NBD 2011 Manifesto

Welcome to another year of the Native Burke Dwellers Fantasy League. Here is everything you could ever want to know about the league this year:

Pay-In/Pay-Out
The entry fee this year is $122, which must be paid by the draft. Dues are payable via PayPal to sr.sovic@gmail.com or check sent to me at
401 Hicks Street
Apt B1E
Brooklyn, NY 11201

The pot total of $1,464 is distributed as follows:
$650 → League Champion
$300 → League Runner-Up
$150 → Regular Season Champ
$100 → League 3rd-Place Finisher
$20 (x13) → Weekly High Scorer
$4 → PayPal transaction fees

All payouts, including Weekly High Scorer awards, are distributed after the season has ended, and sometimes much later depending on the results of my most recent gambling venture.

The Draft
This year's draft will be held on Tuesday, August 30th at 8:45pm Eastern Time. We will be using the Yahoo! draft application. The draft order is as follows:
1) Screen
2) Manning
3) Sovic
4) Sherwood
5) Tarasovic
6) Toobin, the Elder
7) Colly
8) DeYoung
9) Haller, the Younger
10) Haller, the Elder
11) Toobin, the Younger
12) Papkin

The draft order will snake (1-12 in odd rounds, 12-1 in even rounds) and will last 15 rounds.

Rosters
Rosters will include starting positions of 1 Quarterback, 2 Wide Receivers, 2 Running Backs, 1 Wide Receiver/Running Back, 1 Tight End, 1 Kicker, 1 Defense/Special Teams Unit. Each team will have 6 Bench slots and 1 Injured Reserve Slot. To be eligible for the IR slot, a player must be actually declared on Injured Reserve by his NFL team, meaning he is inactive for the rest of the season, so that slot should be used only for potential keepers, not a guy who is missing a few weeks from a strained hammy.

Keepers
Each team is alloted 2 regular keeper slots. Any player can be kept who meets the following criteria:
   *he was drafted after the first three rounds of the draft
   *he was on the team roster as of the keeper/trade deadline and remained on the roster until the end of the season
   *he was not kept the previous season
Players who were drafted and remained rostered for the entire season are kept in the same round they were drafted in the preceding year (i.e. If I drafted Eugene Tackleberry in the 5th round in 2010 and choose to keep him, he will count as my 5th-round pick in 2011). Players who were acquired via the waiver wire are treated as 15th-round selections and are kept there. In the instance that an owner has two keepers with the same round value, they are kept in the original round and one round earlier (i.e. If I want to keep Tackleberry in the 5th and I also traded for Elliott's 5th-round selection, Larvell Jones, and want to keep him, they would count as my 4th- and 5th-round selections in 2011).
In addition, each team is entitled to 1 extra keeper slot which can be used only on a rookie from the previous season. These keepers follow essentially the same rules as the regular keeper slot, except that they can be kept even if they were drafted in the first three rounds.
For a list of each team's eligible keepers for the 2011 season, please see this blog post.
Keepers must be declared to the Commissioner by Sunday, August 28th at 8:45pm (48 hours prior to the draft), but owners are highly encouraged to submit their keepers before then with the understanding that they can change them until the deadline. Keepers will be published to the league shortly after the deadline. If a declared keeper is injured between the declaration deadline and the draft, the owner may choose not to keep him, but cannot replace him with another keeper.

Waiver Wire
Our Waiver Wire operates on a Free Agent Auction Budget system, meaning that owners place silent bids on available players during the waiver period, with the player going to the highest bidder when he comes off waivers. Each owner starts with a budget of $100. $0 bids are permissable, and if a player comes off waivers without any bids, they can be acquired for free as free agents. As previously discussed, players acquired this way can be kept the following year as a 15th-rounder.

Scoring
Passing
25 yards = 1 point
touchdown = 4 points
interception = -1 point

Rushing & Receiving
10 yards = 1 point
touchdown = 6 points

All Offense
fumble = -2 points
2-point conversion = 2 points
offensive fumble return TD = 6 points

Kicking
field goals 0-49 yards = 3 points
field goals 50+ yards = 4 points
point after touchdown = 1 point

Defense/Special Teams
sack = 1 point
interception = 2 points
fumble recovery = 2 points
touchdown = 6 points
safety = 2 points
blocked kick = 2 points
kickoff/punt returned for td = 6 points
0 points allowed = 10 points
1-6 points allowed = 7 points
7-13 points allowed = 4 points
14-20 points allowed = 1 point
21-27 points allowed = 0 points
28-34 points allowed = -1 point
35+ points allowed = -4 points

Our league uses fractional scoring (i.e. 52 rushing yards yields 5.2 points).

Your Asses
Are mine. Let's get it started.