It has always been my highest priority in making the entire field of players usable. I've been doing leagues since way before the Commodore 64 days. With pen and paper you can strive and somewhat succeed to get the perfect balance of player positions to score. The perfect fantasy football game has a brilliant balance of equally scoring positions. The best running backs in the game should be equal to the best defensemen, quarterbacks, receivers, kickers, front line, etc. scoring wise.  On pre-packaged software services like Fox, ESPN, yahoo etc. you are basically stuck with what they have. The services I bought this year here at Sideline Software (myfantasyleague.com) brings us much closer to reality with these factors. Not as close as you can get with pen and paper but the value of it being more exciting because of the fact that the statistics are instantaneous. So here you will find almost every position in the top 50 scorers for the year!!!  And that's even including the coach.  

 Knowing who to draft:  In the recent past starting with ESPN in 2003, the highest scoring players in these leagues I've hosted have always been combination yardage players. This year the domination will not be of any comparison. The combination yardage player will only be slightly favored as well as Quarterbacks. If you know of some running backs who can catch passes also,  these are the best to get. Also combination Kick Returner-Wide Receivers & Running back-Kick returners.  But The point being IF you draft ANY player or coach who is one of the absolute best in the NFL regardless of position he will be at least a second round pick quality regardless of position. Some even late first round. That is ANY  spot on the roster.  A top notch Linebacker or Kicker will be just as good to have on your roster as a top notch QB, RB or WR!  So keep that in mind when you set up your pre-draft.

Re-Entry Draft:    Starts Wednesday October 21st at 6 AM and closes Saturday October 24th at 3PM Eastern, Noon Pacific. There will be 21 players re-entered from a disbanded team, so go ahead and put your waivers in anytime during that period. The results will be displayed on the league page sometime Saturday Afternoon. See player availability list below.

TIPS

1.  If you add a player without dropping the same position, make sure you do not exceed the roster position limits. Example: there are 4 RB's and 4 WR's spots allowed maximum. If you mistakenly add a fifth, your whole waiver request will be cancelled. Same thing with trades. Do not offer another team a WR for a QB unless the roster position limits will allow it. Minimums and Maximums. The league software will automatically throw it out. 

2.   Using the "add all of last round" button is the easiest way to use the waiver wire. Just put up everyone you want on round one, then drop the first line when you instate the very next round. Less work for you plus less chance of mistakes in later rounds.

3. To get the latest info on who is the best scorers in our league by position,  GO TO: Reports> Players> Top Performers and set parameters of what you want to see. 

If you would like to add a tip to this page please e mail the commissioner, all help is appreciated. 

Roster Positions (Minimums)

Head Coach -1

Quarterback -1

Running Backs - 2

Wide Receivers - 2

Tight End -1 

Kicker -1

Punter -1

Defensive Line - 2

Linebackers - 2

Safety -1

Cornerbacks -2

16 Total starters

Total Reserve Bench of 5  w/ Expansion for Bye weeks.

Maximum slots per position allowed on roster 

this includes your bench slots

2 each for all positions except:

RB  -4

WR -4

Defensive Front -4   DT+DE's

LB -4

CB -3

21 Total on roster through week 2

Roster will expand to 8 bench spots after week 2's games.

Re-Entry Draft Players  October 20-24

What is the TFL?  and My Fantasy League .com?

 This year you are all guests of mine at the pay service of MyfantasyLeague .com by The True Testers Satellite Forum.  Please do not confuse "Pay Service" with "Prize Pot".  Your prize money of $10 each sent in goes 100% to the pot.  The TFL is a long standing league of few different names over the last few years.  We currently have a few members left from 2005. All of you have played with us before and are in good standing in my past leagues. 

League address is http://www20.myfantasyleague.com/2009/home/50765

We are a prize league. Information on that page. 

 Keep this URL handy in your favorites as well as writing it down along with your league password at Myfantasyleague.com League # 50765

Don't forget to run "GAMEDAY" a program for live scoring with live effects. Running this program will give you live scores to all NFL games. You can set it to tell you every score of every minute in every game. Plus it will also tell you your score in the fantasy game you are in up to the minute. Audio is also available. Load it to your start up page or Desktop.

Commissioner E Mail    contact here

Team Rivalries and Scheduling:   Do you have a team you really want to play at least once this season?  E mail the commish ASAP. Since we have more teams than regular season weeks you might not play every team this season. But get your requests in now, and we'll be sure to do it.  Also if you'd like to make suggestions for teams other than yourself, we'd like to hear them. Week 6 will be the last week for byes in our league. The 6 teams who had them will get a double header week near regular seasons end.

Team Names and Logos:  You may change them now, add to your home team page etc.  We will have have an award for that combo by league voting mid season. So keep that in the back of your mind. The team with the most votes for the best team name and logo combination wins the first Commissioner's Cigar Award of the year. 

Roster maximums have been set per position. See Below

Roster expansion is set for September 21st to 8 bench players. You may add 3 more players to your roster after Week 2's games are finished. This will be the final roster expansion of the season if we keep all 17 teams. Waivers will be one extra day longer this week. So if you've been eyeing out a few players you really wanted but didn't have the space,  you will now.

Communications

If your computer or internet is down, there's no need to freak.   I can set your line up by phone.  Make sure everyone writes my (Commissioner Willy's) phone number down. It is listed under my team name many places on the league contact pages. Lambeau Leapers > Main> Daytime/Nighttime Phone.  I will be glad to set your rosters for the week, request waivers, whatever.  It's no problem.  Just leave a detailed message if I'm not there.  

League Structure

The league will be divided into 2 conferences with 4 total divisions after the draft.  More news on this if we do not receive all prize money in a timely manner.

Depending on the size of league (usually 16 teams)   Playoffs will be made by seedings and not by tops of each divisions unless they are the top seeded. You will not actually be competing with your division rivals for playoff spots. You will be playing against the whole league for your spot. The top 8 to 10 teams will make the playoffs for the championship. All the rest of the teams will play in the consolation bracket for a consolation prize. If there is an uneven # of teams at seasons end, the lowest man on the totem pole is out before the playoffs.

Waiver Rules

We are  using a packaged waiver rule system on MFL called the "Zealots" package.  All waiver requests "lock" every Saturday night and stay locked until Tuesday around midnight (depending on where you live). Then every day after Tuesday is a new beginning and end for waiver request, they process once every night (or early morning) until Saturday rolls around again. Waiver order is shuffled daily at random by the system. Waiver order changes 5 times a week.

MFL (myfantasyleague.com) MAJOR CONTROLS

 ATTN:  ALL OF YOUR MOST IMPORTANT CONTROLS ARE ON THE VERY TOP OF THE HOME PAGE.  A SMALL BAR (which  I would like to se much bigger , but have no control over it)    ON THIS BAR, YOU WILL SEE  "MY LEAGUES. REPORTS, FOR OWNERS, COMMUNICATIONS, ETC"  EACH ONE OF THESE TABS HAS A ROLL DOWN SCREEN. FOR EXAMPLE UNDER "FOR OWNERS" THERE ARE CONTROLS FOR WAIVERS, TRADES AND DROPPING PLAYERS.  

GET YOUR ROSTERS SET BY "FOR OWNERS" ,  "SUBMIT LINEUP".  AND CLICK AND SAVE YOUR BEST 16 MEN FOR STARTERS.   Make sure it is saved properly, if a white box comes up and says "LINEUP SUBMITTED" you did it right.  Watch that you put the right amount of starters in each position.