BIG TWELVE LEAGUE INFORMATION
GENERAL LEAGUE INFORMATION
The league entry fee will be $20.
The league schedule will be produced prior to the start of the NFL season.
SEASON FOR HEAD TO HEAD LEAGUES
The regular season will last for the first fourteen weeks of the NFL season.
Weeks 15-17 will be used for playoff purposes.
HOW THE HEAD TO HEAD SEASON WORKS
There will be a fourteen-week regular season.
After the end of the fourteenth week, the top teams from each division (based on win-loss record) will advance to the playoffs.
The top three teams remaining, regardless of division, will also qualify for the playoffs.
TIE BREAKERS - The following shows the order in which a tie would be broken in the event that two or more teams have the same overall record.
1. Total Points
2. Head to Head Record
The remaining six teams will compete for the Toilet Bowl.
The top two division winners will receive a first round bye in the playoffs with the team with the better record receiving the 1 seed.
The division winner that did not qualify for a first round bye will be seeded 3 for the playoffs.
The remaining three playoff teams will be seeded 4 to 6, based off of league tiebreakers.
The
Playoffs will be as follows:
Week 15:
3
vs. 6
4
vs. 5
Week 16:
1
vs. winner of 4/5 matchup
2
vs. winner of 3/6 matchup
Week 17: Championships and third place games.
Week 18: Challenge Week
PRIZES
League Champion will receive $80 plus a trophy
League Runner up will receive $60
Third place will receive $30
Fourth place will receive $20
Toilet Bowl winner will receive $20 and a supplemental pick between rounds 3 and 4 in the next years draft
Toilet Bowl runner up will receive $10 and a supplemental pick between rounds 5 and 6 in the next years draft
SCORING
Please make sure that you read over and STUDY the scoring format.
All scoring errors must be reported to the commissioner within 48 hours of the final posting of the weekend’s games.
In case of statistical discrepancies, the Stats on the ESPN.com website will be our official stats.
DRAFTING YOUR PLAYERS
Players will be chosen during a live draft.
Each team will have to disclose their choice of 2 franchise players along with any off season trades made by the deadline announced by the commissioner.
All teams will email their protections to the commissioner and it will all become public information only once all teams have made their selections and the commissioner has had time to validate the selections.
Any player drafted the previous year (by anyone) and currently on your roster can be an additional protection on your roster if you choose to give up your draft pick in the round he was drafted in the previous year.
Example : If you drafted Jayden Daniels in 2024 in the 5th round, you can give up your 5th round pick in 2025 and keep him one more year. He will be treated as a protected player on your roster.
Rules regarding these protections.
1. After protecting the player for one year he assumes the same status on your roster of any other player and cannot be protected giving up a pick again. It's a one-year thing.
Example : Jayden Daniels above, was drafted in 2024 in the 5th round. If you give up your 5th round pick in 2025 then subsequently, in 2026, Daniels must be protected using one of your two protections. You can't use the draft round again to protect him.
2. Any player that goes undrafted the previous year can be protected for the price of an 8th round pick. (free agent pickup for example)
Example : Cam Skataboo went undrafted in 2025. If you picked him up and he's on your roster at the conclusion of 2025 season you can protect him by giving up your 8th round pick in 2026.
3. Any college player you protected the previous year can be protected for an 8th round pick for one additional year only.
Example : If you protected Ashton Jeanty as a college player in 2025, you may protect him one additional year in 2026 for an 8th round pick. After that, in 2027 Ashton must be protected using one of your two regular protections.
Player MUST be on your roster at draft time to qualify.
This would result in a maximum of FOUR protections.
2 Normal Protections, 1 College Player, 1 Bonus Protection as stated above.
The draft order will be based on the prior season’s regular season finish with the following exception: the Super Bowl winner will have the last spot and the Super Bowl runner up will have the second to last spot.
The last place team from the prior season will draft first in rounds 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 & 13 and will draft last in the other rounds.
An exception will be all six teams in the Toilet Bowl will be entered into a lottery. The lottery will only determine the first round order, the other rounds will go according to final finish.
The 12th and 11th place teams will get 25 balls each (out of 100) the 10th and 9th place will get 20 balls each and the 8th and 7th place teams will get 5 balls each.
The lottery will determine only the first two picks, so the worst the 12th place team will pick is third in the first round.
A bonus for the Toilet bowl finalists.
The Toilet bowl winner will get a pick (after the compensatory picks) in the first supplemental round (between rounds 3 and 4)
The Toilet bowl runner up will get a pick in the second supplemental round (between rounds 5 and 6)
Any previous year protected player that misses 8 weeks or more of the NFL season will net his owner a supplemental draft pick between rounds 3 and 4 the following year.
Any previous year first round selected player that misses 8 weeks or more of the season will net his owner a supplemental draft pick between rounds 5 and 6 the following year.
The owner of record when the player gets hurt will receive the pick and is NOT required to keep the player on his roster to receive the compensatory pick.
If the 8 weeks missed are not consecutive and there is a change in ownership of the player, then it will be determined by the commissioner who will receive the compensatory pick.
Owners may trade any combination of players for draft picks in the off-season.
ROSTERS
Roster Sizes will be the following
15 Active players and 2 IR Players
Roster sizes must conform to the above limits. No more will be allowed.
Rosters MAY contain a college player if you so choose. The college player would use an active player roster spot.
There will be two IR spots available for each team that is outside the roster limit. To be eligible for the IR spot the player MUST be on the NFL IR list..
EXCEPTION: Roster sizes will not be enforced in the offseason. If you acquire additional players from an off-season trade, you will be allowed to hold on to those players until the deadline for protections.
EXCEPTION: If you acquire additional players from a trade, you will be allowed to adjust your roster accordingly over the next 24-36 hour period. (Drop extra or add additional, depending on the trade)
STARTING LINEUPS
Teams shall submit their finalized starting lineups each week by noon or sooner on Sunday morning.
During weeks when there are games prior to noon on Sunday, you must submit any starters playing in an early game by kickoff for those games, unless otherwise specified by the commissioner. The rest of the lineup is due at noon on Sunday.
If any of the previous week’s starters play in an early game, if nothing is posted prior to that game’s kickoff, the previous week’s starter will remain in the current week’s starting lineup.
If you do not submit a lineup prior to this time, your previous week's line up will be used. Beware of this as some players may have a bye week which will result in ZERO points for that player for the week.
Commissioner’s discretion may be used in instances when an owner makes a clear blunder.
Lineups should be submitted to the league message board every week. If you are having problems posting it, please email or text your starting lineup to The Commish.
Your lineup will then be recorded on the homepage for others to view.
Starting lineup consists
of:
1
- Quarterback
2
- Running Backs
2
- Wide Receivers
1
- Flex Position consisting of either a tight end, a running back or a wide
receiver who will score points according to his normal position.
1
- Place Kicker
1
- Defensive Teams/Special Teams
TRANSACTIONS
A transaction is considered to be dropping a player on your current roster and replacing that player with another player at any position
For each player picked up as a free agent, there MUST be a player cut from your roster (unless you are under the required number of players already).
A free agent is any player not on the roster of a team in the league.
There are UNLIMITED transactions.
Trades are allowed immediately following the league Super Bowl until a trade deadline which will be announced by the commissioner. Normal years the “no-trade” time will begin at the end of week 14 of the NFL season. (Tuesday at Noon following week 14)
Free agent transactions are allowed after the draft has been completed.
Free agents may be picked up until the start of week 14 of the NFL season. The commish will announce an official cut-off date and time.
If player A is traded from team 1 to team 2, team 2 is then unable to trade that player back to team 1 until a 5 week period has passed.
If team 2 trades the player to another team, or releases the player, team one is once again able to pick up the player.
If the 5 week period to trade back doesn’t expire until after the start of week 14, teams will be unable to trade players back until after week 1 of the following season.
Trade limits are set at a maximum of 3 players for one single player. This helps to eliminate any one team from being able to stock up on all of the 'superstars'.
Trades may be VOIDED by 60% of the league vote. The Commish may also use a Commish Veto at any time that a situation occurs that he feels is detrimental to the league.
The only future considerations allowed in a trade are draft picks and some variance of the draft picks based on the results specified in a trade.
PROCESS FOR PERFORMING FREE AGENT TRANSACTIONS
Free agent requests must be submitted no later than the deadline for rosters for that week.
A free agent acquisition cannot be made involving any players starting until the entire weekends games are finished.
From the league home page, announce the transaction that you would like to make.
The commissioner will update the rosters and free agent pages as often as possible during the season. During the off season, the commissioner will not update these pages.
Each season the Commish will announce an official cutoff date and time for all transactions including Free Agent acquisitions.
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PROCESS FOR PROPOSING AND ACCEPTING TRADES
The trade must be completed by the Free Agent Transaction deadline to count for the given week.
A trade during the NFL season is not completed until it is posted on the league message board, unless deemed otherwise by the commissioner.
Once a trade has been completed, the rest of the league has 72 hours in which to file a protest. The commissioner's discretion will then be used.