Is there a rule you like in your league that others leagues should adopt?

We have a rule in my cookie league that I do not see or hear about in other.leagues that I think should be adopted because of how much sense it makes when a player does not dress or make it into the line up!

That rule ie:
DESIGNATION OF BACK-UPS
Owners can designate backups for their starters in case they do not play in the game. It is the owners responsibility
to designate their backups and furnish them to the commish in advance of the game. An owner can set a predetermined
depth chart that would insert the highest guy (not on a bye) in case of a player not playing. It is also the owners
responsibility to ensure the commish is aware the backup should be inserted. Under NO circumstance can a player be
inserted if notification is not made before Monday at midnight as games will be finalized at that time (unless the site Official
changed their scoring). The method that will be used to determine whether a player played or not will be the NFL Game
books. The NFL Game book must list the player either in the "not active" or "did not play" section for there to be a
substitution. If the player is not listed there will not be any back up inserted. This rule is not designed to put a
player in for another player who is on a bye. You can't change your depth chart once a game has been played (Thursday
game as an example) and you can't change your starting lineup to a guy who you know is not going to play just to take
advantage of an earlier game that a player on your team did well; they will be disallowed. The idea here is that if
your player did well on Thursday you can't play a guy you expect to not play just so that the Thursday player gets
inserted (let's have sportsmanship folks)

This rule great because it stops you from stressing over spending the time in front of the TV or computer right before a game starts!

If you have one a rule that is not common please share it!

Make 1st place Total Points through Week 16 and the Super Bowl Championship 2nd place. I play in both, and honestly, I hate when even I have a mediocre team (lets say riddled with injuries), yet the highest scoring team gets knocked out in round 1 and the injury riddled team (even when it's me) makes it into the Super Bowl. Some may say that's the fun in it, I say the highest scoring team on the year has the proof they deserve first place.

I will argue this until the end of time. It's funny how so few leagues crown Total Points Champions.

In my money leagues high scorer of each week gets money to keep people active abs high scorer of year gets a good amount also.

Smitty said:

Make 1st place Total Points through Week 16 and the Super Bowl Championship 2nd place. I play in both, and honestly, I hate when even I have a mediocre team (lets say riddled with injuries), yet the highest scoring team gets knocked out in round 1 and the injury riddled team (even when it's me) makes it into the Super Bowl. Some may say that's the fun in it, I say the highest scoring team on the year has the proof they deserve first place.

I will argue this until the end of time. It's funny how so few leagues crown Total Points Champions.

I agree. But I don't play any total points leagues

For Dynasty - an incoming new owner gets to exchange at most 1 player per established team (aside from their 10 protected players). Orphaned teams are usually left with talentless rosters. This gives the new owner a chance to pick up some good backups or high potential.

The new guy in our league this offseason took - Cutler, Bryce Brown, Mohamed Sanu, Seahawks DT. It really benefited his team and put him on a fast track to improvement.

I didn't do this, but was considering adding 5 points for a win by the team Defense. They get penalized at the end of a game for giving up yards while playing the "bend don't break" strategy. If they win, isn't that the goal?

Also Dynasty - Weeks 14-16 are playoffs in 3 tiers for the following year's 1st round rookie pick. Bottom 4 teams play round robin - winner gets the 1.01. Middle 4 play round robin - winner gets the 1.05.

We're considering adding the rule that if you trade away your 1st round pick and you're not in the title hunt, whomever owns your pick sets your lineup.

GuinnessIsGoodForYou said:

The new guy in our league this offseason took - Cutler, Bryce Brown, Mohamed Sanu, Seahawks DT. It really benefited his team and put him on a fast track to improvement.

Oh yeah - he also stole Pierce from me (before the Rice incident). I had a nice mental block on that!

GuinnessIsGoodForYou said:

We're considering adding the rule that if you trade away your 1st round pick and you're not in the title hunt, whomever owns your pick sets your lineup.

why would create that kind of rule? And the to have another team set up your lineup, why? It sounds like you don't want people trading their 1st at all! The best thing in my league is that we do a similar break down like you do that the bottom 4 still need to play and win the 1.1 pick in the playoffs.

TOILET BOWL
For the teams that finish 5-8 and 9-12 teams, they will play for the chance to win a small % chance of a better draft
slot. Every non playoff team will play week 15 and 16 but not against an opponent, they will be playing for total
points. There are either 4, 3, 2, or 1 % points won based on where you finish compared to the 4 teams in your group (3
others). For example, let's say that you finished either 5th overall or 9th overall, you would have the lowest % chance
of your group to pick 1st within that group (6%). If you scored the highest total within your group for weeks 15 and 16
you would add 4% points to your 6% and you would have a 10% chance to win the first pick. If you finished last you
would only add 1% and you would have a 7% chance. The same hold true for the other slots. the max % a team can have
for the first pick would be 52% (48 + 4). If you didn't win the 1st pick, your chances of winning the 2nd pick are
obviously higher depending on who won the 1st pick.

The final and middle 4 teams start with a 48%, 24%, 12% and 6% respective chance of drafting 1st.

Smitty said:

Make 1st place Total Points through Week 16 and the Super Bowl Championship 2nd place. I play in both, and honestly, I hate when even I have a mediocre team (lets say riddled with injuries), yet the highest scoring team gets knocked out in round 1 and the injury riddled team (even when it's me) makes it into the Super Bowl. Some may say that's the fun in it, I say the highest scoring team on the year has the proof they deserve first place.

I will argue this until the end of time. It's funny how so few leagues crown Total Points Champions.

Smitty I play in a couple leagues where there is a first place points winner. We still do record finish for playoff positions as well but we give a good percentage of total cookies to point leader end of regular season because it's only fair if your team did that well you get somethig. Some years total points winner has won the league, but there have also been times total points leader didnt even make playoffs which is why I think it's fair.

Smitty said:

Make 1st place Total Points through Week 16 and the Super Bowl Championship 2nd place. I play in both, and honestly, I hate when even I have a mediocre team (lets say riddled with injuries), yet the highest scoring team gets knocked out in round 1 and the injury riddled team (even when it's me) makes it into the Super Bowl. Some may say that's the fun in it, I say the highest scoring team on the year has the proof they deserve first place.

I will argue this until the end of time. It's funny how so few leagues crown Total Points Champions.

well the 10 years that my cookie league has existed 7 times the highest scorer won it all! Pretty good odds if you ask me.

Swampies said:

GuinnessIsGoodForYou said:

We're considering adding the rule that if you trade away your 1st round pick and you're not in the title hunt, whomever owns your pick sets your lineup.

why would create that kind of rule? And the to have another team set up your lineup, why? It sounds like you don't want people trading their 1st at all!

We had an incident this past season where the guy with the worst team/record had traded away his 1st round pick. He obviously had no interest in the final Week 14-16 games and left RG3 in his lineup even though he was considered OUT a few days before each game. Therefore, he lost all his games and instead of his pick being the 1.01, it turned out to be the 1.04. This obviously screwed the guy who traded for that pick.

To avoid this from happening again, we're considering having whomever owns that 1st round pick set the lineup for Weeks 14-16 (since the original owner has absolutely no vested interest in its outcomes).

GuinnessIsGoodForYou said:

Also Dynasty - Weeks 14-16 are playoffs in 3 tiers for the following year's 1st round rookie pick. Bottom 4 teams play round robin - winner gets the 1.01. Middle 4 play round robin - winner gets the 1.05.

We're considering adding the rule that if you trade away your 1st round pick and you're not in the title hunt, whomever owns your pick sets your lineup.

We do basically the same thing in my 10 team keeper. But the teams eliminated in the first round play each other in weeks 15 and 16 for the choice of taking the 1.05 or 1.06. This gives a team who is keeping a player that would cost him his first round pick the opportunity to draft earlier in the 2nd round. Same for the teams eliminated in the second round of the playoffs. They play each other in week 16 for the choice of 1.07 or 1.08

The other thing that we do is give the regular season winner his choice of whom he plays in weeks 15 and 16. Since both division winners get a first round bye this gives the regular season winner something extra. Also since this is a 10 team league the playoff slots are determined by the top 6 teams regardless of which division they are in and the other 4 play the round robin in weeks 14-16

chuckeycharles said:

GuinnessIsGoodForYou said:

Also Dynasty - Weeks 14-16 are playoffs in 3 tiers for the following year's 1st round rookie pick. Bottom 4 teams play round robin - winner gets the 1.01. Middle 4 play round robin - winner gets the 1.05.

We're considering adding the rule that if you trade away your 1st round pick and you're not in the title hunt, whomever owns your pick sets your lineup.

We do basically the same thing in my 10 team keeper. But the teams eliminated in the first round play each other in weeks 15 and 16 for the choice of taking the 1.05 or 1.06. This gives a team who is keeping a player that would cost him his first round pick the opportunity to draft earlier in the 2nd round. Same for the teams eliminated in the second round of the playoffs. They play each other in week 16 for the choice of 1.07 or 1.08

The other thing that we do is give the regular season winner his choice of whom he plays in weeks 15 and 16. Since both division winners get a first round bye this gives the regular season winner something extra. Also since this is a 10 team league the playoff slots are determined by the top 6 teams regardless of which division they are in and the other 4 play the round robin in weeks 14-16

I got screwed last year not being able to pick who I want to play against after my bye. I had the most wins in my league and I felt I should have been able to choose so I put it to a vote and it passed but it didn't apply to last year if it did I would have been in the SB. But I ended up playing the guy that had Charles when he decided to go off:(

GuinnessIsGoodForYou said:

Swampies said:

GuinnessIsGoodForYou said:

We're considering adding the rule that if you trade away your 1st round pick and you're not in the title hunt, whomever owns your pick sets your lineup.

why would create that kind of rule? And the to have another team set up your lineup, why? It sounds like you don't want people trading their 1st at all!

We had an incident this past season where the guy with the worst team/record had traded away his 1st round pick. He obviously had no interest in the final Week 14-16 games and left RG3 in his lineup even though he was considered OUT a few days before each game. Therefore, he lost all his games and instead of his pick being the 1.01, it turned out to be the 1.04. This obviously screwed the guy who traded for that pick.

To avoid this from happening again, we're considering having whomever owns that 1st round pick set the lineup for Weeks 14-16 (since the original owner has absolutely no vested interest in its outcomes).

Stupid rule.. Get better owners

My league just implemented a "possible points" rule. The rookie draft order and the divisions are based on possible points for the season.

Any rule that penalizes a team for purposely tanking I'm all for it! No reason any team should be given the award of owning the 1.1 pick if they didn't give it there best shot!

Smitty said:

Make 1st place Total Points through Week 16 and the Super Bowl Championship 2nd place. I play in both, and honestly, I hate when even I have a mediocre team (lets say riddled with injuries), yet the highest scoring team gets knocked out in round 1 and the injury riddled team (even when it's me) makes it into the Super Bowl. Some may say that's the fun in it, I say the highest scoring team on the year has the proof they deserve first place.

I will argue this until the end of time. It's funny how so few leagues crown Total Points Champions.

This happened to me in one of my leagues last year. I was the top scorer in league by 150+pts.. I didn't make the playoffs!

As much as I love the idea of a total points champion, I think it does a few things to the leagues:

- owners lose interest quickly. I was total points winner in a league last year, and was dominating scoring so bad that I had a 150 point advantage on #2 by week 6. There was no way for another team to catch up unless my entire team got injured

- makes playoffs and weekly games less exciting. Sure, the goal of fantasy is to score points, but how exciting is it to have to root for your guy against another guy on Monday night football because you need an outright victory? To me, that is fantasy football. Victory points, total points, all take that excitement out of the game.

My favorite rule ever is in DC 1. Only one waiver pickup a week. I think it's a great strategy builder

I want to go head to head to win a championship.

Best rule to make your league more challenging is to eliminate open waivers and reduce waiver to one transaction per week based on overall winning percentage then total points.

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