Rules Index

Custom FFL09 leagues are nonstandard scoring leagues, with a variable number of teams (iv-20), which utilise customized rule settings and are managed by the league managing director. All customizable leagues use the head-to-head scoring organization. In this system, each squad in your league faces off against one other squad every week of the season. However, your league might contain cheerio weeks. The winner of each of these matchups is the team that accumulates the virtually fantasy points determined by the weekly statistics of the players in each team'south lineup and the scoring settings of your league. Weekly results are tallied into an overall record and displayed on the league's standings page. This section refers to rules for the custom league version of FFL09.

CREATING A CUSTOM LEAGUE
To meet your needs, FFL09 provides a few options for creating a custom league. After yous click on the Create a Custom League link, you will be asked to select your league proper noun, scoring type, league type (public or individual), number of teams and typhoon settings.
Additionally, yous tin can cull to create a standard format by selecting "express setup." Express setup creates your custom league using the default game settings. This is helpful when you lot plan to make simply a few custom adjustments. The last option is "manual setup." The manual setup option is best used when you wish to make a number of changes to the rules. Manual setup will walk you lot through each section in an organized fashion.

PUBLIC / PRIVATE LEAGUES
As league manager you take the selection to make your league viewable to the public.

  • Yes -- Your league will be set equally "Public." Public league managers and squad owners tin can send their league URLs out in email (or post them on a bulletin lath) to have nonmembers view them. In public leagues some pages (such as the list of team owners and the league message boards) are non viewable, just the primary League Office, Standings and Team clubhouse pages are viewable.

  • No -- Your league is set up as "Individual" and every page (except League Settings) in your league volition not be viewable past anyone other than team owners.

LEAGUE NAME
The league director chooses what their league volition be named. League names are limited to 32 characters and cannot contain foreign or HTML characters. League names are not unique, so in that location could be multiple leagues with the same proper name. The league name can be edited at whatever time during the flavour through the Edit League Settings tool.

SCORING Blazon

Below is a comprehensive list of scoring categories available in ESPN Fantasy Football game 2009. Each category lists the standard game settings and all options available in the custom game. In the custom game the specific categories and their respective bespeak values can be edited by the league manager to fit your league'southward custom scoring organisation. The numbers displayed in the brackets (i.east., one, v, 10), show the bachelor buckets to be selected. Decimal values are allowed to the nearest tenth of a betoken (i.east., 1.4 or -vi.three, NOT 2.34) for each category. If your league is already set upwardly, view your League Settings page to see how your league scores each category.

Note: Scoring categories and their corresponding bespeak values can be changed by the league manager anytime during the season. If either are changed after the season has begun, the arrangement will automatically alter all previous game results to match the changed settings.

NUMBER OF TEAMS IN THE LEAGUE
The number of teams in a league can exist set from iv-20. This is done using the League Managing director Tools folio, where you tin can adjust the league size past deleting or calculation teams.
NOTE: If the number of teams is changed the league'southward schedule will exist adjusted.

EXPRESS SETUP
If this button is clicked, the organisation bypasses the league configuration wizard and automatically sets your league upwards using ESPN's default system. The league manager can and then go back and manually edit any part of the league setup.

Transmission SETUP
You will be brought through the league configuration wizard with options to manually set all your league settings.


The Divisions & Squad Settings folio allows the league director to customize the number of divisions in the league, name each team and specify in which segmentation each team will compete. Beneath is a listing of all the options and details on how they piece of work.

NOTE: If y'all desire to skip this step and enter the division and squad information later you tin can do so past clicking on the "Submit" button to accelerate to the next stride in League Setup.

DIVISIONS
The league managing director determines the number of divisions in the league using the Divisions pull-downward card. There can be ane-4 divisions in a league.

Both the number of divisions and names for each division tin be changed until your league draft from the Edit League Settings folio.

Squad INFO
The number of teams listed here is equal to the number that was selected on the Basic Settings page. Team names consist of a combination of 2 elements -- team location and squad nickname. When a team is displayed in the game, generally both the nickname and location will be displayed (as in standings and box scores), but on pages where there is limited space, merely the squad nickname is displayed.
NOTE: Afterwards each team owner joins the league, they will be allowed to edit the name of their own team.

  • Team Location -- Max of 32 characters

  • Team Nickname -- Max of 32 characters

  • Division -- If the league has more than 1 division, specify the division designation for each team here. For reasons of fairness, information technology may exist wise to brand sure each division has the same number of teams.

    • SENDING INVITATIONS TO Join YOUR CUSTOM LEAGUE
    League managers tin access the Invite Members folio by clicking on the "Members" link from the League Office. Enter the electronic mail address of each person yous desire to bring together your league in the "Ship Invitations" text box (as seen in the screen shot below):

    TROUBLESHOOTING
    Below are examples of issues owners might feel joining your private league and how you tin can go well-nigh fixing them. If one of the examples does non help rectify your problem, please contact customer care at 1-888-549-ESPN.

    • NO INVITATION RECEIVED
      If the league manager says he/she sent you an invitation but you do not see it in your email's inbox, information technology could exist due to a couple of reasons.

      1. Your e-mail service address entered by the league manager is only incorrect. In this case we ask you lot to communicate with the league manager to ensure they are entering your correct e-post accost.

      2. Your corporate (or Internet access provider's) firewall blocks e-mail from our ESPN servers. In this case we recommend that the league manager employ the "Transport me a copy of each invite" option. Once he/she receives the "cc'ed" e-mail service (which contains your squad's unique join URL) he/she tin and so forward that e-mail to yous via their ain e-mail service (thus bypassing any firewall).

    • INVITATION RECEIVED; UNABLE TO JOIN LEAGUE
      The league manager invites you to play, and you receive the invite, but upon clicking the unique URL the page returns saying y'all cannot join the league. This will happen for two reasons.

      1. The league manager invited another possessor to join the team later he/she invited you. Once a different e-postal service accost is entered and submitted the arrangement will nix and void the unique URL on the previous electronic mail.

      2. The league manager inverse your electronic mail address. Likewise to the previous example, once a different e-mail service address is entered and submitted the system will void the unique URL on the previous electronic mail. In both cases we recommend that you contact the league manager to work out the details.

    CHANGING YOUR DIVISIONAL MATCHUPS FOR THE REGULAR Flavor
    Once your league has been created, specific matchups can be edited on the league schedule folio (by your LM only). For example, y'all may want to switch your league to one 12-team unmarried division league from two split up half-dozen-squad divisions to ensure each squad played one another in the league at least once, and ii others in your division twice. This would require changing the two divisions and 6 teams in each, considering in such a case, each team may non play everyone at least one time.

    To modify a league'due south schedule, the LM would click on the LM Tools tab, followed by the Edit Teams and Divisions link. Change to one partitioning and click on Edit League Settings. Select Edit For Schedule and Playoffs so check the box Reset Matchups. Lastly, click Submit and changes will have effect.

    To proceed the number of divisions and merely modify the weekly matchups, The LM would click on the League tab, followed past the Schedule link. The LM tin click edit next to each weekly matchup during the regular season. Upon completion, simply click the Reset Schedules box and you are set.