Greetings everyone!

It's about that time…fantasy season is coming! And I thought I'd throw out a welcome email. Not much has changed from last year in terms of the set up. See below for more detail. I've sent this to all managers from last year. Please let me know ASAP if you don't plan on playing. I'll also ask you to reach out to the other managers just in case these email addresses are outdated. We've had some great consistency which is so key to good league. We did already have one change…Saruni has decided not to play and he's been replaced by Darren Laws.

Chapter 1 - Buy in and pay outs...
The buy in will be $120 this year. This is a $10 increase from years prior, but allows for some more round numbers. My contacts and address for payment are:
Joey Greenberg
881 NE Caden Ave
Hillsboro OR 97124
Ph: 503-791-6125
Email: greenberg32@yahoo.com

Please send this in as soon as you can or pay at the draft. This has never been a problem in the past. You'll find a link called "dues" from the front page to see who's paid and what amounts. When you send your check or if you pay by cash in person, please provide me your email and residential address so I know where to send the future winnings and so I can keep my records up to date. For most of you, I already have this, but please confirm numbers/addresses haven't changed.

There will again be weekly payouts for specific high scores in non-NFL bye weeks. This year we will only have 4 non bye weeks outside of the playoffs. So I'm making some adjustments to the payouts. The weekly prizes will be worth $60 and will be paid for the following below. To win for the individual positions, you must start the player of choice in one of their starting spots and not in the flex position (RB, WR).

- Week 1: Highest total score for the week
- Week 2: Highest individual total starting RB
- Week 3: Highest individual total starting WR
- Week 12: Highest individual total starting QB

There will also be a $60 bonus for the team that finishes first in the regular season (1st overall seed in the playoffs). The payouts are then as follows: From the playoffs, 1st place receives $660, 2nd place $300 and 3rd place $180.

Chapter 2 - Keepers
We will be keeping keepers again this year, no change. You can keep up to two players from the final roster from last year. Any new owners will be taking over the team vacated. For the players you do choose to keep, you will lose the draft pick this year correlating to where they were picked last year. For example, say I had drafted Christian Okoye (dating myself?) in the first round last year. If I keep him, I will lose this year's first round pick. If you are keeping a player acquired in a trade, you will still lose the draft pick from where that player was taken. If you keep a player that was acquired from free agency (or from a trade where a player was picked up in free agency), then you lose a default 8th round pick. The thought here is to reward a good prior year draft, where maybe a "flyer" was taken in later rounds, and sticking with a player as opposed to picking up a player already playing well through free agency. This also rewards owners taking risks on rookies. You still get a pretty good bonus by only giving up an 8th round pick.

The on-going rule however is that if you keep the same player for 2 consecutive years, that player will cost you a first round pick in the 2nd year kept (3rd year of ownership and beyond). The same goes for a player acquired in a trade where this player has been a keeper for more than one year.

If we run into a situation where two draft picks are lost for the same round, one draft pick will be lost to the next round thereafter. I've attached a spreadsheet showing everyone's last year final roster and the draft pick you would lose for each player kept. This is also posted below if you don't have Excel. Again, you can keep up to two, but you don't have to keep anyone. If no players are kept, you get to pick in every round.

Any questions on this, feel free to call, reply, or text. For those who may not have Excel, I've pasted the teams below. Please also check my work and let me know if I screwed up tracking your players. A few players were traded like 8 times, making it difficult to see where they were drafted or picked up. There is no deadline for naming your keepers. We will announce this at the draft in the same order as the draft picks.

Chapter 3 - Set Up
We'll be keeping the same 3 divisions with 4 teams in each division. We'll again randomly draw after the draft to setup the divisions. I'll get the schedule straight after this. You will play each team in your division twice. Division match ups take place in weeks 1-3 and 11-13. You'll play all but one of the other teams outside of your division once. This will be as random as I can make it.

Like last year, the "championship" playoffs will feature 6 teams and take place in weeks 14-16. The top tw