SzYFG 26 Rules & Bylaws

OVERVIEW
   Szatch-Yur-Football-Game Fantasy Football was developed originally in 1990.  Phil has, & continues to develop the scoring system.  The modern era of the league is considered to have started the first year more than 2 coaches participated; year10, making 2025-26 SzYFG26 of the modern era.  We are a dynasty keeper league with a draft & salaries only for gameday roster (starters).  The league is set up for an ideal size of 12 teams, but 14 could one day happen if we chose to eliminate 1 of the 3 flex spots for each team.

Managing a team
    Rosters are 15 players + 3 IR slots.
There are no position max limit restrictions, but a minimum of 1 each of course.
QB,HB,WR,TFE(=te & fb),DEF(=team defence)

   Keepers
        Teams keep [potentially] a different total of  players from one year to the next.   A league vote will determine the number, with the reigning Champ always getting an extra keeper as well.  A bell curve set of formulas is used by the commish to determine keeper status; ask if you are unsure. We can also give up our 1st round picks to keep an extra players.

       If a team keeps one less than they are allotted, they get an extra supplemental pick at the end of the round that would get a typical team to 8 players.

       You can keep 1 extra player in lieu of first pick as long as you still own any first round pick including one you traded for. This includes the prior winner who could keep their second extra player. There is no option to keep an extra player and forgo your second round pick however you may keep as many extra players as first round picks you own.

       Team A can trade Team B their extra keeper so long as their combined keepers are equal to what they otherwise would have been. For Example, keeper vote is 4 and Team A trades Tom Brady to team B and team A gets an extra keeper. Team A gets 5 keepers and Team B gets 3. Since the total keepers is still 8 between the two teams, this is valid. Team A could also forgo their first pick and keep 6 players. Team B may NOT receive a supplemental pick until the end of the draft, prior to the IR draft unless Team B keeps just 2 players, since this would count as keeping one less than they qualify for. Team B could also keep one extra if they forgo their first pick. So long as Team A + Team B's rosters equal the allotted 8 keepers + 2 first round picks = 10 picks after the first round (minus any supplementals), this is legal.

    FRANCHISE PLAYERS
        Once a player **enters** his 5th season on the same SZYFG team (starts ON their 5th year), they receive a $25 upgrade to salary from the default $alary for that year.  Each team has ONE exemption from this rule, naming one player the Franchise player, & any others in their 5th yr or more receiving a $25 cost increase over the default $alary.  They may however, be redrafted the next year & restart their time at year1.   This STARTS on their 5th season.

The Draft
    Draft order is not worst finish to first from the yr before, the playoffs have a losers bracket that one must win out on to gain their position; meaning if you dont win that last week, you wont get the top pick, but we have bonuses for the home team in this, and a reverse version of it for the losers bracket, called The Other Bowl.

Salaries    $2000  (since yr05)
    We have a salary cap for the starters. There is no cap for the whole team.  Our salaries are created by Szatch's computations.  That's about all you need to know cause I'm a better doer than explainer/teacher. :)  (For SZYFG04 it was $1825.   For SZYFG03 it was $1900)

Deadlines
    **Now that the NFL has Thursday games every week, players starting for you in that game must be announced, including which sub they might be by kickoff thursday.   The rest must be announced by Sunday 1pm.   Yahoo is our official site for seeing eachothers starters.  subs can be listed using either the league message board or the team slogan spot.   While you may make subs between 2 guys playing a late game, I prefer that You can submit it as early as you wish & still make changes to the last minute. the earlier you get it in, the easier my weekend job becomes (changing 1 last minute item in the file is easier than 9).  Failure to submit a lineup results in a '0' for your weekly score.  I am flexible guys, & we all are everywhere in the world doing all sorts of things, but we are now also all on smart phones. If you can't use the App, email the league ( or anyone), then call. Call me or Dan, or even another coach ... anyone to verify you had your lineup in on time. Your own girlfriends & mothers don't count unless they email/call me before 1pm.
     Coaches can swap players in the late games with other late game players up until kickoff of those players' games.
++Our TRADE deadline is 1pm ET on the first Sunday following the NFL trade deadline. Trades must be approved and effective for these 1PM games.

Penalties
(upgraded for SZYFG14)

$alary penalties:  -25 for every $25 over the cap.  That means from +$1 to +$25 is -25, +$26 to +$50 is -50, and so on 
LATE LINEUPS
-25    PER LATE (or not submitted) AS OF SUNDAY 1PM ET.  This goes to -50 for the 2nd one -75 and so on
-10 for starting a person on a bye

Starting Lineups
*1 OF EACH REQ'D, for a combined total of 8 starters:
That means 5 req'd & 3 flex positions
pos. MAX
QB      2
HB      3
WR      4
TE       3
DEF    3
totaling=8

Subsitutes
        +Subs MUST be listed if you want to have one used should one of your guys get INJ. I am not making anyone's decisions for them. I suggest listing **3** subs, generally trying to cover everything from co$t to position need based on your starters, but so long as you list someone, I will use whomever is listed, in order of listing, until the $alary (1st sub might be too pricey to fit under the cap) and Position rules (limits of #per position & required positions) are cleared for you, but again, I will not search a roster to find someone to put in.
The ONLY exception is if you have ONLY 2 players at a position and only start one of them (usually a QB or TE); then I will insert the other for you. If you have 3 QB, and start one, and your subs are a TE & a DEF, I will not choose a QB sub for you, should you need one.

WHEN A SUB IS USED: A player is subbed out if he is injured in the first half & does not return in the 2nd half. Sometimes a guy will come in early in the 2nd and try a play and say 'Heck no, can't go on this ankle, I'll allow that sub. YOU MAY KEEP THE INJ PLAYER in the lineup if you wish (rarely someone goes off in first 1/2 before being injured), but please do this WAY before I've already scored and posted the scores.

+Thursday games EVERY WEEK in the NFL, so remember that. You don't get to announce on Sunday that someone is starting [or is your 1st sub] who played Thursday. This is considered an illegal lineup, same as if you start someone on a BYE... No subs will be given in these cases. **use of yahoo atleast once between Monday AM and Thursday dinnertime will keep this from being an issue for you.

+Failure to contact me in any way to atleast say 'keep it the same' is considered an abandoned week and comes with a 0 for your weekly score. This is a rule because this is not some dopey free rookie league, this is an active league and if you aren't contacting me at all, it's likely you've also not replied to other coaches with trade offers or whatever, or read my awesome weekly writeups and occasional leaguewide blogs.

+Submitting your lineup can be done via phone or text but EVERYONE CAN GET ON THE INTERNET, and into yahoo, so I expect your help in easing my workload by inserting your own lineup on yahoo AND your subs into the 'team slogan' line located just above your players and below your teamname there. *OR, SUBS sent as a msg on the leaguesite if you are using a mobile App to submit there.
****This a requirement this season, though MY website remains the official scoring, since noone else in the world has as comprehensive scoring system as the SZYFG

+++For those of you/us who often submit lineups early ['early' means Wednesday, not Sunday at Noon instead of 12:59pm :) ) Just let me know if you make any last second changes on Sunday on Yahoo, because, like right now, I am inserting those lineups into my files tonight.

+REMEMBER ON YAHOO...ALWAYS ONE STARTING POSITION SHOULD BE LEFT OPEN.. EITHER THE 2nd DEFENCE, OR THE QB/HB/WR/TE (last) FLEX SLOT. SZYFG STARTS 8

+Remember, all FA acquisitions must be kept on the team for 2 weeks, even if it's in one of your 3 IR slots