Can you avoid being the lowest scoring team for seventeen weeks? That is the only way to avoid getting CHOPPED! Play for cash prizes or win your way into the FFPC Main Event and Big Gorilla Tournament!
FFPC Chop Leagues are a 14-round snake draft with a 17-week season. Every week, the lowest scoring team is chopped (eliminated). The roster of the chopped team is released into free agency. The remaining teams can add these players through free agency via blind bidding (FAAB). Chop Best Ball Leagues have weekly optimized starting lineups. The last team standing at the end of 17 weeks will be named Chop League Champion.
Lowest scoring team every week gets chopped (eliminated)
Roster of the chopped team disperses into free agency and becomes available through blind bidding (FAAB)
Last 17 weeks without being the lowest scoring team in your league to be crowned Chop League Champion
Optimized scoring lineups are automatically started every week
14-round online snake drafts with 2-hour, 6-hour or 60-second timers
Chop Best Ball League Details
| Duration: | 17 Week Season |
| Entry Fee: | From $35 to $350 per team |
| Prizes: | Scroll down for details |
| Draft Positions: | Drawn at random & emailed to league, when league is full |
| Draft Type & Length: | 14 round serpentine (snake) online draft |
| Live Drafts with a 60 second timer per pick | |
| Slow Drafts with a 2 or 6 hour timer per pick (overnight pause 2 AM – 8 AM ET) | |
| Number of teams: | 18 |
| Format (Chop League): | Lowest scoring team every week gets chopped (eliminated) |
Roster of chopped team enters free agency pool | |
| No H2H matchups | |
| No league playoffs | |
| Optimized scoring lineups are automatically started every week | |
| Last 17 weeks without being the lowest scoring team in your league to be crowned Chop League Champion | |
| Free Agency*: | Waivers by way of blind bidding (FAAB) |
| Each team gets $1000 blind bidding “dollars” for entire season with a minimum bid of $1 | |
| Two (2) weekly free agencies on Wednesday & Sunday | |
Cutoffs on Wednesday 11 PM ET and Sunday 10 AM ET | |
| First free agency is scheduled on the Wednesday after Labor Day Weekend (September 9) | |
| After NFL Week 14, chopped players will be locked into free agency and will not be available to be bid on for the remainder of the season | |
| NFL players whose teams played on Thursday may be dropped from FFPC rosters on Sunday as long as they were not in that team’s Thursday’s starting lineup. | |
| Weekly Team Management: | No setting lineups. Optimized scoring lineups are automatically started every week. Chop Best Ball Leagues include free agency |
| Trades: | No trading allowed |
| Scoring System: | FFPC Scoring rules will be in effect (scroll down for scoring details) |
| Roster Requirement: | Fourteen (14) total roster spots |
| Starting Lineup: | 1-QB, 2-RB, 2-WR, 1-TE, 2-Flex (Flex can be RB, WR or TE) |
*Each team in FFPC Chop Leagues will have $1000 bidding dollars for free agency acquisition bidding (FAAB) for the duration of the season. The minimum bid is $1. Any team that uses all $1000 FAAB will no longer be able to add players for the remainder of the season. There are no exceptions to this rule. From weeks 1-14, all players from chopped rosters will be placed into the free agency pool on Tuesday morning, where they will become available for bidding by the remaining teams. Beginning week 15, players from chopped rosters will no longer be added to the free agent pool. Instead, these players will be locked and made unavailable for the remainder of the season. Remaining teams can still make free agent acquisitions with any players who were already in the free agent pool, or any players who are dropped by the remaining teams. To be clear, the players from the two chopped teams in week 15 and 16 will be the only players made unavailable for addition to rosters during the season.
