Join Alone or with Friends

Join alone and we will place you in a league with other individual owners, giving you a chance to compete against some of football's biggest fans. Or join with friends, and you can talk trades and assert bragging rights whenever you get together. If you know enough fellow fans to form a complete league, you can hold your own draft - the best party of the year!

If you join alone or with just a couple of friends we will place you in a 12-team league with other individual team owners. 12 team leagues have 3 divisions, with 4 teams in each division. The three division winners plus two wild-card teams (the other teams with the best records) qualify for the playoffs, played during weeks 15, 16, and 17 of the NFL season.

If you join with friends and want to play just among yourselves, you can form a complete league of any size, though we suggest having at least 6 and at most 16 teams. Owners who form their own complete league can either hold their own draft, or have us run their draft

Take part in a real draft

As soon as we receive your team order we will send you a draft packet that includes a list of the NFL's projected starters at every position (except offensive line). We will include each player's Scoresheet Football point rating from last season; both season totals and points per game played will be included, along with each player's age and position.

You will draft a team of 6 offensive starters, 6 defensive starters, a kicker, a punter, an NFL kick return team, and 15 backup players. If you join alone or with a small group that wants to be part of a larger league, we will place you in a league and run your league's draft. Unlike contests or pools this is a real draft - a player can only be on one team in each league!

The draft order will be determined randomly, and whomever picks first in round one will pick last in round two.

Along with a postal draft, we also offer a web based draft system where you can change your draft list between every round of the draft, giving you the same control over the draft as if you were doing a live in-person draft. A description of our web draft system can be found at: web drafting explanation You can also get the complete game and draft rules on our web site.

The first web draft leagues will be formed and start drafting in late July, and we will continue forming new web draft leagues thruout August. But the earlier you join the sooner you can begin enjoying the fun of drafting a team. No matter when you join, your final picks in the web draft will be in the first week of September, when NFL teams have finalized their rosters.

Team owners who do not want to use a web draft will send in ranking lists to our office (by postal mail, e-mail or fax - your choice), and then when it's your team's turn to pick we'll give you the highest-ranked, undrafted player on your list, subject to our procedures for giving you a balanced team. You can list players from different positions in whatever order you want and can even specify when to draft a second QB or other key backup before you have all of your starters. Full instructions and roster-balancing procedures are included with the draft packet.

To join a league that sends in draft lists by e-mail, postal mail or fax (ie., not a web draft league), you should send in your order form by/before July 21st to draft in two separate stages. With a two stage draft you draft your starters in the first round, and then your backups in the second stage, allowing you to see your starters before deciding what subs to draft. If you join after July 21st, we will draft your team in a single 30 round stage.

If you have a complete league you can choose to do your own live draft, holding it whenever you like. And once again, we will be forming web draft leagues throughout July and August, but the earlier you join the sooner you can begin enjoying the 2010 season