We at the Fantasy Football Players Championship and For Players-By Players, LLC understand the importance of customer trust with regards to prizes and payouts.
As a start-up event in 2008, it was vital that our customers felt comfortable and secure entering our contest. For this reason, For Players-By Players, LLC had placed $75,000 - the amount of the grand prize - in escrow account with Mark W. Yaros, Esq., a licensed attorney in the State of New Jersey and became the FIRST and ONLY High Stakes contest to do so. Mark W. Yaros, Esq. may be contacted
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. We had funded this $75,000 attorney escrow account with our own money, prior to accepting a single entry into the FFPC, to show our customers how serious we are about protecting their investment.
For the upcoming 2009 Season, the ENTIRE Main Event prize money will continue to be placed and held in Mr. Yaros' attorney escrow account throughout the duration of the season and will not be accessed by ForPlayers-ByPlayers, LLC. for any reason. At the conclusion of the season, checks will be drawn directly from these funds and sent to all prize winners by January 11th, 2010.
Terminator Tournament - Online
***Update: As of August 24th, The Terminator is SOLD OUT and will be back for 2010***
Follow the 2009 Terminator Tournament by clicking on the links below:
The entry fee is $350 per team. All prizes including the $5,000 Grand Prize are GUARANTEED. Payout percentage based on 60 teams is 85%. If entries reach above 60 teams, prizes will be raised.
The Terminator will have live drafts, held online at 9:00pm Eastern using MockDraftCentral.com's live draft room on the following three (3) dates:
Tuesday August 25th, 9:00pm
Wednesday August 26th, 9:00pm
Thursday August 27th, 9:00pm
Multiple team ownership is permitted. Players who purchase more than one Terminator team will have their teams placed in separate leagues.
Instant Online Registration for the Terminator Tournament is available with any major credit card. To send payment by mail, please email us first at
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to reserve your team.
The Terminator concept was created by Alex & Dave of the FFPC and it is actually quite simple. By adding just a few tweaks to the standard DraftExperts format, it completely alters it, and creates this brand new format that's certain to be exciting and challenging. Please visit our Message Boards to see what the players have to say about the Terminator.
Here it is:
The Draft Experts Terminator leagues will run in a similar fashion to FFPC Draft Experts formats, with no waiver moves (other than as described below) and optimized player scoring. Each owner's team starts with 26 players per roster after their initial draft. There are, however, two unique differences which makes the FFPC Draft Experts Terminator format unique in the fantasy football world:
1. Each week, fantasy owners are required to drop a single player from their rosters.There will be no pickups at any time during the season for any reason - only the weekly drops. These weekly drops will begin starting prior to NFL Week 1 and continue through the week prior to NFL Week 16.Team owners will be able to execute their weekly drops anytime between Tuesday morning and up to 5 minutes prior to each week's NFL games.The official deadline to drop a player is on Sunday at 12:55 pm EST or 5 minutes prior to Sunday's kickoff time.This means that players who are playing in the late Sunday or Monday night games MUST be dropped before the 12:55 pm EST deadline as well. On weeks with early games on Thursday, Friday or Saturday, any owner wanting to drop a player from a team in these early games must do so 5 minutes prior to that game's kickoff. The 12:55 pm EST Sunday deadline will remain for dropping all other players. Please remember that the MyFantasyLeague.com league software will CONTINUE TO ALLOW you to drop players after the above deadline. Unfortunately, due to the brand new nature of the Terminator format, the MFL software is not currently configured to cutoff the ability to make drops. However, any drop that is made after the deadline will be considered void and that team will be terminated as per official rules.
Any player or position may be chosen to be dropped and it is up to the skill of each team owner to determine which specific player and/or position to drop on a weekly basis.During the first weekly drop, prior to NFL Week 1, each team will drop one player and their roster will go from 26 to 25 players.In week two, it will go from 25 down to 24 players.In week 3, it will go from 24 down to 23, etc.Prior to NFL week 16, each team will make their final weekly drop and their roster will be down to 10 players entering Week 16.
2. If an owner fails to drop a player prior to that week's NFL action - for any reason whatsoever - his team is "terminated" and is eliminated from the remainder of the contest.There will be no exceptions to this rule.Owners will be able to execute their weekly drops using their league management software (MyFantasyLeague.com).The FFPC will also provide an email and phone number which owners can use to notify the FFPC commissioners of their designated weekly drop, in case of an emergency or computer issues.The email or phone call must be recieved during the alloted time for weekly drops.The FFPC may also send weekly emails, reminding owners to execute their weekly drops.
Tournament Format & Structure:
Please see the Official Rules for complete rules, scoring and format details.
The 2009 Draft Experts Terminator Satellite Tournament will consist of 5 leagues, consisting of 12 teams per league, for a total of 60 teams.The entry fee is $350 per team.The FFPC reserves the right to expand this tournament beyond the 60 teams while adding to the overall prize structure.
The Termonator Tournament will consist of a 13-week regular season which will run from NFL Week 1 through NFL Week 13 followed by the Championship Round and a Consolation Round during Weeks 14 through 16.There are no league playoffs in this format.League winners will be determined on cumulative total points at the end of 13 weeks.Points will be scored on a weekly basis using optimal scoring of all players on each team's roster.The top scoring teams at the conclusion of Week 13 will be placed according to points and will win the respective prizes as stated below.
In the event that there is a tie in points between teams, the tie-breaker will be determined in order by:
1. Starting QB points in Week 13
2. Starting QB points in Week 12
3. Coin toss
The top four (4) scoring teams per league will qualify for the Championship Round to be held in Weeks 14-16 of the NFL regular season.If the tournament has 5 leagues, there will be 20 playoff teams.Each qualifying team in the Championship Round will be seeded according to their regular season 13-week average score.
All teams who do not qualify for the Championship Round will enter the Consolation Round to be held Weeks 14-16 of the NFL regular season.All teams in the Consolation Round will be seeded with a zero score.
Teams which did not execute a weekly drop at any point during the season and were "terminated" will be eliminated and will NOT be able to participate in either the Championship Round or the Consolation Round.Teams are required to continue making their weekly drops during Weeks 14-16 and those which do not drop a player will also be eliminated and not eligible to collect award prizes.
At the conclusion of Week 16 each team's points scored in weeks 14-16 will be added to their point average in weeks 1-13 and the final standings will be based on this combined point total.The top scoring teams will win the respective prizes as stated below.
FFPC Draft Experts Terminator League and Playoff Prizes:
