FFPC Flagship Event
Launched in 2008, the Main Event is FFPC’s flagship event and is currently the largest season-long, high stakes fantasy football contest in the world with an industry leading $500,000 grand prize and fantasy football’s greatest trophy! But being the largest isn’t nearly our only accomplishment. The FFPC Main Event has proven to be exciting and compelling, yet easy to understand format which can easily be enjoyed by first time participants as well as diehard veterans. FFPC is a licensed fantasy game operator so your money is secure and protected.
With an expanded draft schedule and the addition of slow drafts, whether you are drafting from home or coming to the live, in-person drafts and festivities in Las Vegas, the FFPC Main Event is a can’t miss for any fantasy football fanatic!
$1,900 Online Draft
$2025 Live Draft In Las Vegas
Save $400 On Each Additional Team:
$1,500 Online Draft
$1,625 Live Draft In Las Vegas
$200 Deposit Per Team, Balance Due At Later Date
Or Full Payment When Registering
All teams fully paid by Monday August 17 will receive their draft positions on Wednesday August 19
20-round online snake draft with a 60-second, 2 hour or 6 hour timer
Don’t miss the fantasy football live event of the year!
Three full days of nothing but high stakes fantasy football drafts and parties. And when that’s all done, it’s time for an entire Sunday of watching NFL games in Las Vegas. Doesn’t get much better than this!
WHEN: September 10 - September 12, 2020
WHERE: Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, NV (For 2020 FFPC Live Drafts will be held at the Paris Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas)
Special Paris Hotel rates available for FFPC players
Register NowHotel Reservations – Discounted Room Rates for FFPC Guests:
You can also email Greg Sidoris at LVCH777@aol.com for help you with your stay and any other Vegas-related needs.
2020 Main Event Leagues Details
| Entry Fee (Online Draft): | $1,900 Online draft |
| Entry Fee (Live, In-person Draft): | $2,025 Live, in-person draft in Las Vegas |
| Multiple Team Discount Pricing: | $1,500 Live online draft ($400 off regular entry price) |
| $1,625 Live, in-person draft in Las Vegas ($400 off regular entry price) | |
| Contest Capacity: | Maximum of 3,000 entries |
| Prizes: | All prizes guaranteed regardless of final entries |
| Draft Positions: | Drawn at random & emailed to league |
| Early Draft Slot Announcement #2: | All teams which are fully paid by Monday August 17 will be eligible for the Early Draft Slot Announcement and will receive their FFPC Main Event draft positions on Wednesday August 19 |
| League Formation: | Leagues randomly formed at different dates closer to season |
| Draft Type & Length: | 20 round serpentine (snake) online draft |
| Live online drafts with a 60 second timer | |
| Live in-person drafts with a 60 second timer | |
| Slow online drafts with a 2 or 6 hour timer | |
| Number of teams: | 12 |
| Duration: | Regular season Weeks 1-11. League Playoffs Weeks 12-13. Championship Round weeks 14-16 |
| Format (Regular Season): | Weeks 1-11 |
| H2H matchups | |
| After Week 11, 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 12-13 |
| 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 14-16 |
| No H2H matchups, total points only | |
| Team with the highest sum of total points scored from Week 14-16 added to their one-game point average from the regular season is Main Event 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 & Friday (Friday FAAB moving to Sunday 10am ET starting October 11 for the rest of the 2020 season to mitigate any late breaking COVID news) | |
| One (1) pre-season free agency process on Wednesday following Labor Day weekend | |
| Cutoffs on Wednesday 10 PM ET and Friday 10 PM 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. | |
| 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 game. To confirm, all Main Event teams will have the same choice on whether to start or sit Thursday players retroactively after they have watched that game. Fantasy stats for Thursday’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 (scroll down for scoring 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) |
