The CKL prides itself on being a “progressive” fantasy football league, and tries to maintain a cutting-edge identity by adopting new wrinkles and rules changes. So it’s important that you are well-versed in what we’re doing… not just so you can compete this upcoming season, but also so you can add an informed opinion (and an informed vote!) to the mix if and when we decide to contemplate more changes to the structure of the league. And we're ALWAYS considering more changes to the league!
Here is how the CKL is currently structured...
Your Team
You need two things to begin the team creation process, and they are critically important: a team name that can survive the test of time, and a team logo.
Our team names are currently: Sexy Badasses, SALT MY BORSCHT, The Revolting ____s, Southwest Cactus Jockeys, D2F Ratio, The Magic Stick, L7 Half-Orc Sorcerers, Trophy Husband, Nelly Furtaco, Womp Wampas, OO DADDY, GleepGlop's Hypotenoids, Blackpool Penguins, and Pink Nightmare. Hopefully, that gives you some sense of the type of tone we try to set with our team names.
The Roster
Each roster has space for 20 players. This includes 11 spots on the active roster and 8 bench spots, plus one IR spot. The active roster includes: 1 QB, 1 RB, 1 RB/WR/TE Flex, 2 WRs, 1 TE, 3 IDPs (individual defensive players - any position), 1 K, and 1 Head Coach
The Roster
Each roster has space for 20 players. This includes 11 spots on the active roster and 8 bench spots, plus one IR spot. The active roster includes: 1 QB, 1 RB, 1 RB/WR/TE Flex, 2 WRs, 1 TE, 3 IDPs (individual defensive players - any position), 1 K, and 1 Head Coach
As a 14-team league, we only require one starting RB, but the Flex spot allows for a second RB, should you opt for a more traditional lineup. The CKL starting lineup is one less than "standard" - 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 TE. This is key to accommodate 14 teams and maintain a proper balance of talent without scraping the bottom of the barrel too much at the end of each team's bench.
Make no mistake, with up to 280 total players rostered, this league runs DEEP into the NFL player universe. If you don't know the offensive skill talent in the NFL backward and forward, you are at a serious disadvantage in this league. This level of depth can absolutely punish the ill-prepared or uninformed.
COMING IN 2020: The addition of the Superflex (QB/RB/WR/TE) position, increasing team sizes to 21 total players.
CKL Scoring
Our scoring system, in basic terms.....
How Games are Played
We play all games head-to-head, most points wins.
We play all games head-to-head, most points wins.
The tie-breaker is points from the QB. (If another tie ever needs to be broken, I would be completely shocked. We did, however, experience a tiebreaking situation in the 2011 season.)
The CKL Schedule… Each team will play a perfect round-robin 13 game schedule against each of the other teams in the league, in an order determined randomly.
If the NFL expands its schedule to 18 games and 20 weeks, the CKL will expand its regular season schedule, as follows:
- 1 week of rivalry games
- 1 week of games determined completely at random
- 1 week of games decided by the previous season’s order of finish (the defending champion will play the runner-up, the 3rd place team will play the 4th place team, 5th place will play 6th place, etc.)
COMING
CKL Postseason System
Playoff berths and seeds are decided by overall record, with total points scored during the regular season serving as the tie-breaker (NOT head-to-head records).
Six teams make the playoffs.
The top five teams in terms of record make the playoffs, total points scored serves as the tiebreaker. The 6th playoff spot then goes to the highest-scoring team not already amongst the five in the playoffs with the best records.
The top two teams in terms of record receive first round byes.
Wildcard Shuffle -- The highest seed in each playoff round chooses all the matchups in that round. So the team that qualifies with the best wildcard, #3 overall, chooses his opponent for the first round. Then the two remaining teams play each other. #1 seed chooses his opponent in the 2nd (semifinal) round, and the two remaining teams collide.
The playoffs last three weeks.
Playoffs Week 1: The two division winners receive first round byes, while the #3 seed chooses his opponent from among the #4, #5, and #6 seeds. The two teams not chosen to play against the #3 seed play against each other.
Playoffs Week 2: The #1 overall seed chooses his opponent from among the #2 seed and the two teams that survived week 1 of the playoffs. The two teams not chosen to play against the #1 seed play against each other. The losers of the two wildcard games play the first of their two games to determine 5th place.
Playoffs Week 3: The two winners from week 2 compete for the hotly coveted CKL Cup. The two losers from week 2 play a game to determine 3rd place. The losers of the two wildcard games play the second of their two games to determine 5th place.
The eight teams that fail to advance to the playoffs are seeded into a straight consolation tournament, as follows...
Conso Tourney Week 1: (game A) regular season #7 vs. #14, (B) #10 vs. #11, (C) #8 vs. #13, (D) #9 vs. #12
Conso Tourney Week 2: (game E) A winner vs. B winner, (F) C winner vs. D winner, (G) A loser vs. B loser, (H) C loser vs. D loser
Conso Tourney Week 3: (game I, conso championship) E winner vs. F winner, (J) E loser vs. F loser, (K) G winner vs. H winner, (L, last place game) G loser vs. H loser
Up Next: Part III -- Talent Acquisition
Up Next: Part III -- Talent Acquisition
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