late.