Staff Fantasy Proleague!

Summary

This will last through an yet undetermined amount of proleague. I'm thinking Rounds 2-5 can be regular season while Round 6 can be play-offs.

Everyone who wants to play is going to split up into 8-man leagues and draft teams, like they do on other fantasy sites for sports like basketball, hokey, football, etc. You’ll have spots to fill on your team, like Zerg players, a Proteam, a flex position a bench to move players in and out of the starting lineup and so on. Each week your team will face off against another team and the team whose lineup scores the most points during that week gets a win. At the end of a predetermined number of weeks we will enter a two-week “playoffs” with the top four teams in each 8-man league to determine the fantasy winners.

General Rules

Eight participants is the ideal size for a Starcraft Fantasy league. There will be a cut to the top four teams for playoffs after a predetermined week of Proleague. Playoffs will last two weeks and be single elimination. There will be a third place match the same week as the finals match.

A week lasts from right before games begin on the first night of the week for Proleague and goes until the last game finishes on the fourth night. A match between league managers lasts one week. Match pairings will rotate every week. No two participants will play each other twice until they have played each other participant once. Unlike regular fantasy proleague, we will not be redrafting teams every round.

Drafting

Order for drafting will be chosen randomly and proceed in the following format until every team has drafted 12 players. Once a player or team has been drafted, no one else will be able to draft that player to his team.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

And repeated until each roster is full.

Each participant must submit their own draft rankings for their top 88(8*11) choices in order to determine the order in which players will be drafted to team unless a time can be agreed upon for a live draft. There can be some people who want to live draft while the rest just submit rankings also. If a participant does not submit a ranking and/or does not show up to the live draft, the default rankings will be used for that participant.

Note: Drafting by default rankings or with a turned in set of personal rankings will still ensure that you have at minimum two players of each race and at least one proteam by your twelfth pick. So your options from best to worst include:

1. Show up at live draft. This makes it more fun for everyone else too.
   
2. Submit your ranking
   
3. Do nothing and use the default rankings

Default Ranking:
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There are exactly 100 Players + Pro-Teams. This means there will always be at least 4 players never picked.

Lineup & Bench

There are 8 positions. At any time, your team must include at least 2 Terrans, 2 Zergs, 2 Protoss, and 1 Pro-Team. The Ace position can be filled by any player(non Pro-Team). Think of your Pro-Team as just another position.

11 Spots Total per Roster
8 Spots in Lineup per week:
2 Terran
2 Zerg
2 Protoss
1 Ace (any race, aka flex position)
1 Pro-Team
3 Spots on the Bench (any race or team)

The maximum number of players/teams on any roster is 11. Any participant may choose to have less than 11 players if he chooses, but never more.

Lineups will be due prior to the first scheduled Proleague match during the week. Lineups may be submitted at any time prior to their due date. If a lineup is not submitted by the time it is due, the lineup from the previous week will be used. Once the deadline has passed, lineups may not be changed until the following week. Because you're just comparing scores with your opponent and not literally going up head-to-head, there's not big advantage to submitting your lineup after your opponent.

Example Line Up submission


Each participant’s roster, both the lineup and bench, will be viewable by all other participants in the league.

Matches

Every week, you will be matched up against another player randomly. You will not be matched up against the same player a second time. until you match up with every other player at least once.

(Scoring will be the same as regular fantasy scoring)
If Bisu scores 10 points in a given week for regular fantasy proleague, he will score 10 points for staff fantasy proleague.

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If your score total for the week is greater than your opponent's, your win the match and receive one match victory in the final standings. In this example, GTR, Manifesto, Hot_bid, semioldguy each received one match victory. After one round, we should end up with something close to this:

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Trading, Dropping, and Adding

Trading between participants will be available until a predetermined deadline(10 minutes before the first match of the week on Saturday). You may offer or accept trades between other participants in your league.

Players may not be traded or dropped if they are currently active in your lineup. Players may be traded or dropped at any time if they are on your bench. If they are not on your bench they may only be traded or dropped after the week is complete, and before the next one begins. Trades and drops may be proposed at any time, but will not be honored until the players in the trade or drop meet the above conditions.

The commissioner is allowed to veto any trades he deems unsportsmanlike. This will prevent one owner who is struggling from helping out a friend who is near the top. For example, A trade of Flash for ssak will generally not be honored.

Pickups will be allowed until a predetermined deadline(10 minutes before the first match of the week on Saturday). In order to make a Pickup there must be an available spot on your bench to place the player you wish to pick up. You may pick up a free agent at any time. When you pick him up, he will be placed on your bench.

Waivers

Waivers is a period where everyone can try to stake a claim to player(s), but they have to operate by a pecking order. The lower you drafted, the higher up on waivers you are and thus you're in the best position to pick up an undrafted/dropped player. When you successfully complete a waiver claim you go back to the bottom of the pecking order.

All players that were undrafted will first go to Waivers to give you guys a fair opportunity to claim them and drop players that you find undesirable. Any player that is dropped must go through waivers for a few days before they become a Free Agent. When a player becomes a Free Agent, they're up for grabs - first come, first serve. If you have multiple Waiver claims, you must order them.

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Playoffs

There will be a cut to the top four participants who will proceed to the league playoffs. In the event of an equal record between two players, the player with the most overall points throughout the league will be given the higher rank. In the event of a tie in total points, the participant who has the highest scoring player is given the higher rank. If this is also tied proceed down to the next highest scoring players until there is not a tie. In the extremely unlikely event that everything is exactly tied, a coin flip will determine who is higher ranked.

Playoff matches will not be ended in a draw. If the score between two participants is equal at the end of a playoff match, the participant with the higher scoring “Ace” player is determined the winner of the match.