Welcome to Fantasy Football Starter Leagues!!
Below you will find information on affordable beginner leagues.
Please note: For Full-Season leagues drafted after the kickoff game, those players starting lineup decisions can be decided at anytime up until Sunday 1pm Eastern Kickoff. You will have the ability to late swap any player involved in that game up until Sunday at 1pm eastern.
ENTER A FANTASY STARTER LEAGUE TODAY
For an introduction to Fulltime Fantasy leagues and format, we recommend our Starter Leagues. These are affordable leagues to help introduce players to competitive, prize league fantasy football.
Cost to Enter: $25, $50 or $150 to compete. (plus small software/live scoring fee)
League Size: 12 TEAM LEAGUES
$25 Entry
- 1st Place: $150 cash
- 2nd Place: $65 Full time Fantasy Game Credit
- 3rd Place: $35 Full time Fantasy Game Credit
$50 Entry
- 1st Place: $300 cash OR One (1) 2025 Online Championship Entry (valued $350)
- 2nd Place: $125 Full time Fantasy Game Credit
- 3rd Place: $75 Full time Fantasy Game Credit
$150 Entry
- 1st Place: $1,000 cash
- 2nd Place: $500 cash
CIRCA SATELLITE LEAGUES - $150 Entry
- 1st Place: One (1) 2025 $1,000 Circa Survivor Contest Entry w proxy fee paid
- 2nd Place: One (1) 2025 $349 Circa LV Fantasy Championship Entry
- 3rd Place: $150 Circa Fantasy (FFWC) Game Credit
League Size: 10 TEAM LEAGUES
$25 Entry
- 1st Place: $125 cash
- 2nd Place: $50 Full time Fantasy Game Credit
- 3rd Place: $25 Full time Fantasy Game Credit
$50 Entry
- 1st Place: $250 cash
- 2nd Place: $125 Full time Fantasy Game Credit
- 3rd Place: $50 Full time Fantasy Game Credit
$150 Entry
- 1st Place: $825 cash
- 2nd Place: $425 cash
Trading: There is no trading allowed in Fulltime Fantasy Prize Leagues.
Description:
Starter Fantasy Football Leagues are offered in several different varieties.
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Full Season: Set your Weekly lineups and add Weekly Free Agents. (18 man rosters - 18 rounds of drafting)
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SuperFlex Full-Season: - Same as above but you can use a QB in the FLEX position.
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BestBall: No Lineups - No Waivers - Just Draft. (24 man rosters - 24 rounds of drafting)
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SuperFlex BestBall: - Same as above but you can use a QB in the FLEX position.
Please note: In BestBall leagues, weekly starting lineups are optimized each week for each team after the games are completed. Team requires NO IN-Season Management. Just sit back and watch how your drafted team performs. Draft is longer to help you survive the weekly bye weeks and injuries. Better know your sleepers! Both league types are drafted Serpentine style: Round 1: (1-12), Round 2 (12-1) Round 3 (1-12) etc.
Signing Up
Participants will enter via the draft lobby at Play.FulltimeFantasy.com You will receive a welcome email when the draft fills and the draft order will be randomized and set at that time. League will attempt to fill for up to one hour past the start time. If not filled, refunds will be issued. Please make sure you are using your browser's most current version. Chrome, Firefox or at least IE 10 are preferred.
Starting Lineup Requirements: 10-man
- 1 Quarterback
- 2 Running Backs
- 3 Wide Receivers
- 1 Tight End
- 1 Team Kicker (we also off no kicker leagues)
- 1 Defense Special Teams
- 1 Flex (RB-WR-TE) <<< There is only 1 flex, not 2, like our higher priced leagues.
For Full-Season Leagues, you have until that player's scheduled game time to submit the player to your lineup.For Draft-Only leagues, lineups are optimized AFTER all the games are played each week.
QB SuperFlex Leagues
The only difference is you can start a QB in the Flex position, so (QB-RB-WR-TE) are all acceptable positions at the flex. It really drives the QB position up in the draft!
QB SuperFlex Starting Lineup Requirements: 10-man
- 1 Quarterback
- 2 Running Backs
- 3 Wide Receivers
- 1 Tight End
- 1 Team Kicker (we also off no kicker leagues)
- 1 Defense Special Teams
- 1 Flex (QB-RB-WR-TE) <<< There is STILL only 1 flex, not 2, like our higher priced leagues.
Starter Leagues vs our other High Stakes Leagues:
- 10-man Starting Lineup vs 11-man
- 18 rounds vs 20 for Full-Season Leagues -and- 24 rounds vs 28 for our BestBall Leagues.
- Full Season Leagues have Blind Bidding Waivers on Wednesday, THEN First Come First Serve Waivers. - This helps newer players that may have a harder time scoring players on Wednesday night bidding.
DRAFT:
All leagues will hold their Draft ONLINE prior to September 7, 2023. Each league will be composed of 12 teams, and each draft will last for 18 rounds for Full Season Leagues and 24 rounds for Bestball Draft Only Leagues, with each team selecting a player in each round in a serpentine fashion (team 1 through team 12, team 12 through team 1, team 1 through team 12, etc.). There are no rules governing the number of players to be drafted at each position. It is up to the skill and draft strategy of each team owner to decide.
ONLINE TIMER RULES: In the event the participant's timer expires in an online draft, the computer will select a player based on the rules specified below:
1. There is no limit to the number of players a contestant may put in their "queue list". They can add every undrafted player to the "queue list" in any order they see fit.
2. If the contestant "queue list" is exhausted, and the contestant timer expires, our algorithm will look for any starting lineup position still of need, and select the highest ranked remaining available player, excluding kicker or defense positions.
2a. For example, if the contestant still needs a QB, RB and 3 wide receivers to fill their starting lineup, the algorithm will choose the highest ranked player at one of those three positions and select the player for the contestant.
3. If the "queue list" is exhausted, and the contestant timer expires, and the contestant has filled their starting lineup requirement, the algorithm will choose the highest ranked player regardless of position, excluding kicker or defense.
4. Once the draft reaches Round 15, the positions of kickers and defenses are eligible to be considered as auto picks, in the event a contestant timer expires.
SLOW DRAFTS: Will have a 4 hour timer that extends from 1am to 7am eastern without penalty (so you don't time out overnight). Missing a pick in a slow draft will result in the highest ranked "Queue List" player. Once that is exhausted, the software rankings will be used in the same manner as described above.
Scoring:
(Summary) For Official Scoring System click SCORING
- Scoring is PPR (Point per Reception) for alll players.
- All passing touchdowns are 6 points. All other touchdowns are worth 6 points.
- 1 point for every 20 yards passing.
- 1 point for every 10 yards rushing/receiving combined.
- 2 decimal scoring.
- Kickers receive 3 per made field goal and .1 for every yard over 30.
Defensive/Special Teams Scoring:
- Touchdown = 6 pts
- Safety = 2 pts
- Interception / Fumble Recovery = 2 pts
- Sack = 1 pt
- Weekly Win = 2 points
Points Allowed Bonus
- Shutout = 8 pts
- 2-6 points allowed = 4 pts
- 7-10 points allowed = 2 pts
Schedule:
- Compete in a 14 week regular season.
- Weeks 1, 2 and 14 are All-Play (Top 6 scoring teams are awarded a WIN, Bottom 6 scoring teams are awarded a LOSS) During all play weeks, 6th place ties will result in both teams receiving a win.
- Weeks 3-13 - Play each other opponent once in a head to head match-up. Whichever team scores the most points that week is awarded a WIN. Tied scoring results will result in an official tie.
Playoff Participants:
- The Top 4 Teams make the playoffs
- Team One: Best Record (points tie-breaker)
- Team Two: Most Points Scored (other than Team 1)
- Team Three: Next Best Record (other than Teams 1 and 2) (points tie-breaker)
- Team Four: Next Most Points Scored (other than Teams 1, 2 and 3)
Special Playoff qualifying condition:
Any team that ties for the best record in their league during the regular season but does not qualify as one of the four automatic entries, also advances to the League playoffs.
Playoff Rules:
- Each team is awarded their average weekly points scored for the year from weeks 1-14. This is their starting score.
- Each team is required to submit a weekly lineup as usual.
- All four teams compete in a total points shootout weeks 15-17.
- The team with the most playoff points is declared the league champion and wins 1st Place Prize.
- The team with the second most playoff points is declared the runner-up and wins 2nd Place Prize.
- The team with the third most playoff points is declared the 3rd place winner and wins 3rd Place Prize.
Waivers: (for Full-Season Leagues only)
PLEASE NOTE: All Full Season Leagues concluded before or on Tuesday September 3th, 2024 will have 1 opportunity to add/remove players via our Free Agent Acquisition Bidding (FAAB) waivers, on the Wednesday before Week 1, Sept 4, 2024 at 10pm EDT, then First Come First Serve pickups until Sunday 1pm eastern Kickoff Week One.
- Season Bidding Starts: Sunday, September 8, 2024 (After kickoff of week one and prior to the start of Week 2)
- Bidding Ends: Bidding continues all the way up to Week 17.
- Who can bid in the playoffs? - Only playoff teams are eligilbe to pickup free agents after week 16.
- Locked Players: Players cut after NFL week 12 (November 27th on) cannot be re-acquired by any team in that league.
ENTER A FANTASY STARTER LEAGUE TODAY
NEW: We also now offer POSITION ONLY DRAFTS! These are BESTBALL where you only draft from one position.
- QB-ONLY: 8 Rounds - Start 4 each week.
- RB-ONLY: 12 Rounds - Start 6 each week.
- WR-ONLY: 16 Rounds - Start 8 each week.
- WR/TE-ONLY: 16 Rounds - Start 8 each week.
League Size: 6 TEAM LEAGUES
$25 Entry
- 1st Place: $100 cash
- 2nd Place: $25 Full time Fantasy Game Credit
$50 Entry
- 1st Place: $200 cash
- 2nd Place: $50 Full time Fantasy Game Credit
$100 Entry
- 1st Place: $400 cash
- 2nd Place: $125 Full time Fantasy Game Credit
BONUS PRIZE: The Best drafted team from all drafts for each Position Only will receive a custom Championship Ring! So we'll give out FOUR in total! A QB Champions Ring, a RB Champions ring, a WR Champion ring and a WR-TE Champion ring!