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 16 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). 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 — the deadline for a player is always ~1 hour before their specific game.

If two owners request the same player, the owner with the lower cumulative season total wins the claim. Lower total = higher waiver priority.

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. Specify who to sit and who to start alongside any adds and drops in the same form. You can include multiple lineup changes in one submission.

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.