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LEAGUE SETTINGS

• Divisions

  Use no divisions (all teams will be together in one large group) or divide a league into up to 4 divisions (NFL.com Default is no divisions).

• Weeks Per Playoff Matchup

  Determine the number of weeks per playoff matchup for your custom league. Choose between 1 week (NFL.com Default), 2 weeks for all playoff matchups or 2 weeks for only the Championship week.

• Playoffs

  The Fantasy Playoffs determine a league champion. Select the weeks preferred and number of teams for your league's Fantasy Playoffs. (NFL.com Default Playoffs are in Weeks 15 and 16, with 4 Teams)

• Teams

  Include between 4-20 teams (even numbers only) in a league. (NFL.com Default is 10 teams)

• Budget

  Customize the budget per team (NFL.com Default is 200).

• Auto-Activate

  We will automatically activate your league next season with the same teams and settings. (You can always make changes once activated, or delete the league if it has been disbanded.)

• Pre-Activate

  Selecting this option means NFL Fantasy will create your league automatically when we open Fantasy for the next year.

  All of your settings and teams will be copied over. If you want to play next year then it is recommended you select this option..

• Viewable by Public

  Selecting this option will allow the public to view your league and teams, including standings and statistics. Note that the public will not be able to make any changes within the league, only view your league. (NFL.com Default is Not Viewable)

• Max Adds per Season

  Limit the maximum number of adds each team can make per season, restricting a team's ability to use Free Agency to improve their team. For example, with a limit of 25 adds, a team manager would be unable to request additional player adds after their 25th transaction. (NFL.com Default is No Maximum Adds per Season)

• Max Adds per Week

  Limit the maximum number of adds each team can make per week, restricting a team's ability to use Free Agency to improve their team. For example, with a limit of 5 adds, a team manager would be unable to request additional player adds after their 5th transaction in the same week. The team manager would then be able to make additional adds the following week. Note that this setting does not go into effect until the start of Week 2 of the NFL Regular Season. (NFL.com Default is No Maximum Adds per Week)

• Max Trades per Season

  Limit the maximum number of trades each team can make per season, restricting a team's ability to conduct trades with other team managers. For example, with a limit of 10 trades, a team manager would be unable to conduct additional trades after their 10th trade. (NFL.com Default is No Maximum Trades per Season)

• Trade Review Type

  Choose from three Trade Review options - League Votes, Commissioner Veto, or No Review. With League Votes, if more than half of your league's team managers vote against an accepted trade, it will be reversed. Commissioner Veto grants the Commissioner full responsibility to overturn unfair trades. Selecting No Review means all accepted trades will be approved without a trade review process and reflected on the next day's lineup. (NFL.com Default is League Votes by team managers)

• Trade Reject Time

  If you selected a Trade Review type of either League Votes or Commissioner Veto, set Trade Reject Time to between 1-4 days. This will set a specific period of time for trades to be vetoed or voted against by the party established in the Trade Review Type setting. Note that there is no Trade Reject Time if No Review is selected for Trade Review Type above. (NFL.com Default is a Trade Reject Period of 2 Days)

• Trade Deadline

  Choose to set your league's trade deadline from three days in November or to have no trade deadline at all. If a trade deadline is selected, team managers will be unable to propose or accept trades after the specified date. With no trade deadline, trades can be proposed and accepted until your season is complete.

• Waiver Period

  Set your league's waiver period from 1-4 days or no waivers at all. Specifying a waiver period will freeze dropped players throughout the season for a set number of days to allow all team managers the opportunity to submit a waiver claim. (NFL.com Default is a 1 day waiver period)

• Waiver Type

  Choose from three Waiver Type options. Reset Every Tuesday to Inverse Order of Standings gives priority to teams lowest in the overall league standings each week and moves teams to the lowest waiver priority after each successful claim. With Move to Last After Claim, waivers work in a similar way, but the waiver order is not reset every week. Waiver Budget features an offer process for waiver claims, with a seasonal budget for each team. (NFL.com Default is Reset Every Tuesday to Inverse Order of Standings)

• Free Agent Lock Type

  If you want non-rostered players to lock each week at their individual game time, select Yes. If you never want a free agent to lock, select None. For leagues with waivers, "None" means players will only lock when dropped. For leagues with no waivers, "None" will ensure that free agents in your league will never lock. (NFL.com Default is Yes, player locks at game time)

• Waiver Budget

  Set the seasonal budget that each team will have to offer on waiver claims throughout the season. With a successful waiver claim, a team will use the number of WB points they offer on the claim. Once a team has used its entire budget, they can still make waiver claims with an offer of 0 points. In the case of two offers of the same value, the tiebreaker is inverse order of standings.

• Post Draft Players

  Choose from two options for undrafted players directly after your league draft. By following waiver rules, post-draft players will be placed on waivers according to your specified settings. If Free Agents, all undrafted players will immediately be made available to all teams in your league. (NFL.com Default is Follow Waiver Rules)

• Roster Lock Type

  Set roster team locks from two choices. Game Time will lock each individual player at kickoff of his individual game. First Game will lock a team's entire roster at kickoff of the first game played by a team member. (NFL.com Default is to use Game Time roster lock)

• Start of Season

  Choose the week to start your league's fantasy season. This is the week that matchups and statistics will begin for your league. (NFL.com Default is to begin your fantasy season the first full week of the NFL season following your league's draft, typically Week 1 of the NFL season)

• Positions and Roster Size

  Specify your league's starting positions and roster size, including flex position, individual defensive players and bench/reserve options. Click Enable Position Limits to set individual position minimums and maximums. (NFL.com Default is 9 starters (QB, RB, RB, WR, WR, WR/RB, TE, K, DEF) and 6 bench).

• Keeper Settings

  Choose to enable keeper settings. Similar to how NFL teams retain players from season-to-season, a Keeper League allows each team manager to retain a set number of players anually. Note that if you are in your league's first season or post-draft, this setting designates keepers for the following year.

• Keeper Lock Date

  Set a date that all teams in your league must choose their keepers by. (With keepers turned on, the default lock date is your league's fantasy draft).

• Standings Tiebreaker

  Determine how ties in your league standings will be broken. (NFL.com Default is Head-to-Head Record)

• Allow Matchup Ties

  Choose "Yes" to allow ties to occur in weekly matchups for you league or "No" to disable ties. (NFL.com Default is "Yes")

• Matchup Tiebreaker

  Select your preferred matchup tiebreaker. Note that you may also select one of these options and use the "Edit Team Week Points" feature in the game to customize further.

• Draft Pick Trades

  Choose to allow the trading of future draft picks in your league. Select from no draft pick trades or to allow draft picks to be traded during your fantasy season only (the season is defined as starting when your league has drafted). (With keepers turned on, the default is no draft pick trading)

• Draft Order Type

  A snake draft order reverses the draft order each round, creating a balanced order that gives advantages to each team throughout the draft. A linear draft order uses the same order in each round. Note that you can fully customize your draft order after you have created your league. (NFL.com Default is a snake draft order)

• Draft Format

  Select between a standard draft or a salary cap draft (NFL.com Default is standard). If salary cap is selected, use the setting below to determine your league's budget. (NFL.com Default is 200)

• Time Per Pick

  Set the time limit per pick for your league's draft. The Commissioner may also change this setting in-draft via Commissioner tools. (NFL.com Default is a 90 second time limit per pick)

• Nomination

  Set the number of seconds each team is allowed to make a salary cap draft nomination. The Commissioner may also change this setting in-draft via Commissioner tools. (NFL.com Default is a 45 second player nomination limit)

• Offer Time

  Set the number of seconds a player is up for an offer after being nominated. Note that your offer reset time will extend the overall offer period depending on the number high offers that occur within the offer reset period. (NFL.com default is a 45 second offer time)

• Offer Reset

  Set the number of seconds the offer clock is reset to when a new high offer is submitted. When the offer clock is under this number, a new high offer will reset the clock to the chosen time to ensure sufficient time for additional offers. The Commissioner may also change this setting in-draft via Commissioner tools. (NFL.com Default is a 10 second offer reset)

• Start of Season

  Customize when your league's matchups begin, including retroactively to Week 1, with the "Start of Season" setting available in the "Customize League Settings" section below.

• Start of Season

  Customize when your league's matchups begin, including retroactively to Week 1, with the "Start of Season" setting available in the "Edit League Settings" manage tool.

PUBLISH LEAGUE

• Winners Only League

  Restrict your league to only allow NFL.com users who won a league in the previous season. Note that this will limit the number of potential users able to join your league.

SCORING SETTINGS

• Offense: Passing

  You can customize scoring categories and points for Passing statistics. Note that all individual players are eligible to earn these statistics. (NFL.com Default is 1 point per 25 yards passing, 4 points per passing touchdown and -2 points per interception)

• Passing Bonus Categories

  You can specify bonus points for certain Passing milestones, such as a 400+ yard passing game or 50+ yard touchdown.

• Offense: Rushing

  You can customize scoring categories and points for Rushing statistics. Note that all individual players are eligible to earn these statistics. (NFL.com Default is 1 point per 10 yards rushing and 6 points per rushing touchdown)

• Rushing Bonus Categories

  You can specify bonus points for certain Rushing milestones, such as a 200+ yard rushing game or 50+ yard touchdown run.

• Offense: Receiving

  You can customize scoring categories and points for Receiving statistics. Note that all individual players are eligible to earn these statistics. (NFL.com Default is 1 point per 10 yards receiving and 6 points per receiving touchdown)

• Receiving Bonus Categories

  You can specify bonus points for certain Receiving milestones, such as a 200+ yard receiving game or 50+ yard touchdown reception.

• Offense: Kick and Punt Returns

  You can customize scoring categories and points for Return statistics. Note that all individual players are eligible to earn these statistics.

• Offense: Miscellaneous

  You can customize scoring categories and points for Miscellaneous Offensive statistics. Note that all individual players are eligible to earn these statistics. (NFL.com Default is 2 points per 2-point conversion, -2 points per fumble lost and 6 points per fumble recovery TD)

• Kicking

  You can customize scoring categories and points for Kicking statistics. Note that all individual players are eligible to earn these statistics. (NFL.com Default is 1 point per made PAT, 3 points per made FG under 49 yards and 5 points per made field goal over 50 yards)

• Defense Team

  You can customize scoring categories and points for Team Defense and Special Teams statistics. Note that only Team Defenses are eligible to earn these statistics.

• Individual Defensive Player

  You can customize scoring categories and points for Individual Defensive Player statistics. Note that all individual players are eligible to earn these statistics. For example, if a QB makes a tackle on an interception return and scoring is set to 1 point per tackle, the QB would earn 1 point.

• Defensive Player Bonus Categories

  You can specify bonus points for certain defensive milestones, such as 10+ tackles in a game or 2+ sacks in a game.

• Scoring Options

  You can choose to count fractional and negative points for your league's games. (NFL.com Default is to use both fractional and negative points) For example, using standard scoring, if your WR records 65 yards: with fractional points, your WR will earn 6.5 points; without fractional points, your WR will earn 6 points. If your RB records -10 rushing yards: with negative points, your RB will earn -1 point; without negative points, your RB will earn 0 points.

• Draft Status

  Once your rankings are set and you're ready to draft, simply change your status to Ready. You may change your status back to Not Ready at any time provided you haven't already been placed in a league.

• NFL Winners league

  An NFL Winners league is comprised of users who won an NFL.com Fantasy Football league. As a former league champion, you are eligible to play in these special NFL-Managed leagues.

PRE-DRAFT RANKINGS

• Edit Pre-Draft Rankings

  This feature allows you to rank players in your own custom order prior to your league's draft. If you are playing in an Autopick league or in case you can't make your league's live draft, this rank list will help you draft your preferred team.

  Rank Player by click and drag or double-click to move the player to the My Draft List.

  Exclude Player from you Draft List.

  Save your custom lists by selecting the Save button.

PRE-DRAFT RANKINGS

• Edit Pre-Draft Rankings

  This feature allows you to set custom offer values prior to your league's draft. If you are playing in an Autopick league or in case you can't make your league's live draft, this rank list will help you draft your preferred team.

  Rank Player by using the arrows or double-click to move the player to the Custom Values list.

  Exclude Player from being nominated by your team.

  Save your custom offer values by selecting the Save button.

  Enter custom offer values for each player in your My Values list.

Edit Offline Draft Results

• Edit Offline Draft Results

  This feature allows you to submit offline draft results for import into NFL.com Fantasy 2024. To use this tool:

  • Click to highlight a draft slot within the Draft List.
  • Find the appropriate drafted player for the selected slot from the Find Player list. Double click to assign the chosen player to the selected draft slot.
  • Repeat until all draft slots have been filled.
  • You can fill out draft results by Team or by Round.
  • To remove a previously assigned player, double click their name from within the Draft List.
  • Note that positional limits are not automatically restricted per league settings when using this tool, as it is meant for the Commissioner to fully manage the drafting of team rosters.

  Save your work as you go by clicking the "Save" button. When complete, save your results and navigate to the Manage page. Use the "Start Season" tool to load your offline draft results into team rosters and begin the season.

Edit Offline Draft Results

• Edit Offline Draft Results

  This feature allows you to submit offline draft results for import into NFL.com Fantasy 2024. To use this tool:

  • Click to highlight a draft slot within the Draft List.
  • Find the appropriate drafted player for the selected slot from the Find Player list. Double click to assign the chosen player to the selected draft slot.
  • Edit the salary value of the player using the text field.
  • Repeat until all draft slots have been filled.
  • To remove a previously assigned player, double click their name from within the Draft List.
  • Note that positional limits are not automatically restricted per league settings when using this tool, as it is meant for the Commissioner to fully manage the drafting of team rosters.

  Save your work as you go by clicking the "Save" button. When complete, save your results and navigate to the Manage page. Use the "Start Season" tool to load your offline draft results into team rosters and begin the season.

Customize Draft Board

• Edit Offline Draft Results

  To swap or trade picks: From the "Change Draft Order" view, click a pick you want to move, turning the cell green. Next, select the pick to be swapped with. Your change will be confirmed in yellow. When you have completed all changes, click Submit.

  To set keepers: From the "Select Keeper Players" view, hover over and click the edit button for the pick you want to set a keeper for. Next, select the chosen keeper player name in the popup window and click Done. The current cell will exchange with the keeper you selected. When you have completed all keeper selections, click Submit.

Research

• Fantasy Points Against

  Select your preferred fantasy position to analyze the best and worst defensive matchups. Toggle between seasons and/or choose a specific week to view detailed fantasy points against data. Note that top ranked teams within each position signify the teams with the highest fantasy points against. In other words, these are the best matchups based on past data.

• Player Projections

  Season projections are updated throughout the preseason, with weekly projections updated multiple times per week in-season. Fantasy Points are based on NFL-Managed scoring.