Are you one of the over 20 million people who play fantasy football? Do your Sundays lose a little excitement when the regular season fantasy football league is done? If you are like me, you would like to continue the competition into the NFL playoffs. Here is your chance to start from scratch and create a postseason fantasy football league.
Get some fantasy football friends together
Many of the postseason fantasy football games on sites like NFL.com or CBSsports.com ask you to compete against millions of other people. Obviously, this dwindles your chances to win and diminishes the fun.
It's really simple to create your own postseason fantasy football league. Just get a bunch of friends together and compete to see who can acquire the most fantasy points throughout the NFL playoffs. You can be the league administrator and compile the fantasy statistics throughout the playoffs.
Important rules for play postseason fantasy football
- The winner is determined by the most total points throughout the entire NFL postseason.
- There are no head-to-head games.
- There is no draft of players.
Here is how to make your roster to play postseason fantasy football
- Each person will choose 20 players from the teams that make the playoffs. As I stated before, there is no draft and teams are allowed have the same players. Teams will have many of the same players, but it is highly unlikely that all 20 players will be the same on any two teams.
- You may choose any combination of quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, tight ends, kickers and defense/special teams' units.
- The only roster stipulations are that you can only have up to four quarterbacks, and you must have at least one kicker and one defense/special teams unit.
- As teams get eliminated from the NFL playoffs, those players on the team get eliminated from fantasy rosters.
- You may not refill roster spots with new players. Once the player is done, the number of players on your fantasy roster decreases. This ultimately ties into your strategy of picking players.
- Most of the time the fantasy roster with the most Superbowl participants, will win your fantasy league. Some rosters may only have one or two players left by Superbowl weekend.
Scoring format for postseason fantasy football
- This part is really up to you as it doesn't differ much from from regular season fantasy football.
- The main rule I suggest is that you do not negate points for lost fumbles because they are a bit cumbersome to find in game box scores.
- Remember that as the league administrator, you will be keeping track of the fantasy statistics.
Here is the fantasy scoring format I use
- Six points for a touchdown including a special teams player. A kickoff or punt return touchdown will score six points for both the player and defense/special teams unit.
- One point for every ten yards of rushing or receiving
- One point for every 25 yards of passing
- One point per reception
- A two-point conversion is worth two points for a run, catch or pass.
- Negative two points for an interception
- Three points for a field goal
- One point for an extra point
- 15 points for a defensive shutout
- 10 points for 1-5 points against Defense/Special Teams
- 6 points for 6-9 points against Defense/Special Teams
- Two points for an interception
- Two points for a fumble recovery
- Two points for a safety
- One point for a sack
- Six points for a defensive touchdown
- No yardage bonuses
I hope you have fun playing postseason fantasy football. This is my third year of being involved in this type of league. Last year, we had 25 people in our league, which is a good amount of participants.
