FFPC Best Ball Dynasty Leagues
Everything you love about dynasty combined with everything you love about best ball.
The FFPC Best Ball Dynasty format is a semi-managed format, with optimized weekly lineups, weekly waivers, trading, but with no head-to-head play and no playoffs. The highest optimized weekly scores after 17 weeks wins.
Starting at just $100, there is a league for everyone.
Prizes
$850 - $55,000
Entry Fee
$100 - $5000
Format
Best Ball Dynasty League
Startup & Orphan teams available
Maiden and Rookie drafts
Trading allowed
Draft Type & Length
26-round online snake drafts with 8-hour or 60-second timers
Best Ball Dynasty Leagues Details
| Duration: | 17 week season |
| Entry Fee: | From $100 to $5,000 per team |
| Startup Deposit: | $100 leagues - $100 deposit,, $250 leagues - $150 deposit, $500 leagues - $300 deposit, $750 leagues - $500 deposit, $1,250 leagues - $750 deposit, $2,500 leagues - $1,500 deposit, $5,000 leagues - $3,000 deposit |
| Prizes: | Click Prizes tab for details |
| Draft Positions: | Drawn at random & emailed to league when league is paid in full (startup only) |
| Maiden (First-Year) Draft Type & Length: | 26 round serpentine (snake) online draft |
| Slow Drafts with an 8 hour timer per pick (overnight pause 2 AM – 8 AM ET) | |
| Live Drafts with a 60 second timer per pick | |
| Roster Cutdown: | Each team must cut-down from 26 to 16 players by March 31st in each year after the maiden season |
| Rookie/Free Agent Draft: | Off-Season Drafts are 10 rounds, will include all rookies and free agents and will take place after the NFL draft as slow drafts, with an 8-hour limit per pick. |
| All team roster must cut down to 22 players prior to the start of the NFL season | |
| Number of teams: | 12 |
| Format (Full Season): | Weeks 1-17, no playoffs |
| No H2H matchups, total points only | |
| Optimized starting lineups are automatically started every week | |
| League Winner: | Team with the most accumulated points at the end of week 17 is League Champion |
| Free Agency: | Waivers by way of blind bidding (FAAB) |
| Each team gets $1000 blind bidding “dollars” for entire season | |
| Two (2) weekly free agencies on Wednesday & Sunday | |
| Cutoffs on Wednesday 10 PM ET and Sunday 10 AM ET | |
| NFL players whose teams played on Thursday may be dropped from FFPC rosters on Friday as long as they were not in that team’s Thursday’s starting lineup | |
| First free agency is scheduled on the Wednesday after Labor Day (September 6) | |
| Weekly Team Management: | Yes. Free agency and trades. No lineup submission |
| Trades: | Trades are allowed and must be approved by the FFPC League Commissioner |
| Scoring: | FFPC scoring rules will be in effect |
| Roster Requirement: | Twenty two (22) total roster spots during NFL season (varies other times) |
| Three (3) Injured Reserve (IR) slots | |
| Starting Lineup: | 1-QB, 2-RB, 2-WR, 1-TE, 2-Flex, 1-K, 1-D (Flex can be RB, WR or TE) |
*The NFL has approved an 18 week regular season in 2021, with each team playing 17 regular season games. FFPC Dynasty League rules have been adjusted accordingly.
Important Dynasty League Dates
| Team Renewal Deadline: | February 28 |
| Cut Down Deadline #1: | March 31 |
| Cut Down Deadline #2: | Sunday Prior to start of NFL Season |
| Rookie/Free Agent Draft: | First Weekend after NFL Draft |
| Trade Deadline: | 12:50 PM ET prior to Sunday kickoff of Week 12 |
