NHNP Season IV: Vengeance!

HA! Fantasy Football is back baby!!!!

Once again, I'm in the uncomfortable position of trying to make up for the prior year's disaster. The fun begins again in September with a Labor Day weekend that might as well be called Fantasy Football Draft Weekend!

Okay, now for some NHNP-specific stuff.

Changes to league settings: NHNP

1. Bench has been shortened from 7 to 5. Shorter draft, and places more emphasis on active management. Unless I change my mind in August.

2. Roster went from 3/2/1 to 2/2/2. So you lose a pure WR slot, but it's replaced with a W/T slot. This change is subtle, but it allows folks with a TE fetish to ensconce themselves in TEs.

3. Field Goals below 40 yards are now worth 2, not 3. I know, this change is so small you might as well call it spiteful.

4. Interception penalties have been increased from -1, to -2. You can call this the cantwinagame/Jay Cutler rule.

5. Points allowed. Points for stingy defenses have been increased, special teams were left alone.

6. PPR was increased from .33333 to .35

7. Bonuses. WR and RB still earn a total of 5 points at 100 yards, but the bonus at 125 was eliminated. RBs have a new intermediate bonus at 90 however. QBs now earn their 5 point bonus earlier, now at 300 yards. Warning, even in this league last year QBs were very important, this change threatens to make them even more so.

8. Draft Order and type. The draft will be in a 3RR format following last year's order of finish, at least in terms of preference.

1. 1-10
2. 10-1
3. 10-1
4. 10-1
5. 1-10
6. 10-1...

So Willie the Groundskeeper will be rolling with CJ2K in 2010. However, if he decides he'd rather go #10, he may do so, as may the other GMs on down the line. I realize many GMs don't want to bother, and just want to be told when they draft. To make it easy, only those GMs who would rather a different slot need say so. Everyone else, just show up and draft!

1. No Homers
2. benchwarmer
3. Girlz
4. Hey Beerman!
5. cantwinagame
6. no1savedprivateryan
7. YoudaBess
8. Minnesota
9. daddypoopypants
10. New Team

9. Live Draft Bonus: Although attendance has been heartwarmingly good over the years, I'm told that "everything is about incentives." Those GMs who show up will get a $25 FAAB bonus.

10. Although it's probably inviting chaos, draft order (the whole slot, not picks) will be tradeable this year using FAAB as currency. However, as much as possible, I'll want other GMs to have a chance to bid if say, the #1 slot becomes available. Kind of like an open auction using the message board. This process will have to be wrapped up by August 29.

Now, any and all of these changes are subject to revision without notice (LOL!). But comments will be taken until around the weekend of August 13. I put quite a bit of thought into the scoring system, but I want another chance to see what it really looks like (sanity check).

Later!