Same great format as the Big Gorilla at just a $125 price point! Win $100,000 and become the first Baby Gorilla Champion!
Over $675,000 in prizes will be awarded after the 2026 season including a $100,000 grand prize at only a $125 entry fee!
Daily online drafts start February 2026. Register and choose your draft date today. You’ll get your draft slot as soon as your league fills – which won’t take long, we promise!
Grand Prize
$100,000
Prize Pool
$675,450
Entry Fee
$125
Draft Type & Length
20-round online snake draft with a 60-second, 2 hour or 6 hour timer
Baby Gorilla Tournament Details
| Entry Fee: | $125 Live and Slow online drafts |
| Contest Capacity: | Maximum of 6,000 entries |
| Prizes: | All prizes guaranteed regardless of final entries. Scroll down for details |
| Draft Positions: | Drawn at random & emailed to league, when league is full |
| Draft Type & Length: | 20 round serpentine (snake) online draft |
| Live online drafts with a 60 second timer | |
| Slow online drafts with a 1*, 2 or 6 hour timer (Overnight pause from 2-8 AM ET) | |
| Number of teams: | 12 |
| Duration: | Regular season Weeks 1-12. League Playoffs Weeks 13-14. Championship Round weeks 15-17 |
| Format (Regular Season): | Weeks 1-12 |
| H2H matchups | |
| After Week 12, League Playoff standings will be decided as such: Seed 1) Team with best regular season Record Seed 2) Team with highest point total Seed 3) The remaining team with the best regular season record Seed 4) The remaining team with the highest point total | |
| Format (League Playoffs): | Weeks 13-14 |
| Weekly H2H matchups decide League Champion | |
| The top two (2) seeds of each League in the regular season earn an Automatic Berth into the Championship Round. The League Champion also earns a berth into the Championship Round | |
| Format (Championship Round): | Weeks 15-17 |
| No H2H matchups, total points only | |
| Team with the highest sum of total points scored from Week 15-17 added to their one-game point average from the regular season is the Baby Gorilla 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 | |
| First free agency is scheduled on the Wednesday after Labor Day (September 3) | |
| All bids must be entered by Wednesday 10 PM ET and Sunday 10 AM ET | |
| Weekly Team Management: | Yes. Starting lineups and free agency |
| Week One Lineup Rules: | All teams, whether drafting before or after NFL Week One opening game on Thursday, will be able to submit and edit their starting lineup after Thursday’s game, including start/bench players which played in Thursday’s and Friday's game. To confirm, all Baby Gorilla Championship teams will have the same choice on whether to start or sit Thursday and Friday players retroactively after they have watched that game. Fantasy stats for Thursday’s and Friday's players will count towards Week One scores if they are placed in the starting lineup. |
| Trades: | No trading allowed |
| Scoring System: | FFPC Scoring rules will be in effect (See Official Rules for full details) |
| Roster Requirement: | Twenty (20) total roster spots |
| Starting Lineup: | 1-QB, 2-RB, 2-WR, 1-TE, 2-Flex, 1-K, 1-D (Flex can be RB, WR or TE) |
*1 Hour Slow drafts will ONLY be available as the NFL Season approaches, if necessary, once 2- and 6-hour slow drafts close.
Please see Official Rules for full details
