Wizard Redraft League Rules

2024 Official Rules and Regulations of Wizard Redraft League

1.   Overview

For the first time in Fantasy Sports Alliance’s history, rather than General Managers competing within the Region they live in, GMs will be drafted by Regional Managers into five groups of 12 teams each. The concept and the theory behind this is to introduce long time competitors to other GMs for competition and to create more competitive matchups. FSA will use My Fantasy League as the scoring engine for the 2024 season. Each Region will be represented as a separate “division” on My Fantasy League. The FSA regular season will begin with all Week 1 NFL games through all Week 11 games. Each team will play all the teams in their Region once in head-to-head competition totaling 11 games. Each team that finishes .500 or above in their respective Region will compete for the title of Regional Champion during Weeks 12-14 of the NFL Regular Season. The World Championship playoffs will feature each of the Regional Champions (5) in a single elimination bracket. The World Championship Playoffs will begin in Week 15 with the World Champion being crowned at the conclusion of Week 17.

2.   Draft

The Draft Selection Days will be held on TBD August 2024.

On these dates, all teams will learn what draft position they are awarded for their respective Region.

Drafts will take place online at My Fantasy League on TBD August 2024.

Each Region will be composed of 12 teams, and each draft will last for 16 rounds, with each team selecting a player in each round in a serpentine fashion (Team 1 through Team 12 in Round 1 and Team 12 through Team 1 in Round 2). Players can be drafted at any position at any time in the draft; however, each team must have at least one player for each of the designated starting positions by the end of the draft. Each team must start a weekly lineup of 10 players and the team roster must remain at 16 players. There are no injured reserve lists beyond the team total of 16.

3.   Roster Requirements

Your roster must always have 16 players.

4.   Starting Lineup Requirements

1 Quarterback (QB)
1 Running Back (RB)
2 Wide Receivers (WR)
1 Minor-Flex Player (RB/WR)
1 Tight End (TE)
1 Major-Flex Player (RB/WR/TE)
1 Super-Flex Player (QB/RB/WR/TE)
1 Kicker
1 Team Defense/Special Teams

Starting lineups will need to be submitted at least one minute before the first game of the week (usually on Thursday); however, if you have members on your roster, who are playing later in the week, you can bench and activate players if the NFL team they belong to has not already played for the week.

5.   Waiver Wire

Waivers put temporary freezes on unclaimed players, giving everyone a chance to make a claim on them. When this time-period ends, all waiver claims are processed and the manager with the highest waiver priority gets the player. The Waiver Wire will be a season-long rolling list. Once you have made a successful waiver wire claim, your team moves to the bottom of the Waiver Wire order. 

6.   Scoring

Passing
.04 points for every yard passing (equals 1 point for every 25 yards)
4 points for every passing touchdown
2 points for every 2-point conversion
-1 minus one point for every sack against
-2 minus two points for every interception
-2 minus two points for every lost fumble

Rushing
.10 points for every yard rushing (equals 1 point for every 10 yards)
.5 points for each rushing First Down
6 points for every rushing touchdown
2 points for every 2-point conversion
-2 minus two points for every lost fumble

Receiving
.10 points for every yard receiving (equals 1 point for every 10 yards)
6 points for every receiving touchdown
.5 points for each receiving First Down
1 points for each reception by QBs, RBs, and WRs
1.5 point for each reception by TEs
2 points for every 2-point conversion
-2 minus two points for every lost fumble

Kicking
1 point for every extra point
3 points for every field goal from 1-30 yards
.1 point for every yard of the field goal over 30 yards
-1 minus one point for all missed PATs and missed FGs under 50 yds

Defense/Special Teams
14 points for 0 points allowed
10.5 points for 2 points allowed and then -.5 point for every 1 thereafter
0 points for 23 points allowed and then -.5 point for every 2 thereafter
-5 points for 42+ points allowed

1 point for every sack
2 points for every interception or fumble recovery
2 points for every Safety
3 points for every blocked PAT, field goal or punt
6 points for every Defense and Special Team's touchdown

Miscellaneous
6 points for Offensive Fumble Recovery for a touchdown

7.   Schedule & Playoffs

The first 11 weeks of the NFL Regular Season represents the Regular Season for the FSA. When the FSA Regular Season ends, the teams that finish .500 or above from each Region will compete for the title of Regional Champion during Weeks 12-14 of the NFL Regular Season. If there is a tie among Regional teams at the end of the regular season, head-to-head matchup will break the tie.

The five Regional Champions will be placed in a single elimination playoff system and compete for the World Championship. The World Championship Playoffs will begin in Week 15, with the World Champion being crowned at the conclusion of Week 17. The Regional Champions will be seeded based on their Power Ranking. The 2024 Power Ranking will be calculated by using a team’s wins and a team’s all-play percentage. In the first round of the World Championship (Week 15) Regional Champions seeded 4 and 5 will compete in Round 1 while seeds 1, 2, and 3 will be idle. The winner of the 4-5 matchup will play the number 1 seeded team in Round 2 (Week 16) and the number 2 and 3 seed will face off.

Power Ranking = Wins x All-Play Pct

8.   Alliance All-Play Tournament

FSA will host an Alliance All-Play Tournament (AAPT) in 2024. This tournament will host the remaining teams that were above .500 during the Regional Championship rounds that did not win the Regional Championship and move on to the World Championship. These teams begin competition in Week 15 of the NFL Regular season and will play in an All-Play format. This means, each team will play every other team in the tournament each week and collect an overall record for the week. That record will be combined for each of the three weeks of play with the winner having their WRL entry paid for in 2025.

9.   Alliance Payout Structure
$1,380 to World Champion
$780 to World Runner-up
$480 to Winner of 3-4 game
$380 to Runner-up of 3-4 game
$280 to fifth-place Regional Champion
$60 to Alliance All-Play Tournament Winner
$240 for MFL League and FSA Service Fees

** These amounts are based on 60 members.

10.   FSA Honors

FSA will hold an FSA Honors show during the final Fanatically Real Broadcast of the season on TBD 2025. Honors will be given to the Top Scoring Team of the Year, Regional Manager of the Year (RMoY) General Manager of the Year (GMoY), and Rookie General Manager of the Year (RGMoY). The RMoY will be selected by members of the FSA Hall of Fame. The GMoY and RGMoY will be selected by their peers. The voting process will be conducted on Survey Monkey with the veteran players voting for the GMoY and the rookies voting for RGMoY. The process will begin following the conclusion of the WRL World Championship and continue through the NFL’s Super Bowl weekend.

11.   Hall of Fame

The end of the 2018 season saw our first member inducted into the Fantasy Sports Alliance Hall of Fame, while four more were enshrined at the conclusion of 2019 and one more team was enshrined at the end of 2020. The criteria to be eligible for the Hall of Fame is simple: A current or former member of Fantasy Sports Alliance must have played at least 10 years with the league. Those 10 years could be consecutively or intermittingly. To also be eligible for the Hall of Fame, a former or current member must have made a positive contribution to FSA; championships and winning records help, but they are not the only criteria. FSA staff and Hall of Fame members will nominate those members who they feel are worthy of the Hall of Fame during the Wild Card weekend of the NFL season (TBD). The voting committee will defend their Hall of Fame selection over the next several weeks and a vote will be cast during Super Bowl weekend (TBD). An eligible member must receive a “go” from 80% of the committee to become a Hall of Fame member. The announcement of those who will be enshrined will be made during the FSA Honors show on the final Fanatically Real Broadcast of the season.