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 $1,000,000 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!
$2,000 Online Draft
$2,125 Live Draft In Las Vegas
$1,600 Online Draft
$1,725 Live Draft In Las Vegas
$200 Deposit Per Team, Balance Due At Later Date
Or Full Payment When Registering
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 7 - September 9, 2023
WHERE: Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, NV
Special Planet Hollywood Hotel rates available for FFPC players
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2023 Main Event Leagues Details
| Entry Fee (Online Draft): | $2,000 Online draft |
| Entry Fee (Live, In-person Draft): | $2,125 Live, in-person draft in Las Vegas |
| Multiple Team Discount Pricing: | $1,600 Live online draft ($400 off regular entry price) |
| $1,725 Live, in-person draft in Las Vegas ($400 off regular entry price) | |
| Contest Capacity: | Maximum of 4,200 entries |
| Prizes: | All prizes guaranteed regardless of final entries |
| Draft Positions: | Drawn at random & emailed to league |
| 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 1*, 2 or 6 hour timer | |
| 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 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 & Sunday | |
| First free agency is scheduled on the Wednesday after Labor Day (September 6) | |
| 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 Sunday 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) |
*1 Hour Slow drafts will ONLY be available as the NFL Season approaches, once 2- and 6-hour slow drafts close
**The NFL approved an 18 week regular season in 2021, with each team playing 17 regular season games. FFPC Main Event rules have been adjusted accordingly.
